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December 7 is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 24 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 43 BCMarcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia.
  • 574 – Byzantine Emperor Justin II, suffering recurring seizures of insanity, adopts his general Tiberius and proclaims him as Caesar.[1]
  • 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
  • 1724Tumult of Thorn: Religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
  • 1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.
  • 1776Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
  • 1787Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  • 1837 – The Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, the only battle of the Upper Canada Rebellion, takes place in Toronto, where the rebels are quickly defeated.[2]
  • 1842 – First concert of the New York Philharmonic, founded by Ureli Corelli Hill.
  • 1869 – American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
  • 1904 – Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMS Spiteful and HMS Peterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
  • 1917World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
  • 1922 – The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland.
  • 1930W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show.
  • 1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
  • 1936 – Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.
  • 1941World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
  • 1942 – World War II: British commandos conduct Operation Frankton, a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour.
  • 1946A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
  • 1949Chinese Civil War: The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei, Taiwan.
  • 1962 – Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
  • 1963Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
  • 1965Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.
  • 1971 – The Battle of Sylhet is fought between the Pakistani military and the Mukti Bahini.[3]
  • 1971 – Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
  • 1972Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched.[4] The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.[5]
  • 1982 – In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.
  • 1983 – An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid–Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.
  • 1987Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground.
  • 1988 – The 6.8 Template:M Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.
  • 1993Long Island Rail Road shooting: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.
  • 1995 – The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
  • 2003 – The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.
  • 2005Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.
  • 2015 – The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.
  • 2016Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661, a domestic passenger flight from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by ATR-42-500 crashes near Havelian, killing all 47 on board.
  • 2017 – The Marriage Amendment Bill to legally recognize same-sex marriages is passed in Australia's parliament.

Births[]

  • 521Columba, Irish missionary, monk, and saint (d. 597)
  • 903Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Persian astronomer and author (d. 986)
  • 967Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr, Persian Sufi poet (d. 1049)
  • 1302Azzone Visconti, Italian nobleman (d. 1339)
  • 1532Louis I, German nobleman and politician (d. 1605)
  • 1545Henry Stuart, English-Scottish husband of Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1567)
  • 1561Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyō (d. 1625)
  • 1595Injo of Joseon, Korean king (d. 1649)
  • 1598Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor and painter (d. 1680)
  • 1643Giovanni Battista Falda, Italian architect and engraver (d. 1678)
  • 1637Bernardo Pasquini, Italian organist and composer (d. 1710)
  • 1764Claude Victor-Perrin, French general and politician (d. 1841)
  • 1784Allan Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (d. 1842)
  • 1791Ferenc Novák, Hungarian-Slovene priest and poet (d. 1836)
  • 1792Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Dutch author and academic (d. 1857)
  • 1801Johann Nestroy, Austrian actor and playwright (d. 1862)
  • 1810Josef Hyrtl, Hungarian-Austrian anatomist and biologist (d. 1894)
  • 1810 – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist and biologist (d. 1882)
  • 1823Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (d. 1891)
  • 1838Thomas Bent, Australian businessman and politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria (d. 1909)
  • 1860Joseph Cook, English-born Australian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
  • 1861Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general during World War I (d. 1931)
  • 1862Paul Adam, French author (d. 1920)
  • 1863Felix Calonder, Swiss soldier and politician, 36th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1952)
  • 1863 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1945)
  • 1863 – Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (d. 1914)
  • 1869Frank Laver, Australian cricketer (d. 1919)
  • 1873Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (d. 1947)
  • 1878Akiko Yosano, Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer (d. 1942)
  • 1879Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist, composer, and academic (d. 1972)
  • 1884John Carpenter, American sprinter (d. 1933)
  • 1885Mason Phelps, American golfer (d. 1945)
  • 1885 – Peter Sturholdt, American boxer and painter (d. 1919)
  • 1887Ernst Toch, Austrian-American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)
  • 1888Joyce Cary, Irish novelist (d. 1957)[6]
  • 1888 – Hamilton Fish III, American captain and politician (d. 1991)
  • 1892Stuart Davis, American painter and academic (d. 1964)
  • 1893Fay Bainter, American actress (d. 1968)
  • 1893 – Hermann Balck, German general (d. 1982)
  • 1894Freddie Adkins, English author and illustrator (d. 1986)
  • 1900Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur, Ukrainian folk artist (d. 1961)
  • 1902Hilda Taba, Estonian architect, author, and educator (d. 1967)
  • 1903Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician, physicist, and academic (d. 1987)
  • 1904Clarence Nash, American voice actor and singer (d. 1985)
  • 1905Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (d. 1973)
  • 1907Fred Rose, Polish-Canadian politician and spy (d. 1983)
  • 1909Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet and author (d. 1942)
  • 1910Duncan McNaughton, Canadian high jumper and geologist (d. 1998)
  • 1910 – Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor (d. 1978)
  • 1912Daniel Jones, Welsh captain and composer (d. 1993)
  • 1913Kersti Merilaas, Estonian author and poet (d. 1986)
  • 1915Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (d. 1978)
  • 1915 – Eli Wallach, American actor (d. 2014)
  • 1920Tatamkhulu Afrika, South African poet and author (d. 2002)
  • 1920 – Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist (d. 2012)
  • 1920 – Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
  • 1921Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian guru and scholar (d. 2016)
  • 1923Intizar Hussain, Indian-Pakistani author and scholar (d. 2016)
  • 1923 – Ted Knight, American actor and comedian (d. 1986)
  • 1924John Love, Zimbabwean race car driver (d. 2005)
  • 1924 – Mary Ellen Estill. American mathematician (d. 2013)[7]
  • 1924 – Mário Soares, Portuguese historian, lawyer, and politician, 17th President of Portugal (d. 2017)
  • 1924 – Bent Fabric, Danish pianist and composer (d. 2020)
  • 1925Hermano da Silva Ramos, French-Brazilian race car driver
  • 1926William John McNaughton, American bishop
  • 1927Jack S. Blanton, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
  • 1927 – Helen Watts, Welsh opera singer (d. 2009)
  • 1928Noam Chomsky, American linguist and philosopher
  • 1928 – Mickey Thompson, American race car driver (d. 1988)
  • 1930Christopher Nicole, Guyanese-English author
  • 1930 – Hal Smith, American baseball player (d. 2020)
  • 1931Allan B. Calhamer, American game designer, created Diplomacy (d. 2013)
  • 1931 – Bobby Osborne, American bluegrass singer and musician
  • 1932Ellen Burstyn, American actress
  • 1932 – Oktay Ekşi, Turkish journalist and politician
  • 1932 – Rosemary Rogers, American journalist and author
  • 1932 – J. B. Sumarlin, Indonesian economist and politician, 17th Indonesian Minister of Finance
  • 1932 – Bobby Whitton, Australian rugby league player (d. 2008)
  • 1933Krsto Papić, Croatian director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
  • 1935Armando Manzanero, Mexican musician, singer and composer
  • 1937Thad Cochran, American soldier, lawyer, and politician (d. 2019)
  • 1937 – Stan Boardman, English comedian
  • 1940Gerry Cheevers, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1941Melba Pattillo Beals, American journalist and activist
  • 1942Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)
  • 1942 – Alex Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2015)
  • 1942 – Peter Tomarken, American game show host and producer (d. 2006)
  • 1943Susan Isaacs, American author and screenwriter
  • 1943 – Nick Katz, American mathematician and academic
  • 1943 – Bernard C. Parks, American police officer and politician
  • 1943 – John Bennett Ramsey, American businessman and pilot
  • 1944Daniel Chorzempa, American organist and composer
  • 1944 – Miroslav Macek, Czech dentist and politician
  • 1947Johnny Bench, American baseball player and sportscaster
  • 1947 – Anne Fine, English author
  • 1947 – James Keach, American actor, producer, and director
  • 1947 – Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
  • 1948Gary Morris, American country singer-songwriter and actor
  • 1948 – Tony Thomas, American screenwriter and producer
  • 1949James Rivière, Italian sculptor and jeweler
  • 1949 – Tom Waits, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
  • 1950Ron Hynes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
  • 1952Susan Collins, American politician, senior senator of Maine
  • 1952 – Eckhard Märzke, German footballer and manager
  • 1954Mary Fallin, American businesswoman and politician, 27th Governor of Oklahoma
  • 1955 – John Watkins, Australian educator and politician, 14th Deputy Premier of New South Wales
  • 1956Larry Bird, American basketball player and coach
  • 1956 – Anna Soubry, British politician
  • 1957Geoff Lawson, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
  • 1957 – Tom Winsor, English lawyer and civil servant
  • 1957Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Nigerian career-diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (2019)
  • 1958Tim Butler, English bass player and songwriter
  • 1958 – Rick Rude, American wrestler and sportscaster (d. 1999)
  • 1959Saleem Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
  • 1960Craig Scanlon, English guitarist and songwriter
  • 1962Alain Blondel, French decathlete
  • 1962 – Jeffrey Donaldson, Northern Irish politician
  • 1962 – Imad Mughniyah, Lebanese activist (d. 2008)
  • 1963Theo Snelders, Dutch footballer and coach
  • 1963 – Katsuya Terada, Japanese illustrator
  • 1963 – Barbara Weathers, American R&B/soul singer
  • 1964Hugo Blick, English filmmaker
  • 1964 – Patrick Fabian, American actor
  • 1964 – Peter Laviolette, American ice hockey player and coach
  • 1965Deborah Bassett, Australian rower[8]
  • 1965 – Colin Hendry, Scottish footballer and manager
  • 1965 – Jeffrey Wright, American actor
  • 1966C. Thomas Howell, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1966 – Shinichi Ito, Japanese motorcycle racer
  • 1966 – Kazue Itoh, Japanese actress
  • 1966 – Andres Kasekamp, Canadian-Estonian historian and academic
  • 1966 – Louise Post, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1967Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
  • 1967 – Tino Martinez, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
  • 1967 – Nina Turner, American politician
  • 1971Vladimir Akopian, Azerbaijani-Armenian chess player
  • 1972Hermann Maier, Austrian skier
  • 1972 – Tammy Lynn Sytch, American wrestler and manager
  • 1973İbrahim Kutluay, Turkish basketball player
  • 1973 – Hack Meyers, American wrestler and trainer (d. 2015)
  • 1973 – Terrell Owens, American football player and actor
  • 1973 – Fabien Pelous, French rugby player and coach
  • 1973 – Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer
  • 1974Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer and actress
  • 1974 – Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez, Spanish shot putter and actor
  • 1975Jamie Clapham, English footballer and coach
  • 1976Alan Faneca, American football player
  • 1976 – Ivan Franceschini, Italian footballer
  • 1976 – Georges Laraque, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
  • 1976 – Derek Ramsay, Filipino-British actor, model and television personality
  • 1976 – Sunny Sweeney, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1976 – Benoît Tréluyer, French race car driver
  • 1977Eric Chavez, American baseball player and sportscaster
  • 1977 – Luke Donald, English golfer
  • 1977 – Dominic Howard, English drummer and producer
  • 1978Shiri Appleby, American actress, director, and producer
  • 1978 – Suzannah Lipscomb, English historian, academic and television presenter
  • 1979Sara Bareilles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
  • 1979 – Lampros Choutos, Greek-Italian footballer
  • 1979 – Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress and screenwriter
  • 1980John Terry, English footballer
  • 1983Mike Mucitelli, American mixed martial artist
  • 1984Aaron Gray, American basketball player
  • 1984 – Robert Kubica, Polish race car driver
  • 1984 – Milan Michálek, Czech ice hockey player
  • 1984 – Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer
  • 1985Jon Moxley, American wrestler
  • 1986Billy Horschel, American golfer
  • 1986 – Nita Strauss, American guitarist
  • 1987Aaron Carter, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
  • 1988Nathan Adrian, American swimmer
  • 1988 – Angelina Gabueva, Russian tennis player
  • 1988 – Emily Browning, Australian actress and singer
  • 1989Kyle Hendricks, American baseball player
  • 1989 – Alessandro Marchi, Italian footballer
  • 1989 – Nicholas Hoult, English actor
  • 1990David Goffin, Belgian tennis player
  • 1990 – Aleksandr Menkov, Russian long jumper
  • 1990 – Yasiel Puig, Cuban baseball player
  • 1990 – Urszula Radwańska, Polish tennis player
  • 1991Eugenio Pisani, Italian race car driver
  • 1993Rahama Sadau, Nigerian actress
  • 1994Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater
  • 1997Abi Harrison, Scottish footballer[9]
  • 1997 – Tommy Nelson, American actor
  • 1998Tony Yike Yang, Canadian pianist

Deaths[]

  • 43 BCCicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician (b. 106 BC)
  • 283Eutychian, pope of the Catholic Church
  • 881Anspert, archbishop of Milan
  • 983Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 955)
  • 1254Innocent IV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1195)
  • 1279Bolesław V, High Duke of Poland (b. 1226)
  • 1295Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, English officer (b. 1243)
  • 1383Wenceslaus I, duke of Luxembourg (b. 1337)
  • 1498Alexander Hegius von Heek, German poet (b. 1433)
  • 1562Adrian Willaert, Dutch-Italian composer and educator (b. 1490)
  • 1649Charles Garnier, French missionary and saint (b. 1606)
  • 1672Richard Bellingham, English-American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1592)
  • 1680Peter Lely, Dutch-English painter (b. 1618)
  • 1683Algernon Sidney, English philosopher and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1623)
  • 1723Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect, designed the Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk and Karlova Koruna Chateau (b. 1677)
  • 1725Florent Carton Dancourt, French actor and playwright (b. 1661)
  • 1772Martín Sarmiento, Spanish monk, scholar, and author (b. 1695)
  • 1775Charles Saunders, English admiral and politician (b. 1715)
  • 1793Joseph Bara, French soldier and drummer (b. 1779)
  • 1803Küçük Hüseyin Pasha, Turkish admiral and politician (b. 1757)
  • 1815Michel Ney, German-French general (b. 1769)
  • 1817William Bligh, English admiral and politician, 4th Governor of New South Wales (b. 1745)
  • 1837Robert Nicoll, Scottish poet (b.1814)
  • 1842Thomas Hamilton, Scottish philosopher and author (b. 1789)
  • 1874Constantin von Tischendorf, German theologian, scholar, and academic (b. 1815)
  • 1879Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic scholar and politician, 1st Speaker of the Parliament of Iceland (b. 1811)
  • 1891Arthur Blyth, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of South Australia (b. 1823)
  • 1894Ferdinand de Lesseps, French businessman and diplomat, co-developed the Suez Canal (b. 1805)
  • 1899Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
  • 1902Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (b. 1840)
  • 1906Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
  • 1913Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (b. 1828)
  • 1917Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1826)
  • 1918Frank Wilson, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1859)
  • 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor:
    • Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain (b. 1887)
    • Frederick Curtice Davis, American sailor (b. 1915)
    • Julius Ellsberry, American sailor (b. 1921)
    • John C. England, American sailor (b. 1920)
    • Edwin J. Hill, American sailor (b. 1894)
    • Ralph Hollis, American sailor (b. 1906)
    • Herbert C. Jones, American sailor (b. 1918)
    • Isaac C. Kidd, American admiral (b. 1884)
    • Robert Lawrence Leopold, American sailor (b. 1916)
    • Herbert Hugo Menges, American sailor (b. 1917)
    • Thomas James Reeves, American sailor (b. 1895)
    • Aloysius Schmitt, American priest and sailor (b. 1909)
    • Robert R. Scott, American sailor (b. 1915)
    • Peter Tomich, American sailor (b. 1893)
    • Robert Uhlmann, American sailor (b. 1919)
    • Franklin Van Valkenburgh, American captain (b. 1888)
    • Eldon P. Wyman, American sailor (b. 1917)
  • 1947Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866)
  • 1947 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
  • 1949Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (b. 1877)
  • 1956Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1887)
  • 1956 – Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1889)
  • 1960Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1882)
  • 1962Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer (b. 1895)
  • 1969Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player and manager (b. 1897)
  • 1969 – Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1903)
  • 1970Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, sculptor, and author (b. 1883)
  • 1975Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (b. 1897)
  • 1975 – Hardie Albright, American actor (b. 1903)
  • 1976Paul Bragg, American nutritionist (b. 1895)
  • 1977Paul Gibb, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1913)
  • 1977 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906)
  • 1977 – Georges Grignard, French race car driver (b. 1905)
  • 1978Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (b. 1886)
  • 1979Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900)
  • 1984LeeRoy Yarbrough, American race car driver (b. 1938)
  • 1985J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)
  • 1985 – Robert Graves, English poet, novelist, critic (b. 1895)
  • 1985 – Potter Stewart, American soldier and jurist (b. 1915)
  • 1989Haystacks Calhoun, American wrestler and actor (b. 1934)
  • 1989 – Hans Hartung, French-German painter (b. 1904)
  • 1990Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
  • 1990 – Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904)
  • 1992Richard J. Hughes, American politician, 45th Governor of New Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (b. 1909)
  • 1993Abidin Dino, Turkish-French painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
  • 1993 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
  • 1995Kathleen Harrison, English actress (b. 1892)
  • 1997Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1942)
  • 1998John Addison, English-American composer and conductor (b. 1920)
  • 1998 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
  • 2003Carl F. H. Henry American journalist and theologian (b. 1913)
  • 2003 – Azie Taylor Morton, American educator and politician, 36th Treasurer of the United States (b. 1933)
  • 2004Frederick Fennell, American conductor and educator (b. 1914)
  • 2004 – Jerry Scoggins, American singer and guitarist (b. 1913)
  • 2004 – Jay Van Andel, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Amway (b. 1924)
  • 2005Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
  • 2006Jeane Kirkpatrick, American academic and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1926)
  • 2008Herbert Hutner, American banker and lawyer (b. 1908)
  • 2010Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer and author (b. 1949)
  • 2010 – Kari Tapio, Finnish singer (b. 1945)[10]
  • 2011Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915)
  • 2012Roelof Kruisinga, Dutch physician and politician, Dutch Minister of Defence (b. 1922)
  • 2012 – Ralph Parr, American colonel and pilot (b. 1924)
  • 2012 – Marty Reisman, American table tennis player and author (b. 1930)
  • 2012 – Saul Steinberg, American businessman and financier (b. 1939)
  • 2013Édouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
  • 2013 – Chick Willis, American singer and guitarist (b. 1934)
  • 2014Mark Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1954)
  • 2015Jesse C. Deen, American soldier and politician (b. 1922)
  • 2015 – Gerhard Lenski, American sociologist and academic (b. 1924)
  • 2015 – Hyron Spinrad, American astronomer and academic (b. 1934)
  • 2015 – Peter Westbury, English race car driver (b. 1938)
  • 2016Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani recording artist, television personality, fashion designer, occasional actor, singer-songwriter and preacher. (b. 1964)
  • 2016 – Greg Lake, English musician (b. 1947)
  • 2019Ron Saunders, English football player and manager (b.1932)[citation needed]

Holidays and observances[]

  • Armed Forces Flag Day (India)
  • Christian feast day:
    • Aemilianus (Greek Church)
    • Ambrose
    • Maria Giuseppa Rossello
    • Sabinus of Spoleto
    • December 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Eve of the Immaculate Conception-related observances:
    • Day of the Little Candles, begins after sunset (Colombia)
  • Flag Base Day (Scientology)
  • International Civil Aviation Day
  • National Heroes Day (East Timor)
  • National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (United States)
  • Spitak Remembrance Day (Armenia)

References[]

  1. Template:Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire
  2. "Montgomery's Tavern National Historic Site of Canada". Canada's Historic Places. Parks Canada. Retrieved 2018-11-20.
  3. Battle Of Sylhet. Defence India Archived August 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. "Apollo 17 Launch Operations". NASA. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
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