16 December

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The 16t o December is the 350t day o the year (351t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 15 days bidin.

Events

1497: Fish River, Sooth Africae
1773: Boston Tea Pairty

Births

Wassily Kandinsky
  • 1485 - Catherine o Aragon, Spaingie-born Queen Consort o Ingland (d. 1536)
  • 1724 - William Douglas, 4t Duke o Queensberry, Scots nobleman (d. 1810)
  • 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German componer (d. 1827)
  • 1775 - Jane Austen, Inglis writer (d. 1817)
  • 1790 - Leopold I o Belgium (d. 1865)
  • 1850 - Joseph Taylor, Scots fitbawer (d. 1888)
  • 1866 - Wassily Kandinsky, Roushie penter (d. 1944)
  • 1868 - William Brown Macdougall, Scots airtist an illustrator (d. 1936)
  • 1882 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian componer, linguist an componer (d. 1967)
  • 1888 - Alexander I o Yugoslavie (d. 1934)
  • 1899 - Noël Coward, Inglis componer, writer an actor (d. 1973)
  • 1901 - Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (d. 1978)
  • 1917 - Arthur C. Clarke, Inglis writer (d. 2008)
  • 1923 - Ernst Florian Winter, Austrick-American historian (d. 2014)
  • 1928 - Philip K. Dick, American writer (d. 1982)
  • 1938 - Liv Ullmann, Norse actress
  • 1946 - Benny Andersson, Swadish muisicker (ABBA)
  • 1948 - Pat Quinn, American politeecian
  • 1956 - Tommy Burns, Scots fitbawer (d. 2008)
  • 1963 - Benjamin Bratt, American actor
  • 1969 - Kevin McGowne, Scots fitbawer
  • 1969 - Adam Riess, American astropheesicist
  • 1971 - Scott Booth, Scots fitbawer
  • 1973 - Mariza, Portuguese fado sangster
  • 1988 - Mats Hummels, German fitbawer
  • 1992 - Tom Rogic, Australie fitbawer
  • 1995 - Ryan Gauld, Scots fitbawer
  • 1997 - Zara Larsson, Swadish sangster

Daiths

  • 401 - Pape Anastasius I
  • 882 - Pape John VIII
  • 1634 - George Hay, 1st Yerl o Kinnoull, Scots nobleman an poleetical offeecial (b. 1570)
  • 1859 - Wilhelm Grimm, German writer an folklorist (b. 1786)
  • 1911 - Thomas Blake Glover, Scots merchant in Japan (b. 1838)
  • 1922 - Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, Jewish lexicografer an eeditor (b. 1858)
  • 1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz, Preses o Poland (b. 1865)
  • 1965 - W. Somerset Maugham, Inglis writer (b. 1874)
  • 1965 - Queen Salote Tupou III o Tonga (b. 1900)
  • 1971 - Torrance Gillick, Scots fitbawer (b. 1915)
  • 1989 - Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930)

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