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Today is December 4, 2017. Here is the birthday information of famous people in the world.
1795: Thomas Carlyle, essayist, social critic, and Scottish historian; a figure who exerts extensive influence on Victoria's thought form.
Born December 4, 1795
Ecclefechan, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland1
Died 5 February 1881 (age 85)
London, UK
Work Writer essay, satirical writer, historian
Victorian Literature Force, Romanticism
https://id.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle1865: Edith Cavell
British nurse in Belgium during World War I who was executed by the German occupation government for assisting Allied prisoners to flee; he was martyred for the Allies.
Edith Louisa Cavell (/ˈkævəl/; 4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War, for which she was arrested. She was accused of treason, found guilty by a court-martial and sentenced to death. Despite international pressure for mercy, she was shot by a German firing squad. Her execution received worldwide condemnation and extensive press coverage.
Born 4 December 1865
Swardeston, Norfolk, England
Died 12 October 1915 (aged 49)
Tir national (National Shooting Range), Schaerbeek, Brussels, Belgium
Venerated in Church of England
Feast 12 October (Anglican memorial day)
She is well known for her statement that "patriotism is not enough, I must have no hate in my heart". Her strong Anglican beliefs propelled her to help all those who needed it, both German and Allied soldiers. She was quoted as saying, "I can’t stop while there are lives to be saved."[1] The Church of England commemorates her in its Calendar of Saints on 12 October.
Cavell, who was 49 at the time of her execution, was already notable as a pioneer of modern nursing in Belgium.
- 1866.Wassily Kandinsky
Russian in full Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky (born December 4 [December 16, New Style], 1866, Moscow, Russia—died December 13, 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France), Russian-born artist, one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. After successful avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential Munich group Der Blaue Reiter (“The Blue Rider”; 1911–14) and began completely abstract painting. His forms evolved from fluid and organic to geometric and, finally, to pictographic
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wassily-Kandinsky
- 1875: Rainer Maria Rilke
the most influential German poet of the twentieth century, whose poetry marks a new beginning, a result of his constant efforts to determine the poet's duties and his struggle for the value of life.
Born René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke
4 December 1875
Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Died 29 December 1926 (aged 51)
Montreux, Vaud, Switzerland
Occupation Poet, novelist
Language. .: German, French
Nationality :Austrian
Period :1894–1925
Literary movement Modernism
Spouse Clara Westhoff
Children 1
Rilke was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, travelled extensively throughout Europe (including Russia, Spain, Germany, France and Italy), and in his later years settled in Switzerland—settings that were key to the genesis and inspiration for many of his poems. While Rilke is most known for his contributions to German literature, over 400 poems were originally written in French and dedicated to the canton of Valais in Switzerland. Among English-language readers, his best-known works include the poetry collections Duino Elegies (Duineser Elegien) and Sonnets to Orpheus (Die Sonette an Orpheus), the semi-autobiographical novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge), and a collection of ten letters that was published after his death under the title Letters to a Young Poet (Briefe an einen jungen Dichter). In the later 20th century, his work found new audiences through use by New Age theologians and self-help authors[5][6][7] and frequent quotations by television programs, books and motion pictures.[8] In the United States, Rilke remains among the more popular, best-selling poets.
- 1892: Francisco Franco
generalissimo who led the Nationalist forces in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and then ruled Spain as a dictator until his death in 1975.
Born Francisco Franco Bahamonde
4 December 1892
Ferrol, Galicia, Spain
Died 20 November 1975 (aged 82)
Madrid, Spain