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Today's Anniversary – Sunday, December 07


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Births

* 1980 John Terry English professional footballer.
* 1973 Terrell Owens American football wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League.
* 1971 Larisa Alexandrova Journalist.
* 1956 Larry Bird Retired American NBA basketball player, widely considered one of the best players of all time and one of the top clutch performers in the history of sports.
* 1952 Susan Collins American politician, the junior U S Senator from Maine and a Republican.
* 1949 Tom Waits American composer, singer, songwriter, musician and actor.
* 1948 Mark Kurlansky Highly-acclaimed American journalist and writer of general interest non-fiction.
* 1942 Harry Chapin American singer, songwriter, and social activist.
* 1932 Pentti Linkola Radical Finnish deep ecologist, polemicist, and fisherman.
* 1928 Noam Chomsky American professor of linguistics, anarchist, human rights activist, socialist and political analyst.
* 1907 Wanda Toscanini Daughter of the Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini and the wife of Ukrainian–American pianist Vladimir Horowitz.
* 1892 Stuart Davis American painter.
* 1885 Zechariah Chafee American judicial philosopher and civil libertarian.
* 1873 Willa Cather Among the most eminent American authors, known for her depictions of US life in her novels.
* 1872 Johan Huizinga Dutch historian, and one of the founders of modern cultural history.
* 1823 Leopold Kronecker Prussian mathematician and logician who argued that arithmetic and analysis must be founded on "whole numbers.
* 1785 William Francis Patrick Napier Irish soldier in the British Army and a military historian.
* 1784 Allan Cunningham Scottish poet.

Deaths

† 2006 Jeane Kirkpatrick American conservative political scientist and member of the neoconservative movement.
† 1993 Wolfgang Paul German physicist, who co-developed the ion trap.
† 1985 Robert Graves Prolific English poet, scholar and novelist.
† 1985 Potter Stewart Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
† 1975 Thornton Wilder American author and playwright.
† 1946 Laurette Taylor American actress, primarily on stage, with some forays into silent film.
† 1929 Charles Monro British Army General during World War I and Governor of Gibraltar from 1923 to 1929.
† 1804 John Tobin British playwright, who was for most of his life unsuccessful, but in the year of his death made a hit with The Honey Moon.
† 1683 Algernon Sydney English politician, political theorist, and opponent of King Charles II of England.
† 1495 Gabriel Biel German scholastic philosopher.
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