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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
"16 December" redirects here. For the 2002
Hindi-language film, see 16 December (film).
December 16 is the 350th day of the
year (351st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 15 days remain until the
end of the year. Contents
·
1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit]
·
714 – Pepin of
Herstal, mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille (modern Belgium). He is
succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald while
his wife Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish
Kingdom. ·
755 – An Lushan revolts
against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Yanjing,
initiating the An Lushan Rebellion during the Tang dynasty of
China. ·
1431 – Hundred Years' War: Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris.[1] ·
1497 – Vasco da Gama passes
the Great Fish River, where Bartolomeu
Dias had previously turned back to Portugal. ·
1575 – An earthquake with an estimated of
8.5Mw strikes Valdivia, Chile. ·
1598 – Seven-Year War: Battle of Noryang: The final battle of the
Seven-Year War is fought between the China and the Korean allied forces and
Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive allied forces victory. ·
1653 – English Interregnum: The
Protectorate: Oliver
Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of
the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and
Ireland. ·
1689 – Convention Parliament: The Declaration
of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights. ·
1761 – Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege, the
Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress
of Kołobrzeg. ·
1773 – American Revolution: Boston Tea
Party: Members of the Sons of
Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump
hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor
as a protest against the Tea Act. ·
1777 – Virginia becomes the first state to ratify
the Articles of Confederation. [1] ·
1782 – British East India Company: Muharram Rebellion: Hada and Mada Miah lead
the first anti-British uprising in the
subcontinent against Robert Lindsay and his contingents
in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah.[2] ·
1811 – The first two in a series of four
severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri. ·
1826 – Benjamin W. Edwards rides into
Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas, and declares himself
ruler of the Republic of Fredonia. ·
1838 – Great Trek: Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led
by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis, led by
Dambuza (Nzobo) and Ndlela
kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal,
South Africa.[3] ·
1843 – The discovery of octonions by John T. Graves,
who denoted them with a boldface O, was announced to his
mathematician friend William Hamilton, discoverer of quaternions,
in a letter on this date. ·
1850 – The Charlotte Jane and
the Randolph bring the first of
the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand. ·
1863 – American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as
commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. ·
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: Major General George Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant
General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee. ·
1880 – Outbreak of the First Boer War between
the Boer South African Republic and
the British Empire. ·
1882 – Wales and England contest the
first Home Nations (now Six Nations) rugby union match. ·
1883 – Tonkin
Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel. ·
1903 – Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel
in Bombay first
opens its doors to guests. ·
1907 – The American Great White Fleet begins its
circumnavigation of the world. ·
1912 – First Balkan
War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at
the Battle of Elli. ·
1914 – World War I:
Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and
Whitby. ·
1918 – Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares
the formation of the Lithuanian
Soviet Socialist Republic; it is dissolved in 1919. ·
1920 – The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5Mw ,
rocks the Gansu province
in China, killing an estimated 200,000. ·
1922 – President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated
by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the
Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw. ·
1930 – Bank robber Herman Lamm and
members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched
bank robbery, in Clinton, Indiana. ·
1937 – Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt
to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz
Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen
again. ·
1938 – Adolf Hitler institutes
the Cross of Honour of the German
Mother.[4] ·
1941 – World War II:
Japanese forces occupy Miri, Sarawak. ·
1942 – The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich
Himmler orders that Roma candidates
for extermination be deported to Auschwitz. ·
1944 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the
surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest. ·
1947 – William
Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first
practical point-contact transistor. ·
1950 – Korean War: In response to China's Second Phase Offensive, U.S. President
Harry S. Truman declares a limited state of emergency. ·
1960 – A United
Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and
crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the
ground. ·
1965 – Vietnam War:
General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert
McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966. ·
1968 – Second Vatican Council: Official
revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain.[5] ·
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The
ceasefire of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both
conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and
as Vijay Diwas in India. ·
1971 – The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's
independence, which is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day. ·
1978 – Cleveland,
Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since
the Great Depression. ·
1979 – Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices, which has an
immediate, dramatic effect on the United States. ·
1985 – Paul
Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are
shot dead on the orders of John Gotti,
who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family. ·
1989 – Romanian Revolution: Protests break out
in Timișoara, Romania,
in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian
pastor László Tőkés. ·
1989 – U.S. Appeals
Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a
mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr. ·
1991 – Kazakhstan declares
independence from the Soviet Union.[6] ·
2013 – A bus falls from an
elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing
at least 18 people with 20 injured. ·
2014 – Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attacked an Army Public School
in Peshawar, Pakistan,
killing 150 people, 132 of them schoolchildren.[7] Births[edit]
·
1364 – Emperor Manuel III of Trebizond (d. 1417) ·
1485 – Catherine of Aragon, Spanish princess, later
queen consort of England (d. 1536) ·
1534 – Hans Bol,
Flemish artist (d. 1593) ·
1582 – Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey (d.
1642) ·
1584 – John Selden,
English jurist and scholar (d. 1654) ·
1585 – Livia della Rovere, Italian noble (d. 1641) ·
1605 – Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland,
English diplomat (d. 1663) ·
1614 – Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg (d.
1674) ·
1630 – Mary Somerset,
Duchess of Beaufort, British botanist (d. 1715) ·
1714 – George Whitefield, English Anglican priest
(d. 1770) ·
1716 – Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini, French
poet and diplomat (d. 1798) ·
1717 – Elizabeth
Carter, English poet and scholar (d. 1806) ·
1730 – Diego Silang,
Filipino revolutionary leader (d. 1763)[8] ·
1742 – Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, German
field marshal (d. 1819) ·
1770 – Ludwig van Beethoven, composer (d. 1827) ·
1775 – Jane Austen,
English novelist (d. 1817)[9] ·
1775 – François-Adrien Boieldieu, French
pianist and composer (d. 1834) ·
1776 – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist,
physicist, and philosopher (d. 1810) ·
1778 – John Ordronaux, French-American soldier
(d. 1841) ·
1787 – Mary Russell Mitford, English author and
playwright (d. 1855) ·
1790 – Leopold I of Belgium (d. 1865) ·
1804 – Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician and
academic (d. 1889) ·
1812 – Stuart
Donaldson, English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales (d.
1867) ·
1834 – Léon Walras,
French-Swiss economist and theorist (d. 1910) ·
1836 – Ernst von Bergmann, Latvian-German surgeon
and academic (d. 1907) ·
1861 – Antonio de La Gándara, French painter
and illustrator (d. 1917) ·
1863 – George
Santayana, Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet (d. 1952) ·
1865 – Olavo Bilac,
Brazilian journalist and poet (d. 1918) ·
1866 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and
theorist (d. 1944) ·
1867 – Amy Carmichael,
Irish missionary and humanitarian (d. 1951) ·
1869 – Hristo
Tatarchev, Bulgarian physician and activist, co-founded the Internal
Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (d. 1952) ·
1869 – Bertha Lamme Feicht, American electrical
engineer (d. 1943) ·
1872 – Anton Denikin,
Russian general (d. 1947) ·
1882 – Jack Hobbs,
English cricketer and journalist (d. 1963) ·
1882 – Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer, conductor,
and musicologist (d. 1967) ·
1882 – Walther
Meissner, German physicist and engineer (d. 1974) ·
1883 – Károly Kós,
Hungarian-Romanian architect, ethnologist, and politician (d. 1977) ·
1883 – Max Linder,
French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1925) ·
1884 – John Gunn, Australian
politician, 29th Premier of South Australia (d.
1959) ·
1884 – Seibo Kitamura,
Japanese sculptor (d. 1987) ·
1888 – Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934) ·
1888 – Alphonse Juin,
Algerian-French general (d. 1967) ·
1889 – Kim Chwa-chin,
South Korean guerrilla leader (d. 1930) ·
1895 – Marie Hall Ets,
American author and illustrator (d. 1984) ·
1896 – Anna Anderson,
an imposter who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia (d.
1984) ·
1899 – Noël Coward,
English actor, playwright, and composer (d. 1973) ·
1900 – Lucille Lortel,
American actress and producer (d. 1999) ·
1900 – V. S.
Pritchett, British writer and literary critic (d. 1997) ·
1901 – Margaret Mead,
American anthropologist and author (d. 1978)[10] ·
1902 – Rafael Alberti,
Spanish poet and playwright (d. 1999) ·
1903 – Hardie
Albright, American actor (d. 1975) ·
1903 – Harold
Whitlock, English race walker and coach (d. 1985) ·
1905 – Piet Hein, Danish mathematician, author,
and poet (d. 1996) ·
1907 – Barbara Kent,
Canadian-born American film actress (d. 2011) ·
1908 – Remedios Varo,
Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter & anarchist (d. 1963) ·
1910 – Freddie Brown, Peruvian-English
cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1991) ·
1913 – George
Ignatieff, Russian-Canadian scholar and diplomat, 8th Canadian
Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 1989) ·
1914 – O. Winston
Link, American photographer (d. 2001) ·
1916 – Ruth Johnson Colvin, American author and
educator, founded ProLiteracy Worldwide ·
1917 – Nabi Bux Khan Baloch, Pakistani author and
scholar (d. 2011) ·
1917 – Pete T. Cenarrusa, American soldier, pilot,
and politician, Secretary of State of Idaho (d.
2013) ·
1917 – Arthur C.
Clarke, British science fiction writer (d. 2008) ·
1920 – Frederick Rotimi Williams, Nigerian
lawyer and politician (d. 2005) ·
1921 – Eulalio González, Mexican singer-songwriter,
director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2003) ·
1922 – Cy Leslie,
American record producer, founded Pickwick
Records (d. 2008) ·
1923 – Menahem
Pressler, German-American pianist ·
1923 – Ernst Florian Winter, Austrian-American
historian and political scientist (d. 2014) ·
1924 – Nicolas
Sidjakov, Latvian-American illustrator (d. 1993) ·
1926 – James
McCracken, American tenor and actor (d. 1988) ·
1926 – A. N. R. Robinson, Trinidadian lawyer and
politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago (d.
2014) ·
1926 – Jeffrey Stone,
American actor and screenwriter (d. 2012) ·
1927 – Peter
Dickinson, Rhodesian-English author and poet (d. 2015) ·
1927 – Randall
Garrett, American author and poet (d. 1987) ·
1928 – Terry Carter,
American actor, director, and producer ·
1928 – Philip K. Dick,
American philosopher and author (d. 1982) ·
1929 – Nicholas Courtney, Egyptian-English actor (d.
2011) ·
1930 – Bill Brittain,
American author (d. 2011) ·
1930 – Sam Most,
American flute player and saxophonist (d. 2013) ·
1930 – Bill Young,
American sergeant and politician (d. 2013) ·
1932 – Quentin Blake,
English author and illustrator ·
1932 – Grace Alele-Williams, Nigerian mathematician
and academic ·
1932 – Lin Zhao,
Chinese dissident and Christian executed during the Cultural Revolution (d. 1968) ·
1936 – Morris Dees,
American lawyer and activist, co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center ·
1937 – Joyce Bulifant,
American actress ·
1937 – Edward Ruscha,
American painter and photographer ·
1938 – Frank Deford,
American journalist and author (d. 2017) ·
1938 – Liv Ullmann,
Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter ·
1939 – Philip
Langridge, English tenor (d. 2010) ·
1939 – Gordon Miller, English high jumper ·
1941 – Lesley Stahl,
American journalist and actress ·
1941 – Roger Neil Wheeler,
English general ·
1942 – Donald
Carcieri, American educator and politician, 73rd Governor of Rhode Island ·
1943 – Steven Bochco,
American television writer and producer (d. 2018) ·
1944 – Jeff Kanew,
American director and screenwriter ·
1944 – Don Meyer,
American basketball player and coach (d. 2014) ·
1945 – Patti Deutsch,
American actress and comedian (d. 2017) ·
1945 – Tony Hicks,
English singer and guitarist ·
1946 – Benny
Andersson, Swedish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer ·
1946 – Charles Dennis,
Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1946 – Trevor Pinnock,
English harpsichord player and conductor ·
1946 – Tom Stern, American cinematographer ·
1947 – Ben Cross,
English actor (d. 2020) ·
1947 – Vincent Matthews, American sprinter ·
1947 – Martyn
Poliakoff, English chemist and academic ·
1947 – Trevor
Żahra, Maltese novelist, poet and illustrator[11] ·
1949 – Billy Gibbons,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1949 – Heather
Hallett, English lawyer and judge ·
1950 – Claudia Cohen,
American journalist (d. 2007) ·
1950 – Roy Schuiten,
Dutch cyclist and manager (d. 2006) ·
1951 – Sally Emerson,
English author and poet ·
1951 – Mike Flanagan, American baseball player,
coach, and sportscaster (d. 2011) ·
1951 – Robben Ford,
American guitarist and songwriter ·
1951 – Mark Heard,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1992) ·
1951 – Aykut Barka,
Turkish scientist (d. 2002) ·
1952 – Joel Garner,
Barbadian cricketer and manager ·
1952 – Francesco Graziani, Italian footballer and
manager ·
1953 – Rebecca
Forstadt, American voice actress and screenwriter ·
1955 – Xander
Berkeley, American actor and producer ·
1955 – Carol Browner,
American lawyer and environmentalist, 8th Administrator
of the Environmental Protection Agency ·
1955 – Prince Lorenz
of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este ·
1955 – Chiharu Matsuyama, Japanese singer-songwriter ·
1956 – Lizzy Mercier Descloux, French musician,
singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter (d. 2004) ·
1957 – Antonio Vega, Spanish singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 2009) ·
1958 – Bart Oates,
American football player and lawyer ·
1959 – H. D. Kumaraswamy, Indian social worker and
politician, 18th Chief Minister of Karnataka ·
1959 – Alexander Lebedev, Russian businessman and
politician ·
1959 – Steve Mattsson,
American author and illustrator ·
1960 – Pat Van Den Hauwe, Belgian footballer and
manager ·
1961 – André Andersen, Russian-Danish keyboard
player, songwriter, and producer ·
1961 – Shane Black,
American actor, director, and screenwriter ·
1961 – Bill Hicks,
American comedian and musician (d. 1994) ·
1961 – LaChanze,
American actress, singer, and dancer ·
1961 – Jon Tenney,
American actor and director ·
1962 – Maruschka Detmers, Dutch-French actress ·
1962 – William Perry, American
football player and wrestler ·
1963 – Benjamin Bratt,
American actor and producer ·
1963 – Cathy Johnston-Forbes, American golfer ·
1963 – James Mangold,
American director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1964 – Heike
Drechsler, German sprinter and long jumper ·
1964 – John Kirwan, New Zealand rugby player and
coach ·
1964 – Georgie Parker,
Australian actress ·
1964 – Billy Ripken,
American baseball player and sportscaster ·
1964 – Todd Glass,
American comedian ·
1965 – Chris Jones, American baseball player
and manager ·
1965 – Melanie Sloan,
American lawyer and activist ·
1966 – Paul McGinley,
Irish golfer ·
1966 – Clifford Robinson,
American basketball player (d. 2020) ·
1966 – Dennis Wise,
English footballer and manager ·
1967 – Donovan Bailey,
Canadian sprinter and sportscaster ·
1967 – Indrek Kaseorg,
Estonian decathlete ·
1967 – Miranda Otto,
Australian actress ·
1968 – Wendy Doolan,
Australian golfer ·
1968 – Lalah Hathaway,
American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer ·
1968 – Greg Kovacs,
Canadian bodybuilder (d. 2013) ·
1969 – Simon Grayson,
English footballer and manager ·
1969 – Adam Riess,
American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic Nobel Prize laureate ·
1969 – Michelle Smith,
Irish swimmer ·
1969 – Dmitri
Tymoczko, American composer and theorist ·
1969 – Craig White,
English cricketer and coach ·
1969 – Kent Hehr,
Canadian politician ·
1970 – Valerie Chow,
Canadian-Hong Kong actress and publicist ·
1971 – Seyhan Kurt,
French-Turkish poet and sociologist ·
1971 – Michael McCary,
American R&B singer ·
1972 – Charles Gipson,
American baseball player ·
1972 – Paul Leyden,
Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1972 – Travis
Morrison, American singer-songwriter ·
1973 – Themba Mnguni,
South African footballer ·
1973 – Scott Storch,
American songwriter and producer, founded Storch Music Company ·
1975 – Valentin Bădoi, Romanian footballer and
manager ·
1975 – Kaba Diawara,
French-Guinean footballer ·
1975 – Benjamin Kowalewicz, Canadian
singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1975 – Paul Maynard,
English politician ·
1976 – Jen Golbeck,
American computer scientist and academic ·
1977 – Éric Bélanger, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1977 – Sylvain Distin,
French footballer ·
1978 – John Morris, Canadian curler and firefighter ·
1978 – Gunter Van Handenhoven, Belgian
footballer and manager ·
1979 – Luke Harper,
American wrestler ·
1979 – Trevor
Immelman, South African golfer ·
1979 – Daniel
Narcisse, French handball player[12] ·
1979 – Mihai Trăistariu, Romanian
singer-songwriter ·
1979 – Jessie Ward,
American wrestler and producer ·
1980 – Danish Kaneria,
Pakistani cricketer ·
1981 – Krysten Ritter,
American actress, musician, and model ·
1981 – Gareth Williams,
Scottish footballer ·
1982 – Antrel Rolle,
American football player ·
1982 – Anna Sedokova,
Ukrainian singer, actress and television presenter ·
1982 – Stanislav Šesták, Slovak footballer ·
1983 – Kelenna
Azubuike, American basketball player ·
1983 – Frankie
Ballard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1984 – Theo James,
English actor ·
1985 – Stanislav Manolev, Bulgarian footballer ·
1985 – James Nash, English race car driver ·
1986 – Alcides
Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player ·
1986 – Zoltán Kovács, Hungarian
footballer (d. 2013) ·
1986 – Pärt Uusberg,
Estonian actor, composer, and conductor. ·
1987 – Mame Biram
Diouf, Senegalese footballer ·
1987 – Beau Dowler,
Australian footballer ·
1987 – Hallee Hirsh,
American actress ·
1988 – Mats Hummels,
German footballer ·
1988 – Anna
Popplewell, English actress ·
1989 – Mirei Kiritani,
Japanese model, actress, and journalist ·
1991 – Craig Goodwin,
Australian footballer ·
1992 – Ulrikke Eikeri,
Norwegian tennis player ·
1992 – Anamul Haque,
Bangladeshi cricketer ·
1992 – Moe Miura,
Japanese model, actress, and singer ·
1992 – Pietro Perdichizzi, Belgian footballer ·
1992 – Tom Rogic,
Australian footballer ·
1994 – Elliot Lee,
English footballer ·
1994 – Nicola Murru,
Italian footballer ·
1994 – José Rodríguez Martínez, Spanish
footballer ·
1996 – Joel Adams, Australian pop/soul
singer-songwriter[13] ·
1997 – Zara Larsson,
Swedish singer and songwriter ·
1998 – Mira
Antonitsch, Austrian tennis player Deaths[edit]
·
604 – Houzhu,
emperor of the Chen dynasty (b. 553) ·
705 – Wu Zetian,
Empress of the Zhou dynasty (b. 624) ·
714 – Pepin of
Herstal, Frankish statesman (b. 635) ·
867 – Eberhard of Friuli, Frankish duke (b. 815) ·
874 – Ado,
archbishop of Vienne ·
882 – John VIII,
pope of the Catholic Church ·
902 – Wei Yifan,
chancellor of the Tang dynasty ·
999 – Adelaide of Italy, Holy Roman Empress (b.
931) ·
1153 – Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of
Chester, Norman nobleman ·
1263 – Haakon IV, king of Norway (b. 1204) ·
1316 – Öljaitü,
Mongolian ruler (b. 1280) ·
1325 – Charles, French nobleman (b. 1270) ·
1378 – Secondotto, marquess of
Montferrat (b. 1360) ·
1379 – John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel,
English general and politician, Lord Marshall of England (b. 1348) ·
1470 – John II, duke of Lorraine (b. 1424) ·
1474 – Ali Qushji,
Uzbek astronomer, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1403) ·
1515 – Afonso de Albuquerque, Portuguese
admiral and politician, 3rd Viceroy of Portuguese India (b.
1453) ·
1558 – Thomas Cheney,
English diplomat and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports ·
1583 – Ivan Fyodorov, Russian printer ·
1594 – Allison
Balfour, Scottish witch ·
1598 – Yi Sun-sin,
Korean general (b. 1545) ·
1669 – Nathaniel Fiennes, English soldier and
politician (b. 1608) ·
1687 – William Petty,
English economist and philosopher (b. 1623) ·
1751 – Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (b.
1700) ·
1774 – François Quesnay, French economist,
physician, and philosopher (b. 1694) ·
1783 – Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer and
educator (b. 1699) ·
1783 – Sir William James, 1st Baronet,
Welsh-English commander and politician (b. 1720) ·
1805 – Saverio Cassar,
Gozitan priest and rebel leader (b. 1746) ·
1809 – Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy,
French chemist and entomologist (b. 1755) ·
1859 – Wilhelm Grimm,
German anthropologist and author (b. 1786) ·
1892 – Henry Yesler,
American businessman and politician, 7th Mayor of
Seattle (b. 1810) ·
1897 – Alphonse
Daudet, French author, poet, and playwright (b. 1840) ·
1898 – Pavel
Tretyakov, Russian businessman and art collector (b. 1832) ·
1908 – American Horse,
American tribal leader and educator (b. 1840) ·
1917 – Frank Gotch,
American wrestler (b. 1878) ·
1921 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French pianist,
composer, and conductor (b. 1835) ·
1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz, Lithuanian–Polish
engineer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Poland (b. 1865) ·
1928 – Elinor Wylie,
American poet and author (b. 1885) ·
1935 – Thelma Todd,
American actress and comedian (b. 1905) ·
1936 – Frank Eugene,
American-German photographer and educator (b. 1865) ·
1940 – Eugène Dubois,
Dutch paleoanthropologist (b. 1858) ·
1940 – Billy Hamilton, American
baseball player and manager (b. 1866) ·
1943 – George
Bambridge, English diplomat (b. 1892) ·
1944 – Betsie ten
Boom, Dutch Holocaust victim (b. 1885) ·
1945 – Giovanni
Agnelli, Italian businessman, founded Fiat (b. 1866) ·
1945 – Fumimaro Konoe,
Japanese lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1891) ·
1949 – Sidney Olcott,
Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1873) ·
1952 – Robert Henry Best, American journalist (b.
1896) ·
1956 – Nina Hamnett,
Welsh painter and author (b. 1890) ·
1961 – Hans Rebane,
Estonian journalist and politician, 8th Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1882) ·
1965 – W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright,
novelist, and short story writer (b. 1874) ·
1968 – Futabayama Sadaji, Japanese sumo wrestler,
the 35th Yokozuna (b. 1912) ·
1968 – Muhammad Suheimat, Jordanian general and
politician (b. 1916) ·
1969 – Alphonse
Castex, French rugby union player (b. 1899) ·
1969 – Soe Hok Gie,
Indonesian activist and academic (b. 1942) ·
1970 – Oscar Lewis,
American anthropologist of Latin America (b. 1914) ·
1974 – Kostas
Varnalis, Greek poet and playwright (b. 1884) ·
1976 – Réal Caouette,
Canadian journalist and politician (b. 1917) ·
1977 – Risto Jarva,
Finnish director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1934) ·
1980 – Colonel
Sanders, American businessman, founded KFC (b. 1890) ·
1980 – Hellmuth
Walter, German-American engineer (b. 1900) ·
1982 – Colin Chapman,
English engineer and businessman, founded Lotus Cars (b.
1928) ·
1983 – Debs Garms,
American baseball player (b. 1907) ·
1984 – Karl Deichgräber, German philologist and
academic (b. 1903) ·
1985 – Thomas Bilotti,
American mobster (b. 1940) ·
1985 – Paul
Castellano, American mobster (b. 1915) ·
1989 – Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car
driver (b. 1913) ·
1989 – Silvana
Mangano, Italian actress (b. 1930) ·
1989 – Aileen Pringle,
American actress (b. 1895) ·
1989 – Lee Van Cleef,
American actor (b. 1925) ·
1991 – Eszter Tamási,
Hungarian actress and journalist (b. 1938) ·
1993 – Moses Gunn,
American actor (b. 1929) ·
1993 – Kakuei Tanaka,
Japanese soldier and politician, 64th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918) ·
1996 – Quentin Bell,
English historian and author (b. 1910) ·
1997 – Lillian Disney,
American illustrator and philanthropist (b. 1899) ·
1998 – William Gaddis,
American author and academic (b. 1922) ·
2001 – Stuart Adamson,
English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958) ·
2001 – Stefan Heym,
German-American soldier and author (b. 1913) ·
2003 – Robert
Stanfield, Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician, 17th Premier of Nova Scotia (b. 1914) ·
2003 – Gary Stewart, American singer-songwriter
(b. 1945) ·
2004 – Ted Abernathy,
American baseball player (b. 1933) ·
2004 – Deyda Hydara,
Gambian journalist, co-founded The Point (b. 1946) ·
2004 – Agnes Martin,
American painter and educator (b. 1912) ·
2005 – Kenneth Bulmer,
English author (b. 1921) ·
2005 – Ed Hansen,
American director and screenwriter (b. 1937) ·
2005 – John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946) ·
2006 – Don Jardine,
Canadian wrestler and trainer (b. 1940) ·
2006 – Taliep
Petersen, South African singer-songwriter and director (b. 1950) ·
2006 – Pnina Salzman,
Israeli pianist and educator (b. 1922) ·
2006 – Stanford J.
Shaw, American historian and academic (b. 1930) ·
2007 – Dan Fogelberg,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951) ·
2009 – Roy E. Disney,
American businessman (b. 1930) ·
2009 – Yegor Gaidar,
Russian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Russia (b. 1956) ·
2009 – Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, South African
physician and politician, 22nd South African Minister of Health (b.
1940) ·
2010 – Melvin E.
Biddle, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
(b. 1923) ·
2010 – Ayinde
Barrister, Nigerian fuji musician (b. 1948) ·
2011 – Robert Easton, American actor and
screenwriter (b. 1930) ·
2011 – Nicol
Williamson, Scottish actor (b. 1938) ·
2012 – Elwood V.
Jensen, American biologist and academic (b. 1920) ·
2012 – Jake Adam York,
American poet and academic (b. 1972) ·
2013 – James Flint, English commander (b. 1913) ·
2013 – Ray Price, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1926) ·
2013 – Marta Russell,
American journalist, author, and activist (b. 1951) ·
2014 – Martin Brasier,
English paleontologist, biologist, and academic (b. 1947) ·
2014 – Tim Cochran,
American mathematician and academic (b. 1955) ·
2015 – Peter
Dickinson, Rhodesian-English author and poet (b. 1927) ·
2015 – Lizmark,
Mexican wrestler (b. 1950) ·
2015 – George Earl Ortman, American painter and
sculptor (b. 1926) ·
2017 – Keely Smith,
American singer and actress (b. 1928)[14] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Haggai o Ralph Adams
Cram, Richard Upjohn and John La Farge (Episcopal Church (USA)) o December 16 (Eastern Orthodox
liturgics) ·
Day of Reconciliation, formerly
celebrated as Day of the Vow by the Afrikaners (South
Africa) ·
National Day,
celebrates the withdrawal of United Kingdom from Bahrain,
making Bahrain an independent emirate in 1971. ·
National Sports Day (Thailand) ·
The beginning of the nine-day celebration
beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials
which Mary and Joseph endured
before finding a place to stay where Jesus could
be born (Hispanidad): o The
first day of Las Posadas (Mexico, Latin America) o The
first day of the Simbang Gabi novena of masses (Philippines) ·
Victory Day (India) |
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