December 24
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Art and culture
- 1888 - Vincent Van Gogh cuts off his ear during some sort of seizure.
- 1906 - Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first radio broadcast. The first program, consisted of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
Births
- 1822 - Matthew Arnold, English poet (d. 1888)
- 1905 - Howard Hughes, American film producer and inventor (d. 1976)
- 1922 - Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1931 - Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer
- 1932 - On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist
- 1945 - Lemmy, British singer, bassist (Motörhead)
Deaths
- 1524 - Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (bc. 1469)
- 1863 - William Makepeace Thackeray, English writer (b. 1811)
- 1935 - Alban Berg, Austrian composer (b. 1885)
- 1938 - Bruno Taut, German architect (b. 1880)
- 1975 - Bernard Herrmann, American film composer (b. 1911)
- 1982 - Louis Aragon, French writer (b. 1897)
- 1984 - Peter Lawford, English actor (b. 1923)
- 1985 - Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, Last Lincoln descendant (b. 1904)
- 1986 - Gardner Fox, American writer (b. 1911)
- 1987 - Joop den Uyl, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)
- 1987 - M. G. Ramachandran, Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (b. 1917)
- 1990 - Thorbjørn Egner, Norwegian author (b. 1922)
- 1992 - Peyo, Belgian comics artist, and creator of The Smurfs (b. 1928)
- 1992 - Bobby LaKind, American musician and singer (The Doobie Brothers) (b. 1945)
- 1993 - Norman Vincent Peale, American writer (b. 1898)
- 1994 - John Boswell, American historian (b. 1947)
- 1994 - Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor and singer (b. 1916)
- 1997 - Toshirô Mifune, Japanese actor (b. 1920)
- 1997 - Pierre Péladeau, Quebec businessman, founder of Quebecor (b. 1925)
- 1999 - João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
- 1999 - Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime minister of France (b. 1907)
- 1999 - Bill Bowerman, American track and field coach
- 2000 - Nick Massi, American singer (The Four Seasons) (b. 1935)
- 2002 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
- 2002 - Laci Peterson, American murder victim (b. 1975)
- 2004 - Johnny Oates, baseball player and manager (b. 1946)
- 2005 - Michael Vale, American commercial actor (b. 1922)
- 2006 - "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (b. 1907)
- 2006 - Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian singer, poet and comedian (b. 1961)
- 2006 - Frank Stanton, American television executive (b. 1908)
Notes
- David F. Friedman
- Ignatius of Loyola
- Mauricio Kagel
- Ava Gardner
- Louis Aragon
- Joseph Cornell
- James Hadley Chase
- Wolfgang Kayser
- Edwige Fenech
- Bernard Herrmann
- Ad Reinhardt
- Vittorio Giardino
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Reginald Fessenden
- Walter Abish
- John Osborne
- Feodor Stepanovich Rojankovsky
- Bruno Taut
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