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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, December 11


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Births

* 1958 Tom Shadyac American comedian, producer, director and writer.
* 1944 Teri Garr American actress and comedienne.
* 1943 John Kerry Politician, Massachusetts Senator, Democratic Party's nominee for President in 2004, son of Richard John Kerry and Rosemary Isabel Forbes, husband of Teresa Heinz Kerry.
* 1931 Osho Born Chandra Mohan Jain [?????? ???? ???], and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who inspired a controversial spiritual movement in India, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, and many other countries.
* 1931 Ronald Dworkin American philosopher.
* 1918 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Russian novelist, dramatist and historian.
* 1908 Elliott Carter American composer of classical music.
* 1890 Mark Tobey One of the earliest American abstract expressionist painters; he was born in Centerville, Wisconsin.
* 1882 Subramanya Bharathi Tamil poet from Tamil Nadu, India, an independence activist and iconoclastic reformer.
* 1882 Max Born German physicist and mathematician who became a British citizen, who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics.
* 1810 Alfred de Musset French dramatist, poet, and novelist.
* 1803 Hector Berlioz French composer, conductor and music critic, widely seen as the greatest representative in music of the French Romantic school.
* 1781 David Brewster Scottish scientist, inventor and writer.
* 1725 George Mason United States patriot, statesman and delegate from Virginia to the U S Constitutional Convention.
* 1475 Leo X (Pope) Born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, became Pope in 1513.

Deaths

† 2005 Richard Sandbrook British environmentalist, a co-founder of Friends of the Earth, who served as a director of the International Institute for Environment and Development.
† 1998 Lynn Strait Lead singer and lyricist for the metal/ punk band, Snot, which broke up after his death in a car accident on December 11, 1998.
† 1984 Krafft Arnold Ehricke Rocket-propulsion engineer and advocate for space colonization.
† 1964 Sam Cooke Better known under the stage name Sam Cooke, was an American gospel, R&B, soul, and pop singer, songwriter, and entrepreneur.
† 1945 Charles Fabry French physicist.
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