Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 20

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[edit] Births

• 1717 - Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (d. 1787)
• 1786 - Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (d. 1853)
• 1868 - Harvey Firestone, American automobile pioneer (d. 1938) (pictured)
• 1898 - Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990)

[edit] Deaths

• 1812 - Sacagawea, Shoshone guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition
• 1968 - John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
• 1996 - Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (b. 1934)