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December 6 is the 340th day of the year (341st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 25 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 963 – Pope Leo VIII is appointed to the office of Protonotary and begins his papacy as antipope of Rome.
  • 1060Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.
  • 1240Mongol invasion of Rus': Kiev under Daniel of Galicia and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
  • 1534 – The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
  • 1648 – Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".
  • 1704Battle of Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.
  • 1745Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
  • 1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
  • 1846American and Californio forces clash at the Battle of San Pasqual.
  • 1865Georgia ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.[1]
  • 1877 – The first edition of The Washington Post is published.
  • 1882Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century.[2]
  • 1884 – The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
  • 1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
  • 1904Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
  • 1907 – A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
  • 1912 – The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
  • 1916World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
  • 1917Finland declares independence from Soviet Russia.
  • 1917 – Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
  • 1917 – World War I: USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
  • 1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
  • 1922 – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence.
  • 1928 – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
  • 1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
  • 1941World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War. Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied Secret Agents for the War.
  • 1942World War II in villages Stary Ciepielów and Rekówka German Genarmerie massacred 31 Poles for helping the Jews. Also, two Jewish refugees were murdered.
  • 1947 – The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
  • 1953Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
  • 1956 – A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
  • 1957Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
  • 1967Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
  • 1969Altamont Free Concert: At a free concert performed by the Rolling Stones, eighteen-year old Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels security guards.
  • 1971 – Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
  • 1973The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387–35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92–3.)
  • 1975The Troubles: Fleeing from the police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a British couple hostage in their flat on Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege.
  • 1977 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
  • 1978 – Spain ratifies the Spanish Constitution of 1978 in a referendum.
  • 1982 – The Troubles: The Irish National Liberation Army bombs a pub frequented by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing eleven soldiers and six civilians.
  • 1989 – The École Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.
  • 1991Yugoslav Wars: In Croatia, forces of the Serb-dominated Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city for seven months.
  • 1992 – The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India, is demolished, leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1,500 people.
  • 1995Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashes into the Bo-Dzhausa Mountain, killing 98.[3]
  • 1997 – A Russian Antonov An-124 Ruslan cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
  • 1998 – in Venezuela, Hugo Chávez is victorious in presidential elections.
  • 1999A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.[4]
  • 2005 – An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 94 on board and 12 more on the ground.
  • 2006NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
  • 20152015 Venezuelan parliamentary election: For the first time in 17 years, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela loses its majority in parliament.
  • 2017Donald Trump's administration officially announces the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Births[]

  • 846Hasan al-Askari, Arabian 11th of the Twelve Imams (d. 874)
  • 1285Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)[5]
  • 1421Henry VI of England (d. 1471)
  • 1478Baldassare Castiglione, Italian courtier, diplomat, and author (d. 1529)
  • 1520Barbara Radziwiłł, queen of Poland (d. 1551)
  • 1545Janus Dousa, Dutch historian and noble (d. 1604)
  • 1586Niccolò Zucchi, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1670)
  • 1592William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle (d. 1676)
  • 1608George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English general and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1670)
  • 1637Edmund Andros, English courtier and politician, 4th Colonial Governor of New York (d. 1714)
  • 1640Claude Fleury, French historian and author (d. 1723)
  • 1642Johann Christoph Bach, German organist and composer (d. 1703)
  • 1685Marie Adélaïde of Savoy (d. 1712)
  • 1721Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French minister and politician (d. 1794)
  • 1721 – James Elphinston, Scottish philologist and linguist (d. 1809)
  • 1752Gabriel Duvall, American jurist and politician (d. 1844)
  • 1778Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
  • 1792William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
  • 1803Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (d. 1829)
  • 1805Richard Hanson, English-Australian politician, 4th Premier of South Australia (d. 1876)
  • 1805 – Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1871)
  • 1812Robert Spear Hudson, English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1884)
  • 1823Max Müller, German-English philologist and orientalist (d. 1900)
  • 1827William Arnott, Australian biscuit manufacturer and founder of Arnott's Biscuits (d. 1901)
  • 1833John S. Mosby, American colonel (d. 1916)
  • 1835Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig, German chemist (d. 1910)
  • 1841Frédéric Bazille, French painter and soldier (d. 1870)
  • 1848Johann Palisa, Austrian astronomer (d. 1925)[6][7]
  • 1849August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945)
  • 1853Hans Molisch, Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (d. 1937)
  • 1853 – Haraprasad Shastri, Indian historian and scholar (d. 1931)
  • 1863Charles Martin Hall, American chemist and engineer (d. 1914)
  • 1872Arthur Henry Adams, Australian journalist and author (d. 1936)
  • 1872 – William S. Hart, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1946)
  • 1875Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (d. 1946)
  • 1875 – Evelyn Underhill, English mystic and author (d. 1941)
  • 1876Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman, co-founded the Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company (d. 1932)
  • 1878Elvia Carrillo Puerto, Mexican politician (d. 1968)[8]
  • 1882Warren Bardsley, Australian cricketer (d. 1954)
  • 1884Cornelia Meigs, American author, playwright, and academic (d. 1973)
  • 1886Joyce Kilmer, American soldier, author, and poet (d. 1918)
  • 1887Lynn Fontanne, British actress (d. 1983)
  • 1887 – Joseph Lamb, American pianist and composer (d. 1960)
  • 1888Will Hay, English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1949)
  • 1890Dion Fortune, Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author (d. 1946)
  • 1890 – Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist and academic (d. 1951)
  • 1890 – Rudolf Schlichter, German painter and illustrator (d. 1955)
  • 1892Osbert Sitwell, English-Italian captain, poet, and author (d. 1969)
  • 1893Homer N. Wallin, American admiral (d. 1984)
  • 1893 – Sylvia Townsend Warner, English author and poet (d. 1978)
  • 1896Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (d. 1983)
  • 1898Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-American photographer and journalist (d. 1995)
  • 1898 – John McDonald, Scottish-Australian politician, 37th Premier of Victoria (d. 1977)
  • 1898 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish sociologist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1987)
  • 1898 – Winifred Lenihan, American actress, writer, and director (d. 1964)
  • 1900Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974)
  • 1901Eliot Porter, American photographer and academic (d. 1990)
  • 1903Tony Lazzeri, American baseball player and manager (d. 1946)
  • 1904Ève Curie, French-American journalist and pianist (d. 2007)
  • 1905Elizabeth Yates, American journalist and author (d. 2001)
  • 1907John Barkley Rosser Sr., American logician (d. 1989)
  • 1908Pierre Graber, Swiss lawyer and politician, 69th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 2003)
  • 1908 – Baby Face Nelson, American gangster (d. 1934)
  • 1908 – Miklós Szabó, Hungarian runner (d. 2000)
  • 1908 – Herta Freitag, Austrian-American mathematician (d. 2000)
  • 1909Rulon Jeffs, American religious leader (d. 2002)
  • 1909 – Alan McGilvray, Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1996)
  • 1910David M. Potter, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1971)
  • 1913Karl Haas, German-American pianist, conductor, and radio host (d. 2005)
  • 1913 – Eleanor Holm, American swimmer and actress (d. 2004)
  • 1914Cyril Washbrook, English cricketer (d. 1999)
  • 1916Yekaterina Budanova, Russian captain and pilot (d. 1943)
  • 1916 – Kristján Eldjárn, Icelandic educator and politician, 3rd President of Iceland (d. 1982)
  • 1916 – Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and producer (d. 1986)
  • 1917Dean Hess, American minister and colonel (d. 2015)
  • 1917 – Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and politician (d. 1977)
  • 1917 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (d. 2008)
  • 1918Tauba Biterman, Polish Holocaust survivor (d. 2019)
  • 1919Skippy Baxter, Canadian-American figure skater and coach (d. 2012)
  • 1919 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born philosopher, literary critic and theorist (d. 1983)
  • 1920Dave Brubeck, American pianist and composer (d. 2012)
  • 1920 – Peter Dimmock, English sportscaster and producer (d. 2015)
  • 1920 – George Porter, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
  • 1921Otto Graham, American football player and coach (d. 2003)
  • 1921 – Piero Piccioni, Italian lawyer, pianist, and composer (d. 2004)
  • 1922John Brunt, English captain, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1944)
  • 1922 – Benjamin A. Gilman, American soldier and politician (d. 2016)
  • 1924Wally Cox, American actor (d. 1973)
  • 1927Jim Fuchs, American shot putter and discus thrower (d. 2010)
  • 1928Bobby Van, American actor, dancer, and singer (d. 1980)
  • 1929Philippe Bouvard, French journalist and radio host
  • 1929 – Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German-Austrian cellist and conductor (d. 2016)
  • 1929 – Frank Springer, American author and illustrator (d. 2009)
  • 1929 – Alain Tanner, Swiss director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1930Daniel Lisulo, Zambian banker and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Zambia (d. 2000)
  • 1931Zeki Müren, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1996)
  • 1932Kamleshwar, Indian author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2007)
  • 1933Henryk Górecki, Polish composer and academic (d. 2010)
  • 1933 – Donald J. Kutyna, American general
  • 1934Nick Bockwinkel, American wrestler, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2015)
  • 1935Jean Lapointe, Canadian actor, singer, and politician
  • 1936Bill Ashton, English saxophonist and composer
  • 1936David Ossman, American writer and comedian
  • 1936 – Kenneth Copeland, American evangelist and author
  • 1937Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian-American soccer player (d. 2006)
  • 1938Patrick Bauchau, Belgian-American actor
  • 1939Franco Carraro, Italian politician and sports administrator
  • 1940Lawrence Bergman, Canadian lawyer and politician
  • 1940 – Richard Edlund, American visual effects designer and cinematographer
  • 1941Helen Cornelius, American country singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1941 – Richard Speck, American murderer (d. 1991)
  • 1941 – Bruce Nauman, American sculptor and illustrator
  • 1941 – Bill Thomas, American academic and politician
  • 1942Peter Handke, Austrian author and playwright
  • 1942 – Robb Royer, American guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter
  • 1943Mike Smith, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (d. 2008)
  • 1943 – Keith West, English rock singer-songwriter and music producer
  • 1944Jonathan King, English singer-songwriter, record producer, music entrepreneur, television/radio presenter, and convicted sex offender
  • 1944Ron Kenoly, American Christian worship leader singer and songwriter
  • 1945Larry Bowa, American baseball player and manager
  • 1945 – Dan Harrington, American lawyer and poker player
  • 1945 – Shekhar Kapur, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1946Frankie Beverly, American soul/funk singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Maze)
  • 1946 – Willy van der Kuijlen, Dutch footballer and manager
  • 1947Lawrence Cannon, Canadian businessman and politician, 9th Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • 1947 – Henk van Woerden, Dutch-South African painter and author (d. 2005)
  • 1947 – Miroslav Vitouš, Czech-American bassist and songwriter
  • 1948Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, Central African politician, Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (d. 2014)
  • 1948 – Don Nickles, American businessman and politician
  • 1948 – Keke Rosberg, Finnish race car driver
  • 1948 – JoBeth Williams, American actress
  • 1949Linda Barnes, American author, playwright, and educator
  • 1949 – Linda Creed, American singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
  • 1949 – Doug Marlette, American author and cartoonist (d. 2007)
  • 1949 – Peter Willey, English cricketer and umpire
  • 1950Guy Drut, French hurdler and politician
  • 1950 – Joe Hisaishi, Japanese pianist, composer, and conductor
  • 1950 – Helen Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke, Scottish journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
  • 1951Wendy Ellis Somes, English ballerina and producer
  • 1951 – Maurice Hope, Caribbean-English boxer
  • 1952Chuck Baker, American baseball player
  • 1952 – Nicolas Bréhal, French author and critic (d. 1999)
  • 1952 – Joe Harris, American football player
  • 1952 – Craig Newmark, American computer programmer and entrepreneur; founded Craigslist
  • 1952 – Charles Salvador, English boxer and criminal
  • 1952 – Shio Satō, Japanese illustrator (d. 2010)
  • 1952 – Jeff Schneider, American baseball player
  • 1952 – David L. Spector, American biologist and academic
  • 1953Sue Carroll, English journalist (d. 2011)
  • 1953 – Gary Goodman, Australian cricketer and coach
  • 1953 – Geoff Hoon, English academic and politician, Minister of State for Europe
  • 1953 – Tom Hulce, American actor
  • 1953 – Masami Kurumada, Japanese author and illustrator
  • 1953 – Dwight Stones, American high jumper and sportscaster
  • 1953 – Gary Ward, American baseball player and coach
  • 1954Chris Stamey, American singer-songwriter, musician, and music producer
  • 1955Anne Begg, Scottish educator and politician
  • 1955 – Rick Buckler, English drummer, songwriter, and producer
  • 1955 – Graeme Hughes, Australian cricketer, rugby league player, and sportscaster
  • 1955 – Tony Woodcock, English footballer
  • 1955 – Steven Wright, American actor, comedian, and screenwriter
  • 1956Peter Buck, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer
  • 1956 – Hans Kammerlander, Italian mountaineer and guide
  • 1956 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 1982)
  • 1957Adrian Borland, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1999)
  • 1958Nick Park, English animator, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1959Stephen Hepburn, English politician
  • 1959 – Satoru Iwata, Japanese game programmer and businessman (d. 2015)
  • 1959 – Stephen Muggleton, English computer scientist and engineer
  • 1959 – Deborah Estrin, American computer scientist and academic
  • 1960Masahiko Katsuya, Japanese journalist and photographer (d. 2018)
  • 1961David Lovering, American drummer
  • 1961 – Jonathan Melvoin, American musician (d. 1996)
  • 1961 – Manuel Reuter, German race car driver
  • 1962Ben Watt, English singer-songwriter, musician, author, DJ, and radio presenter
  • 1963Ulrich Thomsen, Danish actor and producer
  • 1964Mall Nukke, Estonian painter
  • 1965Gordon Durie, Scottish footballer and manager
  • 1966Natascha Badmann, Swiss triathlete
  • 1966 – Per-Ulrik Johansson, Swedish golfer
  • 1967Judd Apatow, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1967 – Arnaldo Mesa, Cuban boxer (d. 2012)
  • 1967 – Helen Greiner, American businesswoman and engineer
  • 1968Akihiro Yano, Japanese baseball player
  • 1969Torri Higginson, Canadian actress
  • 1970Ulf Ekberg, Swedish singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
  • 1970 – Adrian Fenty, American lawyer and politician, 6th Mayor of the District of Columbia
  • 1970 – Mark Reckless, English politician
  • 1970 – Jeff Rouse, American swimmer
  • 1971Craig Brewer, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1971 – Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
  • 1971 – Naozumi Takahashi, Japanese singer and voice actor
  • 1971 – Carole Thate, Dutch field hockey player
  • 1972Ewan Birney, Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute in Cambridge, UK
  • 1972 – Heather Mizeur, American lawyer and politician
  • 1972 – Rick Short, American baseball player
  • 1974Jens Pulver, American mixed martial artist and boxer
  • 1974 – Nick Stajduhar, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1975Noel Clarke, English actor, director, and screenwriter
  • 1975 – Adrian García Arias, Mexican footballer
  • 1977Kevin Cash, American baseball player and coach
  • 1977 – Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
  • 1977 – Paul McVeigh, Irish footballer
  • 1978Chris Başak, American baseball player
  • 1978 – Darrell Jackson, American football player
  • 1978 – Ramiro Pez, Argentine rugby player
  • 1979Tim Cahill, Australian footballer
  • 1980Danielle Downey, American golfer and coach (d. 2014)
  • 1980 – Steve Lovell, English footballer
  • 1980 – Carlos Takam, Cameroonian-French boxer
  • 1981Federico Balzaretti, Italian footballer
  • 1982 – Robbie Gould, American football player
  • 1982Ryan Carnes, American actor and producer
  • 1982 – Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist
  • 1982 – Sean Ervine, Zimbabwean cricketer
  • 1982 – Aaron Sandilands, Australian footballer
  • 1982 – Susie Wolff, Scottish race car driver
  • 1984Syndric Steptoe, American football player
  • 1984 – Nora Kirkpatrick, American actress and musician
  • 1984 – Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland
  • 1985Shannon Bobbitt, American basketball player
  • 1985 – Aristeidis Grigoriadis, Greek swimmer
  • 1985 – Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian cricketer
  • 1986Sean Edwards, English race car driver (d. 2013)
  • 1986 – Matt Niskanen, American ice hockey player
  • 1988Adam Eaton, American baseball player
  • 1988 – Sandra Nurmsalu, Estonian singer and violinist
  • 1988 – Nils Petersen, German footballer
  • 1988 – Nobunaga Shimazaki, Japanese voice actor
  • 1988 - Ravindra Jadeja, Indian Cricketer[9]
  • 1989Felix Schiller, German footballer
  • 1990Tamira Paszek, Austrian tennis player
  • 1991Coco Vandeweghe, American tennis player
  • 1992Britt Assombalonga, Congolese footballer
  • 1992 – Johnny Manziel, American football player
  • 1993Jasprit Bumrah, Indian cricketer
  • 1993 – Pedro Rafael Amado Mendes, Portuguese footballer
  • 1993 – Tautau Moga, Australian-Samoan rugby league player
  • 1994Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player
  • 1994 - Shreyas Iyer, Indian Cricketer[10]
  • 1996Davide Calabria, Italian football player
  • 1997Sabrina Ionescu, American basketball player
  • 1998Angelīna Kučvaļska, Latvian figure skater

Deaths[]

  • 343Saint Nicholas, Greek bishop and saint (b. 270)
  • 735Prince Toneri of Japan (b. 676)
  • 762Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya, Arab rebel leader (b. 710)
  • 1185Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
  • 1305Maximus, Metropolitan of Kiev
  • 1306Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk (b. 1270)
  • 1352Pope Clement VI (b. 1291)
  • 1562Jan van Scorel, Dutch painter (b. 1495)
  • 1616Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi, Moroccan writer, judge and mathematician (b. 1552)
  • 1618Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal (b. 1556)
  • 1658Baltasar Gracián, Spanish priest and author (b. 1601)
  • 1675John Lightfoot, English priest, scholar, and academic (b. 1602)
  • 1686Eleonora Gonzaga, Queen consort of Ferdinand III (b. 1630)
  • 1716Benedictus Buns, Dutch priest and composer (b. 1642)
  • 1718Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright (b. 1674)
  • 1746Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish poet and songwriter (b. 1665)
  • 1771Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist and pathologist (b. 1682)
  • 1779Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1699)
  • 1788Jonathan Shipley, English bishop (b. 1714)
  • 1855William John Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
  • 1867Jean Pierre Flourens, French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
  • 1868August Schleicher, German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
  • 1878Theodoros Vryzakis, Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
  • 1879Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American businessman (b. 1814)
  • 1882Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician, founded Credit Suisse (b. 1819)
  • 1882 – Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815)
  • 1889Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
  • 1892Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816)
  • 1918Alexander Dianin, Russian chemist (b. 1851)
  • 1921Said Halim Pasha, Ottoman politician, 280th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1865)
  • 1924Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and screenwriter (b. 1863)
  • 1945Edmund Dwyer-Gray, Irish-Australian politician, 29th Premier of Tasmania (b. 1870)
  • 1951Harold Ross, American journalist and publisher, founded The New Yorker (b. 1892)
  • 1955Honus Wagner, American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)
  • 1956B. R. Ambedkar, Indian economist and politician, 1st Indian Minister of Justice (b. 1891)
  • 1961Frantz Fanon, Martinique-French psychiatrist and author (b. 1925)
  • 1964Evert van Linge, Dutch footballer and architect (b. 1895)
  • 1972Janet Munro, English actress and singer (b. 1934)
  • 1974Nikolay Kuznetsov, Soviet naval officer (b. 1904)
  • 1976João Goulart, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Brazil (b. 1918)
  • 1980Charles Deutsch, French engineer and businessman, co-founded DB (b. 1911)
  • 1982Jean-Marie Seroney, Kenyan activist and politician (b. 1927)
  • 1983Lucienne Boyer, French singer and actress (b. 1901)
  • 1983 – Gul Khan Nasir, Pakistani poet, historian, and politician (b. 1914)
  • 1985Burr Tillstrom, American actor and puppeteer (b. 1917)
  • 1985 – Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1893)
  • 1988Roy Orbison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
  • 1989Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902)
  • 1989 – Sammy Fain, American pianist and composer (b. 1902)
  • 1989 – John Payne, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1912)
  • 1990Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
  • 1990 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1903)
  • 1991Mimi Smith, English nurse (b. 1906)
  • 1991 – Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
  • 1993Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
  • 1994Heinz Baas, German footballer and manager (b. 1922)
  • 1994 – Gian Maria Volonté, Italian actor and director (b. 1933)
  • 1996Pete Rozelle, American businessman (b. 1926)
  • 1997Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer (b. 1918)
  • 1998César Baldaccini, French sculptor and educator (b. 1921)
  • 2000Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (b. 1920)
  • 2000 – Aziz Mian, Pakistani singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1942)
  • 2001Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948)
  • 2001 – Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (b. 1923)
  • 2002Philip Berrigan, American priest and activist (b. 1923)
  • 2003Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Guatemalan general and politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1918)
  • 2005Charly Gaul, Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1932)
  • 2005 – Devan Nair, Malaysian-Singaporean union leader and politician, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
  • 2005 – Danny Williams, South African singer (b. 1942)
  • 2005 – William P. Yarborough, American general (b. 1912)
  • 2006John Feeney, New Zealand director and producer (b. 1922)
  • 2010Mark Dailey, American-Canadian journalist and actor (b. 1953)
  • 2011Dobie Gray, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
  • 2012Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó, Equatoguinean engineer and politician, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (b. 1961)
  • 2012 – Jan Carew, Guyanese author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
  • 2012 – Jeffrey Koo Sr., Taiwanese banker and businessman (b. 1933)
  • 2012 – Huw Lloyd-Langton, English guitarist (b. 1951)
  • 2012 – Pedro Vaz, Uruguayan lawyer and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay (b. 1963)
  • 2013Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers, French poet and critic (b. 1939)
  • 2013 – Stan Tracey, English pianist and composer (b. 1926)
  • 2013 – M. K. Turk, American basketball player and coach (b. 1942)
  • 2014Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey (b. 1922)
  • 2014 – Jimmy Del Ray, American wrestler and manager (b. 1962)
  • 2014 – Fred Hawkins, American golfer (b. 1923)
  • 2014 – Luke Somers, English-American photographer and journalist (b. 1981)
  • 2015Ko Chun-hsiung, Taiwanese actor, director, and politician (b. 1945)
  • 2015 – Liu Juying, Chinese general and politician (b. 1917)
  • 2015 – Nicholas Smith, British actor (b. 1934)
  • 2016Peter Vaughan, British actor (b.1923)
  • 2017Johnny Hallyday, French singer and actor (b. 1943)

Holidays and observances[]

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