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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 5 is the 339th day of the year (340th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
26 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
– Cicero gives the fourth and final of
the Catiline Orations. ·
– Fourth Council
of Toledo takes place. ·
1082 – Ramon
Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated. ·
1408 – Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow. ·
1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues
the Summis
desiderantes affectibus, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany. ·
1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes
the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic). ·
1496 – King Manuel I of Portugal issues
a decree ordering the expulsion of Jewish "heretics" from the
country. ·
1560 – Charles IX becomes
king of France. ·
1757 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen: Frederick II of
Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory
over Austrian forces under Prince
Charles Alexander of Lorraine. ·
1766 – In London,
auctioneer James
Christie holds his first sale. ·
1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of
artillery to Cambridge,
Massachusetts. ·
1776 – Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor
society in the U.S., holds its first meeting at the College of
William & Mary.[1] ·
1831 – Former U.S.
President John Quincy Adams takes
his seat in the House
of Representatives. ·
1847 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the U.S.
Senate. ·
1848 – California Gold Rush:
In a message to the United States
Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large
amounts of gold had been discovered in California. ·
1865 – Chincha Islands War: Peru allies
with Chile against Spain. ·
1931 – Cathedral
of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders
from Joseph Stalin. ·
1933 – The Twenty-first Amendment to the United States
Constitution is ratified. ·
1934 – Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the
city. ·
1935 – Mary McLeod Bethune founds
the National
Council of Negro Women in New York City. ·
1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and
the Kirghiz
Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union
Republic of the USSR. ·
1941 – World War II: In the Battle of Moscow, Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet
counter-attack against the German army. ·
1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares
war on Finland, Hungary and Romania. ·
1943 – World War II:
Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow. ·
1945 – World War II: Flight 19, a group of TBF Avengers,
disappears in the Bermuda Triangle, in one of the most famous
aviation mysteries in history. ·
1952 – Beginning of the Great Smog in London. A cold fog
combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four
days. Later, a Ministry of Health report
estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it.[2] ·
1955 – The American
Federation of Labor and the Congress
of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO. ·
1955 – E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery bus
boycott. ·
1958 – Subscriber
Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by
Queen Elizabeth II when
she speaks to the Lord Provost in
a call from Bristol to Edinburgh. ·
1958 – The Preston By-pass, the UK's first stretch
of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time.
(It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.) ·
1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle
earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war. ·
1964 – Lloyd J. Old discovered the first
linkage between the major
histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease—mouse
leukemia—opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in
the immune response. ·
1966 – The
musical I Do! I Do!,
starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston opens
at the 46th Street Theatre,
in New York City, and closes on June 15, 1968, after 560 performances.[3] ·
1971 – Battle of Gazipur:
Pakistani forces stand defeated as India cedes Gazipur to Bangladesh. ·
1977 – Egypt breaks diplomatic relations
with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for
the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt. ·
1983 – Dissolution of
the Military
Junta in Argentina. ·
1991 – Leonid Kravchuk is elected the
first president of Ukraine. ·
1995 – Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lanka's government announces the
conquest of the Tamil stronghold
of Jaffna. ·
2004 – The Civil
Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and
the first civil
partnership is registered there. ·
2005 – The 6.8 Mw Lake
Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of
the Democratic
Republic of the Congo with a maximum Mercalli
intensity of X (Extreme), killing six people. ·
2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows
the government in Fiji. ·
2007 – Westroads Mall
shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills eight people,
including himself, with a WASR-10 at
a Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska.[4] ·
2013 – Militants attack a
Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a, Yemen, killing at least 56 people and
injuring 200 others. ·
2014 – Exploration
Flight Test 1, the first flight test of Orion is
launched. ·
2017 – The International
Olympic Committee bans Russia from competing at the 2018 Winter Olympics for
doping at the 2014 Winter Olympics. Births[edit]
·
– Zhu Wen, Chinese emperor (d. 912) ·
1377 – Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402) ·
1389 – Zbigniew
Oleśnicki, Polish cardinal and statesman (d. 1455) ·
1443 – Pope Julius II (d. 1513) ·
1470 – Willibald
Pirckheimer, German lawyer and author (d. 1530) ·
1495 – Nicolas Cleynaerts,
Flemish philologist and lexicographer (d. 1542) ·
1537 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki,
Japanese shōgun (d. 1597) ·
1539 – Fausto Sozzini, Italian theologian and
author (d. 1604) ·
1547 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer
(d. 1625) ·
1556 – Anne
Cecil, Countess of Oxford, English countess (d. 1588) ·
1595 – Henry Lawes, English composer (d. 1662) ·
1661 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer,
English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (d.
1724) ·
1666 – Francesco Scarlatti,
Italian violinist and composer (d. 1741) ·
1687 – Francesco Geminiani,
Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762) ·
1697 – Giuseppe de Majo, Italian organist and
composer (d. 1771) ·
1782 – Martin Van Buren, American lawyer and
politician, 8th President
of the United States (d. 1862) ·
1784 – George Shepherd,
English illustrator and painter (d. 1862) ·
1803 – Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet and diplomat
(d. 1873) ·
1820 – Afanasy Fet, Russian poet and author (d.
1892) ·
1822 – Elizabeth Cabot
Agassiz, American philosopher and academic, co-founded Radcliffe College (d.
1907) ·
1829 – Henri-Gustave
Joly de Lotbinière, French-Canadian lawyer and politician,
4th Premier of Quebec (d.
1908) ·
1830 – Christina Rossetti,
English poet and author (d. 1894) ·
1839 – George Armstrong
Custer, American general (d. 1876) ·
1841 – Marcus Daly, Irish-American businessman (d.
1900) ·
1849 – Eduard Seler, German anthropologist,
ethnohistorian, linguist, and academic (d. 1922) ·
1855 – Clinton Hart Merriam,
American zoologist, ornithologist, entomologist, and ethnographer (d. 1942) ·
1859 – John Jellicoe,
1st Earl Jellicoe, English admiral and politician, 2nd Governor-General
of New Zealand (d. 1935) ·
1861 – Konstantin Korovin,
Russian-French painter and set designer (d. 1939) ·
1862 – John Henry Leech, English entomologist (d.
1900) ·
1863 – Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and
politician, 84th Prime Minister
of France (d. 1933) ·
1866 – John
Beresford, Irish polo player (d. 1944) ·
1866 – Traian Demetrescu,
Romanian poet and author (d. 1896) ·
1867 – Antti Aarne, Finnish author and academic (d.
1925) ·
1867 – Józef Piłsudski,
Polish field marshal and politician, 15th Prime
Minister of Poland (d. 1935) ·
1868 – Arnold Sommerfeld,
German physicist and academic (d. 1951) ·
1869 – Ellis Parker Butler,
American author and poet (d. 1937) ·
1870 – Vítězslav Novák,
Czech composer and educator (d. 1949) ·
1872 – Harry Nelson
Pillsbury, American chess player (d. 1906) ·
1875 – Arthur Currie, Canadian general (d. 1933) ·
1879 – Clyde Vernon Cessna,
American pilot and businessman, founded the Cessna Aircraft Corporation (d. 1954) ·
1881 – René Cresté, French actor and director (d.
1922) ·
1886 – Rose Wilder Lane, American journalist and
author (d. 1968) ·
1886 – Pieter Oud, Dutch historian, academic, and
politician, Minister
of Finance of the Netherlands (d. 1968) ·
1886 – Nikolai Uglanov, Soviet politician (d. 1937) ·
1890 – David Bomberg, English painter, illustrator,
and academic (d. 1957) ·
1890 – Fritz Lang, Austrian-American director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 1976) ·
1891 – Paul Kogerman, Estonian chemist and academic
(d. 1951) ·
1894 – Charles Robberts
Swart, South African lawyer and politician, 1st State
President of South Africa (d. 1982) ·
1895 – Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician and
academic (d. 1969) ·
1896 – Ann Nolan Clark, American historian, author,
and educator (d. 1995) ·
1896 – Carl Ferdinand Cori,
Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1984) ·
1897 – Nunnally Johnson, American director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 1977) ·
1897 – Gershom Scholem, German-Israeli philosopher
and historian (d. 1982) ·
1898 – Josh Malihabadi, Indian-Pakistani poet and
translator (d. 1982) ·
1898 – Grace Moore, American soprano and actress
(d. 1947) ·
1900 – Jimmy Dimmock, English footballer (d. 1972) ·
1901 – Walt Disney, American animator, director,
producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney
Company (d. 1966) ·
1901 – Milton H. Erickson,
American psychiatrist and author (d. 1980) ·
1901 – Werner Heisenberg,
German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1976) ·
1902 – Emeric Pressburger,
Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1988) ·
1902 – Strom Thurmond, American educator, general,
and politician, 103rd Governor of
South Carolina (d. 2003) ·
1903 – Johannes Heesters,
Dutch-German actor and singer (d. 2011) ·
1903 – C. F. Powell, English-Italian physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1969) ·
1905 – Gus Mancuso, American baseball player,
coach, and sportscaster (d. 1984) ·
1905 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-American actor,
director, and producer (d. 1986) ·
1905 – Francisco Javier
Arana, Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of
state (d.1949) ·
1907 – Lin Biao, Chinese general and politician,
2nd Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d.
1971) ·
1907 – Giuseppe Occhialini,
Italian-French physicist and academic (d. 1993) ·
1910 – Abraham Polonsky, American director and
screenwriter (d. 1999) ·
1911 – Władysław
Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer (d. 2000) ·
1912 – Sonny Boy
Williamson II, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d.
1965) ·
1912 – Kate Simon, American travel writer (d. 1990) ·
1913 – Esther Borja, Cuban soprano and actress (d.
2013) ·
1914 – Hans Hellmut Kirst,
German lieutenant and author (d. 1989) ·
1916 – Hilary Koprowski, Polish-American virologist
and immunologist, created the world's first effective live polio vaccine (d. 2013) ·
1916 – Walt McPherson, American basketball player
and coach (d. 2013) ·
1917 – Ken Downing, English race car driver (d.
2004) ·
1918 – Charity Adams Earley,
Black American Army officer (d. 2002) ·
1919 – Alun
Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont, English historian and politician (d.
2020) ·
1921 – Alvy Moore, American actor and producer (d.
1997) ·
1922 – Casey Ribicoff, American philanthropist (d.
2011) ·
1922 – Don Robertson,
American songwriter and pianist (d. 2015) ·
1924 – Robert Sobukwe, South African banker and
politician (d. 1978) ·
1925 – Anastasio Somoza
Debayle, Nicaraguan politician, 73rd President of
Nicaragua (d. 1980) ·
1926 – Adetowun Ogunsheye,
first female Nigerian professor and university dean[5] ·
1927 – Bhumibol Adulyadej,
Thai king (d. 2016) ·
1927 – W.D. Amaradeva, Sri Lankan musician and
composer (d. 2016) ·
1929 – Madis Kõiv, Estonian physicist, philosopher,
and author (d. 2014) ·
1930 – Yi-Fu Tuan, Chinese-American geographer ·
1931 – Ladislav Novák,
Czech footballer and manager (d. 2011) ·
1932 – Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs,
British politician ·
1932 – Sheldon Lee Glashow,
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1932 – Jim Hurtubise, American race car driver (d.
1989) ·
1932 – Little Richard, American singer-songwriter,
pianist, and actor (d. 2020) ·
1932 – Nadira, Indian actress (d. 2006) ·
1933 – Gennadiy Agapov, Russian race walker (d.
1999) ·
1933 – Harry Holgate, Australian politician,
36th Premier of Tasmania (d.
1997) ·
1934 – Joan Didion, American novelist and
screenwriter ·
1935 – Calvin Trillin, American novelist, humorist,
and journalist ·
1935 – Yury Vlasov, Ukrainian-Russian weightlifter
and politician ·
1936 – James Lee Burke, American journalist,
author, and academic ·
1938 – J. J. Cale, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2013) ·
1940 – Tony Crafter, Australian cricket umpire ·
1940 – Boris Ignatyev, Russian footballer and
manager ·
1940 – Peter Pohl, Swedish author, director, and
screenwriter ·
1940 – Frank Wilson,
American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2012) ·
1942 – Bryan Murray,
Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 2017) ·
1943 – Eva Joly, Norwegian-French judge and
politician ·
1943 – Andrew Yeom Soo-jung,
South Korean cardinal ·
1944 – Jeroen Krabbé, Dutch actor, director, and
producer ·
1945 – Serge Chapleau, Canadian cartoonist ·
1945 – Moshe Katsav, Iranian-Israeli educator and
politician, 8th President of Israel ·
1946 – José Carreras, Spanish tenor and actor ·
1946 – Andy Kim, Canadian pop singer-songwriter ·
1946 – Sarel van der Merwe,
South African race car driver ·
1947 – Rudy
Fernandez, Filipino triathlete ·
1947 – Bruce Golding, Jamaican lawyer and
politician, 8th Prime Minister
of Jamaica ·
1947 – Tony Gregory, Irish activist and politician
(d. 2009) ·
1947 – Jim Messina,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1947 – Jim Plunkett, American football player and
radio host ·
1947 – Kim Simmonds, Welsh blues-rock
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1947 – Don Touhig, Welsh journalist and politician ·
1948 – Denise Drysdale, Australian television host
and actress ·
1949 – John Altman,
English composer and conductor ·
1949 – David Manning, English civil servant and
diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States ·
1951 – Link Byfield, Canadian journalist and author
(d. 2015) ·
1951 – Anne-Mie van
Kerckhoven, Belgian painter and illustrator ·
1952 – Eva Dillner, Swedish author ·
1953 – Gwen Lister, South African-Namibian
journalist, publisher, and activist ·
1954 – Hanif Kureishi, English author and
playwright ·
1954 – Gary Roenicke, American baseball player and
scout ·
1955 – Miyuki Kawanaka, Japanese singer ·
1955 – Juha Tiainen, Finnish hammer thrower (d.
2003) ·
1956 – Klaus Allofs, German footballer and manager ·
1956 – Adam Thorpe, French-English author, poet,
and playwright ·
1956 – Krystian Zimerman,
Polish virtuoso pianist ·
1957 – Raquel Argandoña,
Chilean model, actress, and politician ·
1959 – Lee Chapman, English footballer ·
1959 – Oleksandr Yaroslavsky,
Ukrainian businessman ·
1960 – Frans Adelaar, Dutch footballer and manager ·
1960 – Osvaldo Golijov, Argentinian-American
composer and educator ·
1960 – Jack Russell,
American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1960 – Matthew
Taylor, English businessman and politician ·
1961 – Ralf Dujmovits, German mountaineer ·
1961 – Laura Flanders, British journalist ·
1962 – José Cura, Argentinian tenor, conductor, and
director ·
1962 – Pablo Morales, American swimmer and coach ·
1962 – Nivek Ogre, Canadian singer-songwriter ·
1962 – Fred Rutten, Dutch footballer and manager ·
1963 – Doctor Dré, American television and radio
host ·
1963 – Carrie Hamilton, American actress and
playwright (d. 2002) ·
1963 – Alberto Nisman, Argentinian lawyer (d. 2015) ·
1963 – Michael “Eddie the Eagle” Edwards, British
Olympic ski jumper ·
1964 – Martin Vinnicombe,
Australian cyclist ·
1965 – Manish Malhotra, Indian fashion designer ·
1965 – John Rzeznik, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1965 – Wayne Smith,
Jamaican rapper (d. 2014) ·
1965 – Valeriy Spitsyn, Russian race walker ·
1967 – Gary Allan, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1968 – Margaret Cho, American comedian, actress,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1968 – Lisa Marie,
American model and actress ·
1968 – Lydia Millet, American novelist ·
1968 – Falilat Ogunkoya, Nigerian sprinter ·
1968 – Dynamite Kid, English wrestler (d. 2018) ·
1969 – Eric Etebari, American actor, director, and
producer ·
1969 – Morgan J. Freeman,
American director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1969 – Sajid Javid, British Pakistani banker and
politician, Chancellor of
the Exchequer ·
1969 – Lewis Pugh, English swimmer and lawyer ·
1969 – Ramón Ramírez,
Mexican footballer ·
1970 – Kevin Haller, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1970 – Michel'le, American singer-songwriter ·
1971 – Karl-Theodor
zu Guttenberg, German businessman and politician, German
Federal Minister of Defence ·
1971 – Ashia Hansen, American-English triple jumper ·
1971 – Gabriel Hjertstedt,
Swedish golfer ·
1972 – Cliff Floyd, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1972 – Mike Mahoney,
American baseball player ·
1972 – Duane Ross, American hurdler and coach ·
1973 – Argo Arbeiter, Estonian footballer ·
1973 – Arik Benado, Israeli footballer[6] ·
1973 – Andrei Krasnopjorov,
Estonian footballer ·
1973 – Mikelangelo Loconte,
Italian singer-songwriter, producer, and actor ·
1973 – Luboš Motl, Czech physicist and academic ·
1973 – Shalom Harlow, Canadian model ·
1974 – Charlie Batch, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1974 – Ravish Kumar, Indian journalist and author ·
1974 – Brian Lewis,
American sprinter ·
1975 – Ronnie O'Sullivan,
English snooker player and radio host ·
1975 – Paula Patton, American actress ·
1976 – Amy Acker, American actress ·
1976 – Xavier Garbajosa, French rugby player ·
1976 – Sachiko Kokubu, Japanese actress and model ·
1976 – Rachel Komisarz, American swimmer and coach ·
1977 – Peter van der Vlag,
Dutch footballer ·
1978 – Neil Druckmann, American video game designer
and author ·
1978 – Olli Jokinen, Finnish ice hockey player ·
1978 – Marcelo Zalayeta, Uruguayan footballer ·
1979 – Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer ·
1979 – Niklas Hagman, Finnish ice hockey player ·
1979 – Gareth McAuley, Northern Irish footballer ·
1979 – Nick Stahl, American actor and producer ·
1980 – Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-French trumpet
player and composer ·
1980 – Jessica Paré, Canadian actress ·
1982 – Eddy Curry, American basketball player ·
1982 – Trai Essex, American football player ·
1982 – Keri Hilson, American singer-songwriter and
actress ·
1983 – Cooper Cronk, Australian rugby league player ·
1985 – Shikhar Dhawan, Indian cricketer ·
1985 – Frankie Muniz, American actor, drummer, and
race car driver ·
1985 – Nico Verdonck, Belgian race car driver ·
1985 – Danny Wicks, Australian rugby league player ·
1986 – LeGarrette Blount,
American football player ·
1986 – James Hinchcliffe,
Canadian race car driver ·
1986 – Justin Smoak, American baseball player ·
1987 – Tommy Fraser, English footballer ·
1988 – Joanna Rowsell, English cyclist ·
1989 – Jurrell Casey, American football player [7] ·
1990 – Montee Ball, American football player ·
1991 – Jacopo Sala, Italian footballer ·
1992 – Ilja Antonov, Estonian footballer ·
1992 – Natalie Sourisseau,
Canadian field hockey player[8] ·
1993 – Ross Barkley, English footballer ·
1994 – Ondrej Duda, Slovak footballer ·
1994 – Grant Ward, English footballer ·
1995 – Danny Levi, New Zealand rugby league player ·
1995 – Anthony Martial, French footballer ·
1995 – Kaetlyn Osmond, Canadian figure skater Deaths[edit]
·
– Publius
Cornelius Lentulus Sura, Roman politician (b. 114 BC) ·
– Li Ban, emperor of Cheng Han (b. 288) ·
– Ealhswith, queen consort and wife of Alfred the Great, King of Wessex ·
1082 – Ramon
Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona (b. 1053) ·
1212 – Dirk van Are, bishop and lord of Utrecht ·
1244 – Joan, Countess
of Flanders and Hainault(b.
1199 or 1200) ·
1355 – John III, Duke
of Brabant (b. 1300) ·
1560 – Francis II of France (b.
1544) ·
1570 – Johan Friis, Danish politician (b. 1494) ·
1624 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and physician
(b. 1560) ·
1654 – Jean François
Sarrazin, French author and poet (b. 1611) ·
1663 – Severo Bonini, Italian organist and composer
(b. 1582) ·
1749 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye,
Canadian commander and explorer (b. 1685) ·
1758 – Johann Friedrich
Fasch, German violinist and composer (b. 1688) ·
1770 – James
Stirling, Scottish mathematician and surveyor (b. 1692) ·
1784 – Phillis Wheatley, Senegal-born slave, later
American poet (b. 1753) ·
1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart, Austrian composer and musician (b. 1756) ·
1819 – Friedrich
Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg, German poet and lawyer (b. 1750) ·
1870 – Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and
playwright (b. 1802) ·
1887 – Eliza R. Snow, American poet and songwriter
(b. 1804) ·
1891 – Pedro II of Brazil (b.
1825) ·
1917 – Jean Sandberg(b.1952) ·
1918 – Schalk Willem Burger,
South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b.
1852) ·
1925 – Władysław
Reymont, Polish novelist, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1867) ·
1926 – Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840) ·
1931 – Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879) ·
1940 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist and composer
(b. 1880) ·
1941 – Amrita Sher-Gil, Hungarian-Pakistani painter
(b. 1913) ·
1942 – Jock Delves
Broughton, English captain (b. 1883) ·
1946 – Louis Dewis, Belgian-French painter and
educator (b. 1872) ·
1951 – Shoeless Joe Jackson,
American baseball player and manager (b. 1887) ·
1951 – Abanindranath Tagore,
Indian painter, author, and academic (b. 1871) ·
1953 – William Sterling
Parsons, American admiral (b. 1901) ·
1955 – Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and
businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin
Company (b. 1886) ·
1961 – Emil Fuchs,
German-American lawyer and businessman (b. 1878) ·
1963 – Karl Amadeus
Hartmann, German composer and educator (b. 1905) ·
1963 – Huseyn Shaheed
Suhrawardy, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister
of Pakistan (b. 1892) ·
1964 – V. Veerasingam, Sri Lankan educator and
politician (b. 1892) ·
1965 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist,
neuroscientist, and academic Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1874) ·
1968 – Fred Clark, American actor (b. 1914) ·
1969 – Claude Dornier, German engineer and
businessman, founded Dornier
Flugzeugwerke (b. 1884) ·
1969 – Princess
Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885) ·
1973 – Robert Watson-Watt,
Scottish engineer, invented the radar (b. 1892) ·
1975 – Constance
McLaughlin Green, American historian and author (b. 1897) ·
1977 – Katherine Milhous,
American author and illustrator (b. 1894) ·
1977 – Aleksandr Vasilevsky,
Russian marshal and politician, Minister
of Defence for the Soviet Union (b. 1895) ·
1979 – Jesse Pearson,
American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1930) ·
1983 – Robert Aldrich, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1918) ·
1984 – Cecil M. Harden, American politician (b.
1894) ·
1986 – Edward Youde, Welsh-Chinese sinologist and
diplomat, 26th Governor of Hong
Kong (b. 1924) ·
1989 – John Pritchard,
English conductor and director (b. 1921) ·
1990 – Alfonso A. Ossorio,
Filipino-American painter and sculptor (b. 1916) ·
1994 – Harry Horner, Czech-American director,
producer, and production designer (b. 1910) ·
1995 – L. B. Cole, American illustrator and
publisher (b. 1918) ·
1995 – Charles Evans,
English mountaineer, surgeon, and educator (b. 1918) ·
1995 – Gwen Harwood, Australian poet and playwright
(b. 1920) ·
1995 – Clair Cameron
Patterson, American scientist (b. 1922) ·
1997 – Eugen Cicero, Romanian-German jazz pianist
(b. 1940) ·
1998 – Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and
politician (b. 1907) ·
2001 – Franco Rasetti, Italian-American physicist
and academic (b. 1901) ·
2002 – Roone Arledge, American sportscaster and
producer (b. 1931) ·
2002 – Ne Win, Burmese general and politician,
4th President of Burma (b.
1911) ·
2005 – Edward L. Masry, American lawyer and
politician (b. 1932) ·
2006 – David Bronstein, Ukrainian-Belarusian chess
player and theoretician (b. 1924) ·
2007 – Andrew Imbrie, American composer and
academic (b. 1921) ·
2007 – George Paraskevaides,
Greek-Cypriot businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Joannou &
Paraskevaides (b. 1916) ·
2007 – Karlheinz
Stockhausen, German composer and academic (b. 1928) ·
2008 – Patriarch
Alexy II of Moscow (b. 1929) ·
2008 – George Brecht, American chemist and composer
(b. 1926) ·
2008 – Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (b. 1924) ·
2008 – Beverly Garland, American actress and
businesswoman (b. 1926) ·
2008 – Anca Parghel, Romanian singer-songwriter and
pianist (b. 1957) ·
2009 – William Lederer, American soldier and author
(b. 1912) ·
2010 – Alan Armer, American director, producer, and
screenwriter (b. 1922) ·
2010 – Don Meredith, American football player,
sportscaster, and actor (b. 1938) ·
2011 – Peter Gethin, English race car driver (b.
1940) ·
2011 – Gennady Logofet, Russian footballer and
manager (b. 1942) ·
2012 – Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer
(b. 1920) ·
2012 – Elisabeth
Murdoch, Australian philanthropist (b. 1909) ·
2012 – Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect,
designed the United
Nations Headquarters and Cathedral of
Brasília (b. 1907) ·
2012 – Ignatius IV of
Antioch, Syrian patriarch (b. 1920) ·
2013 – Fred Bassetti, American architect and
academic, founded Bassetti Architects (b.
1917) ·
2013 – William B. Edmondson,
American lawyer and diplomat, United
States Ambassador to South Africa (b. 1927) ·
2013 – Nelson Mandela, South African lawyer and
politician, 1st President of
South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1918) ·
2014 – Ernest C. Brace, American captain and pilot
(b. 1931) ·
2014 – Fabiola,
Queen of Belgium (b. 1928) ·
2014 – Talât Sait Halman,
Turkish poet, translator, and historian (b. 1931) ·
2014 – Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish hurdler and
politician (b. 1931)[9] ·
2014 – Silvio Zavala, Mexican historian and author
(b. 1909) ·
2015 – Vic Eliason, American clergyman and radio
host, founded VCY America (b.
1936) ·
2015 – Tibor Rubin, Hungarian-American
soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
(b. 1929) ·
2015 – Chuck Williams,
American businessman and author, founded Williams Sonoma (b.
1915) ·
2016 – Jayalalithaa, Indian politician, chief
minister of Tamil Nadu (b.
1948) ·
2017 – Michael I of Romania,
fifth and last king of Romania (b. 1921) ·
2017 – August Ames, Canadian American pornographic
actress (b. 1994) ·
2018 – Dynamite Kid, English wrestler (b. 1968) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Abercius o Clement of
Alexandria (Episcopal Church) o Crispina o Gerbold o December
5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day of Military
Honour - Battle of Moscow (Russia) ·
Discovery Day (Haiti and Dominican Republic) ·
International
Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development ·
Klozum (Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands) ·
Saint Nicholas' Eve (Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Netherlands, Hungary, Romania, Germany, Poland and the UK) o Krampusnacht (Austria) ·
The King Bhumibol
Adulyadej Memorial Birthday (Thailand) |
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