Henri Becquerel (1852-1908)
Dec 15 French physicist who discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903), born in Paris, France
- Dec 15 Muḥammad Tawfīq Pasha, Khedive of Egypt (1879-92), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1892)
- Dec 17 Herbert Beerbohm Tree, British actor and theatre manager (King John, Trilby), born in Kensington, London (d. 1917)
- Dec 18 Gaetano Coronaro, Italian conductor, pedagogue, and composer (La Creola), born in Vicenza, Austrian Empire (now Italy) (d. 1908)
- Dec 19 Albert A. Michelson, American physicist (Nobel Prize 1907), born in Strelno Prussia (d. 1931)
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