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Dec 21 1401

Tommaso Masaccio Italian painter born in San Giovanni Valdarno Italy (d. 1428)

Dec 21 1518

Mark van Vaernewijck Habsburg historian born in Ghent County of Flanders Habsburg Netherlands (d. 1569)

Dec 21 1596

Petro Mohyla Moldovan Orthodox Metropolitan Bishop of Kiev and Galicia (d. 1646)

Dec 21 1616

Pietro Andrea Ziani Italian organist & composer born in Venice Italy (d. 1684)

Dec 21 1628

Samuel Friedrich Capricornus Czech composer born in erice Czech Republic (d. 1665)

Dec 21 1714

John Bradstreet Canadian-born soldier born in Annapolis Royal Canada (d. 1774)

Dec 21 1728

Hermann Friedrich Raupach German composer born in Stralsund Germany (d. 1778)

Dec 21 1756

Thomas Anton Kunz Czech composer born in Prague Czech Republic (d. 1830)

Dec 21 1778

Anders Sande rsted Danish politician born in Rudkbing Denmark (d. 1860)

Dec 21 1800

Barnwell Rhett Robert (Confederacy) (d. 1876)

Dec 21 1805

Thomas Graham British chemist and father of colloid chemistry (d. 1869)

Dec 21 1810

Ludwig Schuncke German pianist & composer born in Kassel Germany (d. 1834)

Dec 21 1815

Thomas Couture French history painter & teacher born in Senlis France (d. 1879)

Dec 21 1818

Lewis H. Morgan American ethnologist (Systems of Consanguinity) born in Aurora New York (d. 1881)

Dec 21 1823

Jean Henri Fabre French nautralist & entomologist (insects & spiders) born in Saint-Lons Aveyron France

Dec 21 1826

Ernst Pauer Austrian composer and pianist born in Vienna (d. 1905)

Dec 21 1832

John Henry Ketcham American politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Dover Plains New York (d. 1906)

Dec 21 1843

Thomas Bracken Irish-born New Zealand poet born in Clones County Monaghan (d. 1898)

Dec 21 1848

Edward Everett Rice American musical composer & theater producer born in Brighton Boston (d. 1924)

Dec 21 1849

James Lane Allen American writer (Kentucky Cardinal) born in Lexington Kentucky (d. 1925)

Dec 21 1850

Zdenek Fibich Czech classical composer (rka The Bride of Messina) born in Veboice (d. 1900)

Dec 21 1851

Thomas Chipman McRae American politician 34th Governor of Arkansas (d. 1929)

Dec 21 1853

Isolde Kurz German poet & short-story writer (Meine Mutter) born in Stuttgart Germany (d. 1944)

Dec 21 1859

Gustave Kahn French symbolist poet & art critic born in Metz France (d. 1936)

Dec 21 1860

Henrietta Szold U.S. Jewish Zionist leader & founder of Hadassah born in Baltimore Maryland (d. 1945)

Dec 21 1867

John Winter Thompson American organist born in Michigan (d. 1951)

Dec 21 1870

Sir Patrick Duncan Governor-General of the Union of South Africa (1937 to 1943) born in Ellon United Kingdom (d. 1943)

Dec 21 1872

Albert Payson Terhune American novelist (Lad a Dog) born in Newark New Jersey (d. 1942)

Dec 21 1872

Sidney Ainsworth British silent film actor (Not in the News The Rajahs Tunic) born in Manchester England (d. 1922)

Dec 21 1873

Blagoje Bersa Croatian composer born in Dubrovnik Croatia (d. 1934)

Dec 21 1874

Juan Bautista Sacasa President of Nicaragua (1932-36) born in Len Nicaragua

Dec 21 1914

Ivan Generali Croatian painter born in Hlebine Croatia (d. 1992)

Dec 21 1915

Werner von Trapp Austrian singer (Trapp Family Singers) born in Zell am See Austria (d. 2007)

Dec 21 1163 Hurricane hits villages in HollandFriesland causing floods

Dec 21 1561 Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle Archbishop of Mechelen made Cardinal

Dec 21 1582 Flanders adopts Gregorian calendar tomorrow is Jan 1 1583

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