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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 19 is the 353rd day of the
year (354th in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
12 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1154 Henry II of England is
crowned at Westminster Abbey.[1] ·
1187 Pope Clement III is elected.[2] ·
1490 Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married
to Maximilian
I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy. ·
1562 The Battle of Dreux takes place during
the French Wars of
Religion.[3] ·
1606 The ships Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery depart
England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia,
the first of the thirteen colonies that
became the United States. ·
1675 The Great Swamp Fight,
a pivotal battle in King Philip's War,
gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.[4] ·
1776 Thomas Paine publishes one of a series
of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania
Journal entitled "The American Crisis". ·
1777 American
Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter
quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. ·
1796 French
Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio
Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo
Stuart engage in
battle off the coast of Murcia.[5] ·
1828 Nullification crisis: Vice
President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South
Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828. ·
1900 Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General
of Australia John
Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state
of New South Wales,
but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his
government and is forced to resign.[6] ·
1907 Two hundred
thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek,
Pennsylvania. ·
1912 William Van
Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which
caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S.
President William Howard Taft after
3 1⁄2 years
in Sing Sing prison. ·
1920 King Constantine
I is restored as King of
the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and
a plebiscite. ·
1924 The last Rolls-Royce
Silver Ghost is sold in London, England. ·
1924 German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death
for a series of murders. ·
1927 Three Indian
revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan, are executed by the British Raj for participation in
the Kakori conspiracy. ·
1929 The Indian National
Congress promulgates the Purna Swaraj (the Declaration of the
Independence of India). ·
1932 BBC World Service begins
broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service. ·
1941 World War
II: Adolf Hitler appoints
himself as head of the Oberkommando des
Heeres. ·
1941 World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers heavily damage HMS Valiant and HMS Queen
Elizabeth in Alexandria
harbour. ·
1945 John Amery, British Fascist, is executed at the age of 33 by the
British Government for treason. ·
1946 Start of
the First Indochina War. ·
1956 Irish-born
physician John Bodkin Adams is
arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients.
Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges. ·
1961 India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India. ·
1967 Harold Holt, the Prime
Minister of Australia, is officially
presumed dead. ·
1972 Apollo program: The last manned lunar
flight, Apollo 17, crewed
by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans,
and Harrison Schmitt,
returns to Earth. ·
1974 Nelson Rockefeller is
sworn in as Vice
President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of
the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution. ·
1981 Sixteen lives
are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes
to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas. ·
1983 The
original FIFA World Cup trophy,
the Jules Rimet Trophy,
is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian
Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ·
1984 The Sino-British
Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of
sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to
China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher. ·
1986 Mikhail Gorbachev,
leader of the Soviet Union,
releases Andrei Sakharov and
his wife from exile in Gorky. ·
1995 The United
States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi
Huron Band of Potawatomi Native American tribe. ·
1997 SilkAir Flight 185 crashes
into the Musi River,
near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104. ·
1998 President Bill Clinton is impeached by
the United
States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of
the United States to be impeached. ·
2000 The Leninist
Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist
Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist
Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring
three. ·
2001 A record
high barometric pressure of
1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel,
Khφvsgφl, Mongolia. ·
2001 Argentine
economic crisis: December
riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina. ·
2012 Park Geun-hye is
elected the first female president of
South Korea. ·
2013
Spacecraft Gaia is
launched by European Space
Agency. ·
2016 Russian
ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov is assassinated while
at an art exhibition in Ankara. The assassin,
Mevlόt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard. ·
2016 A vehicular
attack in Berlin, Germany, kills and injures multiple people
at a Christmas market. Births[edit]
·
1343 William I,
Margrave of Meissen (d. 1407) ·
1498 Andreas Osiander, German Protestant
theologian (d. 1552) ·
1554 Philip
William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618) ·
1587 Dorothea
Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1645) ·
1683 Philip V of Spain (d.
1746) ·
1699 William Bowyer,
English printer (d. 1777) ·
1714 John Winthrop,
American astronomer and educator (d. 1779) ·
1778 Marie Thιrθse of
France (d. 1851) ·
1796 Manuel
Bretσn de los Herreros, Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (d.
1873) ·
1797 Antoine Louis Dugθs,
French obstetrician and naturalist (d. 1838) ·
1817 James J. Archer, American lawyer and general
(d. 1864) ·
1820 Mary Livermore, American journalist and
activist (d. 1905) ·
1825 George Frederick
Bristow, American violinist and composer (d. 1898) ·
1831 Bernice Pauahi
Bishop, American philanthropist (d. 1884) ·
1849 Henry Clay Frick, American businessman and
financier (d. 1919) ·
1852 Albert Abraham
Michelson, Prussian-American physicist, chemist, and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1931) ·
1853 Charles Fitzpatrick,
Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Lieutenant-Governor
of Quebec (d. 1942) ·
1861 Italo Svevo, Italian author and playwright
(d. 1928) ·
1863 Wallace Bryant,
American archer (d. 1953) ·
1865 Minnie Maddern Fiske,
American actress and playwright (d. 1932) ·
1873 Alphonse Kirchhoffer,
French fencer (d. 1913) ·
1875 Mileva Marić, Serbian physicist (d.
1948) ·
1875 Carter G. Woodson,
American historian and author, founded Black History Month (d.
1950) ·
1875 Grace Marie Bareis,
American mathematician (d. 1962) ·
1876 Bernard Friedberg,
Austrian-Israeli scholar and author (d. 1961) ·
1884 Antonνn Zαpotockύ,
Czech politician, President of
the Czechoslovak
Socialist Republic (d. 1957) ·
1888 Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor
(d. 1963) ·
1891 Edward
Bernard Raczyński, Polish politician and diplomat, 4th President-in-exile
of Poland (d. 1993) ·
1894 Ford Frick, American journalist and
businessman (d. 1978) ·
1895 Ingeborg Refling
Hagen, Norwegian author and educator (d. 1989) ·
1899 Martin Luther King
Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (d. 1984) ·
1901 Rudolf Hell, German engineer, invented
the Hellschreiber (d.
2002) ·
1901 Oliver La Farge, American anthropologist and
author (d. 1963) ·
1901 Fritz Mauruschat, German footballer and
manager (d. 1974) ·
1902 Ralph Richardson, English actor (d. 1983) ·
1903 George Davis Snell,
American geneticist and immunologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1996) ·
1905 Irving Kahn, American businessman (d. 2015) ·
1905 Giovanni Lurani, Italian race car driver,
engineer, and journalist (d. 1995) ·
1906 Leonid Brezhnev, Ukrainian-Russian marshal,
engineer, and politician, 4th Head
of State of the Soviet Union (d. 1982) ·
1907 Jimmy McLarnin, Irish-American boxer, actor,
and golfer (d. 2004) ·
1909 W. A. Criswell, American pastor and author
(d. 2002) ·
1910 Jean Genet, French novelist, playwright, and
poet (d. 1986) ·
1914 Mel Shaw, American animator and screenwriter
(d. 2012) ·
1915 Ιdith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and
actress (d. 1963) ·
1915 Claudia Testoni, Italian hurdler, sprinter,
and long jumper (d. 1998) ·
1916 Roy Ward Baker, English director and
producer (d. 2010) ·
1916 Elisabeth
Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist, journalist, and
academic (d. 2010) ·
1918 Professor Longhair,
American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1980) ·
1918 Lee Rich, American producer and production
manager (d. 2012) ·
1920 Little Jimmy Dickens,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015) ·
1920 David Susskind, American talk show host and
producer (d. 1987) ·
1922 Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and television
host (d. 1987) ·
1923 Robert V. Bruce, American historian and
author (d. 2008) ·
1923 Gordon Jackson,
Scottish-English actor and singer (d. 1990) ·
1924 Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (d. 1994) ·
1924 Doug Harvey,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1989) ·
1924 Gary Morton, American comedian and producer
(d. 1999) ·
1924 Edmund Purdom, British-Italian actor (d.
2009) ·
1924 Michel Tournier, French journalist and
author (d. 2016) ·
1924 Cicely Tyson, American actress ·
1925 Tankred Dorst, German author and playwright
(d. 2017) ·
1925 William Schutz, American psychologist and
academic (d. 2002) ·
1925 Robert B. Sherman,
American songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2012) ·
1926 Bobby Layne, American football player and
coach (d. 1986) ·
1926 Fikret Otyam, Turkish painter and journalist
(d. 2015) ·
1927 James Booth, English actor and screenwriter
(d. 2005) ·
1928 Eve Bunting, Irish-American author and
academic ·
1928 Nathan Oliveira, American painter and
sculptor (d. 2010) ·
1929 Bob Brookmeyer, American trombonist,
pianist, and composer (d. 2011) ·
1929 David
Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry, Scottish potter ·
1929 Gregory
Carroll, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013) ·
1929 Howard Sackler, American playwright and
screenwriter (d. 1982) ·
1930 Wally Olins, English businessman and
academic (d. 2014) ·
1930 Knut Helle, Norwegian historian and
professor (d. 2015) ·
1931 Ginger Stanley, American model, actress and
stunt woman[7] ·
1932 Salvador Elizondo,
Mexican author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 2006) ·
1932 Lola Hendricks, African American civil
rights activist (d. 2013)[8] ·
1932 Wayne Tippit, American actor (d. 2009) ·
1933 Kevan Gosper, Australian runner and
politician ·
1933 Christopher Smout,
Scottish historian and academic ·
1934 Al Kaline, American baseball player and
sportscaster (d. 2020) ·
1934 Pratibha Patil, Indian lawyer and
politician, 12th President of India ·
1934 Casper R. Taylor,
Jr., American lawyer and politician ·
1935 Bobby Timmons, American pianist and composer
(d. 1974) ·
1935 Joanne Weaver, American baseball player (d.
2000) ·
1935 Tony Taylor,
Cuban baseball player (d. 2020)[9] ·
1940 Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 1976) ·
1941 Lee Myung-bak, South Korean businessman and
politician, 10th President of
South Korea ·
1941 Maurice White, American singer-songwriter
and producer (d. 2016) ·
1942 Cornell Dupree, American guitarist (d. 2011) ·
1942 "Mean Gene" Okerlund, American
sports announcer (d. 2019) ·
1943 Ross M. Lence, American political scientist
and academic (d. 2006) ·
1943 James L. Jones, American general and
politician, 22nd United
States National Security Advisor ·
1944 William
Christie, American-French harpsichord player and conductor ·
1944 Mitchell Feigenbaum,
American physicist and mathematician (d. 2019) ·
1944 Martin Hume Johnson,
English physiologist and academic ·
1944 Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist and
politician ·
1944 Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2013) ·
1944 Tim Reid, American actor and director ·
1944 Steve Tyrell, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1944 Zal Yanovsky, Canadian singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2002) ·
1945 Elaine Joyce, American actress, singer, and
dancer ·
1945 John McEuen, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1946 Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman,
author, and broadcaster ·
1946 Robert Urich, American actor and producer
(d. 2002) ·
1947 Jimmy Bain, Scottish bass player and
songwriter (d. 2016) ·
1948 Ken Brown,
Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster ·
1949 Orna Berry, Israeli computer scientist and
businesswoman ·
1949 Claudia Kolb, American swimmer ·
1949 Sebastian,
Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1950 Eleanor J. Hill, American lawyer and
diplomat ·
1951 Mohammad Reza Aref,
Iranian engineer and politician, 2nd Vice President of
Iran ·
1951 Alan Rouse, English mountaineer and author
(d. 1986) ·
1952 Walter Murphy, American pianist and composer ·
1954 Jeff Allam, English race car driver ·
1954 Tim Parks, English author and translator ·
1955 Lincoln Hall,
Australian mountaineer and author (d. 2012) ·
1955 Rob Portman, American lawyer and politician ·
1956 Phil Harris,
American captain and fisherman (d. 2010) ·
1956 Tom Lawless, American baseball player and
manager ·
1956 Shane McEntee,
Irish farmer and politician, Minister of State for Food, Horticulture and Food
Safety (d. 2012) ·
1957 Cyril Collard, French actor, director, and
composer (d. 1993) ·
1957 Kevin McHale,
American basketball player, coach, and manager ·
1958 Steven Isserlis, English cellist and author ·
1958 Limahl, English pop singer ·
1959 Ivαn Vallejo, Ecuadorian mountaineer ·
1959 Lisa Wilkinson, Australian television host
and journalist ·
1960 Derrick Jensen, American author and activist ·
1960 Michelangelo
Signorile, American journalist and author ·
1961 Eric Allin Cornell,
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1961 Matthew Waterhouse,
English actor and author ·
1961 Reggie White, American football player and
wrestler (d. 2004) ·
1962 Gary Fleder, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1963 Jennifer Beals, American model and actress ·
1963 Til Schweiger, German actor, director, and
producer ·
1964 Bιatrice Dalle,
French actress ·
1964 Lorie Kane, Canadian golfer ·
1964 Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball
player ·
1965 Chito Martνnez,
Belizean-American baseball player ·
1966 Chuckii Booker, American singer-songwriter
and producer ·
1966 Rajesh Chauhan, Indian cricketer ·
1966 Alberto Tomba, Italian skier ·
1966 Eric Weinrich, American ice hockey player
and coach ·
1967 Criss Angel, American magician ·
1967 Charles Austin, American high jumper ·
1968 Kristina Keneally,
American-Australian politician, 42nd Premier of New
South Wales ·
1968 Ken Marino, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1969 Michael
Bates, American sprinter and football player ·
1969 Tom Gugliotta, American basketball player ·
1969 Richard Hammond, English journalist and
producer ·
1969 Nayan Mongia, Indian cricketer ·
1969 Aziza Mustafa Zadeh,
Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and singer ·
1970 Tyson Beckford, American model and actor ·
1971 Karen Pickering, English swimmer ·
1972 Alyssa Milano, American actress and
television personality ·
1973 Michalis Grigoriou,
Greek footballer and coach ·
1973 Erick Wainaina, Kenyan runner ·
1973 Zulfiya Zabirova, Russian cyclist ·
1974 Eduard Ivakdalam, Indonesian footballer ·
1974 Joe Jurevicius, American football player ·
1974 Felipe Lopez,
Dominican-American basketball player ·
1974 Jake Plummer, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1974 Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer and
sportscaster ·
1975 Makis Belevonis, Greek footballer ·
1975 Brandon Sanderson,
American author and academic ·
1975 Jeremy Soule, Canadian composer ·
1975 Olivier Tιbily,
Ivorian-French footballer ·
1975 Dean Treister, Australian rugby league
player ·
1977 Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player ·
1977 LaTasha Jenkins, American sprinter ·
1977 Irina Voronina, Russian model ·
1978 Patrick Casey,
American actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1979 Kevin Devine, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1979 Rafael Soriano, Dominican baseball player ·
1980 Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor and producer[10] ·
1980 Marla Sokoloff, American actress and
musician ·
1981 Grιgory Dufer, Belgian footballer ·
1982 Mo Williams, American basketball player ·
1983 Nektarios Alexandrou,
Cypriot footballer ·
1983 Casey Crescenzo, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1983 Bridget Phillipson,
English politician ·
1983 Laura Pomeroy, Canadian swimmer ·
1983 Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1984 Ian Kennedy, American baseball player ·
1985 Gary Cahill, English footballer ·
1985 Andrea Baldini, Italian fencer ·
1985 Neil Kilkenny, English-Australian footballer ·
1985 Sally Kipyego, Kenyan runner ·
1985 Dan Logan, English bass player ·
1985 Lady Sovereign, English rapper ·
1986 Calvin Andrew, English footballer ·
1986 Ryan Babel, Dutch footballer ·
1986 Ingrid Burley, American rapper and
songwriter ·
1986 Lazaros
Christodoulopoulos, Greek footballer ·
1986 Zuzana Hejnovα,
Czech hurdler ·
1986 Miguel Lopes, Portuguese footballer ·
1987 Cιdric Baseya, French-Congolese footballer ·
1987 Karim Benzema, French footballer ·
1987 Ronan Farrow, American activist, journalist,
and lawyer ·
1988 Alexis Sαnchez,
Chilean footballer ·
1988 Peter Winn,
English footballer ·
1989 Yong Jun-hyung, South Korean
singer-songwriter, rapper and producer ·
1989 Michał
Masłowski, Polish footballer ·
1989 Kousei Miura, Japanese jockey ·
1989 Hamza Riazuddin, English cricketer ·
1990 Torrey Craig, American basketball player[11] ·
1990 Greg Bretz, American snowboarder ·
1991 Declan Galbraith, English singer-songwriter ·
1991 Sumire Uesaka, Japanese voice actress and
singer ·
1992 Iker Muniain, Spanish footballer ·
1992 Raphael Spiegel, Swiss footballer ·
1993 Isiah Koech, Kenyan runner ·
1993 Young K, South Korean singer-songwriter ·
1994 M'Baye Niang, French footballer ·
1994 Maudy Ayunda, Indonesian actress and
singer-songwriter ·
1996 Franck Kessiι, Ivorian footballer Deaths[edit]
·
401 Pope Anastasius I ·
966 Sancho I,
king of Leσn ·
1091 Adelaide of Susa, margravine of Turin ·
1111 Al-Ghazali, Iranian jurist, philosopher, and
mystic (b. 1058) ·
1123 Saint Berardo, Italian bishop and saint ·
1327 Agnes
of France, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1260) ·
1370 Pope Urban V (b. 1310) ·
1442 Elizabeth of
Luxembourg (b. 1409) ·
1385 Bernabς Visconti,
Lord of Milan (b. 1319) ·
1558 Cornelius Grapheus,
Flemish writer (b. 1482) ·
1637 Christina of
Lorraine, Grand Duchess consort of Tuscany (b. 1565) ·
1741 Vitus Bering, Danish-Russian hydrographer
and explorer (b. 1681) ·
1745 Jean-Baptiste van
Loo, French painter (b. 1684) ·
1749 Francesco
Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672) ·
1807 Friedrich
Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright (b.
1723) ·
1813 James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman
and philanthropist, founded McGill University (b.
1744) ·
1819 Thomas
Fremantle, English admiral and politician (b. 1765) ·
1848 Emily Brontλ, English novelist and poet (b.
1818) ·
1851 Joseph
Mallord William Turner, English painter (b. 1775) ·
1878 Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b.
1825) ·
1899 Henry Ware Lawton,
American general (b. 1843) ·
1915 Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and
neuropathologist (b. 1864) ·
1916 Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859) ·
1927 Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900) ·
1927 Ram Prasad Bismil,
Indian poet and activist (b. 1897) ·
1932 Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b.
1908) ·
1933 George Jackson
Churchward, English engineer and businessman (b. 1857) ·
1938 Stephen
Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873) ·
1944 Abbas II of Egypt (b.
1874) ·
1944 Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (b.
1856) ·
1946 Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic
(b. 1872) ·
1953 Robert Andrews
Millikan, American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1868) ·
1968 Norman Thomas, American minister and
politician (b. 1884) ·
1972 Ahmet Emin Yalman,
Turkish journalist, author, and academic (b. 1888) ·
1976 Giuseppe Caselli, Italian painter (b. 1893) ·
1982 Dwight Macdonald, American philosopher,
author, and critic (b. 1906) ·
1984 Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903) ·
1986 V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923) ·
1986 Werner Dankwort, Russian-German colonel and
diplomat (b. 1895) ·
1987 August Mδlk, Estonian author, playwright,
and politician (b. 1900) ·
1988 Robert
Bernstein, American author and playwright (b. 1919) ·
1989 Stella Gibbons, English journalist, author,
and poet (b. 1902) ·
1989 Kirill Mazurov, Belarusian Soviet politician (b. 1914) ·
1991 Joe Cole,
American roadie and author (b. 1961) ·
1993 Michael Clarke,
American drummer (b. 1946) ·
1996 Marcello Mastroianni,
Italian-French actor and singer (b. 1924) ·
1997 Sara Northrup
Hollister, American occultist (b. 1924) ·
1997 Masaru Ibuka, Japanese businessman,
co-founded Sony (b. 1908)[12] ·
1997 Jimmy Rogers, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1924) ·
1998 Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b.
1922) ·
1999 Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh soldier and actor
(b. 1914) ·
2000 Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter
(b. 1958) ·
2000 Milt Hinton, American bassist and
photographer (b. 1910) ·
2000 John Lindsay, American lawyer and
politician, 103rd Mayor of New York
City (b. 1921) ·
2002 Will Hoy, English race car driver (b. 1952) ·
2002 Arthur Rowley, English footballer and
manager (b. 1926) ·
2002 George Weller, American author, playwright,
and journalist (b. 1907) ·
2003 Peter Carter-Ruck,
English lawyer, founded Carter-Ruck (b. 1914) ·
2003 Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1933) ·
2004 Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1912) ·
2004 Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano and actress
(b. 1922) ·
2005 Vincent Gigante, American mobster (b. 1927) ·
2008 James Bevel, American minister and activist
(b. 1936) ·
2008 Carol Chomsky, American linguist and
educator (b. 1930) ·
2008 Michael Connell, American political
consultant (b. 1963) ·
2008 Dock Ellis, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1945) ·
2009 Kim Peek, American megasavant (b. 1951)[13] ·
2010 Anthony
Howard, English journalist and author (b. 1934) ·
2012 Robert Bork, American lawyer, judge, and
scholar, United
States Attorney General (b. 1927) ·
2012 Amnon Lipkin-Shahak,
Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation
Minister of Israel (b. 1944) ·
2012 Larry Morris, American football player (b. 1933) ·
2012 Peter Struck, German lawyer and politician,
13th German
Federal Minister of Defence (b. 1943) ·
2013 Winton Dean, English musicologist and author
(b. 1916) ·
2013 Al Goldstein, American publisher and
pornographer (b. 1936) ·
2013 Ned Vizzini, American author and
screenwriter (b. 1981) ·
2014 S. Balasubramanian,
Indian journalist and director (b. 1936) ·
2014 Philip Bradbourn, English lawyer and
politician (b. 1951) ·
2014 Arthur Gardner,
American actor and producer (b. 1910) ·
2014 Igor Rodionov, Russian general and
politician, 3rd Russian
Minister of Defence (b. 1936) ·
2014 Dick
Thornton, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1939) ·
2014 Roberta Leigh (Rita Shulman Lewin),
British writer, artist and TV producer (b. 1926). ·
2015 Jimmy Hill, English footballer, manager, and
sportscaster (b. 1928) ·
2015 Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone,
Welsh-English lawyer and politician (b. 1928) ·
2015 Karin Sφder, Swedish educator and
politician, 33rd Swedish
Minister for Foreign Affairs (b. 1928) ·
2016 Andrei Karlov, Russian diplomat, Ambassador
to Turkey (b. 1954) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Lillian Trasher (Episcopal
Church) o O Radix o December
19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Goa Liberation Day (Goa, India) ·
National
Heroes and Heroines Day (Anguilla) |
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