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1792 - George Washington is re-elected President of the United States by the Electoral College.
1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes a seat in the United States House of Representatives.
1847 – Jefferson Davis enters the United States Senate.
1848 – California gold rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1873 – In Boston, Massachusetts, Warren Avenue Baptist Church sexton Thomas Piper strangles and beats to death his first victim, Bridget Landregan (the press later dubbed the then unknown serial killer "The Boston Belfry Murderer").
1876 - The Brooklyn Theater Fire kills 278 people in New York City.
1901  2000 
1916 - Prime Minister of the United Kingdom H. H. Asquith resigns.
1917 - Sidonio Pais takes power in Portugal.
1920 - Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.
1926 – Sergei Eisenstein's movie Battleship Potemkin debuts.
1932 – German physicist Albert Einstein granted a visa
1933 – Prohibition ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 3/4th of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had outlawed alcohol in the United States).
1934 – Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Ethiopia (it took four days to capture the city).
1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution.
1939 - The remains of Pedro II of Brazil, who was removed in a republican coup in 1889, are taken back to Brazil and reburied on the 48th anniversary of his death, and just over 50 years after losing power.
1941 – The nonfiction book Sea of Cortez by John Steinbeck is published (Steinbeck used knowledge gained writing this book to develop the marine biologist character Doc in Cannery Row).
1945 – Flight 19, a United States Navy training flight, was lost in the Bermuda triangle.
1952 – The Abbott and Costello Show starring comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, debuts.
1952 - London's "Great Smog" begins.
1955 – The trade unions American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations decide to merge and form the AFL-CIO.
1958 – Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the UK by the Queen when she dials a call from Bristol to Edinburgh and speaks to the Lord Provost.  
1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon of Saugerties, New York is given the first Medal of Honor of the war.
1969 - The four node ARPANET network is established.
1974 – The last new episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast on the BBC.
1978 – The Soviet Union signs a "friendship treaty" with the communist government of Afghanistan.
1979 – Sonia Johnson is formally excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her outspoken criticism of the church concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
1992 – Kent Conrad of North Dakota resigns his seat in the United States Senate and is sworn into the other seat from North Dakota, becoming the only US Senator ever to have held two seats on the same day.
1983 - Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina.
1993 – Helmut Zilk, Mayor of Vienna, is injured by a letter bomb.
From 2001 
2003 - The Icelandic language Wikipedia publishes its first articles.
2005 - The Lake Tanganyika earthquake occurs.
2005 – The United Kingdom Civil Partnership Act enters effect.
2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the Government of Fiji in a coup. Jona Senilagakali is installed as Prime Minister, a post that he holds for a month.
2007 - A gunman shoots 8 people dead at Westroads Mall, Omaha, Nebraska, with an assault rifle, before killing himself.
2013 - Former South African President Nelson Mandela dies at the age of 95. See Death and state funeral of Nelson Mandela.
2016 - Prime Minister of New Zealand John Key announces his resignation.
2017 - Austria's highest court rules in favour of same-sex marriage.
2017 - The International Olympic Committee bans Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, for doping offences.

Births
Up to 1850 
852 - Zhu Wen, Chinese Emperor of the Later Liang Dynasty (d. 912)
1377 – Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402)
1443 – Pope Julius II (d. 1513)
1495 - Nicolas Cleynaerts, Flemish philologist (d. 1542)
1537 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Ashikaga shogun (d. 1597)
1547 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)
1595 - Henry Lawes, English composer (d. 1662)
1661 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Mortimer, English statesman (d. 1724)
1666 - Francesco Scarlatti, Italian composer (d. 1741)
1687 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
1782 – Martin Van Buren, 8th President of the United States (d. 1862)
1792 - Andres de Santa Cruz, President of Peru (d. 1865)
1803 – Fyodor Tyutchev, Russian poet (d. 1873)
1820 - Afanasy Fet, Russian poet (d. 1892)
1822 – Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, American educator, first president of Radcliffe College (d. 1907)
1825 - E. Marlitt, German writer (d. 1887)
1829 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 4th Premier of Quebec (d. 1908)
1830 – Christina Rossetti, English poet (d. 1894)
1839 – George Armstrong Custer, American general (d. 1876)
1841 – Marcus Daly, American mining tycoon (d. 1900)
1850 - Alexander Girardi, Austrian actor and tenor (d. 1918)
1851  1900 
1855 – C. Hart Merriam, ornithologist (d. 1942)
1859 - John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, English admiral, 2nd Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1935)
1861 - Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1863 - Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician (d. 1933)
1867 - Antti Aarne, Finnish folklorist (d. 1925)
1867 – Jozef Pilsudski, Polish politician (d. 1935)
1868 - Arnold Sommerfeld, German physicist (d. 1951)
1870 – Vitezslav Novák, composer (d. 1949)
1872 – Harry Nelson Pillsbury, chess player (d. 1906)
1879 – Clyde Cessna, founder Cessna Aircraft Company (d. 1954)
1886 – Rose Wilder Lane, American writer, reporter (d. 1968)
1890 – David Bomberg, painter (d. 1957)
1890 – Fritz Lang, movie director (d. 1976)
1894 - Charles Roberts Swart, State President of South Africa (d. 1982)
1895 - Elbert Frank Cox, American mathematician and academic (d. 1969)
1896 – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Czech doctor, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1984)
1897 - Gershom Scholem, Jewish theologian and religious historian (d. 1982)
1898 – Grace Moore, American singer, opera star  (died in plane crash 1947)
1901  1925 
1901 – Werner Heisenberg, German physicist (d. 1976)
1901 – Walt Disney, American movie producer (d. 1966)
1901 - Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (d. 1980)
1902 - Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-British screenwriter, movie director and producer (d. 1988)
1902 – Strom Thurmond, American politician (d. 2003)
1903 – Johannes Heesters, Dutch-born singer and actor (d. 2011)
1903 – Cecil Frank Powell, English physicist (d. 1969)
1905 - Gus Mancuso, American baseball player, coach and sportscaster (d. 1984)
1906 – Otto Preminger, Austrian-American director, producer (d. 1986)
1907 - Lin Biao, Chinese politician (d. 1971)
1911 - Wladyslaw Szpilman, Polish pianist and composer (d. 2000)
1914 – Hans Hellmut Kirst, German writer (d. 1989)
1916 - Hilary Koprowski, Polish virologist (d. 2013)
1917 - Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress and singer (d. 2011)
1925 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (d. 1980)
1926  1950 
1927 – Bhumibol Adulyadej, King of Thailand (d. 2016)
1930 - Vladimir Curbet, Moldovan choreographer (d. 2017)
1930 - Roger Vonlanthen, Swiss footballer
1932 – Little Richard, American singer (d. 2020)
1932 – Sheldon Lee Glashow, American physicist
1932 - Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs, Czech-born English politician
1932 - Fazu Aliyeva, Russian poet and journalist (d. 2016)
1934 - Hassan Akesbi, Moroccan footballer
1934 – Joan Didion, American writer
1935 – Calvin Trillin, writer
1938 - JJ Cale, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1940 – Peter Pohl, Swedish writer
1940 - Boris Ignatiev, Russian footballer and manager
1942 - Klaus Sammer, German footballer
1943 – Eva Joly, French-Norwegian magistrate
1943 - Jim Marrs, American author and conspiracy theorist (d. 2017)
1944 – Jeroen Krabbé, actor
1945 – Moshe Katsav, former President of Israel
1946 – José Carreras, Spanish tenor
1946 - Andy Kim, Canadian singer-songwriter
1947 – Bruce Golding, former Prime Minister of Jamaica
1947 – Jim Messina, musician
1947 – Jim Plunkett, American football player
1948 - Russell Trood, Australian politician and academic (d. 2017)
1949 - David Manning, British diplomat
1949 - Abdullah Senussi, Sudanese-Libyan military officer
1951  1975 
1951 - Link Byfield, Canadian politician (d. 2015)
1954 - Hanif Kureishi, English writer
1956 – Klaus Allofs, German footballer
1956 - Brian Backer, American actor
1956 – Krystian Zimerman, pianist
1958 - Dynamite Kid, British professional wrestler (d. 2018)
1960 - Frans Adelaar, Dutch footballer
1961 - Ralf Dujmovits, German mountaineer
1962 – José Cura, Argentine tenor
1963 - Doctor Dre, American TV and radio host
1963 - Alberto Nisman, Argentine lawyer (d. 2015)
1963 - Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards, British ski jumper
1965 - John Rzeznik, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
1966 – Patricia Kaas, French singer
1968 – Margaret Cho, American comedienne and actress
1969 - Sajid Javid, British politician
1970 - Tim Hetherington, British photojournalist (d. 2011)
1971 – Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, German politician, former Defence Minister
1971 - Ashia Hansen, British athlete
1973 - Sorin Grindeanu, former Prime Minister of Romania
1973 – Lubos Motl, physicist
1973 - Andrei Krasnopjorov, Estonian footballer
1975 – Ronnie O'Sullivan, English snooker player
1975 - Paula Patton, American actress
From 1976 
1976 - Amy Acker, American actress
1978 – Marcelo Zalayeta, Uruguayan footballer
1979 – Matteo Ferrari, Italian footballer
1979 - Gareth McAuley, Irish footballer
1979 - Nick Stahl, American actor
1980 - Ibrahim Maalouf, Lebanese-French trumpeter and composer
1982 – Keri Hilson, American singer
1982 – Eddy Curry, NBA Player, (Chicago Bulls)
1982 - Ján Mucha, Slovakian footballer
1984 - Abdelkader Ghezzal, Algerian footballer
1984 - Faouzi Chaouchi, Algerian footballer
1984 - Rais M'Bolhi, Algerian footballer
1985 - Shikhar Dhawan, Indian cricketer
1985 – Josh Smith, NBA Player (Atlanta Hawks)
1985 – Frankie Muniz, American actor
1987 – James Argent, British singer and radio host
1988 - Ross Bagley, American actor
1988 - Miralem Sulejmani, Serbian footballer
1988 - Joanna Rowsell, British cyclist
1988 - Tsukasa Shiotani, Japanese footballer
1989 - Kwon Yu-ri, South Korean singer, dancer and actress
1990 - Cléber Reis, Brazilian footballer
1993 - Ross Barkley, English footballer
1994 - Ondrej Duda, Slovakian footballer
1995 - Anthony Martial, French footballer
2006 – Knut, world famous polar bear (d. 2011)
Up to 1950 
 63 BC - Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura, Roman statesman
 1082 - Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona
 1355 - John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)
 1560 – Francis II of France (b. 1544)
 1570 – Johan Friis, Danish statesman (b. 1494)
 1663 - Severo Bonini, Italian composer (b. 1582)
 1770 - James Stirling, Scottish mathematician (b. 1692)
 1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (b. 1756)
 1860 - Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, German historian and statesman (b. 1785)
 1870 – Alexandre Dumas, French writer (b. 1802)
 1891 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
 1892 - Daniel D. T. Farnsworth, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1819)
 1916 - Gustav Sack, German poet and dramatist (b. 1885)
 1918 – Schalk Willem Burger, South African politician (b. 1852)
 1924 - Martin H. Glynn, Governor of New York (b. 1871)
 1925 – Wladislaw Reymont, Polish writer (b. 1867)
 1926 – Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
 1931 - Vachel Lindsay, American poet (b. 1879)
1940 – Jan Kubelík, Czech violinist (b. 1880)
 1950 – Sri Aurobindo, Indian spiritual figure (b. 1872)
1951  2000 
 1951 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (b. 1889)
 1953 - Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1911)
 1955 - Glenn L. Martin, American pilot and businessman (b. 1886)
 1963 – Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Pakistani politician (b. 1892)
 1965 – Joseph Erlanger, American doctor, won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874)
 1969 – Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885)
 1973 – Robert Watson-Watt, Scottish inventor (b. 1892)
 1977 - Katherine Milhous, American illustrator and author (b. 1894)
 1989 - John Pritchard, English conductor (b. 1921)
 1991 - Richard Speck, American serial killer (b. 1941)
 1998 - Albert Gore, Sr., American lawyer and politician (b. 1907)
From 2001 
 2002 – Ne Win, Burmese political leader (b. 1911)
 2005 - Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (b. 1905)
 2007 – Karlheinz Stockhausen, German composer (b. 1928)
 2008 – Patriarch Alexius II of Russia (b. 1929)
 2008 - Constantin Ticu Dimitrescu, Romanian politician (b. 1928)
 2008 - Nina Foch, Dutch-American actress (b. 1924)
 2009 – Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician (b. 1926)
 2009 – Alfred Hrdlicka, Austrian artist (b. 1928)
 2011 – Violetta Villas, Belgian-born Polish singer, songwriter, composer and actress (b. 1938)
 2012 - Dave Brubeck, American musician, composer and bandleader (b. 1920)
 2012 - Oscar Niemeyer, Brazilian architect (b. 1907)
 2012 - Elisabeth Murdoch, Australian philanthropist (b. 1909)
 2013 - Fred Bassetti, American architect (b. 1917)
 2013 - Barry Jackson, English actor (b. 1938)
 2013 - Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, Anti-Apartheid activist, statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winner (b. 1918)
 2013 - Colin Wilson, English writer (b. 1931)
2014 - Manuel De Sica, Italian composer (b. 1949)
 2014 - Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish politician (b. 1931)
 2014 - Queen Fabiola of Belgium, Spanish-born Queen Consort of Belgium (b. 1928)
 2015 - William McIlvanney, Scottish writer (b. 1936)
 2015 - Siddhi Savetsila, Thai politician (b. 1919)
 2015 - Dimitar Iliev Popov, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1927)
 2016 - Geydar Dzhemal, Russian Islamic revolutionist and activist (b. 1947)
 2016 - Jayalalithaa, Indian actress and politician, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1948)
 2017 - August Ames, Canadian-American pornographic actress (b. 1994)
 2017 - Jean d'Ormesson, French writer and journalist (b. 1925)
 2017 - Henning Jensen, Danish footballer (b. 1949)
 2017 - Michael I of Romania (b. 1921)
 2017 - Maurice Green, American virologist (b. 1926)
 2017 - Johnny Hallyday, French rock musician (b. 1943)
 2018 - Dynamite Kid, British professional wrestler (b. 1958)
 2018 - Thor Hansen, Norwegian poker player (b. 1947)
2018 - Harry W. Shlaudeman, American politician (b. 1926)
 2019 - Marvin Goodfriend, American economist (b. 1950)
 2019 - Robert Walker, American actor (b. 1940)
Observances 
 Saint Nicholas Eve - Including Sinterklaas in the Netherlands
 The King's Birthday (Thailand)
 International Volunteer Day

December 05
Events

Up to 1900 
1060 - Bela I of Hungary is crowned king.
1240 - Mongol Empire's invasion of the Rus': Kiev under Danylo of Halych and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols.
1534 – The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers.
1745 - Charles Edward Stuart's army begins its retreat during the Second Jacobite Rising, after getting as far south as Derby.
1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
1865 – The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
1877 - The first edition of the Washington Post is published.
1884 – The Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is completed.
1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host motorised taxi cabs.
1901  1950 
1905 - In France, the senate votes for separation of church and state.
1907 - A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia kills 362 workers.
1916 – David Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1917 – Finland declares its independence from Russia.
1917 - A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, kills over 1,900 people.
1917 - World War I: The 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.
1923 - The United Kingdom's most recent December general election (until 2019) is held. 
1928 - The Colombian government sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
1941 - World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War.
1947 - The Everglades National Park is created in Florida.
1951  2000 
1953 - Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
1956 - A violent water polo match is played between Hungary and the Soviet Union during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, shortly after the Soviet Union crsuhed the Hungarian Revolution.
1956 - At the 1956 Summer Olympics, 14-year-old swimmer Sandra Morgan becomes the youngest Olympic champion until that point.
1957 - Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion on Vanguard TV3 ends the first US attempt to launch a satellite  into Earth's orbit.
1967 - Adrian Kantrowitz performs US' first heart transplant. 
1971 – Pakistan ends diplomatic ties with India following New Delhi's recognition of Bangladesh.
1973 – The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States (on November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3).
1975 - The Troubles: Fleeing from police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street in London, beginning a six-day siege.
1977 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
1978 – Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
1982 - The Troubles: The Irish National Liberation Army bomb a pub frequently used by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland, killing 11 soldiers and 6 civilians.
1985 - The Boston Celtics pick up their only home loss of the 1985-86 NBA season, losing to the Portland Trail Blazers at Boston Garden.  They establish the best single-season NBA home court record of all time.
1988 – The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
1989 – At the École Polytechnique in Montreal, an anti-feminist gunman shoots and kills 14 young women.
1991 – The Yugoslav People's Army bombards Dubrovnik, Croatia, after laying siege to the city in May.
1992 – The burning of the Babr Masjid Mosque in Ayodhya, India by Hindu extremists begins.
1997 - A Russian Antonov An-24 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia, killing 67 people.
1998 - Hugo Chávez is elected President of Venezuela.
From 2001 
2001 – In Canada, the province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador.
2004 - The US Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, is bombed, killing 12 people.
2005 - Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
2005 - An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing 84 people on board and 44 on the ground.
2005 – David Cameron becomes the leader of the British Conservative Party, succeeding Michael Howard.
2006 – NASA reveals photographs of Mars from the Mars Global Surveyor, suggesting a liquid presence on the planet.
2008 – Riots erupt in Greece after the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a police officer.
2011 - Elio Di Rupo becomes Prime Minister of Belgium. The country had, until then, been without an official government for over a year-and-a-half.
2013 - The groups are drawn for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.
Up to 1900 
1285 – King Ferdinand IV of Castile (d. 1312)
1421 – Henry VI, King of England (d. 1471)
1478 - Baldassare Castiglione, Italian diplomat and author (d. 1529)
1550 - Orazio Vecchi, Italian composer (d. 1605)
1608 - George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, English soldier and politician (d. 1670)
1640 - Claude Fleury, French historian (d. 1723)
1642 – Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)
1685 - Princess Marie Adelaide of Savoy (d. 1712)
1721 - James Elphinston, Scottish educator and language expert (d. 1809)
1721 - Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, French lawyer, botanist and politician (d. 1794)
1730 - Sophie von La Roche, German writer (d. 1807)
1778 - Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, French chemist and physicist (d. 1850)
1792 – King William II of the Netherlands (d. 1849)
1803 - Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (d. 1829)
1805 - Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, French magician (d. 1861)
1805 - Richard Hanson, Australian politician, 4th Premier of South Australia (d. 1876)
1823 – Max Mueller, German linguist and scholar of Sanskrit (d. 1900)
1835 - Germanus V of Constantinople (d. 1920)
1841 – Frédéric Bazille, French painter (d. 1870)
1844 - Petko Voyvoda, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1900)
1853 - Haraprasad Shastri, Indian historian and scholar (d. 1931)
1869 - Otto Nordenskiöld, Swedish geologist (d. 1928)
1872 - William S. Hart, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1946)
1875 - Albert Bond Lambert, American golfer and pilot (d. 1946)
1876 - Fred Duesenberg, German-American businessman (d. 1932)
1881 - Helen Aitchison, British tennis player (d. 1947)
1884 - Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, 2nd President of Israel (d. 1963)
1886 - Joyce Kilmer, American poet (d. 1918)
1887 - Lynn Fontanne, British-American actress (d. 1983)
1887 - Joseph Lamb, American composer (d. 1960)
1889 - Max Pulver, Swiss psychologist and writer (d. 1952)
1890 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (d. 1951)
1892 - Osbert Sitwell, English author (d. 1969)
1896 – Ira Gershwin, American lyricist (d. 1983)
1898 – Alfred Eisenstaedt, German-born photographer (d. 1995)
1898 – Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist (d. 1987)
1900 - Agnes Moorehead, American actress (d. 1974)
1901  1925 
1904 – Eve Curie, French writer (d. 2007)
1907 - Giovanni Ferrari, Italian footballer (d. 1982)
1908 - Pierre Graber, Swiss politician (d. 2003)
1908 – Baby Face Nelson, American bank robber (d. 1936)
1913 - Mykola Amosov, Russian-Ukrainian heart surgeon and author (d. 2002)
1913 - Karl Haas, German-American pianist, conductor and radio host (d. 2005)
1913 - Eleanor Holm, American swimmer (d. 2004)
1916 – Kristjan Eldjarn, 3rd President of Iceland (d. 1982)
1916 - Yekaterina Budanova, Soviet pilot (d. 1943)
1917 - Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman (d. 2008)
1917 - Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese political leader (d. 1977)
1919 - Paul de Man, Belgian literary critic and philosopher (d. 1983)
1920 – Dave Brubeck, American musician and composer (d. 2012)
1920 – George Porter, British chemist (d. 2002)
1921 - Nobuo Matsunaga, Japanese footballer (d. 2007)
1921 - Piero Piccioni, Italian lawyer and composer (d. 2004)
1922 - Guy Thys, Belgian footballer (d. 2003)
1922 - Benjamin A. Gilman, American politician (d. 2016)
1924 - Wally Cox, American actor (d. 1973)
1925 - Andy Robustelli, American football player (d. 2011)
1926  1950 
1926 - Marie Takvam, Norwegian writer (d. 2008)
1928 - Bobby Van, American actor and singer (d. 1980)
1929 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, German-Austrian conductor (d. 2016)
1929 - Alain Tanner, Swiss movie director
1930 – Daniel Lisulo, Zambian Prime Minister (d. 2000)
1931 - Zeki Muren, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1996)
1932 - Kamleshwar, Indian author, screenwriter and critic (d. 2007)
1933 – Henryk Gorecki, Polish composer (d. 2010)
1933 - Daniel J. Kutyna, American general
1934 - Nick Bockwinkel, American wrestler (d. 2015)
1935 - Jean Lapointe, Canadian actor, singer and politician
1936 - Bill Ashton, English saxophonist and composer
1937 – Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (d. 2006)
1938 - Patrick Bauchau, Belgian actor
1940 - Richard Edlund, American cinematographer
1942 – Peter Handke, Austrian writer
1945 - Shekhar Kapur, Indian director and producer
1946 - Willy van de Kuijlen, Dutch footballer
1946 - Martin Moore-Bick, English lawyer
1947 - Lawrence Cannon, Canadian politician
1948 – Keke Rosberg, Finnish racing driver
1948 - Don Nickles, American politician
1948 - Marius Müller-Westernhagen, German actor and musician
1949 - Linda Barnes, American mystery writer
1949 - Peter Willey, English cricketer
1950 - Helen Liddell, Baroness Lidell of Coatdyke, Scottish politician
1951  1975 
1952 - Craig Newmark, American computer programmer and businessman
1952 - Edward Etzel, American competitive shooter
1953 - Geoff Hoon, English politician
1953 - Tom Hulce, American actor
1955 - Anne Begg, Scottish politician
1955 - Steven Wright, American comedian and actor
1955 – Tony Woodcock, English footballer
1956 – Peter Buck, American musician in R.E.M.
1956 - Randy Rhoads, American musician (d. 1982)
1957 – Andrew Cuomo, American politician, 56th Governor of New York
1957 - Arabella Weir, British actress and comedienne
1958 – Nick Park, British movie maker and animator
1959 – Satoru Iwata,  Japanese president and CEO of Nintendo (d. 2015)
1961 - David Lovering, American drummer
1962 - Janine Turner, American actress
1965 - Gordon Durie, Scottish footballer and manager
1967 - Judd Apatow, American director, producer, screenwriter and photographer
1969 - Torri Higginson, Canadian actress
1970 - Ulf Ekberg, Swedish singer-songwriter, keyboardist and producer
1970 - Adrian Fenty, American politician, 6th Mayor of the District of Columbia
1970 - Michaela Schaffrath, German actress
1970 - Mark Reckless, English politician, UKIP MP
1971 - Richard Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
1974 – Jens Pulver, American mixed martial artist
1975 – Ashin (陳信宏 Chen Hsin Hung), singer from Taiwanese rock band Mayday
1975 – Andrea Agnelli, Italian businessman
From 1976 
1976 – Lindsay Price, American actress
1976 - Alicia Machado, Venezuelan actress and singer
1976 - Colleen Haskell, American actress and producer
1977 – Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer
1978 - Ramiro Pez, Argentine-Italian rugby player
1979 – Tim Cahill, Australian soccer player
1979 – Francisco Yeste, Spanish footballer
1980 - Steve Lovell, English footballer
1980 - Sabrina Mockenhaupt, German athlete
1981 – Federico Balzaretti, Italian footballer
1982 – Alberto Contador, Spanish cyclist
1982 - Susie Wolff, Scottish racing driver
1985 - Dulce Maria, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
1985 - Rudra Pratap Singh, Indian cricketer
1986 – Matt Niskanen, American ice hockey player
1986 - Georgia Horsley, English model
1986 - Sean Edwards, English racing driver (d. 2013)
1988 - Sandra Nurmsalu, Estonian singer
1990 - Tamira Paszek, Austrian tennis player
1991 - Coco Vandeweghe, American tennis player
1992 - Viktor Antipin, Russian ice hockey player
1992 – Britt Assombalonga, Congolese footballer
1992 – Johnny Manziel, American football player
1993 - Elian Gonzalez, Cuban figure in child custody case
1994 - Giannis Antetokounmpo, Greek basketball player
 1994 – Raheem Sterling, English footballer
1995 - Joy Gruttman, German singer
1996 - Stefanie Scott, American actress and singer
1997 - Sabrina Ionescu, American basketball player
2000 - Pablo Urdangarín y de Borbón, Spanish royal
Up to 1900 
343 – Saint Nicholas
735 - Prince Toneri of Japan (b. 1676)
1185 – Afonso I of Portugal (b. 1109)
1352 – Pope Clement VI (b. 1290)
1550 – Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Flemish painter (b. 1502)
1672 - John II Casimir Vasa, King of Poland (b. 1609)
1675 - John Lightfoot, English churchman, academic and scholar (b. 1602)
1748 - Nicholas Rowe, English poet and playwright (b. 1674)
1771 - Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Italian anatomist (b. 1682)
1779 - Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter (b. 1899)
1799 - Joseph Black, Scottish physicist and chemist (b. 1728)
1855 - William John Swainson, English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
1862 - Claiborne Fox Jackson, Governor of Missouri (b. 1806)
1868 – August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
1879 - Erastus Brigham Bigelow, American inventor (b. 1814)
1882 - Alfred Escher, Swiss businessman and politician (b. 1819)
1882 – Anthony Trollope, British writer (b. 1815)
1889 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808)
1901  2000 
1921 - Jesse Carleton, American golfer (b. 1862)
1924 - Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and screenwriter (b. 1863)
1926 - Claude Monet, French painter (b. 1840)
1949 – Lead Belly, American musician (b. 1889)
1951 - Harold Ross, American journalist (b. 1892)
1956 – Bhimrao Ambedkar, Indian politician and social activist (b. 1891)
1961 - Frantz Fanon, Central African writer and psychiatrist (b. 1925)
1972 - Janet Munro, English actress (b. 1934)
1976 – Joao Goulart, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
1983 – Raymond Roseliep, American poet (b. 1917)
1983 - Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903)
1985 - Carroll Cole, American serial killer (b. 1938) (executed)
1988 – Roy Orbison, American singer, guitarist, and songwriter (b. 1936)
1989 - John Payne, American actor (b. 1912)
1989 - Marc Lepine, Canadian gunman (b. 1964)
1990 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1903)
1991 – Richard Stone, British economist (b. 1913)
1993 – Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
From 2001 
2001 - Peter Blake, New Zealand yachtsman, sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948)
2003 – Carlos Arana Osorio, Guatemalan politician (b. 1918)
2004 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian footballer (b. 1921)
2005 – Devan Nair, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923)
2005 - Charly Gaul, Luxembourg cyclist (b. 1932)
2007 - Katy French, Irish model (b. 1983)
2008 – Sunny von Bülow, American heiress (b. 1932)
2008 – Alexander Grigoropoulos, Greek youth murdered by a policeman in Athens
2010 – Don Meredith, American football player and television broadcaster (b. 1938)
2010 – Hugues Cuenod, Swiss tenor (b. 1902)
2011 - Barbara Orbison, widow of Roy Orbison (b. 1950)
2012 - Miguel Abia Biteo, Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea (b. 1961)
2013 - Stan Tracey, British jazz pianist and trombonist (b. 1926)
2013 - Nya Quesada, Argentine actress (b. 1919)
2014 - Fred Hawkins, American golfer (b. 1923)
2014 - Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game pioneer, inventor and engineer (b. 1922)
2015 - Holly Woodlawn, Puerto Rican actress (b. 1946)
2015 - Nicholas Smith, English actor (b. 1934)
2015 - Franzl Lang, German yodeller (b. 1930)
2016 - Peter Vaughan, English actor (b. 1923)
2017 - Johnny Hallyday, French rock musician and singer (b. 1943)
2017 - Conrad Brooks, American actor (b. 1931)
2017 - William H. Gass, American novelist, critic and philosophy professor (b. 1924)
2017 - Cy Young, American javelin thrower (b. 1928)
2018 - José de Anchieta Júnior, Brazilian politician (b. 1965)
2018 - Ace Cannon, American saxophonist (b. 1934)
2018 - José Castillo, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1981)
2018 - Larry Hennig, American professional wrestler (b. 1936)
2018 - Joseph Joffo, French writer (b. 1931)
2018 - Jim Meehan, American poker player (b. 1952)
2018 - Pete Shelley, English singer-songwriter (b. 1955)
2018 - Luis Valbuena, Venezuelan baseball player (b. 1985)
2019 - Piet Huyg, Dutch footballer (b. 1951)
2019 - Irena Laskowska, Polish actress (b. 1925)
2019 - Ron Leibman, American actor (b. 1937)
2019 - Kimmi Lewis, American politician (b. 1957)
2019 - Stoyanka Mutafova, Bulgarian actress (b. 1922)
Holidays and observances 
 Eastern Catholic Church – St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra – Patron of the Byzantine Catholic Church
 Canada – National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women
 Finland – Independence Day (from Russia, 1917)
 Spain – Spanish Constitution of 1978

December 06
Events

Up to 1900 
 43 BC - Roman writer, lawyer and statesman Cicero is assassinated.
 574 - Roman Emperor Justin II retires.
 1703 - The Great Storm of 1703 in Great Britain makes landfall.
 1724 – religious troubles were followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
 1732 – The Royal Opera House opens in London.
 1776 - Glibert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a general.
 1787 – Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the US Constitution.
 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.
 1869 - American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
1901  1950 
 1917 – World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
 1941 – World War II: Canada declares war on Finland, Hungary, Romania, and Japan.
 1941 – The Japanese attack the Hawaiian city of Pearl Harbor during World War II. 2,403 people are killed, 188 planes are destroyed, and 8 US ships are damaged or destroyed.
 1946 - A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia, kills 119 people.
 1949 – Chinese Civil War: The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei.
1951  2000 
 1962 - Rainier III, Prince of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
 1970 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt makes a gesture of reconciliation towards the victims of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, known as the "Kniefall", as he falls to his knees in front of the city's memorial.
 1972 - First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos escapes an assassination attempt.
 1972 - Apollo 17 launches, as the last mission to-date to fly to the Moon; On this mission, the famous "Blue Marble" photograph of the Earth is taken.
 1975 – Indonesia invades East Timor.
 1983 - An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxing down the runway at Madrid-Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.
 1987 - Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 people on board.
 1987 - The Alianza Lima air disaster occurs.
1988 – In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 people homeless.
 1988 – Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist.
 1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter.
 1999 – The RIAA files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client, on charges of copyright infringement.
From 2001 
 2003 – The newly formed Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognised.
 2006 - A tornado strikes Kensal Green, Northwest London.
 2007 - The "Hebei Spirit" oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the very large crude carrier, Hebei Spirit.
 2015 - Then-US Presidential candidate Donald Trump calls for Muslims to be banned from entering the United States.
 2016 - An earthquake in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia, kills around 100 people.
 2016 - All 47 people on board die when a Pakistan International Airlines plane crashes near Islamabad. 
 2017 - Australia legalises same-sex marriage.

Births
Up to 1900 
 521 - Columba, Irish missionary, monk and saint (d. 597)
 903 - Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Persian astronomer and author (d. 986)
 1302 - Azzone Visconti, Italian ruler (d. 1339)
 1546 – Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1567)
 1561 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyo (d. 1625)
 1598 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian artist (d. 1680)
 1627 - Countess Louise Henriette of Nassau (d. 1667)
 1637 – Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (d. 1710)
 1643 - Giovanni Battista Falda, Italian architect and engraver (d. 1678)
 1724 - Louise of Great Britain (d. 1751)
 1784 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (d. 1842)
 1801 – Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist and actor (d. 1862)
 1810 – Theodor Schwann, German biologist (d. 1882)
 1823 – Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (d. 1891)
 1830 - Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (d. 1903)
 1838 - Thomas Bent, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria (d. 1909)
1847 - Deacon White, American baseball player and manager (d. 1939)
 1860 – Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
 1863 – Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (d. 1945)
 1863 - Felix Calonder, Swiss politician (d. 1952)
 1863 - Richard Warren Sears, American businessman (d. 1914)
 1873 - Willa Cather, American writer (d. 1947)
 1879 - Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist and composer (d. 1972)
 1884 - John Carpenter, American sprinter (d. 1933)
 1885 - Mason Phelps, American golfer (d. 1945)
 1887 - Ernst Toch, Austrian-American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)
 1888 - Hamilton Fish III, American captain and politician (d. 1991)
 1889 - Gabriel Marcel, French philosopher, dramatist and critic (d. 1973)
 1891 – Fay Bainter, American actress (d. 1968)
 1900 - Christian Matras, Faroese poet (d. 1988)
1901  1950 
 1905 – Gerard Kuiper, Dutch astronomer (d. 1973)
 1908 - Slim Bryant, American musician (d. 2010)
 1909 - Nikola Vapcarov, Macedonian poet from Bulgaria (d. 1942)
 1910 - Duncan McNaughton, Canadian high jumper (d. 1998)
 1910 - Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpeter and actor (d. 1978)
 1910 - Vere Bird, 1st Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (d. 1999)
 1910 – Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian bandleader (d. 2011)
 1912 - Daniel Jones, Welsh composer (d. 1993)
 1915 – Eli Wallach, American actor (d. 2014)
 1918 - Max Merkel, Austrian footballer (d. 2006)
 1920 – Manuel Pereira da Silva, Portuguese sculptor (d. 2003)
 1920 - Tatamkulu 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)
 1924 - Jovanka Broz, First Lady of Yugoslavia (d. 2013)
 1924 – Mario Soares, former President of Portugal (d. 2017)
 1928 – Noam Chomsky, American linguist, philosopher and political writer
1930 - Christopher Nicole, English author
 1932 - Ellen Burstyn, American actress
 1933 - Krsto Papic, Croatian actor (d. 2013)
 1935 - Armando Manzanero, Mexican musician, singer and composer
 1940 - Stan Boardman, English comedian and actor
 1942 - Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)
 1943 – Sue Johnston, English actress
 1947 - Johnny Bench, American baseball player and sportscaster
 1947 - Tony Thomas, American screenwriter and producer
 1947 - Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
 1947 - Anne Fine, British author
 1948 - Gary Morris, American singer and actor
1951  1975 
 1952 – Susan Collins, American senator
 1952 - Georges Corraface, French actor and producer
 1954 - Mike Nolan, Irish singer
 1955 - Priscilla Barnes, American actress and producer
 1955 - John Watkins, Australian educator and politician
 1956 – Larry Bird, American basketball player
 1956 - Anna Soubry, English politician
 1956 - Iveta Radicova, former Prime Minister of Slovakia
 1958 - Marie Louise Coleiro Preca, President of Malta
 1959 - Barbara Wilshere, British actress
 1960 - Craig Scanlon, English guitarist and songwriter
 1962 - Alain Blondel, French decathlete
 1962 - Grecia Colmenares, Venezuelan-Argentine actress
 1962 - Imad Mughniyah, Lebanese resistance leader and freedom fighter
 1963 - Theo Snelders, Dutch footballer and coach
 1964 – Ilse Aigner, German politician
 1965 - Colin Hendry, Scottish footballer
 1965 - Jeffrey Wright, American actor and director
 1969 - Andrea Claudio Galluzzo, Italian historian and archaeologist
 1971 - Chasey Lain, American pornographic actress
1972 – Hermann Maier, Austrian skier
 1972 - Tammy Lynn Sytch, American wrestler and manager
 1973 - Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1973 – Terrell Owens, American football player
 1974 - Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer and actress
From 1976 
 1977 – Dominic Howard, English drummer (Muse)
 1977 - Luke Donald, English golfer
 1979 - Jennifer Carpenter, American actress
 1979 – Sara Bareilles, American singer
 1980 – Clemens Fritz, German footballer
 1980 – John Terry, English footballer
 1984 – Robert Kubica, the first Polish Formula One racing driver
 1984 - Aaron Gray, American basketball player
 1984 - Marko Vujin, Serbian handball player
 1985 - Dean Ambrose, American wrestler
 1987 – Aaron Carter, American singer
 1988 - Emily Browning, Australian actress
 1988 - Andrew Goudelock, American basketball player
 1989 - Nicholas Hoult, English actor
 1989 - Caleb Landry Jones, American actor
 1989 - Alessandro Marchi, Italian footballer
 1990 - Yasiel Puig, Cuban baseball player
 1990 - David Goffin, Belgian tennis player
 1990 – Urszula Radwanska, Polish tennis player
 1991 - Dori Sakurada, Japanese actor, singer and dancer
 1993 - Jasmine Villegas, American actress
 1994 - Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 43 BC – Cicero, Roman politician and writer (b. 106 BC)
 283 - Pope Eutychian
 983 – Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 955)
 1254 - Pope Innocent IV (b. 1195)
 1279 - Boleslaw V the Chaste, Polish prince (b. 1226)
 1295 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (b. 1243)
 1649 - Charles Garnier, French missionary and saint (b. 1606)
 1683 - Algernon Shirley, English philosopher and politician (b. 1623)
 1723 - Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect (b. 1677)
 1772 - Martín Sarmiento, Spanish monk, missionary, scholar and author (b. 1695)
 1793 - Joseph Bara, French soldier and drummer (b. 1779)
 1817 – William Bligh, British naval officer and Governor of New South Wales (b. 1754)
 1879 – Jon Sigurdsson, Icelandic independence campaigner (b. 1811)
 1894 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur (b. 1805)
 1899 - Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
1901  2000 
 1902 - Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (b. 1840)
 1906 - Elie Ducommun, Swiss educator and journalist (b. 1833)
 1913 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (b. 1828)
 1917 - Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1826)
 1938 - Anna Marie Hahn, German-American murderer (b. 1906)
 1947 - Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866)
 1947 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher, diplomat and educator (b. 1862)
 1970 - Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, sculptor and author (b. 1883)
 1975 - Thornton Wilder, American author and playwright (b. 1897)
 1978 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b. 1886)
 1985 – Robert Graves, English poet (b. 1895)
 1990 – Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
 1993 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 1st President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
 1993 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (b. 1913)
 1994 - J. C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
 1997 – Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (b. 1942)
From 2001 
 2005 - Lucy d'Abreu, Indian-born supercentenarian (b. 1892)
 2006 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, American diplomat (b. 1926)
 2010 - Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer and author (b. 1949)
 2011 – Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915)
 2011 - Jerry Robinson, American comic artist (b. 1922)
 2012 - Marty Reisman, American table tennis player and author (b. 1930)
 2013 - Edouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer and screenwriter (b. 1928)
 2014 - Khalil Ullah Khan, Bangladeshi actor (b. 1934)
 2014 - Mango, Italian singer, songwriter and musician (b. 1954)
 2014 - Ken Weatherwax, American actor (b. 1955)
 2015 - Ko Chun-hsiung, Taiwanese actor and producer (b. 1945)
 2015 - Shirley Stelfox, English actress (b. 1941)
 2015 - Martin E. Brooks, American actor (b. 1925)
 2016 - Greg Lake, English musician (b. 1947)
 2017 - Fred J. Doocy, American politician and banker (b. 1913)
 2017 - Ivan Korsak, Ukrainian writer and journalist (b. 1946)
 2017 - Philippe Maystadt, Belgian politician (b. 1948)
2017 - Roland Taylor, American basketball player (b. 1946)
 2018 - Belisario Betancur, Colombian politician, President of Colombia (b. 1923)
 2018 - Shmuel Flatto-Sharon, French-Israeli politician (b. 1930)
 2018 - Luigi Radice, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1935)
 2019 - Berkley Bedell, American politician and businessman (b. 1921)
 2019 - Reinhard Bonnke, German evangelist (b. 1940)
 2019 - Bump Elliott, American football player (b. 1925)
 2019 - Giuseppe Frigo, Italian politician and lawyer (b. 1935)
 2019 - Herbert Joos, German jazz trumpeter (b. 1940)
 2019 - Ali Mufuruki, Tanzanian businessman (b. 1958)
Holidays and observances 
 Saint Ambrose Feast Day
 United States – Pearl Harbor Day
 Colombia – Día de las Velitas (Day of the Candles): Festivity
 India – The Armed Forces Flag Day
 Armenia - Spitak Remembrance Day
 International Civil Aviation Day

December 07
Up to 1975 
395 - China: Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal of Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope.
757 - China: Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion.
1432 - First battle of the Lithuanian Civil War.
1626 - Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned King of Hungary.
1660 – A woman appears on an English public stage for the first time, as Desdemona, in a production of William Shakespeare's Othello.
1792 – Frankfort becomes the capital city of Kentucky.
1813 - Ludwig van Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is performed for the first time.
1864 – The Clifton Suspension Bridge in England, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is opened.
1907 – Gustav V becomes King of Sweden.
1912 - Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility of war breaking out.
1914 - World War I: A squadron of the UK's Royal Navy defeats a weaker squadron of the German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.
1922 - Northern Ireland stops being part of the Irish Free State.
1941 – World War II: Japan invades Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong and the Philippines, just after the Pearl Harbor attack. On the same day, the United States and the Republic of China declare war on Japan.
1953 – Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the start of the American 'Atoms for Peace' program.
1956 - The 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, end.
1962 - Workers at four US newspapers (later nine) go on strike for 114 days.
1963 – PanAm Flight 214, a Boeing 707, is struck by lightning in Maryland, killing all 81 people on board.
1966 – The ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200 people.
1969 - An Olympic Airways Douglas DC-6 hits a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90.
1971 – Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on the Pakistani city of Karachi.
1972 - United Airlines Flight 553, a Boeing 737, crashes after abandoning its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport, killing 45 people.
1974 – Greek voters reject a proposal to restore the Greek monarchy.
From 1976 
1980 – John Lennon is shot dead by Mark David Chapman outside the Dakota Apartment building in New York City.
1982 – December murders: In Suriname, 13 civilians and 2 military officers, opposed to the military regime of Desi Bouterse, are killed.
1987 - Frank Vitkovic shoots and kills 8 people at the Australia Post building in Melbourne, Australia, before committing suicide.
1987 - The entire Alianza Lima football team is killed in a plane crash.
1988 - A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50.
1991 – Romania's Constitution is adopted in a referendum.
1991 – Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and forming the Commonwealth of Independent States.
1993 – The North American Free Trade Agreement is signed into law by Bill Clinton.
1994 – Ethiopia adopts a new Constitution.
1994 - SWAPO wins the most seats in the election to the Namibian parliament (53 out of 72).
1998 - 81 people are killed by armed groups in Algeria.
2003 – Zimbabwe leaves the Commonwealth of Nations.
2004 – Dimebag Darrell is shot dead in Columbus, Ohio by paranoid schizophrenic Nathan Gale.
2004 - The Cuzco Declaration is signed in Cuzco, Peru, creating the South American Community of Nations.
2007 – The office of Benazir Bhutto is stormed by gunmen. Three people are killed.
2009 – A bombing in Baghdad kills 127 people.
2012 - At the UN Climate Change Conference in Qatar, it is agreed that the Kyoto Protocol is to be extended until 2020.
2019 - A clothing factory fire in Delhi, India, kills at least 43 people.
2019 - Sanna Marin is elected as the new Prime Minister of Finland.