December 21
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- Earliest date for the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere and the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, and its related observances:
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Art and culture
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Births
- 1401 - Tommaso Masaccio, Italian painter (d. 1428)
- 1815 - Thomas Couture French painter and teacher (d. 1879)
- 1917 - Heinrich Böll, German writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
- 1937 - Jane Fonda, American actress
- 1940 - Frank Zappa, American musician (d. 1993)
- 1942 - Carla Thomas, American singer
- 1943 - Gwen McCrae, American R&B singer ("Rockin’ Chair")
- 1947 - Paco de Lucía, Spanish musician (d. 2014)
- 1953 - Betty Wright, American singer (d. 2020)
- 1969 - Julie Delpy, French actress
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Deaths
- 1375 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (b. 1313)
- 1549 - Marguerite of Navarre, French writer (b. 1492)
- 1882 - Francesco Hayez, French academic painter b. 1791)
- 1921 - József Kiss, Hungarian writer (The Mother's Heart) (b. 1842)
- 1935 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist and satirist (b. 1890)
- 1940 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (b. 1896)
- 1958 - Lion Feuchtwanger, German writer (b. 1884)
- 1964 - Carl Van Vechten, American writer and photographer (b. 1880)
- 1978 - Roger Caillois, French connnoisseur of the fantastique (b. 1913)
- 1983 - Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919)
- 1992 - Albert King, American musician (b. 1924)
- 1992 - David Hare, American artist (b. 1917)
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