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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 29 is the 363rd day of the
year (364th in leap years) in
the Gregorian calendar.
Two days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit]
·
875 – Charles the Bald, King of the Franks, is crowned as Holy Roman Emperor Charles
II. ·
1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of
Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by
followers of King Henry II;
he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Communion and
the Catholic Church. ·
1427 – The Ming army begins its withdrawal
from Hanoi, ending the Chinese
domination of Đại
Việt. ·
1503 – The Battle of
Garigliano (1503) was fought between a Spanish army
under Gonzalo
Fernández de Córdoba and a French army commanded by Ludovico
II, Marquess of Saluzzo. ·
1508 – Portuguese forces
under the command of Francisco de Almeida attack Khambhat at the Battle of Dabul. ·
1778 – American
Revolutionary War: Three thousand British soldiers under the
command of Lieutenant
Colonel Archibald Campbell capture Savannah, Georgia. ·
1812 – USS Constitution, under the
command of Captain William Bainbridge,
captures HMS Java off
the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle. ·
1835 – The Treaty of New Echota is
signed, ceding all the lands of the Cherokee east of the Mississippi River to
the United States. ·
1845 – In accordance
with International Boundary
delimitation, the United States annexes the Republic of Texas,
following the manifest destiny doctrine.
The Republic of Texas, which had been independent since the Texas Revolution
of 1836, is thereupon admitted as the 28th U.S. state. ·
1851 – The first
American YMCA opens in Boston, Massachusetts. ·
1860 – The launch
of HMS Warrior,
with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships
obsolete. ·
1874 – The military
coup of Gen.
Martinez Campos in Sagunto ends the failed First Spanish
Republic and the monarchy is restored as Prince Alfonso is
proclaimed King of Spain. ·
1876 – The Ashtabula
River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92
dead at Ashtabula, Ohio. ·
1890 – Wounded Knee
Massacre on Pine Ridge
Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United
States 7th Cavalry Regiment. ·
1911 – Mongolia gains independence from
the Qing dynasty,
enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia. ·
1911 – Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional
President of the Republic of China;
he formally takes office on January 1, 1912. ·
1916 – A
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel
by James Joyce, was
first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis
after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15). ·
1930 – Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address
in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and
outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan. ·
1934 – Japan renounces
the Washington Naval
Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of
1930. ·
1937 – The Irish Free State is replaced by a new
state called Ireland with
the adoption of a new constitution. ·
1940 – World War II: In the Second Great
Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, England, killing almost 200
civilians. ·
1949 – KC2XAK of Bridgeport,
Connecticut becomes the first Ultra high frequency (UHF)
television station to operate a daily schedule. ·
1972 – Eastern Air
Lines Flight 401 (a Lockheed L-1011
TriStar) crashes in the Florida Everglades on
approach to Miami
International Airport, Florida, killing 101 of the 176 people on
board. ·
1975 – A bomb
explodes at LaGuardia Airport in
New York City, killing 11 people and injuring 74. ·
1989 – Czech writer,
philosopher and dissident Václav Havel is elected the first
post-communist President of Czechoslovakia. ·
1989 – The Nikkei 225 for the Tokyo Stock Exchange hits
its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87,
serving as the apex of the Japanese
asset price bubble.[1] ·
1992 – Fernando Collor
de Mello, president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption
charges, but is then impeached. ·
1994 – Turkish
Airlines Flight 278 (a Boeing 737-400)
crashes on approach to Van Ferit Melen
Airport in Van, Turkey, killing 57 of the 76 people on
board.[2] ·
1996 – Guatemala and leaders of Guatemalan
National Revolutionary Unity sign a peace accord ending a
36-year civil war. ·
1997 – Hong Kong
begins to kill all the city's 1.25 million chickens to stop the spread of a
potentially deadly influenza strain. ·
1998 – Leaders of
the Khmer Rouge apologize
for the 1970s genocide in Cambodia that claimed over one million
lives. ·
2003 – The last known
speaker of Akkala Sami dies,
rendering the language extinct. ·
2006 – The UK settles
its Anglo-American loan,
post-WWII loan debt. ·
2012 – A Tupolev Tu-204 airliner crashes in
a ditch between the airport fence and the M3 highway after
overshooting a runway at Vnukovo
International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing five people
and leaving three others critically injured. ·
2013 – A suicide
bomb attack at the Volgograd-1
railway station in the southern Russian city of Volgograd kills at least 18 people and
wounds 40 others. Births[edit]
·
765 – Ali al-Ridha, Arab scholar and imam (d. 818) ·
1019 – Munjong,
Korean ruler (d. 1083) ·
1536 – Henry VI,
German nobleman (d. 1572) ·
1550 – García de Silva
Figueroa, Spanish diplomat and traveller (d. 1624) ·
1633 – Johannes Zollikofer,
Swiss vicar (d. 1692) ·
1709 – Elizabeth Petrovna,
Russian empress (d. 1762) ·
1746 – Saverio Cassar, Maltese priest and rebel
leader (d. 1805) ·
1766 – Charles Macintosh,
Scottish chemist and the inventor of waterproof fabric (d. 1843) ·
1796 – Johann
Christian Poggendorff, German physicist and journalist (d. 1877) ·
1800 – Charles Goodyear, American chemist and
engineer (d. 1860) ·
1808 – Andrew Johnson, American general and
politician, 17th President
of the United States (d. 1875) ·
1809 – William Ewart
Gladstone, English lawyer and politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1898) ·
1816 – Carl Ludwig, German physician and
physiologist (d. 1895) ·
1844 – Womesh Chunder
Bonnerjee, Indian barrister and was the first president of Indian
National Congress. (d. 1906) ·
1855 – August Kitzberg, Estonian author and poet
(d. 1927) ·
1856 – Thomas Joannes
Stieltjes, Dutch-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894) ·
1859 – Venustiano Carranza,
Mexican soldier and politician, 37th President of Mexico (d.
1920) ·
1874 – François Brandt,
Dutch rower and bishop (d. 1949) ·
1876 – Pablo Casals, Catalan cellist and conductor
(d. 1973) ·
1876 – Lionel Tertis, English violist (d. 1975)[3] ·
1879 – Billy Mitchell, American general and pilot
(d. 1936) ·
1881 – Jess Willard, American boxer (d. 1968) ·
1885 – Roman von
Ungern-Sternberg, Austrian-Russian general (d. 1921) ·
1886 – Norman Hallows, English runner and captain
(d. 1968) ·
1895 – Oswald Freisler, German lawyer and author
(d. 1939) ·
1896 – David Alfaro
Siqueiros, Mexican painter (d. 1974) ·
1899 – Nie Rongzhen, Chinese general and
politician, Mayor of Beijing (d.
1992) ·
1902 – Nels Stewart, Canadian ice hockey player (d.
1957) ·
1903 – Candido Portinari,
Brazilian painter (d. 1962) ·
1904 – Kuvempu, Indian author and poet (d. 1994) ·
1908 – Helmut Gollwitzer,
German theologian and author (d. 1993) ·
1908 – Magnus Pyke, English scientist and author
(d. 1992) ·
1910 – Ronald Coase, English-American economist,
author, and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2013) ·
1911 – Klaus Fuchs, German physicist and spy (d.
1988) ·
1914 – Zainul Abedin, Bangladeshi painter and
academic (d. 1976) ·
1914 – Billy Tipton, American pianist and
saxophonist (d. 1989) ·
1914 – Albert Tucker,
Australian painter and illustrator (d. 1999) ·
1915 – Bill Osmanski, American football player and
coach (d. 1996) ·
1915 – Robert Ruark, American hunter and author (d.
1965) ·
1915 – Jo Van Fleet, American actress (d. 1996) ·
1917 – Tom
Bradley, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 38th Mayor of Los Angeles (d.
1998) ·
1917 – Ramanand Sagar, Indian director and producer
(d. 2005) ·
1919 – Alfred de Grazia, American political
scientist and author (d. 2014) ·
1919 – Roman Vlad, Italian pianist and composer (d.
2013) ·
1920 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish-American actress,
singer and poet (d. 1995) ·
1921 – Dobrica
Ćosić, Serbian politician, 1st President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (d.
2014) ·
1922 – Little Joe Cook, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2014) ·
1922 – William Gaddis, American author and academic
(d. 1998) ·
1923 – Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian,
anthropologist, and physicist (d. 1986) ·
1923 – Morton Estrin, American pianist and educator
(d. 2017) ·
1923 – Dina Merrill, American actress, game show
panelist, socialite, heiress, and businesswoman (d. 2017) ·
1923 – Shlomo Venezia, Greek-Italian author
and Holocaust survivor (d.
2012) ·
1923 – Yvonne
Choquet-Bruhat, French mathematician and physicist ·
1924 – Joe Allbritton, American businessman and
publisher, founded the Allbritton
Communications Company (d. 2012) ·
1924 – Kim Song-ae, Korean politician (d. 2014) ·
1925 – Pete Dye, American golfer and architect (d.
2020) ·
1927 – Andy Stanfield, American sprinter (d. 1985) ·
1929 – Matt Murphy,
American guitarist (d. 2018) ·
1931 – Stasys Stonkus, Lithuanian basketball player
and coach (d. 2012) ·
1932 – Inga Swenson, American actress and singer ·
1933 – Samuel Brittan, English journalist and
author ·
1934 – Ed Flanders, American actor (d. 1995) ·
1934 – Forough Farrokhzad,
Iranian poet and filmmaker (d. 1967) ·
1936 – Mary Tyler Moore, American actress and
producer (d. 2017) ·
1936 – Ray Nitschke, American football player (d.
1998) ·
1937 – Wayne Huizenga, American businessman,
founded AutoNation (d.
2018) ·
1938 – Harvey Smith,
English horse rider and sportscaster ·
1938 – Jon Voight, American actor and producer ·
1939 – Ed Bruce, American country music
singer-songwriter ·
1941 – Ray Thomas, English singer-songwriter and
flute player (d. 2018) ·
1942 – Rajesh Khanna, Indian actor (d. 2012) ·
1942 – Óscar
Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Honduran cardinal ·
1943 – Bill Aucoin, American talent manager (d.
2010) ·
1943 – Molly Bang, American author and illustrator ·
1943 – Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass
player, and producer (d. 1999) ·
1944 – Rodney Redmond, New Zealand cricketer ·
1945 – Birendra of Nepal,
King of Nepal from 1972 to 2001 (d. 2001) ·
1946 – Marianne Faithfull,
English singer-songwriter and actress ·
1946 – Laffit Pincay, Jr.,
Panamanian jockey ·
1947 – Richard Crandall, American physicist and
computer scientist (d. 2012) ·
1947 – Ted Danson, American actor and producer ·
1947 – Leonhard Lapin, Estonian architect and poet ·
1947 – Cozy Powell, English drummer, songwriter,
and producer (d. 1998) ·
1947 – David Tanner,
English rower and coach ·
1947 – Vincent Winter, Scottish actor, director,
and production manager (d. 1998) ·
1948 – Peter
Robinson, Northern Irish politician, 3rd First
Minister of Northern Ireland ·
1949 – David Topliss, English rugby league player
and coach (d. 2008) ·
1951 – Yvonne Elliman, American singer-songwriter
and actress ·
1952 – Gelsey Kirkland, American ballerina and
choreographer ·
1953 – Thomas Bach, German fencer, lawyer and
sports administrator; 9th President of the International
Olympic Committee ·
1953 – Alan Rusbridger, Zambia-born English
journalist and academic ·
1953 – Kate Schmidt, American javelin thrower and
coach ·
1953 – Stanley Williams, American gang leader,
co-founded the Crips (d. 2005) ·
1953 – Charlayne Woodard,
American actress and playwright ·
1954 – Albrecht Böttcher,
German mathematician and author ·
1954 – Roger Voudouris, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 2003) ·
1955 – Donald D. Hoffman,
American quantitative
psychologist and popular science writer ·
1956 – Katy Munger, American writer ·
1957 – Brad Grey, American screenwriter and
producer (d. 2017) ·
1957 – Oliver Hirschbiegel,
German actor, director, and producer ·
1957 – Iain Paxton, Scottish rugby player and coach ·
1957 – Paul Rudnick, American author, playwright,
and screenwriter ·
1958 – Nancy J. Currie, American colonel, engineer,
and astronaut ·
1959 – Keith Crossan, Irish rugby player ·
1959 – Patricia Clarkson,
American actress ·
1959 – Ann Demeulemeester,
Belgian fashion designer ·
1959 – Milton Ottey, Jamaican-Canadian high jumper
and coach ·
1959 – Paula Poundstone, American comedian and
author ·
1960 – David Boon, Australian cricketer ·
1960 – David Gilbert,
Australian cricketer ·
1960 – Thomas Lubanga Dyilo,
Congolese militia leader, founded the Union of
Congolese Patriots ·
1961 – Kevin Granata, American engineer and
academic (d. 2007) ·
1961 – Jim Reid, Scottish singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1961 – Richard Horton,
English physician and journalist ·
1962 – Wynton Rufer, New Zealand footballer ·
1962 – Devon White,
Jamaican-American baseball player ·
1962 – Carles Puigdemont,
Catalan politician and former president ·
1963 – Des Foy, English rugby player ·
1963 – Dave McKean, English illustrator,
photographer, director, and pianist ·
1963 – Sean Payton, American football player and
coach ·
1963 – Liisa Savijarvi, Canadian skier ·
1964 – Michael Cudlitz, American actor ·
1965 – Laurent Boudouani,
French boxer ·
1965 – Dexter Holland, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1965 – Danilo Pérez, Panamanian pianist and
composer ·
1966 – Stefano Eranio, Italian footballer and coach ·
1966 – Martin Offiah, English rugby league player
and sportscaster ·
1966 – Jeff Luhnow, American businessman ·
1967 – Ashleigh Banfield,
Canadian-American journalist ·
1967 – Evan Seinfeld, American bass player, actor,
and director ·
1967 – Lilly Wachowski, American director,
screenwriter and producer[4] ·
1968 – Ri Pun-hui, North Korean table tennis player ·
1969 – Jennifer Ehle, American actress ·
1969 – Allan McNish, Scottish race car driver and
journalist ·
1970 – Enrico Chiesa, Italian footballer and
manager ·
1970 – Aled Jones, Welsh singer and television host ·
1970 – Glen Phillips,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Toad the Wet
Sprocket) ·
1971 – Besnik Hasi, Kosovo Albanian football
manager and former player ·
1972 – Jude Law, English actor ·
1973 – Theo Epstein, American businessman ·
1974 – Twinkle Khanna, Indian actress and writer ·
1974 – Mekhi Phifer, American actor and producer ·
1974 – Richie Sexson, American baseball player and
coach ·
1974 – Ryan Shore, Canadian composer and producer ·
1975 – Shawn Hatosy, American actor ·
1975 – Jaret Wright, American baseball player ·
1976 – Filip Kuba, Czech ice hockey player ·
1976 – Danny McBride, American actor, producer and
screenwriter ·
1977 – Jimmy Journell, American baseball player ·
1978 – Jake Berry, English lawyer and politician ·
1978 – Matthew Carr, Australian footballer ·
1978 – Kieron Dyer, English footballer and coach ·
1978 – Danny Higginbotham,
English footballer and journalist ·
1978 – Steve Kemp,
English drummer ·
1978 – Angelo Taylor, American athlete[5] ·
1979 – Mitsuhiro Ishida, Japanese mixed martial
artist ·
1979 – Diego Luna, Mexican actor, director and
producer ·
1979 – Moe Oshikiri, Japanese model and actress ·
1979 – George Parros, American ice hockey player ·
1981 – Shizuka Arakawa, Japanese figure skater and
sportscaster ·
1981 – Shaun Suisham, American football player ·
1981 – Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko,
Estonian footballer ·
1982 – Alison Brie, American actress and singer ·
1982 – Brian Hill,
Canadian swimmer ·
1982 – Dale Morris, Australian footballer ·
1982 – Norbert Siedler, Austrian race car driver ·
1983 – Jessica Andrews, American singer-songwriter ·
1983 – James
Kelly, Australian footballer ·
1984 – Brenton Lawrence, Australian rugby league
player ·
1984 – Reimo Tamm, Estonian basketball player ·
1985 – Alexa Ray Joel, American singer-songwriter ·
1986 – Joe Anyon, English footballer ·
1987 – Juliana Huxtable, American artist[6] ·
1987 – Iain De Caestecker,
Scottish actor ·
1987 – Yuhi Sekiguchi, Japanese race car driver ·
1988 – Eric Berry, American football player ·
1988 – Christen Press, American footballer ·
1988 – Ágnes Szávay,
Hungarian tennis player ·
1989 – Kei Nishikori, Japanese tennis player ·
1993 – Travis Head, Australian cricketer ·
1993 – Gabby May, Canadian artistic gymnast[7] ·
1995 – Ross Lynch, American singer and actor ·
1996 – Sana Minatozaki, Japanese singer (Twice)[8] ·
1997 – Felix Keisinger, German skeleton racer ·
2000 – Eliot Vassamillet,
Belgian singer Deaths[edit]
·
721 – Empress Genmei of Japan (b. 660) ·
1125 – Agnes I,
Abbess of Quedlinburg (b.c. 1090) ·
1170 – Thomas Becket, English archbishop and saint
(b. 1118) ·
1208 – Emperor
Zhangzong of Jin, (b. 1168) ·
1380 – Elizabeth of Poland,
queen consort of Hungary (b. 1305)[9] ·
1416 – Mathew Swetenham, bow bearer of Henry IV ·
1550 – Bhuvanaikabahu
VII, King of Kotte (b. 1468) ·
1563 – Sebastian Castellio,
French preacher and theologian (b. 1515) ·
1565 – Queen Munjeong of Korea (b. 1501) ·
1606 – Stephen Bocskay, Prince of Transylvania (b.
1557) ·
1634 – John Albert Vasa, Polish cardinal (b. 1612) ·
1661 – Antoine
Girard de Saint-Amant, French poet (b. 1594) ·
1689 – Thomas Sydenham, English physician and
author (b. 1624) ·
1720 – Maria Margarethe
Kirch, German astronomer and educator (b. 1670) ·
1731 – Brook Taylor, English mathematician and
theorist (b. 1685) ·
1737 – Joseph Saurin, French minister and
mathematician (b. 1659) ·
1785 – Johan Herman Wessel,
Norwegian-Danish poet and playwright (b. 1742) ·
1807 – Diogo de
Carvalho e Sampayo, Portuguese diplomat and scientist (b. 1750) ·
1815 – Sarah Baartman, Khoikhoi woman (b. 1789) ·
1825 – Jacques-Louis David,
French painter and illustrator (b. 1748) ·
1887 – Ferdinand
Johann Wiedemann, Estonian-Russian linguist and botanist (b. 1805) ·
1890 – Spotted Elk, American tribal leader (b.
1826) ·
1891 – Leopold Kronecker,
Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823) ·
1894 – Christina Rossetti,
English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830) ·
1897 – William James Linton,
English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812) ·
1900 – John Henry Leech, English entomologist (b.
1862) ·
1910 – Reginald Doherty, English tennis player (b.
1872) ·
1924 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1845) ·
1925 – Félix Vallotton,
Swiss/French painter (b. 1865) ·
1926 – Rainer Maria Rilke,
Austrian poet and author (b. 1875) ·
1929 – Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and
businessman, founded Maybach (b. 1846) ·
1937 – Don Marquis, American journalist, author,
and playwright (b. 1878) ·
1941 – Tullio Levi-Civita,
Italian mathematician and scholar (b. 1873) ·
1944 – Khasan Israilov, Chechen rebel (b. 1910) ·
1949 – Tyler Dennett, American historian and author
(b. 1883) ·
1952 – Fletcher Henderson,
American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1897) ·
1959 – Robin Milford, English soldier and composer
(b. 1903) ·
1960 – Eden Phillpotts, English author and poet (b.
1862) ·
1967 – Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer,
and conductor (b. 1890) ·
1968 – Austin Farrer, English theologian and
philosopher (b. 1904) ·
1970 – Marie Menken, American director and painter
(b. 1909) ·
1972 – Joseph Cornell, American sculptor and
director (b. 1903) ·
1972 – Chrysostomos
Papasarantopoulos, Greek priest and missionary (b. 1903) ·
1976 – Ivo Van Damme, Belgian runner (b. 1954) ·
1980 – Nadezhda Mandelstam,
Russian author and educator (b. 1899) ·
1981 – Miroslav Krleža,
Croatian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893) ·
1986 – Harold Macmillan, English captain and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894) ·
1986 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and
screenwriter (b. 1932) ·
1988 – Mike Beuttler, Egyptian race car driver (b.
1940) ·
1996 – Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter
and actress (b. 1906) ·
1998 – Jean-Claude Forest,
French author and illustrator (b. 1930) ·
1999 – Leon Radzinowicz, Polish-English
criminologist and academic (b. 1906) ·
2000 – Adele Stimmel Chase,
American sculptor and painter (b. 1917) ·
2001 – Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b.
1908) ·
2003 – Bob Monkhouse, English comedian, actor, and
game show host (b. 1928) ·
2004 – Julius Axelrod, American biochemist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1912) ·
2004 – Ken Burkhart, American baseball player and
umpire (b. 1915) ·
2007 – Phil
O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (b. 1972) ·
2008 – Freddie Hubbard, American trumpet player and
composer (b. 1938) ·
2009 – Steven
Williams, American professional wrestler (b. 1960) ·
2010 – Avi Cohen, Israeli footballer and manager
(b. 1956)[10] ·
2012 – Tony Greig, South African-Australian
cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1946) ·
2012 – Roland
Griffiths-Marsh, Australian soldier and author (b. 1923) ·
2012 – Edward Meneeley, American painter and
sculptor (b. 1927) ·
2012 – Paulo Rocha,
Portuguese director and screenwriter (b. 1935) ·
2012 – Bruce Stark, American cartoonist (b. 1933) ·
2013 – C. T. Hsia, Chinese-American critic and
scholar (b. 1921) ·
2013 – Benjamin
Curtis, American guitarist, drummer, and songwriter (b. 1978) ·
2013 – Connie Dierking, American basketball player
(b. 1936) ·
2013 – Eero Mäntyranta,
Finnish skier (b. 1937) ·
2013 – Jagadish Mohanty, Indian author and translator
(b. 1951) ·
2013 – Wojciech Kilar, Polish classical and film
music composer (b. 1932)[11] ·
2014 – Hari Harilela, Indian-Hong Kong businessman
and philanthropist (b. 1922) ·
2014 – Juanito Remulla, Sr.,
Filipino lawyer and politician, Governor of Cavite (b.
1933) ·
2015 – Om Prakash Malhotra,
Indian general and politician, 25th Governor
of Punjab (b. 1922) ·
2015 – Pavel Srníček,
Czech footballer and coach (b. 1968)[12] ·
2016 – Keion Carpenter, American football defensive
back (b. 1977) ·
2016 – LaVell Edwards, American football head coach
(b. 1930) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o David, King and prophet (Catholic, Lutheran) o December
29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
The fifth day of Christmas (Western Christianity) ·
The fourth day of Kwanzaa (United States) |
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