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Dec 19 1036

Su Tung-po China poetessayistpaintercalligrapher

Dec 19 1498

Andreas Osiander German Protestant Reformation theologist

Dec 19 1554

Philip William Prince of Orange (1584) and Knight of the Golden Fleece (1599) born in Buren Gelderland (d. 1618)

Dec 19 1676

Louis-Nicholas Clerambault composerorganist born in Paris France

Dec 19 1683

Philip V King of Spain (1700-24 1724-46) born in Versailles France (d. 1746)

Dec 19 1723

Susanne K von Klettenberg German friend of Goethes mother

Dec 19 1744

Jacobus J Cramer priest of HollandZealandWest-Friesland

Dec 19 1753

John Taylor Virginia philosopher (Jeffersonian Democracy)

Dec 19 1778

Princess Marie-Thrse-Charlotte eldest child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851)

Dec 19 1779

Auguste-Gaspard-Louis Desnoyers engraver born in Paris France

Dec 19 1783

Charles-Julien Brianchon French mathematician (Brianchons theorem)

Dec 19 1784

Marcus Morton 16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1864)

Dec 19 1790

William Parry English Arctic explorer (Parry Channel) born in Bath England (d. 1855)

Dec 19 1792

[Andries] Hendrik Potgieter Cape Colony settled Transvaal

Dec 19 1796

Manuel Breton de los Herreros Quel Spain poetcomic playwright

Dec 19 1809

Pierre-Joseph van Beneden Belg paleont (life cycle of tapeworms)

Dec 19 1813

Thomas Andrews Irish chemist and physicist (ozone) born in Belfast (d. 1885)

Dec 19 1814

Edwin M[cMasters] Stanton Ohio US Secretary of War (1861-65)

Dec 19 1817

James Jay Archer Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1864)

Dec 19 1819

James Clifford Veatch American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Elizabeth Indiana (d. 1895)

Dec 19 1821

Mary Ashton Livermore American reformerwomens suffrage leader

Dec 19 1824

Hercules Robinson British colonial administrator (Ceylon Fiji New Zealand South Africa) born in County Westmeath Ireland (d. 1897)

Dec 19 1825

George Frederick Bristow American composer (Rip van Winkle) born in Brooklyn New York (d. 1898)

Dec 19 1831

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Hawaiian philanthropist (d. 1884)

Dec 19 1832

John Kirk Barry Scot Drcompanion to explorer David Livingstone

Dec 19 1837

John Carpenter Carter Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1864)

Dec 19 1849

Henry Clay Frick Penn built worlds largest coke & steel operation

Dec 19 1852

A[lbert] A Michelson Strelno Prussia US physicist (Nobel 1907)

Dec 19 1853

Charles Fitzpatrick Canadian politician who was the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec and 5th Chief Justice of Canada born in Quebec City Canada (d. 1942)

Dec 19 1861

Constance [Clara] Garnett Russian-English translator born in Brighton England

Dec 19 1861

Italo Svevo Trieste Austria Italian novelist (La Coscienza di Zeno)

Dec 19 1865

Hermann Hirt Magdeburg Prussia linguist (Indo-European Grammar)

Dec 19 1865

Minnie Maddern Fiske American actress (Henrik Ibsens plays) born in New Orleans Louisiana (d. 1932)

Dec 19 1862 Skirmish at Jackson Salem Church Tennessee (80 casualties)

Dec 19 1871 Albert L Jones of New York City patents corrugated paper

Dec 19 1881 Opera Hrodiade by Jules Massenet is produced in Brussels

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