December 13

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December 13 in recent years

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2022 (Tuesday)

2021 (Monday)

2020 (Sunday)

2019 (Friday)

2018 (Thursday)

2017 (Wednesday)

2016 (Tuesday)

2015 (Sunday)

2014 (Saturday)

December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 18 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

1294 – Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit.
1545 – The Council of Trent begins.
1577 – Sir Francis Drake sets sail from Plymouth, England, on his round-the-world voyage.
1636 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militia regiments to defend the colony against the Pequot Indians. This organization is recognized today as the founding of the National Guard of the United States.
1642 – Abel Tasman is the first recorded European to sight New Zealand.
1643 – English Civil War: The Battle of Alton takes place in Hampshire.
1758 – The English transport ship Duke William sinks in the North Atlantic, killing over 360 people.
1769 – Dartmouth College is founded by the Reverend Eleazar Wheelock, with a royal charter from King George III, on land donated by Royal governor John Wentworth.
1818 – Cyril VI of Constantinople resigns from his position as Ecumenical Patriarch.
1862 – American Civil War: At the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee defeats Union Major General Ambrose Burnside.
1867 – A Fenian bomb explodes in Clerkenwell, London, killing six.
1928 – George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed.
1936 – An annular solar eclipse occurred and was visible from Australia, New Zealand on December 14th (Monday), and Oeno Island in Pitcairn Islands on December 13th (Sunday).^[1]
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.
1938 – The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
1939 – World War II: Battle of the River Plate: Captain Hans Langsdorff of the German Deutschland-class cruiser (pocket battleship) Admiral Graf Spee engages with Royal Navy cruisers HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax and HMS Achilles.
1943 – World War II: The Massacre of Kalavryta by German occupying forces in Greece.
1949 – The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
1959 – Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.
1960 – While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
1962 – NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
1967 – Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels.
1968 – Brazilian President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-5 (Institutional Act No. 5), enabling government by decree and suspending habeas corpus.
1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.
1974 – Malta becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.
1977 – Air Indiana Flight 216 crashes near Evansville Regional Airport, killing 29, including the University of Evansville basketball team, support staff, and boosters of the team.
1981 – General Wojciech Jaruzelski declares martial law in Poland, largely due to the actions by Solidarity.
1982 – The 6.0 Template:M North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 2,800, and injuring 1,500.
1988 – PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.
1989 – The Troubles: Attack on Derryard checkpoint: The Provisional Irish Republican Army launches an attack on a British Army temporary vehicle checkpoint near Rosslea, Northern Ireland. Two British soldiers are killed and two others are wounded.
2001 – Sansad Bhavan, the building housing the Indian Parliament, is attacked by terrorists. Twelve people are killed, including the terrorists.
2002 – European Union enlargement: The EU announces that Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia will become members on May 1, 2004.
2003 – Iraq War: Operation Red Dawn: Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is captured near his home town of Tikrit.
2007 – The Treaty of Lisbon is signed by members states of the European Union.
2011 – A murder–suicide in Liège, Belgium, kills six and wounds 125 people at a Christmas market.
2018 – A high-speed train crashes in Ankara, Turkey, killing at least nine people and injuring 84.^[2]

Births[]

1272 – King Frederick III of Sicily (d. 1337)
1363 – Jean Gerson, chancellor of the University of Paris (d. 1429)^[3]
1476 – Lucy Brocadelli, Dominican tertiary and stigmatic (d. 1544)^[4]
1484 – Paul Speratus, German Lutheran (d. 1551)^[5]
1491 – Martín de Azpilcueta, Spanish theologian and economist (d. 1586)
1499 – Justus Menius, German Lutheran pastor (d. 1558)
1521 – Pope Sixtus V (d. 1590)
1533 – Eric XIV of Sweden (d. 1577)
1553 – Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
1560 – Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully, 2nd Prime Minister of France (d. 1641)
1585 – William Drummond of Hawthornden, Scottish poet (d. 1649)
1640 – Robert Plot, English chemist and academic (d. 1696)
1662 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1729)
1678 – Yongzheng Emperor of China (d. 1735)
1720 – Carlo Gozzi, Italian playwright (d. 1804)
1724 – Franz Aepinus, German astronomer and philosopher (d. 1802)
1769 – James Scarlett Abinger, English judge (d. 1844)
1780 – Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist, invented the Döbereiner's lamp (d. 1849)
1784 – Archduke Louis of Austria (d. 1864)
1797 – Heinrich Heine, German journalist, poet, and critic (d. 1856)
1804 – Joseph Howe, Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1873)
1814 – Ana Néri, Brazilian nurse and philanthropist (d. 1880)
1816 – Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded Siemens (d. 1892)
1818 – Mary Todd Lincoln, 16th First Lady of the United States (d. 1882)
1830 – Mathilde Fibiger, Danish feminist, novelist and telegraphist (d. 1892)
1836 – Franz von Lenbach, German painter and academic (d. 1904)
1854 – Herman Bavinck, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and academic (d. 1921)
1856 – Svetozar Boroević, Croatian-Austrian field marshal (d. 1920)
1860 – Lucien Guitry, French actor (d. 1925)
1864 – Emil Seidel, American woodcarver and politician, 36th Mayor of Milwaukee (d. 1947)
1867 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and author (d. 1917)
1870 – Edward LeSaint, American actor and director (d. 1940)
1871 – Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (d. 1945)
1874 – Josef Lhévinne, Russian pianist and educator (d. 1944)
1882 – Jane Edna Hunter, African-American social worker (d. 1971)^[6]
1883 – Belle da Costa Greene, American librarian and bibliographer (d. 1950)^[7]
1884 – Aimilios Veakis, Greek actor, director, and playwright (d. 1951)
1885 – Annie Dale Biddle Andrews, American mathematician (d. 1940)
1887 – George Pólya, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1985)
1887 – Alvin C. York, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1964)
1897 – Albert Aalbers, Dutch architect, designed the Savoy Homann Bidakara Hotel (d. 1961)
1897 – Drew Pearson, American journalist and author (d. 1969)
1900 – Jonel Perlea, Romanian-American conductor and educator (d. 1970)
1901 – Olev Roomet, Estonian singer, violinist, and bagpipe player (d. 1987)
1902 – Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Greek philosopher and politician, 138th Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1986)
1902 – Talcott Parsons, American sociologist and academic (d. 1979)
1903 – Ella Baker, American activist (d. 1986)
1903 – Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and composer (d. 1993)
1905 – Ann Barzel, American writer and dance critic (d. 2007)^[8]
1906 – Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark (d. 1968)
1906 – Laurens van der Post, South African-English soldier and author (d. 1996)
1908 – Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Brazilian historian and activist (d. 1995)
1908 – Van Heflin, American actor (d. 1971)
1908 – Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (d. 1958)
1911 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
1911 – Kenneth Patchen, American poet and painter (d. 1972)
1912 – Luiz Gonzaga, Brazilian singer-songwriter and accordion player (d. 1989)
1913 – Arnold Brown, English-Canadian missionary, 11th General of The Salvation Army (d. 2002)
1914 – Alan Bullock, English historian and author (d. 2004)
1914 – Larry Noble, English comedian and actor (d. 1993)
1915 – B. J. Vorster, South African lawyer and politician, 4th State President of South Africa (d. 1983)
1916 – Archie Moore, American boxer (d. 1998)
1916 – Leonard Weisgard, American author and illustrator (d. 2000)
1918 – Bill Vukovich, Serbian-American race car driver (d. 1955)
1919 – Hans-Joachim Marseille, German captain and pilot (d. 1942)
1920 – George P. Shultz, American economist and politician, 60th United States Secretary of State
1921 – Turgut Demirağ, Turkish film producer, director and screenwriter (d. 1987)
1923 – Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2020)
1923 – Terence Beckett, English businessman (d. 2013)
1923 – Edward Bede Clancy, Australian cardinal (d. 2014)
1923 – Larry Doby, American baseball player and manager (d. 2003)
1925 – Dick Van Dyke, American actor, singer, and dancer
1926 – Carl Erskine, American major-league baseball player
1926 – George Rhoden, Jamaican runner
1927 – James Wright, American poet and academic (d. 1980)
1929 – Christopher Plummer, Canadian actor and producer
1930 – Robert Prosky, American actor (d. 2008)
1933 – Doug Mohns, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2014)
1934 – Richard D. Zanuck, American film producer (d. 2012)
1934 – Antoinette Rodez Schiesler, American chemist (d. 1996)
1935 – Joe Christopher, Virgin Islander baseball player
1935 – Kenneth Hall, American football player
1935 – Lindy McDaniel, American baseball player
1935 – Türkan Saylan, Turkish physician and academic (d. 2009)
1935 – Arthur Summons, Australian rugby player
1936 – Prince Karim al-Husayn Shāh, Aga Khan IV,^[9] Swiss-English businessman
1936 – J. C. Martin, American baseball player and sportscaster
1937 – Rob Houwer, Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter
1937 – Ulf G. Lindén, Swedish businessman (d. 2009)
1938 – Gus Johnson, American basketball player (d. 1987)^[10]
1938 – Tom Shaw, American golfer
1940 – Sanjaya Lall, Indian economist and academic (d. 2005)
1941 – John Davidson, American actor and game show host
1942 – Howard Brenton, English playwright and screenwriter
1942 – Anna Eshoo, American lawyer and politician
1943 – Ferguson Jenkins, Canadian baseball and basketball player
1943 – Marti Webb, British actress and singer
1944 – Hwang Jang-lee, Japanese-South Korean martial artist and actor
1945 – Herman Cain, American businessman and political activist (d. 2020)
1948 – Jeff Baxter, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1948 – Lillian Board, South African-English sprinter (d. 1970)
1948 – Ted Nugent, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1948 – Brian Wilson, Scottish journalist and politician, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
1949 – Robert Lindsay, English actor and singer
1949 – R. A. MacAvoy, American computer programmer and author
1949 – Randy Owen, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – Tom Verlaine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1950 – Linda Bellos, English businesswoman and politician
1950 – Wendie Malick, American actress, model and comedian
1950 – Julia Slingo, English meteorologist and academic
1950 – Tom Vilsack, American lawyer and politician, 30th United States Secretary of Agriculture
1952 – Junkyard Dog, American football player and wrestler (d. 1998)
1952 – John Francome, English jockey and sportscaster
1952 – Larry Kenon, American basketball player
1952 – Jean Rouaud, French author
1953 – Berton Averre, American guitarist and songwriter
1953 – Ben Bernanke, American economist and academic
1953 – Bill Castro, Dominican baseball player and coach
1953 – Jim Davidson, English comedian, actor, and television host
1953 – Bob Gainey, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager
1953 – Thomas Kurzhals, German keyboard player and songwriter (d. 2014)
1954 – John Anderson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 – Steve Forbert, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1954 – Harsh Vardhan, Indian otolaryngologist and politician, Indian Minister of Science and Technology
1955 – Joseph Mahmoud, Moroccan-French runner
1956 – Dale Berra, American baseball player
1956 – Phil Hubbard, American basketball player and coach
1956 – Jean-Marie Messier, French businessman
1957 – Steve Buscemi, American actor and director
1957 – Eric Marienthal, American saxophonist
1959 – Heino Enden, Estonian basketball player and coach
1959 – Staffan William-Olsson, Swedish guitarist and composer
1960 – Richard Dent, American football player
1961 – Harry Gregson-Williams, English composer, conductor, and producer
1961 – Irene Sáez, Venezuelan model and politician, Governor of Nueva Esparta
1961 – Gary Zimmerman, American football player
1962 – Roger Ilegems, Belgian cyclist
1962 – Jamie Raskin, American lawyer, academic, and politician
1962 – Rex Ryan, American football player and coach
1962 – Rob Ryan, American football player and coach
1964 – hide, Japanese recording artist, the former lead guitarist of X Japan (d. 1998)
1966 – Mike Tirico, American sportscaster
1967 – Jamie Foxx, American actor, singer, songwriter, producer, and comedian
1967 – Bo Pelini, American football player and coach
1969 – Sergei Fedorov, Russian ice hockey player and manager
1970 – Tonja Buford-Bailey, American hurdler and coach
1970 – Eoin Jess, Scottish footballer
1970 – Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Austrian mountaineer
1971 – Naomi Long, Northern Irish engineer and politician, 54th Lord Mayor of Belfast
1971 – Park Jin-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, producer, and record executive
1971 – Scott Sattler, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1971 – Leanne Wood, Welsh academic and politician
1972 – Chris Grant, Australian footballer
1972 – James Murdoch, Australian-American businessman, son of Rupert Murdoch
1974 – Sara Cox, English broadcaster
1975 – Bates Battaglia, American ice hockey player
1975 – Tom DeLonge, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1975 – Kostas Kiassos, Greek footballer
1975 – Matthew LeCroy, American baseball player and coach
1975 – Bahar Mert, Turkish volleyball player
1976 – Josh Fogg, American baseball player
1976 – Søren Friis, Danish footballer
1976 – Radosław Sobolewski, Polish footballer
1976 – Rama Yade, Senegalese-French politician
1977 – Sascha Kindred, German-English swimmer
1978 – Kaspars Kambala, Latvian basketball player
1978 – B.J. Penn, American mixed martial artist and wrestler
1979 – Matjaž Smodiš, Slovenian basketball player
1979 – Luke Steele, Australian singer-songwriter and musician
1980 – Patrik Antonius, Finnish tennis player, coach, and poker player
1980 – Ryan France, English footballer
1980 – Danil Haustov, Estonian swimmer
1981 – Amy Lee, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1981 – Mathis Bailey, American-Canadian novelist and fiction writer
1982 – Dan Hamhuis, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 – Ayumi Kinoshita, Japanese actress and model
1982 – Ricky Nolasco, American baseball player
1982 – Tuka Rocha, Brazilian race car driver (d. 2019)
1982 – Koutaro Tanaka, Japanese actor
1982 – Dominik Werling, German footballer
1983 – Matt Deis, American bass player and songwriter
1983 – Otylia Jędrzejczak, Polish swimmer
1983 – Janeth Jepkosgei, Kenyan runner
1984 – Santi Cazorla, Spanish footballer
1984 – Hanna-Maria Seppälä, Finnish swimmer^[11]
1985 – Michael Bumpus, American football player
1985 – Laurence Leboeuf, Canadian actress
1985 – Alby Mathewson, New Zealand rugby player
1986 – Mathieu Gnanligo, Beninese sprinter
1988 – Rickie Fowler, American golfer
1988 – Olly Lancashire, English footballer
1988 – James Tamou, New Zealand-Australian rugby league player
1989 – Hellen Onsando Obiri, Kenyan runner^[12]
1989 – Ben Ridge, Australian rugby league player
1989 – Taylor Swift, American singer-songwriter, record producer and actress
1991 – Sénah Mango, Togolese footballer
1991 – Aaron Telitz, American race car driver
1996 – Gleyber Torres, Venezuelan baseball player^[13]

Deaths[]

558 – Childebert I, Frankish king (b. 496)
769 – Du Hongjian, Chinese politician (b. 709)
838 – Pepin I of Aquitaine (b. 797)
859 – Angilbert II, archbishop of Milan
1124 – Pope Callixtus II (b. 1065)
1126 – Henry IX, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1075)
1204 – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135)
1250 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1194)
1272 – Bertold of Regensburg, German preacher
1404 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1336)
1466 – Donatello, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1386)
1516 – Johannes Trithemius, German cryptographer and historian (b. 1462)
1521 – Manuel I of Portugal (b. 1469)
1557 – Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician and engineer (b. 1499)
1565 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss botanist and physician (b. 1516)
1621 – Katarina Stenbock, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (b. 1535)
1671 – Antonio Grassi, Italian Roman Catholic priest(b. 1592)
1716 – Charles de La Fosse, French painter (b. 1640)
1721 – Alexander Selkirk, Scottish sailor (b. 1676)
1729 – Anthony Collins, English philosopher and author (b. 1676)
1754 – Mahmud I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1696)
1758 – Noël Doiron, Canadian Acadia leader (b. 1684)
1769 – Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and hymn-writer (b. 1715)
1783 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer and demographer (b. 1717)
1784 – Samuel Johnson, English poet and lexicographer (b. 1709)
1814 – Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Belgian-Austrian field marshal (b. 1735)
1837 – Herman of Alaska, Russian missionary and saint (b. 1756)
1849 – Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg, German botanist and entomologist (b. 1766)
1862 – Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb, American general, lawyer, and politician (b. 1823)
1863 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (b. 1813)
1868 – Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer (b. 1794)
1881 – August Šenoa, Croatian author and poet (b. 1838)
1883 – Victor de Laprade, French poet and critic (b. 1812)
1893 – Georg August Rudolph, German lawyer and politician, 3rd Mayor of Marburg (b. 1816)
1895 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800)
1908 – Augustus Le Plongeon, French photographer and historian (b. 1825)
1919 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (b. 1850)
1922 – Arthur Wesley Dow, American painter and photographer (b. 1857)
1922 – Hannes Hafstein, Icelandic poet and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861)
1924 – Samuel Gompers, English-born American labor leader, founded the American Federation of Labor (b. 1850)
1927 – Mehmet Nadir, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
1930 – Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1931 – Gustave Le Bon, French psychologist, sociologist, and anthropologist (b. 1840)
1932 – Georgios Jakobides, Greek painter and sculptor (b. 1853)
1935 – Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
1942 – Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Austrian-Polish religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1866)
1942 – Robert Robinson Taylor, American architect (b. 1868)
1944 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and theorist (b. 1866)
1945 – Irma Grese, German concentration camp guard (b. 1923)
1945 – Josef Kramer, German concentration camp commandant (b. 1906)
1945 – Elisabeth Volkenrath, Polish-German concentration camp supervisor (b. 1919)
1947 – Henry James, American lawyer and author (b. 1879)
1947 – Nicholas Roerich, Russian archaeologist, painter, and philosopher (b. 1874)
1950 – Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1902)
1954 – John Raymond Hubbell, American director and composer (b. 1879)
1955 – Egas Moniz, Portuguese psychiatrist and neurosurgeon, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1960 – Dora Marsden, English author and activist (b. 1882)
1961 – Grandma Moses, American painter (b. 1860)
1962 – Harry Barris, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1905)
1969 – Raymond A. Spruance, American admiral and diplomat, United States Ambassador to the Philippines (b. 1886)
1973 – Henry Green, English author (b. 1905)
1974 – Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, Egyptian-Turkish journalist, author, and politician (b. 1889)
1975 – Cyril Delevanti, English-American actor (b. 1889)
1977 – Oğuz Atay, Turkish engineer and author (b. 1934)
1979 – Jon Hall, American actor and director (b. 1915)
1979 – Behçet Necatigil, Turkish author, poet and translator (b. 1916)
1983 – Alexander Schmemann, Estonian-American priest and theologian (b. 1921)
1983 – Nichita Stănescu, Romanian poet and critic (b. 1933)
1986 – Heather Angel, British-American actress (b. 1909)
1986 – Ella Baker, American activist (b. 1903)
1986 – Smita Patil, Indian actress and journalist (b. 1955)
1992 – K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman (b. 1899)
1992 – Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1899)
1993 – Vanessa Duriès, French author (b. 1972)
1995 – Ann Nolan Clark, American author and educator (b. 1896)
1996 – Edward Blishen, English author and educator (b. 1920)
1997 – Don E. Fehrenbacher, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1920)
1998 – Lew Grade, Ukrainian-born British impresario and media proprietor (b. 1906)
1998 – Richard Thomas, Royal Naval Officer (b. 1922)
1998 – Wade Watts, civil rights activist (b. 1919)
2001 – Michael Bradshaw, British-Canadian actor (b. 1933)
2001 – Chuck Schuldiner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967)
2002 – Zal Yanovsky, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
2003 – Māris Čaklais, Latvian poet and journalist (b. 1940)
2003 – William V. Roth, Jr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1921)
2004 – Andre Rodgers, Bahamian baseball player (b. 1934)
2004 – David Wheeler, English computer scientist and academic (b. 1927)
2005 – Stanley Williams, American gang leader, co-founded the Crips (b. 1953)
2006 – Lamar Hunt, American businessman, co-founded the American Football League and World Championship Tennis (b. 1932)
2007 – Mark Partridge, Rhodesian lawyer and politician (b. 1922)
2007 – Floyd Red Crow Westerman, American actor and activist (b. 1936)
2008 – John Drake, New Zealand rugby player and journalist (b. 1959)
2010 – James Dibble, Australian journalist (b. 1923)
2010 – Richard Holbrooke, American journalist and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1941)
2010 – Enrique Morente, Spanish singer-songwriter (b. 1942)
2011 – T. J. Bass, American physician and author (b. 1932)
2011 – Kabir Chowdhury, Bangladeshi author and academic (b. 1923)
2011 – Russell Hoban, American author and illustrator (b. 1925)
2012 – Ian Black, Scottish footballer (b. 1924)
2013 – Marcel Cellier, Swiss organist and producer (b. 1925)
2013 – Vivian Kellogg, American baseball player and manager (b. 1922)
2013 – Kim Kuk-tae, North Korean politician (b. 1924)
2013 – Harvey Littleton, American glass artist and educator (b. 1922)
2014 – Ernst Albrecht, German economist and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (b. 1930)
2014 – William E. May, American theologian and academic (b. 1928)
2014 – Phil Stern, American photographer (b. 1919)
2014 – Taitetsu Unno, Japanese scholar and author (b. 1929)
2015 – Benedict Anderson, Chinese-American political scientist and academic (b. 1936)
2015 – John Bannon, Australian academic and politician, 39th Premier of South Australia (b. 1943)
2015 – Peter Ryan, Australian journalist and author (b. 1923)
2016 – Thomas Schelling, American economist and educator (b. 1921)
2016 – David Strangway, Canadian geophysicist and university administrator (b. 1934)
2016 – Alan Thicke, Canadian-American actor and composer (b. 1947)
2017 – Warrel Dane, American singer (b. 1961)
2018 – Noah Klieger, Israeli journalist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1926)^[14]

Holidays and observances[]

Acadian Remembrance Day (Acadians)
Christian feast day:
- Antiochus of Sulcis
- Judoc (Joyce)
- Lucy, and its related observances:
  - National Day, celebrates the independence of Saint Lucia from United Kingdom in 1979.
  - Saint Lucy's Day (mainly Scandinavia, some regions of Italy (for example, Sicily, Veneto and Trentino), Malta, Hungary and Croatia).
- Odile of Alsace
- December 13 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Martial Law Victims Remembrance Day (Poland)
Nanking Massacre Memorial Day (China)
Nusantara Day (Indonesia)
Republic Day (Malta)
Sailor's Day (Brazil)

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External links[]

[1] "Five Millennium Catalog of Solar Eclipses:–1999 to +3000 (2000 BCE to 3000 CE)—Revised" (PDF). eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2020-01-01.

[2] "Train Crash in Ankara, Turkey, Kills at Least 9 and Injures Dozens". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-12-15.

[3] Guillaume Henri Marie Posthumus Meyjes (1999). Jean Gerson, Apostle of Unity: His Church Politics and Ecclesiology. BRILL. p. 13. ISBN 90-04-11296-0.

[4] Alban Butler; Paul Burns (1 January 1995). Butler's Lives of the Saints. A&C Black. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-86012-260-9.

[5] Theodore Kübler (1865). Historical Notes to the Lyra Germanica: Containing Brief Memoirs of the Authors of the Hymns Therein Translated, and Notices of Remarkable Occasions on which Some of Them, Or Any of Their Verses, Have Been Used ; with Notices of Other German Hymn-writers Represented in Other English Collections. Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green. pp. 332.

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