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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 6 is the 340th day of the year (341st
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
25 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
963 – Pope Leo VIII is appointed to the office
of Protonotary and
begins his papacy as antipope of Rome. ·
1060 – Béla I is
crowned king of Hungary. ·
1240 – Mongol invasion
of Rus': Kyiv under Daniel of Galicia and Voivode Dmytro falls to
the Mongols under Batu Khan. ·
1534 – The city
of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers
led by Sebastián de
Belalcázar. ·
1648 – Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to
King Charles I of England,
in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge". ·
1704 – Battle of
Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army. ·
1745 – Charles Edward
Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite
Rising. ·
1790 – The U.S. Congress moves
from New York City to Philadelphia. ·
1846 – American and Californio forces clash at the Battle of San
Pasqual. ·
1865 – Georgia ratifies 13th
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.[1] ·
1877 – The first
edition of The Washington Post is
published. ·
1882 – Transit of Venus,
second and last of the 19th century.[2] ·
1884 – The Washington Monument in
Washington, D.C., is completed. ·
1897 – London becomes
the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs. ·
1904 – Theodore Roosevelt articulated
his "Corollary"
to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in
the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or
unstable. ·
1907 – A coal mine
explosion at Monongah, West
Virginia, kills 362 workers. ·
1912 – The Nefertiti Bust is discovered. ·
1916 – World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest. ·
1917 – Finland
declares independence from Soviet
Russia. ·
1917 – Halifax Explosion:
A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills
more than 1,900 people in the largest
artificial explosion up to that time. ·
1917 – World War I: USS Jacob
Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action
when it is torpedoed by German
submarine SM U-53. ·
1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty is
signed in London by British and Irish
representatives. ·
1922 – One year to the
day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence. ·
1928 – The government
of Colombia sends military forces to
suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers,
resulting in an unknown number of deaths. ·
1933 – U.S. federal
judge John M. Woolsey rules
that James Joyce's
novel Ulysses is
not obscene. ·
1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada
declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War. Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied Secret
Agents for the War. ·
1942 – World War II in villages Stary
Ciepielów and Rekówka German Genarmerie massacred
31 Poles for helping the Jews. Also, two Jewish refugees were
murdered. ·
1947 – The Everglades
National Park in Florida is dedicated. ·
1953 – Vladimir Nabokov completes his
controversial novel Lolita. ·
1956 – A violent water polo match between
Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the Hungarian
Revolution of 1956. ·
1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United
States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit. ·
1967 – Adrian Kantrowitz performs
the first human heart transplant in the United States. ·
1969 – Altamont Free
Concert: At a free concert performed by the Rolling Stones, eighteen-year old Meredith
Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels security guards. ·
1971 – Pakistan severs
diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani
War of 1971. ·
1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United
States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice
President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed
him 92–3.) ·
1975 – The Troubles: Fleeing from the police,
a Provisional
IRA unit takes a British couple hostage in their flat on
Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege. ·
1977 – South Africa
grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not
recognized by any other country. ·
1978 – Spain ratifies
the Spanish
Constitution of 1978 in a referendum. ·
1982 – The Troubles:
The Irish
National Liberation Army bombs a pub frequented
by British soldiers in Ballykelly,
Northern Ireland, killing eleven soldiers and six civilians. ·
1989 – The École
Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman,
murders 14 young women at the École
Polytechnique in Montreal. ·
1990 – A military jet
of the Italian Air Force,
abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, crashed
into a high school near Bologna, Italy, killing 12 students and
injuring 88 other people.[3] ·
1991 – Yugoslav Wars: In Croatia, forces of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's
Army (JNA) bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the
city for seven months. ·
1992 – The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India, is demolished,
leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1,500 people. ·
1995 – Khabarovsk
United Air Group Flight 3949 crashes into the Bo-Dzhausa Mountain,
killing 98.[4] ·
1997 – A Russian Antonov An-124
Ruslan cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex
near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67. ·
1998 – in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez is victorious in
presidential elections. ·
1999 – A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording
Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright
infringement.[5] ·
2005 – An Iranian Air Force C-130 military
transport aircraft crashes
into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area
of Tehran, killing all 94 on board and 12 more
on the ground. ·
2006 – NASA reveals
photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting
the presence of liquid water on Mars. ·
2015 – 2015
Venezuelan parliamentary election: For the first time in 17 years,
the United
Socialist Party of Venezuela loses its majority in
parliament. ·
2017 – Donald Trump's administration officially
announces the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Births[edit]
·
846 – Hasan al-Askari, Arabian 11th of the Twelve Imams (d. 874) ·
1285 – Ferdinand IV of
Castile (d. 1312)[6] ·
1421 – Henry VI of England (d.
1471) ·
1478 – Baldassare
Castiglione, Italian courtier, diplomat, and author (d. 1529) ·
1520 – Barbara
Radziwiłł, queen of Poland (d. 1551) ·
1545 – Janus Dousa, Dutch historian and noble (d.
1604) ·
1586 – Niccolò Zucchi,
Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1670) ·
1592 – William
Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (d. 1676) ·
1608 – George
Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English general and
politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1670) ·
1637 – Edmund Andros, English courtier and
politician, 4th Colonial
Governor of New York (d. 1714) ·
1640 – Claude Fleury, French historian and author
(d. 1723) ·
1642 – Johann Christoph
Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1703) ·
1685 – Marie Adélaïde of
Savoy (d. 1712) ·
1721 – Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes,
French minister and politician (d. 1794) ·
1721 – James Elphinston, Scottish philologist and
linguist (d. 1809) ·
1752 – Gabriel Duvall, American jurist and
politician (d. 1844) ·
1778 – Joseph Louis
Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850) ·
1792 – William II
of the Netherlands (d. 1849) ·
1803 – Maria
Josepha Amalia of Saxony (d. 1829) ·
1805 – Richard
Hanson, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of
South Australia (d. 1876) ·
1805 – Jean Eugène
Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1871) ·
1812 – Robert Spear Hudson,
English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1884) ·
1823 – Max Müller, German-English philologist and
orientalist (d. 1900) ·
1827 – William
Arnott, Australian biscuit manufacturer and founder of Arnott's Biscuits (d.
1901) ·
1833 – John S. Mosby, American colonel (d. 1916) ·
1835 – Wilhelm Rudolph
Fittig, German chemist (d. 1910) ·
1841 – Frédéric Bazille,
French painter and soldier (d. 1870) ·
1848 – Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (d. 1925)[7][8] ·
1849 – August von Mackensen,
German field marshal (d. 1945) ·
1853 – Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist and
academic (d. 1937) ·
1853 – Haraprasad Shastri,
Indian historian and scholar (d. 1931) ·
1863 – Charles Martin Hall,
American chemist and engineer (d. 1914) ·
1872 – Arthur Henry Adams,
Australian journalist and author (d. 1936) ·
1872 – William S. Hart, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter (d. 1946) ·
1875 – Albert Bond Lambert,
American golfer and pilot (d. 1946) ·
1875 – Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and author
(d. 1941) ·
1876 – Fred Duesenberg, German-American
businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company (d.
1932) ·
1878 – Elvia Carrillo
Puerto, Mexican politician (d. 1968)[9] ·
1882 – Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer (d.
1954) ·
1884 – Cornelia Meigs, American author, playwright,
and academic (d. 1973) ·
1886 – Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, author, and
poet (d. 1918) ·
1887 – Lynn Fontanne, British actress (d. 1983) ·
1887 – Joseph Lamb,
American pianist and composer (d. 1960) ·
1888 – Will Hay, English actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 1949) ·
1890 – Dion Fortune, Welsh occultist, psychologist,
and author (d. 1946) ·
1890 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and
academic (d. 1951) ·
1890 – Rudolf Schlichter,
German painter and illustrator (d. 1955) ·
1892 – Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian captain,
poet, and author (d. 1969) ·
1893 – Homer N. Wallin, American admiral (d. 1984) ·
1893 – Sylvia Townsend
Warner, English author and poet (d. 1978) ·
1896 – Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (d. 1983) ·
1898 – Alfred Eisenstaedt,
German-American photographer and journalist (d. 1995) ·
1898 – John
McDonald, Scottish-Australian politician, 37th Premier of Victoria (d.
1977) ·
1898 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and
economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1987) ·
1898 – Winifred Lenihan, American actress, writer,
and director (d. 1964) ·
1900 – Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974) ·
1901 – Eliot Porter, American photographer and
academic (d. 1990) ·
1903 – Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1946) ·
1904 – Ève Curie, French-American journalist and
pianist (d. 2007) ·
1905 – Elizabeth Yates,
American journalist and author (d. 2001) ·
1907 – John Barkley
Rosser Sr., American logician (d. 1989) ·
1908 – Pierre Graber, Swiss lawyer and politician,
69th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2003) ·
1908 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (d.
1934) ·
1908 – Miklós
Szabó, Hungarian runner (d. 2000) ·
1908 – Herta Freitag, Austrian-American
mathematician (d. 2000) ·
1909 – Rulon Jeffs, American religious leader (d.
2002) ·
1909 – Alan McGilvray, Australian cricketer and
sportscaster (d. 1996) ·
1910 – David M. Potter, American historian, author,
and academic (d. 1971) ·
1913 – Karl Haas, German-American pianist,
conductor, and radio host (d. 2005) ·
1913 – Eleanor Holm, American swimmer and actress
(d. 2004) ·
1914 – Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (d. 1999) ·
1916 – Yekaterina Budanova,
Russian captain and pilot (d. 1943) ·
1916 – Kristján Eldjárn,
Icelandic educator and politician, 3rd President of Iceland (d.
1982) ·
1916 – Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and
producer (d. 1986) ·
1917 – Dean Hess, American minister and colonel (d.
2015) ·
1917 – Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and
politician (d. 1977) ·
1917 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman,
co-founded Baskin-Robbins (d.
2008) ·
1918 – Tauba Biterman, Polish Holocaust survivor
(d. 2019) ·
1919 – Skippy Baxter, Canadian-American figure
skater and coach (d. 2012) ·
1919 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born philosopher, literary
critic and theorist (d. 1983) ·
1920 – Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer
(d. 2012) ·
1920 – Peter Dimmock, English sportscaster and
producer (d. 2015) ·
1920 – George Porter, English chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2002) ·
1921 – Otto Graham, American football player and
coach (d. 2003) ·
1921 – Piero Piccioni, Italian lawyer, pianist, and
composer (d. 2004) ·
1922 – John Brunt, English captain, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1944) ·
1922 – Benjamin A. Gilman,
American soldier and politician (d. 2016) ·
1924 – Wally Cox, American actor (d. 1973) ·
1927 – Jim Fuchs, American shot putter and discus
thrower (d. 2010) ·
1928 – Bobby Van, American actor, dancer, and
singer (d. 1980) ·
1929 – Philippe Bouvard, French journalist and
radio host ·
1929 – Nikolaus Harnoncourt,
German-Austrian cellist and conductor (d. 2016) ·
1929 – Frank Springer, American author and
illustrator (d. 2009) ·
1929 – Alain Tanner, Swiss director, producer, and
screenwriter ·
1930 – Daniel Lisulo, Zambian banker and
politician, 3rd Prime Minister
of Zambia (d. 2000) ·
1931 – Zeki Müren, Turkish singer-songwriter and
actor (d. 1996) ·
1932 – Kamleshwar,
Indian author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2007) ·
1933 – Henryk Górecki,
Polish composer and academic (d. 2010) ·
1933 – Donald J. Kutyna, American general ·
1934 – Nick Bockwinkel, American wrestler,
sportscaster, and actor (d. 2015) ·
1935 – Jean Lapointe, Canadian actor, singer, and
politician ·
1936 – Bill Ashton,
English saxophonist and composer ·
1936 – David Ossman, American writer and comedian ·
1936 – Kenneth Copeland, American evangelist and
author ·
1937 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian-American soccer
player (d. 2006) ·
1938 – Patrick Bauchau, Belgian-American actor ·
1939 – Franco Carraro, Italian politician and
sports administrator ·
1940 – Lawrence Bergman, Canadian lawyer and
politician ·
1940 – Richard Edlund, American visual effects
designer and cinematographer ·
1941 – Helen Cornelius, American country
singer-songwriter and actress ·
1941 – Richard Speck, American murderer (d. 1991) ·
1941 – Bruce Nauman, American sculptor and
illustrator ·
1941 – Bill Thomas, American academic and
politician ·
1942 – Peter Handke, Austrian author and playwright ·
1942 – Robb Royer, American guitarist, keyboard
player, and songwriter ·
1943 – Mike Smith,
English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (d. 2008) ·
1943 – Keith West, English rock singer-songwriter
and music producer ·
1944 – Jonathan King, English singer-songwriter,
record producer, music entrepreneur, television/radio presenter, and
convicted sex offender ·
1944 – Ron Kenoly, American Christian worship
leader singer and songwriter ·
1945 – Larry Bowa, American baseball player and
manager ·
1945 – Dan Harrington, American lawyer and poker
player ·
1945 – Shekhar Kapur, Indian director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1946 – Frankie Beverly, American soul/funk
singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Maze) ·
1946 – Willy van der
Kuijlen, Dutch footballer and manager ·
1947 – Lawrence Cannon, Canadian businessman and
politician, 9th Canadian
Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1947 – Henk van Woerden, Dutch-South African
painter and author (d. 2005) ·
1947 – Miroslav Vitouš,
Czech-American bassist and songwriter ·
1948 – Jean-Paul Ngoupandé,
Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (d.
2014) ·
1948 – Don Nickles, American businessman and
politician ·
1948 – Keke Rosberg, Finnish race car driver ·
1948 – JoBeth Williams, American actress ·
1949 – Linda Barnes,
American author, playwright, and educator ·
1949 – Linda Creed, American singer-songwriter (d.
1986) ·
1949 – Doug Marlette, American author and
cartoonist (d. 2007) ·
1949 – Peter Willey, English cricketer and umpire ·
1950 – Guy Drut, French hurdler and politician ·
1950 – Joe Hisaishi, Japanese pianist, composer,
and conductor ·
1950 – Helen
Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke, Scottish journalist and
politician, Secretary
of State for Scotland ·
1951 – Wendy Ellis Somes,
English ballerina and producer ·
1951 – Maurice Hope, Caribbean-English boxer ·
1952 – Chuck Baker, American baseball player ·
1952 – Nicolas Bréhal,
French author and critic (d. 1999) ·
1952 – Joe Harris,
American football player ·
1952 – Craig Newmark, American computer programmer
and entrepreneur; founded Craigslist ·
1952 – Charles Salvador, English boxer and criminal ·
1952 – Shio Satō, Japanese illustrator (d.
2010) ·
1952 – Jeff Schneider, American baseball player ·
1952 – David L. Spector, American biologist and
academic ·
1953 – Sue Carroll, English journalist (d. 2011) ·
1953 – Gary Goodman, Australian cricketer and coach ·
1953 – Geoff Hoon, English academic and
politician, Minister of
State for Europe ·
1953 – Tom Hulce, American actor ·
1953 – Masami Kurumada, Japanese author and
illustrator ·
1953 – Dwight Stones, American high jumper and
sportscaster ·
1953 – Gary Ward,
American baseball player and coach ·
1954 – Chris Stamey, American singer-songwriter,
musician, and music producer ·
1955 – Anne Begg, Scottish educator and politician ·
1955 – Rick Buckler, English drummer, songwriter,
and producer ·
1955 – Graeme Hughes, Australian cricketer, rugby
league player, and sportscaster ·
1955 – Tony Woodcock,
English footballer ·
1955 – Steven Wright, American actor, comedian, and
screenwriter ·
1956 – Peter Buck, American guitarist, songwriter,
and producer ·
1956 – Hans Kammerlander,
Italian mountaineer and guide ·
1956 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist,
songwriter, and producer (d. 1982) ·
1957 – Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer (d. 1999) ·
1958 – Nick Park, English animator, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1959 – Stephen Hepburn, English politician ·
1959 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and
businessman (d. 2015) ·
1959 – Stephen Muggleton,
English computer scientist and engineer ·
1959 – Deborah Estrin, American computer scientist
and academic ·
1960 – Masahiko Katsuya, Japanese journalist and
photographer (d. 2018) ·
1961 – David Lovering, American drummer ·
1961 – Jonathan Melvoin, American musician (d.
1996) ·
1961 – Manuel Reuter, German race car driver ·
1962 – Ben Watt, English singer-songwriter,
musician, author, DJ, and radio presenter ·
1963 – Ulrich Thomsen, Danish actor and producer ·
1964 – Mall Nukke, Estonian painter ·
1965 – Gordon Durie, Scottish footballer and
manager ·
1966 – Natascha Badmann, Swiss triathlete ·
1966 – Per-Ulrik Johansson,
Swedish golfer ·
1967 – Judd Apatow, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1967 – Arnaldo Mesa, Cuban boxer (d. 2012) ·
1967 – Helen Greiner, American businesswoman and
engineer ·
1968 – Akihiro Yano, Japanese baseball player ·
1969 – Torri Higginson, Canadian actress ·
1970 – Ulf Ekberg, Swedish singer-songwriter,
keyboard player, and producer ·
1970 – Adrian Fenty, American lawyer and
politician, 6th Mayor
of the District of Columbia ·
1970 – Mark Reckless, English politician ·
1970 – Jeff Rouse, American swimmer ·
1971 – Craig Brewer, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1971 – Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player ·
1971 – Naozumi Takahashi,
Japanese singer and voice actor ·
1971 – Carole Thate, Dutch field hockey player ·
1972 – Ewan Birney, Director of the European
Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK ·
1972 – Heather Mizeur, American lawyer and
politician ·
1972 – Rick Short, American baseball player ·
1974 – Jens Pulver, American mixed martial artist
and boxer ·
1974 – Nick Stajduhar, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1975 – Noel Clarke, English actor, director, and screenwriter ·
1975 – Adrian García Arias,
Mexican footballer ·
1977 – Kevin Cash, American baseball player and
coach ·
1977 – Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer, coach,
and sportscaster ·
1977 – Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer ·
1978 – Chris Başak, American baseball player ·
1978 – Darrell Jackson, American football player ·
1978 – Ramiro Pez, Argentine rugby player ·
1979 – Tim Cahill, Australian footballer ·
1980 – Danielle Downey, American golfer and coach
(d. 2014) ·
1980 – Steve Lovell, English footballer ·
1980 – Carlos Takam, Cameroonian-French boxer ·
1981 – Federico Balzaretti,
Italian footballer ·
1982 – Robbie Gould, American football player ·
1982 – Ryan Carnes, American actor and producer ·
1982 – Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist ·
1982 – Sean Ervine, Zimbabwean cricketer ·
1982 – Aaron Sandilands, Australian footballer ·
1982 – Susie Wolff, Scottish race car driver ·
1984 – Syndric Steptoe, American football player ·
1984 – Nora Kirkpatrick, American actress and
musician ·
1984 – Princess
Sofia, Duchess of Värmland ·
1985 – Shannon Bobbitt, American basketball player ·
1985 – Aristeidis
Grigoriadis, Greek swimmer ·
1985 – Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian cricketer ·
1986 – Sean Edwards,
English race car driver (d. 2013) ·
1986 – Matt Niskanen, American ice hockey player ·
1988 – Adam Eaton,
American baseball player ·
1988 – Sandra Nurmsalu, Estonian singer and
violinist ·
1988 – Nils Petersen, German footballer ·
1988 – Nobunaga Shimazaki,
Japanese voice actor ·
1988 - Ravindra Jadeja, Indian Cricketer[10] ·
1989 – Felix Schiller, German footballer ·
1990 – Tamira Paszek, Austrian tennis player ·
1991 – Coco Vandeweghe, American tennis player ·
1992 – Britt Assombalonga,
Congolese footballer ·
1992 – Johnny Manziel, American football player ·
1993 – Jasprit Bumrah, Indian cricketer ·
1993 – Pedro Rafael
Amado Mendes, Portuguese footballer ·
1993 – Tautau Moga, Australian-Samoan rugby league
player ·
1994 – Giannis
Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player ·
1994 - Shreyas Iyer, Indian Cricketer[11] ·
1996 – Davide Calabria, Italian football player ·
1997 – Sabrina Ionescu, American basketball player ·
1998 – Angelīna
Kučvaļska, Latvian figure skater Deaths[edit]
·
343 – Saint Nicholas, Greek bishop and saint (b.
270) ·
735 – Prince Toneri of Japan (b. 676) ·
762 – Muhammad
al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, Arab rebel leader (b. 710) ·
1185 – Afonso I of Portugal (b.
1109) ·
1305 – Maximus,
Metropolitan of Kyiv ·
1306 – Roger
Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk (b. 1270) ·
1352 – Pope Clement VI (b. 1291) ·
1562 – Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter (b. 1495) ·
1616 – Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi,
Moroccan writer, judge and mathematician (b. 1552) ·
1618 – Jacques Davy
Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556) ·
1658 – Baltasar Gracián,
Spanish priest and author (b. 1601) ·
1675 – John Lightfoot, English priest, scholar, and
academic (b. 1602) ·
1686 – Eleonora
Gonzaga, Queen consort of Ferdinand III (b. 1630) ·
1716 – Benedictus Buns, Dutch priest and composer
(b. 1642) ·
1718 – Nicholas Rowe,
English poet and playwright (b. 1674) ·
1746 – Lady Grizel Baillie,
Scottish poet and songwriter (b. 1665) ·
1771 – Giovanni
Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist and pathologist (b. 1682) ·
1779 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon
Chardin, French painter (b. 1699) ·
1788 – Jonathan Shipley, English bishop (b. 1714) ·
1855 – William John
Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789) ·
1867 – Jean Pierre Flourens,
French physiologist and academic (b. 1794) ·
1868 – August Schleicher,
German linguist and academic (b. 1821) ·
1878 – Theodoros Vryzakis,
Greek painter and educator (b. 1814) ·
1879 – Erastus Brigham
Bigelow, American businessman (b. 1814) ·
1882 – Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and
politician, founded Credit Suisse (b.
1819) ·
1882 – Anthony Trollope, English novelist,
essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815) ·
1889 – Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b.
1808) ·
1892 – Werner von Siemens,
German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816) ·
1918 – Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851) ·
1921 – Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician,
280th Grand
Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1865) ·
1924 – Gene Stratton-Porter,
American author and screenwriter (b. 1863) ·
1945 – Edmund Dwyer-Gray,
Irish-Australian politician, 29th Premier of Tasmania (b.
1870) ·
1951 – Harold Ross, American journalist and
publisher, founded The New Yorker (b. 1892) ·
1955 – Honus Wagner, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1874) ·
1956 – B. R. Ambedkar, Indian economist and
politician, 1st Indian
Minister of Justice (b. 1891) ·
1961 – Frantz Fanon, Martinique-French psychiatrist
and author (b. 1925) ·
1964 – Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and
architect (b. 1895) ·
1972 – Janet Munro, English actress and singer (b.
1934) ·
1974 – Nikolay
Kuznetsov, Soviet naval officer (b. 1904) ·
1976 – João Goulart, Brazilian lawyer and
politician, 24th President of Brazil (b.
1918) ·
1980 – Charles Deutsch, French engineer and
businessman, co-founded DB (b. 1911) ·
1982 – Jean-Marie Seroney,
Kenyan activist and politician (b. 1927) ·
1983 – Lucienne Boyer, French singer and actress
(b. 1903) ·
1983 – Gul Khan Nasir, Pakistani poet, historian,
and politician (b. 1914) ·
1985 – Burr Tillstrom, American actor and puppeteer
(b. 1917) ·
1985 – Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player
and manager (b. 1893) ·
1988 – Roy Orbison, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1936) ·
1989 – Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902) ·
1989 – Sammy Fain, American pianist and composer
(b. 1902) ·
1989 – John Payne,
American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1912) ·
1990 – Pavlos Sidiropoulos,
Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948) ·
1990 – Tunku Abdul Rahman,
Malaysian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister
of Malaysia (b. 1903) ·
1991 – Mimi Smith, English nurse (b. 1906) ·
1991 – Richard Stone, English economist and
statistician, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1913) ·
1993 – Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908) ·
1994 – Heinz Baas, German footballer and manager
(b. 1922) ·
1994 – Gian Maria Volonté,
Italian actor and director (b. 1933) ·
1996 – Pete Rozelle, American businessman (b. 1926) ·
1997 – Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer (b. 1918) ·
1998 – César Baldaccini,
French sculptor and educator (b. 1921) ·
2000 – Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (b.
1920) ·
2000 – Aziz Mian, Pakistani singer-songwriter and
poet (b. 1942) ·
2001 – Peter Blake,
New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948) ·
2001 – Charles McClendon,
American football player and coach (b. 1923) ·
2002 – Philip Berrigan, American priest and
activist (b. 1923) ·
2003 – Carlos Manuel
Arana Osorio, Guatemalan general and politician, President of
Guatemala (b. 1918) ·
2005 – Charly Gaul, Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1932) ·
2005 – Devan Nair, Malaysian-Singaporean union
leader and politician, 3rd President of
Singapore (b. 1923) ·
2005 – Danny Williams,
South African singer (b. 1942) ·
2005 – William P.
Yarborough, American general (b. 1912) ·
2006 – John Feeney,
New Zealand director and producer (b. 1922) ·
2010 – Mark Dailey, American-Canadian journalist
and actor (b. 1953) ·
2011 – Dobie Gray, American singer-songwriter and
producer (b. 1940) ·
2012 – Miguel Abia
Biteo Boricó, Equatoguinean engineer and politician, Prime
Minister of Equatorial Guinea (b. 1961) ·
2012 – Jan Carew, Guyanese author, poet, and
playwright (b. 1920) ·
2012 – Jeffrey Koo Sr., Taiwanese banker and
businessman (b. 1933) ·
2012 – Huw Lloyd-Langton,
English guitarist (b. 1951) ·
2012 – Pedro Vaz,
Uruguayan lawyer and politician, Minister
of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay (b. 1963) ·
2013 – Jean-Pierre
Desthuilliers, French poet and critic (b. 1939) ·
2013 – Stan Tracey, English pianist and composer
(b. 1926) ·
2013 – M. K. Turk, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1942) ·
2014 – Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game
designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey (b. 1922) ·
2014 – Jimmy Del Ray, American wrestler and manager
(b. 1962) ·
2014 – Fred Hawkins, American golfer (b. 1923) ·
2014 – Luke Somers, English-American photographer
and journalist (b. 1981) ·
2015 – Ko Chun-hsiung, Taiwanese actor, director,
and politician (b. 1945) ·
2015 – Liu Juying, Chinese general and politician
(b. 1917) ·
2015 – Nicholas Smith,
British actor (b. 1934) ·
2016 – Peter Vaughan, British actor (b.1923) ·
2017 – Johnny Hallyday, French singer and actor (b.
1943) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Anniversary
of the Founding of Quito (Ecuador) ·
Christian feast day: o Aemilianus (Roman Catholic
Church) o María
del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras o Nicholas of Myra, and its related
observances: § St Nicholas Day, where St. Nicholas/Santa Claus leaves little presents in
children's shoes. (International) o December
6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day of the Ministry of Communications and Information
Technologies of Azerbaijan ·
Independence
Day, celebrates the independence of Finland from Russia in 1917. ·
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence
Against Women (Canada) |
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