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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
December 9 is the 343rd day of the year (344th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
22 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
480 – Odoacer, first King of Italy, occupies Dalmatia. He later establishes his political
power with the co-operation of the Roman Senate. ·
536 – Gothic War:
The Byzantine general Belisarius enters
Rome unopposed; the Gothic garrison flee
the capital. ·
730 – Battle of Marj
Ardabil: The Khazars annihilate
an Umayyad army and kill its
commander, Al-Jarrah
Ibn Abdallah Al-Hakami. ·
1425 – The Catholic
University of Leuven is founded. ·
1531 – The Virgin of
Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City. ·
1688 – Glorious Revolution:
Williamite forces defeat Jacobites at Battle of
Reading, forcing flight of James II from the country. ·
1775 – American
Revolutionary War: British troops lose the Battle of Great
Bridge, and leave Virginia soon afterward. ·
1793 – New York City's
first daily newspaper, the American
Minerva, is established by Noah Webster. ·
1824 – Patriot forces
led by General Antonio José de
Sucre defeat a Royalist army in the Battle of Ayacucho,
putting an end to the Peruvian War
of Independence. ·
1835 – Texas Revolution: The Texian Army captures San Antonio, Texas. ·
1851 – The first YMCA in
North America is established in Montreal. ·
1856 – The Iranian city
of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British
forces. ·
1861 – American Civil War:
The Joint
Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by
the U.S.
Congress. ·
1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside
the Palace of
Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms
and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. ·
1872 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes
the first African-American governor
of a U.S. state. ·
1892 – English
football club Newcastle United is
founded. ·
1897 – Activist Marguerite Durand founds
the feminist daily newspaper La Fronde in
Paris. ·
1905 – In France,
the law separating church and state is
passed. ·
1911 – A mine
explosion near Briceville,
Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United
States Bureau of Mines. ·
1917 – World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine. ·
1922 – Gabriel Narutowicz is
elected the first president of Poland. ·
1931 – The Constituent Cortes approves
a constitution which
establishes the Second Spanish Republic. ·
1935 – Student protests in
Beiping (now Beijing)'s Tiananmen Square, dispersed by government. ·
1935 – Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor
and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder. ·
1935 – The Downtown Athletic
Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first
time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of
Chicago. ·
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese
War: Battle of Nanking: Japanese troops under the command of
Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch
an assault on the Chinese city
of Nanjing (Nanking). ·
1940 – World War II: Operation Compass:
British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt. ·
1941 – World War
II: China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the
Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Germany and Japan. ·
1941 – World War II: The American 19th Bombardment
Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon. ·
1946 – The "Subsequent
Nuremberg trials" begin with the "Doctors' trial", prosecuting physicians
and officers alleged to be involved in Nazi human
experimentation and mass murder under the guise of euthanasia. ·
1946 – The Constituent
Assembly of India meets for the first time to write the Constitution of
India. ·
1948 – The Genocide Convention is
adopted. ·
1950 – Cold War: Harry Gold is sentenced to 30 years in
jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass
information about the Manhattan Project to
the Soviet Union. His
testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg. ·
1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that
all communist employees will be discharged
from the company. ·
1956 – Trans-Canada
Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star,
crashes near Hope, British
Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board. ·
1958 – The John Birch Society is
founded in the United States. ·
1960 – The first
episode of Coronation Street,
the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United
Kingdom. ·
1961 – Tanganyika becomes independent from
Britain. ·
1962 – The Petrified
Forest National Park is established in Arizona. ·
1965 – Kecksburg UFO
incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania;
witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. ·
1965 – A Charlie Brown
Christmas, first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts
on CBS. ·
1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave
what became known as "The Mother of All
Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user
interface using the oN-Line System
(NLS). ·
1969 – U.S. Secretary
of State William P. Rogers proposes his plan for a ceasefire in the War of Attrition; Egypt and Jordan accept it
over the objections of the PLO,
which leads to civil war in
Jordan in September 1970. ·
1971 – Indo-Pakistani
War: The Indian Air Force executes an airdrop of Indian Army units, bypassing Pakistani
defences. ·
1973 – British and
Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale
Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern
Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland. ·
1979 – The eradication
of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the
first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other). ·
1987 – Israeli–Palestinian
conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. ·
1988 – The Michael Hughes
Bridge in Sligo, Ireland, is
officially opened. ·
1992 – American troops
land in Somalia for Operation Restore Hope. ·
1996 – Gwen Jacob is
acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the
right to be topfree in Ontario, Canada. ·
2003 – A blast in
the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds several more. ·
2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal
officials for crimes including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat
being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama. ·
2012 – A plane crash in
Mexico kills seven people.[1] ·
2013 – At least seven
are dead and 63 are injured following a train accident near
Bintaro, Indonesia. ·
2015 – The start of
the thirty-sixth GCC summit
in Riyadh business. ·
2016 – President Park Geun-hye of South Korea is impeached by
the country's National
Assembly in response to a major
political scandal. Prime
Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn becomes
Acting President, later declining to run for a full term. ·
2016 – At least 57 people are killed and a
further 177 injured when two schoolgirl suicide bombers attack a market area
in Madagali, Northeastern Nigeria in the Madagali
suicide bombings. ·
2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill receives royal
assent and comes into effect, making Australia the 26th country to
legalize same-sex marriage. ·
2019 – A volcano
on White Island, New Zealand, kills at least 18 people after
it erupts.[2] Births[edit]
·
1392 – Peter, Duke of
Coimbra (d. 1449) ·
1447 – Chenghua Emperor of China (d. 1487) ·
1482 – Frederick
II, Elector Palatine (d. 1556) ·
1493 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 4th Duke of the Infantado (d.
1566) ·
1508 – Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and
cartographer (d. 1555) ·
1561 – Edwin Sandys,
English lawyer and politician (d. 1629) ·
1571 – Metius, Dutch mathematician and astronomer
(d. 1635) ·
1579 – Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639) ·
1594 – Gustavus
Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632) ·
1608 – John Milton, English poet and philosopher
(d. 1674) ·
1610 – Baldassare Ferri, Italian singer and actor
(d. 1680) ·
1617 – Richard Lovelace, English poet (d. 1657) ·
1652 – Augustus
Quirinus Rivinus, German physician and botanist (d. 1723) ·
1667 – William Whiston, English mathematician,
historian, and theologian (d. 1752) ·
1717 – Johann Joachim
Winckelmann, German archaeologist and historian (d. 1768) ·
1721 – Peter Pelham,
English-American organist and composer (d. 1805) ·
1728 – Pietro
Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian composer (d. 1804) ·
1742 – Carl Wilhelm Scheele,
Swedish Pomeranian and German pharmaceutical chemist (d. 1786) ·
1745 – Maddalena Laura
Sirmen, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1818) ·
1748 – Claude Louis
Berthollet, French chemist and academic (d. 1822) ·
1752 – Antoine
Étienne de Tousard, French general and engineer (d. 1813) ·
1787 – John Dobson,
English architect, designed Eldon Square and Lilburn Tower (d. 1865) ·
1779 – Tabitha Babbitt, American tool maker and
inventor (d. 1853) ·
1806 – Jean-Olivier Chénier,
Canadian physician (d. 1838) ·
1813 – Thomas Andrews,
Irish chemist and physicist (d. 1885) ·
1837 – Émile Waldteufel,
French pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1915) ·
1842 – Peter Kropotkin, Russian zoologist,
economist, geographer, and philosopher (d. 1921) ·
1845 – Joel Chandler Harris,
American journalist and author (d. 1908) ·
1850 – Emma Abbott, American soprano and actress
(d. 1891) ·
1861 – Hélène Smith,
French psychic and occultist (d. 1929) ·
1867 – Gregorios Xenopoulos,
Greek journalist and author (d. 1951) ·
1868 – Fritz Haber, Polish-German chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1934) ·
1870 – Ida S. Scudder, Indian physician and
missionary (d. 1960) ·
1870 – Francisco S.
Carvajal, Mexican lawyer and politician, president 1914 (d. 1932)[3] ·
1871 – Joe Kelley, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1943) ·
1873 – George Blewett, Canadian philosopher,
author, and academic (d. 1912) ·
1875 – Harry Miller,
American engineer (d. 1943) ·
1876 – Berton Churchill, Canadian-American actor
and singer (d. 1940) ·
1882 – Elmer Booth, American actor (d. 1915) ·
1882 – Joaquín Turina,
Spanish-French composer, critic, and educator (d. 1949) ·
1883 – Nikolai Luzin, Russian mathematician,
theorist, and academic (d. 1950) ·
1883 – Alexander Papagos,
Greek general and politician, 152nd Prime Minister
of Greece (d. 1955) ·
1883 – Joseph Pilates, German-American fitness
expert, developed Pilates (d. 1967) ·
1886 – Clarence Birdseye,
American businessman, founded Birds Eye (d. 1956) ·
1887 – Tim Moore,
American actor (d. 1958) ·
1889 – Hannes Kolehmainen,
Finnish-American runner (d. 1966) ·
1890 – Laura Salverson, Canadian author (d. 1970) ·
1891 – Maksim
Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet and critic (d. 1917) ·
1892 – André Randall, French actor (d. 1974) ·
1895 – Dolores Ibárruri,
Spanish activist, journalist and politician (d. 1989) ·
1895 – Conchita Supervía,
Spanish soprano and actress (d. 1936) ·
1897 – Hermione Gingold, English actress and singer
(d. 1987) ·
1898 – Irene Greenwood, Australian radio
broadcaster and feminist and peace activist (d. 1992)[4] ·
1898 – Emmett Kelly, American clown and actor (d.
1979) ·
1899 – Jean de Brunhoff, French author and
illustrator (d. 1937) ·
1900 – Margaret Brundage,
American illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine Weird Tales (d. 1976) ·
1900 – Albert Weisbord, American activist, founded
the Communist
League of Struggle (d. 1977) ·
1901 – Jean Mermoz, French pilot and politician (d.
1936) ·
1901 – Ödön von Horváth,
Hungarian-German author and playwright (d. 1938) ·
1902 – Margaret
Hamilton, American schoolteacher, actress and voice artist (d.
1985) ·
1904 – Robert
Livingston, American actor and singer (d. 1988) ·
1905 – Dalton Trumbo, American author,
screenwriter, and blacklistee (d.
1976) ·
1906 – Grace Hopper, American admiral and computer
scientist, designed COBOL (d. 1992)[5] ·
1906 – Freddy Martin, American bandleader and tenor
saxophonist (d. 1983) ·
1909 – Douglas Fairbanks
Jr., American captain, actor, and producer (d. 2000) ·
1911 – Broderick Crawford,
American actor (d. 1986) ·
1911 – Ryūzō
Sejima, Japanese colonel and businessman (d. 2007) ·
1912 – Tip O'Neill, American lawyer and politician,
55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d.
1994) ·
1912 – Jim Turnesa, American golfer (d. 1971) ·
1914 – Max Manus, Norwegian lieutenant (d. 1996) ·
1914 – Frances Reid, American actress (d. 2010) ·
1914 – Ljubica Sokić, Serbian painter and
illustrator (d. 2009) ·
1915 – Eloise Jarvis McGraw,
American author (d. 2000) ·
1915 – Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf, German-Austrian soprano and actress (d. 2006) ·
1916 – Jerome Beatty Jr.,
American soldier, journalist, and author (d. 2002) ·
1916 – Kirk Douglas, American actor, singer, and
producer (d. 2020) ·
1916 – Colin McCool, Australian cricketer (d. 1986) ·
1917 – James Jesus Angleton,
American CIA agent
(d. 1987) ·
1917 – James Rainwater, American physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1986) ·
1918 – Joyce Redman, Irish-born British actress (d.
2012) ·
1919 – V. Dakshinamoorthy,
Indian singer-songwriter (d. 2013) ·
1919 – William Lipscomb, American chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2011) ·
1920 – Carlo Azeglio Ciampi,
Italian economist and politician, 10th President of Italy (d.
2016) ·
1920 – Bruno Ruffo, Italian motorcycle racer and
race car driver (d. 2007) ·
1922 – Redd Foxx, American actor (d. 1991) ·
1925 – Roy Rubin, American basketball player and
coach (d. 2013) ·
1926 – Henry Way Kendall,
American physicist, photographer, and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1999) ·
1926 – David Nathan,
British journalist (d. 2001) ·
1926 – Jan Křesadlo, Czech-English
psychologist and author (d. 1995) ·
1926 – Lorenzo Wright, American sprinter and coach
(d. 1972) ·
1927 – Pierre Henry, French composer (d. 2017) ·
1928 – Joan Blos, American author and educator (d.
2017) ·
1928 – André Milhoux, Belgian race car driver ·
1928 – Dick Van Patten, American actor (d. 2015) ·
1929 – John Cassavetes, American actor, director,
and screenwriter (d. 1989) ·
1929 – Bob Hawke, Australian union leader and
politician, 23rd Prime
Minister of Australia (d. 2019) ·
1930 – Buck Henry, American actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 2020) ·
1930 – Óscar
Humberto Mejía Víctores, Guatemalan soldier and politician,
27th President of
Guatemala (d. 2016) ·
1931 – Paddi Edwards, English-American actress (d.
1999) ·
1931 – Cliff Hagan, American basketball player-coach[6] ·
1931 – William Reynolds,
American actor ·
1931 – Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 2010) ·
1932 – Donald Byrd, American trumpet player and
academic (d. 2013) ·
1932 – Bill Hartack, American jockey (d. 2007) ·
1932 – Billy Edd Wheeler,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and playwright ·
1933 – Ashleigh Brilliant,
English-American author and illustrator ·
1933 – Milt Campbell, American decathlete and
football player (d. 2012) ·
1933 – Morton Downey Jr.,
American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (d. 2001) ·
1933 – Orville Moody, American golfer (d. 2008) ·
1934 – Judi Dench, English actress ·
1934 – Junior Wells, American blues
singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 1998) ·
1938 – David Houston,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993) ·
1938 – Deacon Jones, American football player,
sportscaster, and actor (d. 2013) ·
1938 – Dimitrios
Trichopoulos, Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic (d.
2014) ·
1940 – Clancy Eccles, Jamaican singer-songwriter
and producer (d. 2005) ·
1941 – Mehmet Ali Birand,
Turkish journalist and author (d. 2013) ·
1941 – Beau Bridges, American actor, director, and
producer ·
1941 – Dan Hicks,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016) ·
1942 – Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer and
manager (d. 1997) ·
1942 – Dick Butkus, American football player,
sportscaster, and actor ·
1942 – Germain Gagnon, Canadian ice hockey player
(d. 2014) ·
1942 – Fred Jones,
Australian rugby league player ·
1942 – Joe McGinniss, American journalist and
author (d. 2014) ·
1942 – William Turnage, American conservationist
(d. 2017)[7] ·
1943 – Pit Martin, Canadian ice hockey player (d.
2008) ·
1943 – Joanna Trollope, English author, playwright,
and director ·
1943 – Kenny Vance, American singer-songwriter and
music producer ·
1944 – Neil Innes, English singer-songwriter (d.
2019) ·
1944 – Ki Longfellow, American author, playwright,
and producer ·
1944 – Bob O'Connor,
American businessman and politician, 57th Mayor of Pittsburgh (d.
2006) ·
1945 – Michael Nouri, American actor ·
1946 – David
Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone, English economist and academic ·
1946 – Dennis Dunaway, American bass player and
songwriter ·
1946 – Sonia Gandhi, Italian-Indian politician ·
1946 – Nicholas Reade, English bishop ·
1947 – Tom Daschle, American soldier, academic, and
politician ·
1947 – Jaak Jõerüüt,
Estonian politician, 24th Estonian
Minister of Defense ·
1947 – Allan Jones,
English cricketer and umpire ·
1948 – Marleen Gorris, Dutch director and
screenwriter ·
1948 – Jonathan Sumption,
English historian, author, and judge ·
1949 – Tom Kite, American golfer and architect ·
1950 – Joan Armatrading, Kittian-English
singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1952 – Liaqat Baloch, Pakistani politician ·
1952 – Michael Dorn, American actor and voice
artist ·
1953 – Cornelis de Bondt,
Dutch composer and educator ·
1953 – World B. Free, American basketball player ·
1953 – John Malkovich, American actor and producer ·
1954 – Phil Bryant, American academic and
politician, 63rd Governor of
Mississippi ·
1954 – Jean-Claude Juncker,
Luxembourger lawyer and politician, Prime
Minister of Luxembourg ·
1954 – Henk ten Cate, Dutch footballer and manager ·
1955 – Otis Birdsong, American basketball player
and radio host ·
1955 – Chamras Saewataporn,
Thai singer-songwriter ·
1956 – Sylvia, American country singer-songwriter ·
1956 – Jean-Pierre Thiollet,
French journalist and author ·
1957 – Peter O'Mara, Australian guitarist and
composer ·
1957 – Donny Osmond, American singer-songwriter,
dancer, and actor ·
1957 – Steve Taylor, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1958 – Nick Seymour, Australian bass player,
songwriter, and producer ·
1959 – Susan Bullock, English soprano ·
1959 – Mario Cantone, American actor and comedian ·
1960 – Stefen Fangmeier, American visual effects
designer and director ·
1960 – Caroline Lucas, English activist and
politician ·
1960 – Terry Moran, American journalist ·
1960 – Dobroslav Paraga, Croatian politician ·
1960 – Juan Samuel, Dominican-American baseball
player and manager ·
1961 – David Anthony
Higgins, American actor and screenwriter ·
1962 – Felicity Huffman, American actress and
producer ·
1962 – Roxanne Swentzell, Santa Clara Pueblo (Native
American) ceramic sculptor ·
1963 – Masako,
Crown Princess of Japan ·
1963 – Dave Hilton Jr., Canadian boxer ·
1964 – Michael Foster,
American drummer ·
1964 – Ross Harrington, Australian rugby league
player ·
1964 – Hape Kerkeling, German actor and singer ·
1964 – Les Kiss, Australian rugby league player ·
1964 – Johannes B. Kerner,
German journalist and sportscaster ·
1964 – Paul Landers, German guitarist ·
1965 – Joe Ausanio, American baseball player and
coach ·
1966 – Kirsten Gillibrand,
American lawyer and politician ·
1966 – Dave Harold, English snooker player ·
1966 – Gideon Sa'ar, Israeli lawyer and politician,
24th Israeli
Minister of Internal Affairs ·
1966 – Martin
Taylor, English footballer and coach ·
1967 – Joshua Bell, American violinist and
conductor ·
1967 – Jason Dozzell, English footballer and
manager ·
1968 – Brian Bell, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1968 – Brent Price, American basketball player ·
1969 – Jakob Dylan, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1969 – Saskia Garel, Jamaican-Canadian
singer-songwriter ·
1969 – Lori Greiner, American businesswoman ·
1969 – Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer ·
1969 – Raphaël Rouquier,
French mathematician and academic ·
1970 – Kara DioGuardi, American singer-songwriter
and producer ·
1970 – Lance Krall, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1971 – Geoff Barrow, English drummer, DJ, composer,
and producer ·
1971 – Nick Hysong, American pole vaulter and coach ·
1971 – Petr Nedvěd, Czech-Canadian ice hockey
player ·
1972 – Reiko Aylesworth, American actress ·
1972 – Tré Cool, German-American drummer and
songwriter ·
1972 – Michael
Corcoran, American singer-songwriter and producer ·
1972 – Saima Wazed Hossain, Bangladeshi psychologist[8] ·
1972 – Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-French tennis
player and sportscaster ·
1973 – Fabio Artico, Italian footballer ·
1973 – Vénuste Niyongabo,
Burundian runner ·
1973 – Bárbara Padilla,
Mexican-American soprano ·
1974 – Canibus, Jamaican-American rapper ·
1974 – Wendy Dillinger, American soccer player,
coach, and manager ·
1974 – Aloísio da Silva
Filho, Brazilian footballer ·
1974 – Fiona MacDonald, Scottish curler[9] ·
1976 – Chris Booker,
American baseball player ·
1977 – Shayne Graham, American football player ·
1977 – Imogen Heap, English singer-songwriter and
keyboard player ·
1978 – Gastón Gaudio, Argentinian tennis player ·
1978 – Jesse Metcalfe, American actor and musician ·
1979 – Olivia Lufkin, Japanese-American
singer-songwriter ·
1979 – Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer ·
1979 – Aiko Uemura, Japanese skier ·
1980 – Simon Helberg, American actor, comedian, and
musician ·
1980 – Ryder Hesjedal, Canadian cyclist ·
1980 – Mark Riddell, Australian rugby league player
and sportscaster ·
1981 – Mardy Fish, American tennis player ·
1982 – Tamilla Abassova, Russian cyclist ·
1982 – Nathalie De Vos, Belgian runner ·
1982 – Ryan Grant,
American football player ·
1982 – Bastian Swillims, German sprinter ·
1983 – Jermaine Beckford,
English-Jamaican footballer ·
1983 – Neslihan Demir
Darnel, Turkish volleyball player ·
1983 – Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer ·
1984 – Michael Adam, German politician ·
1984 – Ángel Guirado, Spanish–Filipino footballer ·
1984 – Leon Hall, American football player ·
1985 – Wil Besseling, Dutch golfer ·
1987 – Kostas Giannoulis,
Greek footballer ·
1987 – Mat Latos, American baseball player ·
1987 – Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese-American chess
player ·
1988 – Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer ·
1990 – Denise Hannema, Dutch cricketer ·
1991 – Choi Minho,
Korean singer and actor ·
1993 – Mark McMorris, Canadian snowboarder ·
1993 – Laura Smulders, Dutch cyclist ·
1995 – McKayla Maroney, American gymnast ·
1996 – MyKayla Skinner, American gymnast ·
1999 – Riley Clemmons, American Christian musician ·
2000 – Diāna
Ņikitina, Latvian figure skater Deaths[edit]
·
638 – Sergius I of
Constantinople ·
730 – Al-Jarrah ibn
Abdallah, Arab general ·
748 – Nasr ibn Sayyar, Umayyad general and
politician (b. 663) ·
933 – Li Congrong, prince of Later Tang ·
1117 – Gertrude of
Brunswick, Markgräfin of Meißen ·
1165 – Malcolm IV of
Scotland (b. 1141) ·
1242 – Richard le Gras, Lord Keeper of England and
Abbot of Evesham ·
1268 – Vaišvilkas, Prince of Black Ruthenia, Grand Duke of
Lithuania ·
1299 – Bohemond
I, Archbishop of Trier ·
1437 – Sigismund,
Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368) ·
1544 – Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491) ·
1565 – Pope Pius IV (b. 1499) ·
1603 – William Watson,
English priest (b. 1559) ·
1625 – Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer
(b. 1547) ·
1636 – Fabian Birkowski, Polish preacher and author
(b. 1566) ·
1641 – Anthony van Dyck, Belgian-English painter
and illustrator (b. 1599) ·
1669 – Pope Clement IX (b. 1600) ·
1674 – Edward
Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English historian and
politician, Chancellor of
the Exchequer (b. 1609) ·
1706 – Peter II of Portugal (b.
1648) ·
1718 – Vincenzo Coronelli,
Italian monk and cartographer (b. 1650) ·
1761 – Tarabai, Queen of Chatrapati Rajaram (b.
1675)[10] ·
1793 – Yolande de Polastron,
French-Austrian educator (b. 1749) ·
1798 – Johann Reinhold
Forster, German pastor, botanist, and ornithologist (b. 1729) ·
1830 – Heinrich
Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish surgeon, botanist, and
academic (b. 1757) ·
1854 – Almeida Garrett, Portuguese journalist and
author (b. 1799) ·
1858 – Robert Baldwin, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 3rd Premier of Canada West (b. 1804) ·
1887 – Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese religious leader ·
1906 – Ferdinand Brunetière,
French author and critic (b. 1849) ·
1916 – Natsume Sōseki,
Japanese author and poet (b. 1867) ·
1924 – Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and educator
(b. 1854) ·
1930 – Rube Foster, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1879) ·
1932 – Karl Blossfeldt, German photographer,
sculptor, and educator (b. 1865) ·
1932 – Begum Rokeya, Bangladeshi social worker and
author (b. 1880) ·
1935 – Walter Liggett, American journalist and
activist (b. 1886) ·
1937 – Lilias Armstrong, English phonetician (b.
1882) ·
1937 – Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and
engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1869) ·
1941 – Dmitry Merezhkovsky,
Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865) ·
1943 – Georges Dufrénoy,
French painter (b. 1870) ·
1944 – Laird Cregar, American actor (b. 1913) ·
1945 – Yun Chi-ho, South Korean activist and
politician (b. 1864) ·
1957 – Ali İhsan Sâbis,
Turkish general (b. 1882) ·
1963 – Daniel O. Fagunwa,
Nigerian author and educator (b. 1903) ·
1963 – Perry Miller, American historian, author,
and academic (b. 1905) ·
1964 – Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b.
1887) ·
1965 – Branch Rickey, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1884) ·
1967 – Charles Léon Hammes,
Luxembourgian lawyer and judge, 3rd President of the European Court of Justice (b.
1898) ·
1968 – Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (b.
1883) ·
1970 – Artem Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian engineer and
businessman, co-founded the Mikoyan Company (b. 1905) ·
1970 – Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician,
7th Prime Minister
of Pakistan (b. 1893) ·
1971 – Ralph Bunche, American political scientist,
academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1904) ·
1971 – Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor and
painter (b. 1874) ·
1971 – Rev. Aeneas Francon
Williams, Church of Scotland Minister, Missionary in India and China, writer and poet (b. 1886) ·
1972 – Louella Parsons, American writer and
columnist (b. 1881) ·
1975 – William A. Wellman,
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1896) ·
1979 – Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (b.
1895) ·
1982 – Leon Jaworski, American lawyer and
politician (b. 1905) ·
1991 – Berenice Abbott, American photographer (b.
1898) ·
1992 – Vincent Gardenia, American actor (b. 1922) ·
1993 – Danny Blanchflower,
Northern Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926) ·
1995 – Toni Cade Bambara,
American author and academic (b. 1939) ·
1995 – Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (b. 1907) ·
1996 – Patty Donahue, American singer-songwriter
(b. 1956) ·
1996 – Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and
anthropologist (b. 1913) ·
1996 – Alain Poher, French lawyer and politician
(b. 1909) ·
1996 – Diana Morgan,
Welsh playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908) ·
1998 – Shaughnessy Cohen,
Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1948) ·
1998 – Archie Moore, American boxer and actor (b.
1913) ·
2001 – Michael
Carver, Baron Carver, English field marshal (b. 1915) ·
2002 – Mary Hansen, Australian singer and guitarist
(b. 1966) ·
2002 – Ian Hornak, American painter and sculptor
(b. 1944) ·
2002 – Stan Rice, American painter and poet (b.
1942) ·
2003 – Norm Sloan, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1926) ·
2003 – Paul Simon,
American soldier, journalist, and politician, 39th Lieutenant
Governor of Illinois (b. 1928) ·
2005 – György Sándor,
Hungarian-American pianist and educator (b. 1912) ·
2005 – Robert Sheckley, American author (b. 1928) ·
2006 – Georgia Gibbs, American singer (b. 1919) ·
2007 – Rafael Sperafico, Brazilian race car driver
(b. 1981) ·
2007 – Gordon Zahn, American sociologist, author,
and academic (b. 1918) ·
2008 – Ibrahim Dossey, Ghanaian footballer (b.
1972) ·
2008 – Yury Glazkov, Russian general, pilot, and
astronaut (b. 1939) ·
2009 – Gene Barry, American actor (b. 1919) ·
2010 – James Moody,
American saxophonist, flute player, and composer (b. 1925) ·
2010 – Dov Shilansky, Lithuanian-Israeli lawyer and
politician, 10th Speaker of the
Knesset (b. 1924) ·
2012 – Béla Nagy Abodi,
Hungarian painter and academic (b. 1918) ·
2012 – Patrick Moore, English lieutenant,
astronomer, and educator (b. 1923) ·
2012 – Alex Moulton, English engineer and
businessman, founded the Moulton Bicycle Company (b. 1920) ·
2012 – Jenni Rivera, American singer-songwriter,
producer, and actress (b. 1969) ·
2012 – Charles Rosen, American pianist and
musicologist (b. 1927) ·
2012 – Riccardo Schicchi,
Italian director and producer, co-founded Diva Futura (b. 1953) ·
2012 – Norman Joseph
Woodland, American inventor, co-created the bar code (b. 1921) ·
2013 – John Gabbert, American soldier, lawyer, and
judge (b. 1909) ·
2013 – Barbara
Hesse-Bukowska, Polish pianist and educator (b. 1930) ·
2013 – Eleanor Parker, American actress (b. 1922) ·
2013 – John
Wilbur, American football player (b. 1943) ·
2014 – Sacvan Bercovitch,
Canadian-American author, critic, and academic (b. 1933) ·
2014 – Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet
(b. 1924) ·
2014 – Jorge María Mejía,
Argentinian cardinal (b. 1923) ·
2014 – Mary Ann Mobley, American model and
actress, Miss America 1959 (b.
1937) ·
2014 – Blagoje
Paunović, Serbian footballer and manager (b. 1947) ·
2014 – Jože Toporišič,
Slovenian linguist and author (b. 1926) ·
2015 – Soshana Afroyim, Austrian painter (b. 1927) ·
2015 – Norman Breslow, American statistician and
academic (b. 1941) ·
2015 – Juvenal Juvêncio,
Brazilian lawyer and politician (b. 1934) ·
2015 – Julio Terrazas
Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (b. 1936) ·
2019 – Marie Fredriksson,
Swedish singer (b. 1958) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Anna's Day,
marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve, as well as a Swedish name day,
celebrating all people named Anna. (Sweden and Finland) ·
Christian feast day: o Feast
of the Conception of the Most Holy Theotokos by St. Anne (Orthodox Church) o Leocadia o December
9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Fatherland's
Heroes Day (Russia) ·
Independence
Day, celebrates the independence of Tanganyika from
Britain in 1961. (Tanzania) ·
International
Anti-Corruption Day (United Nations) ·
National
Heroes Day, formerly V.C. Bird Day. (Antigua and Barbuda) |
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