Birth anniversary

Claude Louis Berthollet

Born on December 9, 1748

277

Years ago

278th anniversary next

The 278th anniversary falls on December 9, 2026, in 45 days.

Claude Louis Berthollet (French pronunciation:, 9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0

Explore

Share this anniversary

Related people4

1608–1674

John Milton

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

LiteratureDied aged 65

View profile

Photo: anonymous · Public domain

1842–1921

Peter Kropotkin

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist political philosopher and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ActivismDied aged 78

View profile

Photo: Unknown author · Public domain

AD 973–1048

Al-Biruni

Abu Reyhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Biruni (Persian: ابوریحان محمد بن احمد بیرونی, romanized: Abū-Reyhān Bīrūnī; Arabic: أبو الريحان محمد بن أحمد البيروني; c. 973 – c. 1050), known as Biruni (بیرونی), was a Khwarazmian polymath of the Islamic Golden Age.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

ScienceDied aged 75

View profile

Photo: Michel Bakni · CC BY-SA 4.0

1916–2020100 Club

Kirk Douglas

Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) with Barbara Stanwyck.

Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

FilmWould be 109

View profile

Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain