Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 11

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[edit] Births

• 1882 - Max Born, German physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1970) (pictured)
• 1882 - Fiorello LaGuardia, American statesman (d. 1947)
• 1912 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (d. 2007)
• 1931 - Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican entertainer
• 1943 - John Kerry, American politician

[edit] Deaths

• 1737 - John Strype, English historian (b. 1643)
• 1920 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (b. 1855)
• 1938 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist and recipient of Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
• 1941 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (b. 1922)