What Happened In December 1873 In History

Famous Birthdays on December in 1873

• 7th » Willa Cather, American author and poet (d. 1947)
• 9th » George Blewett, Canadian philosopher, author, and academic (d. 1912)
• 11th » Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician and academic (d. 1967)
• 17th » Ford Madox Ford, English-French author, poet, and critic (d. 1939)
• 18th » Francis Burton Harrison, American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines (d. 1957)
• 19th » Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (d. 1913)
• 21st » Blagoje Bersa, Croatian composer (d. 1934)
• 25th » Otto Frederick Hunziker, Swiss-American agriculturalist and educator (d. 1959)
• 26th » Thomas Wass, English cricketer (d. 1953)
• 30th » Al Smith, American politician, 42nd Governor of New York (d. 1944)
• 31st » Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (d. 1936)

Famous Deaths for December 1873

• 14th » Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
• 21st » Francis Garnier, French explorer (b. 1839)
• 24th » Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1795)

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