What Happened In December 1855 In History

Famous Birthdays on December in 1855

• 5th » Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, entomologist, and ethnographer (d. 1942)
• 29th » August Kitzberg, Estonian author and poet (d. 1927)
• 31st » Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet and scholar (d. 1912)

Famous Deaths for December 1855

• 6th » William John Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
• 15th » Jacques Charles François Sturm, French mathematician (b. 1803)

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