Today in History for December 1916

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 13 of 13

2nd - Baseballers who are injured now get full pay for duration of contract
6th - German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest
6th - World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
7th - British government of David Lloyd George forms
7th - David Lloyd George replaces resigning H H Asquith as British PM
11th - David Lloyd George forms British war government
13th - Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian & Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
13th - Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin
13th - French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle
15th - French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun
19th - Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo
23rd - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
26th - Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 28 of 28

2nd - John Bentley, Warwickshire England, actor (Chair)
4th - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American writer (d. 1994)
6th - Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1986)
7th - Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (d. 1988)
8th - Dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union rep
8th - Richard Fleischer, American film director (d. 2006)
9th - Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German/Swiss architect/writer (Mozart biog)
9th - Kirk Douglas, [Issur Danielovitch], Amsterdam, New York, American actor (Gunfight at OK Corral)
11th - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban-born bandleader (d. 1989)
14th - Shirley Jackson, San Francisco, California, writer (Road Through the Wall), (d. 1965)
15th - Maurice Wilkins, England, physicist, worked with DNA (Nobel 1962)
16th - Theo Bitter, Dutch painter/set designer
16th - Udom Patpongsiri, property developer
17th - Antoine G T "Toon" Hermans, Dutch entertainer/poet (Kolderliedjes)
17th - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (d. 2000)
18th - Betty Grable, St Louis, great legs/actress (Gay Divorcee)
19th - Adriaan van der Veen, Dutch writer (Sister at Sea)
19th - Hal Hastings, NYC, orchestra leader (Chevrolet on Broadway)
19th - Mervyn Wallace, cricketer (13 Tests for NZ, latterly as capt)
Writer Shirley Jackson (14th) 20th - Michel Chartrand, Quebec union leader
21st - Eve Perrick, journalist
21st - John Boon, publisher
23rd - Dino Risi, Italian film director and screenwriter
25th - Daniel Devoto, composer
26th - Helmut Eder, composer
27th - Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (d. 1953)
28th - Noel Johnson, British actor (Frenzy, Frightmare, Royal Flash)
31st - Suzy Delair, Paris France, actress (Utopia, White Paws)

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 14 of 14

1st - Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer, dies at 58
2nd - Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer, dies at 69
5th - Hans Richter, composer, dies at 73
9th - P Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, French economist (Economist France), dies at 73
9th - Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
20th - Manuel Giro, composer, dies at 68
20th - William Wallace Gilchrist, composer, dies at 70
25th - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint (b. 1845)
26th - Bernhard Scholz, composer, dies at 81
26th - Frank Penn, cricketer (one Test for England v Australia 1880), dies
27th - Nikolay Feopemptovich Solov'yov, composer, dies at 70
28th - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 dances), dies at 81
29th - Grigori Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45
31st - Ernst Rudorff, composer, dies at 76