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Month December 1916 Calendar

About Month of December Calendar

  • December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars. It is one of seven months with the length of 31 days. December is the first month of meteorological winter in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern Hemisphere, December is the seasonal equivalent to June in the Northern hemisphere, which is the first month of summer. December is the month with the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere.

    December symbols: Its birth flower is the narcissus. The birthstones of December are the turquoise, zircon, and tanzanite. The zodiac signs for the month of December are Sagittarius (until December 21) and Capricorn (December 22 onwards).

Historical Events for December, 1916

  • Day of Week 6th » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
  • Day of Week 18th » World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 Casualty (person) called casualties.
  • Day of Week 19th » World War I: Battle of Verdun On the Western Front (World War I) named Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army World War I 1914–1918 called German Army and drives it back to its starting position.
  • Day of Week 30th » The last coronation of the Hungarian monarch coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles I of Austria Charles IV and Queen Zita of Bourbon-Parma Zita.

Famous Birthdays on December in 1916

  • 4th » Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr., American journalist and author (d. 1994)
  • 5th » Margaret Hayes, American actress (d. 1977)
  • 5th » Hilary Koprowski, Polish-American virologist and immunologist, created the Polio vaccine (d. 2013)
  • 5th » Walt McPherson, American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
  • 6th » Yekaterina Budanova, Russian captain and pilot (d. 1943)
  • 6th » Kristján Eldjárn, Icelandic educator and politician, 3rd President of Iceland (d. 1982)
  • 6th » Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and producer (d. 1986)
  • 7th » Jean Carignan, Canadian fiddler (d. 1988)
  • 8th » Richard Fleischer, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
  • 9th » Jerome Beatty, Jr., American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2002)
  • 9th » Kirk Douglas, American actor, singer, and producer
  • 10th » Walt Arfons, American race car driver (d. 2013)
  • 10th » Rafael Ruiz, Spanish field hockey player (d. 2006)
  • 11th » Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader (d. 1989)
  • 13th » Leonard Weisgard, American author and illustrator (d. 2000)
  • 14th » Shirley Jackson, American author (d. 1965)
  • 15th » Miguel Arraes, Brazilian politician, former governor of Pernambuco (d. 2005)
  • 15th » Buddy Cole (musician) called Buddy Cole, American pianist and conductor (d. 1964)
  • 15th » Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-English physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
  • 16th » Birgitta Valberg, Swedish actress (d. 2014)
  • 17th » Penelope Fitzgerald, English author and poet (d. 2000)
  • 18th » Douglas Fraser, Scottish-American union leader and academic (d. 2008)
  • 18th » Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1973)
  • 19th » Roy Ward Baker, English director and producer (d. 2010)
  • 19th » Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist, journalist, and academic (d. 2010)
  • 20th » Michel Chartrand, Canadian union leader and activist (d. 2010)
  • 23rd » Dino Risi, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2008)
  • 25th » Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian soldier and politician, 1st President of Algeria (d. 2012)
  • 27th » Werner Baumbach, German pilot (d. 1953)

Famous Deaths for December 1916

  • 1st » Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858)
  • 9th » Natsume Sōseki, Japanese author and poet (b. 1867)
  • 16th » Ognjeslav Kostović Stepanović, Serbian inventor (b. 1851)
  • 19th » Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859)
  • 20th » Louis de Champsavin, French horse rider (b. 1867)
  • 25th » Albert Chmielowski, Polish saint, founded the Albertine Brothers (b. 1845)
  • 25th » Solko van den Bergh, Dutch target shooter (b. 1854)
  • 28th » Eduard Strauss, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1835)
  • 30th » Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (b. 1869)

Calendar for the year 1916 and a calender for the month of December

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