" Blind " Lemon Jefferson ( Lemon Henry Jefferson ; September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929 ) was an American blues singer and guitarist from Texas.

In 1893, judging that his power over Ethiopia was secure, Menelik repudiated the treaty ; in response the Italians ramped up the pressure on his domain in a variety of ways, including the annexation of small territories bordering their original claim under the Treaty of Wuchale, and finally culminating with a military campaign across the Mareb River into Tigray ( on the border with Eritrea ) in December 1894.

Mao was born on December 26, 1893 in a rural village in Shaoshan, Hunan Province.

In December 1893 an Opposition motion proposed by Lord George Hamilton called for an expansion of the Royal Navy.

* December 24 – Norma Talmadge, American actress ( b. 1893 )

* December 7 – Orland Steen Loomis, Governor-elect of Wisconsin ( b. 1893 )

* December 25 – William Irving, German-born American film actor ( b. 1893 )

* December 20 – Roy O. Disney, American studio executive ( b. 1893 )

* December 14 – F. Richard Jones, American director ( b. 1893 )

* December 18 – Sarah Tittle Bolton née: Barrett, American poet ( d. 1893 )

* December 22 – John Obadiah Westwood, British entomologist ( d. 1893 )

There is an earlier patent ( 1894, filed December 1893 ) which is sometimes cited as Pupin's loading coil patent but is, in fact, something different.

During his time in Frankfurt he married Luise Lotter ( 1893 – 1975 ), widow Schuster, on 11 December 1923.

After proposing in 1893, he married Sara White on December 28, 1898.

Her father remarried in Amsterdam on 9 February 1893 to Susanna Catharina ten Hoove ( 11 March 1844 – 1 December 1913 ), with whom he had no children.

In December 1893 he also became the first person to ski in Antarctica where the Larsen Ice Shelf was named after him.

Joan Miró i Ferrà () ( April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983 ) was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.

Trebarwith was the scene of the shipwreck of the Sarah Anderson in 1886 ( all on board perished ), but the most famous of the wrecks happened on December 20, 1893 at Lye Rock when the barque Iota was driven against the cliff.

His father Raphaël died on 13 December 1893.

Gen. Jose Paulin ( December 1876-April 1877 ), Col Carlos Martinez ( Sept 1877-Feb 1880 ), Col. Rafael de Rivera ( 1880 – 81 ), Col. Isidro G. Soto ( 1881 – 82 ), Col. Eduardo Bremon, ( 1882 ), Col. Julian Parrrado ( 1882 – 84 ), Col. Francisco Castilla ( 1884 – 86 ), Col. Juan Arolas ( 1886 – 93 ), Col. Caesar Mattos ( 1893 ), Gen. Venancio Hernandez ( 1893 – 96 ), and Col. Luis Huerta ( 1896 – 99 ).

Burleigh Arland Grimes ( August 18, 1893 – December 6, 1985 ) was an American professional baseball player, and the last pitcher officially permitted to throw the spitball.

At the ninth symphony's premiere at Carnegie Hall ( December 16, 1893 ) the reception was one of perpetual cheering.

Marshal of the Royal Air Force William Sholto Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas of Kirtleside, GCB, MC, DFC ( 23 December 1893 – 29 October 1969 ) was a senior figure in the Royal Air Force up to and during World War II.

* December 15 – Lucien den Arend, Dutch sculptor

* December 24 – Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 until 1977 ( b. 1919 )

He previously served as Minister of Economic Affairs from May 11, 1973 until December 19, 1977 in the Cabinet den Uyl.

Johannes Marten den Uijl, known as Joop den Uyl (; August 9, 1919 – December 24, 1987 ) was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party ( PvdA ).

Sten Sture the Elder ( Sten Sture den äldre ; 1440 – 14 December 1503 ) was a Swedish statesman and regent of Sweden from ( 1470 – 1497 and 1501 – 1503 ).

** De occasie maakt den dief ( opera in 1 act, libretto by N. Destanberg, premiered on December 24 in Ghent )

In December of that year, Clarence was shot in a basement gambling den called the Hole.

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Henri ( Hans ) van den Broek ( born 11 December 1936 in Paris ) is a leading Dutch politician.

Henck Alphonsus Eugène Arron ( 25 April 1936 Paramaribo – 4 December 2000 Alphen aan den Rijn ) was the Prime Minister of Suriname from 24 December 1973 to 25 February 1980, when he was overthrown in a military coup d ' état by Dési Bouterse.

* Jef van den Eynde ( December 21, 1879-April 12, 1929 ), Flemish student leader

During Reconstruction, the new authorities in charge of the government decided to move the county seat of Marengo from its central location in Linden to Demopolis by an act approved on December 4, 1868.

Roselle was incorporated on December 20, 1894, at the height of the Boroughitis phenomenon sweeping through New Jersey at the time, based on the results of a referendum held two days earlier, from portions of Linden.

In December 2010, he became the third Canucks player to have his jersey retired, joining Stan Smyl and Trevor Linden.

Several games later, on 5 December, Näslund became the Canucks ' franchise leading point-scorer, assisting on defenceman Mattias Öhlund's goal and passing Linden with 725 points.

On December 30, 2010, it was announced that Linden was to be invested as a Member of the Order of Canada.

Nanyang Girls ' Boarding School on Linden Drive began operating in December.

Tringo is an online multiplayer game created by Nathan Keir ( aka Kermitt Quirk ) in December 2004 that is available to play inside the virtual reality platform Second Life owned by Linden Lab.

Pierre Léonard Vander Linden ( December 12, 1797 – April 5, 1831 ) was a Belgian entomologist.