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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 25 is the 359th day of the
year (360th in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
Six days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit]
·
36 Forces of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han, under the command of Wu Han,
conquer the separatist Chengjia empire,
reuniting China.[1] ·
274 A temple to Sol Invictus is dedicated in Rome by Emperor Aurelian.[2] ·
333 Roman
Emperor Constantine the
Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar. ·
336 First documentary
sign of Christmas celebration
in Rome. ·
350 Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and is forced to abdicate his title
(Caesar). Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state
pension. ·
508 Clovis I, king of the Franks, is baptized into the Catholic faith at Reims, by Saint Remigius. ·
597 Augustine of
Canterbury and his fellow-labourers baptise in Kent more than 10,000 Anglo-Saxons. ·
800 The coronation
of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor,
in Rome. ·
1000 The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary:
Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary. ·
1013 Sweyn Forkbeard takes control of
the Danelaw and is proclaimed king of England. ·
1025 Coronation
of Mieszko II Lambert as
king of Poland. ·
1066 William the
Conqueror, Duke of Normandy is crowned king
of England, at Westminster Abbey, London. ·
1076 Coronation
of Bolesław
II the Generous as king of Poland. ·
1100 Baldwin of
Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in
the Church of the
Nativity in Bethlehem. ·
1130 Count Roger II of Sicily is
crowned the first king of Sicily.[3] ·
1261
Eleven-year-old John IV Laskaris of
the restored Eastern Roman Empire is
deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII
Palaiologos. ·
1492 The carrack Santa Marνa,
commanded by Christopher Columbus,
runs onto a reef off Haiti due to an improper watch. ·
1553 Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor
of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia. ·
1559 Pope Pius IV is elected. ·
1758 Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg
Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage.
This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time. ·
1766 Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise
attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising
of 1766.[4] ·
1776 George Washington and
the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night
to attack Hessian forces
serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey,
the next day. ·
1793 General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and
a 300 man
detachment identify the site of St. Clair's 1791
defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at
modern Fort Recovery, Ohio. ·
1809 Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the
first ovariotomy, removing
a 22-pound tumor. ·
1814 Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first
Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay. ·
1815 The Handel and Haydn
Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the
United States, gives its first performance. ·
1826 The Eggnog Riot at the United
States Military Academy concludes after beginning the
previous evening. ·
1831 The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up
to 20% of Jamaica's slaves mobilize in an ultimately
unsuccessful fight for freedom. ·
1837 Second Seminole War:
American general Zachary Taylor leads
1,100 troops against the Seminoles at
the Battle of Lake
Okeechobee. ·
1868 Pardons for
ex-Confederates: United States President Andrew Johnson grants an
unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans. ·
1914 A series of unofficial truces occur
across the Western Front to
celebrate Christmas. ·
1932 A magnitude 7.6
earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people. ·
1941 Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives
at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific
Fleet. ·
1941 World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends,
beginning the Japanese
occupation of Hong Kong. ·
1941 Admiral Ιmile Muselier seizes
the archipelago of Saint Pierre
and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces. ·
1946 The first
European self-sustaining nuclear chain
reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor. ·
1950 The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone
of British monarchs, is
taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students.
It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951. ·
1951 A bomb explodes at
the home of Harry T. Moore and Harriette V. S. Moore, early leaders of
the Civil Rights
Movement, killing Harry instantly and fatally wounding Harriette.[5] ·
1962 The Soviet Union conducts its final
above-ground nuclear weapon
test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. ·
1963 Turkish
Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting
in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded
from Cyprus
Broadcasting Corporation. ·
1968 Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first
successful Trans-Earth
injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on
a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit. ·
1968 Kilvenmani massacre:
Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) are burnt to
death in Kizhavenmani village,
Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers. ·
1976 EgyptAir Flight 664,
a Boeing 707-366C, crashes on approach
to Don
Mueang International Airport, killing 71 people.[6] ·
1977 Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin meets
in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat. ·
1989 Romanian Revolution:
Deposed President of Romania Nicolae
Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena,
are condemned to death and executed after a summary
trial. ·
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigns
as President
of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the
next day). Ukraine's referendum is
finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union. ·
2003 UTAGE Flight 141, a Boeing 727-223, crashes at the Cotonou Airport in Benin, killing 141 people. ·
2003 The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from
the Mars Express spacecraft
on December 19, stops
transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing. ·
2004 The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which
successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005. ·
2012 An Antonov An-72 plane crashes close
to the city of Shymkent, killing 27
people. ·
2016 A Russian
Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 carrying members of
the Alexandrov Ensemble crashes into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff,
killing all 92 people on board. ·
2019 Twenty people
are killed and thousands are left homeless by Typhoon Phanfone in
the Philippines.[7] Births[edit]
·
1250 John IV Laskaris, Byzantine emperor (d.
1305) ·
1281 Alice
de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln (d. 1348) ·
1400 John
Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1487) ·
1424 Margaret
Stewart, Dauphine of France (d. 1445) ·
1461 Christina of Saxony,
Queen consort of Denmark (d. 1521) ·
1490 Francesco Marinoni,
Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1562) ·
1493 Antoinette de
Bourbon, French noblewoman (d. 1583) ·
1505 Christine of Saxony,
German noblewoman (d. 1549) ·
1564 Johannes Buxtorf, German Calvinist
theologian (d. 1629) ·
1583 Orlando Gibbons, English organist and
composer (d. 1625) ·
1584 Margaret
of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1611) ·
1601 Ernest I,
Duke of Saxe-Gotha (d. 1675) ·
1628 Noλl Coypel, French painter and educator (d.
1707) ·
1642 (OS) Isaac Newton, English physicist and
mathematician (d. 1726/1727) ·
1652 Archibald Pitcairne,
Scottish physician, anatomist, and scholar (d. 1713) ·
1665 Lady Grizel Baillie,
Scottish-English poet and songwriter (d. 1746) ·
1674 Thomas Halyburton,
Scottish minister and theologian (d. 1712) ·
1686 Giovanni Battista
Somis, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1763) ·
1700 Leopold
II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1758) ·
1711 Jean-Joseph de
Mondonville, French violinist and composer (d. 1772) ·
1716 Johann Jakob Reiske,
German physician and scholar (d. 1774) ·
1717 Pope Pius VI (d. 1799) ·
1728 Johann Adam Hiller,
German composer and conductor (d. 1804) ·
1730 Philip Mazzei, Italian-American physician
and philosopher (d. 1816) ·
1745 Chevalier de
Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer, and conductor
(d. 1799) ·
1757 Benjamin
Pierce, American general and politician, 17th Governor of New
Hampshire (d. 1839) ·
1766 Christmas Evans, Welsh Nonconformist
preacher (d. 1838) ·
1771 Dorothy Wordsworth,
English diarist and poet (d. 1855) ·
1776 Sydney, Lady Morgan,
Irish author and poet (d. 1859) ·
1810 L. L. Langstroth, American apiarist,
clergyman and teacher (d. 1895) ·
1821 Clara Barton, American nurse and
humanitarian, founder of the American Red Cross (d.
1912) ·
1825 Stephen F. Chadwick,
American lawyer and politician, 5th Governor of Oregon (d.
1895) ·
1829 Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American composer and
bandleader (d. 1892) ·
1856 Pud Galvin, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1902) ·
1861 Madan Mohan Malaviya,
Indian educator, lawyer, and politician, President
of the Indian National Congress (d. 1946) ·
1865 Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of
The Salvation Army (d. 1950) ·
1869 Charles Finger, English-American journalist
and author (d. 1941) ·
1870 Helena Rubinstein,
Polish-American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 1965) ·
1873 Otto Frederick
Hunziker, Swiss-American agriculturalist and educator (d. 1959) ·
1874 Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano and actress
(d. 1944) ·
1875 Francis Aveling, Canadian psychologist and
priest (d. 1941) ·
1875 Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (d.
1955) ·
1876 Muhammad Ali Jinnah,
Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General
of Pakistan (d. 1948) ·
1876 Adolf Otto
Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1959) ·
1878 Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car
driver and businessman, co-founded Chevrolet (d. 1941) ·
1878 Noλl, Countess
of Rothes, philanthropist, social leader and heroine of Titanic
disaster (d. 1956) ·
1878 Joseph M. Schenck,
Russian-American film producer (d. 1961) ·
1883 Hugo Bergmann, Czech-Israeli philosopher and
academic (d. 1975) ·
1883 Hana Meisel, Belarusian-Israeli agronomist
and politician (d. 1972) ·
1884 Samuel Berger,
American boxer (d. 1925) ·
1884 Evelyn Nesbit, American model and actress
(d. 1967) ·
1886 Malak Hifni Nasif,
Egyptian poet and activist (d. 1918) ·
1886 Kid Ory, American trombonist and bandleader
(d. 1973) ·
1887 Conrad Hilton, American entrepreneur (d.
1979) ·
1889 Lila Bell Wallace,
American publisher and philanthropist, co-founded Reader's Digest (d. 1984) ·
1890 Noel Odell, English geologist and
mountaineer (d. 1987) ·
1890 Robert Ripley, American anthropologist and
publisher (d. 1949) ·
1891 Kenneth
Arthur Noel Anderson, Indian-English general and politician, Governor of
Gibraltar (d. 1959) ·
1891 Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian
cricketer (d. 1980) ·
1899 Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957) ·
1901 Princess
Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004) ·
1902 Barton MacLane, American actor, playwright,
and screenwriter (d. 1969) ·
1902 William Bell,
American tuba player and educator (d. 1971) ·
1903 Antiochos
Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (d. 1981) ·
1904 Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist
and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1999) ·
1906 Lew Grade, Baron
Grade, Ukrainian-English film producer (d. 1998) ·
1906 Ernst Ruska, German physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1988) ·
1907 Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and
bandleader (d. 1994) ·
1907 Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-American wrestler
and actor (d. 1990) ·
1907 Glenn McCarthy, American businessman,
founded the Shamrock Hotel (d.
1988) ·
1908 Quentin Crisp, English author and
illustrator (d. 1999) ·
1908 Ernest L. Massad, American general (d. 1993) ·
1908 Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player (d.
2001) ·
1909 Zora Arkus-Duntov,
Belgian-American engineer (d. 1996) ·
1911 Louise Bourgeois, French-American sculptor
and painter (d. 2010) ·
1913 Candy Candido, American singer, bass player,
and voice actor (d. 1999) ·
1913 Tony Martin,
American singer (d. 2012) ·
1914 James Fletcher Jnr,
New Zealand businessman (d. 2007) ·
1914 Oscar Lewis, American anthropologist of
Latin America (d. 1970) ·
1915 Pete Rugolo, Italian-American composer and
producer (d. 2011) ·
1916 Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian soldier and
politician, 1st President of Algeria (d.
2012) ·
1917 Arseny Mironov, Russian scientist, engineer,
pilot, oldest active researcher in aircraft aerodynamics and flight testing (d. 2019) ·
1917 Lincoln Verduga Loor,
Ecuadorian journalist and politician (d. 2009) ·
1918 Anwar Sadat, Egyptian lieutenant and
politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1981) ·
1919 Naushad Ali, Indian composer and director
(d. 2006) ·
1919 Paul David, Canadian cardiologist and
politician, founded the Montreal Heart
Institute (d. 1999) ·
1921 Zaib-un-Nissa
Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (d. 2000) ·
1921 Steve Otto, Polish-Canadian lawyer and
politician (d. 1989) ·
1922 William Demby, American author (d. 2013) ·
1923 Renι Girard, French-American historian,
philosopher, and critic (d. 2015) ·
1923 Louis Lane, American conductor and educator
(d. 2016) ·
1924 Rod Serling, American screenwriter and
producer, created The Twilight Zone (d.
1975) ·
1924 Atal Bihari Vajpayee,
Indian poet and politician, 10th Prime Minister of
India (d. 2018) ·
1925 Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American
anthropologist and author (d. 1998) ·
1925 Ned Garver, American baseball player (d.
2017) ·
1925 Sam Pollock, Canadian businessman (d. 2007) ·
1926 Enrique Jorrνn,
Cuban violinist and composer (d. 1987) ·
1927 Nellie Fox, American baseball player and
coach (d. 1975) ·
1927 Leo Kubiak, American basketball and baseball
player ·
1927 Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player ·
1928 Irish McCalla, American actress and model
(d. 2002) ·
1928 Dick Miller, American actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 2019) ·
1929 Christine M. Jones,
American educator and politician (d. 2013) ·
1929 China Machado, Chinese-born
Portuguese-American fashion model, editor and television producer (d. 2016) ·
1930 Emmanuel Agassi, Iranian-American boxer and
coach ·
1930 Armenak Alachachian,
Armenian basketball player and coach (d. 2017) ·
1932 Mabel King, American actress and singer (d.
1999) ·
1933 Basil Heatley, English runner (d. 2019) ·
1935 Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudanese politician, Prime
Minister of Sudan ·
1935 Stephen Barnett, American scholar and
academic (d. 2009) ·
1935 Jeanne Hopkins Lucas,
American educator and politician (d. 2007) ·
1936 Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy ·
1936 Ismail Merchant, Indian-English director and
producer (d. 2005) ·
1937 O'Kelly Isley Jr.,
American R&B/soul singer-songwriter (d. 1986) ·
1938 Duane Armstrong, American painter ·
1938 Noel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player (d.
2017) ·
1939 Ghulam Ahmad Bilour,
Pakistani businessman and politician ·
1939 Bob James,
American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer ·
1939 Akong Rinpoche, Tibetan-Chinese spiritual
leader (d. 2013) ·
1940 Hilary Spurling, English journalist and
author ·
1941 Kenneth Calman, Scottish physician and
academic ·
1942 Franηoise Dόrr,
French tennis player and coach ·
1942 Barbara
Follett, English politician ·
1942 Barry Goldberg, American keyboard player,
songwriter, and producer ·
1942 Enrique Morente, Spanish singer-songwriter
(d. 2010) ·
1943 Wilson
Fittipaldi Jϊnior, Brazilian race car driver and businessman ·
1943 Hanna Schygulla, German actress ·
1944 Kenny Everett, British comedian and
broadcaster (d. 1995) ·
1944 Jairzinho, Brazilian footballer ·
1944 Sam Strahan, New Zealand rugby player (d.
2019) ·
1945 Rick Berman, American screenwriter and
producer ·
1945 Eve Pollard, English journalist and author ·
1945 Mike Pringle,
Zambian-Scottish lawyer and politician ·
1945 Noel Redding, English singer-songwriter and
bass player (d. 2003) ·
1945 Ken Stabler, American football player and
sportscaster (d. 2015) ·
1946 Jimmy Buffett, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, producer, and actor ·
1946 Larry Csonka, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1946 Christopher Frayling,
English author and academic ·
1946 Gene Lamont, American baseball player and
manager ·
1948 Merry Clayton, American singer and actress ·
1948 Kay Hymowitz, American sociologist and
writer ·
1948 Barbara Mandrell, American singer-songwriter
and actress ·
1948 Joel Santana, Brazilian footballer and
manager ·
1949 Simone
Bittencourt de Oliveira, Brazilian singer ·
1949 Nawaz Sharif, Pakistani lawyer and
politician, 12th Prime
Minister of Pakistan ·
1949 Sissy Spacek, American actress ·
1950 Peter Boardman, English mountaineer and
author (d. 1982) ·
1950 Karl Rove, American political strategist and
activist ·
1950 Manny Trillo, Venezuelan baseball player and
manager ·
1952 Tolossa Kotu, Ethiopian runner and coach ·
1952 CCH Pounder, Guyanese-American actress ·
1953 Kaarlo Maaninka, Finnish runner ·
1954 Annie Lennox, Scottish singer-songwriter and
pianist ·
1957 Mansoor Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer ·
1957 Chris Kamara, English footballer and
sportscaster ·
1957 Shane MacGowan, English-Irish
singer-songwriter ·
1958 Cheryl Chase,
American voice actress and singer ·
1958 Hanford Dixon, American football player,
coach, and sportscaster ·
1958 Rickey Henderson, American baseball player
and coach ·
1958 Konstantin Kinchev,
Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1958 Alannah Myles, Canadian singer-songwriter
and actress ·
1959 Michael P. Anderson,
American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2003) ·
1959 Ramdas Athawale, Indian poet and politician ·
1961 Νngrid Betancourt,
Colombian political scientist and politician ·
1962 Francis Dunnery, English musician ·
1964 Ian Bostridge, English tenor ·
1964 Gary McAllister, Scottish footballer and
manager ·
1964 Kevin Simms, English rugby player ·
1964 Bob Stanley,
English keyboard player, songwriter, producer, and journalist ·
1965 Ed Davey, English politician, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change ·
1965 David Rath, Czech physician and politician ·
1966 Toshi Arai, Japanese race car driver ·
1967 Jason Thirsk, American bass player (d. 1996) ·
1968 Helena Christensen,
Danish model and actress ·
1968 Jim Dowd,
American ice hockey player ·
1969 Nicolas Godin, French musician ·
1969 Noel Goldthorpe, Australian rugby league
player ·
1969 Frederick Onyancha,
Kenyan runner ·
1970 Emmanuel Amunike, Nigerian footballer and
manager ·
1970 Rodney Dent, American basketball player ·
1971 Dido, English singer-songwriter ·
1971 Justin Trudeau, Canadian educator and
politician, 23rd Prime Minister
of Canada ·
1972 Mac Powell, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1972 Qu Yunxia, Chinese runner ·
1973 Robbie Elliott, English footballer and coach ·
1973 Chris Harris,
American wrestler ·
1973 Daisuke Miura, Japanese baseball player and
coach ·
1973 Alexandre Trudeau,
Canadian journalist and director ·
1975 Daniel Mustard, American singer-songwriter ·
1975 Hideki Okajima, Japanese baseball player ·
1975 Choi Sung-yong, South Korean footballer and
manager ·
1975 Marcus Trescothick,
English cricketer ·
1976 Tuomas Holopainen,
Finnish keyboard player, songwriter, and producer ·
1976 Tim James,
American basketball player and coach ·
1976 Atko Vδikmeri, Estonian footballer ·
1976 Armin van Buuren, Dutch DJ and record
producer ·
1977 Israel Vαzquez,
Mexican boxer ·
1977 Ali Tandoğan, Turkish footballer ·
1978 Simon Jones,
Welsh cricketer ·
1978 Joel Porter, Australian footballer and
manager ·
1978 Jeremy Strong,
American actor ·
1979 Ferman Akgόl, Turkish singer-songwriter ·
1979 Laurent Bonnart, French footballer ·
1979 Robert Huff, English race car driver ·
1979 Hyun Young-min, South Korean footballer ·
1980 Marcus Trufant, American football player ·
1980 Laura Sadler, English actress (d. 2003) ·
1981 Trenesha Biggers, American wrestler and
model ·
1981 Christian Holst, Danish-Faroese footballer ·
1981 Willy Taveras, Dominican baseball player ·
1982 Shawn Andrews, American football player ·
1982 Rob
Edwards, Welsh footballer ·
1982 Ethan Kath, Canadian keyboard player,
songwriter and producer ·
1982 Chris Rene, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1984 Chris Cahill, Samoan footballer ·
1984 Alastair Cook, English cricketer ·
1984 Jessica Origliasso,
Australian singer, actress, and fashion designer ·
1984 Lisa Origliasso, Australian singer, actress,
and fashion designer ·
1984 Chris Richard,
American basketball player ·
1985 Martin Mathathi, Kenyan runner ·
1985 Rusev, Bulgarian-American professional
wrestler ·
1987 Ceyhun Gόlselam,
Turkish footballer ·
1987 Demaryius Thomas, American football player[8] ·
1988 Joγozinho,
Brazilian footballer[9] ·
1988 Eric Gordon, American basketball player[10] ·
1988 Lukas Hinds-Johnson,
German rugby player[11] ·
1992 Mitakeumi Hisashi,
Japanese sumo wrestler[12] Deaths[edit]
·
304 Saint Anastasia ·
795 Pope Adrian I (b. 700) ·
936 Zhang Jingda, general of Later Tang ·
940 Makan ibn Kaki, Iranian general ·
1147 Guy II, Count of
Ponthieu (b. c. 1120) ·
1156 Peter the Venerable,
French abbot and saint (b. 1092) ·
1156 Sverker the Elder,
king of Sweden ·
1294 Mestwin II,
Duke of Pomerania ·
1395 Elisabeth,
Countess of Neuchβtel, Swiss ruler ·
1406 Henry III of Castile (b.
1379) ·
1505 George
Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1454) ·
1553 Pedro de Valdivia,
Spanish explorer and politician, 1st Royal Governor of
Chile (b. 1500) ·
1634 Lettice Knollys, English noblewoman (b.
1540) ·
1635 Samuel de Champlain,
French soldier, geographer, and explorer (b. 1567) ·
1676 William
Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier and
politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (b. 1592) ·
1676 Matthew Hale,
English lawyer and jurist, Lord
Chief Justice of England and Wales (b. 1609) ·
1683 Kara Mustafa Pasha,
Ottoman general and politician, 111th Grand
Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1634) ·
1730 Henry
Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine, Scottish peer and general (b. 1676) ·
1758 James Hervey, English priest and author (b.
1714) ·
1784 Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter (b.
1716) ·
1796 Velu Nachiyar, Queen of Sivagangai (b. 1730) ·
1824 Barbara von Krόdener,
German mystic and author (b. 1764) ·
1868 Linus Yale, Jr., American engineer and
businessman (b. 1821) ·
1875 Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1851) ·
1880 Fridolin Anderwert,
Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b.
1828) ·
1824 William Lawless, Irish revolutionary, later
French Army general (b. 1772) ·
1916 Albert Chmielowski,
Polish saint, founded the Albertine Brothers (b.
1845) ·
1921 Vladimir Korolenko,
Russian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1853) ·
1925 Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst and
author (b. 1877) ·
1926 Emperor Taishō of
Japan (b. 1879) ·
1928 Miles Burke, American boxer (b. 1885) ·
1930 Jakob Mδndmets,
Estonian journalist and author (b. 1871) ·
1933 Francesc Maciΰ,
Catalan colonel and politician, 122nd President of
Catalonia (b. 1859) ·
1935 Paul Bourget, French author and critic (b.
1852) ·
1938 Karel Čapek, Czech author and
playwright (b. 1890) ·
1940 Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898) ·
1941 Richard S. Aldrich,
American lawyer and politician (b. 1884) ·
1944 George Steer, South African-English
journalist and author (b. 1909) ·
1946 W. C. Fields, American actor, comedian,
juggler, and screenwriter (b. 1880) ·
1947 Gaspar G. Bacon, American lawyer and
politician, 51st Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886) ·
1949 Leon Schlesinger, American animator and
producer, founded Warner Bros.
Cartoons (b. 1884) ·
1950 Neil Francis Hawkins,
English politician (b. 1903) ·
1952 Margrethe Mather, American photographer (b.
1886) ·
1953 Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball
player and manager (b. 1865) ·
1953 William Haselden, British cartoonist (b.
1872) ·
1956 Robert Walser,
Swiss author and playwright (b. 1878) ·
1957 Charles Pathι, French record producer,
founded Pathι Records (b.
1863) ·
1961 Owen Brewster, American captain, lawyer, and
politician, 54th Governor of Maine (b.
1888) ·
1961 Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist
and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1873) ·
1963 Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet,
playwright, painter, and critic (b. 1896) ·
1970 Michael Peto, Hungarian-English photographer
and journalist (b. 1908) ·
1973 İsmet
İnφnό, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (b.
1884) ·
1973 Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer
(b. 1880) ·
1975 Gaston Gallimard, French publisher,
founded Ιditions Gallimard (b.
1881) ·
1975 Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician and
author (b. 1913) ·
1977 Charlie Chaplin, English actor and director
(b. 1889) ·
1979 Joan Blondell, American actress and singer
(b. 1906) ·
1979 Jordi Bonet, Canadian painter and sculptor
(b. 1932) ·
1980 Fred Emney, English actor and comedian (b.
1900) ·
1983 Joan Mirσ, Spanish painter and sculptor (b.
1893) ·
1988 Shōhei Ōoka, Japanese author and
critic (b. 1909) ·
1988 Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle, English
entomologist and lepidopterist (b. 1920) ·
1989 Benny Binion, American poker player and
businessman (b. 1904) ·
1989 Elena Ceaușescu,
Romanian politician, First Lady of
Romania (b. 1916) ·
1989 Nicolae
Ceaușescu, Romanian general and politician, 1st President of Romania (b.
1918) ·
1989 Betty Garde, American actress (b. 1905) ·
1989 Frederick F. Houser,
American judge and politician, 34th Lieutenant
Governor of California (b. 1905) ·
1989 Billy Martin, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1928) ·
1989 Robert Pirosh, American director and
screenwriter (b. 1910) ·
1991 Wilbur Snyder, American football player and
wrestler (b. 1929) ·
1992 Monica Dickens, British-American nurse and
author (b. 1915) ·
1993 Pierre Victor Auger,
French physicist and academic (b. 1899) ·
1994 Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India (b.
1916) ·
1995 Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-French
philosopher and academic (b. 1906) ·
1995 Dean Martin, American singer and actor (b.
1917) ·
1995 Chang Kee-ryo, Korean surgeon (b. 1914) ·
1996 Bill Hewitt,
Canadian sportscaster (b. 1928) ·
1997 Anatoli Boukreev, Kazakh mountaineer and
explorer (b. 1958) ·
1997 Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920) ·
2000 Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and
footballer (b. 1939) ·
2000 Willard Van Orman
Quine, American philosopher and academic (b. 1908) ·
2001 Alfred A. Tomatis,
French otolaryngologist and academic (b. 1920) ·
2003 Nicholas Mavroules,
American politician (b. 1929) ·
2004 Gennadi Strekalov,
Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1940) ·
2005 Derek Bailey,
English guitarist (b. 1930) ·
2005 Robert Barbers, Filipino police officer,
lawyer, and politician, 15th Filipino Secretary of the Interior (b.
1944) ·
2005 Birgit Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (b.
1918) ·
2005 Joseph
Pararajasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, businessman, and
politician (b. 1934) ·
2006 James Brown, American singer-songwriter (b.
1933) ·
2007 Des Barrick, English cricketer (b. 1927) ·
2007 Jim Beauchamp, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1939) ·
2008 Eartha Kitt, American singer and actress (b.
1927) ·
2009 Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1964) ·
2010 Carlos Andrιs Pιrez,
Venezuelan politician, 66th President
of Venezuela (b. 1922) ·
2011 Giorgio Bocca, Italian journalist (b. 1920) ·
2011 Jim Sherwood, American saxophonist (b. 1942) ·
2011 Simms Taback, American author and
illustrator (b. 1932) ·
2012 Erico Aumentado, Filipino journalist,
lawyer, and politician (b. 1940) ·
2012 Halfdan Hegtun, Norwegian radio host and
politician (b. 1918) ·
2012 Joe Krivak, American football player and
coach (b. 1935) ·
2012 Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician
(b. 1959) ·
2012 Şerafettin Elηi,
Turkish lawyer, politician, government minister (b. 1938) ·
2013 Anthony J. Bryant,
American historian and author (b. 1961) ·
2013 David R. Harris, English geographer,
anthropologist, archaeologist and academic (b. 1930) ·
2013 Wayne
Harrison, English footballer (b. 1967) ·
2013 Mike Hegan, American baseball player and
sportscaster (b. 1942) ·
2013 Lola Lange, Canadian rural feminist and
appointee to the Royal
Commission on the Status of Women (b. 1922)[13] ·
2013 Mel Mathay, Filipino politician, 8th Mayor of Quezon City (b.
1932) ·
2014 Ricardo Porro, Cuban-French architect (b.
1925) ·
2014 Geoff Pullar, English cricketer (b. 1935) ·
2014 David Ryall, English actor (b. 1935) ·
2015 George Clayton
Johnson, American author and screenwriter (b. 1929) ·
2015 Dorothy M. Murdock, American author and
historian (b. 1961) ·
2016 Valery Khalilov, Russian military musician
and composer (b. 1952) ·
2016 George Michael, British singer and
songwriter (b. 1963) ·
2016 Vera Rubin, American astronomer (b. 1928) ·
2017 D. Herbert Lipson,
American magazine publisher (Philadelphia, Boston) ·
2018 Sulagitti Narasamma,
Indian midwife (b. 1920)[14] ·
2019 Ari Behn, Norwegian writer (b. 1972)[15] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Children's Day (Cameroon, Central African
Republic, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Republic of Congo) ·
Christian feast day: o Anastasia of Sirmium (Catholic Church) o December
25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Christmas Day, Christian festival
commemorating the birth of Jesus.
(Internationally
observed) ·
Malkh-Festival (Nakh peoples of Chechnya and Ingushetia) ·
Quaid-e-Azam's Day (Pakistan) ·
Takanakuy (Chumbivilcas
Province, Peru) |
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