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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 4 is the 338th day of the year (339th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
27 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
– Austrasian king Carloman I dies, leaving his
brother Charlemagne king
of the now complete Frankish Kingdom. ·
1110 – The Kingdom of Jerusalem captures Sidon. ·
1259 – Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree
to the Treaty of Paris,
in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on
continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing
his support for English rebels. ·
1563 – The final
session of the Council of Trent is
held. (It had opened on December 13, 1545.) ·
1619 –
Thirty-eight colonists arrive
at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia.
The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually
kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God." ·
1676 – The Danish army
under the command of King Christian V engages
the Swedish army commanded by the Swedish king Charles XI at the Battle of Lund, to this day it is counted as
the bloodiest battle in Scandinavian history and a turning point in the Scanian War. ·
1745 – Charles Edward
Stuart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the Second Jacobite
Rising. ·
1783 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S.
General George Washington bids farewell to his
officers. ·
1786 – Mission Santa Barbara is
dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara). ·
1791 – The first
edition of The Observer,
the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published. ·
1829 – In the face of
fierce local opposition, British Governor-General Lord William
Bentinck issues a regulation declaring that anyone who
abets suttee in Bengal is
guilty of culpable homicide. ·
1861 – The 109 Electors of
the several states of the Confederate
States of America unanimously elect Jefferson Davis as President and Alexander H.
Stephens as Vice President. ·
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's
March to the Sea: At Waynesboro, Georgia,
forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops
led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with
Union General William T. Sherman's
campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic
Ocean from Atlanta. ·
1865 – North Carolina ratifies 13th
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed soon by Georgia,
and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks. ·
1867 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds
the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange). ·
1872 – The crewless
American brigantine Mary Celeste,
drifting in the Atlantic, is discovered by the Canadian brig Dei
Gratia. The ship has been abandoned for nine days but is only slightly
damaged. Her master Benjamin Briggs and all nine others
known to have been on board are never accounted for.[1] ·
1875 – Notorious New
York City politician Boss Tweed escapes
from prison; he is later recaptured in Spain. ·
1881 – The first
edition of the Los Angeles Times is
published. ·
1893 – First Matabele War:
A patrol of 34 British
South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than
3,000 Matabele warriors
on the Shangani River in Matabeleland. ·
1906 – Alpha Phi Alpha the first black
intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University
in Ithaca, New York. ·
1909 – In Canadian football,
the First Grey Cup game
is played. The University of
Toronto Varsity Blues defeat
the Toronto
Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6. ·
1909 – The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving
professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of
the National
Hockey Association. ·
1918 – U.S.
President Woodrow Wilson sails
for the World War I peace talks in Versailles,
becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office. ·
1939 – World War II: HMS Nelson is struck by
a mine (laid by U-31)
off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940. ·
1942 – World War
II: Carlson's patrol during
the Guadalcanal Campaign ends. ·
1943 – World War II:
In Yugoslavia,
resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional
democratic Yugoslav government in-exile. ·
1943 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D.
Roosevelt closes down the Works
Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime
employment in the United States. ·
1945 – By a vote of
65–7, the United States Senate approves
United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established
on October 24, 1945.) ·
1949 – Sir Duncan
George Stewart was fatally stabbed by Rosli Dhobi, a member leader of the Rukun 13, in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia during the British crown
colony era in that state. ·
1954 – The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida. ·
1956 – The Million Dollar
Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time. ·
1964 – Free Speech Movement:
Police arrest over 800 students at the University
of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at
the administration building in protest of the UC
Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property.[2] ·
1965 – The Grateful Dead's first concert performance
under this new name. ·
1965 – Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the
passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew
of Gemini 6A. ·
1967 – Vietnam War: U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta. ·
1969 – Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are
shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers. ·
1971 – The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi. ·
1971 – The PNS Ghazi, a submarine belonging to
the Pakistan Navy,
sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani
Naval War of 1971. ·
1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa,
president of the Central African
Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African
Empire. ·
1977 – Malaysian
Airline System Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong
Kupang, Johor, killing 100. ·
1978 – Following the
murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor. ·
1979 – The Hastie fire
in Hull kills
three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter
Lee. ·
1981 – South Africa
grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland"
(not recognized by any government outside South Africa). ·
1982 – The People's
Republic of China adopts its current constitution. ·
1983 – US Navy aircraft
from USS John F.
Kennedy and USS Independence attack
Syrian Missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being
fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are
shot down. 1 American pilot was killed, one was rescued and one is captured.[3] ·
1984 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107–150
civilians in Mannar. ·
1991 – Terry A. Anderson is
released after seven years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut; he is the last and longest-held
American hostage in Lebanon. ·
1991 – Pan American
World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years. ·
1992 – Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders
28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa. ·
1998 – The Unity Module, the second module of
the International
Space Station, is launched. ·
2005 – Tens of
thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on
the government to
allow universal and equal
suffrage. ·
2006 – Six black youths assault a white
teenager in Jena, Louisiana. ·
2014 – Islamic
insurgents kill three state police at
a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house"
in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured
in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed. ·
2015 – A firebomb is
thrown into a restaurant in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing 17 people. ·
2017 – The Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan is
imploded, one day after failing to be imploded. ·
2017 – The Thomas Fire starts near Santa Paula in California. It eventually becomes the
largest wildfire in
modern California history (at that time) after burning 440
square miles (281,893 acres; 114,078 ha) in Ventura and Santa
Barbara Counties. Births[edit]
·
– Persius, Roman poet (d. 62) ·
– Hasan al-Askari 11th Imam of
Twelver Shia Islam (d. 874) ·
1428 – Bernard VII,
Lord of Lippe (d. 1511) ·
1506 – Thomas
Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Chiche (d. 1558) ·
1555 – Heinrich Meibom,
German poet and historian (d. 1625) ·
1575 – Sister Virginia Maria, Italian nun (d. 1650) ·
1580 – Samuel Argall, English adventurer and naval
officer (d. 1626) ·
1585 – John Cotton,
English-American minister and theologian (d. 1652) ·
1595 – Jean Chapelain, French poet and critic (d.
1674) ·
1647 – Daniel Eberlin, German soldier and composer
(d. 1715) ·
1660 – André Campra, French composer and conductor
(d. 1744) ·
1667 – Michel
Pignolet de Montéclair, French composer and educator (d. 1737) ·
1670 – John Aislabie, English politician, Chancellor of
the Exchequer (d. 1742) ·
1713 – Gasparo Gozzi, Italian playwright and critic
(d. 1786) ·
1777 – Juliette Récamier,
French businesswoman (d. 1849) ·
1795 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish-English historian,
philosopher, and academic (d. 1881) ·
1798 – Jules Armand Dufaure,
French lawyer and politician, 33rd Prime Minister
of France (d. 1881) ·
1817 – Nikoloz Baratashvili,
Georgian poet and author (d. 1845) ·
1835 – Samuel Butler,
English author and critic (d. 1902) ·
1844 – Franz Xavier Wernz,
German religious leader, 25th Superior
General of the Society of Jesus (d. 1914) ·
1861 – Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and
politician, 1st Prime Minister
of Iceland (d. 1922) ·
1865 – Edith Cavell, English nurse, humanitarian,
and saint (Anglicanism) (d.
1915) ·
1867 – Stanley Argyle, Australian politician,
32nd Premier of Victoria (d.
1940) ·
1868 – Jesse Burkett, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (d. 1953) ·
1875 – Agnes Forbes Blackadder,
Scottish medical doctor (d. 1964)[4] ·
1875 – Joe Corbett, American baseball player and
coach (d. 1945) ·
1875 – Rainer Maria Rilke,
Austrian-Swiss poet and author (d. 1926) ·
1881 – Erwin von Witzleben,
Polish-German field marshal (d. 1944) ·
1882 – Constance Davey, Australian psychologist (d.
1963) ·
1883 – Katharine
Susannah Prichard, Australian author and playwright (d. 1969) ·
1884 – R. C. Majumdar, Indian historian (d. 1980) ·
1892 – Francisco Franco, Spanish general and
dictator, Prime Minister
of Spain (d. 1975) ·
1892 – Liu Bocheng, Chinese commander and
politician (d. 1986) ·
1893 – Herbert Read, English poet and critic (d.
1968) ·
1895 – Feng Youlan, Chinese philosopher and
academic (d. 1990) ·
1897 – Robert Redfield, American anthropologist of
Mexico (d. 1958) ·
1899 – Karl-Günther
Heimsoth, German physician and politician (d. 1934) ·
1899 – Charlie Spencer, English footballer and
manager (d. 1953) ·
1903 – Cornell Woolrich, American author (d. 1968) ·
1904 – Albert Norden, German journalist and
politician (d. 1982) ·
1908 – Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist and
geneticist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1997) ·
1910 – Alex North, American composer and conductor
(d. 1991) ·
1910 – R. Venkataraman, Indian lawyer and
politician, 6th President of India (d.
2009) ·
1912 – Pappy Boyington, American colonel and
pilot, Medal of Honor recipient
(d. 1988) ·
1913 – Mark Robson,
Canadian-American director and producer (d. 1978) ·
1914 – Rudolf Hausner, Austrian painter and
sculptor (d. 1995) ·
1914 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (d.
1993) ·
1915 – Eddie Heywood, American pianist and composer
(d. 1989) ·
1916 – Ely Jacques Kahn,
Jr., American journalist and author (d. 1994) ·
1919 – I. K. Gujral, Indian poet and politician,
12th Prime Minister of
India (d. 2012) ·
1920 – Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter and
architect (d. 2013) ·
1920 – Michael Bates,
English actor (d. 1978) ·
1920 – Jeanne Manford, American educator and
activist, co-founded PFLAG (d. 2013) ·
1921 – Deanna Durbin, Canadian actress and singer
(d. 2013) ·
1923 – Charles Keating, American lawyer and
financier (d. 2014) ·
1923 – Eagle Keys, American-Canadian football
player and coach (d. 2012) ·
1923 – John Krish, English director and
screenwriter (d. 2016) ·
1924 – John C. Portman, Jr.,
American architect, designed the Renaissance Center and Tomorrow Square (d. 2017) ·
1925 – Albert Bandura, Canadian-American
psychologist and academic ·
1929 – Şakir
Eczacıbaşı, Turkish pharmacist, photographer, and
businessman (d. 2010) ·
1930 – Ronnie Corbett, Scottish actor and screenwriter
(d. 2016) ·
1930 – Jim Hall,
American guitarist and composer (d. 2013) ·
1931 – Alex Delvecchio, Canadian ice hockey player,
coach, and manager ·
1931 – Wally George, American radio and television
host (d. 2003) ·
1932 – Roh Tae-woo, South Korean general and
politician, 6th President of
South Korea ·
1933 – Wink Martindale, American game show host and
producer ·
1933 – Horst Buchholz, German actor (d. 2003) ·
1934 – Bill
Collins, Australian film critic and author (d. 2019) ·
1934 – Victor French, American actor and director
(d. 1989) ·
1935 – Paul O'Neill,
American businessman and politician, 72nd United
States Secretary of the Treasury ·
1936 – John Giorno, American poet and performance
artist (d. 2019) ·
1937 – Max Baer, Jr., American actor, director, and
producer ·
1938 – Andre Marrou, American lawyer and politician ·
1938 – Yvonne Minton, Australian-English soprano
and actress ·
1939 – Stephen W. Bosworth,
American academic and diplomat, United
States Ambassador to South Korea (d. 2016) ·
1939 – Joan
Brady, American-British author ·
1939 – Freddy Cannon, American singer and guitarist ·
1940 – Gerd Achterberg, German footballer and
manager ·
1940 – Gary Gilmore,
American murderer (d. 1977) ·
1941 – Marty Riessen, American tennis player and
coach ·
1942 – Bob Mosley, American singer-songwriter and
bass player ·
1944 – Chris Hillman, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1944 – Anna McGarrigle, Canadian musician and
singer-songwriter ·
1944 – François Migault,
French race car driver (d. 2012) ·
1944 – Dennis Wilson, American singer-songwriter,
producer, and drummer (d. 1983) ·
1945 – Roberta Bondar, Canadian neurologist,
academic, and astronaut ·
1946 – Karina,
Spanish singer/actress ·
1947 – Jane Lubchenco, American ecologist,
academic, and diplomat ·
1948 – Southside Johnny, American singer-songwriter ·
1949 – Jeff Bridges, American actor ·
1949 – Jock Stirrup,
Baron Stirrup, English air marshal and politician ·
1950 – Bjørn Kjellemyr,
Norwegian bassist and composer ·
1951 – Gary Rossington, American guitarist ·
1951 – Patricia Wettig, American actress and
playwright ·
1953 – Rick Middleton, Canadian ice hockey player
and sportscaster ·
1953 – Jean-Marie Pfaff, Belgian footballer and
manager ·
1955 – Philip Hammond, English businessman and
politician, Chancellor of
the Exchequer ·
1955 – Dave Taylor,
Canadian-American ice hockey player and manager ·
1955 – Cassandra Wilson, American singer-songwriter
and producer ·
1956 – Nia Griffith, Welsh educator and
politician, Shadow
Secretary of State for Wales ·
1956 – Bernard King, American basketball player and
sportscaster ·
1957 – Raul Boesel, Brazilian race car driver and
radio host ·
1957 – Eric S. Raymond, American computer
programmer and author ·
1960 – David Green,
Nicaraguan-American baseball player ·
1960 – Glynis Nunn, Australian heptathlete and
hurler ·
1961 – Frank Reich, American football player and
coach ·
1962 – Vinnie Dombroski, American singer-songwriter
and musician ·
1962 – Gary Freeman,
New Zealand rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster ·
1962 – Nixon Kiprotich, Kenyan runner ·
1962 – Kevin
Richardson, English footballer and manager ·
1963 – Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter ·
1963 – Nigel Heslop, English rugby player ·
1964 – Scott
Hastings, Scottish rugby player and sportscaster ·
1964 – Marisa Tomei, American actress ·
1965 – Álex de la Iglesia,
Spanish director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1965 – Shaun Hollamby, English race car driver and
businessman ·
1965 – Ulf Kirsten, German footballer and manager ·
1966 – Fred Armisen, American actor and musician ·
1966 – Andy Hess, American bass player ·
1966 – Suzanne Malveaux, American journalist ·
1966 – Suzette M. Malveaux,
American lawyer and academic ·
1967 – Guillermo Amor, Spanish footballer and
manager ·
1968 – Tahir Dawar, Pakistani police officer and
Pashto poet (d. 2018) ·
1969 – Dionne Farris, American singer-songwriter,
producer and actress ·
1969 – Jay Z, American rapper, producer, and actor,
co-founded Roc-A-Fella Records ·
1969 – Plum Sykes, English journalist and author ·
1971 – Shannon Briggs, American boxer and actor ·
1972 – Jassen Cullimore, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1972 – Yūko Miyamura, Japanese voice actress
and singer ·
1973 – Tyra Banks, American model, actress, and
producer ·
1973 – Frank Boeijen,
Dutch keyboard player ·
1973 – Mina Caputo, American singer-songwriter and
keyboard player ·
1973 – Michael
Jackson, English footballer and manager ·
1973 – Steven Menzies, Australian rugby league
player ·
1973 – Kate Rusby, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1974 – Tadahito Iguchi, Japanese baseball player ·
1976 – Kristina Groves, Canadian speed skater ·
1977 – Ajit Agarkar, Indian cricketer ·
1977 – Darvis Patton, American sprinter ·
1977 – Morten Veland, Norwegian guitarist and
songwriter ·
1978 – Jaclyn Victor, Malaysian singer and actress ·
1979 – Ysabella Brave, American singer-songwriter ·
1979 – Jay DeMerit, American soccer player ·
1980 – Rick Victor, Canadian wrestler and manager ·
1981 – Brian Vandborg, Danish cyclist ·
1982 – Nathan Douglas, English triple jumper ·
1982 – Waldo Ponce, Chilean footballer ·
1982 – Ho-Pin Tung, Dutch-Chinese race car driver ·
1982 – Nick Vujicic, Australian evangelist ·
1983 – Jimmy Bartel, Australian footballer ·
1984 – Marco Giambruno, Italian footballer ·
1984 – Anna Petrakova, Russian basketball player ·
1984 – Joe Thomas,
American football player ·
1985 – Andrew Brackman, American baseball player ·
1985 – Stephen Dawson, Irish footballer ·
1985 – Carlos Gómez, Dominican baseball player ·
1986 – Kaija Udras, Estonian skier ·
1986 – Martell Webster, American basketball player ·
1987 – Orlando Brown,
American actor and rapper ·
1988 – Andriy Pylyavskyi,
Ukrainian footballer ·
1988 – Yeng Constantino, Filipina singer and songwriter ·
1990 – Lukman Haruna, Nigerian footballer ·
1990 – Blake Leary, Australian rugby league player ·
1990 – Igor Sjunin, Estonian triple jumper ·
1991 – Reality Winner, American intelligence
specialist convicted of espionage[5] ·
1992 – Peta Hiku, New Zealand rugby league player ·
1992 – Jean-Claude Iranzi,
Rwandan footballer ·
1992 – Kim Seok-Jin, South Korean singer,
songwriter and actor[6] ·
1996 – Diogo Jota, Portuguese professional
footballer ·
1996 – Sebastián Vegas,
Chilean footballer ·
1996 – Sheryl Sheinafia, Indonesian
singer-songwriter and actress ·
1996 – Ivan Belikov, Russian footballer Deaths[edit]
·
– Cyrus the Great, king of Persia (b. 600 BC) ·
– John of Damascus, Syrian priest and saint
(b. 676) ·
– Carloman I, Frankish king (b. 751) ·
– Suairlech
ind Eidnén mac Ciaráin, Irish bishop ·
1075 – Anno II, German archbishop and saint (b.
1010) ·
1131 – Omar Khayyám, Persian poet, astronomer,
mathematician, and philosopher (b. 1048) ·
1214 – William the Lion, Scottish king (b. 1143) ·
1260 – Aymer de
Valence, Bishop of Winchester (b.
1222) ·
1270 – Theobald II of
Navarre (b. 1238) ·
1334 – Pope John XXII (b. 1249) ·
1340 – Henry Burghersh, English bishop and
politician, Lord Chancellor of
England (b. 1292) ·
1341 – Janisław I, Archbishop of Gniezno ·
1408 – Valentina Visconti,
wife of Louis of
Valois, Duke of Orléans ·
1456 – Charles I,
Duke of Bourbon (b. 1401) ·
1459 – Adolphus
VIII, Count of Holstein (b. 1401) ·
1576 – Georg Joachim
Rheticus, Austrian-Slovak mathematician and cartographer (b. 1514) ·
1585 – John Willock, Scottish minister and reformer
(b. 1515) ·
1603 – Maerten de Vos, Flemish painter and
draughtsman (b. 1532) ·
1609 – Alexander Hume, Scottish poet (b. 1560) ·
1637 – Nicholas Ferrar, English trader (b. 1592) ·
1642 – Cardinal Richelieu,
French cardinal and politician, Chief
Minister to the French Monarch (b. 1585) ·
1649 – William
Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (b. 1585) ·
1679 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher and
theorist (b. 1588) ·
1680 – Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician,
mathematician, and theologian (b. 1616) ·
1696 – Empress Meishō of
Japan (b. 1624) ·
1732 – John Gay, English poet and playwright (b.
1685) ·
1798 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physician, physicist,
and philosopher (b. 1737) ·
1828 – Robert
Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770) ·
1839 – John Leamy,
Irish–American merchant (b. 1757)[7] ·
1841 – David Daniel Davis,
Welsh-English physician and academic (b. 1777) ·
1845 – Gregor MacGregor, Scottish soldier and
explorer (b. 1786) ·
1850 – William Sturgeon, English physicist,
invented the electric motor (b.
1783) ·
1893 – John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and
chemist (b. 1820) ·
1897 – Griffith Rhys Jones,
Welsh conductor (b. 1834) ·
1902 – Charles Dow, American journalist and
publisher, co-founded the Dow Jones &
Company (b. 1851) ·
1926 – Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (b. 1861) ·
1933 – Stefan George, German-Swiss poet and
translator (b. 1868) ·
1935 – Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian violinist,
composer, and conductor (b. 1864) ·
1935 – Charles Richet, French physiologist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1850) ·
1938 – Tamanishiki San'emon,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna (b. 1903) ·
1942 – Juhan Kukk, Estonian politician, 3rd Head of State of
Estonia (b. 1885) ·
1942 – Fritz Löhner-Beda,
Jewish Austrian librettist, lyricist and writer (b. 1883) ·
1944 – Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player
and manager (b. 1879) ·
1945 – Thomas Hunt Morgan,
American geneticist and biologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1866) ·
1948 – Frank Benford, American physicist and
engineer (b. 1883) ·
1954 – George
Shepherd, 1st Baron Shepherd (b. 1881) ·
1955 – József Galamb, Hungarian-American engineer
(b. 1881) ·
1963 – Constance Davey, Australian psychologist (b.
1882) ·
1967 – Bert Lahr, American actor (b. 1895) ·
1969 – Fred Hampton, American Black Panthers activist (b. 1948) ·
1971 – Shunryū Suzuki,
Japanese-American monk and educator, founded the San Francisco
Zen Center (b. 1904) ·
1975 – Hannah Arendt, German-American historian,
theorist, and academic (b. 1906) ·
1976 – Tommy Bolin, American guitarist and
songwriter (b. 1951) ·
1976 – Benjamin Britten, English pianist, composer,
and conductor (b. 1913) ·
1976 – W. F. McCoy, Irish soldier, lawyer, and
politician (b. 1886) ·
1980 – Francisco de Sá
Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 111th Prime Minister
of Portugal (b. 1934) ·
1980 – Stanisława
Walasiewicz, Polish-American runner (b. 1911) ·
1980 – Don
Warrington, Canadian football player (b. 1948) ·
1981 – Jeanne Block, American psychologist (b.
1923) ·
1984 – Jack Mercer, American animator,
screenwriter, voice actor, and singer (b. 1910) ·
1987 – Arnold Lobel, American author and
illustrator (b. 1933) ·
1987 – Rouben Mamoulian, Georgian-American director
and screenwriter (b. 1897) ·
1988 – Osman Achmatowicz,
Polish chemist and academic (b. 1899) ·
1992 – Henry Clausen, American lawyer and author
(b. 1905) ·
1993 – Margaret Landon, American missionary and
author (b. 1903) ·
1993 – Frank Zappa, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer (b. 1940) ·
1999 – Rose Bird, American academic and judge,
25th Chief Justice
of California (b. 1936) ·
2000 – Henck Arron, Surinamese banker and
politician, 1st Prime
Minister of the Republic of Suriname (b. 1936) ·
2003 – Iggy Katona, American race car driver (b.
1916) ·
2004 – Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano and actress
(b. 1943) ·
2005 – Errol Brathwaite, New Zealand soldier and
author (b. 1924) ·
2005 – Gregg Hoffman, American film producer (b.
1963) ·
2006 – K. Ganeshalingam, Sri Lankan accountant and
politician, Mayor of Colombo (b.
1938) ·
2006 – Ross A. McGinnis, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1987) ·
2007 – Pimp C, American rapper (b. 1973) ·
2009 – Liam Clancy, Irish singer, actor, and
guitarist (b. 1935) ·
2010 – King Curtis Iaukea,
American wrestler (b. 1937) ·
2011 – Sonia Pierre, Haitian-Dominican activist (b.
1965)[8] ·
2011 – Sócrates, Brazilian footballer and manager
(b. 1954) ·
2011 – Hubert Sumlin, American singer and guitarist
(b. 1931) ·
2012 – Vasily Belov, Russian author, poet, and
playwright (b. 1932) ·
2012 – Jack
Brooks, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1922) ·
2012 – Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer and
manager (b. 1971) ·
2012 – Anthony
Deane-Drummond, English general (b. 1917) ·
2013 – Joana Raspall i
Juanola, Spanish author and poet (b. 1913) ·
2014 – Claudia Emerson, American poet and academic
(b. 1957) ·
2014 – V. R. Krishna Iyer,
Indian lawyer and judge (b. 1914) ·
2014 – Vincent L. McKusick,
American lawyer and judge (b. 1921) ·
2014 – Jeremy Thorpe, English lawyer and politician
(b. 1929) ·
2015 – Bill Bennett, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 27th Premier of
British Columbia (b. 1932) ·
2015 – Robert Loggia, American actor and director
(b. 1930) ·
2015 – Yossi Sarid, Israeli journalist and
politician, 15th Israeli
Minister of Education (b. 1940) ·
2016 – Patricia Robins, British writer and WAAF
officer (b. 1921). ·
2017 – Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor (b. 1938) Holidays and observances[edit]
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Christian feast day: o Ada o Anno II o Barbara, and its related observances: § Barbórka, Miners' Day in Poland § Eid il-Burbara, a holiday similar to
Halloween in honor of Saint Barbara. (Russia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, Turkey) o Clement of
Alexandria (Anglicanism, Eastern Catholicism) o Maruthas o Nicholas Ferrar (Anglicanism) o Osmund o December
4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest day on which Detinjci can
fall, while December 10 is the latest; celebrated on Sunday two weeks before
Christmas Day. (Serbia) ·
National Cookie Day (United States) ·
Thai Environment Day (Thailand) ·
Tupou I Day (Tonga) |
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