On this day: December 30

Births

1. 1842 Osman Hamdi Bey Ottoman statesman, academic and artist (1842-1910)
2. 1919 Yevdokiya Pasko Soviet WWII aviator and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1919–2017)
3. 1929 Yuriy Konovalov athletics competitor (1929–2008)
4. 1930 Abulfat Aliyev Azerbaijani opera and mugham singer (1926-1990)
5. 1937 Rauf Babayev Soviet Azerbaijani singer (1937-2020)
6. 1942 Vladimir Bukovsky Soviet dissident; prominent in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor cam