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December 11

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Kyoto Protocol

28 years ago

Born this day

1911

Naguib Mahfouz

Would be 114

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827th

Averroes

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Famous births27

1475 · 550 yrs

Leo X

Pope Leo X (Italian: Leone X; born Giovanni di Lorenzo de' Medici, 11 December 1475 – 1 December 1521) was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death in December 1521.

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ReligionDied aged 45

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1781 · 244 yrs

David Brewster

Sir David Brewster (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a British scientist, inventor, author, and academic administrator.

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ScienceDied aged 86

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1803 · 222 yrs

Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, conductor and critic.

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MusicDied aged 65

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1810 · 215 yrs

Alfred de Musset

Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (French:; 11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist. Along with his poetry, he is known for writing the autobiographical novel La Confession d'un enfant du siècle (The Confession of a Child of the Century).

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LiteratureDied aged 46

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1843 · 182 yrs

Robert Koch

Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( KOKH; German:; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. He won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis".

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ScienceDied aged 66

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1863 · 162 yrs

Annie Jump Cannon

Annie Jump Cannon (December 11, 1863 – April 13, 1941) was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. With Edward C.

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ScienceDied aged 77

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1882 · 143 yrs

Max Born

Max Born (German:; 11 December 1882 – 5 January 1970) was a German–British theoretical physicist who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics. He also made contributions to solid-state physics and optics, and supervised the work of a number of notable physicists in the 1920s and 1930s.

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ScienceWould be 143

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1887 · 138 yrs

Carlos Gardel

Carlos Gardel (born Charles Romuald Gardès; 11 December 1890 – 24 June 1935) was a French-born Argentine singer, composer and actor, and the most prominent figure in the history of tango. He was one of the most influential interpreters of popular music in the first half of the 20th century.

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MusicWould be 138

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1911 · 114 yrs

Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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LiteratureWould be 114

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1912 · 113 yrs

Carlo Ponti

Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit.

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FilmWould be 113

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1913 · 112 yrs

Jean Marais

Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), known professionally as Jean Marais (French:), was a French actor, theatre director, painter, sculptor, visual artist, writer and photographer.

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FilmWould be 112

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1918 · 107 yrs

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (11 December 1918 – 3 August 2008) was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system.

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LiteratureWould be 107

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Famous deaths9

1198 · 827 yrs

Averroes

Ibn Rushd (14 April 1126 – 11 December 1198), Latinized as Averroes, was an Andalusian polymath and jurist who was proficient in a variety of intellectual fields, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, mathematics, neurology, Islamic jurisprudence, law, and linguistics.

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LiteratureDied aged 72

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1241 · 784 yrs

Ögedei Khan

Ögedei Khan (also Ögedei Khagan or Ogodei; c. 1186 – 11 December 1241) was the second khan of the Mongol Empire. The third son of Genghis Khan, he continued the expansion of the empire that his father had begun.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 55

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1918 · 107 yrs

Ivan Cankar

Ivan Cankar (pronounced, ) (10 May 1876 – 11 December 1918) was a Slovene writer, playwright, essayist, poet, and political activist. Together with Oton Župančič, Dragotin Kette, and Josip Murn, he is considered as the beginner of modernism in Slovene literature.

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LiteratureWould be 150

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1938 · 87 yrs

Christian Lous Lange

Christian Lous Lange (17 September 1869 – 11 December 1938) was a Norwegian historian, teacher, and political scientist. He was one of the world's foremost exponents of the theory and practice of internationalism.

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PoliticsDied aged 69

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1964 · 61 yrs

Sam Cooke

Samuel Cooke (né Cook; January 22, 1931 – December 11, 1964) was an American soul singer and songwriter.

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MusicWould be 95

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1978 · 47 yrs

Vincent du Vigneaud

Vincent du Vigneaud (May 18, 1901 – December 11, 1978) was an American biochemist. He was recipient of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on biochemically important sulphur compounds, especially for the first synthesis of a polypeptide hormone," a reference to his work on the peptide hormone oxytocin.

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ScienceWould be 125

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2012 · 13 yrs

Ravi Shankar

Pandit Ravi Shankar (Bengali:; born Robindro Shaunkor Chowdhury, sometimes spelled as Ravindra Shankar Chowdhury; 7 April 1920 – 11 December 2012) was an Indian sitarist and composer.

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SportsWould be 106

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2020 · 5 yrs

Kim Ki-duk

Kim Ki-duk (Korean: 김기덕; 20 December 1960 – 11 December 2020) was a South Korean filmmaker, noted for his idiosyncratic art-house cinematic works. His films have received many distinctions in the festival circuit, rendering him one of the most important contemporary Asian film directors.

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FilmWould be 65

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2021 · 4 yrs

Anne Rice

Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien; October 4, 1941 – December 11, 2021) was an American author of Gothic fiction, erotic literature, and Bible fiction. She is best known for writing The Vampire Chronicles.

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LiteratureWould be 85

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Events5

1637 · 388 yrs

Shimabara Rebellion

The Shimabara Rebellion (島原の乱, Shimabara no ran), also known as the Shimabara-Amakusa Rebellion (島原･天草の乱, Shimabara-Amakusa no ran) or Shimabara-Amakusa Ikki (島原･天草一揆), was an uprising that occurred in the Shimabara Domain of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan from 17 December 1637 to 15 April 1638.

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War

1994 · 31 yrs

First Chechen War

The First Chechen War, also referred to as the First Russo-Chechen War, was a conflict between the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and the Russian Federation from 1994 to 1996.

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War

1997 · 28 yrs

Kyoto Protocol

The Kyoto Protocol (Japanese: 京都議定書, Hepburn: Kyōto Giteisho) was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that…

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History

2006 · 19 yrs

Mexican drug war

The Mexican drug war (Spanish: Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México) is an ongoing asymmetric armed conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking syndicates. When the Mexican military intervened in 2006, the government's main objective was to reduce drug-related violence.

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War

2022 · 3 yrs

Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022

The Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022 was the 20th edition of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest, held on 11 December 2022 at the Karen Demirchyan Sports and Concerts Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, and presented by Iveta Mukuchyan, Garik Papoyan, Karina Ignatyan, and Robin the Robot.

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