December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. It is one of seven months with the length of 31 days. December is the first month of meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, December is the seasonal equivalent to June in the Northern hemisphere, which is the first month of summer. December is the month with the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere.
December symbols: Its birth flower is the narcissus. The birthstones of December are the turquoise, zircon, and tanzanite. The zodiac signs for the month of December are Sagittarius (until December 21) and Capricorn (December 22 onwards).
Famous Birthdays on December in 1880
3rd » Alexander Hall (soccer) e.g Alexander Hall, Canadian soccer player (d. 1943)
3rd » Fedor von Bock, German field marshal (d. 1945)
4th » Tom Taylor (soccer) known as Tom Taylor, Canadian soccer player (d. 1945)
8th » Johannes Aavik, Estonian linguist and philologist (d. 1973)
10th » Charles King (athlete) or Charles King, American jumper (d. 1958)
11th » Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer and umpire (d. 1951)
24th » Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator (d. 1939)
24th » Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya, Indian politician (d. 1959)
31st » Fred Beebe, American baseball player and coach (d. 1957)
31st » George Marshall, American general and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Peace Prize named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
Famous Deaths for December 1880
11th » Oliver Winchester, American businessman, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (b. 1810)
18th » Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
20th » Gaspar Tochman, Polish-American colonel and lawyer (b. 1797)
22nd » George Eliot, English journalist and author (b. 1819)
25th » Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss politician, List of Presidents of the National Council of Switzerland known as President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1828)