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December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. Six days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 36 – Forces of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han, under the command of Wu Han, conquer the separatist Chengjia empire, reuniting China.[1]
  • 274 – A temple to Sol Invictus is dedicated in Rome by Emperor Aurelian.[2]
  • 333 – Roman Emperor Constantine the Great elevates his youngest son Constans to the rank of Caesar.
  • 336 – First documentary sign of Christmas celebration in Rome.
  • 350Vetranio meets Constantius II at Naissus (Serbia) and is forced to abdicate his title (Caesar). Constantius allows him to live as a private citizen on a state pension.
  • 508Clovis I, king of the Franks, is baptized into the Catholic faith at Reims, by Saint Remigius.
  • 597Augustine of Canterbury and his fellow-labourers baptise in Kent more than 10,000 Anglo-Saxons.
  • 800 – The coronation of Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor, in Rome.
  • 1000 – The foundation of the Kingdom of Hungary: Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
  • 1013Sweyn Forkbeard takes control of the Danelaw and is proclaimed king of England.
  • 1025 – Coronation of Mieszko II Lambert as king of Poland.
  • 1066William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy is crowned king of England, at Westminster Abbey, London.
  • 1076 – Coronation of Bolesław II the Generous as king of Poland.
  • 1100Baldwin of Boulogne is crowned the first King of Jerusalem in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
  • 1130 – Count Roger II of Sicily is crowned the first king of Sicily.[3]
  • 1261 – Eleven-year-old John IV Laskaris of the restored Eastern Roman Empire is deposed and blinded by orders of his co-ruler Michael VIII Palaiologos.
  • 1492 – The carrack Santa María, commanded by Christopher Columbus, runs onto a reef off Haiti due to an improper watch.
  • 1553Battle of Tucapel: Mapuche rebels under Lautaro defeat the Spanish conquistadors and executes the governor of Chile, Pedro de Valdivia.
  • 1559Pope Pius IV is elected.
  • 1758Halley's Comet is sighted by Johann Georg Palitzsch, confirming Edmund Halley's prediction of its passage. This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.
  • 1766Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.[4]
  • 1776George Washington and the Continental Army cross the Delaware River at night to attack Hessian forces serving Great Britain at Trenton, New Jersey, the next day.
  • 1793 – General "Mad Anthony" Wayne and a 300 man detachment identify the site of St. Clair's 1791 defeat by the large number of unburied human remains at modern Fort Recovery, Ohio.
  • 1809 – Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first ovariotomy, removing a 22-pound tumor.
  • 1814 – Rev. Samuel Marsden holds the first Christian service on land in New Zealand at Rangihoua Bay.
  • 1815 – The Handel and Haydn Society, oldest continually performing arts organization in the United States, gives its first performance.
  • 1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy concludes after beginning the previous evening.
  • 1831 – The Great Jamaican Slave Revolt begins; up to 20% of Jamaica's slaves mobilize in an ultimately unsuccessful fight for freedom.
  • 1837Second Seminole War: American general Zachary Taylor leads 1,100 troops against the Seminoles at the Battle of Lake Okeechobee.
  • 1868Pardons for ex-Confederates: United States President Andrew Johnson grants an unconditional pardon to all Confederate veterans.
  • 1914 – A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.
  • 1932 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake in Gansu, China kills 275 people.
  • 1941 – Admiral Chester W. Nimitz arrives at Pearl Harbor to assume command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
  • 1941 – World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
  • 1941 – Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.
  • 1946 – The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.
  • 1950 – The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.
  • 1951 – A bomb explodes at the home of Harry T. Moore and Harriette V. S. Moore, early leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, killing Harry instantly and fatally wounding Harriette.[5]
  • 1962 – The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
  • 1963 – Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
  • 1968Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
  • 1968 – Kilvenmani massacre: Forty-four Dalits (untouchables) are burnt to death in Kizhavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit laborers.
  • 1976EgyptAir Flight 664, a Boeing 707-366C, crashes on approach to Don Mueang International Airport, killing 71 people.[6]
  • 1977 – Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin meets in Egypt with its president Anwar Sadat.
  • 1989Romanian Revolution: Deposed President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, are condemned to death and executed after a summary trial.
  • 1991Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as President of the Soviet Union (the union itself is dissolved the next day). Ukraine's referendum is finalized and Ukraine officially leaves the Soviet Union.
  • 2003UTAGE Flight 141, a Boeing 727-223, crashes at the Cotonou Airport in Benin, killing 141 people.
  • 2003 – The ill-fated Beagle 2 probe, released from the Mars Express spacecraft on December 19, stops transmitting shortly before its scheduled landing.
  • 2004 – The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
  • 2012 – An Antonov An-72 plane crashes close to the city of Shymkent, killing 27 people.
  • 2016 – A Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 carrying members of the Alexandrov Ensemble crashes into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff, killing all 92 people on board.
  • 2019 – Twenty people are killed and thousands are left homeless by Typhoon Phanfone in the Philippines.[7]

Births[]

  • 1250John IV Laskaris, Byzantine emperor (d. 1305)
  • 1281Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln (d. 1348)
  • 1400John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1487)
  • 1424Margaret Stewart, Dauphine of France (d. 1445)
  • 1461Christina of Saxony, Queen consort of Denmark (d. 1521)
  • 1490Francesco Marinoni, Italian Roman Catholic priest (d. 1562)
  • 1493Antoinette de Bourbon, French noblewoman (d. 1583)
  • 1505Christine of Saxony, German noblewoman (d. 1549)
  • 1564Johannes Buxtorf, German Calvinist theologian (d. 1629)
  • 1583Orlando Gibbons, English organist and composer (d. 1625)
  • 1584Margaret of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1611)
  • 1601Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha (d. 1675)
  • 1628Noël Coypel, French painter and educator (d. 1707)
  • 1642 (OS) – Isaac Newton, English physicist and mathematician (d. 1726/1727)
  • 1652Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician, anatomist, and scholar (d. 1713)
  • 1665Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish-English poet and songwriter (d. 1746)
  • 1674Thomas Halyburton, Scottish minister and theologian (d. 1712)
  • 1686Giovanni Battista Somis, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1763)
  • 1700Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (d. 1758)
  • 1711Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist and composer (d. 1772)
  • 1716Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician and scholar (d. 1774)
  • 1717Pope Pius VI (d. 1799)
  • 1728Johann Adam Hiller, German composer and conductor (d. 1804)
  • 1730Philip Mazzei, Italian-American physician and philosopher (d. 1816)
  • 1745Chevalier de Saint-Georges, Caribbean-French violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1799)
  • 1757Benjamin Pierce, American general and politician, 17th Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1839)
  • 1766Christmas Evans, Welsh Nonconformist preacher (d. 1838)
  • 1771Dorothy Wordsworth, English diarist and poet (d. 1855)
  • 1776Sydney, Lady Morgan, Irish author and poet (d. 1859)
  • 1810L. L. Langstroth, American apiarist, clergyman and teacher (d. 1895)
  • 1821Clara Barton, American nurse and humanitarian, founder of the American Red Cross (d. 1912)
  • 1825Stephen F. Chadwick, American lawyer and politician, 5th Governor of Oregon (d. 1895)
  • 1829Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American composer and bandleader (d. 1892)
  • 1856Pud Galvin, American baseball player and manager (d. 1902)
  • 1861Madan Mohan Malaviya, Indian educator, lawyer, and politician, President of the Indian National Congress (d. 1946)
  • 1865Evangeline Booth, English 4th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1950)
  • 1869Charles Finger, English-American journalist and author (d. 1941)
  • 1870Helena Rubinstein, Polish-American businesswoman and philanthropist (d. 1965)
  • 1873Otto Frederick Hunziker, Swiss-American agriculturalist and educator (d. 1959)
  • 1874Lina Cavalieri, Italian soprano and actress (d. 1944)
  • 1875Francis Aveling, Canadian psychologist and priest (d. 1941)
  • 1875 – Theodor Innitzer, Austrian cardinal (d. 1955)
  • 1876Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 1st Governor-General of Pakistan (d. 1948)
  • 1876 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1959)
  • 1878Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-American race car driver and businessman, co-founded Chevrolet (d. 1941)
  • 1878 – Noël, Countess of Rothes, philanthropist, social leader and heroine of Titanic disaster (d. 1956)
  • 1878 – Joseph M. Schenck, Russian-American film producer (d. 1961)
  • 1883Hugo Bergmann, Czech-Israeli philosopher and academic (d. 1975)
  • 1883 – Hana Meisel, Belarusian-Israeli agronomist and politician (d. 1972)
  • 1884Samuel Berger, American boxer (d. 1925)
  • 1884 – Evelyn Nesbit, American model and actress (d. 1967)
  • 1886Malak Hifni Nasif, Egyptian poet and activist (d. 1918)
  • 1886 – Kid Ory, American trombonist and bandleader (d. 1973)
  • 1887Conrad Hilton, American entrepreneur (d. 1979)
  • 1889Lila Bell Wallace, American publisher and philanthropist, co-founded Reader's Digest (d. 1984)
  • 1890Noel Odell, English geologist and mountaineer (d. 1987)
  • 1890 – Robert Ripley, American anthropologist and publisher (d. 1949)
  • 1891Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, Indian-English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (d. 1959)
  • 1891 – Clarrie Grimmett, New Zealand-Australian cricketer (d. 1980)
  • 1899Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
  • 1901Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (d. 2004)
  • 1902Barton MacLane, American actor, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 1969)
  • 1902 – William Bell, American tuba player and educator (d. 1971)
  • 1903Antiochos Evangelatos, Greek composer and conductor (d. 1981)
  • 1904Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
  • 1906Lew Grade, Baron Grade, Ukrainian-English film producer (d. 1998)
  • 1906 – Ernst Ruska, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
  • 1907Cab Calloway, American singer-songwriter and bandleader (d. 1994)
  • 1907 – Mike Mazurki, Ukrainian-American wrestler and actor (d. 1990)
  • 1907 – Glenn McCarthy, American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel (d. 1988)
  • 1908Quentin Crisp, English author and illustrator (d. 1999)
  • 1908 – Ernest L. Massad, American general (d. 1993)
  • 1908 – Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player (d. 2001)
  • 1909Zora Arkus-Duntov, Belgian-American engineer (d. 1996)
  • 1911Louise Bourgeois, French-American sculptor and painter (d. 2010)
  • 1913Candy Candido, American singer, bass player, and voice actor (d. 1999)
  • 1913 – Tony Martin, American singer (d. 2012)
  • 1914James Fletcher Jnr, New Zealand businessman (d. 2007)
  • 1914 – Oscar Lewis, American anthropologist of Latin America (d. 1970)
  • 1915Pete Rugolo, Italian-American composer and producer (d. 2011)
  • 1916Ahmed Ben Bella, Algerian soldier and politician, 1st President of Algeria (d. 2012)
  • 1917Arseny Mironov, Russian scientist, engineer, pilot, oldest active researcher in aircraft aerodynamics and flight testing (d. 2019)
  • 1917 – Lincoln Verduga Loor, Ecuadorian journalist and politician (d. 2009)
  • 1918Anwar Sadat, Egyptian lieutenant and politician, 3rd President of Egypt, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1981)
  • 1919Naushad Ali, Indian composer and director (d. 2006)
  • 1919 – Paul David, Canadian cardiologist and politician, founded the Montreal Heart Institute (d. 1999)
  • 1921Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Indian-Pakistani journalist and author (d. 2000)
  • 1921 – Steve Otto, Polish-Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1989)
  • 1922William Demby, American author (d. 2013)
  • 1923René Girard, French-American historian, philosopher, and critic (d. 2015)
  • 1923 – Louis Lane, American conductor and educator (d. 2016)
  • 1924Rod Serling, American screenwriter and producer, created The Twilight Zone (d. 1975)
  • 1924 – Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Indian poet and politician, 10th Prime Minister of India (d. 2018)
  • 1925Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-American anthropologist and author (d. 1998)
  • 1925 – Ned Garver, American baseball player (d. 2017)
  • 1925 – Sam Pollock, Canadian businessman (d. 2007)
  • 1926Enrique Jorrín, Cuban violinist and composer (d. 1987)
  • 1927Nellie Fox, American baseball player and coach (d. 1975)
  • 1927 – Leo Kubiak, American basketball and baseball player
  • 1927 – Ram Narayan, Indian sarangi player
  • 1928Irish McCalla, American actress and model (d. 2002)
  • 1928 – Dick Miller, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2019)
  • 1929Christine M. Jones, American educator and politician (d. 2013)
  • 1929 – China Machado, Chinese-born Portuguese-American fashion model, editor and television producer (d. 2016)
  • 1930Emmanuel Agassi, Iranian-American boxer and coach
  • 1930 – Armenak Alachachian, Armenian basketball player and coach (d. 2017)
  • 1932Mabel King, American actress and singer (d. 1999)
  • 1933Basil Heatley, English runner (d. 2019)
  • 1935Sadiq al-Mahdi, Sudanese politician, Prime Minister of Sudan
  • 1935 – Stephen Barnett, American scholar and academic (d. 2009)
  • 1935 – Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, American educator and politician (d. 2007)
  • 1936Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy
  • 1936 – Ismail Merchant, Indian-English director and producer (d. 2005)
  • 1937O'Kelly Isley Jr., American R&B/soul singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
  • 1938Duane Armstrong, American painter
  • 1938 – Noel Picard, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)
  • 1939Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, Pakistani businessman and politician
  • 1939 – Bob James, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
  • 1939 – Akong Rinpoche, Tibetan-Chinese spiritual leader (d. 2013)
  • 1940Hilary Spurling, English journalist and author
  • 1941Kenneth Calman, Scottish physician and academic
  • 1942Françoise Dürr, French tennis player and coach
  • 1942 – Barbara Follett, English politician
  • 1942 – Barry Goldberg, American keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
  • 1942 – Enrique Morente, Spanish singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
  • 1943Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior, Brazilian race car driver and businessman
  • 1943 – Hanna Schygulla, German actress
  • 1944Kenny Everett, British comedian and broadcaster (d. 1995)
  • 1944 – Jairzinho, Brazilian footballer
  • 1944 – Sam Strahan, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2019)
  • 1945Rick Berman, American screenwriter and producer
  • 1945 – Eve Pollard, English journalist and author
  • 1945 – Mike Pringle, Zambian-Scottish lawyer and politician
  • 1945 – Noel Redding, English singer-songwriter and bass player (d. 2003)
  • 1945 – Ken Stabler, American football player and sportscaster (d. 2015)
  • 1946Jimmy Buffett, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
  • 1946 – Larry Csonka, American football player and sportscaster
  • 1946 – Christopher Frayling, English author and academic
  • 1946 – Gene Lamont, American baseball player and manager
  • 1948Merry Clayton, American singer and actress
  • 1948 – Kay Hymowitz, American sociologist and writer
  • 1948 – Barbara Mandrell, American singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1948 – Joel Santana, Brazilian footballer and manager
  • 1949Simone Bittencourt de Oliveira, Brazilian singer
  • 1949 – Nawaz Sharif, Pakistani lawyer and politician, 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan
  • 1949 – Sissy Spacek, American actress
  • 1950Peter Boardman, English mountaineer and author (d. 1982)
  • 1950 – Karl Rove, American political strategist and activist
  • 1950 – Manny Trillo, Venezuelan baseball player and manager
  • 1952Tolossa Kotu, Ethiopian runner and coach
  • 1952 – CCH Pounder, Guyanese-American actress
  • 1953Kaarlo Maaninka, Finnish runner
  • 1954Annie Lennox, Scottish singer-songwriter and pianist
  • 1957Mansoor Akhtar, Pakistani cricketer
  • 1957 – Chris Kamara, English footballer and sportscaster
  • 1957 – Shane MacGowan, English-Irish singer-songwriter
  • 1958Cheryl Chase, American voice actress and singer
  • 1958 – Hanford Dixon, American football player, coach, and sportscaster
  • 1958 – Rickey Henderson, American baseball player and coach
  • 1958 – Konstantin Kinchev, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1958 – Alannah Myles, Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1959Michael P. Anderson, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2003)
  • 1959 – Ramdas Athawale, Indian poet and politician
  • 1961Íngrid Betancourt, Colombian political scientist and politician
  • 1962Francis Dunnery, English musician
  • 1964Ian Bostridge, English tenor
  • 1964 – Gary McAllister, Scottish footballer and manager
  • 1964 – Kevin Simms, English rugby player
  • 1964 – Bob Stanley, English keyboard player, songwriter, producer, and journalist
  • 1965Ed Davey, English politician, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
  • 1965 – David Rath, Czech physician and politician
  • 1966Toshi Arai, Japanese race car driver
  • 1967Jason Thirsk, American bass player (d. 1996)
  • 1968Helena Christensen, Danish model and actress
  • 1968 – Jim Dowd, American ice hockey player
  • 1969Nicolas Godin, French musician
  • 1969 – Noel Goldthorpe, Australian rugby league player
  • 1969 – Frederick Onyancha, Kenyan runner
  • 1970Emmanuel Amunike, Nigerian footballer and manager
  • 1970 – Rodney Dent, American basketball player
  • 1971Dido, English singer-songwriter
  • 1971 – Justin Trudeau, Canadian educator and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Canada
  • 1972Mac Powell, American singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1972 – Qu Yunxia, Chinese runner
  • 1973Robbie Elliott, English footballer and coach
  • 1973 – Chris Harris, American wrestler
  • 1973 – Daisuke Miura, Japanese baseball player and coach
  • 1973 – Alexandre Trudeau, Canadian journalist and director
  • 1975Daniel Mustard, American singer-songwriter
  • 1975 – Hideki Okajima, Japanese baseball player
  • 1975 – Choi Sung-yong, South Korean footballer and manager
  • 1975 – Marcus Trescothick, English cricketer
  • 1976Tuomas Holopainen, Finnish keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
  • 1976 – Tim James, American basketball player and coach
  • 1976 – Atko Väikmeri, Estonian footballer
  • 1976 – Armin van Buuren, Dutch DJ and record producer
  • 1977Israel Vázquez, Mexican boxer
  • 1977 – Ali Tandoğan, Turkish footballer
  • 1978Simon Jones, Welsh cricketer
  • 1978 – Joel Porter, Australian footballer and manager
  • 1978 – Jeremy Strong, American actor
  • 1979Ferman Akgül, Turkish singer-songwriter
  • 1979 – Laurent Bonnart, French footballer
  • 1979 – Robert Huff, English race car driver
  • 1979 – Hyun Young-min, South Korean footballer
  • 1980Marcus Trufant, American football player
  • 1980 – Laura Sadler, English actress (d. 2003)
  • 1981Trenesha Biggers, American wrestler and model
  • 1981 – Christian Holst, Danish-Faroese footballer
  • 1981 – Willy Taveras, Dominican baseball player
  • 1982Shawn Andrews, American football player
  • 1982 – Rob Edwards, Welsh footballer
  • 1982 – Ethan Kath, Canadian keyboard player, songwriter and producer
  • 1982 – Chris Rene, American singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1984Chris Cahill, Samoan footballer
  • 1984 – Alastair Cook, English cricketer
  • 1984 – Jessica Origliasso, Australian singer, actress, and fashion designer
  • 1984 – Lisa Origliasso, Australian singer, actress, and fashion designer
  • 1984 – Chris Richard, American basketball player
  • 1985Martin Mathathi, Kenyan runner
  • 1985 – Rusev, Bulgarian-American professional wrestler
  • 1987Ceyhun Gülselam, Turkish footballer
  • 1987 – Demaryius Thomas, American football player[8]
  • 1988Joãozinho, Brazilian footballer[9]
  • 1988 – Eric Gordon, American basketball player[10]
  • 1988 – Lukas Hinds-Johnson, German rugby player[11]
  • 1992Mitakeumi Hisashi, Japanese sumo wrestler[12]

Deaths[]

  • 304Saint Anastasia
  • 795Pope Adrian I (b. 700)
  • 936Zhang Jingda, general of Later Tang
  • 940Makan ibn Kaki, Iranian general
  • 1147Guy II, Count of Ponthieu (b. c. 1120)
  • 1156Peter the Venerable, French abbot and saint (b. 1092)
  • 1156 – Sverker the Elder, king of Sweden
  • 1294Mestwin II, Duke of Pomerania
  • 1395Elisabeth, Countess of Neuchâtel, Swiss ruler
  • 1406Henry III of Castile (b. 1379)
  • 1505George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1454)
  • 1553Pedro de Valdivia, Spanish explorer and politician, 1st Royal Governor of Chile (b. 1500)
  • 1634Lettice Knollys, English noblewoman (b. 1540)
  • 1635Samuel de Champlain, French soldier, geographer, and explorer (b. 1567)
  • 1676William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle, English soldier and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire (b. 1592)
  • 1676 – Matthew Hale, English lawyer and jurist, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales (b. 1609)
  • 1683Kara Mustafa Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 111th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1634)
  • 1730Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine, Scottish peer and general (b. 1676)
  • 1758James Hervey, English priest and author (b. 1714)
  • 1784Yosa Buson, Japanese poet and painter (b. 1716)
  • 1796Velu Nachiyar, Queen of Sivagangai (b. 1730)
  • 1824Barbara von Krüdener, German mystic and author (b. 1764)
  • 1868Linus Yale, Jr., American engineer and businessman (b. 1821)
  • 1875Young Tom Morris, Scottish golfer (b. 1851)
  • 1880Fridolin Anderwert, Swiss lawyer and politician, President of the Swiss National Council (b. 1828)
  • 1824William Lawless, Irish revolutionary, later French Army general (b. 1772)
  • 1916Albert Chmielowski, Polish saint, founded the Albertine Brothers (b. 1845)
  • 1921Vladimir Korolenko, Russian journalist, author, and activist (b. 1853)
  • 1925Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst and author (b. 1877)
  • 1926Emperor Taishō of Japan (b. 1879)
  • 1928Miles Burke, American boxer (b. 1885)
  • 1930Jakob Mändmets, Estonian journalist and author (b. 1871)
  • 1933Francesc Macià, Catalan colonel and politician, 122nd President of Catalonia (b. 1859)
  • 1935Paul Bourget, French author and critic (b. 1852)
  • 1938Karel Čapek, Czech author and playwright (b. 1890)
  • 1940Agnes Ayres, American actress (b. 1898)
  • 1941Richard S. Aldrich, American lawyer and politician (b. 1884)
  • 1944George Steer, South African-English journalist and author (b. 1909)
  • 1946W. C. Fields, American actor, comedian, juggler, and screenwriter (b. 1880)
  • 1947Gaspar G. Bacon, American lawyer and politician, 51st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886)
  • 1949Leon Schlesinger, American animator and producer, founded Warner Bros. Cartoons (b. 1884)
  • 1950Neil Francis Hawkins, English politician (b. 1903)
  • 1952Margrethe Mather, American photographer (b. 1886)
  • 1953Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player and manager (b. 1865)
  • 1953 – William Haselden, British cartoonist (b. 1872)
  • 1956Robert Walser, Swiss author and playwright (b. 1878)
  • 1957Charles Pathé, French record producer, founded Pathé Records (b. 1863)
  • 1961Owen Brewster, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 54th Governor of Maine (b. 1888)
  • 1961 – Otto Loewi, German-American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1873)
  • 1963Tristan Tzara, Romanian-French poet, playwright, painter, and critic (b. 1896)
  • 1970Michael Peto, Hungarian-English photographer and journalist (b. 1908)
  • 1973İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and politician, 2nd President of Turkey (b. 1884)
  • 1973 – Gabriel Voisin, French pilot and engineer (b. 1880)
  • 1975Gaston Gallimard, French publisher, founded Éditions Gallimard (b. 1881)
  • 1975 – Gunnar Kangro, Estonian mathematician and author (b. 1913)
  • 1977Charlie Chaplin, English actor and director (b. 1889)
  • 1979Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (b. 1906)
  • 1979 – Jordi Bonet, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1932)
  • 1980Fred Emney, English actor and comedian (b. 1900)
  • 1983Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1893)
  • 1988Shōhei Ōoka, Japanese author and critic (b. 1909)
  • 1988 – Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle, English entomologist and lepidopterist (b. 1920)
  • 1989Benny Binion, American poker player and businessman (b. 1904)
  • 1989 – Elena Ceaușescu, Romanian politician, First Lady of Romania (b. 1916)
  • 1989 – Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romanian general and politician, 1st President of Romania (b. 1918)
  • 1989 – Betty Garde, American actress (b. 1905)
  • 1989 – Frederick F. Houser, American judge and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1905)
  • 1989 – Billy Martin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1928)
  • 1989 – Robert Pirosh, American director and screenwriter (b. 1910)
  • 1991Wilbur Snyder, American football player and wrestler (b. 1929)
  • 1992Monica Dickens, British-American nurse and author (b. 1915)
  • 1993Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist and academic (b. 1899)
  • 1994Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India (b. 1916)
  • 1995Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1906)
  • 1995 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (b. 1917)
  • 1995 – Chang Kee-ryo, Korean surgeon (b. 1914)
  • 1996Bill Hewitt, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1928)
  • 1997Anatoli Boukreev, Kazakh mountaineer and explorer (b. 1958)
  • 1997 – Denver Pyle, American actor (b. 1920)
  • 2000Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1939)
  • 2000 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and academic (b. 1908)
  • 2001Alfred A. Tomatis, French otolaryngologist and academic (b. 1920)
  • 2003Nicholas Mavroules, American politician (b. 1929)
  • 2004Gennadi Strekalov, Russian engineer and astronaut (b. 1940)
  • 2005Derek Bailey, English guitarist (b. 1930)
  • 2005 – Robert Barbers, Filipino police officer, lawyer, and politician, 15th Filipino Secretary of the Interior (b. 1944)
  • 2005 – Birgit Nilsson, Swedish operatic soprano (b. 1918)
  • 2005 – Joseph Pararajasingham, Sri Lankan journalist, businessman, and politician (b. 1934)
  • 2006James Brown, American singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
  • 2007Des Barrick, English cricketer (b. 1927)
  • 2007 – Jim Beauchamp, American baseball player and coach (b. 1939)
  • 2008Eartha Kitt, American singer and actress (b. 1927)
  • 2009Vic Chesnutt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1964)
  • 2010Carlos Andrés Pérez, Venezuelan politician, 66th President of Venezuela (b. 1922)
  • 2011Giorgio Bocca, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
  • 2011 – Jim Sherwood, American saxophonist (b. 1942)
  • 2011 – Simms Taback, American author and illustrator (b. 1932)
  • 2012Erico Aumentado, Filipino journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1940)
  • 2012 – Halfdan Hegtun, Norwegian radio host and politician (b. 1918)
  • 2012 – Joe Krivak, American football player and coach (b. 1935)
  • 2012 – Turki bin Sultan, Saudi Arabian politician (b. 1959)
  • 2012 – Şerafettin Elçi, Turkish lawyer, politician, government minister (b. 1938)
  • 2013Anthony J. Bryant, American historian and author (b. 1961)
  • 2013 – David R. Harris, English geographer, anthropologist, archaeologist and academic (b. 1930)
  • 2013 – Wayne Harrison, English footballer (b. 1967)
  • 2013 – Mike Hegan, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1942)
  • 2013 – Lola Lange, Canadian rural feminist and appointee to the Royal Commission on the Status of Women (b. 1922)[13]
  • 2013 – Mel Mathay, Filipino politician, 8th Mayor of Quezon City (b. 1932)
  • 2014Ricardo Porro, Cuban-French architect (b. 1925)
  • 2014 – Geoff Pullar, English cricketer (b. 1935)
  • 2014 – David Ryall, English actor (b. 1935)
  • 2015George Clayton Johnson, American author and screenwriter (b. 1929)
  • 2015 – Dorothy M. Murdock, American author and historian (b. 1961)
  • 2016Valery Khalilov, Russian military musician and composer (b. 1952)
  • 2016 – George Michael, British singer and songwriter (b. 1963)
  • 2016 – Vera Rubin, American astronomer (b. 1928)
  • 2017D. Herbert Lipson, American magazine publisher (Philadelphia, Boston)
  • 2018Sulagitti Narasamma, Indian midwife (b. 1920)[14]
  • 2019Ari Behn, Norwegian writer (b. 1972)[15]

Holidays and observances[]

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