Title: December 7 Content: == 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 Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet (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 * 2003 – Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange, Dutch royal == 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) * 1998 – Martin Rodbell, American scientist (b. 1925) === 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