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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 1 is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
30 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations
against Pope Leo III in
the Vatican. ·
1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris. ·
1577 – Francis Walsingham is knighted. ·
1640 –
End of the Iberian Union:
Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal,
ending 59 years of personal union of
the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty. ·
1662 –
Diarist John Evelyn records
skating on the frozen lake in St James's Park, London, watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine.[1] ·
1768 –
The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks
off Tromøya in Norway. ·
1821 – José Núñez de Cáceres got
the independence of the Dominican Republic of Spain and named it the new
territory as Republic of
Spanish Haiti. ·
1822 – Peter I is
crowned Emperor of Brazil. ·
1824 – United
States presidential election: Since no candidate received a
majority of the total electoral
college votes in the election, the United
States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding
the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution. ·
1828 –
Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes
a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego,
beginning the Decembrist
revolution. ·
1834 –
Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with
the Slavery
Abolition Act 1833. ·
1862 –
In his State of the
Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity
of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation
Proclamation. ·
1865 – Shaw University, the first historically
black university in the southern United States, is founded
in Raleigh, North
Carolina. ·
1913 –
The Buenos Aires Metro,
the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and
in Latin America, begins operation. ·
1913
– Ford Motor Company introduces
the first moving assembly line. ·
1913
– Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece. ·
1918 – Transylvania unites with Romania,
following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great
Union. ·
1918
– Iceland becomes
a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom. ·
1918
– The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of
Yugoslavia) is proclaimed. ·
1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first
female Member of Parliament to
take her seat in the House
of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that
position on November 28.) ·
1924 –
The National Hockey
League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in
league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.[2] ·
1934 –
In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin
uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge. ·
1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final
approval to initiate war against the United States. ·
1941
– World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York
City and Director of the Office of
Civilian Defense, signs Administrative
Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol. ·
1952 –
The New York Daily News reports
the news of Christine Jorgensen,
the first notable case of sex reassignment
surgery. ·
1955 – American
Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama,
seamstress Rosa Parks refuses
to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the
city's racial segregation laws,
an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott. ·
1958 –
The Central African
Republic attains self-rule within the French Union. ·
1958
– The Our
Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children
and three nuns. ·
1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of
the Antarctic Treaty,
which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military
activity on the continent. ·
1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later
deported) from Hamburg, West Germany,
after accusations of attempted arson. ·
1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and
his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam. ·
1969 –
Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in
the United States is held since World War II. ·
1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults
on Cambodian government positions, forcing
their retreat from Kompong Thmar
and nearby Ba Ray. ·
1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-governance
from Australia. ·
1974 – TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles
International Airport, killing all 92 people on board. ·
1974
– Northwest
Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest
of John
F. Kennedy International Airport. ·
1977 – Pinwheel is
launched, which is now Nickelodeon. ·
1980 – Ecatepec, State of
Mexico, Mexico, becomes a city.[3] ·
1981 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet
Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas
MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board. ·
1984 – NASA conducts
the Controlled
Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed
in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability
of crashes. ·
1988 – World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide
by the UN
member states. ·
1989 – Philippine
coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform
the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine
President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état. ·
1989
– Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the
constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the
state. ·
1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from
the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres
beneath the seabed. ·
1991 –
Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve
a referendum
for independence from the Soviet Union. ·
1997 –
In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people. ·
1997
– Heath High
School shooting in West Paducah,
Kentucky[4] ·
2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as
the president of Mexico,
marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing
political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.[5][6] ·
2019 –
First known case of COVID-19 appears.[7] Births[edit] ·
624 – Hasan ibn Ali, the second Shia Imam (d. 670)[8][9] ·
1081 – Louis VI,
French king (d. 1137) ·
1083 – Anna Komnene,
Byzantine physician and scholar (d. 1153) ·
1415 – Jan Długosz,
Polish historian (d. 1480)[10] ·
1438 – Peter II, Duke
of Bourbon, son of Charles I (d. 1503) ·
1443 – Magdalena of France,
French princess (d. 1495) ·
1488 – Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg,
Countess of Wied, German noblewoman (d.
1559) ·
1521 – Takeda Shingen,
Japanese daimyō (d. 1573) ·
1525 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and
astronomer (d. 1600) ·
1530 – Bernardino Realino, Italian Jesuit (d. 1616) ·
1561 – Sophie
Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess consort of
Pomerania-Wolgast (d. 1631) ·
1580 – Nicolas-Claude
Fabri de Peiresc,
French astronomer and historian (d. 1637) ·
1690 – Philip
Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (d.
1764) ·
1709 – Franz Xaver Richter, Czech composer, violinist, and
conductor (d. 1789) ·
1716 – Étienne Maurice
Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791) ·
1743 – Martin Heinrich
Klaproth, German chemist and academic (d. 1817) ·
1761 – Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor,
founded Madame Tussauds Wax
Museum (d. 1850) ·
1792 – Nikolai Lobachevsky,
Russian mathematician and geometer (d. 1856) ·
1800 – Mihály Vörösmarty, Hungarian poet (d. 1855) ·
1805 – 9th Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual
leader (d. 1815) ·
1844 – Alexandra of Denmark (d.
1925) ·
1846 – Ledi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and
philosopher (d. 1923) ·
1847 – Julia A. Moore, American poet (d. 1920) ·
1855 – John
Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (d.
1943) ·
1869 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and
critic (d. 1923) ·
1871 – Archie MacLaren,
English cricketer (d. 1944) ·
1871
– George Howard
Williams, American politician and attorney, United States
Senator from Missouri (d. 1963) ·
1883 – Henry Cadbury, American historian, scholar,
and academic (d. 1974) ·
1884 – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter and etcher (d. 1976) ·
1886 – Rex Stout, American detective novelist (d.
1975) ·
1886
– Zhu De, Chinese general and politician,
1st Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China (d.
1976) ·
1894 – Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral, Brazilian herpetologist
(d. 1982) ·
1895 – Henry Williamson, English farmer, soldier,
and author (d. 1977) ·
1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and
politician, 2nd Minister
of Defence for the Soviet Union (d.
1974) ·
1898 – Stuart Garson, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba (d.
1977) ·
1898
– Cyril Ritchard,
Australian-American actor and singer (d. 1977) ·
1900 – Karna Maria
Birmingham, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker (d.
1987) ·
1901 – Ilona Fehér,
Hungarian-Israeli violinist and educator (d. 1988) ·
1903 – Nikolai Voznesensky, Soviet economic planner, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union (d. 1950) ·
1905 – Alex
Wilson, Canadian sprinter and coach (d. 1994) ·
1910 – Alicia Markova, English ballerina and
choreographer (d. 2004) ·
1911 – Walter Alston, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1984) ·
1911
– Calvin Griffith,
Canadian-American businessman (d. 1999) ·
1912 – Minoru Yamasaki, American architect,
designed the World
Trade Center (d. 1986) ·
1913 – Mary Martin, American actress and singer (d.
1990) ·
1916 – Wan Li, Chinese educator and politician,
4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d.
2015) ·
1917 – Thomas Hayward,
American tenor and actor (d. 1995) ·
1917
– Marty Marion,
American baseball player and manager (d. 2011) ·
1920 – Peter
Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami,
Japanese priest, 1st Bishop of Naha (d. 2014) ·
1921 – Vernon McGarity, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013) ·
1922 – Vsevolod Bobrov, Russian ice hockey player,
footballer, and manager (d. 1979) ·
1923 – Dick Shawn, American actor (d. 1987) ·
1923
– Stansfield Turner,
American admiral and academic, 12th Director
of Central Intelligence (d. 2018) ·
1924 – Masao Horiba, Japanese businessman,
founded Horiba (d. 2015) ·
1925 – Martin Rodbell,
American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1998) ·
1926 – Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and
activist (d. 2013) ·
1926
– Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress, singer,
and dancer (d. 2018) ·
1926
– Keith Michell,
Australian actor (d. 2015) ·
1926
– Robert Symonds,
American actor (d. 2007) ·
1926
– Colin
Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Scottish
businessman (d. 2010) ·
1927 – Micheline Bernardini, French dancer and model ·
1928 – Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991) ·
1928
– Malachi Throne,
American actor (d. 2013) ·
1929 – David Doyle,
American actor (d. 1997) ·
1930 – Marie Bashir, Australian psychiatrist,
academic, and politician, 37th Governor of
New South Wales ·
1930
– Joachim Hoffmann,
German historian and author (d. 2002) ·
1931 – Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (d. 1986) ·
1931
– Jim Nesbitt, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2007) ·
1931
– George Maxwell
Richards, Trinidadian politician, 4th President
of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2018) ·
1933 – Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter,
producer, and actor (d. 2006) ·
1933
– Violette Verdy, French ballerina (d. 2016) ·
1934 – Billy Paul, American soul singer (d. 2016) ·
1935 – Woody Allen, American actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1935
– Sola Sierra, Chilean human rights activist
(d. 1999)[11] ·
1936 – Igor Rodionov,
Russian general and politician, 3rd Russian
Minister of Defence (d. 2014) ·
1937 – Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American soprano and actress (d.
2005) ·
1937
– Gordon Crosse,
English composer and academic ·
1937
– Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Latvian psychologist
and politician, 6th President of Latvia ·
1938 – Sandy Nelson, American rock and roll drummer ·
1939 – Lee Trevino, American golfer and
sportscaster ·
1940 – Mike Denness,
Scottish-English cricketer and referee (d. 2013) ·
1940
– Richard Pryor,
American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005) ·
1940
– Tasso Wild, German footballer ·
1940
– Jerry Lawson,
American electronic engineer and inventor (d. 2011) ·
1942 – Mohamed Kamel Amr,
Egyptian politician, Egyptian
Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1942
– John Crowley,
American author and academic ·
1942
– Ross Edwards,
Australian cricketer ·
1943 – Kenny Moore, American runner and journalist ·
1944 – Eric Bloom, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1944
– John Densmore,
American drummer and songwriter ·
1944
– Michael Hagee,
American general ·
1944
– Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan author and
poet ·
1945 – Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter,
actress and producer ·
1946 – Jonathan Katz, American comedian and actor ·
1946
– Kemal Kurspahić, Bosnian journalist and author ·
1946
– Gilbert O'Sullivan,
Irish singer-songwriter and pianist ·
1947 – Alain Bashung,
French singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2009) ·
1947
– Bob Fulton, English-Australian rugby league
player, coach, and sportscaster ·
1948 – George Foster,
American baseball player and radio host ·
1948
– Sarfraz Nawaz,
Pakistani cricketer and politician ·
1948
– John Roskelley,
American mountaineer and author ·
1948
– Neil Warnock,
English footballer and manager ·
1948
– N. T. Wright,
English bishop and scholar ·
1948
– Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, Nigerian civil servant and
politician, Governor of
Kaduna State (d. 2012) ·
1949 – Jan Brett, American author and illustrator ·
1949
– Pablo Escobar,
Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist (d. 1993) ·
1949
– Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman and politician,
35th President of Chile ·
1950 – Manju Bansal, Indian biologist and academic ·
1950
– Ross Hannaford,
Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016) ·
1950
– Gary Panter,
American illustrator and painter ·
1950
– Filippos Petsalnikos, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice ·
1950
– Richard Keith,
American actor and drummer ·
1951 – Obba Babatundé, American actor, director,
and producer ·
1951
– Doug Mulray,
Australian radio and television host ·
1951
– Jaco Pastorius,
American bass player, songwriter, and producer (d. 1987) ·
1951
– Treat Williams,
American actor ·
1952 – Stephen Poliakoff, English director, producer, and
playwright ·
1954 – Alan Dedicoat,
English journalist ·
1954
– Judith Hackitt,
English chemist and engineer ·
1954
– François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (d. 2017) ·
1955 – Veikko Aaltonen, Finnish actor, director,
and screenwriter ·
1955
– Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress ·
1955
– Pat Spillane,
Irish footballer and sportscaster ·
1955
– Karen Tumulty,
American journalist ·
1955
– Udit Narayan,
Indian playback singer ·
1956 – Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter,
musician, and actress ·
1957 – Chris Poland, American guitarist and
songwriter ·
1957
– Vesta Williams,
American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2011) ·
1958 – Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and
manager ·
1958
– Candace Bushnell,
American journalist and author ·
1958
– Alberto Cova,
Italian runner ·
1958
– Gary Peters,
American lieutenant and politician ·
1959 – Billy Childish, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and painter ·
1959
– Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league player,
coach, and sportscaster ·
1960 – Carol Alt, American model and actress ·
1960
– Shirin M. Rai,
Indian-English political scientist and academic ·
1960
– Jane Turner, Australian actress and producer ·
1961 – Safra Catz, Israeli-American businesswoman ·
1961
– Raymond E. Goldstein,
American biophysicist and academic ·
1961
– Jeremy Northam,
English actor ·
1962 – Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater ·
1962
– Pamela McGee,
American basketball player and coach ·
1963 – Marco Greco, Brazilian race car driver ·
1963
– Nathalie Lambert,
Canadian speed skater ·
1963
– Arjuna Ranatunga,
Sri Lankan cricketer and politician ·
1964 – Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer ·
1964
– Jo Walton, Welsh-Canadian author and poet ·
1965 – Henry Honiball,
South African rugby player ·
1965
– Magnifico,
Slovenian singer ·
1966 – Andrew Adamson, New Zealand director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1966
– Katherine LaNasa, American actress, ballet dancer, and
choreographer ·
1966
– Larry Walker,
Canadian baseball player and coach ·
1967 – Nestor Carbonell,
American actor ·
1967
– Reggie Sanders,
American baseball player ·
1968 – Justin Chadwick, English actor and director ·
1968
– Sarah Fitzgerald,
Australian squash player ·
1968
– Anders Holmertz, Swedish swimmer ·
1969 – Richard Carrier, American author and blogger ·
1970 – Jonathan Coulton,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1970
– Kirk Rueter,
American baseball player ·
1970
– Sarah Silverman,
American comedian, actress, and singer ·
1970
– Tisha Waller,
American high jumper and educator ·
1971 – Emily Mortimer, English actress ·
1971
– Christian Pescatori, Italian race car driver ·
1971
– Mika Pohjola,
Finnish-American pianist and composer ·
1971
– John Schlimm,
American author and educator ·
1972 – Stanton Barrett, American race car driver
and stuntman ·
1972
– Bart Millard,
American singer-songwriter ·
1973 – Steve Gibb, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1974 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer and
manager ·
1975 – Matt Fraction, American author ·
1975
– Isaiah
"Ikey" Owens, American keyboard player and producer (d.
2014) ·
1975
– Farah Shah, Pakistani actress and host ·
1975
– Thomas Schie,
Norwegian race car driver and sportscaster ·
1975
– Sophia Skou,
Danish swimmer ·
1976
– Brently Heilbron, American actor and musician ·
1976 – Tomasz Adamek,
Polish boxer ·
1976
– Laura Ling, American journalist and author ·
1976
– Evangelos Sklavos, Greek basketball player ·
1977 – Brad Delson,
American guitarist and producer ·
1977
– Sophie Guillemin,
French actress ·
1977
– Lee McKenzie,
Scottish journalist ·
1978 – Mat Kearney, American musician[12] ·
1979 – Ryan Malone, American ice hockey player ·
1979
– Stephanie Brown
Trafton, American discus thrower ·
1980 – Iftikhar Anjum, Pakistani cricketer ·
1980
– Mohammad Kaif,
Indian cricketer and politician ·
1980
– Roger Peterson,
Aruban-Dutch singer-songwriter ·
1980
– Mubarak Hassan Shami, Kenyan-Qatari runner ·
1980
– Gianna Terzi,
Greek singer ·
1981 – Park Hyo-shin, South Korean
singer-songwriter and actor ·
1981
– Luke McPharlin,
Australian footballer ·
1981
– I Made Wirawan,
Indonesian footballer ·
1982 – Riz Ahmed, English actor and rapper ·
1982
– Lloyd Doyley,
English footballer ·
1982
– Christos Kalantzis, Greek footballer ·
1982
– Christos Melissis, Greek footballer ·
1985 – John
Coughlin, American figure skater (d. 2019) ·
1985
– Janelle Monáe,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1985
– Chanel Preston,
American porn actress and director ·
1985
– Emiliano Viviano, Italian footballer ·
1986 – DeSean Jackson, American football player ·
1987 – Simon Dawkins, English footballer ·
1987
– Tabarie Henry,
Virgin Islander sprinter ·
1987
– Vance Joy, Australian singer-songwriter ·
1987
– Brett
Williams, English footballer ·
1988 – Zoë Kravitz, American actress, singer, and
model ·
1988
– Dan Mavraides,
Greek-American basketball player ·
1988
– Tyler Joseph,
American musician and singer ·
1989 – Sotelúm, Mexican
trumpet player, composer, and producer ·
1990 – Tomáš Tatar, Slovak ice hockey player ·
1991 – Hilda Melander, Swedish tennis player ·
1991
– Sun Yang, Chinese swimmer ·
1991
– Noel Acciari,
American ice hockey player ·
1992 – Masahudu Alhassan, Ghanaian footballer ·
1992
– Javier Báez,
Puerto Rican baseball player ·
1992
– Linos Chrysikopoulos, Greek basketball
player ·
1992
– Marco van Ginkel, Dutch footballer ·
1993 – Reena Pärnat,
Estonian archer ·
1994 – Seedy Njie,
English footballer ·
1995 – Agnė Čepelytė, Lithuanian
tennis player ·
1995
– Jenna Fife, Scottish footballer[13] ·
1995
– James
Wilson, English footballer ·
1998 – Shimona Nelson, Jamaican netballer Deaths[edit] ·
217 – Yehudah HaNasi, 'Nasi', Rabbi and editor of the Mishnah (b. 135) ·
660 – Eligius, Frankish bishop and saint (b. 588) ·
948 – Gao Conghui,
Chinese governor and prince (b. 891) ·
969 – Fujiwara no Morotada, Japanese statesman (b. 920) ·
1018 – Thietmar of Merseburg, German bishop (b. 975) ·
1135 – Henry I,
king of England (b. 1068) ·
1241 – Isabella of England,
Holy Roman Empress (b. 1214) ·
1255 – Muhammad III of
Alamut, Nizari Ismaili Imam[14] ·
1335 – Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, Mongol ruler of the
Ilkhanate (b. 1305) ·
1374 – Magnus Ericson,
king of Sweden (b. 1316) ·
1433 – Go-Komatsu,
emperor of Japan (b. 1377) ·
1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian goldsmith and
sculptor (b. 1378) ·
1521 – Leo X, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1475) ·
1530 – Margaret
of Austria, duchess of Savoy (b. 1480) ·
1580 – Giovanni Morone,
Italian cardinal (b. 1509) ·
1581 – Alexander Briant,
English Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (b. 1556) ·
1581
– Edmund Campion,
English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint (b. 1540) ·
1581
– Ralph Sherwin,
English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint (b. 1550) ·
1633 – Isabella Clara
Eugenia, infanta of Spain (b. 1566) ·
1640 – Miguel de
Vasconcelos, Portuguese politician, Prime
Minister of Portugal (b. 1590) ·
1660 – Pierre d'Hozier,
French genealogist and historian (b. 1592) ·
1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi,
French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1665) ·
1750 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer,
and cartographer (b. 1671) ·
1755 – Maurice Greene,
English organist and composer (b. 1696) ·
1767 – Henry
Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, Scottish politician (b. 1710) ·
1825 – Alexander I,
emperor and autocrat of Russia (b. 1777) ·
1865 – Abraham Emanuel
Fröhlich, Swiss pastor, poet, and educator (b. 1796) ·
1866 – George Everest, Welsh geographer and
surveyor (b. 1790) ·
1867 – Charles Gray Round,
English lawyer and politician (b. 1797) ·
1884 – William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and
politician, Attorney-General
of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809) ·
1913 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and author (b.
1864) ·
1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan,
American captain and historian (b. 1840) ·
1916 – Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858) ·
1923 – Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836) ·
1928 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and
poet (b. 1888) ·
1933 – Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865) ·
1934 – Sergey Kirov, Russian engineer and
politician (b. 1886) ·
1935 – Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician,
invented the Schmidt camera (b.
1879) ·
1943 – Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and educator (b.
1862) ·
1947 – Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and
mountaineer (b. 1875) ·
1947
– G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and
theorist (b. 1877) ·
1950 – Ernest John Moeran, English pianist and composer (b. 1894) ·
1954 – Fred Rose,
American pianist, composer, and publisher (b. 1898) ·
1964 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist
and biologist (b. 1892) ·
1964
– Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek runner (b. 1877) ·
1968 – Nicolae Bretan,
Romanian opera singer, composer, and conductor (b. 1887) ·
1968
– Darío Moreno,
Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1921) ·
1973 – David Ben-Gurion, Israeli politician,
1st Prime Minister
of Israel (b. 1886) ·
1975 – Nellie Fox, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1927) ·
1975
– Ernesto Maserati,
Italian race car driver and engineer (b. 1898) ·
1975
– Anna Roosevelt
Halsted, American journalist (b. 1906) ·
1981 – Russ Manning, American author and
illustrator (b. 1929) ·
1984 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter and
photographer (b. 1911) ·
1986 – Frank McCarthy,
American general and film producer (b. 1912) ·
1987 – James Baldwin, American novelist, poet, and
critic (b. 1924) ·
1987
– Punch Imlach,
Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1918) ·
1988 – J. Vernon McGee, American pastor and
theologian (b. 1904) ·
1989 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer and
choreographer (b. 1931) ·
1990 – Carla Lehmann, Canadian-English actress (b.
1917) ·
1991 – Pat O'Callaghan, Irish athlete (b. 1906)[15] ·
1991
– George Stigler,
American economist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1911) ·
1993 – Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (b.
1959) ·
1995 – Hopper Levett,
English cricketer (b. 1908) ·
1995
– Colin Tapley, New
Zealand-English actor (b. 1907) ·
1995
– Maxwell R. Thurman,
American general (b. 1931) ·
1996 – Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b.
1928) ·
1997 – Michel Bélanger, Canadian banker and businessman (b.
1929) ·
1997
– Stéphane Grappelli,
French violinist (b. 1908) ·
1997
– Endicott Peabody,
American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 62nd Governor of
Massachusetts (b. 1920) ·
2001 – Ellis R. Dungan, American director and
producer (b. 1909) ·
2002 – Edward L. Beach Jr.,
American captain and author (b. 1918) ·
2002
– Dave McNally,
American baseball player (b. 1942) ·
2003 – Clark Kerr, American economist and academic
(b. 1911) ·
2003
– Eugenio Monti,
Italian bobsledder (b. 1928) ·
2004 – Prince
Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (b.
1911) ·
2004
– Bill Brown,
Scottish-Canadian footballer (b. 1931) ·
2005 – Gust Avrakotos,
American CIA officer (b. 1938) ·
2005
– Mary Hayley Bell,
English actress and playwright (b. 1911) ·
2005
– Freeman V. Horner,
American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
(b. 1922) ·
2006 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948) ·
2006
– Bruce Trigger,
Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian (b. 1937) ·
2007 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player and
footballer (b. 1929) ·
2007
– Anton Rodgers,
British actor (b. 1933) ·
2008 – Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938) ·
2008
– Joseph B. Wirthlin, American businessman and religious
leader (b. 1917) ·
2010 – Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer and
academic (b. 1914) ·
2010
– Hillard Elkins,
American actor and producer (b. 1929) ·
2011 – Christa Wolf, German author and critic (b.
1929) ·
2012 – Jovan Belcher, American football player (b.
1987) ·
2012
– Arthur Chaskalson,
South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief
Justice of South Africa (b. 1931) ·
2012
– Rick Majerus,
American basketball player and coach (b. 1948) ·
2012
– Ed Price,
American soldier, pilot, and politician (b. 1918) ·
2013 – Richard Coughlan, English drummer (b. 1947) ·
2013
– Stirling Colgate,
American physicist and academic (b. 1925) ·
2013
– Edward Heffron,
American soldier (b. 1923) ·
2013
– Martin Sharp,
Australian cartoonist and songwriter (b. 1942) ·
2014 – Mario Abramovich, Argentinian violinist and
composer (b. 1926) ·
2014
– Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Greek epidemiologist,
oncologist, and academic (b. 1938) ·
2014
– Rocky Wood, New Zealand-Australian author
(b. 1959) ·
2015 – Rob Blokzijl, Dutch
physicist and computer scientist (b. 1943) ·
2015
– Joseph Engelberger, American physicist and engineer
(b. 1925) ·
2015
– John F. Kurtzke, American neurologist and academic (b.
1926) ·
2015
– Jim Loscutoff,
American basketball player (b. 1930) ·
2015
– Trevor Obst,
Australian footballer and coach (b. 1940) ·
2018 – Vivian Lynn, New Zealand artist (b. 1931)[16] ·
2019 – Paula Tilbrook, English actress (b. 1930)[17] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
Battle of the Sinop Day (Russia) ·
Christian feast day: o Ansanus o Blessed Charles de Foucauld o Eligius o Evasius o Grwst o Nahum o Nicholas Ferrar (Episcopal
Church) o December
1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Damrong Rajanubhab Day (Thailand) ·
Earliest
day on which Farmer's Day can
fall, while December 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Friday in
December. (Ghana) ·
Earliest
day on which Good
Neighborliness Day can fall, while December 7 is the latest;
celebrated on the first Sunday in December. (Turkmenistan) ·
Earliest
day on which Sindhi Cultural Day can
fall, while December 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday in December.
(Sindhi diaspora) ·
First President Day (Kazakhstan) ·
Freedom and
Democracy Day (Chad) ·
Great Union Day, celebrates the Union
of Transylvania with Romania in 1918. (Romania) ·
Military Abolition
Day (Costa Rica) ·
Republic
Day (Central African Republic) ·
Restoration
of Independence Day (Portugal) ·
Rosa Parks Day (Ohio and Oregon, United States) ·
Self-governance Day or Fullveldisdagurinn (Iceland) ·
Teachers' Day (Panama) ·
World AIDS Day, and its related observances: |
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