Births: • Besson, George (1882-1971) • Bogart, Humphrey (1899-1957) • Cruickshank, Andrew (1907-1988) • Schygulla, Hanna (1943) Deaths: • Hatfield, Hurd (1917-1998) • Martin, Dean (1917-1995) • Miró, Joan (1893-1983)
December 24
Births: • Brazzi, Rossano (1916-1994) • Cormon, Fernand (1845-1924) • Curtiz, Michael (1886-1962) • Elisabeth, Empress of Austria (1837-1898) • Gardner, Ava (1922-1990) • John, King of England (1166-1216) • Waxman, Franz (1906-1967) Deaths: • Durning, Charles (1923-2012) • Herrmann, Bernard (1911-1975)…
December 23
Births: • Albaladejo, Daniel (1971) • Mariana de Austria, Queen consort of Spain (1634-1696) • Risi, Dino (1916-2008) Deaths: • Barty, Billy (1924-2000)
December 22
Events: • 1874: Berthe Morisot marries Eugène Manet at the Church of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce-de-Passy in Paris. Births: • Charpentier, Georges (1846-1905) • Elizondo, Héctor (1936) • Primavesi, Mäda (1903-2000) • Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924) • Racine, Jean (1639-1699) • Roman, Ruth (1922-1999) Deaths: • Guercino (1591-1666) • McQueen, Butterfly (1911-1995)…
December 21
Births: • Fonda, Jane (1937) • Masaccio (1401-1428) • Sturridge, Tom (1985) • Sutherland, Kiefer (1966) Deaths: • Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375) • Long, Richard (1927-1974) • Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549)
December 20
Births: • Agutter, Jenny (1952) • Hill, George Roy (1921-2002) Deaths: • Bora, Katharina von (1499-1552) • Chiari, Walter (1924-1991) • Darin, Bobby (1936-1973) • Moffat, Donald (1930-2018) • Morgan, Michèle (1920-2016) • Mulligan, Robert (1925-2008) • Widmaier-Picasso, Maya (1935-2022)
December 19
Births: • Cox, Claire (1975) • Jolivet, Renée (1885-1973) • Piaf, Édith (1915-1963) • Richardson, Ralph (1902-1983) Deaths: • Boiardo, Matteo Maria (1441-1494) • Crauchet, Paul (1920-2012) • Lamont, Duncan (1918-1978) • Llewelyn, Desmond (1914-1999) • Mastroianni, Marcello (1924-1996) • Turner, Joseph Mallord William (1775-1851)…
December 18
Births: • Albizzi, Giovanna degli (1468-1488) • Armstrong, Gillian (1950) • Cooper, Gladys (1888-1971) • Hoschedé, Ernest (1837-1891) • Klee, Paul (1879-1940) • Liotta, Ray (1954-2022) • Pitt, Brad (1963) • Raimu (1883-1946) Deaths: • Auger, Claudine (1941-2019)
December 17
Baptised: • Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827) Births: • Hill, Bernard (1944-2024) • Hudson, Ernie (1945) • Long, Richard (1927-1974) • Pullman, Bill (1953) Deaths: • Clary, Désirée (1777-1860) • Eleonora di Toledo (1522-1562) • Jones, Jennifer (1919-2009) • Salce, Luciano (1922-1989)
December 16
Births: • Austen, Jane (1775-1817) • Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England (1485-1536) • Coward, Noël (1899-1973) • Cross, Ben (1947-2020) • Kandinsky, Wassily (1866-1944) • La Gandara, Antonio de (1861-1917) • Ullmann, Liv (1938) Deaths: • Daudet, Alphonse (1840-1897) • Mangano, Silvana (1930-1989) •…