Who was born on December 11?
– 1803 – Hector Berlioz (1869) – French romantic composer, conductor and music critic.
– 1810 – Alfred De Musset (1857) – French poet, writer, playwright.
– 1843 – Robert Koch (1910) – German microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (1905).
– 1856 – Georgy Plekhanov (1918) – Russian philosopher and politician.
– 1882 – Max Born (1970) – German and British physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (19354).
– 1890 – Carlos Gardel – Argentine singer, composer and actor, famous tango dancer.
– 1912 – Carlo Ponti (2007) – Italian film director.
– 1913 – Jean Marat – French actor, director, writer, painter, sculptor.
– 1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2008) – Russian writer, playwright, poet, publicist, public figure, Nobel Prize laureate (1970).
– 1922 – Nikolay Ozerov (1997) – Soviet tennis player, actor, sports commentator, People’s Artist of the RSFSR.
– 1943 – John Kerry – American politician, US Secretary of State (2013-2017).
– 1957 – Chori Avaz (1992) – Uzbek poet.
– 1965 – Minhojiddin Mirzo – Uzbek poet, journalist and statesman.
– 1968 – Emanuel Charpentier – French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry, Nobel Prize laureate (2020).
– 1969 – Viswanathan Anand – Indian grandmaster, 15th world chess champion.
– 1987 – Peter Scholze – German mathematician.
– 2003 – Nilufar Hamroyeva – Sukhandon, translator.
– 2004 – Yasmina Kadirova – Russian figure skater, competes in pair skating.
