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December 19th
183 Notable deaths
Takeo Kurita
Japanese admiral.
Born April 28th, 1889 in Mito.
Died December 19th, 1977 at 88 years old in Nishinomiya.
Qian Zhongshu
Chinese literary scholar and writer (1910–1998).
Born November 21st, 1910 in Wuxi.
Died December 19th, 1998 at 88 years old in Beijing.
Frederick Terman
American electronic engineer (1900-1982).
Born June 7th, 1900 in English. [ref]
Died December 19th, 1982 at 82 years old in Palo Alto.
Umashankar Joshi
Gujarati poet, scholar and writer. (1911-1988).
Died December 19th, 1988 at 77 years old in Mumbai.
Hugo Münsterberg
German-american psychologist.
Born June 1st, 1863 in Gdańsk. [ref]
Died December 19th, 1916 at 53 years old in Cambridge (myocardial infarction). [ref]
Stella Gibbons
British writer (1902–1989).
Born January 5th, 1902 in London.
Died December 19th, 1989 at 87 years old in London.
Robert H. Grubbs
Nobel prize winning american chemist (1942-2021).
Born February 27th, 1942 in Possum Trot.
Died December 19th, 2021 at 79 years old in Duarte. [ref]
Clifton Chenier
American accordion player and zydeco musician.
Born June 25th, 1925 in St. Landry Parish. [ref]
Died December 19th, 1987 at 62 years old in Lafayette (kidney failure).
Keiji Nakazawa
Japanese manga artist (1939-2012).
Born March 14th, 1939 in Naka-ku.
Died December 19th, 2012 at 73 years old in Hiroshima (lung cancer). [ref]
Sara Berner
American actress (1912-1969).
Born January 12th, 1912 in Albany.
Died December 19th, 1969 at 57 years old in Van Nuys.
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I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. Gilda Radner