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Today's Anniversary – Friday, December 05


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Births

* 1973 Lubos Motl Czech theoretical physicist who works on string theory and conceptual problems of quantum gravity.
* 1969 Lewis Gordon Pugh British environmental campaigner, maritime lawyer, and endurance swimmer.
* 1957 Lee Siegel Cultural critic.
* 1956 Adam Thorpe British poet, novelist, and playwright whose works also include short stories and radio dramas.
* 1949 Ray Comfort Minister and evangelist.
* 1944 Mike Rosen Host of Denver's most popular radio talk show on 850 KOA (Monday through Friday 9am to 11:45am) and a columnist for the Rocky Mountain News.
* 1936 James Lee Burke American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series.
* 1935 Calvin Trillin American journalist, humorist, and novelist.
* 1934 Joan Didion American writer renowned as a novelist, journalist and prose stylist.
* 1932 Little Richard Known by the stage name Little Richard, is an American singer, songwriter and pianist, whose hits in the mid-1950s were defining moments in the development of rock and roll.
* 1930 Yi-Fu Tuan Chinese-American writer and geographer.
* 1914 Hans Hellmut Kirst German novelist from Osterode, East Prussia.
* 1910 Abraham Polonsky American novelist, screenwriter and film director.
* 1907 William Barclay Author, radio and television presenter, Church of Scotland minister and Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism at the University of Glasgow.
* 1901 Werner Heisenberg German physicist, Nobel laureate, and one of the founders of the field of quantum mechanics.
* 1901 Walt Disney American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and animator.
* 1886 Rose Wilder Lane American journalist, travel writer, novelist, and political theorist.
* 1876 Flora Thompson English author and poet, most well-known for her semi-autobiographical trilogy, Lark Rise to Candleford.
* 1868 Arnold Sommerfeld German physicist who introduced the fine-structure constant in 1919.
* 1867 Jozef Pilsudski Polish revolutionary and statesman, marshal, first chief of state (1918–1922) and authoritarian leader (1926–1935) of renascent Poland, and founder of her armed forces.
* 1859 Sir Sidney Lee Born Solomon Lazarus Lee, was an English biographer and critic, and the second editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.
* 1830 Christina Rossetti English poet and the sister of artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
* 1782 Martin Van Buren Nicknamed Old Kinderhook, was the eighth President of the United States.

Deaths

† 2007 Karlheinz Stockhausen German composer, and one of the most controversial composers of the 20th century.
† 1982 Caryl Brahms Born Doris Caroline Abrahams, was an English writer of Turkish-Jewish descent.
† 1977 Aleksandr Vasilevsky Soviet military commander, promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1943.
† 1954 Kalki (R. Krishnamurthy) Krishnamurthy Indian author, who wrote in Tamil under various pseudonyms, but who became most famous using the name Kalki, evoking a prophesied avatar of Vishnu.
† 1951 Shoeless Joe Jackson Left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox.
† 1950 Sri Aurobindo Indian nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru; born Aravinda Akroyd Ghose.
† 1926 Claude Monet Also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet, was a French Impressionist painter.
† 1905 Bruno de Souza Indian Konkani language writer and novelist from Goa.
† 1870 Alexandre Dumas French writer, best known for his numerous historical novels of high adventure which have made him the most widely read French author in the world.
† 1859 Louis Poinsot French mathematician and physicist.
† 1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Composer and musician.
† 1784 Phillis Wheatley Slave in Boston, Massachusetts, where her master's family taught her to read and write, and encouraged her poetry.
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