Month December 1926 Calendar

About Month of December Calendar

• 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).

Historical Events for December, 1926

• Day of Week 25th » Emperor Taishō of Japan dies. His son, Prince Hirohito, succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.

Famous Birthdays on December in 1926

• 1st » Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (d. 2013)
• 1st » Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1st » Keith Michell, Australian actor
• 1st » Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1st » Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Scottish businessman (d. 2010)
• 4th » Monty M. Wyche, American soldier, lawyer, and judge (d. 2014)
• 9th » Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, photographer, and mountaineer, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
• 9th » Jan Křesadlo, Czech-English psychologist and author (d. 1995)
• 9th » Roger McGee, American actor (d. 2013)
• 11th » Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
• 13th » George Rhoden, Jamaican runner
• 15th » Ben Overton, American judge (d. 2012)
• 16th » James McCracken, American tenor (d. 1988)
• 16th » A. N. R. Robinson, Trinbagonian politician, 3rd List of Presidents of Trinidad and Tobago e.g President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2014)
• 17th » Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)
• 17th » Patrice Wymore, American-Jamaican actress and singer (d. 2014)
• 19th » Bobby Layne, American football player (d. 1986)
• 19th » Herb Stempel, American game show contestant
• 20th » Geoffrey Howe, Welsh lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 20th » Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German lawyer and politician, Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy or German Federal Minister of Economics (d. 2009)
• 21st » Arnošt Lustig, Czech author and playwright (d. 2011)
• 21st » Joe Paterno, American football player and coach (d. 2012)
• 23rd » Robert Bly, American poet and author
• 24th » Paul Buissonneau, French-Canadian singer and director
• 25th » Febo Conti, Italian actor (d. 2012)
• 25th » Enrique Jorrín, Cuban composer and violinist (d. 1987)
• 26th » Earle Brown, American composer (d. 2002)
• 26th » Gina Pellón, Cuban-French painter and poet
• 27th » Jerome Courtland, American actor, director, and producer (d. 2012)
• 28th » Donald Carr, German-English cricketer and referee
• 28th » Donna Hightower, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• 30th » Stan Tracey, English pianist and composer (d. 2013)
• 31st » Valerie Pearl, English historian and academic
• 31st » Billy Snedden, Australian politician, 17th Attorney-General of Australia (d. 1987)

Famous Deaths for December 1926

• 4th » Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861)
• 5th » Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
• 10th » Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1845)
• 12th » Jean Richepin, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1849)
• 23rd » Swami Shraddhanand, Indian monk, missionary, and educator (b. 1856)
• 24th » Wesley Coe, American shot putter, hammer thrower, and discus thrower (b. 1879)
• 25th » Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879)
• 29th » Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian author and poet (b. 1875)

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