Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/December 17
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[edit] Births
- 1778 - Sir Humphry Davy, British chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
- 1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892) (pictured)
- 1946 - Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
- 1975 - Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-born actress and model
[edit] Deaths
- 1957 - Dorothy L. Sayers, British writer (b. 1893)
- 1964 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
- 1967 - Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (b. 1908)
- 1978 - Ron Ellis, American jazz trumpeter, composer and big band leader (b. 1934)
