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December 14 in recent years
2023 (Thursday)
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2020 (Monday)
2019 (Saturday)
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December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . 17 days remain until the end of the year.
File:Retour des Cendres - 4.jpg Arrival of " la Dorade " at Courbevoie on 14 December 1840. , 1867 painting by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux . Château de Malmaison
Events [ ]
557 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake .
835 – Sweet Dew Incident : Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled.
1287 – St. Lucia's flood : The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.
1542 – Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen of Scots at the age of one week on the death of her father, James V of Scotland .
1650 – Anne Greene is hanged at Oxford Castle in England for infanticide , having concealed an illegitimate stillbirth. The following day she revives in the dissection room and, being pardoned, lives until 1659.
1751 – The Theresian Military Academy is founded in Wiener Neustadt , Austria.
1780 – Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York
1782 – The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2 km (1.2 mi).
1812 – The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.
1814 – War of 1812 : The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne , Louisiana .
1819 – Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state .
1836 – The Toledo War unofficially ends.
1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
1900 – Quantum mechanics : Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law .
1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu .
1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina .
1907 – The Thomas W. Lawson , the largest ever ship without a heat engine , runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909 , formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory .
1911 – Roald Amundsen 's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland , Helmer Hanssen , Sverre Hassel , and Oscar Wisting , becomes the first to reach the South Pole .
1913 – Haruna , the fourth and last Template:Sclass- ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II .
1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista , PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires , Argentina .
1918 – Friedrich Karl von Hessen , a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne .
1918 – Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated.
1918 – The 1918 United Kingdom general election occurs, the first where women were permitted to vote.
1939 – Winter War : The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
1940 – Plutonium (specifically Pu-238 ) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.
1941 – World War II : Japan signs a treaty of alliance with Thailand .
1948 – Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann are granted a patent for their cathode-ray tube amusement device , the earliest known interactive electronic game .
1955 – Albania , Austria , Bulgaria , Cambodia , Ceylon , Finland , Hungary , Ireland , Italy , Jordan , Laos , Libya , Nepal , Portugal , Romania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109 .
1958 – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility .
1960 – Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.
1962 – NASA 's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus .
1963 – The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California .
1964 – American Civil Rights Movement : Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States : The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination.
1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War : Over 200 of East Pakistan ' s intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day .)
1972 – Apollo program : Eugene Cernan is the last person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
1981 – Arab–Israeli conflict : Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law , extending Israeli law to the occupied Golan Heights .
1985 – Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation .
1992 – War in Abkhazia : Siege of Tkvarcheli : A helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, including 25 children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.
1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.
1995 – Yugoslav Wars : The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , Croatia , and Bosnia and Herzegovina .
1998 – Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
1999 – Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela , resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
2003 – Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
2004 – The Millau Viaduct , the tallest bridge in the world , is formally inaugurated near Millau , France.
2008 – Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq.
2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting : Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut .
2013 – A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.
2017 – The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire 21st Century Fox , including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion.
2020 – A total solar eclipse will be visible from Chile and Argentina.[1]
Births [ ]
1009 – Go-Suzaku , emperor of Japan (d. 1045)
1332 – Frederick III , German nobleman (d. 1381)
1546 – Tycho Brahe , Danish astronomer and chemist (d. 1601)
1599 – Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge , English politician (d. 1668)
1607 – János Kemény , Hungarian prince (d. 1662)
1625 – Barthélemy d'Herbelot , French orientalist and academic (d. 1695)
1631 – Anne Conway , English philosopher and author (d. 1679)
1640 – Aphra Behn , English playwright and author (d. 1689)
1678 – Daniel Neal , English historian and author (d. 1743)
1720 – Justus Möser , German jurist and theorist (d. 1794)
1730 – Capel Bond , English organist and composer (d. 1790)
1738 – Jan Antonín Koželuh , Czech composer and educator (d. 1814)
1775 – Philander Chase , American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (d. 1852)
1775 – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald , Scottish admiral and politician (d. 1860)
1777 – Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon , Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (d. 1839)
1784 – Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily (d. 1806)
1789 – Maria Szymanowska , Polish composer and pianist (d. 1831)
1791 – Charles Wolfe , Irish priest and poet (d. 1823)
1794 – Erastus Corning , American businessman and politician (d. 1872)
1816 – Abraham Hochmuth , Hungarian rabbi and educator (d. 1889)
1824 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes , French painter and illustrator (d. 1898)
1832 – Daniel H. Reynolds , American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1902)
1851 – Mary Tappan Wright , American novelist and short story writer (d. 1916)
1852 – Daniel De Leon , Curaçaoan-American journalist and politician (d. 1914)
1853 – Errico Malatesta , Italian activist and theorist (d. 1932)
1856 – Louis Marshall , American lawyer and activist (d. 1929)
1866 – Roger Fry , English painter and critic (d. 1934)
1870 – Karl Renner , Austrian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Austria (d. 1950)
1881 – Katherine MacDonald , American actress and producer (d. 1956)
1883 – Manolis Kalomiris , Greek pianist and composer (d. 1962)
1883 – Morihei Ueshiba , Japanese martial artist, developed aikido (d. 1969)
1884 – Jane Cowl , American actress and playwright (d. 1950)
1887 – Xul Solar , Argentinian painter and sculptor (d. 1963)
1894 – Alexander Nelke , Estonian-American painter and carpenter (d. 1974)
1895 – George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)
1895 – Paul Éluard , French poet and author (d. 1952)
1896 – Jimmy Doolittle , American general and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
1897 – Kurt Schuschnigg , Italian-Austrian lawyer and politician, 15th Federal Chancellor of Austria (d. 1977)
1897 – Margaret Chase Smith , American educator and politician (d. 1995)
1899 – DeFord Bailey , American Hall of Fame country and blues musician (d. 1982)
1901 – Henri Cochet , French tennis player (d. 1987)
1901 – Paul of Greece (d. 1964)
1902 – Frances Bavier , American actress (d. 1989)
1902 – Herbert Feigl , Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (d. 1988)
1903 – Walter Rangeley , English sprinter (d. 1982)
1904 – Virginia Coffey , American civil rights activist (d. 2003)
1908 – Morey Amsterdam , American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1908 – Claude Davey , Welsh rugby player (d. 2001)
1908 – Mária Szepes , Hungarian journalist, author, and screenwriter (d. 2007)
1909 – Edward Lawrie Tatum , American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
1911 – Spike Jones , American singer and bandleader (d. 1965)
1911 – Hans von Ohain , German-American physicist and engineer (d. 1998)
1911 – Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz , Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player (d. 1943)
1914 – Karl Carstens , German lieutenant and politician, 5th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (d. 1992)
1914 – France Milčinski - Ježek , Slovene poet, satirist , comedian, actor, children's writer and director.
1914 – Rosalyn Tureck , American pianist and harpsichord player (d. 2003)
1915 – Dan Dailey , American dancer and actor (d. 1978)
1916 – Shirley Jackson , American novelist and short story writer (d. 1965)
1917 – C.-H. Hermansson , Swedish author and politician (d. 2016)
1917 – Elyse Knox , American actress and fashion designer (d. 2012)
1917 – June Taylor , American dancer and choreographer (d. 2004)
1918 – James T. Aubrey , American broadcaster (d. 1994)
1918 – Radu Beligan , Romanian actor and director (d. 2016)
1918 – B. K. S. Iyengar , Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (d. 2014)
1920 – Clark Terry , American trumpet player, composer, and educator (d. 2015)
1922 – Nikolay Basov , Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
1922 – Don Hewitt , American journalist and producer, created 60 Minutes (d. 2009)
1922 – Junior J. Spurrier , American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1984)
1923 – Gerard Reve , Dutch-Belgian author and poet (d. 2006)
1924 – Raj Kapoor , Indian actor, director, and producer (d. 1988)
1925 – Sam Jones , American baseball player (d. 1971)
1927 – Richard Cassilly , American tenor and actor (d. 1998)
1927 – Koos Rietkerk , Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (d. 1986)
1929 – Ron Jarden , New Zealand rugby player (d. 1977)
1930 – David R. Harris , English geographer, anthropologist, and archaeologist (d. 2013)
1930 – Margaret Bakkes , South African author (d. 2016)
1931 – Jon Elia , Pakistani philosopher, poet, and scholar (d. 2002)
1931 – Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar , Estonian director and politician (d. 2015)
1932 – George Furth , American actor and playwright (d. 2008)
1932 – Abbe Lane , American actress, singer, and dancer
1932 – Charlie Rich , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1995)
1934 – Shyam Benegal , Indian director and screenwriter
1934 – Charlie Hodge , American guitarist and singer (d. 2006)
1935 – Lewis Arquette , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2001)
1935 – Lee Remick , American actress (d. 1991)
1938 – Leonardo Boff , Brazilian theologian and author
1938 – Charlie Griffith , Barbadian cricketer
1939 – Ann Cryer , English academic and politician
1939 – Ernie Davis , American football player (d. 1963)
1940 – Lex Gold , Scottish footballer and civil servant
1941 – Karan Armstrong , American soprano and actress
1941 – Ellen Willis , American journalist, critic, and academic (d. 2006)
1942 – Chris Harris , English actor and director (d. 2014)
1942 – Dick Wagner , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
1943 – Tommy McAvoy , Scottish politician
1943 – Emmett Tyrrell , American journalist, author, and publisher, founded The American Spectator
1944 – Graham Kirkham, Baron Kirkham , English businessman, founded DFS
1944 – Denis Thwaites , English professional footballer murdered in the 2015 Sousse attacks (died 2015)[2]
1946 – Antony Beevor , English historian and author
1946 – Jane Birkin , English-French actress and singer
1946 – John Du Prez , English conductor and composer
1946 – Patty Duke , American actress (d. 2016)
1946 – Ruth Fuchs , German javelin thrower and politician
1946 – Peter Lorimer , Scottish footballer
1946 – Michael Ovitz , American talent agent, co-founded Creative Artists Agency
1946 – Stan Smith , American tennis player and coach
1946 – Joyce Vincent Wilson , American singer
1947 – Christopher Parkening , American guitarist and educator
1947 – Dilma Rousseff , Brazilian economist and politician, 36th President of Brazil
1948 – Lester Bangs , American journalist and author (d. 1982)
1948 – Kim Beazley , Australian politician and diplomat, 9th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
1948 – Boudewijn Büch , Dutch author, poet, and television host (d. 2002)
1948 – Peeter Kreitzberg , Estonian lawyer and politician (d. 2011)
1949 – Bill Buckner , American baseball player and manager (d. 2019)
1949 – Cliff Williams , Australian bass player
1951 – Jan Timman , Dutch chess player and author
1952 – John Lurie , American actor, saxophonist, painter, director, and producer
1953 – Vijay Amritraj , Indian tennis player and sportscaster
1953 – Wade Davis , Canadian anthropologist, author, and photographer
1953 – René Eespere , Estonian composer
1953 – Vangelis Meimarakis , Greek lawyer and politician, 4th Greek Minister for National Defence
1953 – Mikael Odenberg , Swedish soldier and politician, 29th Swedish Minister for Defence
1954 – Alan Kulwicki , American race car driver (d. 1993)
1954 – Steve MacLean , Canadian physicist and astronaut
1955 – Jane Crafter , Australian golfer
1955 – Jill Pipher , American mathematician and academic
1956 – Linda Fabiani , Scottish politician
1956 – Hanni Wenzel , German skier
1958 – Mike Scott , Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1958 – Spider Stacy , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1959 – Bob Paris , American-Canadian bodybuilder and actor
1959 – Jorge Vaca , Mexican boxer
1960 – Don Franklin , American actor
1960 – Chris Waddle , English footballer, manager, and sportscaster
1960 – Diane Williams , American sprinter
1960 – James Comey , 7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1961 – Jeff Robinson , American baseball player (d. 2014)
1961 – Patrik Sundström , Swedish ice hockey player
1963 – Greg Abbott , English footballer and manager
1963 – Diana Gansky , German discus thrower
1965 – Craig Biggio , American baseball player and coach
1965 – Ken Hill , American baseball player
1965 – Ted Raimi , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1966 – Fabrizio Giovanardi , Italian race car driver
1966 – Anthony Mason , American basketball player (d. 2015)
1966 – Helle Thorning-Schmidt , Danish academic and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Denmark
1966 – Bill Ranford , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1966 – Tim Sköld , Swedish bass player and producer
1967 – Ewa Białołęcka , Polish author
1967 – Hanne Haugland , Norwegian high jumper and coach
1968 – Kelley Armstrong , Canadian author
1969 – Scott Hatteberg , American baseball player and sportscaster
1969 – Archie Kao , American actor and producer
1969 – Arthur Numan , Dutch footballer and manager
1969 – Natascha McElhone , English-Irish actress
1970 – Anna Maria Jopek , Polish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
1970 – Beth Orton , English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 – Michaela Watkins , American actor and comedian
1972 – Miranda Hart , English actress
1972 – Marcus Jensen , American baseball player and coach
1973 – Falk Balzer , German hurdler
1973 – Pat Burke , Irish basketball player
1973 – Tomasz Radzinski , Polish-Canadian footballer
1973 – Saulius Štombergas , Lithuanian basketball player and coach
1974 – Billy Koch , American baseball player
1975 – Justin Furstenfeld , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1975 – Ben Kay , English rugby player
1976 – Tammy Blanchard , American actress and singer
1976 – Leland Chapman , American bounty hunter
1976 – Sebastien Chaule , French-German rugby player
1976 – André Couto , Portuguese race car driver
1976 – Santiago Ezquerro , Spanish footballer
1977 – Brendan Nash , Australian-Jamaican cricketer
1977 – Jamie Peacock , English rugby player and manager
1978 – Dean Brogan , Australian footballer and coach
1978 – Shedrack Kibet Korir , Kenyan runner
1978 – Zdeněk Pospěch , Czech footballer
1978 – Patty Schnyder , Swiss tennis player
1978 – Kim St-Pierre , Canadian ice hockey player
1979 – Jean-Alain Boumsong , French footballer
1979 – Andrei Makrov , Estonian ice hockey player
1979 – Sophie Monk , English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress
1979 – Michael Owen , English footballer and sportscaster
1979 – Rocc , Slovenian opera stage director & designer[3]
1980 – Gordon Greer , Scottish footballer
1980 – Didier Zokora , Ivorian footballer
1980 – Thed Björk , Swedish race car driver
1981 – Rebecca Jarvis , American journalist
1981 – Johnny Jeter , American wrestler
1981 – Liam Lawrence , Irish footballer
1981 – Shaun Marcum , American baseball player
1982 – Josh Fields , American baseball player
1982 – Steve Sidwell , English footballer
1982 – Anthony Way , English singer and actor
1983 – Leanne Mitchell , English singer-songwriter
1984 – Chris Brunt , Northern Irish footballer
1984 – Rana Daggubati , Indian actor and producer
1984 – Ed Rainsford , Zimbabwean cricketer
1985 – Jakub Błaszczykowski , Polish footballer
1985 – Alex Pennie , Welsh keyboard player
1985 – Paul Rabil , American lacrosse player
1985 – Tom Smith , English-Welsh rugby player
1985 – Nonami Takizawa , Japanese actress and singer
1987 – Kenneth Medwood , Belizean-American hurdler
1988 – Nicolas Batum , French basketball player
1988 – Nate Ebner , American football player
1988 – Vanessa Hudgens , American actress and singer
1988 – Hayato Sakamoto , Japanese baseball player
1989 – Sam Burgess , English rugby league player
1989 – Pedro Roberto Silva Botelho , Brazilian footballer
1989 – Onew , South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer
1991 – Ben Henry , New Zealand rugby league player
1991 – Offset , American rapper
1992 – Tori Kelly , American singer-songwriter
1992 – Ryo Miyaichi , Japanese footballer
1993 – Antonio Giovinazzi , Italian race car driver
1995 – Calvyn Justus , South African swimmer
1996 – Li Zijun , Chinese figure skater
Deaths [ ]
618 – Xue Rengao , emperor of Qin
648 – John III of the Sedre , Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch[4]
704 – Aldfrith , king of Northumbria (or 705 )
872 – Pope Adrian II (b. 792)
1077 – Agnes of Poitou , Holy Roman Empress and regent (b. c. 1025)
1293 – Al-Ashraf Khalil , Mamluk sultan of Egypt
1311 – Margaret of Brabant , German queen consort (b. 1276)
1332 – Rinchinbal Khan , Mongolian emperor (b. 1326)
1359 – Cangrande II della Scala , Lord of Verona (b. 1332)
1417 – John Oldcastle , English Lollard leader
1460 – Guarino da Verona , Italian scholar and translator (b. 1370)
1480 – Niccolò Perotti , humanist scholar (b. 1429)
1503 – Sten Sture the Elder , regent of Sweden (b. 1440)
1510 – Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
1542 – James V of Scotland (b. 1512)
1591 – John of the Cross , Spanish priest and saint (b. 1542)
1595 – Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b. 1535)
1624 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham , English politician, Lord High Admiral (b. 1536)
1651 – Pierre Dupuy , French historian and scholar (b. 1582)
1715 – Thomas Tenison , English archbishop (b. 1636)
1735 – Thomas Tanner , English bishop and historian (b. 1674)
1741 – Charles Rollin , French historian and educator (b. 1661)
1785 – Giovanni Battista Cipriani , Italian painter and engraver (b. 1727)
1788 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , German pianist and composer (b. 1714)
1788 – Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
1799 – George Washington , American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (b. 1732)
1831 – Martin Baum , American businessman and politician, 5th Mayor of Cincinnati (b. 1765)
1838 – Jean-Olivier Chénier , Canadian physician (b. 1806)
1842 – Ben Crack-O , king of several tribes around Cape Palmas
1860 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen , Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
1861 – Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (b. 1819)
1865 – Johan Georg Forchhammer , Danish geologist and mineralogist (b. 1794)
1873 – Louis Agassiz , Swiss-American zoologist and geologist (b. 1807)
1878 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (b. 1843)
1912 – Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis , English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1887)
1917 – Phil Waller , Welsh rugby player (b. 1889)
1920 – George Gipp , American football player (b. 1895)
1927 – Julian Sochocki , Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1842)
1929 – Henry B. Jackson , British admiral (b. 1855)
1935 – Stanley G. Weinbaum , American author (b. 1902)
1937 – Fabián de la Rosa , Filipino painter and educator (b. 1869)
1940 – Anton Korošec , Slovenian priest and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1872)
1943 – John Harvey Kellogg , American physician and businessman, co-invented corn flakes (b. 1852)
1944 – Lupe Vélez , Mexican actress (b. 1908)[5]
1947 – Stanley Baldwin , English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
1947 – Edward Higgins , English-American 3rd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
1953 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , American author and academic (b. 1896)
1956 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi , Finnish lawyer and politician, 7th President of Finland (b. 1870)
1963 – Dinah Washington , American singer and pianist (b. 1924)
1964 – William Bendix , American actor (b. 1906)
1970 – Franz Schlegelberger , German judge and politician, German Reich Minister of Justice (b. 1876)
1971 – Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury , Bangladeshi linguist and scholar (b. 1926)
1971 – Munier Choudhury , Bangladeshi author, playwright, and critic (b. 1925)
1971 – Shahidullah Kaiser , Bangladeshi journalist and author (b. 1927)
1974 – Walter Lippmann , American journalist and author (b. 1889)
1975 – Arthur Treacher , English-American entertainer (b. 1894)
1978 – Salvador de Madariaga , Spanish historian and diplomat, co-founded the College of Europe (b. 1886)
1980 – Elston Howard , American baseball player and coach (b. 1929)
1984 – Vicente Aleixandre , Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
1985 – Catherine Doherty , Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate (b. 1896)
1985 – Roger Maris , American baseball player and coach (b. 1934)
1989 – Jock Mahoney , American actor and stuntman (b. 1919)
1989 – Andrei Sakharov , Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
1990 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt , Swiss author and playwright (b. 1921)
1991 – Robert Eddison , Japanese-English actor (b. 1908)
1993 – Jeff Alm , American football player (b. 1968)
1993 – Myrna Loy , American actress (b. 1905)
1994 – Orval Faubus , American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)
1995 – G. C. Edmondson , American soldier and author (b. 1922)
1996 – Gaston Miron , Canadian poet and author (b. 1928)
1997 – Stubby Kaye , American actor and comedian (b. 1918)
1997 – Emily Cheney Neville , American author (b. 1919)
1997 – Kurt Winter , Canadian guitarist and songwriter (b. 1946)
1998 – Norman Fell , American actor and comedian (b. 1924)
1998 – A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. , American lawyer, judge, and activist (b. 1928)
1998 – Annette Strauss , American philanthropist and politician, Mayor of Dallas (b. 1924)
2001 – W. G. Sebald , German novelist, essayist, and poet (b. 1944)
2003 – Jeanne Crain , American actress (b. 1925)
2003 – Blas Ople , Filipino journalist and politician, 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1927)
2003 – Frank Sheeran , American union leader and mobster (b. 1920)
2004 – Rod Kanehl , American baseball player (b. 1934)
2004 – Fernando Poe Jr. , Filipino actor, director, producer, and politician (b. 1939)
2006 – Anton Balasingham , Sri Lankan-English strategist and negotiator (b. 1938)
2006 – Ahmet Ertegun , Turkish-American composer and producer, co-founded Atlantic Records (b. 1923)
2006 – Mike Evans , American actor and screenwriter (b. 1949)
2009 – Alan A'Court , English footballer and manager (b. 1934)
2010 – Timothy Davlin , American politician, Mayor of Springfield (b. 1957)
2010 – Neva Patterson , American actress (b. 1920)
2010 – Dale Roberts , English footballer (b. 1986)
2011 – Joe Simon , American author and illustrator (b. 1913)
2011 – Billie Jo Spears , American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
2012 – John Graham , English general (b. 1923)
2012 – Edward Jones , American police officer and politician (b. 1950)
2012 – Victoria Leigh Soto , American educator (b. 1985)
2013 – Janet Dailey , American author (b. 1944)
2013 – C. N. Karunakaran , Indian painter and illustrator (b. 1940)
2013 – Dennis Lindley , English statistician and academic (b. 1923)
2013 – Peter O'Toole , British-Irish actor (b. 1932)
2013 – George Rodrigue , American painter (b. 1944)
2014 – Theo Colborn , American zoologist and academic (b. 1927)
2014 – Irene Dalis , American soprano and pianist (b. 1925)
2014 – Louis Alphonse Koyagialo , Congolese politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1947)
2014 – Bess Myerson , American model, activist, game show panelist and television personality; Miss America 1945 (b. 1924)
2014 – Fred Thurston , American football player (b. 1933)
2015 – Terry Backer , American soldier and politician (b. 1954)
2015 – Glen Sonmor , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1929)
2015 – Vadym Tyshchenko , Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1963)
2015 – Lillian Vernon , German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (b. 1927)
2016 – Paulo Evaristo Arns , Brazilian cardinal (b. 1921)
2016 – Bernard Fox , Welsh actor (b. 1927)
2017 – Yu Kwang-chung , Chinese writer (b. 1928)
Holidays and observances [ ]
Christian feast day :
Folcwin
John of the Cross
John III of the Sedre (Syriac Orthodox Church )[4]
Matronian
Nicasius of Rheims
Nimatullah Kassab (Maronite Church )
Spyridon (Western Church )
Venantius Fortunatus
December 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Alabama Day (Alabama )
Forty-seven Ronin Remembrance Day (Sengaku-ji , Tokyo )
Martyred Intellectuals Day (Bangladesh )
Monkey Day
References [ ]
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