December 11
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Births
- 1475 - Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
- 1801 - Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German writer (d. 1836)
- 1803 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
- 1810 - Alfred de Musset, French poet (d. 1857)
- 1911 - Val Guest, British film director (d. 2006)
- 1912 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (d. 2007)
- 1913 - Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)
- 1926 - Big Mama Thornton, American singer (d. 1984)
- 1930 - Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor
- 1973 - Mos Def, American rapper and actor
Deaths
- 1757 - Edmund Curll, English bookseller (b. 1675)
- 1957 - Musidora (Jeanne Roques), French actress (b. 1889)
Notes
- 1864 - Maurice Leblanc, French novelist, creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, (d. 1941)
- 1891 - Cantique des Cantiques premiers in Paris.
- 1980 - Memphis Group is founded by Ettore Sottsass
- 1948 - Robert Briffault, French novelist, historian, social anthropologist and surgeon. (b. 1876)
- 1916 - Perez Prado, Cuban/Mexican bandleader and composer. (d. 1989)
- 1964 - Alma Mahler, Austrian socialite (b. 1879)
- 1921 - Robert de Montesquiou, French Symbolist poet, art collector and dandy. (b. 1855)
- 1874 - Paul Wegener, German actor and film director d. 1948)
- 1980 - Sibel Kekilli, Turkish-German actress
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