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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 26 is the 360th day of the
year (361st in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
Five days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
887 Berengar I is
elected as king of Italy by
the lords of Lombardy. He is crowned
with the Iron Crown of
Lombardy at Pavia.[1] ·
1481 Battle of Westbroek: Holland defeats
troops of Utrecht. ·
1489 The forces of
the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella,
take control of Almerνa from
the Nasrid ruler
of Granada, Muhammad
XIII. ·
1704 Second Battle
of Anandpur: In the Second Battle of Anandpur, Aurangzeb's two generals,
Wazir Khan and Zaberdast Khan executed two children of Guru Gobind Singh named
Zorawar Singh aged 8 and Fateh Singh aged 5, by burying them alive into a
wall.[2][3] ·
1776 American
Revolutionary War: In the Battle of Trenton,
the Continental Army attacks
and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian forces. ·
1790 Louis XVI of France gives
his public assent to Civil
Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution. ·
1793 Second
Battle of Wissembourg: France defeats Austria. ·
1799 Henry Lee III's eulogy to George Washington in
congress declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the
hearts of his countrymen". (This is not to be confused with Washington's
funeral on December 18.) ·
1805 Austria and
France sign the Treaty of
Pressburg. ·
1806 Battles
of Pultusk and Golymin:
Russian forces hold French forces
under Napoleon. ·
1811 A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills
the Governor of Virginia George
William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of
Virginia Abraham B. Venable. ·
1825 Advocates
of liberalism in Russia rise up
against Czar Nicholas I but
are suppressed in the Decembrist revolt in Saint Petersburg. ·
1860 The first ever
inter-club English association football match
takes place between Hallam and Sheffield football clubs in Sheffield. ·
1861 American Civil War:
The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic
envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United
States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States
and the United Kingdom. ·
1862 American Civil
War: The Battle of
Chickasaw Bayou begins. ·
1862 Four nuns serving as volunteer
nurses on board USS Red
Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital
ship. ·
1862 The largest mass-hanging
in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota,
where 38 Native Americans died.[4] ·
1871 Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration,
debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for
four years and the score has been lost. ·
1898 Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation
of radium. ·
1919 Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing
the Curse of the Bambino superstition. ·
1941 U.S.
President Franklin D.
Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in
November as Thanksgiving
Day in the United States. ·
1943 World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is
sunk off of Norway's North Cape after
a battle against
major Royal Navy forces. ·
1944 World War
II: George S. Patton's Third Army breaks the encirclement of
surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne, Belgium. ·
1948 Cardinal Jσzsef Mindszenty is
arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy. ·
1948 The last Soviet troops withdraw from North Korea. ·
1963 The Beatles' "I Want to Hold
Your Hand" and "I Saw Her
Standing There" are released in the United States, marking
the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level. ·
1966 The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California
State University, Long Beach. ·
1968 The Communist
Party of the Philippines is established by Jose Maria Sison, breaking away from
the Partido
Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930. ·
1972 Vietnam War: As part of Operation
Linebacker II, 120 American B-52
Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi, including 78 launched from Andersen Air
Force Base in Guam,
the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air
Command history. ·
1975 Tu-144, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft,
surpassing Mach 2, went
into service. ·
1991 The Supreme
Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves
the Soviet Union, ending the Cold War.[5] ·
1994 Four Armed
Islamic Group hijackers seize
control of Air France Flight
8969. When the plane lands at Marseille, a French Gendarmerie assault
team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers. ·
1998 Iraq announces its intention to fire
upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones. ·
1999 The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe,
killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage. ·
2003 The 6.6 Mw Bam earthquake shakes
southeastern Iran with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent), leaving more than 26,000
dead and 30,000 injured. ·
2004 The 9.19.3 Mw Indian
Ocean earthquake shakes northern Sumatra with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of IX (Violent). One of the largest
observed tsunamis follows, affecting the coastal
areas of Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia; death toll is estimated at
227,898. ·
2004 Orange Revolution:
The final run-off
election in Ukraine is held under heavy international
scrutiny. ·
2006 2006 Hengchun
earthquakes.[6] ·
2012 China opens the world's
longest high-speed rail route, which links Beijing and Guangzhou. ·
2015 During
the December
2015 North American storm complex, a Tornado
Outbreak occurred in the DFW Metroplex, with the most notable
tornadoes being an EF2, EF3, and an EF4. About a dozen people died due to various
reasons, 10 of which due to the EF4, which did substantial damage to the
suburb of Rowlett. Births[edit]
·
1194 Frederick
II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1250) ·
1446 Charles
de Valois, Duke de Berry, French noble (d. 1472) ·
1526 Rose Lok, businesswoman and Protestant exile
(d.1613) ·
1532 Wilhelm Xylander, German scholar and
academic (d. 1576) ·
1536 Yi I, Korean philosopher and scholar (d.
1584) ·
1537 Albert,
Count of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1593) ·
1581 Philip
III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach (d. 1643) ·
1618 Elisabeth of
the Palatinate, German princess, philosopher, and Calvinist (d.
1680) ·
1628 John Page,
American politician (d. 1692) ·
1646 Robert Bolling, English-American merchant
and planter (d. 1709) ·
1687 Johann Georg
Pisendel, German violinist and composer (d. 1755) ·
1716 Thomas Gray, English poet and scholar (d.
1771) ·
1716 Jean Franηois
de Saint-Lambert, French soldier and philosopher (d. 1803) ·
1723 Friedrich
Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright (d.
1807) ·
1737 Prince
Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1815) ·
1751 Lord George Gordon,
English lieutenant and politician (d. 1793) ·
1751 Clemens Maria
Hofbauer, Austrian priest, missionary, and saint (d. 1820) ·
1769 Ernst Moritz Arndt,
German writer and poet (d. 1860) ·
1780 Mary Somerville, Scottish mathematician,
astronomer, and author (d. 1872)[7] ·
1785 Ιtienne
Constantin de Gerlache, Belgian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister
of Belgium (d. 1871) ·
1782 Philaret Drozdov, Russian metropolitan and
saint (d. 1867) ·
1791 Charles Babbage, English mathematician and
engineer, invented the Difference engine (d.
1871) ·
1803 Friedrich
Reinhold Kreutzwald, Estonian physician and author (d. 1882) ·
1819 E. D. E. N.
Southworth, American author and educator (d. 1899) ·
1820 Dion Boucicault, Irish actor and playwright
(d. 1890) ·
1837 Morgan Bulkeley, American soldier and
politician, 54th Governor
of Connecticut (d. 1922) ·
1837 George Dewey, American admiral (d. 1917) ·
1852 Johannes
Franηois Snelleman, Dutch zoologist, orientalist, and ethnographer
(d. 1938) ·
1853 Renι Bazin, French author and academic (d.
1932) ·
1854 Josι Yves Limantour,
Mexican financier and politician, Mexican Secretary of Finance (d. 1935) ·
1859 William Stephens, American lawyer and
politician, 24th Governor of
California (d. 1944) ·
1863 Charles Pathι, French record producer,
co-founded Pathι Records (d.
1957) ·
1864 Yun Chi-ho, Korean activist and politician
(d. 1945) ·
1867 Phan Bội Chβu,
Vietnamese activist (d. 1940) ·
1869 Mathieu Cordang, Dutch cyclist (d. 1942) ·
1872 Norman Angell, English journalist, academic,
and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1967) ·
1873 Thomas Wass, English cricketer (d. 1953) ·
1874 Khan Bahadur
Ahsanullah, Bangladeshi theologian and academic (d. 1965) ·
1883 Maurice Utrillo, French painter (d. 1955) ·
1885 Bazoline Estelle
Usher, African-American educator (d. 1992)[8] ·
1887 Arthur Percival, English general (d. 1966) ·
1888 Marius Canard, French orientalist and
historian (d. 1982) ·
1890 Konstantinos
Georgakopoulos, Greek lawyer and politician, Prime Minister
of Greece (d. 1973) ·
1890 Percy Hodge, English runner (d. 1967) ·
1891 Henry Miller, American author and painter
(d. 1980) ·
1892 Don Barclay,
American actor and illustrator (d. 1975) ·
1893 Mao Zedong, Chinese politician, Chairman
of the Communist Party of China (d. 1976) ·
1894 Jean Toomer, American author and poet (d.
1967) ·
1900 Evelyn Bark, leading member of the British Red Cross,
first female recipient of the CMG (d. 1993) [9] ·
1901 Elmar Muuk, Estonian linguist and author (d.
1941) ·
1902 Anatoli Lvovich
Kaplan, Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1980) ·
1903 Elisha Cook, Jr., American actor (d. 1995) ·
1904 Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist
and author (d. 1980) ·
1905 William Loeb III, American publisher (d.
1981) ·
1907 Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and
politician (d. 1998) ·
1908 Ralph Hill, American runner (d. 1994) ·
1909 Matt Gordy, American pole vaulter (d. 1989) ·
1910 Imperio Argentina,
Argentine-Spanish actress and singer (d. 2003) ·
1910 Marguerite Churchill,
American actress (d. 2000) ·
1912 Arsenio Lacson, Filipino journalist and
politician, Mayor of Manila (d.
1962) ·
1913 Frank Swift, English footballer and
journalist (d. 1958) ·
1914 Richard Widmark, American actor (d. 2008) ·
1915 Rolf Botvid, Swedish actor and screenwriter
(d. 1998) ·
1918 Olga Lopes-Seale, Guyanese-Barbadian singer
and radio host (d. 2011) ·
1918 Georgios Rallis, Greek lieutenant and
politician, 173rd Prime Minister
of Greece (d. 2006) ·
1921 Steve Allen, American actor, singer, talk
show host, and screenwriter (d. 2000) ·
1921 John Severin, American illustrator (d. 2012) ·
1922 Richard Mayes, English actor (d. 2006) ·
1923 Richard Artschwager,
American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 2013) ·
1924 Frank Broyles, American football player,
coach, and sportscaster (d. 2017) ·
1926 Earle Brown, American composer (d. 2002) ·
1927 Denis Gifford, English journalist and
historian (d. 2000) ·
1927 Alan King, American actor, producer, and
screenwriter (d. 2004) ·
1927 Stu Miller, American baseball player (d.
2015) ·
1927 Denis Quilley, English actor (d. 2003) ·
1929 Kathleen Crowley, American actress (d. 2017) ·
1929 Rιgine Zylberberg,
Belgian-French singer and actress ·
1930 Jean Ferrat, French singer-songwriter and
poet (d. 2010) ·
1930 Harry Gamble, American football player,
coach, and manager (d. 2014) ·
1930 Donald Moffat, English-American actor (d.
2018) ·
1933 Caroll Spinney, American puppeteer and voice
actor (d. 2019) ·
1935 Abdul "Duke" Fakir, American
singer ·
1935 Rohan Kanhai, Guyanese cricketer ·
1935 Norm Ullman, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1936 Peep Jδnes, Estonian architect ·
1936 Trevor Taylor,
English race car driver (d. 2010) ·
1937 John Horton Conway,
English mathematician, known for Conway's Game of
Life (d. 2020) ·
1938 Bahram Beyzai, Iranian director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1938 Robert
Hamerton-Kelly, South African-American pastor, scholar, and author
(d. 2013) ·
1938 Alamgir Kabir,
Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1989) ·
1938 Mirko
Kovač, Yugoslav-Croatian author, playwright, and screenwriter
(d. 2013) ·
1939 Fred Schepisi, Australian director and
screenwriter ·
1939 Phil Spector, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1940 Edward C. Prescott,
American economist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
1940 Ray Sadecki, American baseball player (d.
2014) ·
1941 Daniel Schmid, Swiss actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 2006) ·
1942 Vinicio Cerezo, Guatemalan politician,
28th President of Guatemala ·
1942 Catherine Coulter,
American author ·
1942 Gray Davis, American captain, lawyer, and
politician, 37th Governor of
California ·
1944 William Ayers, American academic and
activist ·
1945 John Walsh,
American television host, producer, and activist, created America's Most
Wanted ·
1946 Alan Frumin, American lawyer and politician ·
1946 Tiit Rosenberg, Estonian historian and
academic ·
1947 James T. Conway, American general ·
1947 Jean Echenoz, French author ·
1947 Carlton Fisk, American baseball player ·
1947 Josef Janνček,
Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboard player ·
1947 Richard Levis
McCormick, American historian and academic ·
1948 Candy Crowley, American journalist ·
1949 Josι Ramos-Horta,
East Timorese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of East
Timor, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1950 Raja Pervaiz Ashraf,
Pakistani businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister
of Pakistan ·
1950 Mario Mendoza, Mexican baseball player and
manager ·
1953 Leonel Fernαndez,
Dominican lawyer and politician, 51st President
of the Dominican Republic ·
1953 Makis Katsavakis, Greek footballer and
manager ·
1953 Toomas Hendrik Ilves,
Swedish-Estonian journalist and politician, 4th President of Estonia ·
1953 Henning Schmitz, German drummer ·
1954 Peter Hillary, New Zealand mountaineer and
philanthropist ·
1954 Ozzie Smith, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1955 Evan Bayh, American lawyer and politician,
46th Governor of Indiana ·
1956 David Sedaris, American comedian, author,
and radio host ·
1957 Dermot Murnaghan, English-Northern Irish
journalist and game show host ·
1958 Adrian Newey, English aerodynamicist and
engineer ·
1959 Kōji Morimoto, Japanese animator and
director ·
1959 Hans Nielsen,
Danish motorcycle racer ·
1959 Wang Lijun, Chinese police officer and
politician ·
1960 Keith Martin Ball,
American mathematician and academic ·
1960 Ruud Kaiser, Dutch footballer and manager ·
1960 Jim Toomey, American cartoonist ·
1960 Cem Uzan, Turkish businessman and politician ·
1961 Andrew Lock, Australian mountaineer ·
1961 John Lynch,
Northern Irish actor ·
1962 Mark Starr, English wrestler (d. 2013) ·
1963 Craig Teitzel, Australian rugby league
player ·
1963 Lars Ulrich, Danish-American drummer,
songwriter, and producer ·
1964 Elizabeth Kostova,
American author ·
1966 Jay Farrar, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1966 Tim Legler, American basketball player and
sportscaster ·
1966 Jay Yuenger, American guitarist and producer ·
1968 Matt Zoller Seitz,
American film critic and author ·
1969 Isaac Viciosa, Spanish runner ·
1970 James Mercer,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1971 Jared Leto, American actor and musician ·
1971 Mika Nurmela, Finnish footballer ·
1971 Tatiana Sorokko, Russian-American model and
journalist ·
1972 Esteban Fuertes, Argentinian footballer ·
1972 Robert Muchamore, English author ·
1973 Paulo
Frederico Benevenute, Brazilian footballer ·
1973 Gianluca Faliva, Italian rugby player ·
1973 Nobuhiko Matsunaka,
Japanese baseball player ·
1973 Steve Prescott, English rugby player (d.
2013) ·
1974 Joshua John Miller,
American actor, director, and screenwriter ·
1975 Chris Calaguio, Filipino basketball player ·
1975 Marcelo Rνos, Chilean tennis player ·
1975 Marνa Vasco, Spanish race walker ·
1976 Simon Goodwin, Australian footballer and
coach ·
1977 Fatih Akyel, Turkish footballer and manager ·
1977 Adrienn Hegedűs,
Hungarian tennis player ·
1978 Karel Rόόtli,
Estonian lawyer and politician ·
1978 Kaoru Sugayama, Japanese volleyball player ·
1979 Fabiαn Carini, Uruguayan footballer ·
1979 Chris Daughtry, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1979 Dimitry Vassiliev,
Russian ski jumper ·
1979 Craig Wing, Australian rugby player ·
1980 Todd Dunivant, American soccer player ·
1980 Ceylan Ertem, Turkish singer ·
1981 Pablo Canavosio, Argentinian-Italian rugby
player ·
1981 Nikolai Nikolaeff,
Australian actor ·
1982 Kenneth Darby, American football player ·
1982 Noel Hunt, Irish footballer ·
1982 Aksel Lund Svindal,
Norwegian skier ·
1983 Yu Takahashi, Japanese singer-songwriter ·
1983 Alexander Wang,
American fashion designer ·
1984 Ahmed Barusso, Ghanaian footballer ·
1984 Leonardo Ghiraldini,
Italian rugby player ·
1984 Alex Schwazer, Italian race walker ·
1985 Beth Behrs, American actress ·
1986 Kit Harington, English actor ·
1986 Hugo Lloris, French footballer ·
1986 Selen Soyder, Turkish actress and beauty
queen ·
1989 Yohan Blake, Jamaican sprinter ·
1990 Jon Bellion, American rapper, singer,
songwriter and record producer ·
1990 Andy Biersack, American singer-songwriter ·
1990 Denis Cheryshev, Russian footballer ·
1990 Aaron Ramsey, Welsh footballer[10] ·
1991 Eden Sher, American actress ·
1992 Cecilia Costa Melgar,
Chilean tennis player ·
1992 Jade Thirlwall, English singer ·
1994 Souleymane Coulibaly,
Ivorian footballer Deaths[edit]
·
268 Dionysius, pope of the Catholic Church ·
418 Zosimus, pope of the Catholic Church ·
831 Euthymius of Sardis,
Byzantine bishop and saint (b. 754) ·
865 Zheng,
empress of the Tang Dynasty ·
893 Masrur al-Balkhi, Abbasid general ·
1006 Gao Qiong, Chinese general (b. 935) ·
1191 Reginald Fitz
Jocelin, archbishop-elect of Canterbury ·
1302 Valdemar,
king of Sweden (b. 1239) ·
1331 Philip I,
Prince of Taranto, titular Latin Emperor (b. 1278) ·
1350 Jean de Marigny, French archbishop ·
1352 John, 3rd Earl of
Kent, English politician (b. 1330) ·
1360 Thomas
Holland, 1st Earl of Kent, English commander (b. 1314) ·
1413 Michele Steno, doge of Venice (b. 1331) ·
1441 Niccolς III d'Este,
marquess of Ferrara ·
1458 Arthur III,
duke of Brittany (b. 1393) ·
1476 Galeazzo Maria
Sforza, duke of Milan (b. 1444) ·
1530 Babur, Mongolian emperor (b. 1483) ·
1574 Charles de
Lorraine, French cardinal (b. 1524) ·
1646 Henri
de Bourbon, prince of Condι (b. 1588) ·
1731 Antoine Houdar
de la Motte, French author (b. 1672) ·
1771 Claude Adrien
Helvιtius, French philosopher and activist (b. 1715) ·
1780 John
Fothergill, English physician and botanist (b. 1712) ·
1784 Seth Warner, American colonel (b. 1743) ·
1786 Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic
(b. 1713) ·
1863 Francis
Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant
of Tyrone (b. 1775) ·
1869 Jean
Lιonard Marie Poiseuille, French physician and physiologist (b.
1797) ·
1890 Heinrich Schliemann,
German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822) ·
1909 Frederic Remington,
American painter and illustrator (b. 1861) ·
1923 Dietrich Eckart, German journalist, poet,
and politician (b. 1868) ·
1925 Jan Letzel, Czech architect, designed
the Hiroshima Peace
Memorial (b. 1880) ·
1929 Albert Giraud, Belgian poet (b. 1860) ·
1931 Melvil Dewey, American librarian and
educator, created the Dewey
Decimal Classification (b. 1851) ·
1933 Anatoly Lunacharsky,
Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875) ·
1933 Henry Watson Fowler,
English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858) ·
1959 Jack Tresadern, English footballer and
manager (b. 1890) ·
1960 Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and
philosopher (b. 1889) ·
1963 Gorgeous George, American wrestler (b. 1915) ·
1966 Ina Boudier-Bakker,
Dutch author (b. 1875) ·
1966 Herbert Otto Gille,
German general (b. 1897) ·
1966 Guillermo Stαbile,
Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1905) ·
1968 Weegee, Ukrainian-American photographer and
journalist (b. 1898) ·
1970 Lillian Board, South African-English runner
(b. 1948) ·
1972 Harry S. Truman, American colonel and
politician, 33rd President
of the United States (b. 1884) ·
1973 Harold B. Lee, American religious leader,
11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (b. 1899) ·
1974 Farid al-Atrash, Syrian-Egyptian
singer-songwriter, oud player, and actor
(b. 1915) ·
1974 Jack Benny, American comedian, vaudevillian,
actor, and violinist (b. 1894) ·
1974 Frederick
Dalrymple-Hamilton, Scottish admiral (b. 1890) ·
1977 Howard Hawks, American director and
screenwriter (b. 1896) ·
1980 Tony Smith,
American sculptor and educator (b. 1912) ·
1981 Amber Reeves, New Zealand-English author and
scholar (b. 1887) ·
1981 Suat Hayri άrgόplό,
Turkish politician, Prime Minister
of Turkey (b. 1903) ·
1981 Savitri,
Indian actress, playback singer, dancer, director and producer (b. 1936) ·
1986 Elsa Lanchester, English-American actress
(b. 1902) ·
1987 Dorothy Bliss, American invertebrate
zoologist, curator at the American Museum of Natural History (b. 1916) ·
1988 Glenn McCarthy, American businessman,
founded the Shamrock Hotel (b.
1907) ·
1988 Pablo Sorozαbal,
German-Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1897) ·
1989 Doug Harvey,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924) ·
1990 Gene
Callahan, American art director and production designer (b. 1923) ·
1994 Sylva Koscina, Italian actress (b. 1933) ·
1996 JonBenιt Ramsey,
American child beauty queen and prominent unsolved murder victim (b. 1990) ·
1997 Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and
academic (b. 1910) ·
1997 Cornelius
Castoriadis, Greek economist and philosopher (b. 1922) ·
1998 Ram Swarup, Indian writer on Hindu
philosophy and religion (b. 1920) ·
1999 Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter
and producer (b. 1942) ·
1999 Shankar Dayal Sharma,
Indian academic and politician, 9th President of India (b.
1918) ·
2000 Jason Robards, American actor (b. 1922) ·
2001 Nigel Hawthorne, English actor (b. 1929) ·
2002 Herb Ritts, American photographer and
director (b. 1952) ·
2002 Armand Zildjian, American businessman,
founded the Avedis Zildjian
Company (b. 1921) ·
2003 Virginia Coffey, American civil rights
activist (b. 1904) ·
2004 Troy Broadbridge, Australian footballer (b.
1980) ·
2004 Jonathan
Drummond-Webb, South African surgeon and academic (b. 1959) ·
2004 Sigurd Kψhn, Norwegian saxophonist and
composer (b. 1959) ·
2004 Angus Ogilvy, English businessman (b. 1928) ·
2004 Mieszko Talarczyk,
Polish-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1974) ·
2004 Reggie White, American football player and
wrestler (b. 1961) ·
2005 Muriel Costa-Greenspon,
American soprano (b. 1937) ·
2005 Ted Ditchburn, English footballer and
manager (b. 1921) ·
2005 Kerry Packer, Australian publisher and
businessman (b. 1937) ·
2005 Viacheslav Platonov,
Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1939) ·
2005 Vincent Schiavelli,
American actor (b. 1948) ·
2005 Erich Topp, German commander (b. 1914) ·
2006 Gerald Ford, American commander, lawyer, and
politician, 38th President
of the United States (b. 1913) ·
2006 Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier and engineer (b.
1951) ·
2006 Munir Niazi, Indian-Pakistani poet (b. 1928) ·
2009 Felix Wurman, American cellist and composer
(b. 1958) ·
2010 Salvador Jorge
Blanco, 48th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1926) ·
2010 Edward Bhengu, South African activist (b.
1934) ·
2010 Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and
producer (b. 1956) ·
2011 Houston Antwine, American football player
(b. 1939) ·
2011 Pedro Armendαriz,
Jr., Mexican-American actor and producer (b. 1940) ·
2011 Sarekoppa Bangarappa,
Indian politician, 15th Chief
Minister of Karnataka (b. 1932) ·
2011 Joe Bodolai, American screenwriter and
producer (b. 1948) ·
2011 James Rizzi, American painter and
illustrator (b. 1950) ·
2012 Gerry Anderson, English director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1929) ·
2012 Gerald McDermott, American author and
illustrator (b. 1941) ·
2012 Ibrahim Tannous, Lebanese general (b. 1929) ·
2013 Paul Blair,
American baseball player and coach (b. 1944) ·
2013 Marta Eggerth, Hungarian-American actress
and singer (b. 1912) ·
2014 Stanisław
Barańczak, Polish-American poet, critic, and scholar (b.
1946) ·
2014 James B. Edwards, American dentist, soldier,
and politician, 3rd United
States Secretary of Energy (b. 1927) ·
2014 Leo Tindemans, Belgian politician,
43rd Prime Minister
of Belgium (b. 1922) ·
2015 Sidney Mintz, American anthropologist and
academic (b. 1922) ·
2015 Jim O'Toole, American baseball player (b.
1937) ·
2016 Ricky Harris, American comedian, actor (b.
1962) ·
2016 George S. Irving, American actor, singer and
dancer (b. 1922) ·
2017 Irv Weinstein, American broadcaster and
television news anchor (b. 1930) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Boxing Day, except when December 26 is a
Sunday. If it is a Sunday, Boxing Day is transferred to December 27 by Royal Proclamation. (Commonwealth of
Nations), and its related observances: o Day of Good Will (South
Africa and Namibia) o Thanksgiving
(Solomon Islands) ·
Christian feast day: o Abadiu of Antinoe (Coptic
Church) o Earliest
day on which Feast of the Holy Family can
fall, celebrated on Sunday after Christmas or 30 if Christmas falls on a
Sunday. o James the Just (Eastern Orthodox
Church) o Synaxis of the Theotokos (Eastern
Orthodox Church) o December
26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Independence
and Unity Day (Slovenia) ·
Mauro Hamza Day (Houston, Texas) ·
Mummer's Day (Padstow, Cornwall) ·
St. Stephen's Day (public
holiday in Alsace, Austria, Catalonia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hong
Kong, Italy, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland), and its
related observances: ·
The first day of Kwanzaa, celebrated until January 1 (United
States) ·
The first day of Junkanoo street parade, the second day
is on the New Year's Day (The Bahamas) ·
The second day of the Twelve Days of
Christmas (Western Christianity) o Second
day of Christmas (Public holiday in the
Netherlands, Poland and Slovakia) ·
Wren Day (Ireland and the Isle of Man) |
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