Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 1

Births

• 1521 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573)
• 1580 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
• 1761 – Marie Tussaud, French sculptor and founder of Madame Tussauds (d. 1850)
• 1910 – Alicia Markova, English prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Minoru Yamasaki, architect and designer of the World Trade Center (d. 1986)
• 1913 – Mary Martin, American actress and singer (d. 1990) (pictured)
• 1925 – Martin Rodbell, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)

Deaths

• 1433 – Emperor Go-Komatsu, 100th Emperor of Japan (b. 1377)
• 1825 – Alexander I of Russia, Emperor of Russia and King of Poland (b. 1777)
• 1866 – George Everest, Welsh geographer and namesake of Mount Everest (b. 1790)
• 1973 – David Ben-Gurion, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
• 1991 – George Stigler, American economist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 2012 – Gerard Parker, Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (b. 1936)