* December 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist ( b. 1744 )

* December 18 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher and writer ( b. 1744 )

* December 5 – Madame Anne Brillon, French confidant of Benjamin Franklin ( b. 1744 )

* December 4 – André Campra, French composer ( d. 1744 )

André Campra ( Aix-en-Provence, ( baptized ) 4 December 1660 – 29 June 1744 in Versailles ) was a French composer and conductor.

On December 7, 1919, prohibition gained 49. 7 percent of the vote ; of the 543, 762 votes originally cast, the prohibition lobby only lost out by 1632 votes and of the 1744 special votes, 278 were for prohibition.

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck ( 1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829 ), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist.

As early as December 1744, Saxe had prepared plans for a spring offensive in the Low Countries.

The French opened their trenches around Tournai on 30 April, exactly in accordance with the memorial presented by Saxe to Versailles in December 1744.

With his financial support, d ’ Holbach attended the Leiden University from 1744 to 1748 and went on to marry his second cousin, Basile-Geneviève d ' Aine ( 1728 – 1754 ), on 11 December 1750.

* December 18-Johann Gottfried Herder, philosopher, poet and critic ( born 1744 )

* December 13 – Marianne von Martinez, singer, pianist and composer ( b. 1744 )

Anson subsequently continued his naval career with distinction as an administrator, joining the Admiralty Board in December 1744, then becoming First Lord of the Admiralty from June 1751 to November 1756, and again from June 1757 until his death.

William Berczy ( December 10, 1744, Wallerstein near Noerdlingen, Germany-February 5, 1813, New York City, USA ) was a German pioneer and painter.

Later, in December 1744, Handel rustled up two further performances, this time at the King's Theatre, after pandering to his critics with changes and additions that included interspersed arias in Italian ( for the opera crowd ) and the excision of sexually explicit lines ( for the devoted ).

* December 16 – Gaetano Brunetti, composer ( b. 1744 )

* December 28-Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( born 1744 ), naturalist.

* December 19-James McGill, merchant, philanthropist ( b. 1744 )

* December 25-Elias Hardy, lawyer and office-holder ( b. 1744 )

Tench Tilghman ( December 25, 1744 – April 18, 1786 ) was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary war.

Lieutenant Colonel Tench Tilghman was born on December 25, 1744.

James Sullivan ( April 22, 1744, Berwick, Province of Massachusetts Bay – December 10, 1808 ) was a lawyer and politician in Massachusetts.

Marie Anne de Mailly-Nesle, duchesse de Châteauroux ( 5 October 1717 – 8 December 1744 ) was the youngest and prettiest of the five famous de Nesle sisters, four of whom would become the mistress of King Louis XV of France.

After successfully surviving a disgrace provoked by the king's illness at Metz, Madame de Châteauroux's victory did not last long, for she died unexpectedly on 8 December 1744.

By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.

Upon ratification, it became the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 6, 1865.

Starting with the 7th Academy Awards, held in 1935, the period of eligibility became the full previous calendar year from January 1 to December 31.

At the time of the parliamentary decision, Lieutenant-General Valeh Barshadli became the first Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan, from September 5 to December 11, 1991.

After the DRA collapsed on 2 December 1920, it was absorbed into the Soviet Union and became part of the Transcaucasian SFSR.

Sometime before December 1837, Anne became seriously ill with gastritis and underwent a religious crisis.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991 the status of the treaty became unclear, debated by members of Congress and professors of law.

In December, 2007, St. George Absinthe Verte, produced by St. George Spirits became the first brand of American-made absinthe to be legally produced in the United States since a ban was enacted in 1912.

On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies to pass 10, 000 One Day International runs.

Initially, it was relatively unsuccessful, staying at the charts for only one week, but Haley soon scored a major worldwide hit with a cover version of Big Joe Turner's " Shake, Rattle and Roll ", which went on to sell a million copies and became the first ever rock ' n ' roll song to enter British singles charts in December 1954 and became a Gold Record.

Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur ( 14 February 148326 December 1530 ; sometimes also spelt Baber or Babar ) was a conqueror from Central Asia who, following a series of setbacks, finally succeeded in laying the basis for the Mughal dynasty in the Indian Subcontinent and became the first Mughal emperor.

Beginning with a Nintendo Entertainment System port of 1942 published in December 1985, the company started to venture into the market of home console video games, which became its main business segment a few years later.

On 4 December 1976, the republic became a monarchy — the Central African Empire — with the promulgation of the imperial constitution and the proclamation of the president as Emperor Bokassa I.

In December 2011, Rodrigo Carreras became the Costa Rican ambassador to Israel for the second time, after his posting there in the 1980s.

Emily became seriously ill shortly after Branwell's funeral, and died of pulmonary tuberculosis in December 1848.

In December 2004 Joe Pasquale, winner of the fourth series of ITV's I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here !, became well known for his frequent use of the term " Jacobs ", for Jacob's Crackers, a rhyming slang term for knackers i. e. testicles.

Claude Louis Berthollet ( 9 December 1748 – 6 November 1822 ) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804.

Delaware was one of the 13 colonies participating in the American Revolution and on December 7, 1787, became the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby becoming known as The First State.

On 13 December 2010, Mark Weston became the first person to be retried and found guilty of murder by a jury ( Dunlop having confessed ).

Due to controversy surrounding the unit, soon after Galois became a member, on 31 December 1830, the artillery of the National Guard was disbanded out of fear that they might destabilize the government.

On 2 December 1942 he initiated the atomic age with the first self-sustaining chain reaction, after which he became known as " father of the atomic bomb ".

From 1925 to 1929, Fascism steadily became entrenched in power: opposition deputies were denied access to parliament, censorship was introduced, and a December 1925 decree made Mussolini solely responsible to the King.

On 17 December 1790 he created the Assistant Parish of Tuineje, which became a new parish division on 23 June 1792 under the bishop Tavira with lands including part of the Jandía peninsular with a population of 1, 670 inhabitants.

It became a secundogeniture of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty, who were deposed for the Bourbon-Parma in 1801, themselves deposed in December 1807 when Tuscany was annexed by France.