the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
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 – 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.
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.
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)
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 – 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
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
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)
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)
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)
Navy Day (India and Italy)
Miners' Day (Poland)
Tupou I Day (Tonga)
St. Barbara - Christian Saint
December 04
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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 – 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)
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 - 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
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)
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 – 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)
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)
Saint Nicholas Eve - Including Sinterklaas in the Netherlands
The King's Birthday (Thailand)
December 05
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2017 - US President Donald Trump officially recognises Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel.
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)
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 - 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
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
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
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)
1892 – Ernst Werner von Siemens, German inventor, scientist and businessman (b. 1816)
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)
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)
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
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.
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.
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.