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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 13 is the 347th day of the
year (348th in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
18 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1294 – Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after
only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit. ·
1545 – The Council of Trent begins. ·
1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world
voyage. ·
1636 – The Massachusetts
Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony
against the Pequot Indians.
This organization is recognized today as the founding of the National
Guard of the United States. ·
1642 – Abel Tasman is the first recorded
European to sight New Zealand. ·
1643 – English Civil War:
The Battle of Alton takes
place in Hampshire. ·
1758 – The English
transport ship Duke William sinks
in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people. ·
1769 – Dartmouth College is
founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, with a royal charter from King George
III, on land donated by Royal governor John
Wentworth. ·
1818 – Cyril VI of
Constantinople resigns from his position as Ecumenical
Patriarch. ·
1862 – American Civil War:
At the Battle of
Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside. ·
1867 – A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six. ·
1928 – George Gershwin's An American in Paris is
first performed. ·
1936 – An annular
solar eclipse occurred and was visible from Australia, New
Zealand on December 14th (Monday), and Oeno Island in Pitcairn Islands on
December 13th (Sunday).[1] ·
1937 – Second
Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking:
The city of Nanjing, defended by
the National
Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops
rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians. ·
1938 – The Holocaust: The Neuengamme
concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany. ·
1939 – World War II: Battle of the
River Plate: Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland-class
cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral
Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles. ·
1943 – World War II:
The Massacre of
Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece. ·
1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital
of Israel to Jerusalem. ·
1959 – Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus. ·
1960 – While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the
capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown
Prince Asfa Wossen,
Emperor. ·
1962 – NASA launches Relay 1, the
first active repeater communications satellite in orbit. ·
1967 – Constantine II
of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against
the Regime of
the Colonels. ·
1968 – Brazilian
President Artur da Costa e
Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional
Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus. ·
1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and
final extra-vehicular
activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last
humans to set foot on the Moon. ·
1974 – Malta becomes a republic within
the Commonwealth of
Nations. ·
1974 – North Vietnam launched the Spring Offensive,
which led to the collapse of South Vietnam.[2] ·
1977 – Air Indiana Flight
216 crashes near Evansville
Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University
of Evansville basketball team, support staff, and boosters of the
team. ·
1981 – General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, largely due to
the actions by Solidarity. ·
1982 – The 6.0 Ms North Yemen
earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 2,800, and
injuring 1,500. ·
1988 – PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN
General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States
authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New
York. ·
1989 – The Troubles: Attack on
Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional
Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle
checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland.
Two British soldiers are killed and two others are wounded. ·
2001 – Sansad Bhavan, the building housing
the Indian Parliament, is attacked
by terrorists. Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists. ·
2002 – European
Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members on May 1,
2004. ·
2003 – Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn:
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his
home town of Tikrit. ·
2007 – The Treaty of Lisbon is signed by members
states of the European Union. ·
2011 – A murder–suicide in Liège, Belgium, kills six and wounds 125
people at a Christmas market. ·
2018 – A high-speed
train crashes in Ankara, Turkey, killing
at least nine people and injuring 84.[3] Births[edit]
·
1272 – King Frederick III of
Sicily (d. 1337) ·
1363 – Jean Gerson, chancellor of the University of Paris (d.
1429)[4] ·
1476 – Lucy Brocadelli, Dominican tertiary and
stigmatic (d. 1544)[5] ·
1484 – Paul Speratus, German Lutheran (d. 1551)[6] ·
1491 – Martín de Azpilcueta,
Spanish theologian and economist (d. 1586) ·
1499 – Justus Menius, German Lutheran pastor (d.
1558) ·
1521 – Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590) ·
1533 – Eric XIV of Sweden (d.
1577) ·
1553 – Henry IV of France (d.
1610) ·
1560 – Maximilien
de Béthune, Duke of Sully, 2nd Prime Minister
of France (d. 1641) ·
1585 – William
Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649) ·
1640 – Robert Plot, English chemist and academic
(d. 1696) ·
1662 – Francesco Bianchini,
Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1729) ·
1678 – Yongzheng Emperor of
China (d. 1735) ·
1720 – Carlo Gozzi, Italian playwright (d. 1804) ·
1724 – Franz Aepinus, German astronomer and
philosopher (d. 1802) ·
1769 – James Scarlett
Abinger, English judge (d. 1844) ·
1780 – Johann
Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist, invented the Döbereiner's lamp (d.
1849) ·
1784 – Archduke Louis
of Austria (d. 1864) ·
1797 – Heinrich Heine, German journalist, poet, and
critic (d. 1856) ·
1804 – Joseph Howe, Canadian journalist and
politician, 5th Premier of Nova
Scotia (d. 1873) ·
1814 – Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse and philanthropist
(d. 1880) ·
1816 – Werner von Siemens,
German engineer and businessman, founded Siemens (d. 1892) ·
1818 – Mary Todd Lincoln,
16th First
Lady of the United States (d. 1882) ·
1830 – Mathilde Fibiger, Danish feminist, novelist
and telegraphist (d. 1892) ·
1836 – Franz von Lenbach,
German painter and academic (d. 1904) ·
1854 – Herman Bavinck, Dutch philosopher,
theologian, and academic (d. 1921) ·
1856 – Svetozar
Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (d. 1920) ·
1860 – Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925) ·
1864 – Emil Seidel, American woodcarver and
politician, 36th Mayor of Milwaukee (d.
1947) ·
1867 – Kristian Birkeland,
Norwegian physicist and author (d. 1917) ·
1870 – Edward LeSaint, American actor and director
(d. 1940) ·
1871 – Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (d.
1945) ·
1874 – Josef Lhévinne,
Russian pianist and educator (d. 1944) ·
1882 – Jane Edna Hunter, African-American social
worker (d. 1971)[7] ·
1883 – Belle da Costa
Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (d. 1950)[8] ·
1884 – Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor, director, and
playwright (d. 1951) ·
1885 – Annie Dale
Biddle Andrews, American mathematician (d. 1940) ·
1887 – George Pólya, Hungarian-American mathematician
and academic (d. 1985) ·
1887 – Alvin C. York, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964) ·
1897 – Albert Aalbers, Dutch architect, designed
the Savoy Homann
Bidakara Hotel (d. 1961) ·
1897 – Drew Pearson,
American journalist and author (d. 1969) ·
1900 – Jonel Perlea, Romanian-American conductor
and educator (d. 1970) ·
1901 – Olev Roomet, Estonian singer, violinist,
and bagpipe player (d. 1987) ·
1902 – Panagiotis
Kanellopoulos, Greek philosopher and politician, 138th Prime Minister
of Greece (d. 1986) ·
1902 – Talcott Parsons, American sociologist and
academic (d. 1979) ·
1903 – Ella Baker, American activist (d. 1986) ·
1903 – Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and
composer (d. 1993) ·
1905 – Ann Barzel, American writer and dance critic
(d. 2007)[9] ·
1906 – Princess
Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968) ·
1906 – Laurens van der Post,
South African-English soldier and author (d. 1996) ·
1908 – Plinio Corrêa
de Oliveira, Brazilian historian and activist (d. 1995) ·
1908 – Van Heflin, American actor (d. 1971) ·
1908 – Elizabeth
Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (d. 1958) ·
1911 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and
mathematician, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1999) ·
1911 – Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter
(d. 1972) ·
1912 – Luiz Gonzaga, Brazilian singer-songwriter
and accordion player (d. 1989) ·
1913 – Arnold
Brown, English-Canadian missionary, 11th General of
The Salvation Army (d. 2002) ·
1914 – Alan Bullock, English historian and author
(d. 2004) ·
1914 – Larry Noble,
English comedian and actor (d. 1993) ·
1915 – B. J. Vorster, South African lawyer and
politician, 4th State
President of South Africa (d. 1983) ·
1916 – Archie Moore, American boxer (d. 1998) ·
1916 – Leonard Weisgard, American author and
illustrator (d. 2000) ·
1918 – Bill Vukovich, Serbian-American race car
driver (d. 1955) ·
1919 – Hans-Joachim
Marseille, German captain and pilot (d. 1942) ·
1920 – George P. Shultz, American economist and
politician, 60th United
States Secretary of State ·
1921 – Turgut Demirağ,
Turkish film producer, director and screenwriter (d. 1987) ·
1923 – Philip Warren
Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2020) ·
1923 – Terence Beckett, English businessman (d.
2013) ·
1923 – Edward Bede
Clancy, Australian cardinal (d. 2014) ·
1923 – Larry Doby, American baseball player and
manager (d. 2003) ·
1925 – Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer, and
dancer ·
1926 – Carl Erskine, American major-league baseball
player ·
1926 – George Rhoden, Jamaican runner ·
1927 – James Wright,
American poet and academic (d. 1980) ·
1929 – Christopher Plummer,
Canadian actor and producer ·
1930 – Robert Prosky, American actor (d. 2008) ·
1933 – Doug Mohns, Canadian-American ice hockey
player (d. 2014) ·
1934 – Richard D. Zanuck,
American film producer (d. 2012) ·
1934 – Antoinette
Rodez Schiesler, American chemist (d. 1996) ·
1935 – Joe Christopher, Virgin Islander baseball
player ·
1935 – Kenneth Hall,
American football player ·
1935 – Lindy McDaniel, American baseball player ·
1935 – Türkan Saylan, Turkish physician and
academic (d. 2009) ·
1935 – Arthur Summons, Australian rugby player ·
1936 – Prince Karim al-Husayn Shāh, Aga Khan IV,[10] Swiss-English
businessman ·
1936 – J. C. Martin, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1937 – Rob Houwer, Dutch director, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1937 – Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish businessman (d. 2009) ·
1938 – Gus Johnson,
American basketball player (d. 1987)[11] ·
1938 – Tom Shaw,
American golfer ·
1940 – Sanjaya Lall, Indian economist and academic
(d. 2005) ·
1941 – John Davidson,
American actor and game show host ·
1942 – Howard Brenton, English playwright and
screenwriter ·
1942 – Anna Eshoo, American lawyer and politician ·
1943 – Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball and
basketball player ·
1943 – Marti Webb, British actress and singer ·
1944 – Hwang Jang-lee, Japanese-South Korean
martial artist and actor ·
1945 – Herman Cain, American businessman and
political activist (d. 2020) ·
1948 – Jeff Baxter, American guitarist, songwriter,
and producer ·
1948 – Lillian Board, South African-English
sprinter (d. 1970) ·
1948 – Ted Nugent, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor ·
1948 – Brian
Wilson, Scottish journalist and politician, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs ·
1949 – Robert Lindsay,
English actor and singer ·
1949 – R. A. MacAvoy, American computer programmer
and author ·
1949 – Randy Owen, American country music
singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1949 – Tom Verlaine, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1950 – Linda Bellos, English businesswoman and
politician ·
1950 – Wendie Malick, American actress, model and
comedian ·
1950 – Julia Slingo, English meteorologist and
academic ·
1950 – Tom Vilsack, American lawyer and politician,
30th United
States Secretary of Agriculture ·
1952 – Junkyard Dog, American football player and
wrestler (d. 1998) ·
1952 – John Francome, English jockey and
sportscaster ·
1952 – Larry Kenon, American basketball player ·
1952 – Jean Rouaud, French author ·
1953 – Berton Averre, American guitarist and
songwriter ·
1953 – Ben Bernanke, American economist and
academic ·
1953 – Bill Castro, Dominican baseball player and
coach ·
1953 – Jim Davidson, English comedian, actor, and
television host ·
1953 – Bob Gainey, Canadian ice hockey player,
coach, and manager ·
1953 – Thomas Kurzhals, German keyboard player and
songwriter (d. 2014) ·
1954 – John Anderson,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1954 – Steve Forbert, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1954 – Harsh
Vardhan, Indian otolaryngologist and politician, Indian
Minister of Science and Technology ·
1955 – Joseph Mahmoud, Moroccan-French runner ·
1956 – Dale Berra, American baseball player ·
1956 – Phil Hubbard, American basketball player and
coach ·
1956 – Jean-Marie Messier,
French businessman ·
1957 – Steve Buscemi, American actor and director ·
1957 – Eric Marienthal, American saxophonist ·
1959 – Heino Enden, Estonian basketball player and
coach ·
1959 – Staffan
William-Olsson, Swedish guitarist and composer ·
1960 – Richard Dent, American football player ·
1961 – Harry
Gregson-Williams, English composer, conductor, and producer ·
1961 – Irene Sáez, Venezuelan model and
politician, Governor
of Nueva Esparta ·
1961 – Gary Zimmerman, American football player ·
1962 – Roger Ilegems, Belgian cyclist ·
1962 – Jamie Raskin, American lawyer, academic, and
politician ·
1962 – Rex Ryan, American football player and coach ·
1962 – Rob Ryan, American football player and coach ·
1964 – hide, Japanese recording artist, the former
lead guitarist of X Japan (d. 1998) ·
1966 – Mike Tirico, American sportscaster ·
1967 – Jamie Foxx, American actor, singer,
songwriter, producer, and comedian ·
1967 – Bo Pelini, American football player and
coach ·
1969 – Sergei Fedorov, Russian ice hockey player
and manager ·
1970 – Tonja Buford-Bailey,
American hurdler and coach ·
1970 – Eoin Jess, Scottish footballer ·
1970 – Gerlinde
Kaltenbrunner, Austrian mountaineer ·
1971 – Naomi Long, Northern Irish engineer and
politician, 54th Lord Mayor of
Belfast ·
1971 – Park Jin-young, South Korean
singer-songwriter, producer, and record executive ·
1971 – Scott Sattler, Australian rugby league
player and sportscaster ·
1971 – Leanne Wood, Welsh academic and politician ·
1972 – Chris Grant,
Australian footballer ·
1972 – James Murdoch, Australian-American
businessman, son of Rupert Murdoch ·
1974 – Sara Cox, English broadcaster ·
1975 – Bates Battaglia, American ice hockey player ·
1975 – Tom DeLonge, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1975 – Kostas Kiassos, Greek footballer ·
1975 – Matthew LeCroy, American baseball player and
coach ·
1975 – Bahar Mert, Turkish volleyball player ·
1976 – Josh Fogg, American baseball player ·
1976 – Søren Friis, Danish footballer ·
1976 – Radosław
Sobolewski, Polish footballer ·
1976 – Rama Yade, Senegalese-French politician ·
1977 – Sascha Kindred, German-English swimmer ·
1978 – Kaspars Kambala, Latvian basketball player ·
1978 – B.J. Penn, American mixed martial artist and
wrestler ·
1979 – Matjaž Smodiš,
Slovenian basketball player ·
1979 – Luke Steele,
Australian singer-songwriter and musician ·
1980 – Patrik Antonius, Finnish tennis player,
coach, and poker player ·
1980 – Ryan France, English footballer ·
1980 – Danil Haustov, Estonian swimmer ·
1981 – Amy Lee, American singer-songwriter and
pianist ·
1981 – Mathis Bailey, American-Canadian novelist
and fiction writer ·
1982 – Dan Hamhuis, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1982 – Ayumi Kinoshita, Japanese actress and model ·
1982 – Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player ·
1982 – Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver (d.
2019) ·
1982 – Koutaro Tanaka, Japanese actor ·
1982 – Dominik Werling, German footballer ·
1983 – Matt Deis, American bass player and
songwriter ·
1983 – Otylia
Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer ·
1983 – Janeth Jepkosgei, Kenyan runner ·
1984 – Santi Cazorla, Spanish footballer ·
1984 – Hanna-Maria Seppälä,
Finnish swimmer[12] ·
1985 – Michael Bumpus, American football player ·
1985 – Laurence Leboeuf, Canadian actress ·
1985 – Alby Mathewson, New Zealand rugby player ·
1986 – Mathieu Gnanligo, Beninese sprinter ·
1988 – Rickie Fowler, American golfer ·
1988 – Olly Lancashire, English footballer ·
1988 – James Tamou, New Zealand-Australian rugby
league player ·
1989 – Hellen Onsando Obiri,
Kenyan runner[13] ·
1989 – Ben Ridge, Australian rugby league player ·
1989 – Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter,
record producer and actress ·
1991 – Sénah Mango, Togolese footballer ·
1991 – Aaron Telitz, American race car driver ·
1996 – Gleyber Torres, Venezuelan baseball player[14] Deaths[edit]
·
558 – Childebert I, Frankish king (b. 496) ·
769 – Du Hongjian, Chinese politician (b. 709) ·
838 – Pepin I of Aquitaine (b.
797) ·
859 – Angilbert II, archbishop of Milan ·
1124 – Pope Callixtus II (b.
1065) ·
1126 – Henry IX, Duke
of Bavaria (b. 1075) ·
1204 – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher
(b. 1135) ·
1250 – Frederick
II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1194) ·
1272 – Bertold of
Regensburg, German preacher ·
1404 – Albert I, Duke
of Bavaria (b. 1336) ·
1466 – Donatello, Italian painter and sculptor (b.
1386) ·
1516 – Johannes Trithemius,
German cryptographer and historian (b. 1462) ·
1521 – Manuel I of Portugal (b.
1469) ·
1557 – Niccolò Fontana
Tartaglia, Italian mathematician and engineer (b. 1499) ·
1565 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss botanist and physician
(b. 1516) ·
1621 – Katarina Stenbock,
queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b.
1535) ·
1671 – Antonio Grassi, Italian Roman Catholic priest(b. 1592) ·
1716 – Charles de La Fosse,
French painter (b. 1640) ·
1721 – Alexander Selkirk,
Scottish sailor (b. 1676) ·
1729 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher and
author (b. 1676) ·
1754 – Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1696) ·
1758 – Noël Doiron, Canadian Acadia leader (b. 1684) ·
1769 – Christian
Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and hymn-writer (b. 1715) ·
1783 – Pehr Wilhelm
Wargentin, Swedish astronomer and demographer (b. 1717) ·
1784 – Samuel Johnson, English poet and
lexicographer (b. 1709) ·
1814 – Charles-Joseph,
7th Prince of Ligne, Belgian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1735) ·
1837 – Herman of Alaska, Russian missionary and
saint (b. 1756) ·
1849 – Johann
Centurius Hoffmannsegg, German botanist and entomologist (b. 1766) ·
1862 – Thomas Reade
Rootes Cobb, American general, lawyer, and politician (b. 1823) ·
1863 – Christian
Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (b. 1813) ·
1868 – Carl
Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer (b.
1794) ·
1881 – August Šenoa, Croatian author and poet (b.
1838) ·
1883 – Victor de Laprade,
French poet and critic (b. 1812) ·
1893 – Georg August Rudolph,
German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (b. 1816) ·
1895 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and
engineer (b. 1800) ·
1908 – Augustus Le Plongeon,
French photographer and historian (b. 1825) ·
1919 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and
academic (b. 1850) ·
1922 – Arthur Wesley Dow,
American painter and photographer (b. 1857) ·
1922 – Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and
politician, 1st Prime Minister
of Iceland (b. 1861) ·
1924 – Samuel Gompers, English-born American labor
leader, founded the American
Federation of Labor (b. 1850) ·
1927 – Mehmet Nadir, Turkish mathematician and
academic (b. 1856) ·
1930 – Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist and
physician, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1869) ·
1931 – Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist,
sociologist, and anthropologist (b. 1840) ·
1932 – Georgios Jakobides,
Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1853) ·
1935 – Victor Grignard, French chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1871) ·
1942 – Wlodimir Ledóchowski,
Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General
of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866) ·
1942 – Robert Robinson
Taylor, American architect (b. 1868) ·
1944 – Wassily Kandinsky,
Russian-French painter and theorist (b. 1866) ·
1945 – Irma Grese, German concentration
camp guard (b. 1923) ·
1945 – Josef Kramer, German concentration
camp commandant (b. 1906) ·
1945 – Elisabeth Volkenrath,
Polish-German concentration
camp supervisor (b. 1919) ·
1947 – Henry James,
American lawyer and author (b. 1879) ·
1947 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist,
painter, and philosopher (b. 1874) ·
1950 – Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician and
academic (b. 1902) ·
1954 – John Raymond Hubbell,
American director and composer (b. 1879) ·
1955 – Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and
neurosurgeon, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1874) ·
1960 – Dora Marsden, English author and activist
(b. 1882) ·
1961 – Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860) ·
1962 – Harry Barris, American singer-songwriter and
pianist (b. 1905) ·
1969 – Raymond A. Spruance,
American admiral and diplomat, United
States Ambassador to the Philippines (b. 1886) ·
1973 – Henry Green, English author (b. 1905) ·
1974 – Yakup
Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and
politician (b. 1889) ·
1975 – Cyril Delevanti, English-American actor (b.
1889) ·
1977 – Oğuz Atay, Turkish engineer and author
(b. 1934) ·
1979 – Jon Hall, American actor and director (b.
1915) ·
1979 – Behçet Necatigil,
Turkish author, poet and translator (b. 1916) ·
1983 – Alexander Schmemann,
Estonian-American priest and theologian (b. 1921) ·
1983 – Nichita
Stănescu, Romanian poet and critic (b. 1933) ·
1986 – Heather Angel,
British-American actress (b. 1909) ·
1986 – Ella Baker, American activist (b. 1903) ·
1986 – Smita Patil, Indian actress and journalist
(b. 1955) ·
1992 – K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman (b. 1899) ·
1992 – Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (b.
1899) ·
1993 – Vanessa Duriès,
French author (b. 1972) ·
1995 – Ann Nolan Clark, American author and
educator (b. 1896) ·
1996 – Edward Blishen, English author and educator
(b. 1920) ·
1997 – Don E. Fehrenbacher,
American historian, author, and academic (b. 1920) ·
1998 – Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born British impresario
and media proprietor (b. 1906) ·
1998 – Richard
Thomas, Royal Naval Officer (b. 1922) ·
1998 – Wade Watts, civil rights activist (b. 1919) ·
2001 – Michael Bradshaw, British-Canadian actor (b.
1933) ·
2001 – Chuck Schuldiner, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1967) ·
2002 – Zal Yanovsky, Canadian singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1944) ·
2003 – Māris
Čaklais, Latvian poet and journalist (b. 1940) ·
2003 – William V. Roth, Jr.,
American lawyer and politician (b. 1921) ·
2004 – Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player (b.
1934) ·
2004 – David
Wheeler, English computer scientist and academic (b. 1927) ·
2005 – Stanley Williams, American gang leader,
co-founded the Crips (b. 1953) ·
2006 – Lamar Hunt, American businessman, co-founded
the American
Football League and World
Championship Tennis (b. 1932) ·
2007 – Mark Partridge, Rhodesian lawyer and
politician (b. 1922) ·
2007 – Floyd Red Crow
Westerman, American actor and activist (b. 1936) ·
2008 – John Drake,
New Zealand rugby player and journalist (b. 1959) ·
2010 – James Dibble, Australian journalist (b.
1923) ·
2010 – Richard Holbrooke,
American journalist and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b.
1941) ·
2010 – Enrique Morente, Spanish singer-songwriter
(b. 1942) ·
2011 – T. J. Bass, American physician and author
(b. 1932) ·
2011 – Kabir Chowdhury, Bangladeshi author and
academic (b. 1923) ·
2011 – Russell Hoban, American author and
illustrator (b. 1925) ·
2012 – Ian
Black, Scottish footballer (b. 1924) ·
2013 – Marcel Cellier, Swiss organist and producer
(b. 1925) ·
2013 – Vivian Kellogg, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1922) ·
2013 – Kim Kuk-tae, North Korean politician (b.
1924) ·
2013 – Harvey Littleton, American glass artist and
educator (b. 1922) ·
2014 – Ernst
Albrecht, German economist and politician, 6th Prime
Minister of Lower Saxony (b. 1930) ·
2014 – William E. May, American theologian and
academic (b. 1928) ·
2014 – Phil Stern, American photographer (b. 1919) ·
2014 – Taitetsu Unno, Japanese scholar and author (b.
1929) ·
2015 – Benedict Anderson,
Chinese-American political scientist and academic (b. 1936) ·
2015 – John Bannon, Australian academic and
politician, 39th Premier of
South Australia (b. 1943) ·
2015 – Peter Ryan,
Australian journalist and author (b. 1923) ·
2016 – Thomas Schelling, American economist and
educator (b. 1921) ·
2016 – David Strangway, Canadian geophysicist and
university administrator (b. 1934) ·
2016 – Alan Thicke, Canadian-American actor and
composer (b. 1947) ·
2017 – Warrel Dane, American singer (b. 1961) ·
2018 – Noah Klieger, Israeli journalist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1926)[15] Holidays and observances[edit]
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Acadian Remembrance
Day (Acadians) ·
Christian feast day: o Lucy, and its related observances: § National Day,
celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from United Kingdom in
1979. § Saint Lucy's Day (mainly Scandinavia, some regions of Italy (for
example, Sicily, Veneto and Trentino), Malta, Hungary and Croatia). o December
13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Martial Law
Victims Remembrance Day (Poland) ·
Nanking Massacre
Memorial Day (China) ·
Sailor's Day (Brazil) |
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