Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 19

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[edit] Births

• 1714 - John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779)
• 1906 - Leonid Brezhnev, Leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982)
• 1915 - Édith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963)
• 1933 - Cicely Tyson, American actress
• 1980 - Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor

[edit] Deaths

• 1848 - Emily Brontë, British author (b. 1818) (pictured)
• 1915 - Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (b. 1864)
• 1967 - Harold Holt, seventeenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)