22nd » The Dreyfus affair begins in France, when Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted of treason.
Famous Birthdays on December in 1894
2nd » Warren William, American actor and singer (d. 1948)
3rd » Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian lawyer and politician (d. 1975)
5th » Charles Robberts Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State President of South Africa (d. 1982)
7th » Freddie Adkins, English illustrator (d. 1986)
8th » E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created 'Popeye' (d. 1938)
8th » James Thurber, American author and illustrator (d. 1961)
8th » Marthe Vinot, French actress (d. 1974)
17th » Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
17th » Wim Schermerhorn, Dutch cartographer, engineer, and politician, List of Prime Ministers of the Netherlands named Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977)
19th » Ford Frick, American journalist and businessman (d. 1978)
20th » Robert Menzies, Australian lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978)
24th » Georges Guynemer, French captain and pilot (d. 1917)
24th » Jack Thayer, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 1945)
26th » Jean Toomer, American author and poet (d. 1967)
Famous Deaths for December 1894
3rd » Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author and poet (b. 1850)
7th » Ferdinand de Lesseps, French businessman and diplomat, co-developed the Suez Canal (b. 1805)
8th » Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1821)
12th » John Sparrow David Thompson, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1845)
29th » Christina Rossetti, English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)
31st » Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1856)