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What Happened In December 1866 In History

Famous Birthdays on December in 1866

  • 2nd » Harry Burleigh, American singer-songwriter (d. 1949)
  • 10th » Louis Bolk, Dutch anatomist and biologist (d. 1930)
  • 12th » Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Chemistry or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
  • 14th » Roger Fry, English painter and critic (d. 1934)
  • 16th » Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (d. 1944)
  • 17th » Konrad Stäheli, Swiss target shooter (d. 1931)
  • 21st » Maud Gonne, English-Irish actress and activist (d. 1953)
  • 28th » Szymon Askenazy, Polish historian, educator, and diplomat, founded the Askenazy school (d. 1935)

Famous Deaths for December 1866

  • 1st » George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor, namesake of Mt. Everest (b. 1790)

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