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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
Dec 10" redirects here. For the computer known as the
"DEC 10", see PDP-10. For the collection of short stories by George
Saunders, see Tenth of December: Stories.
December 10 is the 344th day of the
year (345th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 21 days remain until the
end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1041 – The adoptive son of Empress Zoë of Byzantium succeeds to the throne
of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V. ·
1317 – The "Nyköping Banquet" - King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes
his two brothers Valdemar, Duke of Finland and Eric, Duke of Södermanland, who were
subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle. ·
1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed
by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an
alliance against Venice. ·
1520 – Martin Luther burns
his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's
Elster Gate. ·
1541 – Thomas
Culpeper and Francis
Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine
Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII. ·
1652 – Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform
its navy. ·
1665 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is
founded by Michiel de Ruyter ·
1684 – Isaac Newton's
derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of
gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read
to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley. ·
1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is
published. ·
1799 – France adopts the metre as its official unit of length. ·
1817 – Mississippi becomes
the 20th U.S. state. ·
1861 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept
a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to
be the 13th state of the Confederacy. ·
1861 – Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an
anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam,
sink the French lorcha L'Esperance. ·
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major
General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops
reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia. ·
1868 – The first traffic lights are
installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London.
Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated
at night by red and green gas lamps. ·
1877 – Russo-Turkish War: The Russian
Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege.
The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders.
The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria. ·
1884 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is
published. ·
1896 – Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres
in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance. ·
1898 – Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed,
officially ending the conflict. ·
1901 – The first Nobel Prize ceremony
is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death. ·
1902 – The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt. ·
1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the
mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first
American to win a Nobel Prize. ·
1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog
riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400
police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been
vivisected. ·
1909 – Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female
writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. ·
1932 – Thailand becomes
a constitutional monarchy. ·
1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs
the Instrument of Abdication. ·
1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy capital
ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo
bombers near British Malaya. ·
1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial
Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land
on Luzon. ·
1942 – World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first
official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations. ·
1948 – The Human Rights Convention is
signed by the United Nations. ·
1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its
siege of Chengdu,
the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China,
forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang
Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan. ·
1953 – British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature. ·
1963 – Zanzibar gains
independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under
Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah. ·
1963 – An assassination attempt on the
British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more. ·
1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is
carried out in Tokyo. ·
1978 – Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are
jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. ·
1979 – Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy
demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship,
and organizers are arrested. ·
1983 – Democracy is
restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín. ·
1984 – United Nations General Assembly recognizes
the Convention against Torture. ·
1989 – Mongolian Revolution: At the country's
first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the
establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union. ·
1993 – The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the
156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield,
which had been in operation since the Middle Ages. ·
1994 – Rwandan
genocide: Maurice Baril,
military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and
head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping
Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand
down. ·
1995 – The Israeli army withdraws
from Nablus pursuant
to the terms of Oslo Accord. ·
1996 – The new Constitution of South Africa is
promulgated by Nelson Mandela. ·
1999 – Helen Clark is
sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the
second woman to hold the post and the first following an election.[1][2] ·
2014 – Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein was
killed after the suppression of a demonstration by Israeli forces in the village (Turmus'ayya)
in Ramallah. ·
2016 – Two explosions outside
a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey,
kill 38 people and injure 166 others. ·
2017 – ISIL is defeated
in Iraq.[3] ·
2019 – Democrats in
the U.S. House of Representatives announce
formal charges against Donald Trump that
accuse him of abusing power and obstructing Congress, making him only the
fourth U.S. president in history to face impeachment.[4] ·
2019 – Ostrava hospital attack [5] Births[edit]
·
553 – Houzhu,
emperor of the Chen dynasty (d. 604) ·
1376 – Edmund Mortimer, English nobleman and
rebel (d. 1409)[6] ·
1452 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and
astronomer (d. 1531)[7] ·
1472 – Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of
Norfolk (d. 1481)[8] ·
1489 – Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (d.
1512) ·
1588 – Isaac Beeckman,
Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)[9] ·
1610 – Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter (d. 1685)[10] ·
1654 – Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Italian
painter (d. 1719) ·
1658 – Lancelot Blackburne, Archbishop of York (d.
1743) ·
1713 – Johann Nicolaus Mempel, German cantor
and organist (d. 1747) ·
1751 – George Shaw,
English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813) ·
1776 – Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of
Austria-Este (d. 1848) ·
1783 – María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rican poet
and playwright (d. 1873) ·
1787 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American
educator, founded the American School for the Deaf (d.
1851) ·
1804 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German
mathematician and academic (d. 1851) ·
1805 – William Lloyd Garrison, American
journalist and activist, founded The Liberator (d.
1879) ·
1805 – Joseph Škoda,
Czech physician, dermatologist, and academic (d. 1881) ·
1811 – Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer,
American poet, biographer, and editor (d. 1894)[11] ·
1815 – Ada Lovelace,
English mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1852)[12] ·
1821 – Nikolay
Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (d. 1877) ·
1822 – César Franck,
Belgian organist and composer (d. 1890) ·
1824 – George
MacDonald, Scottish minister, author, and poet (d. 1905) ·
1827 – Eugene O'Keefe,
Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1913) ·
1830 – Emily
Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886) ·
1851 – Melvil Dewey,
American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System (d. 1931) ·
1866 – Louis Bolk,
Dutch anatomist and biologist (d. 1930) ·
1870 – Jadunath
Sarkar, Indian historian (d. 1958)[13] ·
1870 – Adolf Loos,
Austrian architect and theoretician (d. 1933)[14] ·
1870 – Pierre Louÿs,
Belgian-French author and poet (d. 1925) ·
1878 – C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer and
politician, 45th Governor-General of India (d.
1972)[15] ·
1882 – Otto Neurath,
Austrian sociologist and philosopher (d. 1945)[16] ·
1882 – Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese
politician, 37th Japanese Minister for Foreign
Affairs (d. 1950) ·
1883 – Giovanni Messe,
Italian field marshal and politician (d. 1968) ·
1885 – Elizabeth Baker, American economist and
academic (d. 1973)[17] ·
1885 – Marios
Varvoglis, Greek composer and conductor (d. 1967) ·
1886 – Victor
McLaglen, English-American actor (d. 1959) ·
1889 – Ray Collins, American actor (d. 1965) ·
1890 – László Bárdossy, Hungarian fascist politician
and diplomat, 33rd Prime Minister of Hungary (d. 1946) ·
1891 – Harold Alexander, 1st Earl
Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician,
17th Governor General of Canada (d.
1969) ·
1891 – Arlie Mucks,
American discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1967) ·
1891 – Nelly Sachs,
German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970) ·
1896 – Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director
(d. 1948) ·
1903 – Una Merkel,
American actress (d. 1986) ·
1904 – Antonín Novotný, Czechoslovak
politician, President of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic,
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (d.
1975) ·
1906 – Jules Ladoumègue, French runner (d. 1973) ·
1906 – Harold Adamson,
American lyricist (d. 1980) ·
1907 – Rumer Godden,
English author and poet (d. 1998)[18] ·
1907 – Lucien Laurent,
French footballer and coach (d. 2005) ·
1907 – Amedeo Nazzari,
Italian actor (d. 1979) ·
1908 – Olivier
Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992) ·
1909 – Hermes Pan,
American dancer and choreographer (d. 1990) ·
1910 – Dan Blocker,
American television actor, played Eric "Hoss" Cartwright on Bonanza (d.
1972)[19] ·
1910 – Ambrosio
Padilla, Filipino basketball player and politician (d. 1996) ·
1911 – Chet Huntley,
American journalist (d. 1974) ·
1912 – Philip Hart,
American lawyer and politician, 49th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (d.
1976) ·
1912 – René Toribio,
Guadeloupean politician (d. 1990) ·
1913 – Pannonica de Koenigswarter,
English-American composer (d. 1988) ·
1913 – Morton Gould,
American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1996) ·
1913 – Harry Locke,
English actor (d. 1987) ·
1913 – Ray Nance,
American trumpeter, violinist, and singer (d. 1976) ·
1914 – Dorothy Lamour,
American actress and singer (d. 1996) ·
1915 – Nicky Barr,
Australian rugby player, soldier, and pilot (d. 2006) ·
1916 – Walt Arfons,
American race car driver (d. 2013) ·
1918 – Anne Gwynne,
American actress (d. 2003)[20] ·
1918 – Anatoli
Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995) ·
1919 – Alexander Courage, American composer and
conductor (d. 2008) ·
1920 – Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian
journalist and author (d. 1977) ·
1920 – Reginald Rose,
American screenwriter and producer (d. 2002) ·
1920 – Thanassis Skordalos, Greek lyra player
and composer (d. 1998) ·
1921 – Toh Chin Chye,
Singaporean academic and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (d.
2012)[21] ·
1922 – Agnes Nixon,
American television writer and director (d. 2016) ·
1923 – Harold Gould,
American actor (d. 2010) ·
1923 – Clorindo Testa,
Italian-Argentinian architect, designed the National Library of the Argentine
Republic and Marriott Plaza Hotel (d.
2013) ·
1924 – Ken Albers,
American singer and musician (d. 2007) ·
1924 – Michael Manley,
Jamaican pilot and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)[22] ·
1925 – Carolyn Kizer,
American poet and academic (d. 2014) ·
1926 – Guitar Slim,
American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959) ·
1927 – Bob Farrell, American
businessman, founded Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour (d.
2015) ·
1927 – Danny Matt,
German-Israeli general (d. 2013) ·
1928 – Barbara
Nichols, American actress (d. 1976) ·
1930 – Wayne D. Anderson, American baseball player
and coach (d. 2013) ·
1930 – Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, English
farmer and politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries
and Food ·
1931 – Peter Baker,
English-South African footballer and manager (d. 2016) ·
1933 – Mako Iwamatsu,
Japanese actor (d. 2006) ·
1933 – Philip R.
Craig, American author (d. 2007) ·
1934 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1994) ·
1935 – Terry Allcock,
English footballer and cricketer ·
1935 – Jaromil Jireš,
Czech director and screenwriter (d. 2001) ·
1936 – Howard Smith, American journalist,
director, and producer (d. 2014) ·
1938 – Bill Dunk,
Australian golfer ·
1938 – Yuri
Temirkanov, Russian viola player and conductor ·
1939 – Dick Bavetta,
American basketball player and referee ·
1939 – Barry Cunliffe,
English archaeologist and academic ·
1941 – Ken Campbell,
English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2008) ·
1941 – Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress and producer ·
1941 – Tommy Rettig,
American child actor (d. 1996) ·
1941 – Kyu Sakamoto,
Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985) ·
1942 – Ann Gloag,
Scottish nurse and businesswoman ·
1944 – Andris Bērziņš,
Latvian businessman and politician, 8th President of Latvia ·
1944 – John Birt, Baron Birt, English
businessman ·
1944 – Steve Renko,
American baseball player ·
1945 – Mukhtar Altynbayev, Kazakhstani general and
politician, 3rd Defence Minister of Kazakhstan ·
1947 – Rasul Guliyev,
Azerbaijani engineer and politician, 22nd Speaker of the
National Assembly of Azerbaijan ·
1948 – Dušan Bajević, Bosnian-Greek footballer
and manager ·
1948 – Jessica
Cleaves, American singer-songwriter (d. 2014) ·
1948 – Jasuben Shilpi,
Indian sculptor (d. 2013) ·
1949 – Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Ugandan-English
journalist and author ·
1949 – David Perdue,
American politician ·
1950 – John Boozman,
American football player, lawyer, and politician, senior senator of Arkansas ·
1950 – Simon Owen,
New Zealand golfer ·
1951 – Johnny
Rodriguez, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1952 – Clive Anderson,
English lawyer and television host ·
1952 – Susan Dey,
American actress ·
1952 – Greg Mortimer,
Australian geologist and mountaineer ·
1952 – Greg Laurie,
American author and pastor ·
1952 – Paul Varul,
Estonian lawyer and politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Justice ·
1953 – Chris Bury,
American journalist and academic ·
1954 – Eudine
Barriteau, Barbadian economist and academic ·
1954 – Price Cobb,
American race car driver and manager ·
1954 – Jack Hues,
English singer-songwriter and musician (Wang Chung) ·
1956 – Rod
Blagojevich, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Illinois ·
1956 – Roberto Cassinelli, Italian lawyer and
politician ·
1956 – Jacquelyn Mitchard, American journalist and
author ·
1956 – Jan van Dijk, Dutch footballer and
manager ·
1957 – Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor
(d. 2012) ·
1957 – Paul
Hardcastle, English composer and producer ·
1957 – Prem Rawat,
Indian-American guru and educator ·
1958 – Cornelia Funke,
German-American author ·
1958 – Kathryn Stott,
English pianist and academic ·
1959 – Mark Aguirre,
American basketball player and coach ·
1959 – Kevin Ash,
English journalist and author (d. 2013) ·
1959 – Udi Aloni,
American-Israeli director and author ·
1959 – Wolf Hoffmann,
German guitarist ·
1960 – Kenneth
Branagh, Northern Ireland-born English actor director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1960 – Kōichi Satō, Japanese actor ·
1961 – Mark McKoy,
Canadian hurdler and sprinter ·
1961 – Nia Peeples,
American singer and actress ·
1962 – Rakhat Aliyev,
Kazakh politician and diplomat (d. 2015) ·
1962 – John de Wolf,
Dutch footballer and manager ·
1963 – Jahangir Khan,
Pakistani squash player ·
1963 – Robin White, American tennis player ·
1964 – Stephen Billington, English actor ·
1964 – Stef Blok,
Dutch banker and politician, Dutch Minister
of the Interior ·
1964 – Bobby Flay,
American chef and author ·
1964 – Edith González, Mexican actress (d. 2019) ·
1965 – Greg Giraldo,
American lawyer, comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2010) ·
1965 – J Mascis,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1965 – Stephanie Morgenstern, Swiss-Canadian
actress, producer, and screenwriter ·
1966 – Rein Ahas,
Estonian geographer and academic ·
1966 – Robin Brooke,
New Zealand rugby player ·
1966 – Mel Rojas,
Dominican baseball player ·
1966 – Penelope Trunk,
American writer[23] ·
1968 – Yōko
Oginome, Japanese singer, actress, and voice actress ·
1969 – Darren Berry,
Australian cricketer and coach ·
1969 – Rob Blake,
Canadian ice hockey player and manager ·
1970 – Kevin Sharp,
American singer-songwriter (d. 2014) ·
1970 – Bryant Stith,
American basketball player and coach ·
1971 – Daniel Betts,
British actor ·
1972 – Brian Molko,
British-Belgian singer-songwriter ·
1972 – Donavon Frankenreiter, American surfer,
singer-songwriter, and guitarist ·
1973 – Gabriela
Spanic, Venezuelan actress ·
1974 – Meg White,
American drummer ·
1975 – Steve Bradley,
American wrestler (d. 2008) ·
1975 – Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress ·
1975 – Josip Skoko,
Australian footballer ·
1976 – Shane Byrne, English motorcycle racer ·
1978 – Anna
Jesień, Polish hurdler ·
1978 – Summer Phoenix,
American actress ·
1979 – Matt Bentley,
American wrestler ·
1979 – Iain Brunnschweiler, English cricketer ·
1979 – Yang Jianping,
Chinese recurve archer[24] ·
1980 – Sarah Chang,
American violinist ·
1981 – Taufik Batisah,
Singaporean singer ·
1981 – Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer ·
1982 – Claudia
Hoffmann, German sprinter ·
1982 – Sultan Kösen,
Turkish farmer, tallest living person[25] ·
1983 – Lewis Buxton,
English footballer ·
1983 – Habib Mohamed,
Ghanaian footballer ·
1983 – Xavier Samuel,
Australian actor ·
1984 – Mark
Applegarth, English rugby player ·
1985 – Charlie Adam,
Scottish footballer ·
1985 – Matt Forte,
American football player ·
1985 – T. J. Hensick,
American ice hockey player ·
1985 – Trésor Mputu,
Congolese footballer ·
1985 – Raven-Symoné,
American actress, singer, and dancer ·
1985 – Lê Công Vinh, Vietnamese footballer ·
1986 – Matthew Bates,
English footballer ·
1986 – Kahlil Bell,
American football player ·
1987 – Gonzalo Higuaín, French-Argentinian
footballer ·
1988 – Wilfried Bony,
Ivorian footballer ·
1988 – Mitchell
Donald, Dutch footballer ·
1988 – Neven
Subotić, Serbian footballer ·
1989 – Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, French
politician ·
1989 – Tom Sexton, Australian-Irish rugby
player ·
1990 – Kazenga LuaLua,
Congolese-English footballer ·
1990 – Sakiko Matsui,
Japanese singer and actress ·
1990 – Terrell Sinkfield, American football player ·
1990 – Shoya Tomizawa,
Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2010) ·
1991 – Eric Reid, American football player ·
1991 – Dion Waiters,
American basketball player ·
1994 – Richard Kennar,
Samoan rugby league player ·
1994 – Matti Klinga,
Finnish footballer ·
1996 – Joe Burrow,
American football player [26] ·
1996 – Kang Daniel,
South Korean singer ·
1997 – Viktoriia Savtsova, Ukrainian Paralympic
swimmer[27] Deaths[edit]
·
925 – Sancho I, king of Pamplona ·
949 – Herman I, Duke of Swabia ·
990 – Folcmar,
bishop of Utrecht[28] ·
1041 – Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine
emperor (b. 1010) ·
1081 – Nikephoros III Botaneiates,
deposed Byzantine Emperor (b. c.1002) ·
1113 – Radwan, ruler of Aleppo ·
1198 – Averroes,
Spanish astronomer, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1126) ·
1310 – Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria (b.
1271) ·
1475 – Paolo Uccello,
Italian painter (b. 1397) ·
1508 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451) ·
1541 – Thomas
Culpeper, English courtier (b. 1514) ·
1541 – Francis
Dereham, English courtier (b. c. 1513) ·
1561 – Caspar Schwenckfeld, German theologian and
writer ·
1618 – Giulio Caccini,
Italian composer and educator (b. 1551) ·
1626 – Edmund Gunter,
English mathematician and academic (b. 1581) ·
1665 – Tarquinio
Merula, Italian organist, violinist, and composer (b. 1594) ·
1736 – António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese
soldier and politician (b. 1663) ·
1791 – Jacob Frank,
Polish religious leader (b. 1726) ·
1831 – Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist
and academic (b. 1770) ·
1850 – Józef Bem,
Polish general and physicist (b. 1794) ·
1850 – François Sulpice Beudant, French
mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787) ·
1865 – Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790) ·
1867 – Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and
politician (b. 1836) ·
1896 – Alfred Nobel,
Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and
founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833) ·
1909 – Red Cloud,
American tribal chief (b. 1822) ·
1911 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and
explorer (b. 1817) ·
1917 – Mackenzie
Bowell, English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823) ·
1920 – Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b.
1868) ·
1922 – Clement Lindley Wragge, English
meteorologist and author (b. 1852) ·
1926 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician,
46th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1845) ·
1928 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish
architect and painter (b. 1868) ·
1929 – Harry Crosby,
American publisher and poet (b. 1898) ·
1932 – Joseph Carruthers, Australian politician,
16th Premier of New South Wales (b.
1857) ·
1936 – Bobby Abel,
English cricketer (b. 1857) ·
1936 – Luigi
Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) ·
1939 – John Grieb,
American gymnast and triathlete (b. 1879) ·
1941 – Colin Kelly,
American captain and pilot (b. 1915) ·
1944 – John Brunt,
English captain, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1922) ·
1945 – Theodor Dannecker, German captain (b. 1913) ·
1946 – Walter Johnson,
American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1887) ·
1946 – Damon Runyon,
American newspaperman and short story writer (b. 1884) ·
1948 – Na Hye-sok,
South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (b. 1896) ·
1951 – Algernon Blackwood, English author and
playwright (b. 1869) ·
1953 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar
and translator (b. 1872) ·
1956 – David Shimoni,
Russian-Israeli poet and translator (b. 1891) ·
1957 – Napoleon
Zervas, Greek general (b. 1891) ·
1958 – Adolfo
Camarillo, American horse breeder, rancher, and philanthropist (b.
1864) ·
1963 – K. M. Panikkar,
Indian historian and diplomat (b. 1894) ·
1967 – Otis Redding,
American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1941) ·
1968 – Karl Barth,
Swiss theologian and author (b. 1886) ·
1968 – George Forrest, Northern
Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1921) ·
1968 – Thomas Merton,
American monk and author (b. 1915) ·
1972 – Mark Van Doren,
American poet, critic, and academic (b. 1894) ·
1973 – Wolf V.
Vishniac, German-American microbiologist and academic (b. 1922) ·
1974 – Toshinari Shōji, Japanese general (b.
1890) ·
1977 – Adolph Rupp,
American basketball player and coach (b. 1901) ·
1978 – Ed Wood,
American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924) ·
1979 – Ann Dvorak,
American actress (b. 1911) ·
1982 – Freeman Gosden,
American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899) ·
1987 – Jascha Heifetz,
Lithuanian-American violinist and educator (b. 1901) ·
1988 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor
(b. 1933) ·
1988 – Johnny
Lawrence, English cricketer and coach (b. 1911) ·
1988 – Dorothy de Rothschild, English
philanthropist and activist (b. 1895) ·
1990 – Armand Hammer,
American businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum (b. 1898) ·
1991 – Greta Kempton,
Austrian-American painter and academic (b. 1901) ·
1992 – Dan Maskell,
English tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1908) ·
1993 – Alice Tully,
American soprano (b. 1902) ·
1994 – Keith Joseph,
English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Education (b.
1918) ·
1994 – Alex Wilson,
Canadian-American sprinter (b. 1905) ·
1995 – Darren Robinson, American rapper (b.
1967) ·
1996 – Faron Young,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1932) ·
1999 – Rick Danko,
Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (b. 1943) ·
1999 – Franjo
Tuđman, Croatian general and politician, 1st President of Croatia (b. 1922) ·
1999 – Woodrow Borah,
American historian of Spanish America (b. 1912) ·
2000 – Marie Windsor,
American actress (b. 1919) ·
2001 – Ashok Kumar,
Indian actor, singer, and producer (b. 1911) ·
2002 – Andres Küng,
Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1945) ·
2002 – Ian
MacNaughton, Scottish actor, director, and producer (b. 1925) ·
2003 – Sean McClory,
Irish actor and director (b. 1924) ·
2004 – Gary Webb,
American journalist and author (b. 1955) ·
2005 – Mary Jackson, American actress (b. 1910) ·
2005 – Eugene
McCarthy, American poet, academic, and politician (b. 1916) ·
2005 – Richard Pryor,
American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1940) ·
2006 – Olivia
Coolidge, English-American author and educator (b. 1908) ·
2006 – Augusto
Pinochet, Chilean general and politician, 30th President of Chile (b. 1915) ·
2007 – Vitali Hakko,
Turkish businessman, founded Vakko (b.
1913) ·
2009 – Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian soldier and
physicist (b. 1925) ·
2010 – John Fenn, American chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) ·
2010 – J. Michael Hagopian, Armenian-American
director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1913) ·
2010 – MacKenzie
Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921) ·
2012 – Iajuddin Ahmed,
Bangladeshi academic and politician, 13th President of Bangladesh (b. 1931) ·
2012 – Antonio
Cubillo, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1930) ·
2012 – Tommy Roberts, English fashion designer
(b. 1942) ·
2013 – Alan Coleman,
English-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936) ·
2013 – Jim Hall, American guitarist and composer (b.
1930) ·
2013 – Don Lund,
American baseball player and coach (b. 1923) ·
2013 – Srikanta
Wadiyar, Indian politician and the titular Maharaja of Mysore(b. 1946) ·
2014 – Ralph Giordano, German author and
publicist (b. 1923) ·
2014 – Robert B.
Oakley, American diplomat, 19th United States Ambassador to
Pakistan (b. 1931) ·
2014 – Bob Solinger,
Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925) ·
2014 – Judy Baar Topinka, American journalist and
politician (b. 1944) ·
2014 – Gerard Vianen,
Dutch cyclist (b. 1944) ·
2015 – Ron Bouchard,
American race car driver and businessman (b. 1948) ·
2015 – Denis Héroux,
Canadian director and producer (b. 1940) ·
2015 – Arnold Peralta,
Honduran footballer (b. 1989) ·
2015 – Dolph Schayes,
American basketball player and coach (b. 1928) ·
2017 – Max Clifford,
British publicist (b. 1943) ·
2017 – Angry Grandpa,
American Internet personality (b. 1950) ·
2019 – Philip McKeon,
American actor (b. 1964) ·
2019 – Gershon
Kingsley, American composer and musician (b. 1922) [29] Holidays and observances[edit]
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Alfred Nobel
Day or Nobeldagen (Sweden) ·
Christian feast day: o Behnam, Sarah, and the Forty
Martyrs (Syriac Orthodox Church)[30] o Karl Barth (Episcopal Church (USA)) o Thomas Merton (Episcopal Church (USA)) o Translation of the Holy House of Loreto o December 10 (Eastern Orthodox
liturgics) ·
Human Rights
Day (International) ·
Victory Day (Iraq)[31] |
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