What Happened In December 1889 In History

Famous Birthdays on December in 1889

• 3rd » Khudiram Bose, Indian revolutionary (d. 1908)
• 3rd » Cyrillus Kreek, Estonian trombonist and composer (d. 1962)
• 4th » Lloyd Bacon, American actor and director (d. 1955)
• 9th » Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish-American runner (d. 1966)
• 10th » Ray Collins (actor) called Ray Collins, American actor (d. 1965)
• 16th » Kim Chwa-chin, South Korean guerrilla leader (d. 1930)
• 21st » Sewall Wright, American geneticist and biologist (d. 1988)
• 22nd » Minor Watson, American actor (d. 1965)

Famous Deaths for December 1889

• 6th » Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
• 12th » Robert Browning, English poet and playwright (b. 1812)
• 12th » Viktor Bunyakovsky, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician (b. 1804)
• 21st » Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809)
• 24th » Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch clergyman and poet (b. 1819)
• 31st » Ion Creangă, Romanian author and educator (b. 1837)

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