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Today's Anniversary – Monday, December 22


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Births

* 1989 Jordin Sparks American pop singer who rose to fame as the winner of the sixth season of American Idol.
* 1967 Richey James Edwards Guitarist and lyricist from the the Manic Street Preachers.
* 1960 Patrick Fitzgerald American attorney and the current U S Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
* 1951 Charles de Lint Canadian fantasy author and Celtic folk musician.
* 1945 Diane Sawyer Television journalist.
* 1943 Paul Wolfowitz Visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and was formerly a United States Deputy Secretary of Defense and President of the World Bank.
* 1936 James (science historian) Burke British science historian, author and television producer best known for his documentary television series focusing on the history of science and technology leavened with a sense of humor.
* 1922 Brownie Mary Popularly known as Brownie Mary, was an American medical cannabis activist.
* 1905 Kenneth Rexroth American poet, essayist, translator and anarchist.
* 1900 John C. Slater Noted American physicist and theoretical chemist, recognized for introducing exponential functions which describe atomic orbitals.
* 1887 Srinivasa Ramanujan Groundbreaking Indian mathematician.
* 1883 Edgard Varese French-born composer.
* 1876 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Italian ideologue, poet, editor, and main founder of the futurist movement of the early 20th century.
* 1869 Edwin Arlington Robinson American poet.
* 1831 Charles Stuart Calverley English poet.
* 1823 Jean Henri Fabre French entomologist, and one of the founders of the study of insect behaviour.
* 1823 Thomas Wentworth Higginson American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier.
* 1639 Jean Racine French dramatist, one of the "big three" of 17th century France.

Deaths

† 2005 Henry Summers Aka "Hal Summers", was a senior British civil servant.
† 2002 Joe Strummer Best remembered by his stage name Joe Strummer, was the co-founder, lyricist, rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist of the critically acclaimed British punk rock band The Clash.
† 1989 Samuel Beckett Irish playwright, novelist, poet and winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature.
† 1943 Beatrix Potter English writer and illustrator who produced a series of much-loved children’s books.
† 1942 Franz Boas German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".
† 1919 Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt American poet from Kentucky.
† 1899 Dwight L. Moody Also known as "D L Moody", was an American evangelist and publisher.
† 1880 George Eliot English novelist and poet, more well-known by her pen name George Eliot, who also for a time used Marian and Mary Anne as variant spellings of her name.
† 1854 Martin Joseph Routh President of Magdalen College from 28 April 1792 until his death.
† 1852 James Francis Stephens English entomologist.
† 1779 Istvan Kuzmics Slovene writer, translator, Evangelic priest in Hungary.
† 1681 Richard Alleine English Puritan divine, and an older relative of Joseph Alleine.
† 1556 Nicholas Udall English dramatist, educator and humanist scholar.
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