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Dec 06 1421

Henry VI King of England (1422-61 1470-71) born at Windsor Castle (d. 1471)

Dec 06 1478

Baldassare Castiglione Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529)

Dec 06 1732

Warren Hastings England 1st governor-General of India (1773-84)

Dec 06 1752

Gabriel Duvall Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1844)

Dec 06 1778

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)

Dec 06 1792

Abraham J van de Aa lexicographer (Biographic Dictionary)

Dec 06 1809

Stephen Thomas American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Bethel Vermont (d. 1903)

Dec 06 1812

Robert Spear Hudson English businessman (d. 1884)

Dec 06 1816

Henry Eustace McCulloch Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1895)

Dec 06 1822

John Eberhard built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US

Dec 06 1823

Max Mller German-born British orientalist born in Dessau German Federation (d. 1900)

Dec 06 1831

Joshua Woodrow Sill American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Chillicothe Ohio (d. 1862)

Dec 06 1835

Wilhelm Rudolf Fittig Hamburg German Chemist (synthesizing organic compounds)

Dec 06 1841

Frdric Bazille French painter (d. 1870)

Dec 06 1843

Albert de Vriendt Flemish historical painteretcher

Dec 06 1849

August von Mackensen German field marshal (d. 1945)

Dec 06 1853

Haraprasad Shastri Indian academic Sanskrit scholar archivist and historian of Bengali literature (d. 1931)

Dec 06 1863

Charles Martin Hall American chemist (d. 1914)

Dec 06 1864

William S Hart American actor silent Westerns (Wild Bill Hickok Tumbleweeds) born in Newburgh New York (d. 1946)

Dec 06 1876

Fred Duesenberg German-born automobile pioneer (d. 1932)

Dec 06 1884

Rose Schneiderman American socialist feminist trade union leader and secretary of labor for New York State (1937-44) born in Sawin Poland (d. 1972)

Dec 06 1885

Albrecht Schaeffer German writer (The General)

Dec 06 1887

Joseph Lamb American ragtime composer born in Montclair New Jersey (d. 1960)

Dec 06 1887

Lynn Fontanne British actress (Peter Pan The Guardsman) born in Woodford Essex England (d. 1983)

Dec 06 1888

Will Hay [William Thomson Hay] British comedian actor and amateur astronomer born in County Durham England (d. 1949)

Dec 06 1890

Rudolf Schlichter German artist and writer (d. 1955)

Dec 06 1892

Osbert Sitwell English poet writer (Out of the Flame) born in London England (d. 1969)

Dec 06 1892

Lina Carstens German actress (Homeland Broken Jug) born in Wiesbaden Germany (d. 1978)

Dec 06 1893

Lou Little college football hall of fame coach (elected 1960)

Dec 06 1896

Ira Gershwin lyricist (S Wonderful I Got Rhythm)

Dec 06 1897

Oscar Walter Cisek Romanian writer and diplomat born in Bucharest (d. 1966)

Dec 06 1898

Gunnar Myrdal Swedish sociologisteconomist (Nobel 1974)

Dec 06 1898

Herman Shumlin American Broadway producer director and actor (Watch on the Rhine) born in Atwood Colorado (d. 1979)

Dec 06 1060 Bla I of Hungary is crowned king of Hungary

Dec 06 1160 Jean Bodels Jeu de St Nicholas premieres in Arras

Dec 06 1196 Northern Dutch coast flooded Saint-Nicolas Flood

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