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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 11 is the 345th day of the
year (346th in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
20 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
220 – Emperor Xian of Han is
forced to abdicate the throne by Cao Cao 's son Cao Pi, ending the Han dynasty. ·
361 – Julian enters Constantinople as sole Emperor of
the Roman Empire. ·
861 – Assassination of
the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil by the Turkish guard, who
raise al-Muntasir to
the throne. Start of the "Anarchy at Samarra". ·
969 – Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is
assassinated by his wife Theophano and
her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes. ·
1282 – Battle of Orewin
Bridge: Llywelyn ap Gruffudd,
the last native Prince of Wales,
is killed at Cilmeri, near Builth Wells, in mid-Wales. ·
1602 – A surprise
attack by forces under the command of Charles
Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy, and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain,
is repelled by the citizens of Geneva. (Commemorated annually by the Fęte de l'Escalade. ·
1675 – Antonio de Vea
expedition enters San Rafael Lake in western Patagonia.[1] ·
1688 – Glorious Revolution: James II of England,
while trying to flee to France, throws the Great Seal of the
Realm into the River Thames. ·
1789 – The University
of North Carolina is chartered by the North
Carolina General Assembly. ·
1792 – French Revolution:
King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for
treason by the National Convention. ·
1815 – The U.S. Senate creates
a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of
the United
States Senate Committee on Finance. ·
1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state. ·
1868 – Paraguayan War: Brazilian troops defeat Paraguayan at the Battle of Avay. ·
1899 – Second Boer War: In the Battle of
Magersfontein the Boers commanded
by general Piet Cronjé inflict
a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord
Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley. ·
1905 – A workers'
uprising occurs in Kyiv, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic. ·
1907 – The New
Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed
by fire. ·
1917 – World War I: British General Edmund
Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law. ·
1920 – Irish War of
Independence: In retaliation for a recent IRA ambush,
British forces burn and loot numerous
buildings in Cork city. Many civilians report being beaten, shot
at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces. ·
1925 – Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the Feast of Christ
the King. ·
1927 – Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch
an uprising in Guangzhou, China,
taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a
Guangzhou Soviet. ·
1931 – Statute of
Westminster 1931: The British
Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK
and the Dominions of the Commonwealth—Australia,
Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa,
and Ireland. ·
1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous,
takes his last drink and enters treatment for the final time. ·
1936 – Abdication
Crisis: Edward VIII's
abdication as King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India, becomes effective. ·
1937 – Second Italo-Ethiopian
War: Italy leaves
the League of Nations. ·
1941 – World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the
United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of
the attack on Pearl
Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them. ·
1941 – World War II: Poland declares
war on the Empire of Japan. ·
1941 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese
Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during
the Battle of Wake
Island. ·
1946 – The United
Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established. ·
1948 – Arab–Israeli War:
The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194, creating
a Conciliation
Commission to mediate the conflict. ·
1958 – French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government
from France,
becoming the Republic of Upper
Volta (now Burkina Faso) and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin), respectively, and joining the French Community. ·
1960 – French forces
crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French President Charles de Gaulle. ·
1962 – Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the
last person to be executed in Canada. ·
1964 – Che Guevara speaks at the United
Nations General Assembly in New York City. ·
1968 – The
Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull,
and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono, is filmed in Wembley, London. ·
1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and
final Apollo mission to
land on the Moon. ·
1978 – The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group
led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke.
It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that
time. ·
1980 – The
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress. ·
1981 – El Mozote massacre:
Armed forces in El Salvador kill
an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War. ·
1990 – Demonstrations
by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger
the fall of
communism in Albania. ·
1994 – First Chechen War: Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops
into Chechnya. ·
1994 – A bomb explodes on Philippine
Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila, Philippines, to Tokyo, Japan, killing one.
The captain is able to safely land the plane. ·
1997 – The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature. ·
1998 – Thai
Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport,
killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have
suffered spatial
disorientation. ·
2001 – The People's
Republic of China joins the World Trade
Organization (WTO). ·
2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England. ·
2005 – Cronulla riots:
Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting
in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New
South Wales; these are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks
on Cronulla. ·
2006 – The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of
the Holocaust is opened in Tehran, Iran,
by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad;
nations such as Israel and the
United States express concern. ·
2006 – Felipe Calderón,
the President of Mexico,
launches a military-led
offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state
of Michoacán. This effort
is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War. ·
2007 – Insurgency
in the Maghreb: Two
car bombs explode in Algiers, Algeria, one near the Supreme Constitutional
Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations. ·
2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged
with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme. ·
2012 – At least 125
people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria. ·
2017 – New
York City attempted bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates in
the New York City Subway,
in the Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal.
Four people are injured, including the perpetrator. ·
2019 - The results of
the 2019
Bougainvillean independence referendum are announced. The
results are overwhelmingly one-sided. Over 98% voters vote for Bougainville's
independence. [2] Births[edit]
·
1445 – Eberhard
I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1496) ·
1465 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa,
Japanese shogun (d. 1489) ·
1475 – Pope Leo X (d. 1521) ·
1566 – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese organist and
composer (d. 1650) ·
1595 – Heo Mok, Korean politician, poet and scholar
(d. 1682) ·
1613 – Amar Singh Rathore,
Rajput nobleman (d. 1644) ·
1680 – Emanuele d'Astorga,
Italian composer (d. 1736) ·
1712 – Francesco Algarotti,
Italian poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 1764) ·
1725 – George Mason, American lawyer and politician
(d. 1792) ·
1758 – Carl Friedrich
Zelter, German composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1832) ·
1761 – Gian Domenico
Romagnosi, Italian physicist, economist, and jurist (d. 1835) ·
1781 – David Brewster, Scottish physicist,
mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1868) ·
1801 – Christian
Dietrich Grabbe, German poet and playwright (d. 1836) ·
1803 – Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor,
and critic (d. 1869) ·
1810 – Alfred de Musset, French dramatist, poet,
and novelist (d. 1857) ·
1830 – Kamehameha V of Hawaii (d. 1872) ·
1837 – Webster Paulson, English civil engineer (d.
1887) ·
1838 – John Labatt, Canadian brewer and businessman
(d. 1915) ·
1843 – Robert Koch, German microbiologist and
physician, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1910) ·
1856 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian philosopher,
theorist, and author (d. 1918) ·
1858 – Vladimir
Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian director, producer, and playwright
(d. 1943) ·
1861 – Frederick Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 5th Baron Ventry,
British Army officer and Anglo-Irish peer (d. 1923) ·
1863 – Annie Jump Cannon,
American astronomer and academic (d. 1941) ·
1872 – René Bull, British illustrator and
photographer (d. 1942) ·
1873 – Josip Plemelj, Slovenian mathematician and
academic (d. 1967) ·
1875 – Yehuda Leib Maimon,
Moldovan-Israeli rabbi and politician (d. 1962) ·
1880 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer and
umpire (d. 1951) ·
1882 – Subramania Bharati,
Indian journalist and poet (d. 1921) ·
1882 – Max Born, German physicist and
mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1970) ·
1882 – Fiorello H. La
Guardia, American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York
City (d. 1947) ·
1884 – Piet Ooms, Dutch swimmer and water polo
player (d. 1961) ·
1889 – Walter Knott, American farmer and
businessman, founded Knott's Berry Farm (d.
1981) ·
1890 – Carlos Gardel, French-Argentinian
singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1935) ·
1890 – Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and
educator (d. 1976) ·
1893 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-American pianist and
composer (d. 2002) ·
1897 – Ronald Skirth, English soldier (d. 1977) ·
1899 – Julio de Caro, Argentinian violinist, composer,
and conductor (d. 1980) ·
1900 – Hermína Týrlová,
Czechoslovakian animator, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1993) ·
1904 – Marge,
American cartoonist (d. 1993) ·
1905 – Robert Henriques, English farmer, author,
and broadcaster (d. 1967) ·
1905 – Gilbert Roland, Mexican-American actor and
singer (d. 1994) ·
1908 – Elliott Carter, American composer and
academic (d. 2012) ·
1908 – Manoel de Oliveira,
Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015) ·
1908 – Hákun Djurhuus,
Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime
Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1987) ·
1908 – Amon Göth, Austrian Nazi war criminal (d.
1946) ·
1909 – Ronald McKie, Australian soldier,
journalist, and author (d. 1991) ·
1910 – Mildred Cleghorn, Native American chairwoman
and educator (d. 1997)[3] ·
1911 – Val Guest, English-American director,
producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 2006) ·
1911 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author, playwright,
and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2006) ·
1911 – Qian Xuesen, Chinese aerodynamicist and
academic (d. 2009) ·
1912 – Carlo Ponti, Italian-Swiss film producer (d.
2007) ·
1913 – Jean Marais, French actor and director (d.
1998) ·
1916 – Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican
singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader (d. 1989) ·
1916 – Elena Garro, Mexican author and playwright
(d. 1998) ·
1918 – Clinton Adams, American painter and
historian (d. 2002) ·
1918 – Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, historian, and short story
writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2008) ·
1919 – Cliff Michelmore, English television host
and producer (d. 2016) ·
1919 – Marie Windsor, American actress (d. 2000) ·
1920 – Mary Ivy Burks, American environmental
activist (d. 2007)[4] ·
1920 – Denis Jenkinson, English motorcycle racer
and journalist (d. 1996) ·
1921 – Ilmar Laaban, Estonian poet and publicist
(d. 2000) ·
1921 – Liz Smith,
English actress (d. 2016) ·
1922 – Grigoris Bithikotsis,
Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2005) ·
1922 – Dilip Kumar, Pakistani-Indian actor,
director, and screenwriter ·
1922 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008) ·
1922 – Grace Paley, American short story writer and
poet (d. 2007) ·
1923 – Betsy Blair, American actress and dancer (d.
2009) ·
1923 – Lillian Cahn, Hungarian-born American
businesswoman, co-founded Coach, Inc. (d. 2013) ·
1923 – Morrie Turner, American comics creator (d.
2014) ·
1924 – Doc Blanchard, American football player and
colonel (d. 2009) ·
1925 – Aaron Feuerstein, American businessman and
philanthropist ·
1925 – Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2019) ·
1925 – James
Sullivan, American politician (d. 2012) ·
1926 – Big Mama Thornton,
American singer-songwriter (d. 1984) ·
1927 – John Buscema, American illustrator (d. 2002) ·
1929 – Axel Anderson, German actor and production
manager (d. 2012) ·
1929 – Subhash Gupte, Indian cricketer (d. 2002) ·
1930 – Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (d. 2016) ·
1930 – Jean-Louis Trintignant,
French actor, director, and screenwriter ·
1931 – Rajneesh, Indian guru, mystic, and educator
(d. 1990) ·
1931 – Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and
scholar (d. 2013) ·
1931 – Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican-American actress,
singer, and dancer ·
1932 – Enrique Bermúdez,
Nicaraguan colonel and engineer (d. 1991) ·
1932 – Keith Waldrop, American author and poet ·
1933 – Aquilino Pimentel,
Jr., Filipino civil servant and politician, 23rd President
of the Senate of the Philippines (d. 2019) ·
1934 – Salim Durani, Afghan-Indian cricketer ·
1935 – Pranab Mukherjee, Indian journalist and
politician, 13th President of India (d.
2020) ·
1935 – Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (d.
1998) ·
1936 – Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician ·
1936 – Hans van den Broek,
Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1937 – Jim Harrison, American novelist, essayist,
and poet (d. 2016) ·
1938 – Enrico Macias, Algerian-French
singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1938 – McCoy Tyner, American jazz musician (d.
2020) ·
1939 – Tom Hayden, American activist and politician
(d. 2016) ·
1939 – Thomas McGuane, American novelist, short
story writer, and screenwriter ·
1940 – David Gates, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1940 – Donna Mills, American actress and producer ·
1941 – Max Baucus, American lawyer, politician, and
diplomat, 11th United
States Ambassador to China ·
1941 – J. P. Parisé, Canadian ice hockey player,
coach, and manager (d. 2015) ·
1941 – Rogier van Otterloo,
Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1988) ·
1941 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer-songwriter
(d. 1991) ·
1942 – Anna Carteret, English actress ·
1943 – John Kerry, American lieutenant, lawyer, and
politician, 68th United
States Secretary of State ·
1944 – Jon Garrison, American tenor and educator ·
1944 – Lynda Day George, American actress ·
1944 – Brenda Lee, American singer-songwriter ·
1946 – Rhoma Irama, Indonesian singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor ·
1946 – Rick McCosker, Australian cricketer ·
1946 – Diana Palmer,
American journalist and author ·
1948 – Tanimura Shinji, Japanese singer-songwriter ·
1948 – Stamatis Spanoudakis,
Greek guitarist and composer ·
1949 – Christina Onassis,
American-born Greek/Argentine businesswoman, socialite, and heiress (d. 1988) ·
1951 – Mazlan Othman, Malaysian astrophysicist and
astronomer ·
1951 – Ria Stalman, Dutch discus thrower and shot
putter ·
1953 – Bess Armstrong, American actress ·
1954 – Brad Bryant, American golfer ·
1954 – Sylvester Clarke, Barbadian cricketer (d.
1999) ·
1954 – Santiago Creel, Mexican lawyer and
politician, Mexican
Secretary of the Interior ·
1954 – Jermaine Jackson, American
singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer ·
1954 – Guđlaugur
Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic guitarist, mathematician, and
engineer ·
1955 – Gene Grossman, American economist and
academic ·
1955 – Stu Jackson, American basketball player,
coach, and manager ·
1955 – Ray Kelvin, British fashion designer ·
1955 – Christian Sackewitz,
German footballer and manager ·
1956 – Lani Brockman, American actress and director ·
1956 – Andrew Lansley, English politician, Secretary
of State for Health ·
1957 – Peter Bagge, American author and illustrator ·
1958 – Chris Hughton, English-born Irish footballer
and manager ·
1958 – Tom Shadyac, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1958 – Nikki Sixx, American bass player,
songwriter, and producer ·
1961 – Dave King,
Irish-American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1961 – Steve Nicol, Scottish footballer and manager ·
1961 – Macky Sall, Senegalese engineer and
politician, 4th President
of Senegal ·
1961 – Marco Pierre White,
English chef and mentor ·
1963 – Mario Been, Dutch footballer and manager ·
1963 – Mark Greatbatch, New Zealand cricketer ·
1963 – Claudia Kohde-Kilsch,
German tennis player ·
1963 – John Lammers, Dutch footballer and manager ·
1963 – Nigel Winterburn, English footballer and
coach ·
1964 – Justin Currie, British singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1964 – Dave Schools, American singer-songwriter,
bass player, and producer ·
1964 – Carolyn Waldo, Canadian swimmer and
sportscaster ·
1965 – Jay Bell, American baseball player and coach ·
1965 – Gavin Hill, New Zealand rugby player ·
1965 – Glenn Lazarus, Australian rugby league
player and politician ·
1965 – Giannis Ragousis, Greek economist and
politician, Greek
Minister for National Defence ·
1966 – Gary Dourdan, American actor ·
1966 – Göran Kropp, Swedish race car driver and
mountaineer (d. 2002) ·
1966 – Erik Honoré, Norwegian guitarist and
producer ·
1966 – Leon Lai, Hong Kong singer and actor ·
1967 – Peter Kelamis, Australian voice actor ·
1967 – Mo'Nique, American comedian, actress, and
producer ·
1967 – Chris Shepherd, English animator, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1968 – Fabrizio Ravanelli,
Italian footballer and manager ·
1969 – Viswanathan Anand,
Indian chess player ·
1969 – Stig Inge Bjřrnebye,
Norwegian footballer and manager ·
1969 – Max Martini, American actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1969 – Alessandro Melli, Italian footballer and
manager ·
1970 – Victoria Fuller, American model and actress ·
1971 – Willie McGinest, American football player
and sportscaster ·
1972 – Daniel Alfredsson,
Swedish ice hockey player ·
1972 – Sami Al-Jaber, Saudi Arabian footballer and
manager ·
1972 – Murray Goodwin, Zimbabwean cricketer ·
1972 – Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer and
manager (d. 2014) ·
1973 – Mos Def, American rapper ·
1974 – Rey Mysterio, American wrestler ·
1974 – Maarten Lafeber, Dutch golfer ·
1974 – Ben Shephard, English journalist and
television host ·
1974 – Gete Wami, Ethiopian runner ·
1974 – Lisa Ortiz, American theatre and voice
actress ·
1975 – Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist ·
1976 – Shareef Abdur-Rahim,
American basketball player, coach, and manager ·
1976 – Yujiro Shirakawa, Japanese actor ·
1977 – Brandon Rogers,
American singer and actor ·
1977 – Mark Streit, Swiss ice hockey player ·
1978 – Roy Wood, Jr., American comedian, actor, and
radio host ·
1979 – Valdis Mintals, Estonian figure skater ·
1979 – Rider Strong, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1980 – Kristjan Kitsing, Estonian basketball player ·
1980 – Adi Keissar, Israeli poet ·
1981 – Jason
Kennedy, American journalist ·
1981 – Jeff McComsey, American author and
illustrator ·
1981 – Paul Medhurst, Australian footballer ·
1981 – Javier Saviola, Argentinian footballer ·
1982 – Pablo Pérez Companc,
Argentinian race car driver ·
1984 – Leighton Baines, English footballer ·
1984 – Sandra Echeverría,
Mexican actress and singer ·
1984 – James
Ellsworth, American wrestler ·
1985 – Karla Souza, Mexican actress ·
1986 – Roy Hibbert, American basketball player ·
1987 – Clifton Geathers, American football player ·
1987 – Alex Russell,
Australian actor[5] ·
1987 – Miranda Tapsell, Australian actress ·
1988 – Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer ·
1990 – Derrick Nix, American basketball player ·
1992 – Tiffany Alvord, American singer-songwriter ·
1992 – Dalton Pompey, Canadian baseball player ·
1993 – Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress[6] ·
1995 – Abbi Grant, Scottish footballer[7] ·
1996 – Hailee Steinfeld, American actress, singer
and songwriter ·
2000 – Emily Whitehead, artistic gymnast[8] Deaths[edit]
·
384 – Pope Damasus I (b. 305) ·
861 – Al-Mutawakkil, Abbasid caliph (b. 822) ·
861 – Al-Fath ibn Khaqan,
chief confidant and councillor to al-Mutawakkil ·
969 – Nikephoros II Phokas,
Byzantine emperor (b. 912) ·
1121 – Al-Afdal Shahanshah,
Egyptian political adviser (b. 1066) ·
1241 – Ögedei Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1186) ·
1282 – Llywelyn ap Gruffudd,
Welsh prince (b. 1223) ·
1282 – Michael VIII
Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1225) ·
1474 – Henry IV of Castile,
King of the Crown of Castile (b.
1425) ·
1532 – Pietro Accolti, Italian cardinal (b. 1455) ·
1582 – Fernando
Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba, Spanish general and
politician, 12th Constable of
Portugal (b. 1508) ·
1610 – Adam Elsheimer, German artist working in
Rome who died at only thirty-two (b. 1578) ·
1686 – Louis, Grand Condé,
French general (b. 1621) ·
1694 – Ranuccio
II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630) ·
1737 – John Strype, English priest, historian, and
author (b. 1643) ·
1747 – Edmund Curll, English bookseller and
publisher (b. 1675) ·
1797 – Richard Brocklesby,
English physician (b. 1722) ·
1826 – Maria
Leopoldina of Austria (b. 1797) ·
1840 – Emperor Kōkaku of
Japan (b. 1771) ·
1872 – Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830) ·
1880 – Oliver Winchester,
American businessman, founded the Winchester
Repeating Arms Company (b. 1810) ·
1892 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian and
scholar (b. 1821) ·
1906 – Charles Townsend,
American fencer, engineer, and academic (b. 1872) ·
1909 – Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British
industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (b. 1839) ·
1913 – Carl von In der Maur,
Governor of Liechtenstein (b. 1852) ·
1918 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian author, poet, and
playwright (b. 1876) ·
1920 – Olive Schreiner, South African author and
activist (b. 1855) ·
1936 – Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player (b.
1875) ·
1937 – Jaan Anvelt, Estonian theorist and
politician (b. 1884) ·
1937 – Hugh Thackeray
Turner, English architect and painter (b. 1853) ·
1938 – Christian Lous Lange,
Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1869) ·
1941 – John Gillespie
Magee, Jr., American pilot and poet (b. 1922) ·
1941 – Émile Picard, French mathematician and
academic (b. 1856) ·
1945 – Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic
(b. 1867) ·
1950 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and
author (b. 1893) ·
1951 – Mustafa
Muğlalı, Turkish general (b. 1882) ·
1951 – Hijri Dede, Iraqi Turkmen poet and writer
(b. 1881) ·
1953 – Sedat Simavi, Turkish journalist and
director (b. 1896) ·
1957 – Musidora, French actress, director,
producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889) ·
1959 – Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1900) ·
1964 – Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (b.
1931) ·
1964 – Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888) ·
1966 – Augusta Fox Bronner,
American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (b. 1881) ·
1968 – Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter and author
(b. 1910) ·
1968 – Arthur Hays
Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1891) ·
1971 – Maurice
McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1902) ·
1975 – Lee Wiley, American singer (b. 1908) ·
1975 – Nihal Atsız, Turkish philosopher,
author, and poet (b. 1905) ·
1978 – Vincent du Vigneaud,
American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1901) ·
1978 – Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1920) ·
1979 – James J. Gibson, American psychologist and
author (b. 1904) ·
1983 – Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (b.
1897) ·
1984 – Oskar Seidlin, German-American author, poet,
and scholar (b. 1911) ·
1984 – George Waggner, American director, producer
and actor (b. 1894) ·
1987 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic
(b. 1923) ·
1989 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe,
American photographer (b. 1895) ·
1991 – Robert Q. Lewis, American actor, comedian,
game show host/panelist, and television personality (b. 1921) ·
1991 – Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic
(b. 1906) ·
1994 – Philip
Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900) ·
1995 – Greg Bahnsen, American minister and
philosopher (b. 1948) ·
1996 – Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, author,
and publisher, co-founded Private Eye (b. 1937) ·
1997 – Eddie Chapman, English spy (b. 1914) ·
1997 – Simon Jeffes, English guitarist and composer
(b. 1949) ·
1998 – André Lichnerowicz,
French physicist and mathematician (b. 1915) ·
1998 – Lynn Strait, American singer-songwriter (b.
1968) ·
2000 – Shaista
Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician and diplomat (b. 1915) ·
2000 – David Lewis,
American actor (b. 1916) ·
2001 – Mainza Chona, Zambian lawyer and politician,
1st Prime Minister
of Zambia (b. 1930) ·
2003 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian author and
playwright (b. 1927) ·
2004 – José Luis Cuciuffo,
Argentinian footballer (b. 1962) ·
2004 – Arthur Lydiard, New Zealand runner and coach
(b. 1917) ·
2008 – Bettie Page, American model (b. 1923) ·
2010 – Dick Hoerner, American football player (b.
1922) ·
2011 – John Patrick Foley,
American cardinal (b. 1935) ·
2012 – Galina Vishnevskaya,
Russian soprano and actress (b. 1926) ·
2012 – Mendel Weinbach, Polish-Israeli rabbi and
scholar (b. 1933) ·
2012 – Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer (b. 1920) ·
2013 – Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter and
architect (b. 1920) ·
2013 – Barbara Branden, Canadian-American author
and academic (b. 1929) ·
2013 – Javier Jauregui, Mexican boxer (b. 1973) ·
2013 – Sheikh Mussa
Shariefi, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1942) ·
2014 – Hans Wallat, German conductor and director
(b. 1929) ·
2015 – Abish Kekilbayev, Kazakh academic and
politician (b. 1939) ·
2015 – H. Arnold Steinberg,
Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and academic (b. 1933) ·
2015 – Hema Upadhyay, Indian painter and sculptor
(b. 1972) ·
2015 – John
"Hot Rod" Williams, American basketball player (b. 1962) ·
2015 – Ken Woolley, Australian architect (b. 1933) ·
2017 – Keith Chegwin, British TV presenter (b.
1957) Holidays and observances[edit]
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Christian feast day: o Cian o Peris o Victoricus,
Fuscian, and Gentian o December
11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Establishment of
Kurdish Women's Union (Iraqi Kurdistan) ·
National Tango Day (Argentina) ·
Pampanga Day (Pampanga province, Philippines) ·
Republic Day,
the day when Upper Volta became
an autonomous republic in the French Community in 1958. (Burkina Faso) |
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