What Happened In December 1916 In History

Historical Events for December, 1916

• 6th » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
• 18th » World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 Casualty (person) called casualties.
• 19th » World War I: Battle of Verdun On the Western Front (World War I) named Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army World War I 1914–1918 called German Army and drives it back to its starting position.
• 30th » The last coronation of the Hungarian monarch coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles I of Austria Charles IV and Queen Zita of Bourbon-Parma Zita.

Famous Birthdays on December in 1916

• 4th » Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American journalist and author (d. 1994)
• 5th » Margaret Hayes, American actress (d. 1977)
• 5th » Hilary Koprowski, Polish-American virologist and immunologist, created the Polio vaccine (d. 2013)
• 5th » Walt McPherson, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
• 6th » Yekaterina Budanova, Russian captain and pilot (d. 1943)
• 6th » Kristján Eldjárn, Icelandic educator and politician, 3rd President of Iceland (d. 1982)
• 6th » Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and producer (d. 1986)
• 7th » Jean Carignan, Canadian fiddler (d. 1988)
• 8th » Richard Fleischer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
• 9th » Jerome Beatty, Jr., American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2002)
• 9th » Kirk Douglas, American actor, singer, and producer
• 10th » Walt Arfons, American race car driver (d. 2013)
• 10th » Rafael Ruiz, Spanish field hockey player (d. 2006)
• 11th » Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader (d. 1989)
• 13th » Leonard Weisgard, American author and illustrator (d. 2000)
• 14th » Shirley Jackson, American author (d. 1965)
• 15th » Miguel Arraes, Brazilian politician, former governor of Pernambuco (d. 2005)
• 15th » Buddy Cole (musician) called Buddy Cole, American pianist and conductor (d. 1964)
• 15th » Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 16th » Birgitta Valberg, Swedish actress (d. 2014)
• 17th » Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet (d. 2000)
• 18th » Douglas Fraser, Scottish-American union leader and academic (d. 2008)
• 18th » Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1973)
• 19th » Roy Ward Baker, English director and producer (d. 2010)
• 19th » Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist, journalist, and academic (d. 2010)
• 20th » Michel Chartrand, Canadian union leader and activist (d. 2010)
• 23rd » Dino Risi, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2008)
• 25th » Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian soldier and politician, 1st President of Algeria (d. 2012)
• 27th » Werner Baumbach, German pilot (d. 1953)

Famous Deaths for December 1916

• 1st » Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858)
• 9th » Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
• 16th » Ognjeslav Kostović Stepanović, Serbian inventor (b. 1851)
• 19th » Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859)
• 20th » Louis de Champsavin, French horse rider (b. 1867)
• 25th » Albert Chmielowski, Polish saint, founded the Albertine Brothers (b. 1845)
• 25th » Solko van den Bergh, Dutch target shooter (b. 1854)
• 28th » Eduard Strauss, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1835)
• 30th » Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (b. 1869)

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