December 1

2024

December 1 in recent years

2023 (Friday)

2022 (Thursday)

2021 (Wednesday)

2020 (Tuesday)

2019 (Sunday)

2018 (Saturday)

2017 (Friday)

2016 (Thursday)

2015 (Tuesday)

2014 (Monday)

December 1 is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 30 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

0800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris.
1577 – Francis Walsingham is knighted.
1640 – End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 59 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.
1662 – Diarist John Evelyn records skating on the frozen lake in St James's Park, London, watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine.^[1]
1768 – The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya in Norway.
1821 – José Núñez de Cáceres got the independence of the Dominican Republic of Spain and named it the new territory as Republic of Spanish Haiti.
1822 – Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
1824 – United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1828 – Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
1913 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
1913 – Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
1918 – Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union.
1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
1924 – The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.^[2]
1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
1958 – The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
1958 – The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, West Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia.
1974 – TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
1974 – Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1977 – Pinwheel is launched, which is now Nickelodeon.
1980 – Ecatepec, State of Mexico, Mexico, becomes a city.^[3]
1981 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
1988 – World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.
1989 – Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
1997 – In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
1997 – Heath High School shooting in West Paducah, Kentucky^[4]
2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.^[5]^[6]
2019 – First known case of COVID-19 appears.^[7]

Births[]

0624 – Hasan ibn Ali, the second Shia Imam (d. 670)^[8]^[9]
1081 – Louis VI, French king (d. 1137)
1083 – Anna Komnene, Byzantine physician and scholar (d. 1153)
1415 – Jan Długosz, Polish historian (d. 1480)^[10]
1438 – Peter II, Duke of Bourbon, son of Charles I (d. 1503)
1443 – Magdalena of France, French princess (d. 1495)
1488 – Elisabeth of Nassau-Dillenburg, Countess of Wied, German noblewoman (d. 1559)
1521 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese daimyō (d. 1573)
1525 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600)
1530 – Bernardino Realino, Italian Jesuit (d. 1616)
1561 – Sophie Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess consort of Pomerania-Wolgast (d. 1631)
1580 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (d. 1637)
1690 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (d. 1764)
1709 – Franz Xaver Richter, Czech composer, violinist, and conductor (d. 1789)
1716 – Étienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic (d. 1817)
1761 – Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (d. 1850)
1792 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer (d. 1856)
1800 – Mihály Vörösmarty, Hungarian poet (d. 1855)
1805 – 9th Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader (d. 1815)
1844 – Alexandra of Denmark (d. 1925)
1846 – Ledi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (d. 1923)
1847 – Julia A. Moore, American poet (d. 1920)
1855 – John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (d. 1943)
1869 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (d. 1923)
1871 – Archie MacLaren, English cricketer (d. 1944)
1871 – George Howard Williams, American politician and attorney, United States Senator from Missouri (d. 1963)
1883 – Henry Cadbury, American historian, scholar, and academic (d. 1974)
1884 – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter and etcher (d. 1976)
1886 – Rex Stout, American detective novelist (d. 1975)
1886 – Zhu De, Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
1894 – Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral, Brazilian herpetologist (d. 1982)
1895 – Henry Williamson, English farmer, soldier, and author (d. 1977)
1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
1898 – Stuart Garson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1977)
1898 – Cyril Ritchard, Australian-American actor and singer (d. 1977)
1900 – Karna Maria Birmingham, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker (d. 1987)
1901 – Ilona Fehér, Hungarian-Israeli violinist and educator (d. 1988)
1903 – Nikolai Voznesensky, Soviet economic planner, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (d. 1950)
1905 – Alex Wilson, Canadian sprinter and coach (d. 1994)
1910 – Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer (d. 2004)
1911 – Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (d. 1984)
1911 – Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman (d. 1999)
1912 – Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, designed the World Trade Center (d. 1986)
1913 – Mary Martin, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
1916 – Wan Li, Chinese educator and politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 2015)
1917 – Thomas Hayward, American tenor and actor (d. 1995)
1917 – Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager (d. 2011)
1920 – Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami, Japanese priest, 1st Bishop of Naha (d. 2014)
1921 – Vernon McGarity, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2013)
1922 – Vsevolod Bobrov, Russian ice hockey player, footballer, and manager (d. 1979)
1923 – Dick Shawn, American actor (d. 1987)
1923 – Stansfield Turner, American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central Intelligence (d. 2018)
1924 – Masao Horiba, Japanese businessman, founded Horiba (d. 2015)
1925 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
1926 – Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (d. 2013)
1926 – Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2018)
1926 – Keith Michell, Australian actor (d. 2015)
1926 – Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007)
1926 – Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Scottish businessman (d. 2010)
1927 – Micheline Bernardini, French dancer and model
1928 – Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991)
1928 – Malachi Throne, American actor (d. 2013)
1929 – David Doyle, American actor (d. 1997)
1930 – Marie Bashir, Australian psychiatrist, academic, and politician, 37th Governor of New South Wales
1930 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian and author (d. 2002)
1931 – Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (d. 1986)
1931 – Jim Nesbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2007)
1931 – George Maxwell Richards, Trinidadian politician, 4th President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2018)
1933 – Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2006)
1933 – Violette Verdy, French ballerina (d. 2016)
1934 – Billy Paul, American soul singer (d. 2016)
1935 – Woody Allen, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1935 – Sola Sierra, Chilean human rights activist (d. 1999)^[11]
1936 – Igor Rodionov, Russian general and politician, 3rd Russian Minister of Defence (d. 2014)
1937 – Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American soprano and actress (d. 2005)
1937 – Gordon Crosse, English composer and academic
1937 – Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Latvian psychologist and politician, 6th President of Latvia
1938 – Sandy Nelson, American rock and roll drummer
1939 – Lee Trevino, American golfer and sportscaster
1940 – Mike Denness, Scottish-English cricketer and referee (d. 2013)
1940 – Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2005)
1940 – Tasso Wild, German footballer
1940 – Jerry Lawson, American electronic engineer and inventor (d. 2011)
1942 – Mohamed Kamel Amr, Egyptian politician, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs
1942 – John Crowley, American author and academic
1942 – Ross Edwards, Australian cricketer
1943 – Kenny Moore, American runner and journalist
1944 – Eric Bloom, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 – John Densmore, American drummer and songwriter
1944 – Michael Hagee, American general
1944 – Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan author and poet
1945 – Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
1946 – Jonathan Katz, American comedian and actor
1946 – Kemal Kurspahić, Bosnian journalist and author
1946 – Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
1947 – Alain Bashung, French singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2009)
1947 – Bob Fulton, English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
1948 – George Foster, American baseball player and radio host
1948 – Sarfraz Nawaz, Pakistani cricketer and politician
1948 – John Roskelley, American mountaineer and author
1948 – Neil Warnock, English footballer and manager
1948 – N. T. Wright, English bishop and scholar
1948 – Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, Nigerian civil servant and politician, Governor of Kaduna State (d. 2012)
1949 – Jan Brett, American author and illustrator
1949 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist (d. 1993)
1949 – Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman and politician, 35th President of Chile
1950 – Manju Bansal, Indian biologist and academic
1950 – Ross Hannaford, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2016)
1950 – Gary Panter, American illustrator and painter
1950 – Filippos Petsalnikos, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice
1950 – Richard Keith, American actor and drummer
1951 – Obba Babatundé, American actor, director, and producer
1951 – Doug Mulray, Australian radio and television host
1951 – Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (d. 1987)
1951 – Treat Williams, American actor
1952 – Stephen Poliakoff, English director, producer, and playwright
1954 – Alan Dedicoat, English journalist
1954 – Judith Hackitt, English chemist and engineer
1954 – François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (d. 2017)
1955 – Veikko Aaltonen, Finnish actor, director, and screenwriter
1955 – Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress
1955 – Pat Spillane, Irish footballer and sportscaster
1955 – Karen Tumulty, American journalist
1955 – Udit Narayan, Indian playback singer
1956 – Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress
1957 – Chris Poland, American guitarist and songwriter
1957 – Vesta Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2011)
1958 – Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and manager
1958 – Candace Bushnell, American journalist and author
1958 – Alberto Cova, Italian runner
1958 – Gary Peters, American lieutenant and politician
1959 – Billy Childish, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter
1959 – Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
1960 – Carol Alt, American model and actress
1960 – Shirin M. Rai, Indian-English political scientist and academic
1960 – Jane Turner, Australian actress and producer
1961 – Safra Catz, Israeli-American businesswoman
1961 – Raymond E. Goldstein, American biophysicist and academic
1961 – Jeremy Northam, English actor
1962 – Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater
1962 – Pamela McGee, American basketball player and coach
1963 – Marco Greco, Brazilian race car driver
1963 – Nathalie Lambert, Canadian speed skater
1963 – Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician
1964 – Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer
1964 – Jo Walton, Welsh-Canadian author and poet
1965 – Henry Honiball, South African rugby player
1965 – Magnifico, Slovenian singer
1966 – Andrew Adamson, New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Katherine LaNasa, American actress, ballet dancer, and choreographer
1966 – Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player and coach
1967 – Nestor Carbonell, American actor
1967 – Reggie Sanders, American baseball player
1968 – Justin Chadwick, English actor and director
1968 – Sarah Fitzgerald, Australian squash player
1968 – Anders Holmertz, Swedish swimmer
1969 – Richard Carrier, American author and blogger
1970 – Jonathan Coulton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 – Kirk Rueter, American baseball player
1970 – Sarah Silverman, American comedian, actress, and singer
1970 – Tisha Waller, American high jumper and educator
1971 – Emily Mortimer, English actress
1971 – Christian Pescatori, Italian race car driver
1971 – Mika Pohjola, Finnish-American pianist and composer
1971 – John Schlimm, American author and educator
1972 – Stanton Barrett, American race car driver and stuntman
1972 – Bart Millard, American singer-songwriter
1973 – Steve Gibb, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1974 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer and manager
1975 – Matt Fraction, American author
1975 – Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboard player and producer (d. 2014)
1975 – Farah Shah, Pakistani actress and host
1975 – Thomas Schie, Norwegian race car driver and sportscaster
1975 – Sophia Skou, Danish swimmer
1976 – Brently Heilbron, American actor and musician
1976 – Tomasz Adamek, Polish boxer
1976 – Laura Ling, American journalist and author
1976 – Evangelos Sklavos, Greek basketball player
1977 – Brad Delson, American guitarist and producer
1977 – Sophie Guillemin, French actress
1977 – Lee McKenzie, Scottish journalist
1978 – Mat Kearney, American musician^[12]
1979 – Ryan Malone, American ice hockey player
1979 – Stephanie Brown Trafton, American discus thrower
1980 – Iftikhar Anjum, Pakistani cricketer
1980 – Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer and politician
1980 – Roger Peterson, Aruban-Dutch singer-songwriter
1980 – Mubarak Hassan Shami, Kenyan-Qatari runner
1980 – Gianna Terzi, Greek singer
1981 – Park Hyo-shin, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
1981 – Luke McPharlin, Australian footballer
1981 – I Made Wirawan, Indonesian footballer
1982 – Riz Ahmed, English actor and rapper
1982 – Lloyd Doyley, English footballer
1982 – Christos Kalantzis, Greek footballer
1982 – Christos Melissis, Greek footballer
1985 – John Coughlin, American figure skater (d. 2019)
1985 – Janelle Monáe, American singer-songwriter and producer
1985 – Chanel Preston, American porn actress and director
1985 – Emiliano Viviano, Italian footballer
1986 – DeSean Jackson, American football player
1987 – Simon Dawkins, English footballer
1987 – Tabarie Henry, Virgin Islander sprinter
1987 – Vance Joy, Australian singer-songwriter
1987 – Brett Williams, English footballer
1988 – Zoë Kravitz, American actress, singer, and model
1988 – Dan Mavraides, Greek-American basketball player
1988 – Tyler Joseph, American musician and singer
1989 – Sotelúm, Mexican trumpet player, composer, and producer
1990 – Tomáš Tatar, Slovak ice hockey player
1991 – Hilda Melander, Swedish tennis player
1991 – Sun Yang, Chinese swimmer
1991 – Noel Acciari, American ice hockey player
1992 – Masahudu Alhassan, Ghanaian footballer
1992 – Javier Báez, Puerto Rican baseball player
1992 – Linos Chrysikopoulos, Greek basketball player
1992 – Marco van Ginkel, Dutch footballer
1993 – Reena Pärnat, Estonian archer
1994 – Seedy Njie, English footballer
1995 – Agnė Čepelytė, Lithuanian tennis player
1995 – Jenna Fife, Scottish footballer^[13]
1995 – James Wilson, English footballer
1998 – Shimona Nelson, Jamaican netballer

Deaths[]

0217 – Yehudah HaNasi, 'Nasi', Rabbi and editor of the Mishnah (b. 135)
0660 – Eligius, Frankish bishop and saint (b. 588)
0948 – Gao Conghui, Chinese governor and prince (b. 891)
0969 – Fujiwara no Morotada, Japanese statesman (b. 920)
1018 – Thietmar of Merseburg, German bishop (b. 975)
1135 – Henry I, king of England (b. 1068)
1241 – Isabella of England, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1214)
1255 – Muhammad III of Alamut, Nizari Ismaili Imam^[14]
1335 – Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (b. 1305)
1374 – Magnus Ericson, king of Sweden (b. 1316)
1433 – Go-Komatsu, emperor of Japan (b. 1377)
1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (b. 1378)
1521 – Leo X, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1475)
1530 – Margaret of Austria, duchess of Savoy (b. 1480)
1580 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
1581 – Alexander Briant, English Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (b. 1556)
1581 – Edmund Campion, English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint (b. 1540)
1581 – Ralph Sherwin, English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint (b. 1550)
1633 – Isabella Clara Eugenia, infanta of Spain (b. 1566)
1640 – Miguel de Vasconcelos, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1590)
1660 – Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist and historian (b. 1592)
1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1665)
1750 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
1755 – Maurice Greene, English organist and composer (b. 1696)
1767 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, Scottish politician (b. 1710)
1825 – Alexander I, emperor and autocrat of Russia (b. 1777)
1865 – Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss pastor, poet, and educator (b. 1796)
1866 – George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor (b. 1790)
1867 – Charles Gray Round, English lawyer and politician (b. 1797)
1884 – William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)
1913 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and author (b. 1864)
1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
1916 – Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858)
1923 – Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836)
1928 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (b. 1888)
1933 – Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865)
1934 – Sergey Kirov, Russian engineer and politician (b. 1886)
1935 – Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b. 1879)
1943 – Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and educator (b. 1862)
1947 – Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and mountaineer (b. 1875)
1947 – G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1877)
1950 – Ernest John Moeran, English pianist and composer (b. 1894)
1954 – Fred Rose, American pianist, composer, and publisher (b. 1898)
1964 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (b. 1892)
1964 – Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek runner (b. 1877)
1968 – Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer, composer, and conductor (b. 1887)
1968 – Darío Moreno, Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1921)
1973 – David Ben-Gurion, Israeli politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
1975 – Nellie Fox, American baseball player and coach (b. 1927)
1975 – Ernesto Maserati, Italian race car driver and engineer (b. 1898)
1975 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist (b. 1906)
1981 – Russ Manning, American author and illustrator (b. 1929)
1984 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter and photographer (b. 1911)
1986 – Frank McCarthy, American general and film producer (b. 1912)
1987 – James Baldwin, American novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1924)
1987 – Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1918)
1988 – J. Vernon McGee, American pastor and theologian (b. 1904)
1989 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1931)
1990 – Carla Lehmann, Canadian-English actress (b. 1917)
1991 – Pat O'Callaghan, Irish athlete (b. 1906)^[15]
1991 – George Stigler, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1993 – Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
1995 – Hopper Levett, English cricketer (b. 1908)
1995 – Colin Tapley, New Zealand-English actor (b. 1907)
1995 – Maxwell R. Thurman, American general (b. 1931)
1996 – Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)
1997 – Michel Bélanger, Canadian banker and businessman (b. 1929)
1997 – Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist (b. 1908)
1997 – Endicott Peabody, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1920)
2001 – Ellis R. Dungan, American director and producer (b. 1909)
2002 – Edward L. Beach Jr., American captain and author (b. 1918)
2002 – Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2003 – Clark Kerr, American economist and academic (b. 1911)
2003 – Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (b. 1928)
2004 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (b. 1911)
2004 – Bill Brown, Scottish-Canadian footballer (b. 1931)
2005 – Gust Avrakotos, American CIA officer (b. 1938)
2005 – Mary Hayley Bell, English actress and playwright (b. 1911)
2005 – Freeman V. Horner, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1922)
2006 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
2006 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian (b. 1937)
2007 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player and footballer (b. 1929)
2007 – Anton Rodgers, British actor (b. 1933)
2008 – Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938)
2008 – Joseph B. Wirthlin, American businessman and religious leader (b. 1917)
2010 – Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1914)
2010 – Hillard Elkins, American actor and producer (b. 1929)
2011 – Christa Wolf, German author and critic (b. 1929)
2012 – Jovan Belcher, American football player (b. 1987)
2012 – Arthur Chaskalson, South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1931)
2012 – Rick Majerus, American basketball player and coach (b. 1948)
2012 – Ed Price, American soldier, pilot, and politician (b. 1918)
2013 – Richard Coughlan, English drummer (b. 1947)
2013 – Stirling Colgate, American physicist and academic (b. 1925)
2013 – Edward Heffron, American soldier (b. 1923)
2013 – Martin Sharp, Australian cartoonist and songwriter (b. 1942)
2014 – Mario Abramovich, Argentinian violinist and composer (b. 1926)
2014 – Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic (b. 1938)
2014 – Rocky Wood, New Zealand-Australian author (b. 1959)
2015 – Rob Blokzijl, Dutch physicist and computer scientist (b. 1943)
2015 – Joseph Engelberger, American physicist and engineer (b. 1925)
2015 – John F. Kurtzke, American neurologist and academic (b. 1926)
2015 – Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2015 – Trevor Obst, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1940)
2018 – Vivian Lynn, New Zealand artist (b. 1931)^[16]
2019 – Paula Tilbrook, English actress (b. 1930)^[17]

Holidays and observances[]

Battle of the Sinop Day (Russia)
Christian feast day:
- Alexander Briant
- Ansanus
- Blessed Bruna Pellesi
- Castritian
- Blessed Charles de Foucauld
- Edmund Campion
- Eligius
- Evasius
- Grwst
- Nahum
- Nicholas Ferrar (Episcopal Church)
- Ralph Sherwin
- Ursicinus of Brescia
- December 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Damrong Rajanubhab Day (Thailand)
Earliest day on which Farmer's Day can fall, while December 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Friday in December. (Ghana)
Earliest day on which Good Neighborliness Day can fall, while December 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday in December. (Turkmenistan)
Earliest day on which Sindhi Cultural Day can fall, while December 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday in December. (Sindhi diaspora)
First President Day (Kazakhstan)
Freedom and Democracy Day (Chad)
Great Union Day, celebrates the Union of Transylvania with Romania in 1918. (Romania)
Military Abolition Day (Costa Rica)
National Day (Myanmar)
Republic Day (Central African Republic)
Restoration of Independence Day (Portugal)
Rosa Parks Day (Ohio and Oregon, United States)
Self-governance Day or Fullveldisdagurinn (Iceland)
Teachers' Day (Panama)
World AIDS Day, and its related observances:
- Day Without Art

References[]

↑ Humphreys, Julian (December 2012). Attar, Rob (ed.). "Milestones". BBC History magazine. Northampton: BBC. pp. 10–11.
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↑ "Historia de Ecatepec" [History of Ecatepec]. Ecatepec.com (in Spanish). Retrieved July 17, 2019.
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[2] "NHL hockey came to the U.S. on Dec. 1, 1924". nhl.com. National Hockey League. December 1, 2008. Retrieved December 4, 2016. The National Hockey League celebrates another historic anniversary...remembering the first NHL game played in the United States, as the Boston Bruins hosted the Montreal Maroons, both expansion teams, at the Boston Arena on Dec. 1, 1924.

[3] "Historia de Ecatepec" [History of Ecatepec]. Ecatepec.com (in Spanish). Retrieved July 17, 2019.

[4] Philpott, Amber. "Remembering a deadly Kentucky high school shooting 20 years later". Retrieved 2018-06-04.

[5] "A Historic Transition in Mexico". The New York Times. New York: The New York Times Company. December 1, 2000. Retrieved May 27, 2015.

[6] "MEXICO HAS PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER". The Chicago Tribune. Illinois. December 3, 2000. Retrieved July 2, 2019.

[auto-7] "Novel Coronavirus—China". World Health Organization (WHO). Retrieved 2020-04-09.

[8] Shabbar, S.M.R. (1997). Story of the Holy Ka'aba. Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain. Archived from the original on 30 October 2013. Retrieved 30 October 2013.

[al-islam.org-9] Shaykh Mufid. Kitab Al Irshad. p.279-289 Archived 27 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine.

[FOOTNOTEDavies19825-10] Davies 1982, p. 5.

[11] "Sola Sierra | | The Guardian". amp.theguardian.com. Retrieved 26 January 2020.

[12] ttps://www.allmusic.com/artist/mat-kearney-mn0000862343/biography

[13] "Jenna Fife | Scotland | Scottish FA". www.scottishfa.co.uk. Retrieved 28 April 2020.

[Daftary1992p422-14] Daftary, Farhad (1992). The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines. Cambridge University Press. p. 422. ISBN 978-0-521-42974-0.

[15] "Patrick O'Callaghan". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 5 March 2020.

[16] "Vivian Lynn". collections.tepapa.govt.nz. Retrieved 7 August 2020.

[17] "Obituary: Paula Tilbrook". The Stage. Retrieved 15 July 2020.

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