Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1840 - William Giblin, Australian politician, 13th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1887)
 1845 - Vasudeo Balwant Phadke, Indian revolutionary (d. 1883)
 1853 - Anna Baverova, Czech physician (d. 1924)
 1861 - Dimitrios Ioannou, Greek general (d. 1926)
 1868 - La Belle Otero, Spanish actress, singer and dancer (d. 1965)
 1872 - Barbu Stirbey, Romanian politician (d. 1946)
 1873 - G. E. Moore, English philosopher (d. 1958)
 1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)
 1874 - Charles Despiau, French sculptor (d. 1946)
 1879 – Will Rogers, American humorist (d. 1935)
 1883 - Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek general (d. 1953)
 1884 - Harry Ferguson, British aviator and inventor (d. 1960)
 1884 - George Underwood, American athlete (d. 1943)
 1887 - Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist, philanthropist and scientific research patron (d. 1975)
 1890 - Klabund, German writer (d. 1928)
 1896 – Carlos P. Garcia, President of the Philippines (d. 1971)
1897 - C. B. van Niel, Dutch microbiologist (d. 1985)
 1899 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourg cyclist (d. 1985)
 1900 - Lucretiu Patrascanu, Romanian Communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Bangja, Crown Princess Euimin of Korea (d. 1989)
 1902 - Reg Dean, British supercentenarian (d. 2013)
 1904 - Tadeusz Zylinski, Polish technician and textilist (d. 1967)
 1906 - Sterling North, American writer (d. 1974)
 1907 - Draga Matkovic, German concert pianist
 1908 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish physicist (d. 2005)
 1908 - Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (d. 1997)
 1909 – Bert Patenaude, American footballer (d. 1974)
 1909 - Skeeter Webb, American baseball player (d. 1986)
 1911 – Dixie Lee, American actress, dancer and singer (d. 1952)
 1912 - Vadim Salmanov, Russian composer (d. 1978)
 1913 - Gig Young, American actor (d. 1978)
 1916 – Walter Cronkite, American news reporter (d. 2009)
 1916 – Ruth Handler, American businesswoman, inventor of the Barbie doll (d. 2002)
 1918 – Art Carney, American actor (d. 2003)
 1919 - Oscar Holderer, German rocket scientist (d. 2015)
 1920 - Val Heim, American baseball player (d. 2019)
 1923 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (d. 2002)
1923 - Gunnar Huseby, Icelandic athlete (d. 1995)
 1923 - Howie Meeker, Canadian ice hockey player
 1925 - Ritwik Ghatab, Bangladeshi-Indian filmmaker and scriptwriter (d. 1976)
 1925 - Doris Roberts, American actress (d. 2016)
 1928 - Larry Bunker, American jazz musician (d. 2005)
 1929 - Shakuntala Devi, Indian child prodigy and mental calculator (d. 2013)
 1929 - Leopold Gratz, Austrian politician (d. 2006)
 1929 - Athanasios of Albania, Greek-Albanian archbishop
 1930 - Dick Groat, American baseball and basketball player
 1930 - Dick MacPherson, American football coach (d. 2017)
 1931 - Bernard Francis Law, American cardinal and former Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2017)
 1932 – Thomas Klestil, President of Austria (d. 2004)
 1933 - Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist (d. 2018)
 1933 - C. Odumegwu Ojukwu, Nigerian military leader and politician (d. 2011)
 1935 - Elgar Howarth, English conductor, composer and trumpeter
 1936 - Didier Ratsiraka, former President of Madagascar (d. 2021)
1936 - C. K. Williams, American poet (d. 2015)
 1937 - Loretta Swit, American actress
 1938 - Jorge Manicera, Uruguayan footballer (d. 2012)
 1939 - Michael Meacher, British politician (d. 2015)
 1940 - Marlène Jobert, French actress
 1943 - Marilyn Ware, American diplomat and businesswoman (d. 2017)
 1944 - Scherrie Payne, American singer
 1944 - Linda Gary, American voice actress (d. 1995)
 1946 – Laura Bush, former First Lady of the United States
 1948 – Amadou Toumani Touré, President of Mali
 1948 - Alexis Hunter, New Zealand photographer and painter (d. 2014)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Traian Basescu, President of Romania
 1952 - Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria, Coptic Church leader
 1953 - Tina Theune, German footballer
 1953 - Carlos Gutierrez, American politician
 1953 - Derek Johnstone, Scottish footballer
 1953 - Jacques Villeneuve, Canadian racing driver
 1953 - Peter Lord, English animator, film producer and director
 1954 - Aleksandr Aksinin, Russian athlete
 1954 - Chris Difford, rock music singer
 1955 – Matti Vanhanen, former Prime Minister of Finland
 1956 - James Honeyman-Scott, English musician (d. 1982)
 1956 - Igor Talkov, Russian singer-songwriter (d. 1991)
 1957 – Tony Abbott, 28th Prime Minister of Australia
 1958 - Lee Jasper, English activist and politician
 1960 - Kathy Griffin, American comedienne
 1961 – Ralph Macchio, American actor
 1961 – Nigel Worthington, Northern Irish footballer
 1962 - Arvo Volmer, Estonian conductor
 1963 – Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer (d. 1999)
 1963 – Horacio Elizondo, Argentine  football referee
1963 - Rosario Flores, Spanish singer and actress
 1963 - Michel Therrien, Canadian ice hockey player
 1964 - Yuko Mizutani, Japanese voice actress and singer (d. 2016)
 1965 - Malandra Burrows, English actress and singer
 1965 - Wayne Static, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
 1969 – Sean Combs (P-Diddy), American rapper and producer
 1969 – Matthew McConaughey, American actor
 1969 - Samantha Smith, American actress
 1970 - Malena Ernman, Swedish singer
 1970 - Tony Sly, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (d. 2012)
 1971 - Perry Moore, American writer and movie producer (d. 2011)
 1972 – Luís Figo, Portuguese footballer
 1972 - Myles Pollard, Australian actor
 1974 - Louise Redknapp, English television personality
 1975 - Heather Tom, American actress
From 1976 
 1976 - Daniel Bahr, German politician
 1976 – Mario Melchiot, Dutch footballer
 1976 - Alexander Popp, German tennis player
 1979 - Trishelle Cannatella, American model and actress
 1980 - Jerry Collins, New Zealand rugby player (d. 2015)
 1981 - Guy Martin, English motorcycle racer
 1982 - Kamila Skolimowska, Polish hammer thrower (d. 2009)
 1983 - Anton Buslov, Russian astrophysicist and blogger (d. 2014)
 1984 - Dustin Brown, American ice hockey player
 1985 – Marcell Jansen, German footballer
 1986 - Alexz Johnson, Canadian singer-songwriter, producer and actress
 1986 - Szymon Pawlowski, Polish footballer
 1986 - Adrian Zaugg, South African racing driver
 1987 - T.O.P, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
 1989 - Enner Valencia, Ecuadorean footballer
 1991 - Lesley Kerkhove, Dutch tennis player
 1998 - Darcy Rose Byrnes, American actress and singer

Deaths
Deaths

Up to 1950 
 1411 - Khalil Sultan, Timurid ruler (b. 1384)
 1652 - Jean-Claude de la Faille, Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)
 1669 - Johannes Cocceius, Dutch theologian (b. 1603)
 1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
 1801 - William Shippen, American physician and Continental Congressman (b. 1712)
 1847 - Thieu Tri, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1807)
 1847 – Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (b. 1809)
 1893 - Pierre Tirard, Prime Minister of France (b. 1827)
 1906 - John H. Ketcham, American general and politician (b. 1832)
 1918 – Wilfred Owen, English poet (b. 1893)
 1921 – Hara Takashi, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1865)
 1924 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer (b. 1845)
 1931 - Luigi Galleani, Italian activist (b. 1861)
 1932 - Belle Bennett, American actress (b. 1891)
 1950 - Grover Cleveland Alexander, American baseball player and coach (b. 1887)
1951  2000 
 1951 - Ernesto Ambrosini, Italian athlete (b. 1894)
 1955 – Cy Young, American baseball player (b. 1867)
 1968 - Michel Kikoine, Belarusian painter (b. 1892)
 1969 - Carlos Marighella, Brazilian revolutionary (b. 1911)
 1969 - Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (b. 1920)
 1969 - Ernest W. Gibson, Governor of Vermont (b. 1901)
 1974 – Bert Patenaude, American footballer (b. 1909)
 1982 - Jacques Tati, French actor and director (b. 1907)
 1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician (b. 1906)
 1988 - Kleanthis Vikelidis, Greek footballer (b. 1916)
 1990 - David Stirling, British founder of the SAS (b. 1915)
 1992 - George Klein, Canadian inventor (b. 1904)
 1994 – Sam Francis, American painter (b. 1923)
 1995 – Gilles Deleuze, French philosopher (b. 1925)
 1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, 5th Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1922)
 1997 - Richard Hooker, American writer (b. 1924)
 1998 - Marion Donovan, American architect and inventor (b. 1917)
From 2001 
 2008 – Michael Crichton, American writer (b. 1942)
 2009 - Hubertus Brandenburg, German-born Swedish Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1923)
 2010 – Eugenie Blanchard, French-Caribbean supercentenarian (b. 1896)
 2010 - Sparky Anderson, American baseball manager (b. 1934)
 2011 - Alfonso Cano, Colombian FARC leader (b. 1948)
 2011 - Andy Rooney, American journalist (b. 1919)
 2011 - Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., American physicist (b. 1915)
 2012 - Ted Curson, American trumpeter (b. 1935)
 2013 - Hans von Borsody, Austrian-German actor (b. 1929)
 2014 - Jeremy Dale, American comic book artist (b. 1979)
 2014 - Enrique Olivera, Argentine politician (b. 1940)
 2014 - Richard Schaal, American actor (b. 1928)
 2014 - Eddie Stuart, South African footballer (b. 1931)
 2015 - René Girard, French-American historian, literary critic and philosopher of social science (b. 1923)
 2015 - Melissa Mathison, American screenwriter (b. 1950)
 2015 - Piotr Domaradzki, Polish-American journalist (b. 1946)
2015 - Ole Knapp, Norwegian politician (b. 1931)
 2016 - Jean-Jacques Perrey, French electronic music producer (b. 1929)
 2016 - Mansour Pourheidari, Iranian footballer (b. 1946)
 2017 - Michael Augustine, Indian Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1933)
 2017 - Anna Diggs Taylor, American judge (b. 1932)
 2017 - Dudley Simpson, Australian composer and conductor (b. 1922)
 2017 - Tamara Natalie Madden, Jamaican-American artist (b. 1975)
 2018 - Karl-Heinz Adler, German artist (b. 1927)
 2018 - Manohar Prahlad Awati, Indian vice-admiral (b. 1927)
 2018 - Donna Axum, American model (b. 1942)
 2018 - Marco Dezzi Bardeschi, Italian architect (b. 1934)
 2018 - Tetsugen Bernard Glassman, American Zen Buddhist monk (b. 1939)
 2018 - Jeremy Heywood, British economist and civil servant (b. 1961)
 2018 - Harris Hines, American judge (b. 1943)
 2018 - Vince Manuwai, American football player (b. 1980)
 2018 - Grant R. Osborne, American theologian (b. 1942)
2018 - Wolfgang Zuckermann, German-American harpsichord maker and activist (b. 1922)
 2019 - Gay Byrne, Irish broadcaster (b. 1934)
 2019 - Jacques Dupont, French racing cyclist (b. 1928)
 2019 - Sadeque Hossain Khoka, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1952)
 2019 - Virginia Leith, American actress (b. 1925)
Observances 
 Flag Day (Panama)
 National Unity and Armed Forces Day (Italy)
 Unity Day (Russia)

November 04
Events

Up to 1900 
 800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
 1420 - Henry V of England enters Paris.
 1640 – Portugal regains its independence from Spain.
 1821 – The first constitution of Costa Rica is issued.
 1822 – Emperor Pedro I of Brazil is crowned.
 1824 - The United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner of the US Presidential Election after no candidate got an overall majority of Electoral College votes.
 1828 - Argentine general Juan Lavalle carries out a coup against Governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
 1835 – Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first book of fairy tales.
 1864 - Great Fire of Brisbane.
 1865 - Shaw University, the first historically black university in the Southern United States, is founded in North Carolina.
 1885 - The fizzy drink Dr Pepper is first served at a drug store in Waco, Texas.
1901  1950 
 1913 – Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
 1913 – Crete is annexed by Greece.
 1913 - The Buenos Aires Metro opens to the public.
 1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
 1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
 1918 - Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania.
 1919 - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor officially takes her seat in the House of Commons as the UK's first female Member of Parliament.
 1923 – The dam of the Gleno Reservoir near Bergamo, Italy, bursts, killing around 600 people.
 1934 - In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolaev at Communist Headquarters in Leningrad.
 1941 - World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to begin war against the United States.
1941 - World War II: New York City Mayor Fiorello La Guardia signs the Administration Order No. 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
 1948 - Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, South Australia, involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a rare book. The case remains unsolved.
1951  2000 
 1953 - Hugh Hefner publishes the first edition of Playboy magazine.
 1955 – In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
 1958 – Central African Republic becomes independent from France.
 1958 - The Our Lady of the Angels school fire in Chicago kills 92 children and 3 nuns.
 1959 – Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent.
 1960 - Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested in Hamburg after being accused of attempted arson.
 1961 – The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
 1963 – Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
 1964 – Malta, Malawi and Zambia join the UN.
 1965 - India's Border Security Force is founded.
 1966 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger succeeds Ludwig Erhard as Chancellor of West Germany.
1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
 1971 – Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
 1971 – The Indian Army occupies part of Kashmir.
 1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.
 1974 - TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport near Washington, DC, killing all 92 people on board.
 1974 - Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of JFK International Airport outside New York City, killing all 3 crew members. There were no passengers on board at the time.
 1976 – Angola joins the UN.
 1981 - Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
 1986 - The Musee d'Orsay art museum in Paris opens.
 1988 - Benazir Bhutto becomes Prime Minister of Pakistan.
1989 - A right-wing rebel group attempts to remove then-President of the Philippines Corazon Aquino from power in a failed coup attempt.
 1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the seabed.
 1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
 2000 – Vicente Fox becomes President of Mexico.
From 2001 
 2006 – Felipe Calderon becomes President of Mexico.
 2006 – A typhoon causes landslides on the Mayon Volcano in the Philippines, burying about 1,000 people.
 2009 – The European Union's Lisbon Treaty takes effect.
 2012 - Enrique Peña Nieto becomes President of Mexico.
 2013 - A train derails in the Bronx, New York City, on the banks of the Hudson River, killing four people and injuring around 60.
 2014 - The Somali terrorist group Al-Shabaab rounds up and kills 36 Non-Muslims in northeastern Kenya.
 2016 - Vajiralongkorn officially becomes King of Thailand.
 2017 - Japanese Emperor Akihito's abdication date is set for April 30, 2019.
 2017 - The groups are drawn for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.
 2018 - Andrés Manuel López Obrador becomes President of Mexico.
 2019 - Ursula von der Leyen takes office as the first female President of the European Commission.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1081 – Louis VI of France (d. 1137)
 1083 – Anna Komnene, Byzantine princess and scholar (d. 1153)
 1438 - Peter II, Duke of Bourbon (d. 1503)
 1443 - Magdalena of France, French princess (d. 1495)
 1521 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese daimyo (d. 1573)
 1580 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637)
 1690 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician (d. 1764)
 1709 - Franz Xaver Richter, Austrian-Moravian singer, violinist, composer and conductor (d. 1789)
 1716 - Etienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791)
 1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (d. 1817)
 1761 – Marie Tussaud, French creator of waxworks (d. 1850)
 1766 – Nikolay Karamzin, Russian writer (d. 1826)
 1785 - Victor de Broglie, French politician and diplomat (d. 1850)
 1792 - Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856)
 1823 - Karl Schenk, Swiss politician (d. 1895)
 1840 - Marie Bracquemond, French painter (d. 1916)
1844 – Alexandra of Denmark, queen consort of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1925)
 1847 - Julia Ann Moore, American poet (d. 1920)
 1855 - John Evans, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (d. 1943)
 1864 - Carsten Borchgrevink, Norwegian polar explorer (d. 1934)
 1867 - Ignacy Moscicki, Polish scientist and politician (d. 1946)
 1869 - Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (d. 1923)
 1873 - Valery Bryusov, Russian poet (d. 1924)
 1873 - Viktor Chernov, Russian politician (d. 1952)
 1884 - Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976)
 1886 – Rex Stout, American writer (d. 1975)
 1895 – Henry Williamson, English writer (d. 1977)
 1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974)
 1898 - Stuart Garson, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba (d. 1977)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Ilona Feher, Hungarian violinist (d. 1988)
 1901 - Jane Gray, Scottish-Australian supercentenarian (d. 2014)
 1905 – Clarence Zener, American physicist (d. 1993)
 1910 – Alicia Markova, British ballet dancer (d. 2004)
 1911 – Franz Binder, Austrian footballer (d. 1989)
 1911 - Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (d. 1984)
 1911 - Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman (d. 1999)
 1912 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (d. 1986)
 1913 – Mary Martin, American actress (d. 1990)
 1916 - Wan Li, Chinese politician (d. 2015)
 1922 – Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player (d. 1979)
 1923 – Morris, Belgian cartoonist (d. 2001)
 1923 - Stansfield Turner, American admiral (d. 2018)
 1925 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (d. 1998)
 1926 - Keith Michell, Australian actor (d. 2015)
 1928 - Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991)
 1928 - Malachi Throne, American actor (d. 2013)
 1929 – Alfred Moisiu, former President of Albania
1929 - Karl Otto Pöhl, German economist (d. 2014)
 1929 - David Doyle, American actor (d. 1997)
 1930 - Marie Bashir, 37th Governor of New South Wales
 1930 – Matt Monro, English singer (d. 1985)
 1931 - Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (d. 1986)
 1931 - George Maxwell Richards, President of Trinidad and Tobago (d. 2018)
 1933 - Fujiko Fujio, Japanese writer and illustrator (d. 1996)
 1933 - Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (d. 2006)
 1933 - Violette Verdy, French ballerina (d. 2016)
 1933 - James Wolfensohn, 9th President of the World Bank
 1934 – Billy Paul, American singer (d. 2016)
 1935 – Woody Allen, American director and actor
 1936 - María Romilda Servini, Argentine lawyer and judge
 1936 - Igor Rodionov, Russian general and politician (d. 2014)
 1937 – Vaira Vike-Freiberga, former President of Latvia
 1938 - Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, Pakistani politician, Governor of Sindh (d. 2017)
 1939 – Lee Trevino, American golf player
1940 – Richard Pryor, American actor and comedian (d. 2005)
 1942 - Mohamed Kamel Amr, Egyptian diplomat
 1943 - Finn E. Kydland, Norwegian economist
 1943 - Kenny Moore, American runner and journalist
 1944 - Pierre Arditi, French actor
 1944 - A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician (d. 2017)
 1944 - Michael Hagee, American general
 1944 - Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan-French poet
 1944 - Daniel Pennac, French writer
 1944 – John Densmore, American musician
 1945 – Bette Midler, American singer and actress
 1946 – Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer
 1947 – Alain Bashung, French singer (d. 2009)
 1948 – Luciano Re Cecconi, Italian footballer (d. 1977)
 1948 – Neil Warnock, English footballer and manager
 1948 - Themba Dlamini, Prime Minister of Swaziland
 1948 - Sarfraz Nawaz, Pakistani cricketer
 1949 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian druglord (d. 1993)
 1949 – Sebastian Pinera, President of Chile; 2010 - 2014, and since 2018
 1950 - Ueli Maurer, Swiss politician
1950 - Seiichi Sakiya, Japanese footballer
 1950 - Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and drummer
1951  1975 
 1951 – Jaco Pastorius, American musician (d. 1987)
 1951 - Treat Williams, American actor
 1952 - Stephen Poliakoff, British playwright and television dramatist
 1952 - Ellen McLain, American opera singer and voice actress
 1952 - Pegi Young, American singer, songwriter, environmentalist, educator and philanthropist (d. 2019)
 1954 - Viv Albertine, Australian-British singer and songwriter
 1954 - Medha Patkar, Indian activist
 1954 - François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (d. 2017)
 1956 - Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter and actress
 1956 - Billy Stark, Scottish footballer
 1957 - Chris Poland, American guitarist
 1957 - Deep Roy, Kenyan actor
 1958 – Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and manager
 1958 - Candace Bushnell, American author, journalist and television producer
 1958 - Lisa Fischer, American singer-songwriter
 1958 - Charlene Tilton, American actress
 1959 - Billy Childish, English singer and musician
 1960 – Carol Alt, American supermodel
1961 – Jeremy Northam, British actor
 1961 - Armin Meiwes, German cannibal and murderer
 1962 - Pamela McGee, American basketball player and coach
 1963 - Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician
 1964 – Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer
 1965 - Peter Greste, Australian journalist
 1966 - Andrew Adamson, New Zealand movie director
 1966 - Katherine LaNasa, American actress
 1966 - Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player
 1967 - Nestor Carbonell, American actor, director and screenwriter
 1968 - Justin Chadwick, English actor and director
 1968 - Anders Holmertz, Swedish swimmer
 1968 - Stephan Beckenbauer, German footballer (d. 2015)
 1970 – Sarah Silverman, American comedienne
 1971 – Emily Mortimer, English actress
 1971 – Mika Pohjola, Finnish jazz pianist and composer
 1971 - Melanie Peres, German-Israeli model, actress and singer
 1974 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer
 1974 - Simon Donnelly, Scottish footballer and manager
From 1976 
 1976 – Laura Ling, American journalist
 1976 - Matthew Shepard, American murder victim (d. 1998)
 1977 - Brad Delson, American guitarist and producer
 1977 - Akiva Schaffer, American actor, rapper, director, producer and screenwriter
 1979 - Shinji Murai, Japanese footballer
 1981 - Park Hyo-shin, South Korean singer-songwriter
 1982 - Alfredo Pacheco, El Salvadorean footballer (d. 2015)
 1985 – Emiliano Viviano, Italian footballer
 1985 - John Coughlin, American figure skater
 1985 - Chanel Preston, American pornographic actress
 1986 - DeSean Jackson, American football player
 1988 – Jay Simpson, English footballer
 1988 – Zoe Kravitz, American actress
 1989 - Barry Bannan, Scottish footballer
 1990 - Chanel Iman, American model
 1991 - Sun Yang, Chinese swimmer
 1991 - Dion Waiters, American basketball player
 1992 - Masahudu Alhassan, Ghanaian footballer
 1992 - Marco van Ginkel, Dutch footballer
 1995 - Eva Boto, Slovenian singer
 2001 – Aiko, Princess Toshi of Japan
2001 - Savannah McReynolds, American actress
 2001 - Alice Robinson, New Zealand alpine ski racer
Up to 1900 
 660 - Saint Eligius (b. c. 588)
 1135 – Henry I, King of England (b. 1068)
 1241 – Isabella of England, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214)
 1377 – King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)
 1433 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
 1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian sculptor (b. 1378)
 1521 – Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
 1530 - Margaret of Austria, Duchess of Savoy (b. 1480)
 1580 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
 1581 - Alexander Briant, English priest, martyr and saint (b. 1556)
 1581 - Edmund Campion, English priest, martyr and saint (b. 1540)
 1581 - Ralph Sherwin, English priest, martyr and saint (b. 1550)
 1602 - Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese warlord (b. 1582)
 1633 - Isabella Clara Eugenia, Spanish consort of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria (b. 1566)
 1640 - Miguel de Vasconcelos, Portuguese politician (b. 1590)
 1660 - Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist (b. 1592)
 1750 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer (b. 1671)
1755 - Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)
 1825 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
 1830 – Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
 1864 - William L. Dayton, American politician (b. 1807)
 1866 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor (b. 1790)
 1884 - William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician (b. 1809)
 1886 – Emil Hartwich, German lawyer (b. 1843)
1901  2000 
 1913 - Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and writer (b. 1864)
 1914 - Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
 1916 - Charles de Foucauld, French priest (b. 1858)
 1917 - John January, American soccer player (b. 1882)
 1934 – Sergey Kirov, Soviet politician (b. 1886)
 1941 - Alva B. Adams, American politician (b. 1875)
 1943 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian (b. 1862)
 1947 – Aleister Crowley, English occultist and writer (b. 1875)
 1947 – G.H. Hardy, English mathematician (b. 1877)
 1954 - Fred Rose, American pianist, songwriter and publisher (b. 1898)
 1964 - J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist (b. 1892)
 1964 - Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek runner (b. 1877)
 1968 - Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer, composer and conductor (b. 1887)
 1969 - Magic Sam, American guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
 1972 – Antonio Segni, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1891)
 1973 – David Ben-Gurion, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
 1975 - Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American writer (b. 1906)
1981 - Russ Manning, American comic book artist (b. 1929)
 1987 – James Baldwin, American writer (b. 1924)
 1987 - Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager (b. 1918)
 1990 - Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian politician and diplomat (b. 1900)
 1991 – George J. Stigler, American economist (b. 1911)
 1993 - Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
 1995 - Maxwell R. Thurman, American general (b. 1931)
 1997 – Stephane Grappelli, French violinist (b. 1908)
 1997 - Endicott Peabody, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1920)
 1998 – Bertil Nordahl, Swedish footballer (b. 1917)
From 2001 
 2001 - Roger Leach, British actor (b. 1948)
 2004 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
 2005 - Jack Colvin, American actor (b. 1934)
 2006 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
 2007 - Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (b. 1929)
 2008 – Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
 2010 – Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (b. 1914)
 2011 – Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929)
 2012 - Mitchell Cole, English footballer (b. 1985)
 2012 - Phil Taylor, English footballer (b. 1917)
 2012 - Jovan Belcher, American football player (b. 1987)
 2013 - Heinrich Boere, German Nazi war criminal (b. 1922)
 2013 - Lino Grech, Maltese actor (b. 1930)
 2013 - Edward Heffron, American World War II veteran (b. 1923)
 2014 - Sita Murt, Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman (b. 1946)
 2014 - Mario Abramovich, Argentine violinist and composer (b. 1926)
 2014 - Roberto Sagastume Pinto, Guatemalan politician (b. 1944)
 2015 - Joseph Engelberger, American engineer (b. 1925)
2015 - Robert E. Glennen, American academic (b. 1933)
 2015 - Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (b. 1930)
 2017 - Adarsh Sein Anand, former Chief Justice of India (b. 1936)
 2017 - Philipp Graf Lerchenfeld, German politician (b. 1952)
 2017 - Fredy Schmidtke, German cyclist (b. 1961)
 2017 - Arif Dirlik, Turkish-born American historian (b. 1940)
 2017 - Les Whitten, American investigative reporter (b. 1928)
 2018 - Ken Berry, American actor (b. 1933)
 2018 - Ennio Fantastichini, Italian actor (b. 1955)
 2018 - Anwar Hossain, Bangladeshi photographer and cinematographer (b. 1948)
 2018 - Scott Stearney, American Vice Admiral (b. 1960)
 2018 - Stefanie Tücking, German television presenter (b. 1962)
 2018 - Shoucheng Zhang, Chinese-American physicist (b. 1963)
 2019 - Henri Biancheri, French footballer (b. 1932)
 2019 - Shelley Morrison, American actress (b. 1936)
 2019 - Lil Bub, American-bred celebrity cat (b. 2011)
 2019 - Paul Sirba, American Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1960)
Holidays and observances 
 World AIDS Day
 Portugal – Restoration of Independence Day
 Costa Rica – Military Abolition Day
 Romania – The National Day of Romania, Union of Transylvania with Romania
 Angola's Pioneers' Day
 Australia – First day of Summer
 Iceland - Self-governance Day
 Teachers' Day (Panama)
 Chad - Freedom and Democracy Day
 Mexico - Traditionally the date the President is sworn into office every six years, last in 2012
 Saint Eligius in Western Christianity

December 01
Up to 1900 
 771 – Austrasian King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne King of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.
 963 - Pope Leo VIII is elected.
 1110 – First Crusade: The Crusaders conquer Sidon.
 1154 - Nicholas Breakspear is elected to become Pope Adrian IV, and is the only Englishman to have been Pope.
 1259 – Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels.
 1563 – The final session of the Council of Trent is held (it opened on December 13, 1545).
 1619 – 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
 1639 – Jeremiah Horrocks made the first observation of a transit of Venus. (November 24 under the Julian calendar.)
1674 – Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois).
 1676 – Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt.
 1745 - Charles Edward Stuart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the second Jacobite Rising.
 1783 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, United States General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.
 1791 – The first issue of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.
 1829 – In the face of fierce opposition, British governor Lord William Bentinck carries a regulation declaring that all who abetted suttee in India were guilty of culpable homicide.
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea - At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta (Union forces did suffer more than three times the Confederate casualties, however).
 1867 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange movement).
 1872 – The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the British brig Dei Gratia (the ship was abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged).
 1875 – Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain.
 1881 - The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
1901  1950 
 1906 – Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc., the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity in the United States established for men of African descent, was founded at Cornell University.
 1909 - The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team is founded.
 1918 – United States President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first United States President to travel to Europe while in office.
 1921 – The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.
 1934 - Daisetzuan National Park is created in Japan.
 1937 - The first issue of the Dandy is published.
 1942 – Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz set up Żegota.
 1943 – World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.
 1943 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration.
1944 - World War II: An Allied air raid on the German city of Heilbronn kills 6,500 people.
 1945 – By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN was established on October 24, 1945).
1951  2000 
 1951 – Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government.
 1952 – Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing up to 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
 1954 - The first Burger King opens in Miami, Florida.
 1958 – Dahomey (present-day Benin) becomes a self-governing country within the French Community.
 1967 – Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage NLF troops in the Mekong Delta.
 1969 – Black Panther members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago, Illinois police officers.
 1969 – Surfer Greg Noll rides a 65-foot wave on the North Shore of Oahu, still the highest ever recorded.
 1971 – UN Security Council calls emergency session to consider deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.
 1971 – The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert.
1974 - A Dutch Douglas DC-8 airliner, carrying Indonesian pilgrims to Mecca, crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing all 191 people on board.
 1975 – Suriname joins the UN.
 1977 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
 1977 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.
 1978 – Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco, California's first woman mayor (she served until January 8, 1988).
 1979 – The Hastie fire in Hull, kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
 1980 – The rock group Led Zeppelin formally announce their breakup.
 1981 – South Africa grants "homeland" Ciskei independence (not recognized outside South Africa).
 1982 – The People's Republic of China adopts its current constitution.
 1984 - Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan army soldiers kill between 107 and 150 civilians.
1984 - Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwaiti Airlines plane, killing 4 passengers.
 1991 – Journalist Terry Anderson is released after 7 years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut (he was the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon).
 1991 – United States airline Pan Am ends operations.
 1992 – Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia.
 1993 – A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
 1994 – Pakistan wins World Hockey Championship after 12 years, beating the Netherlands by four goals to three, in Sydney.
 1998 – Unity, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
From 2001 
 2001 – Lisa Beamer, wife of Todd Beamer, through the Todd M. Beamer Foundation, registers  the trademark "Let's Roll" with the United States Patent and Trademark Office less than three months after his death in the September 11 attacks in the United States.
 2005 – Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protested for democracy and called on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
 2006 – An adult giant squid is caught on video for the first time near the Ogasawara Islands of Japan.
 2009 – A fire in a night club in Perm, Russia, kills 113 people.
 2016 - Alexander Van der Bellen defeats Norbert Hofer in the re-run of Austria's presidential election.
 2016 - Constitutional reform is rejected by a majority in a national referendum in Italy, leading to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's announcement that he is to resign from office.

Births
Up to 1900 
 34 - Persius, Roman poet (d. 62)
 1555 - Heinrich Meibom, German poet and historian (d. 1625)
 1585 - John Cotton, English clergyman (d. 1652)
 1595 - Jean Chapelain, French poet (d. 1674)
 1647 - Daniel Eberlin, German composer and conductor (d. 1715)
 1670 - John Aislabie, English politician (d. 1742)
 1711 – Barbara of Portugal, Queen of Spain (d. 1758)
 1713 - Gasparo Gozzi, Italian critic and playwright (d. 1785)
 1791 - Jane Franklin, British adventurer (d. 1875)
 1795 – Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer and historian (d. 1881)
 1798 - Jules Armand Dufaure, 33rd Prime Minister of France (d. 1884)
 1808 – Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria (d. 1888)
 1817 - Nikoloz Baratashvili, Georgian poet (d. 1845)
 1835 – Samuel Butler, English writer (d. 1902)
 1844 - Franz Xavier Wernz, German religious leader (d. 1914)
 1849 – Crazy Horse, Native American leader (d. 1877)
 1852 - Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (d. 1934)
 1861 – Hannes Hafstein, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (d. 1922)
1861 – Lillian Russell, American actress and singer (d. 1922)
 1865 – Edith Cavell, British nurse (d. 1915)
 1875 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet and writer (d. 1926)
 1878 - Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (d. 1918)
 1881 – Erwin von Witzleben, German general and Resistance activist (d. 1944)
 1889 - Lloyd Bacon, American actor and director (d. 1955)
 1892 – Liu Bocheng, Chinese military commander (d. 1986)
 1892 – Francisco Franco, dictator of Spain (d. 1975)
 1893 - Herbert Read, English art historian and philosopher (d. 1968)
 1895 – Fung Yu-lan, Chinese philosopher (d. 1990)
 1899 - Charlie Spencer, English footballer and manager (d. 1953)
1901  1950 
 1908 – Alfred Hershey, American bacteriologist (d. 1997)
 1909 - Archduke Karl Pius of Austria, Prince of Tuscany (d. 1953)
 1910 – R. Venkataraman, 8th President of India (d. 2009)
 1913 - Robert Adler, American physicist and inventor (d. 2007)
 1913 - Mark Robson, Canadian-American movie director, producer and editor (d. 1978)
 1914 – Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (d. 1993)
 1917 - Movita Castaneda, American actress and singer (d. 2016)
 1918 – Robert Ettinger, American academic and pioneer of Cryonics (d. 2011)
 1919 - I. K. Gujral, Prime Minister of India (d. 2012)
 1920 - Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter (d. 2013)
 1921 – Deanna Durbin, Canadian actress (d. 2013)
 1921 – Carlos Franqui, Cuban writer and journalist (d. 2010)
 1923 - Charles Keating, American lawyer, financier and real estate developer (d. 2014)
 1923 - Demmus Hentze, Faroese politician (d. 2016)
 1923 - John Krish, British screenwriter and director (d. 2016)
 1925 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountain climber (d. 2009)
1926 - Shigeo Sugimoto, Japanese footballer (d. 2002)
 1926 - Monty M. Wyche, American judge (d. 2014)
 1927 - Gae Aulenti, Italian architect and designer (d. 2012)
 1927 - Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Spanish writer (d. 2019)
 1930 – Ronnie Corbett, Scottish actor and comedian (d. 2016)
 1930 - Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger (d. 2013) 
 1931 - Alex Delvecchio, Canadian ice hockey player
 1932 - Roh Tae-woo, former President of South Korea
 1933 – Horst Buchholz, German actor (d. 2003)
 1935 - Paul Henry O'Neill, 72nd United States Secretary of the Treasury
 1939 – Freddy Cannon, American rock musician
 1939 - Stephen W. Bosworth, American diplomat (d. 2016)
 1939 - Etienne Mourrut, French politician (d. 2014)
 1940 – Gary Gilmore, American murderer (d. 1977)
 1942 - Gemma Jones, English actress
 1944 – Anna McGarrigle, Canadian folk musician, singer and songwriter
 1944 – Dennis Wilson, American musician (d. 1983)
 1944 - Chris Hillman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1945 - Roberta Bondar, Canadian astronaut
 1949 – Jeff Bridges, American actor
 1949 - Pamela Stephenson, New Zealand-born actress and psychologist
1951  1975 
 1951 – Gary Rossington, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
 1951 - Patricia Wettig, American actress and playwright
 1953 - Jean-Marie Pfaff, Belgian footballer
 1954 - Tony Todd, American actor and movie producer
 1955 – Philip Hammond, British politician
 1955 - Cassandra Wilson, American singer
 1956 - Bernard King, American basketball player
 1956 - Nia Griffith, Welsh politician
 1957 - Eric S. Raymond, American computer programmer and author
 1959 - Christa Luding-Rothenburger, German speed skater
 1960 – Glynis Nunn, Australian athlete
 1962 - Nixon Kiprotich, Kenyan middle-distance runner
 1963 – Sergey Bubka, Ukrainian pole vaulter
 1964 – Sertab Erener, Turkish singer
 1964 - Marisa Tomei, American actress
 1965 - Carlos Carvalhal, Portuguese footballer and manager
 1965 - Alex de la Iglesia, Spanish movie director, screenwriter and producer
 1965 – Ulf Kirsten, German footballer
 1966 - Fred Armisen, American actor, writer, producer, director, musician and comedian
1969 – Jay-Z, American rapper
 1970 - Kevin Sussman, American actor
 1972 – Jassen Cullimore, Canadian ice hockey player
 1973 – Tyra Banks, American model
 1974 - Tadahito Iguchi, Japanese baseball player
From 1976 
 1976 – Mbo Mpenza, Belgian footballer
 1979 – Jay DeMerit, American footballer
 1982 – Waldo Ponce, Chilean footballer
 1984 – Lindsay Felton, American actress
 1984 - Lauren London, American actress
 1984 - Brooke Adams, American wrestler and model
 1985 - Krista Siegfrids, Finnish singer
 1986 - Kaija Udras, Estonian skier
 1987 – Orlando Brown, American actor
 1988 - Andriy Pylyavskyi, Ukrainian footballer
 1988 - Mario Maurer, Thai actor and singer
 1990 - Igor Sjunin, Estonian triple jumper
 1990 - Lukman Haruna, Nigerian footballer
 1992 - Jean-Claude Iranzi, Rwandan footballer
 1992 - Guan Xueting, Chinese ice dancer
 1995 - Dina Asher-Smith, English track-and-field athlete
 1996 - Diogo Jota, Portuguese footballer

Deaths
Up to 1900 
 749 - John of Damascus, Syrian monk, priest and saint (b. 676)
 771 – Carloman, Frankish ruler
 1075 - Anno II, Archbishop of Cologne (b. 1010)
 1123 – Omar Khayyam, Persian poet, philosopher, astronomer and mathematician (b. 1048)
 1214 – William the Lion, King of Scotland (b. 1143)
 1334 – Pope John XXII (b. 1249)
 1576 - George Joachim Rheticus, Austrian-Slovakian mathematician (b. 1544)
 1609 - Alexander Hume, Scottish poet (b. 1560)
 1642 – Cardinal Richelieu (b. 1885)
 1679 – Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher (b. 1588)
 1680 - Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician, mathematician and theologian (b. 1616)
 1696 – Empress Meisho of Japan (b. 1624)
 1798 – Luigi Galvani, Italian physicist (b. 1737)
 1828 – Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1770)
 1850 – William Sturgeon, British physicist and inventor (b. 1783)
 1891 - Frederick Whitaker, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1812)
 1893 – John Tyndall, Irish physicist (b. 1820)
1894 - Leon Ribbett, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1836)
 1897 - Griffith Rhys Jones, Welsh conductor (b. 1834)
1901  2000 
 1902 - Charles Dow, American journalist (b. 1851)
 1916 - Preston Lea, Governor of New Jersey (b. 1841)
 1926 - Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian poet (b. 1861)
 1935 – Charles Robert Richet, French physiologist, won the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1850)
 1935 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian violinist, composer and conductor (b. 1864)
 1937 - Wilbur L. Adams, Governor of Delaware (b. 1884)
 1938 - Tamanishiki San'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1903)
 1942 - Juhan Kukk, Estonian politician (b. 1885)
 1945 – Thomas Hunt Morgan, American geneticist and embryologist (b. 1866)
 1967 - Bert Lahr, American actor and singer (b. 1895)
 1971 - Shunryu Suzuki, Japanese-American spiritual teacher (b. 1904)
 1975 – Hannah Arendt, German philosopher (b. 1906)
 1976 – Benjamin Britten, English composer (b. 1913)
 1976 - Tommy Bolin, American guitarist (b. 1951)
 1980 – Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934)
 1980 – Stanislawa Walasiewicz, Polish athlete (b. 1911)
1984 - Jack Mercer, American animator, screenwriter, voice actor and singer (b. 1910)
 1987 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American movie director (b. 1897)
 1993 – Frank Zappa, American musician (b. 1940)
 2000 - Henck Arron, 1st Prime Minister of Suriname (b. 1936)
From 2001 
 2004 - Elizabeth Azcona Cranwell, Argentine poet and translator (b. 1933)
 2007 – Pimp C, American rapper (b. 1973)
 2008 - Forrest J Ackerman, American science fiction publisher (b. 1916)
 2009 – Eddie Fatu, professional wrestler better known as Umaga (b. 1973)
 2011 – Dev Anand, Indian actor, director and producer (b. 1923)
 2011 – Socrates, Brazilian footballer (b. 1954)
 2011 - Hubert Sumlin, American blues guitarist (b. 1931)
 2011 – Matti Yrjana Joensuu, Finnish crime fiction writer (b. 1948)
 2012 - Miguel Calero, Colombian footballer (b. 1971)
 2012 – Besse Cooper, American supercentenarian, oldest person in the world from June 21, 2011 (b. 1896)
 2013 - Joana Raspall i Juanola, Catalan writer (b. 1913)
 2014 - Claudia Emerson, American poet (b. 1957)
 2014 - V. R. Krishna Iyer, Indian judge (b. 1914)
 2014 - Lynne Kosky, Australian politician (b. 1958)
 2014 - Jeremy Thorpe, English politician (b. 1929)
 2015 - Bill Bennett, Canadian politician, Premier of British Columbia (b. 1932)
2015 - Robert Loggia, American actor (b. 1930)
 2015 - Yossi Sarid, Israeli politician (b. 1940)
 2015 - Dag Skogheim, Norwegian writer (b. 1928)
 2015 - Erik De Vlaeminck, Belgian cyclist (b. 1945)
 2016 - Gotlib, French comics artist (b. 1934)
 2017 - Jimmy Hood, Scottish politician (b. 1948)
 2017 - Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor (b. 1938)
 2017 - Christine Keeler, English model (b. 1942)
 2017 - Manuel Marín, Spanish politician (b. 1949)
 2017 - Ali Abdullah Saleh, President of Yemen (b. 1942)
 2017 - Carles Santos, Spanish pianist (b. 1940)
 2017 - Rudolph G. Wilson, American professor, storyteller, writer and public speaker (b. 1935)
 2018 - Kadyrzhan Batyrov, Kyrgyz businessman and political activist (b. 1956)
 2018 - Selma Engel-Wijnberg, Dutch Holocaust survivor (b. 1922)
 2018 - Nika Rurua, Georgian politician (b. 1968)
 2019 - Thomas Elsaesser, German film historian and critic (b. 1943)
 2019 - Leonard Goldberg, American film and television producer (b. 1934)
2019 - Rosa Morena, Spanish flamenco pop singer and actress (b. 1941)
 2019 - Margaret Morgan Lawrence, American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst (b. 1914)
 2019 - Bob Willis, English cricketer (b. 1949)
Observances 
 Navy Day (India and Italy)
 Miners' Day (Poland)
 Thai Environment Day
 Tupou I Day (Tonga)
 St. Barbara - Christian Saint

December 04
Up to 1900 
1082 - Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
1484 – Pope Innocent VIII writes a Papal Bull that sets the inquisition into full swing and leads to the deaths hundreds of thousands of people accused of being witches
1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
1496 - King Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree of expulsion of "heretics" from the country.
1560 – Francis II of France dies and is succeeded by Charles IX of France.
1757 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Leuthen - Frederick II of Prussia leads Prussian forces to a decisive victory over Austrian forces under Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine.
1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale (he later founded  Christie's, the world's oldest auction house).
1776 – At the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, the Phi Beta Kappa is founded as the first scholastic  fraternity in the United States.