pridie kalendas decembres
- 406 B.C. — death of Euripides (by one reckoning)
- 147 A.D. — birth of Annia Galeria Faustina, the daughter of the emperor-to-be Marcus Aurelius
- 1817 — birth of Theodor Mommsen, Nobel prize winning ancient historian
quidquid bene dictum est ab ullo, meum est
pridie kalendas decembres