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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 17 is the 351st day of the
year (352nd in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
14 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit]
·
497 BC – The first Saturnalia festival was celebrated
in ancient Rome. ·
546 – Siege of Rome:
The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing
the Byzantine garrison. ·
920 – Romanos I Lekapenos is
crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII. ·
942 – Assassination
of William I of
Normandy. ·
1398 – Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi
are defeated by Timur. ·
1538 – Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of
England. ·
1583 – Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeat
troops under Gebhard
Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg. ·
1586 – Go-Yōzei becomes Emperor of Japan. ·
1718 – War of the
Quadruple Alliance: Great Britain declares war on Spain. ·
1777 – American Revolution:
France formally recognizes the United States. ·
1790 – The Aztec calendar stone is
discovered at El Zócalo, Mexico City. ·
1807 – Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System. ·
1812 – War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a Lenape village in the Battle of the
Mississinewa. ·
1819 – Simón Bolívar declares
the independence of Gran Colombia in
Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela). ·
1835 – The
second Great Fire of New
York destroys 50 acres (200,000 square meters) of New York
City's Financial
District. ·
1837 – A fire in the
Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg kills 30 guards. ·
1862 – American Civil War:
General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order
No. 11, expelling Jews from
parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky. ·
1865 – First
performance of the Unfinished
Symphony by Franz Schubert. ·
1892 – First issue
of Vogue is
published. ·
1896 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino,
which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an
artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire. ·
1903 – The Wright brothers make the first
controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk,
North Carolina. ·
1907 – Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King
of Bhutan. ·
1913 – A spur of
the Shaker Heights streetcar
line opens, the first line of the eventual Cleveland RTA Rapid Transit system. ·
1918 – Darwin Rebellion: Up to 1,000 demonstrators
march on Government House in
Darwin, Northern Territory,
Australia. ·
1919 – Uruguay becomes a signatory to
the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. ·
1926 – Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup
d'état is successful. ·
1927 – Indian
revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is
hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled
date. ·
1928 – Indian
revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru assassinate British
police officer James Saunders in Lahore, Punjab, to avenge the death of Lala Lajpat Rai at the hands of the
police. The three were executed in 1931. ·
1933 – The first NFL
Championship Game is played. The game was at Wrigley Field between the New York Giants and Chicago Bears. The Bears won 23–21.[1] ·
1935 – First flight of
the Douglas DC-3. ·
1938 – Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element
uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy. ·
1939 – World War II: Battle of the
River Plate: The Admiral
Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo. ·
1941 – World War
II: Japanese forces land
in Northern Borneo. ·
1943 – All Chinese are
again permitted to become citizens of the United States upon the repeal of
the Act of 1882 and
the introduction of the Magnuson Act. ·
1944 – World War
II: Battle of the Bulge: Malmedy massacre: American 285th
Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper. ·
1946 – Kurdistan flag day, the flag of
Kurdistan was raised for the first time in Mahabad in eastern Kurdistan (Iran). ·
1947 – First flight of
the Boeing B-47
Stratojet strategic bomber. ·
1948 – The Finnish
Security Police is established to remove communist
leadership from its predecessor, the State Police. ·
1950 – The F-86 Sabre's
first mission over Korea. ·
1951 – The
American Civil Rights
Congress delivers "We Charge Genocide"
to the United Nations. ·
1957 – The United
States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral,
Florida. ·
1960 – Troops loyal to
Emperor Haile Selassie in Ethiopia crush the coup that
began December 13,
returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie
absolves his son of any guilt. ·
1960 – Munich C-131
crash: Twenty passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on
the ground are killed. ·
1961 – Niterói circus fire:
Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in
the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro,
Brazil, killing more than 500. ·
1967 – Harold Holt, Prime
Minister of Australia, disappears
while swimming near Portsea, Victoria,
and is presumed drowned. ·
1969 – Project Blue Book:
The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs. ·
1970 – Polish protests:
In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging
from trains, killing dozens. ·
1973 – Thirty
passengers are killed in an
attack by Palestinian
terrorists on Rome's Leonardo
da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport. ·
1981 – American
Brigadier General James L. Dozier is
abducted by the Red Brigades in Verona, Italy. ·
1983 – Provisional
IRA members detonate a car bomb at Harrods Department Store in London.
Three police officers and three civilians are killed. ·
1989 – Romanian Revolution:
Protests continue in Timișoara, Romania, with rioters breaking into
the Romanian Communist
Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on
fire. ·
1989 – Fernando Collor
de Mello defeats Luiz Inácio
Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian
presidential election, becoming the first democratically
elected President in
almost 30 years. ·
1989 – The Simpsons premieres on
television with the episode "Simpsons
Roasting on an Open Fire".[2] ·
2002 – Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of
the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision
for transitional governance and legislative
and presidential elections within two years. ·
2003 – The Soham murder trial ends at the Old
Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His
girlfriend, Maxine Carr, is found guilty of perverting the course of justice. ·
2003 – SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered
and first supersonic flight.[3] ·
2005 – Anti-World Trade
Organization protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. ·
2005 – Jigme Singye
Wangchuck abdicates the throne as King of Bhutan. ·
2009 – MV Danny F II sinks off the
coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44
people and over 28,000 animals. ·
2010 – Mohamed Bouazizi sets himself on fire. This act became the
catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution and
the wider Arab Spring. ·
2014 – The United
States and Cuba re-establish diplomatic
relations after severing them in 1961. Births[edit]
·
1239 – Kujō Yoritsugu,
Japanese shōgun (d. 1256) ·
1267 – Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324) ·
1554 – Ernest of Bavaria,
Roman Catholic bishop (d. 1612) ·
1556 – Abdul Rahim
Khan-I-Khana, Pakistani-Indian poet (d. 1627) ·
1616 – Roger L'Estrange,
English pamphleteer and author (d. 1704) ·
1619 – Prince Rupert
of the Rhine (d. 1682) ·
1632 – Anthony Wood,
English historian and author (d. 1695) ·
1685 – Thomas Tickell, English poet (d. 1740) ·
1699 – Charles-Louis Mion,
French composer and educator (d. 1775) ·
1706 – Émilie du Châtelet,
French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)[4] ·
1734 – Maria I of Portugal (d.
1816) ·
1749 – Domenico Cimarosa,
Italian composer and educator (d. 1801) ·
1778 – Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist
(d. 1829) ·
1796 – Thomas
Chandler Haliburton, Canadian judge and politician (d. 1865) ·
1797 – Joseph Henry, American physicist and
engineer (d. 1878) ·
1807 – John Greenleaf
Whittier, American poet and activist (d. 1892) ·
1812 – Vilhelm
Petersen, Danish painter (d. 1880) ·
1827 – Alexander
Wassilko von Serecki, Austrian lawyer and politician (d. 1893) ·
1830 – Jules de Goncourt,
French author and critic (d. 1870) ·
1835 – Alexander Emanuel
Agassiz, Swiss-American ichthyologist and engineer (d. 1910) ·
1840 – Nozu Michitsura, Japanese field marshal (d.
1908) ·
1842 – Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician and
academic (d. 1899) ·
1847 – Émile Faguet, French author and critic (d.
1916) ·
1853 – Pierre Paul Émile
Roux, French physician and immunologist, co-founded the Pasteur Institute (d.
1933) ·
1859 – Paul César Helleu,
French painter and illustrator (d. 1927) ·
1866 – Kazys Grinius, Lithuanian physician and
politician, 3rd President of
Lithuania (d. 1950) ·
1873 – Ford Madox Ford, English novelist, poet, and
critic (d. 1939) ·
1874 – William Lyon
Mackenzie King, Canadian economist and politician, 10th Prime Minister
of Canada (d. 1950) ·
1881 – Aubrey Faulkner, South African-English
cricketer and coach (d. 1930) ·
1884 – Alison Uttley, English children's book
writer (d. 1976) ·
1887 – Josef Lada, Czech painter and illustrator
(d. 1957) ·
1890 – Prince Joachim
of Prussia (d. 1920) ·
1892 – Sam Barry, American basketball player and
coach (d. 1950) ·
1893 – Charles C. Banks, English captain and pilot
(d. 1971) ·
1893 – Erwin Piscator, German director and producer
(d. 1966) ·
1894 – Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979) ·
1894 – Patrick Flynn,
Irish-American runner and soldier (d. 1969) ·
1894 – Wim Schermerhorn, Dutch cartographer,
engineer, and politician, Prime
Minister of the Netherlands (d. 1977) ·
1895 – Gerald Patterson, Australian tennis player
(d. 1967) ·
1898 – Loren Murchison, American sprinter (d. 1979) ·
1900 – Mary Cartwright, English mathematician and
academic, one of the first people to analyze a dynamical system with chaos
(d. 1998) ·
1900 – Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973) ·
1903 – Erskine Caldwell, American novelist and
short story writer (d. 1987) ·
1903 – Ray Noble, English bandleader, composer, and
actor (d. 1978) ·
1904 – Paul Cadmus, American painter and
illustrator (d. 1999) ·
1905 – Simo Häyhä, Finnish soldier and sniper (d.
2002) ·
1905 – Mohammad Hidayatullah,
11th Chief Justice of
India, and politician, 6th Vice
President of India (d. 1992) ·
1905 – Erico Verissimo, Brazilian author and
translator (d. 1975) ·
1906 – Fernando Lopes-Graça,
Portuguese composer and conductor (d. 1994) ·
1906 – Russell C. Newhouse,
American pilot and engineer (d. 1998) ·
1908 – Willard Libby, American chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1980) ·
1910 – Eknath Easwaran, Indian-American educator
and author (d. 1999) ·
1910 – Sy Oliver, American singer-songwriter and
trumpet player (d. 1988) ·
1912 – Edward
Short, Baron Glenamara, English captain and politician, Lord
President of the Council (d. 2012) ·
1913 – Burt Baskin, American businessman,
co-founded Baskin-Robbins (d.
1967) ·
1914 – Mushtaq Ali, Indian cricketer (d. 2005) ·
1914 – Fernando Alonso,
Cuban ballet dancer, co-founded the Cuban National
Ballet (d. 2013) ·
1916 – Penelope Fitzgerald,
English author and poet (d. 2000) ·
1917 – Kenneth Dike, Nigerian historian, author,
and academic (d. 1983) ·
1920 – Kenneth E. Iverson,
Canadian computer scientist, developed the APL
programming language (d. 2004) ·
1921 – Lore Berger, German-Swiss author and
translator (d. 1943) ·
1922 – Alan Voorhees, American engineer and
academic (d. 2005) ·
1923 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian and
scholar (d. 2006) ·
1926 – Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d.
1985) ·
1926 – John Hans Krebs, American lawyer and
politician (d. 2014) ·
1926 – Stephen Lewis,
English actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright (d. 2015) ·
1927 – Richard Long,
American actor and director (d. 1974) ·
1927 – Edward Meneeley, American painter and
sculptor (d. 2012) ·
1928 – Marilyn Beck, American journalist (d. 2014) ·
1928 – Eli Beeding, American captain and pilot (d.
2013) ·
1928 – Doyle Conner, American farmer and
politician, 7th Florida
Commissioner of Agriculture (d. 2012) ·
1929 – William Safire, American journalist and
author (d. 2009) ·
1930 – Bob Guccione, American photographer and
publisher, founded Penthouse (d.
2010) ·
1930 – Armin Mueller-Stahl,
German actor and painter ·
1930 – Dorothy Rowe, Australian psychologist and
author (d. 2019) ·
1931 – Gerald Finnerman, American director and
cinematographer (d. 2011) ·
1931 – Dave Madden, Canadian-American actor (d.
2014) ·
1931 – James McGaugh, American neurobiologist and
psychologist ·
1932 – John Bond,
English footballer and manager (d. 2012) ·
1934 – Irving Petlin, American painter and academic
(d. 2018) ·
1934 – Ray
Wilson, English footballer and manager (d. 2018) ·
1935 – Brian Langford, English cricketer (d. 2013) ·
1935 – Cal Ripken Sr., American baseball player,
coach, and manager (d. 1999) ·
1936 – Pope Francis ·
1936 – Tommy Steele, English singer, guitarist, and
actor ·
1937 – Brian Hayes,
Australian-English radio host ·
1937 – Art Neville, American singer and keyboard
player (d. 2019) ·
1937 – Kerry Packer, Australian businessman,
founded World Series Cricket (d.
2005) ·
1937 – John Kennedy Toole,
American novelist (d. 1969) ·
1937 – Calvin Waller, American general (d. 1996) ·
1938 – Peter Snell, New Zealand runner (d. 2019) ·
1939 – James Booker, American pianist (d. 1983) ·
1939 – Eddie Kendricks, American R&B
singer-songwriter (d. 1992) ·
1940 – Kåre Valebrokk,
Norwegian journalist (d. 2013) ·
1940 – María Elena Velasco,
Mexican actress, singer, director, and screenwriter (d. 2015) ·
1941 – Dave Dee, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2009) ·
1941 – Stan Mudenge, Zimbabwean historian and
politician, Zimbabwean
Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2012) ·
1942 – Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian general and
politician, 7th Head of
State of the Federal Republic of Nigeria ·
1942 – Paul Butterfield, American singer and
harmonica player (d. 1987) ·
1943 – Ron Geesin, Scottish pianist and composer ·
1944 – Jack L. Chalker, American author and
educator (d. 2005) ·
1944 – Carlo M. Croce, Italian-American oncologist
and academic ·
1944 – Bernard Hill, English actor ·
1945 – Ernie Hudson, American actor ·
1945 – David Mallet,
British director ·
1945 – Chris Matthews, American journalist and
author ·
1945 – Jüri Talvet, Estonian poet and critic ·
1945 – Jacqueline Wilson,
English author and academic[5] ·
1946 – Simon Bates, English radio host ·
1946 – Eugene Levy, Canadian actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1947 – Wes Studi, American actor and producer ·
1948 – Valery Belousov, Russian ice hockey player
and coach (d. 2015) ·
1948 – Jim Bonfanti, American rock drummer ·
1948 – Kemal
Kılıçdaroğlu, Turkish economist and politician ·
1949 – Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer ·
1949 – Paul Rodgers, English singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1950 – Laurence F. Johnson,
American educator and author ·
1950 – Maurice Peoples, American sprinter and coach ·
1951 – Pat Hill, American football player and coach ·
1951 – Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach ·
1951 – Tatyana Kazankina,
Russian runner ·
1953 – Bill Pullman, American actor ·
1954 – Sergėjus
Jovaiša, Lithuanian basketball player ·
1955 – Brad Davis,
American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster ·
1956 – Peter Farrelly, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1956 – Dominic Lawson, English journalist and
author ·
1956 – Totka Petrova, Bulgarian runner ·
1957 – Wendy Hoyte, English sprinter ·
1957 – Bob Ojeda, American baseball player and
coach ·
1958 – Mike Mills, American bass player,
songwriter, and producer ·
1959 – Bob Stinson, American songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1995) ·
1961 – Mansoor al-Jamri, Bahraini journalist and
author ·
1962 – Paul Dobson,
English footballer ·
1962 – Galina Malchugina,
Russian sprinter ·
1962 – Rocco Mediate, American golfer and
journalist ·
1964 – Frank Musil, Czech ice hockey player and
coach ·
1964 – Joe Wolf, American basketball player and
coach ·
1965 – Craig Berube, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1966 – Tracy Byrd, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1966 – Kristiina Ojuland,
Estonian politician, 23rd Estonian
Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1967 – Vincent Damphousse,
Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster ·
1967 – Karsten Neitzel, German footballer and
manager ·
1968 – Claudio Suárez,
Mexican footballer ·
1968 – Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver and
sportscaster ·
1969 – Laurie Holden, American actress and model ·
1969 – Inna Lasovskaya, Russian triple jumper ·
1969 – Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial artist
and kick-boxer ·
1969 – Mick Quinn, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist and producer ·
1971 – Alan Khan, South African radio and TV
presenter ·
1971 – Antoine Rigaudeau,
French basketball player ·
1972 – Iván Pedroso, Cuban long jumper and coach ·
1973 – Eddie Fisher,
American drummer[6] ·
1973 – Konstadinos
Gatsioudis, Greek javelin thrower ·
1973 – Rian Johnson, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1973 – Paula Radcliffe, English runner ·
1973 – Hasan Vural, German-Turkish footballer ·
1974 – Charl Langeveldt, South African cricketer ·
1974 – Sarah Paulson, American actress ·
1974 – Giovanni Ribisi, American actor ·
1975 – Nick Dinsmore, American wrestler and trainer ·
1975 – Susanthika
Jayasinghe, Sri Lankan sprinter ·
1975 – Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-American actress ·
1976 – Éric Bédard, Canadian speed skater and coach ·
1976 – Nir Davidovich, Israeli footballer and
manager ·
1976 – Patrick Müller,
Swiss footballer ·
1976 – Andrew Simpson,
English sailor (d. 2013) ·
1976 – Takeo Spikes, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1977 – Arnaud Clément,
French tennis player ·
1977 – Samuel Påhlsson,
Swedish ice hockey player ·
1977 – Katheryn Winnick, Canadian actress ·
1977 – Maria Brink, American singer and songwriter ·
1978 – Alex Cintrón, Puerto Rican-American baseball
player and sportscaster ·
1978 – Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and
politician ·
1978 – Neil Sanderson, Canadian drummer and
songwriter ·
1978 – Chase Utley, American baseball player ·
1978 – Riteish Deshmukh, Indian film actor,
producer and architect ·
1979 – Matt Murley, American ice hockey player ·
1979 – Paul
Smith, English footballer ·
1980 – Ryan Hunter-Reay, American race car driver ·
1980 – Alexandra
Papageorgiou, Greek hammer thrower ·
1980 – Eli Pariser, American activist and author ·
1981 – Jerry Hsu, American skateboarder and
photographer ·
1981 – Tim Wiese, German footballer ·
1982 – Josh Barfield, American baseball player ·
1982 – Lorenzo Cittadini,
Italian rugby player ·
1982 – Craig Kielburger, Canadian activist and
author ·
1982 – Stéphane Lasme,
Gabonese basketball player ·
1982 – Ryan Moats, American football player ·
1982 – Onur Özsu, Turkish singer-songwriter ·
1983 – Erik Christensen, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1983 – Haron Keitany, Kenyan runner ·
1983 – Sébastien Ogier,
French race car driver ·
1984 – Luis Maria Alfageme,
Argentinian footballer ·
1984 – Julian
Bennett, English footballer ·
1984 – Andrew Davies,
English footballer ·
1984 – Mikky Ekko, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1984 – Shannon Woodward, American actress ·
1985 – Łukasz Broź, Polish footballer ·
1985 – Craig
Reid, English footballer ·
1985 – Greg James, English radio presenter and
comedian ·
1986 – Emma Bell, American actress ·
1986 – Frank Winterstein,
Australian-Samoan rugby league player ·
1987 – Maryna Arzamasova,
Belorussian middle-distance runner[7] ·
1987 – Bo Guagua, Chinese businessman ·
1987 – Chelsea Manning, American soldier and
intelligence analyst ·
1988 – Liisa Ehrberg, Estonian cyclist ·
1988 – Grethe Grünberg,
Estonian ice dancer ·
1988 – Kris Joseph, Canadian basketball player ·
1988 – David Rudisha, Kenyan runner ·
1988 – Craig Sutherland, Scottish footballer ·
1991 – James
Hurst, American football player ·
1991 – Jordan Rankin, Australian rugby league
player ·
1991 – Atsedu Tsegay, Ethiopian runner ·
1992 – Joshua Ingram, Canadian drummer and
percussionist ·
1992 – Quinton de Kock, South African cricketer ·
1993 – Patricia Kú Flores,
Peruvian tennis player ·
1994 – Lloyd Perrett, New Zealand rugby league
player ·
1994 – Nat Wolff, American singer-songwriter,
keyboard player and actor ·
1996 – Elizaveta
Tuktamysheva, Russian figure skater ·
1997 – Naiktha Bains, British-Australian tennis
player ·
1997 – Shoma Uno, Japanese figure skater ·
1998 – Jasmine Armfield, English actress ·
1998 – Martin Ødegaard,
Norwegian footballer Deaths[edit]
·
908 – al-Abbas
ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i, Abbasid vizier ·
908 – Abdallah ibn
al-Mu'tazz, Abbasid prince and poet, anti-caliph for one day ·
942 – William I,
duke of Normandy ·
1187 – Pope Gregory VIII (b.
1100) ·
1195 – Baldwin V,
Count of Hainaut (b. 1150) ·
1273 – Rumi,
Persian jurist, theologian, and poet (b. 1207) ·
1419 – William Gascoigne,
Chief Justice of England ·
1471 – Infanta
Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1397) ·
1559 – Irene di Spilimbergo,
Italian Renaissance poet and painter (b. 1538)[8] ·
1562 – Eleonora di Toledo,
Grand Duchess of Tuscany (b. 1522) ·
1663 – Nzinga of
Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583) ·
1721 – Richard
Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English soldier and
politician, Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1640) ·
1830 – Simón Bolívar,
Venezuelan general and politician, 2nd President of
Venezuela (b. 1783) ·
1833 – Kaspar Hauser, German feral child (b. 1812) ·
1847 – Marie
Louise, Duchess of Parma (b. 1791) ·
1857 – Francis Beaufort, Irish hydrographer and
officer in the Royal Navy (b. 1774) ·
1904 – William Shiels, Irish-Australian politician,
16th Premier of Victoria (b.
1848) ·
1907 – William
Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer
(b. 1824) ·
1909 – Leopold II of
Belgium (b. 1835) ·
1917 – Elizabeth
Garrett Anderson, English physician and activist (b. 1836) ·
1927 – Rajendra Lahiri, Indian activist (b. 1892) ·
1928 – Frank Rinehart, American photographer (b.
1861) ·
1929 – Manuel
de Oliveira Gomes da Costa, Portuguese general and politician,
10th President of
Portugal (b. 1863) ·
1930 – Peter Warlock, Welsh composer and critic (b.
1894) ·
1932 – Charles Winckler, Danish discus thrower,
shot putter, and tug of war competitor
(b. 1867) ·
1933 – 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876) ·
1935 – Lizette Woodworth
Reese, American poet (b. 1856)[9] ·
1940 – Alicia Boole Stott,
Anglo-Irish mathematician and academic (b. 1860) ·
1942 – Allen
Bathurst, Lord Apsley, English lieutenant and politician (b. 1895) ·
1947 – Christos Tsigiridis,
Greek engineer (b. 1877) ·
1956 – Eddie Acuff, American actor (b. 1903) ·
1957 – Dorothy L. Sayers,
English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893) ·
1962 – Thomas Mitchell,
American actor (b. 1892) ·
1964 – Victor Francis Hess,
Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1883) ·
1967 – Harold Holt, Australian lawyer and
politician, 17th Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1908) ·
1970 – Oliver Waterman
Larkin, American historian, author, and educator (b. 1896) ·
1978 – Don Ellis, American trumpet player,
composer, and bandleader (b. 1934) ·
1981 – Antiochos
Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (b. 1903) ·
1982 – Homer S. Ferguson,
American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1889) ·
1986 – Guillermo Cano Isaza,
Colombian journalist (b. 1925) ·
1987 – Linda
Wong, American porn actress (b. 1951) ·
1987 – Marguerite Yourcenar,
Belgian-American author and poet (b. 1903) ·
1992 – Günther Anders,
German journalist and philosopher (b. 1902) ·
1992 – Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909) ·
1999 – Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter and
actor (b. 1920) ·
1999 – Grover Washington
Jr., American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1943) ·
1999 – C. Vann Woodward, American historian and
academic (b. 1908) ·
2002 – K. W. Devanayagam,
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 10th Sri
Lankan Minister of Justice (b. 1910) ·
2003 – Otto Graham, American football player and
coach (b. 1921) ·
2004 – Tom Wesselmann, American painter and
sculptor (b. 1931) ·
2005 – Jack Anderson,
American journalist and author (b. 1922) ·
2005 – Marc Favreau, Canadian actor and poet (b.
1929) ·
2005 – Haljand Udam, Estonian orientalist and
academic (d. 1936) ·
2006 – Larry Sherry, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1935) ·
2008 – Sammy Baugh, American football player and
coach (b. 1914) ·
2008 – Freddy Breck, German singer-songwriter,
producer, and journalist (b. 1942) ·
2008 – Dave
Smith, American baseball player and coach (b. 1955) ·
2009 – Chris Henry,
American football player (b. 1983) ·
2009 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (b. 1919) ·
2009 – Alaina Reed Hall, American actress (b. 1946) ·
2010 – Captain Beefheart,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1941) ·
2010 – Walt Dropo, American basketball and baseball
player (b. 1923) ·
2010 – Ralph Coates, English footballer (b. 1946) ·
2011 – Eva Ekvall, Venezuelan journalist and
author, Miss Venezuela 2000 (b.
1983) ·
2011 – Kim Jong-il, North Korean commander and
politician, 2nd Supreme
Leader of North Korea (b. 1941) ·
2012 – Richard Adams,
Filipino-American activist (b. 1947) ·
2012 – James Gower, American priest and activist,
co-founded the College of the
Atlantic (b. 1922) ·
2012 – Daniel Inouye, American captain and
politician (b. 1924) ·
2012 – Laurier LaPierre, Canadian historian,
journalist, and politician (b. 1929) ·
2012 – Frank Pastore, American baseball player and
radio host (b. 1957) ·
2013 – Fred Bruemmer, Latvian-Canadian photographer
(b. 1929) ·
2013 – Ricardo María
Carles Gordó, Spanish cardinal (b. 1926) ·
2013 – Richard Heffner, American historian and
television host (b. 1925) ·
2013 – Tetsurō
Kashibuchi, Japanese drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1950) ·
2013 – Janet Rowley, American geneticist and
biologist (b. 1925) ·
2013 – Conny van Rietschoten,
Dutch sailor (b. 1926) ·
2014 – Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and
engineer (b. 1913) ·
2014 – Richard C. Hottelet,
American journalist (b. 1917) ·
2014 – Oleh Lysheha, Ukrainian poet and playwright
(b. 1949) ·
2014 – Lowell Steward, American captain (b. 1919) ·
2014 – Ivan Vekić, Croatian colonel, lawyer,
and politician, Croatian
Minister of the Interior (b. 1938) ·
2015 – Hal Brown, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1924) ·
2015 – Osamu Hayaishi, American-Japanese biochemist
and academic (b. 1920) ·
2015 – Michael Wyschogrod,
German-American philosopher and theologian (b. 1928) ·
2016 – Benjamin A. Gilman,
American soldier and politician (b. 1922) ·
2016 – Henry Heimlich, American doctor (b. 1920) ·
2016 – Gordon Hunt,
American voice director (b. 1929) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Daniel the
Prophet o Lazarus of Bethany (local
commemoration in Cuba) o Wivina o Sturm o December
17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Kurdistan flag day ·
International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers ·
Kurdish flag day (Global Kurdish population) ·
Pan American
Aviation Day (United States) ·
Wright Brothers Day,
a United
States federal observance by Presidential
proclamation References[edit]
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