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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 18 is the 352nd day of the
year (353rd in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
13 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
218 BC Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia: Hannibal's Carthaginian forces defeat those of
the Roman Republic. ·
1271 Kublai Khan renames his empire
"Yuan" (元 yuαn),
officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China. ·
1499 A
rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced
conversions of Muslims in Spain. ·
1622 Portuguese forces
score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola. ·
1655 The Whitehall Conference ends
with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering
England after the Edict of Expulsion of
1290. ·
1777 The United
States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by
the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in
October. ·
1787 New Jersey becomes the third state to
ratify the U.S.
Constitution. ·
1793 Surrender of
the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord
Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine,
she later becomes a famous treasure wreck. ·
1833 The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the Tsar!",
is first performed. ·
1854 The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada abolishes
the seigneurial
system.[1] ·
1865 US Secretary of
State William Seward proclaims
the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout
the USA. ·
1878 The Al-Thani family become the rulers of
the state of Qatar. ·
1892 Premiere
performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich
Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia. ·
1898 Gaston de
Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of
39.245 mph (63.159 km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car. ·
1900 The Upper
Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2 ft
6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy
Railway) in Victoria,
Australia is opened for traffic. ·
1916 World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German
forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are
defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties. ·
1917 The resolution
containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is
passed by the United States
Congress. ·
1932 The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in
the first NFL playoff
game to win the NFL Championship. ·
1935 The Lanka Sama Samaja
Party is founded in Ceylon. ·
1939 World War II: The Battle
of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war,
takes place. ·
1944 World War II:
Seventy-seven B-29
Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base. ·
1958 Project SCORE,
the world's first communications
satellite, is launched. ·
1966 Saturn's moon Epimetheus is
discovered by astronomer Richard Walker. ·
1972 Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United
States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker
II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks
collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th. ·
1973 Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union. ·
1977 United
Airlines Flight 2860 crashes near Kaysville, Utah, killing all three crew
members on board.[2] ·
1981 First flight of
the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and
largest variable-sweep wing aircraft
built. ·
1999 NASA launches
into orbit the Terra platform
carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT. ·
2002 California
gubernatorial recall: Then Governor of
California Gray Davis announces
that the state would face
a record budget deficit of $35
billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign
one month earlier. ·
2005 The Chadian Civil
War begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by
neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adrι. ·
2006 The first of
a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is
at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced. ·
2006 United Arab Emirates holds
its first-ever elections. ·
2015 Kellingley Colliery,
the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes. ·
2017 Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501,
derailed near DuPont, Washington,
a city in United States near Olympia, Washington killing
six people, and injuring 70 others. ·
2018 List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the
Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that
destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. ·
2019 The United
States President Donald Trump is impeached by
the United
States House of Representatives, becoming the third president of
the United States to be impeached.[3] Births[edit]
·
1406 Richard
Olivier de Longueil, French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (d.
1470) ·
1499 Sebald Heyden, German musicologist and
theologian (d. 1561)[4] ·
1481 Sophie
of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Saxony (d.
1503) ·
1505 Philipp von Hutten,
German explorer (d. 1546) ·
1507 Ōuchi Yoshitaka,
Japanese daimyō (d. 1551) ·
1552 Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi,
Moroccan writer, judge and mathematician (d. 1616) ·
1590 William
Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrόcken (d. 1640) ·
1602 Simonds d'Ewes, English historian and
politician (d. 1650) ·
1610 Charles
du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (d.
1688) ·
1620 Heinrich Roth, German missionary and scholar
(d. 1668) ·
1626 Christina,
Queen of Sweden (d. 1689) ·
1660 Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d.
1715) ·
1661 Christopher Polhem,
Swedish physicist and inventor (d. 1751) ·
1662 James
Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish colonel and
politician, Secretary
of State for Scotland (d. 1711) ·
1707 Charles Wesley, English missionary and composer
(d. 1788) ·
1725 Johann Salomo Semler,
German historian and theologian (d. 1791) ·
1734 Jean-Baptiste Rey,
French conductor and composer (d. 1810) ·
1800 James Watney, English brewer and businessman
(d. 1884) ·
1824 John
Hall, English-New Zealand politician, 12th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1907) ·
1825 Charles Griffin, American general (d. 1876) ·
1825 John S. Harris, American surveyor and
politician (d. 1906) ·
1835 Lyman Abbott, American minister, theologian,
and author (d. 1922) ·
1847 Augusta Holmθs,
French pianist and composer (d. 1903) ·
1849 Henrietta Edwards,
Canadian activist and author (d. 1931) ·
1851 Graciano Lσpez Jaena,
Filipino journalist (d. 1896) ·
1856 J. J. Thomson, English physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1940) ·
1860 Edward MacDowell, American pianist and
composer (d. 1908) ·
1861 Lionel Monckton, English composer and critic
(d. 1924) ·
1863 Archduke
Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1914) ·
1867 Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player and
horse breeder (d. 1941) ·
1869 Edward Willis
Redfield, American painter and educator (d. 1965) ·
1870 Saki,
British short story writer (d. 1916) ·
1873 Francis Burton
Harrison, American general and politician, 6th Governor-General
of the Philippines (d. 1957) ·
1875 Matt McGrath, Irish-American hammer thrower
(d. 1941) ·
1878 Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and
politician, 4th Premier of
the Soviet Union (d. 1953) ·
1879 Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter and educator
(d. 1940) ·
1882 Richard Maury, American-Argentinian
engineer, designed the SaltaAntofagasta
railway (d. 1950) ·
1884 Emil Starkenstein,
Czech pharmacologist, co-founded clinical
pharmacology (d. 1942) ·
1886 Ty Cobb, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1961) ·
1887 Bhikhari Thakur, Indian actor, singer, and
playwright (d. 1971) ·
1888 Gladys Cooper, English actress and singer
(d. 1971) ·
1888 Robert Moses, American urban planner (d.
1981) ·
1890 Edwin Howard
Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (d. 1954) ·
1896 Gerald
Barry, English colonel and cricketer (d. 1977) ·
1897 Fletcher Henderson,
American pianist and composer (d. 1952) ·
1899 Peter Wessel Zapffe,
Norwegian philosopher and author (d. 1990) ·
1904 George Stevens, American director, producer,
screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1975) ·
1907 Bill Holland, American race car driver (d.
1984) ·
1907 Lawrence Lucie, American guitarist and
educator (d. 2009) ·
1908 Celia Johnson, English actress (d. 1982) ·
1908 Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer
(d. 1969) ·
1910 Abe Burrows, American author, playwright,
and director (d. 1985) ·
1910 Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player,
cricketer, and umpire (d. 2010) ·
1911 Jules Dassin, American-Greek actor,
director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008) ·
1912 Benjamin O. Davis,
Jr., American general and pilot (d. 2002) ·
1913 Alfred Bester, American author and
screenwriter (d. 1987) ·
1913 Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1992) ·
1913 Ray Meyer, American basketball player and
coach (d. 2006) ·
1916 Douglas Fraser, Scottish-American trade
union leader and academic (d. 2008) ·
1916 Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and
dancer (d. 1973) ·
1917 Ossie Davis, American actor and activist (d.
2005) ·
1920 Robert Leckie,
American soldier and author (d. 2001) ·
1922 Jack
Brooks, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012) ·
1922 Esther Lederberg, American microbiologist
(d. 2006) ·
1923 Edwin Bramall,
Baron Bramall, English field marshal and politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Greater London (d. 2019) ·
1927 Ramsey Clark, American lawyer and
politician, 66th United
States Attorney General ·
1927 Romιo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and
politician, 25th Governor
General of Canada (d. 2009) ·
1928 Mirza Tahir Ahmad,
Indian-English caliph and author (d. 2003) ·
1928 Harold Land, American tenor saxophonist (d.
2001) ·
1929 Gino Cimoli, American baseball player (d.
2011) ·
1929 Jσzef Glemp, Polish cardinal (d. 2013) ·
1930 Moose Skowron, American baseball player (d.
2012) ·
1931 Allen Klein, American businessman and music
publisher (d. 2009) ·
1931 Alison Plowden, English historian and author
(d. 2007) ·
1931 Bill
Thompson, American television host (d. 2014) ·
1932 Norm Provan, Australian rugby league player,
coach, and businessman ·
1932 Roger Smith,
American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017) ·
1933 Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and
guitarist (d. 2017) ·
1934 Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman,
founded Glencore (d. 2013) ·
1934 Boris Volynov, Russian colonel, engineer,
and astronaut ·
1935 Rosemary Leach, English actress (d. 2017) ·
1935 Jacques Pιpin, French-American chef and
author ·
1936 Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and
wrestler (d. 1987) ·
1937 Nancy Ryles, American politician (d. 1990) ·
1938 Chas Chandler, English bass player and
producer (d. 1996) ·
1938 Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter and
composer (d. 2005) ·
1939 Michael Moorcock, English author and
songwriter ·
1939 Harold E. Varmus, American biologist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
1940 Ilario Castagner, Italian football manager ·
1940 John Cooper,
English sprinter and hurdler (d. 1974) ·
1941 Sam Andrew, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2015) ·
1941 Wadada Leo Smith, American trumpet player
and composer ·
1941 Joan Wallach Scott,
American historian, author, and academic ·
1942 Lenore Blum, American mathematician and
academic ·
1942 Bobby Keyes,
Australian rugby league player ·
1943 Bobby Keys, American saxophone player (d.
2014) ·
1943 Keith Richards, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist and producer ·
1943 Alan Rudolph, American director and
screenwriter ·
1944 Crispian
Steele-Perkins, English trumpet player and educator ·
1945 Jean Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach ·
1946 Steve Biko, South African activist, founded
the Black
Consciousness Movement (d. 1977) ·
1946 Steven Spielberg, American director,
producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks ·
1947 Leonid Yuzefovich,
Russian author and screenwriter ·
1948 Bill Nelson,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1948 Mimmo Paladino, Italian sculptor and painter ·
1948 Laurent Voulzy, French-English
singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1949 David A. Johnston,
American volcanologist and geologist (d. 1980) ·
1950 Gillian Armstrong,
Australian director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1950 Randy Castillo, American drummer and
songwriter (d. 2002) ·
1950 Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lankan general and politician ·
1950 Lizmark, Mexican wrestler (d. 2015) ·
1950 Leonard Maltin, American historian, author,
and critic ·
1951 Bobby
Jones, American basketball player[5] ·
1952 John Leventhal, American songwriter and
producer ·
1953 Elliot Easton, American guitarist and singer ·
1954 John Booth,
English race car driver ·
1954 Ray Liotta, American actor ·
1954 Willi Wόlbeck, German runner ·
1955 Vijay Mallya, Indian businessman and
politician ·
1955 Bogusław
Mamiński, Polish runner ·
1957 Jonathan Cainer, English astrologer and
author (d. 2016) ·
1958 Geordie Walker, English guitarist ·
1958 Julia Wolfe, American composer and educator ·
1960 Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist and
academic ·
1960 Naoko Yamano, Japanese singer, guitarist and
composer ·
1961 Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater and
coach ·
1961 Leila Steinberg, American singer, producer,
author, and poet ·
1961 Daniel S. Loeb, American businessman and
philanthropist, founded Third Point
Management ·
1961 Lalchand Rajput, former Indian cricketer ·
1963 Greg D'Angelo, American drummer ·
1963 Karl Dorrell, American football player and
coach ·
1963 Pierre Nkurunziza,
Burundian soldier and politician, President of Burundi ·
1963 Charles Oakley, American basketball player
and coach ·
1963 Brad Pitt, American actor and producer ·
1964 Stone Cold Steve
Austin, American wrestler and producer ·
1964 Don Beebe, American football player and
coach ·
1965 Shawn Christian, American actor, director,
and screenwriter ·
1965 Manuel Peρa
Escontrela, Spanish footballer (d. 2012) ·
1966 Gianluca Pagliuca,
Italian footballer and sportscaster ·
1967 Toine van
Peperstraten, Dutch journalist ·
1967 Mille Petrozza, German singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1968 Mario Basler, German footballer and manager ·
1968 Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress ·
1968 Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1968 Casper Van Dien, American actor and producer ·
1969 Santiago Caρizares,
Spanish footballer ·
1969 Justin Edinburgh, English footballer and
manager (d. 2019) ·
1969 Akira Iida, Japanese race car driver ·
1970 DMX, American rapper and actor ·
1970 Lucious Harris, American basketball player ·
1970 Giannis Ploutarhos,
Greek singer-songwriter ·
1970 Rob Van Dam, American wrestler ·
1970 Jonathan Yeo, English painter ·
1970 Norman Brown,
American singer and guitarist ·
1971 Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist ·
1971 Noriko Matsueda, Japanese pianist and
composer ·
1971 Arantxa Sαnchez
Vicario, Spanish tennis player and sportscaster ·
1972 Anzhela Balakhonova,
Ukrainian pole vaulter ·
1972 Raymond Herrera, American drummer and
songwriter ·
1973 Fatuma Roba, Ethiopian runner ·
1974 Peter Boulware, American football player and
politician ·
1974 Knut Schreiner, Norwegian singer, guitarist,
and producer ·
1975 Sia Furler, Australian singer-songwriter ·
1975 Randy Houser, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1975 Trish Stratus, Canadian wrestler and actress ·
1977 Josι Acevedo,
Dominican baseball player ·
1977 Claudia Gesell, German runner ·
1978 Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1978 Ali Curtis, American soccer player ·
1978 Josh Dallas, American actor ·
1978 Katie Holmes, American actress[6] ·
1980 Christina Aguilera,
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress[7] ·
1980 Neil Fingleton, English actor and basketball
player, one of the tallest 25 men in the world (d. 2017) ·
1980 Heinz Inniger, Swiss snowboarder ·
1980 Benjamin Watson, American football player ·
1983 Andy Fantuz, Canadian football player ·
1984 Brian Boyle, American ice hockey player ·
1984 Paul
Harrison, English footballer ·
1984 Giuliano Razzoli, Italian skier ·
1984 Derrick Tribbett, American bass player and
singer ·
1986 Franηois Hamelin,
Canadian speed skater ·
1986 Usman Khawaja, Pakistani-Australian
cricketer ·
1986 Bill Stull, American football player ·
1987 Ayaka, Japanese singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1987 Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater ·
1987 Yuki Furukawa, Japanese actor ·
1988 Lizzie Deignan, English cyclist ·
1988 Seth Doege, American football player ·
1988 Brianne
Theisen-Eaton, Canadian heptathlete ·
1988 Imad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer ·
1990 Sierra Kay, American singer-songwriter ·
1991 Marcus Butler, English internet celebrity ·
1992 Bridgit Mendler, American singer, songwriter
and actress[8] ·
1992 Ryan Crouser, American shot putter ·
1993 Byron Buxton, American baseball player ·
1993 Ana Porgras, Romanian former artistic
gymnast ·
1993 Thomas Lam, Finnish professional football
defender ·
1994 Natαlia Kelly, American-Austrian singer ·
1994 Gerard Gumbau, Spanish professional
footballer ·
2001 Billie Eilish, American singer[9] Deaths[edit]
·
919 Lady Wu,
wife of Qian Liu (b. 858) ·
933 Yaonian
Yanmujin, Chinese empress dowager ·
1075 Edith of Wessex (b. 1025) ·
1111 Al-Ghazali, Persian jurist, philosopher,
theologian, and mystic (b. 1058) ·
1133 Hildebert, French poet and scholar (b. 1055) ·
1290 Magnus III,
king of Sweden (b. 1240) ·
1442 Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b.
1371) ·
1495 Alfonso II of Naples (b.
1448) ·
1577 Anna of Saxony, Princess consort of Orange
(b. 1544) ·
1645 Nur Jahan, empress consort of the Mughal
Empire (b. 1577)[10] ·
1651 William
Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath, English lawyer and politician (b.
1580) ·
1692 Veit Ludwig
von Seckendorff, German scholar and politician (b. 1626) ·
1737 Antonio Stradivari,
Italian instrument maker (b. 1644) ·
1787 Soame Jenyns, English poet and politician
(b. 1704) ·
1799 Jean-Ιtienne
Montucla, French mathematician and historian (b. 1725) ·
1803 Johann Gottfried
Herder, German philosopher, theologian, and poet (b. 1744) ·
1829 Jean-Baptiste
Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (b. 1744) ·
1843 Thomas
Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, Scottish-English general and
politician (b. 1748) ·
1848 Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian priest and
mathematician (b. 1781) ·
1864 Josι Justo Corro,
Mexican politician and president, (1836-1837) (b. 1794)[11] ·
1869 Louis Moreau
Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829) ·
1880 Michel Chasles, French mathematician and
academic (b. 1793) ·
1892 Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist,
and paleontologist (b. 1804) ·
1919 John Alcock,
English captain and pilot (b. 1892) ·
1922 Sir Carl
Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b.
1851) ·
1925 Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and
academic (b. 1850)[12] ·
1932 Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and
politician (b. 1850) ·
1936 Andrija
Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (b.
1857) ·
1939 Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (b.
1873) ·
1961 Leo Reisman, American violinist and
bandleader (b. 1897) ·
1969 Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and
coach (b. 1878) ·
1971 Bobby Jones,
American golfer and lawyer (b. 1902) ·
1971 Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926) ·
1973 Allamah Rasheed
Turabi, Indian-Pakistani religious leader and philosopher (b.
1908) ·
1974 Harry Hooper, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (b. 1887) ·
1975 Theodosius
Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist and biologist (b. 1900) ·
1977 Michio Nishizawa, Japanese baseball player
and manager (b. 1921) ·
1977 Louis Untermeyer American poet,
anthologist, critic (b. 1885) ·
1980 Dobria Cesarić,
Croatian poet and translator (b. 1902) ·
1980 Alexei Kosygin, Russian soldier and
politician, 8th Premier of
the Soviet Union (b. 1904) ·
1982 Hans-Ulrich Rudel,
German colonel and pilot (b. 1916) ·
1985 Xuβn Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author
(b. 1916) ·
1987 Conny Plank, German keyboard player and
producer (b. 1940) ·
1988 Niyazi Berkes, Turkish Cypriot-English
sociologist and academic (b. 1908) ·
1990 Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903) ·
1990 Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer
(b. 1914) ·
1990 Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American
psychologist and academic (b. 1900) ·
1991 George Abecassis, English race car driver
(b. 1913) ·
1992 Mark Goodson, American game show producer,
created Family Feud and The
Price Is Right (b. 1915) ·
1993 Helm Glφckler, German race car driver (b.
1909) ·
1993 Sam Wanamaker, American-English actor,
director, and producer (b. 1919) ·
1994 Roger Apιry, Greek-French mathematician and
academic (b. 1916) ·
1994 Lilia Skala, Austrian-American actress (b.
1896) ·
1995 Brian Brockless, English organist, composer,
and conductor (b. 1926) ·
1995 Ross Thomas,
American author (b. 1926) ·
1995 Konrad Zuse, German engineer, designed
the Z3 computer (b.
1910) ·
1996 Yulii
Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904) ·
1996 Irving Caesar, American composer (b. 1895) ·
1997 Chris Farley, American comedian and actor
(b. 1964) ·
1998 Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and
astronaut (b. 1926) ·
1999 Robert Bresson, French director and
screenwriter (b. 1901) ·
2000 Stan Fox, American race car driver (b. 1952) ·
2000 Randolph
Apperson Hearst, American businessman (b. 1915) ·
2000 Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter
(b. 1959) ·
2001 Gilbert Bιcaud,
French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1927) ·
2001 Dimitris Dragatakis,
Greek violinist and composer (b. 1914) ·
2001 Marcel Mule, French saxophonist and educator
(b. 1901) ·
2002 Necip
Hablemitoğlu, Turkish historian and academic (b. 1954) ·
2002 Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 24th Governor
General of Canada (b. 1934) ·
2002 Wayne Owens, American lawyer and politician
(b. 1937) ·
2002 Lucy Grealy, Irish-American author (b. 1963) ·
2004 Anthony Sampson, English journalist and
author (b. 1926) ·
2005 Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban
planner (b. 1922) ·
2006 Joseph Barbera, American animator, director,
and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1911) ·
2006 Ruth Bernhard, German-American photographer
(b. 1905) ·
2006 Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author and
activist (b. 1923) ·
2007 Hans Billian, Polish-German actor, director,
and screenwriter (b. 1918) ·
2007 Gerald Le Dain, Canadian lawyer and judge
(b. 1924) ·
2007 William Strauss, American author and
playwright (b. 1947) ·
2007 Alan Wagner, American businessman and critic
(b. 1931) ·
2008 Majel Barrett, American actress and producer
(b. 1932) ·
2008 Mark Felt, American FBI agent
and informant (b. 1913) ·
2010 Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player
and manager (b. 1916) ·
2010 Jacqueline de
Romilly, French philologist, author, and scholar (b. 1913) ·
2010 Tommaso
Padoa-Schioppa, Italian economist and politician, Italian Minister of Economy and Finances (b.
1940) ·
2010 James Pickles, English judge and journalist
(b. 1925) ·
2011 Vαclav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, and
politician, 1st President
of the Czech Republic (b. 1936) ·
2012 Frank Macchiarola,
American lawyer and academic (b. 1941) ·
2012 Mustafa Ould Salek,
Mauritanian colonel and politician, President of
Mauritania (b. 1936) ·
2012 Jim Whalen, American football player (b.
1943) ·
2012 Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer,
coach, and manager (b. 1931) ·
2013 Ken Hutcherson, American football player (b.
1952) ·
2013 Graham Mackay,
South African-English businessman (b. 1949) ·
2014 Donald J. Albosta,
American soldier and politician (b. 1925) ·
2014 Gideon Ben-Yisrael,
Israeli soldier and politician (b. 1923) ·
2014 Larry Henley, American singer-songwriter (b.
1937) ·
2014 Virna Lisi, Italian actress (b. 1936) ·
2014 Mandy Rice-Davies,
English model and actress (b. 1944) ·
2014 Robert
Simpson, American meteorologist and author (b. 1912) ·
2015 Luc Brewaeys, Belgian pianist, composer, and
conductor (b. 1959) ·
2015 Helge Solum Larsen,
Norwegian businessman and politician (b. 1969) ·
2016 Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress
and socialite (b. 1917) ·
2017 Kim Jong-hyun,
South Korean singer (b. 1990) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Expectation
of the Blessed Virgin Mary o Flannαn o O Adonai o Sebastian (Eastern Orthodox
Church) o Winibald o December
18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
National Day (Qatar) ·
UN Arabic Language
Day (United Nations) |
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