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Dec 11 1465

Ashikaga Yoshihisa Japanese 9th shgun of the Ashikaga shogunate born in Kyoto Japan (d. 1489)

Dec 11 1566

Manuel Cardoso Portuguese composer born in Fronteira (d. 1650)

Dec 11 1676

Johann Georg Weichenberger Austrian composer born in Graz Austria (d. 1740)

Dec 11 1709

Louise lisabeth dOrlans Queen consort of Spain born in Palace of Versailles France (d. 1742)

Dec 11 1712

Francesco Algarotti Italian art collector and encyclopedist (Viaggio in Russia) born in Venice (d. 1764)

Dec 11 1757

Charles Wesley English organist and composer born in Bristol (d. 1834)

Dec 11 1758

Carl Friedrich Zelter German composer born in Berlin Germany (d. 1832)

Dec 11 1761

Gian Domenico Romagnosi Italian philosopher and physicist born in Salsomaggiore Terme Italy (d. 1835)

Dec 11 1781

David Brewster Scottish physicist and inventor (kaleidoscope) born in Jedburgh Roxburghshire Scotland (d. 1868)

Dec 11 1783

Max von Schenkendorf German poet born in Tilsit East Prussia (d. 1817)

Dec 11 1793

Pietro Antonio Coppola Italian composer born in Enna Italy (d. 1877)

Dec 11 1797

Hiram Paulding American Rear Admiral (Union Navy) born in Cortlandt New York (d. 1878)

Dec 11 1801

Christian Dietrich Grabbe German dramatist born in Detmold Lippe (d. 1836)

Dec 11 1803

Hector Berlioz French composer (Symphony Fantastic) born in La Cte-Saint-Andr France (d. 1869)

Dec 11 1810

Alfred de Musset French writer (Un Caprice Bettine) born in Paris France (d. 1857)

Dec 11 1835

Adolf Stoecker German conservative politician and reformer who founded the German Christian Social Party born in Halberstadt Germany (d. 1909)

Dec 11 1838

Emil Rathenau German industrialist (AEG) born in Berlin (d. 1915)

Dec 11 1838

Whitney Eugene Thayer American composer born in Mendon Massachusetts (d. 1889)

Dec 11 1838

John Labatt Canadian brewer and businessman (Labatt Brewing Company) born in Westminster Township (d. 1915)

Dec 11 1840

Namk Kemal Turkish poet and author (Fatherland-1872) born in Tekirda Ottoman Empire (d. 1888)

Dec 11 1849

Ellen Key Swedish author and feminist (Courageous Woman) born in Gladhammar Parish Vstervik Municipality Sweden (d. 1926)

Dec 11 1855

Julian Edwards American composer born in Manchester England (d. 1910)

Dec 11 1856

Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov Russian revolutionary theorist born in Gudalovka Russia (d. 1918)

Dec 11 1858

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko Russian theatre director born in Ozurgeti Georgia (d. 1943)

Dec 11 1868

Ernst Henrik Ellberg Swedish composer born in Sderhamn Sweden (d. 1948)

Dec 11 1873

Josip Plemelj Slovenian mathematician born in Bled Austria-Hungary (d. 1967)

Dec 11 1874

Paul Wegener German actor and director (The Golem The Student of Prague) born in Arnoldsdorf West Prussia Germany (d. 1948)

Dec 11 1882

Fiorello La Guardia (Mayor-R- 1933-45) born in NYC New York (d. 1947)

Dec 11 1882

Max Born German physicist (quantum mechanics Nobel 1954) born in Breslau Germany (d. 1970)

Dec 11 1889

Paul Kornfeld Czech playwright born in Prague (d. 1942)

Dec 11 1895

Eddie Dowling American actor (Rainbow Man Anywhere USA) born in Woonsocket Rhode Island (d. 1976)

Dec 11 1904

Joe Coral [Joseph Kagarlitski] British bookmaker (Gala Coral Group) born in Warsaw Poland (d. 1996)

Dec 11 1905

Gilbert Roland [Luis Alonso] Mexican actor (Juarez Barbarosa) born in Juarez Chihuahua Mexico (d. 1994)

Dec 11 1282 Llywelyn ab GruffyddLlywelyn the Last last native Prince of Wales is killed at Cilmeri near Builth Wells south Wales. Reigned from 1259.

Dec 11 1395 John Eleanor Rykener a male cross-dressing prostitute is brought to court in London for committing that detestable unmentionable and ignominious vice in late medieval Englands only recorded case on same-sex intercourse (verdict unknown)

Dec 11 1419 Heretic Nicolaas Serrurier exiled from Florence

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