Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 7
Births
[edit]- 521 – Columba, Irish missionary, monk, and saint (d. 597)
- 1302 – Azzone Visconti, Founder of the state of Milan (d. 1339)
- 1724 – Louise of Great Britain, Queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1751)
- 1860 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
- 1863 – Richard Warren Sears, co-founder of Sears (d. 1914)
- 1905 – Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1973)
Deaths
[edit]- 43 BC – Cicero, Roman orator and prose stylist (b. 106 BC)
- 1775 – Charles Saunders, English admiral (b. 1715)
- 1879 – Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence leader (b. 1811)
- 1894 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, diplomat and co-developer of the Suez Canal (b. 1805)
- 1993 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- 1998 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)