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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 14 is the 348th day of the
year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
17 days remain until the end of the year.
Arrival
of " la Dorade"
at Courbevoie on 14 December 1840., 1867
painting by Henri
Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux. Château de Malmaison Contents
·
1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit]
·
557 – Constantinople is severely damaged
by an
earthquake. ·
835 – Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of
the Tang dynasty conspires
to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang
court, but the plot is foiled. ·
1287 – St. Lucia's flood:
The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands
collapses, killing over 50,000 people. ·
1542 – Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen of Scots at the age of one week
on the death of her father, James V of Scotland. ·
1650 – Anne Greene is hanged at Oxford Castle in England for infanticide, having concealed an illegitimate
stillbirth. The following day she revives in the dissection room and, being
pardoned, lives until 1659. ·
1751 – The Theresian
Military Academy is founded in Wiener Neustadt, Austria. ·
1780 – Founding
Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth
Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York ·
1782 – The Montgolfier brothers first
test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats
nearly 2 km (1.2 mi). ·
1812 – The French invasion
of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia. ·
1814 – War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana. ·
1819 – Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state. ·
1836 – The Toledo War unofficially ends. ·
1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened
by the Glasgow District Subway Company. ·
1900 – Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical
derivation of his black-body radiation law. ·
1902 – The Commercial
Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu. ·
1903 – The Wright brothers make their first
attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina. ·
1907 – The Thomas W.
Lawson, the largest
ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near
the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot
and 15 seamen die. ·
1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat
of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer
of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian
Capital Territory. ·
1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising
himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach
the South Pole. ·
1913 – Haruna,
the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually
becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II. ·
1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and
others found the Democratic
Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP)
at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina. ·
1918 – Friedrich
Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of
Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish
throne. ·
1918 – Portuguese
President Sidónio Pais is assassinated. ·
1918 – The 1918
United Kingdom general election occurs, the first where women
were permitted to vote. ·
1939 – Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for
invading Finland. ·
1940 – Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley,
California. ·
1941 – World War II: Japan signs a treaty of
alliance with Thailand. ·
1948 – Thomas T.
Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann are granted a patent for
their cathode-ray
tube amusement device, the earliest known interactive electronic game. ·
1955 – Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109. ·
1958 – The 3rd
Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach
the southern pole of
inaccessibility. ·
1960 – Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted. ·
1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus. ·
1963 – The dam
containing the Baldwin Hills
Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds
of homes in Los Angeles, California. ·
1964 – American
Civil Rights Movement: Heart
of Atlanta Motel v. United States: The Supreme
Court of the United States rules that Congress can
use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight
discrimination. ·
1971 – Bangladesh
Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan's
intellectuals are executed by
the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in
Bangladesh as Martyred
Intellectuals Day.) ·
1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last person to
walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and
final extravehicular
activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission. ·
1981 – Arab–Israeli
conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law,
extending Israeli law to the occupied Golan Heights. ·
1985 – Wilma Mankiller takes office as the
first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. ·
1992 – War in Abkhazia: Siege of Tkvarcheli:
A helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli is shot down, resulting in
at least 52 deaths, including 25 children. The incident catalyses more
concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia. ·
1994 – Construction
begins on the Three Gorges Dam on
the Yangtze river. ·
1995 – Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by
the leaders of the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia and
Herzegovina. ·
1998 – Yugoslav Wars:
The Yugoslav
Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation
Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into
Kosovo, killing 36. ·
1999 – Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela,
resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of
homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure. ·
2003 – Pakistani
President Pervez Musharraf narrowly
escapes an assassination attempt. ·
2004 – The Millau Viaduct, the tallest
bridge in the world, is formally inaugurated near Millau, France. ·
2008 – Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at
then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference
in Baghdad, Iraq. ·
2012 – Sandy
Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including
the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook,
Connecticut. ·
2013 – A
reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting
and hundreds of casualties. ·
2017 – The Walt Disney
Company announces that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for
$52.4 billion. ·
2020 – A total
solar eclipse will be visible from Chile and Argentina.[1] Births[edit]
·
1009 – Go-Suzaku,
emperor of Japan (d. 1045) ·
1332 – Frederick
III, German nobleman (d. 1381) ·
1546 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and chemist
(d. 1601) ·
1599 – Charles
Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge, English politician (d. 1668) ·
1607 – János Kemény,
Hungarian prince (d. 1662) ·
1625 – Barthélemy
d'Herbelot, French orientalist and academic (d. 1695) ·
1631 – Anne Conway,
English philosopher and author (d. 1679) ·
1640 – Aphra Behn, English playwright and author
(d. 1689) ·
1678 – Daniel Neal, English historian and author
(d. 1743) ·
1720 – Justus Möser, German jurist and theorist (d.
1794) ·
1730 – Capel Bond, English organist and composer
(d. 1790) ·
1738 – Jan Antonín Koželuh,
Czech composer and educator (d. 1814) ·
1775 – Philander Chase, American bishop and
educator, founded Kenyon College (d.
1852) ·
1775 – Thomas
Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Scottish admiral and politician
(d. 1860) ·
1777 – Du
Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant
of Tyrone (d. 1839) ·
1784 – Princess
Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily (d. 1806) ·
1789 – Maria Szymanowska,
Polish composer and pianist (d. 1831) ·
1791 – Charles Wolfe, Irish priest and poet (d.
1823) ·
1794 – Erastus Corning, American businessman and
politician (d. 1872) ·
1816 – Abraham Hochmuth, Hungarian rabbi and
educator (d. 1889) ·
1824 – Pierre Puvis de
Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (d. 1898) ·
1832 – Daniel H. Reynolds,
American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1902) ·
1851 – Mary Tappan Wright,
American novelist and short story writer (d. 1916) ·
1852 – Daniel De Leon, Curaçaoan-American
journalist and politician (d. 1914) ·
1853 – Errico Malatesta, Italian activist and
theorist (d. 1932) ·
1856 – Louis Marshall, American lawyer and activist
(d. 1929) ·
1866 – Roger Fry, English painter and critic (d.
1934) ·
1870 – Karl Renner, Austrian lawyer and politician,
4th President of Austria (d.
1950) ·
1881 – Katherine MacDonald,
American actress and producer (d. 1956) ·
1883 – Manolis Kalomiris,
Greek pianist and composer (d. 1962) ·
1883 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist,
developed aikido (d. 1969) ·
1884 – Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright
(d. 1950) ·
1887 – Xul Solar, Argentinian painter and sculptor
(d. 1963) ·
1894 – Alexander Nelke, Estonian-American painter
and carpenter (d. 1974) ·
1895 – George VI of the United Kingdom (d.
1952) ·
1895 – Paul Éluard, French poet and author (d.
1952) ·
1896 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general and
pilot, Medal of Honor recipient
(d. 1993) ·
1897 – Kurt Schuschnigg, Italian-Austrian lawyer
and politician, 15th Federal
Chancellor of Austria (d. 1977) ·
1897 – Margaret Chase Smith,
American educator and politician (d. 1995) ·
1899 – DeFord Bailey, American Hall of Fame country
and blues musician (d. 1982) ·
1901 – Henri Cochet, French tennis player (d. 1987) ·
1901 – Paul of Greece (d. 1964) ·
1902 – Frances Bavier, American actress (d. 1989) ·
1902 – Herbert Feigl, Austrian philosopher from the
Vienna Circle (d. 1988) ·
1903 – Walter Rangeley, English sprinter (d. 1982) ·
1904 – Virginia Coffey, American civil rights
activist (d. 2003) ·
1908 – Morey Amsterdam, American actor, singer, and
screenwriter (d. 1996) ·
1908 – Claude Davey, Welsh rugby player (d. 2001) ·
1908 – Mária Szepes, Hungarian journalist, author,
and screenwriter (d. 2007) ·
1909 – Edward Lawrie Tatum,
American geneticist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1975) ·
1911 – Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader
(d. 1965) ·
1911 – Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist
and engineer (d. 1998) ·
1911 – Jerzy
Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player (d.
1943) ·
1914 – Karl Carstens, German lieutenant and
politician, 5th President
of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1992) ·
1914 – France
Milčinski - Ježek, Slovene poet, satirist, comedian, actor, children's writer and
director. ·
1914 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichord player (d. 2003) ·
1915 – Dan Dailey, American dancer and actor (d.
1978) ·
1916 – Shirley Jackson, American novelist and short
story writer (d. 1965) ·
1917 – C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish author and
politician (d. 2016) ·
1917 – Elyse Knox, American actress and fashion
designer (d. 2012) ·
1917 – June Taylor, American dancer and
choreographer (d. 2004) ·
1918 – James T. Aubrey, American broadcaster (d.
1994) ·
1918 – Radu Beligan, Romanian actor and director
(d. 2016) ·
1918 – B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and
author, founded Iyengar Yoga (d.
2014) ·
1920 – Clark Terry, American trumpet player,
composer, and educator (d. 2015) ·
1922 – Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2001) ·
1922 – Don Hewitt, American journalist and
producer, created 60 Minutes (d.
2009) ·
1922 – Junior J. Spurrier,
American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient
(d. 1984) ·
1923 – Gerard Reve, Dutch-Belgian author and poet
(d. 2006) ·
1924 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, director, and
producer (d. 1988) ·
1925 – Sam Jones,
American baseball player (d. 1971) ·
1927 – Richard Cassilly, American tenor and actor
(d. 1998) ·
1927 – Koos Rietkerk, Dutch lawyer and
politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (d.
1986) ·
1929 – Ron Jarden, New Zealand rugby player (d.
1977) ·
1930 – David R. Harris, English geographer,
anthropologist, and archaeologist (d. 2013) ·
1930 – Margaret Bakkes, South African author (d.
2016) ·
1931 – Jon Elia, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and
scholar (d. 2002) ·
1931 – Vladimir-Georg
Karassev-Orgusaar, Estonian director and politician (d. 2015) ·
1932 – George Furth, American actor and playwright
(d. 2008) ·
1932 – Abbe Lane, American actress, singer, and
dancer ·
1932 – Charlie Rich, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1995) ·
1934 – Shyam Benegal, Indian director and
screenwriter ·
1934 – Charlie Hodge,
American guitarist and singer (d. 2006) ·
1935 – Lewis Arquette, American actor, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2001) ·
1935 – Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991) ·
1938 – Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian and
author ·
1938 – Charlie Griffith, Barbadian cricketer ·
1939 – Ann Cryer, English academic and politician ·
1939 – Ernie Davis, American football player (d.
1963) ·
1940 – Lex Gold, Scottish footballer and civil
servant ·
1941 – Karan Armstrong, American soprano and
actress ·
1941 – Ellen Willis, American journalist, critic,
and academic (d. 2006) ·
1942 – Chris Harris,
English actor and director (d. 2014) ·
1942 – Dick Wagner, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2014) ·
1943 – Tommy McAvoy, Scottish politician ·
1943 – Emmett Tyrrell, American journalist, author,
and publisher, founded The American
Spectator ·
1944 – Graham
Kirkham, Baron Kirkham, English businessman, founded DFS ·
1944 – Denis Thwaites, English professional
footballer murdered in the 2015 Sousse attacks (died
2015)[2] ·
1946 – Antony Beevor, English historian and author ·
1946 – Jane Birkin, English-French actress and
singer ·
1946 – John Du Prez, English conductor and composer ·
1946 – Patty Duke, American actress (d. 2016) ·
1946 – Ruth Fuchs, German javelin thrower and
politician ·
1946 – Peter Lorimer, Scottish footballer ·
1946 – Michael Ovitz, American talent agent,
co-founded Creative Artists
Agency ·
1946 – Stan Smith, American tennis player and coach ·
1946 – Joyce Vincent Wilson,
American singer ·
1947 – Christopher
Parkening, American guitarist and educator ·
1947 – Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian economist and
politician, 36th President of Brazil ·
1948 – Lester Bangs, American journalist and author
(d. 1982) ·
1948 – Kim Beazley, Australian politician and
diplomat, 9th Deputy
Prime Minister of Australia ·
1948 – Boudewijn Büch,
Dutch author, poet, and television host (d. 2002) ·
1948 – Peeter Kreitzberg,
Estonian lawyer and politician (d. 2011) ·
1949 – Bill Buckner, American baseball player and
manager (d. 2019) ·
1949 – Cliff Williams, Australian bass player ·
1951 – Jan Timman, Dutch chess player and author ·
1952 – John Lurie, American actor, saxophonist,
painter, director, and producer ·
1953 – Vijay Amritraj, Indian tennis player and
sportscaster ·
1953 – Wade Davis,
Canadian anthropologist, author, and photographer ·
1953 – René Eespere, Estonian composer ·
1953 – Vangelis Meimarakis,
Greek lawyer and politician, 4th Greek
Minister for National Defence ·
1953 – Mikael Odenberg, Swedish soldier and
politician, 29th Swedish
Minister for Defence ·
1954 – Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (d.
1993) ·
1954 – Steve MacLean,
Canadian physicist and astronaut ·
1955 – Jane Crafter, Australian golfer ·
1955 – Jill Pipher, American mathematician and
academic ·
1956 – Linda Fabiani, Scottish politician ·
1956 – Hanni Wenzel, German skier ·
1958 – Mike Scott,
Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1958 – Spider Stacy, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1959 – Bob Paris, American-Canadian bodybuilder and
actor ·
1959 – Jorge Vaca, Mexican boxer ·
1960 – Don Franklin, American actor ·
1960 – Chris Waddle, English footballer, manager,
and sportscaster ·
1960 – Diane Williams,
American sprinter ·
1960 – James Comey, 7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ·
1961 – Jeff
Robinson, American baseball player (d. 2014) ·
1961 – Patrik Sundström,
Swedish ice hockey player ·
1963 – Greg Abbott,
English footballer and manager ·
1963 – Diana Gansky, German discus thrower ·
1965 – Craig Biggio, American baseball player and
coach ·
1965 – Ken Hill,
American baseball player ·
1965 – Ted Raimi, American actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1966 – Fabrizio Giovanardi,
Italian race car driver ·
1966 – Anthony Mason,
American basketball player (d. 2015) ·
1966 – Helle
Thorning-Schmidt, Danish academic and politician, 41st Prime Minister
of Denmark ·
1966 – Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1966 – Tim Sköld, Swedish bass player and producer ·
1967 – Ewa
Białołęcka, Polish author ·
1967 – Hanne Haugland, Norwegian high jumper and
coach ·
1968 – Kelley Armstrong, Canadian author ·
1969 – Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player
and sportscaster ·
1969 – Archie Kao, American actor and producer ·
1969 – Arthur Numan, Dutch footballer and manager ·
1969 – Natascha McElhone,
English-Irish actress ·
1970 – Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer-songwriter,
pianist, and producer ·
1970 – Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1971 – Michaela Watkins, American actor and
comedian ·
1972 – Miranda Hart, English actress ·
1972 – Marcus Jensen, American baseball player and
coach ·
1973 – Falk Balzer, German hurdler ·
1973 – Pat Burke, Irish basketball player ·
1973 – Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-Canadian footballer ·
1973 – Saulius Štombergas,
Lithuanian basketball player and coach ·
1974 – Billy Koch, American baseball player ·
1975 – Justin Furstenfeld,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1975 – Ben Kay, English rugby player ·
1976 – Tammy Blanchard, American actress and singer ·
1976 – Leland Chapman, American bounty hunter ·
1976 – Sebastien Chaule, French-German rugby player ·
1976 – André Couto, Portuguese race car driver ·
1976 – Santiago Ezquerro,
Spanish footballer ·
1977 – Brendan Nash, Australian-Jamaican cricketer ·
1977 – Jamie Peacock, English rugby player and
manager ·
1978 – Dean Brogan, Australian footballer and coach ·
1978 – Shedrack Kibet Korir,
Kenyan runner ·
1978 – Zdeněk
Pospěch, Czech footballer ·
1978 – Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player ·
1978 – Kim St-Pierre, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1979 – Jean-Alain Boumsong,
French footballer ·
1979 – Andrei Makrov, Estonian ice hockey player ·
1979 – Sophie Monk, English-Australian
singer-songwriter and actress ·
1979 – Michael Owen, English footballer and
sportscaster ·
1979 – Rocc,
Slovenian opera stage director & designer[3] ·
1980 – Gordon Greer, Scottish footballer ·
1980 – Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer ·
1980 – Thed Björk, Swedish race car driver ·
1981 – Rebecca Jarvis, American journalist ·
1981 – Johnny Jeter, American wrestler ·
1981 – Liam Lawrence, Irish footballer ·
1981 – Shaun Marcum, American baseball player ·
1982 – Josh Fields,
American baseball player ·
1982 – Steve Sidwell, English footballer ·
1982 – Anthony Way, English singer and actor ·
1983 – Leanne Mitchell, English singer-songwriter ·
1984 – Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer ·
1984 – Rana Daggubati, Indian actor and producer ·
1984 – Ed Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer ·
1985 – Jakub
Błaszczykowski, Polish footballer ·
1985 – Alex Pennie, Welsh keyboard player ·
1985 – Paul Rabil, American lacrosse player ·
1985 – Tom
Smith, English-Welsh rugby player ·
1985 – Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress and singer ·
1987 – Kenneth Medwood, Belizean-American hurdler ·
1988 – Nicolas Batum, French basketball player ·
1988 – Nate Ebner, American football player ·
1988 – Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer ·
1988 – Hayato Sakamoto, Japanese baseball player ·
1989 – Sam Burgess, English rugby league player ·
1989 – Pedro Roberto
Silva Botelho, Brazilian footballer ·
1989 – Onew,
South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer ·
1991 – Ben Henry, New Zealand rugby league player ·
1991 – Offset, American rapper ·
1992 – Tori Kelly, American singer-songwriter ·
1992 – Ryo Miyaichi, Japanese footballer ·
1993 – Antonio Giovinazzi,
Italian race car driver ·
1995 – Calvyn Justus, South African swimmer ·
1996 – Li Zijun, Chinese figure skater Deaths[edit]
·
618 – Xue Rengao, emperor of Qin ·
648 – John III of the
Sedre, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch[4] ·
704 – Aldfrith,
king of Northumbria (or 705) ·
872 – Pope Adrian II (b. 792) ·
1077 – Agnes of Poitou, Holy Roman Empress and
regent (b. c. 1025) ·
1293 – Al-Ashraf Khalil, Mamluk sultan of Egypt ·
1311 – Margaret of Brabant,
German queen consort (b. 1276) ·
1332 – Rinchinbal Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1326) ·
1359 – Cangrande II
della Scala, Lord of Verona (b. 1332) ·
1417 – John Oldcastle, English Lollard leader ·
1460 – Guarino da Verona,
Italian scholar and translator (b. 1370) ·
1480 – Niccolò Perotti,
humanist scholar (b. 1429) ·
1503 – Sten Sture the Elder,
regent of Sweden (b. 1440) ·
1510 – Friedrich
of Saxony (b. 1473) ·
1542 – James V of Scotland (b.
1512) ·
1591 – John of the Cross,
Spanish priest and saint (b. 1542) ·
1595 – Henry
Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1535) ·
1624 – Charles
Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English politician, Lord High
Admiral (b. 1536) ·
1651 – Pierre Dupuy,
French historian and scholar (b. 1582) ·
1715 – Thomas Tenison, English archbishop (b. 1636) ·
1735 – Thomas Tanner,
English bishop and historian (b. 1674) ·
1741 – Charles Rollin, French historian and
educator (b. 1661) ·
1785 – Giovanni
Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and engraver (b. 1727) ·
1788 – Carl Philipp
Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer (b. 1714) ·
1788 – Charles III of Spain (b.
1716) ·
1799 – George Washington,
American general and politician, 1st President
of the United States (b. 1732) ·
1831 – Martin Baum, American businessman and
politician, 5th Mayor of
Cincinnati (b. 1765) ·
1838 – Jean-Olivier Chénier,
Canadian physician (b. 1806) ·
1842 – Ben Crack-O, king of several tribes
around Cape Palmas ·
1860 – George
Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish-English
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784) ·
1861 – Albert, Prince
Consort of the United Kingdom (b. 1819) ·
1865 – Johan Georg
Forchhammer, Danish geologist and mineralogist (b. 1794) ·
1873 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American zoologist and
geologist (b. 1807) ·
1878 – Princess
Alice of the United Kingdom (b. 1843) ·
1912 – Belgrave
Edward Sutton Ninnis, English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1887) ·
1917 – Phil Waller, Welsh rugby player (b. 1889) ·
1920 – George Gipp, American football player (b.
1895) ·
1927 – Julian Sochocki, Russian mathematician and
academic (b. 1842) ·
1929 – Henry
B. Jackson, British admiral (b. 1855) ·
1935 – Stanley G. Weinbaum,
American author (b. 1902) ·
1937 – Fabián de la Rosa,
Filipino painter and educator (b. 1869) ·
1940 – Anton Korošec, Slovenian priest and
politician, 10th Prime
Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1872) ·
1943 – John Harvey Kellogg,
American physician and businessman, co-invented corn flakes (b. 1852) ·
1944 – Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (b. 1908)[5] ·
1947 – Stanley Baldwin, English lieutenant and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867) ·
1947 – Edward Higgins, English-American 3rd General of
The Salvation Army (b. 1864) ·
1953 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings,
American author and academic (b. 1896) ·
1956 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi,
Finnish lawyer and politician, 7th President of Finland (b.
1870) ·
1963 – Dinah Washington, American singer and
pianist (b. 1924) ·
1964 – William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906) ·
1970 – Franz Schlegelberger,
German judge and politician, German
Reich Minister of Justice (b. 1876) ·
1971 – Mufazzal Haider
Chaudhury, Bangladeshi linguist and scholar (b. 1926) ·
1971 – Munier Choudhury, Bangladeshi author,
playwright, and critic (b. 1925) ·
1971 – Shahidullah Kaiser,
Bangladeshi journalist and author (b. 1927) ·
1974 – Walter Lippmann, American journalist and
author (b. 1889) ·
1975 – Arthur Treacher, English-American
entertainer (b. 1894) ·
1978 – Salvador de
Madariaga, Spanish historian and diplomat, co-founded the College of Europe (b.
1886) ·
1980 – Elston Howard, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1929) ·
1984 – Vicente Aleixandre,
Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1898) ·
1985 – Catherine Doherty,
Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House
Apostolate (b. 1896) ·
1985 – Roger Maris, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1934) ·
1989 – Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman
(b. 1919) ·
1989 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and
activist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1921) ·
1990 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt,
Swiss author and playwright (b. 1921) ·
1991 – Robert Eddison, Japanese-English actor (b.
1908) ·
1993 – Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968) ·
1993 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905) ·
1994 – Orval Faubus, American soldier and
politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (b.
1910) ·
1995 – G. C. Edmondson, American soldier and author
(b. 1922) ·
1996 – Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and author (b.
1928) ·
1997 – Stubby Kaye, American actor and comedian (b.
1918) ·
1997 – Emily Cheney Neville,
American author (b. 1919) ·
1997 – Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist and
songwriter (b. 1946) ·
1998 – Norman Fell, American actor and comedian (b.
1924) ·
1998 – A. Leon
Higginbotham Jr., American lawyer, judge, and activist (b. 1928) ·
1998 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and
politician, Mayor of Dallas (b.
1924) ·
2001 – W. G. Sebald, German novelist, essayist, and
poet (b. 1944) ·
2003 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925) ·
2003 – Blas Ople, Filipino journalist and
politician, 21st President
of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1927) ·
2003 – Frank Sheeran, American union leader and
mobster (b. 1920) ·
2004 – Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b.
1934) ·
2004 – Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor, director,
producer, and politician (b. 1939) ·
2006 – Anton Balasingham,
Sri Lankan-English strategist and negotiator (b. 1938) ·
2006 – Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-American composer and
producer, co-founded Atlantic Records (b. 1923) ·
2006 – Mike Evans,
American actor and screenwriter (b. 1949) ·
2009 – Alan A'Court, English footballer and manager
(b. 1934) ·
2010 – Timothy Davlin, American politician, Mayor
of Springfield (b. 1957) ·
2010 – Neva Patterson, American actress (b. 1920) ·
2010 – Dale
Roberts, English footballer (b. 1986) ·
2011 – Joe Simon, American author and illustrator
(b. 1913) ·
2011 – Billie Jo Spears, American singer-songwriter
(b. 1937) ·
2012 – John Graham, English general (b. 1923) ·
2012 – Edward
Jones, American police officer and politician (b. 1950) ·
2012 – Victoria Leigh Soto,
American educator (b. 1985) ·
2013 – Janet Dailey, American author (b. 1944) ·
2013 – C. N. Karunakaran,
Indian painter and illustrator (b. 1940) ·
2013 – Dennis Lindley, English statistician and
academic (b. 1923) ·
2013 – Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor (b. 1932) ·
2013 – George Rodrigue, American painter (b. 1944) ·
2014 – Theo Colborn, American zoologist and
academic (b. 1927) ·
2014 – Irene Dalis, American soprano and pianist
(b. 1925) ·
2014 – Louis Alphonse
Koyagialo, Congolese politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b.
1947) ·
2014 – Bess Myerson, American model, activist, game
show panelist and television personality; Miss America 1945 (b. 1924) ·
2014 – Fred Thurston, American football player (b.
1933) ·
2015 – Terry Backer, American soldier and
politician (b. 1954) ·
2015 – Glen Sonmor, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (b. 1929) ·
2015 – Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and
manager (b. 1963) ·
2015 – Lillian
Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded
the Lillian Vernon
Company (b. 1927) ·
2016 – Paulo Evaristo Arns,
Brazilian cardinal (b. 1921) ·
2016 – Bernard Fox,
Welsh actor (b. 1927) ·
2017 – Yu Kwang-chung, Chinese writer (b. 1928) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Folcwin o John III of the
Sedre (Syriac Orthodox
Church)[4] o Nimatullah Kassab (Maronite Church) o December
14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Alabama Day (Alabama) ·
Forty-seven Ronin
Remembrance Day (Sengaku-ji, Tokyo) ·
Martyred
Intellectuals Day (Bangladesh) |
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