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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, December 18


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Births

* 1980 Christina Aguilera American Grammy Award-winning Pop/R&B singer, songwriter and actress.
* 1963 Brad Pitt American actor and film producer.
* 1961 A. M. Homes American fiction writer known for her controversial and unusual stories.
* 1956 Ron White American stand-up comedian and satirist from Fritch, Texas.
* 1955 Ray Liotta American actor famous for the lead role of Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas.
* 1946 Steven Spielberg American film director and producer.
* 1946 Steve Biko Noted anti-apartheid activist in South Africa in the 1960s.
* 1943 Keith Richards British guitarist, songwriter and actor, best known for his work with The Rolling Stones.
* 1939 Michael Moorcock Prolific British writer and editor, long known for his SF and fantasy works and now also for literary novels.
* 1927 Romeo LeBlanc Former Governor General of Canada.
* 1927 Ramsey Clark Attorney General of the United States during the presidency of Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1967–1968.
* 1925 John Szarkowski Photographer, curator, historian, and critic.
* 1923 T S Satyan Popularly known T S Satyan, was one of India's earliest and most eminent photojournalists.
* 1913 Alfred Bester American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books.
* 1913 Willy Brandt Born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm, was Chancellor of Germany from 22 October 1969 to 16 May 1974.
* 1907 Christopher Fry Born Christopher Harris, in Bristol, was an English playwright.
* 1899 Peter Wessel Zapffe Norwegian philosopher and writer.
* 1890 Edwin Howard Armstrong American engineer and the inventor of FM radio.
* 1886 Ty Cobb Nicknamed "the Georgia Peach", was an American baseball player generally considered to be the greatest player of the "dead ball era" (1900 – 1920).
* 1879 Paul Klee Swiss painter of German nationality.
* 1870 Saki Pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro, whose witty and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture.
* 1862 Ulrich Wilcken German historian and papyrologist.
* 1859 Francis Thompson English poet.
* 1856 J. J. Thomson Often known as J J Thomson, was a British scientist.
* 1792 William Howitt English author.
* 1707 Charles Wesley Leader of the Methodist movement, the younger brother of John Wesley.

Deaths

† 2011 Vaclav Havel Czech writer and dramatist famous for his work in the Theatre of the Absurd, who became a politician and served as the last President of Czechoslovakia, and the first President of the Czech Republic.
† 2008 W. Mark Felt Former Associate Director of the FBI, was "Deep Throat," a source of much of the Watergate scandal information.
† 2008 Paul Weyrich American conservative political activist and commentator, most notable for co-founding the Heritage Foundation and the Free Congress Foundation, both conservative think tanks.
† 2004 Anthony Sampson British writer and journalist; he was also a founding member of the Social Democratic Party.
† 1999 Dennis Sciama British astronomer and physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War.
† 1996 Irving Caesar Originally known as Isidor Caesar, was a prominent Jewish-American lyricist and theater composer who wrote lyrics for "Swanee," "Sometimes I'm Happy," "Crazy Rhythm," and "Tea for Two," one of the most frequently recorded tunes ever written.
† 1995 Konrad Zuse German engineer and computer pioneer, noted for implementing the world's first programmable Turing-complete computer, the Z3, in 1941.
† 1980 Ben Travers British playwright most famous for his farces.
† 1977 Marriner Stoddard Eccles U S banker, economist and Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1934–1948).
† 1977 Louis Untermeyer American author, poet, anthologist, and editor.
† 1975 Theodosius Dobzhansky Noted geneticist, evolutionary biologist, and a leader of the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis.
† 1932 Eduard Bernstein German social democratic theoretician and politician, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, and the founder of "evolutionary socialism" or "reformism".
† 1912 Will Carleton American poet, who wrote mostly about rural life.
† 1892 Richard Owen English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist.
† 1858 Thomas Holley Chivers American poet from Georgia.
† 1855 Samuel Rogers English poet.
† 1832 Philip Morin Freneau Notable American poet, nationalist, polemicist, sea captain and newspaper editor.
† 1803 Johann Gottfried Herder German poet, philosopher, literary critic and folksong collector.
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