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Day of the year
December 5 is the 339th day of the year (340th in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 26 days remain until the end of the year.
63 BC –
Cicero gives the fourth and final of the
Catiline Orations .
[1]
633 –
Fourth Council of Toledo opens, presided over by
Isidore of Seville .
[2]
1033 – The
Jordan Rift Valley earthquake destroys
multiple cities across the
Levant , triggers a
tsunami and kills many.
[3]
1082 –
Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated, most likely by his brother,
Berenguer Ramon II .
[4]
1408 – Seeking to resubjugate
Muscovy , Emir
Edigu of the
Golden Horde reaches Moscow, burning areas around the city but failing to take the city itself.
[5]
1456 – The first of
two earthquakes measuring Mw 7.2 strikes Italy, causing extreme destruction and killing upwards of 70,000 people.
[6]
1484 –
Pope Innocent VIII issues the
Summis desiderantes affectibus , a
papal bull that deputizes
Heinrich Kramer and
Jacob Sprenger as
inquisitors to root out alleged
witchcraft in Germany.
[7]
1496 – King
Manuel I of Portugal issues a decree ordering the expulsion of Jews from the country.
[8]
1560 – Thirteen-year-old
Charles IX becomes king of France, with Queen Mother
Catherine de' Medici as regent.
[9]
1578 – Sir
Francis Drake , after sailing through
Strait of Magellan , raids
Valparaiso .
[10]
1914 – The
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition began in an attempt to make the first land crossing of
Antarctica .
[16]
1919 –
Ukrainian War of Independence : The
Polonsky conspiracy is suppressed and its participants are executed by the
Kontrrazvedka .
[17]
1921 –
The Football Association bans
women's football in England from league grounds, a ban that stays in place for 50 years.
[18]
1933 – The
Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified.
1934 –
Abyssinia Crisis :
Italian troops attack Wal Wal in
Abyssinia , taking four days to capture the city.
1935 –
Mary McLeod Bethune founds the
National Council of Negro Women in New York City.
1936 – The
Soviet Union adopts a new
constitution and the
Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full
Union Republic of the
USSR .
1941 –
World War II : In the
Battle of Moscow ,
Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army.
1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on
Finland ,
Hungary and
Romania .
[19]
1943 – World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in
Operation Crossbow .
1945 –
Flight 19 , a group of TBF Avengers, disappears in the
Bermuda Triangle .
1952 – Beginning of the
Great Smog in London. A cold fog combines with air pollution and brings the city to a standstill for four days. Later, a
Ministry of Health report estimates 4,000 fatalities as a result of it.
[20]
1955 – The
American Federation of Labor and the
Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the
AFL–CIO .
1955 –
E. D. Nixon and
Rosa Parks lead the
Montgomery bus boycott .
1958 –
Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen
Elizabeth II when she speaks to the
Lord Provost in a call from
Bristol to
Edinburgh .
1958 – The
Preston By-pass , the UK's first stretch of
motorway , opens to traffic for the first time. (It is now part of the
M6 and
M55 motorways.)
1964 –
Vietnam War : For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain
Roger Donlon is awarded the first
Medal of Honor of the war.
1964 –
Lloyd J. Old discovers the first linkage between the
major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease—mouse leukemia—opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in the immune response.
1971 –
Battle of Gazipur : Pakistani forces stand defeated as India cedes
Gazipur to
Bangladesh .
1977 –
Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with
Syria ,
Libya ,
Algeria ,
Iraq and
South Yemen . The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.
1983 – Dissolution of the
Military Junta in
Argentina .
1991 –
Leonid Kravchuk is elected the first
president of Ukraine .
1995 –
Sri Lankan Civil War :
Sri Lanka 's government announces the conquest of the
Tamil stronghold of
Jaffna .
1995 –
Azerbaijan Airlines Flight A-56 crashes near
Nakhchivan International Airport in
Nakhchivan ,
Azerbaijan , killing 52 people.
[21]
2005 – The
Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first
civil partnership is registered there.
2005 – The 6.8 Mw
Lake Tanganyika earthquake shakes the eastern provinces of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme ), killing six people.
2006 – Commodore
Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in
Fiji .
2007 –
Westroads Mall shooting : Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills nine people, including himself, with a
WASR-10 at a
Von Maur department store in
Omaha, Nebraska .
[22]
2013 – Militants
attack a Defense Ministry compound in
Sana'a ,
Yemen , killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.
2014 –
Exploration Flight Test-1 , the first flight test of
Orion , is launched.
2017 – The
International Olympic Committee bans
Russia from competing at the
2018 Winter Olympics for doping at the
2014 Winter Olympics .
852 –
Zhu Wen , Chinese emperor (d. 912)
1377 –
Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402)
1389 –
Zbigniew Oleśnicki , Polish cardinal and statesman (d. 1455)
1443 –
Pope Julius II (d. 1513)
1470 –
Willibald Pirckheimer , German lawyer and author (d. 1530)
1495 –
Nicolas Cleynaerts , Flemish philologist and lexicographer (d. 1542)
1537 –
Ashikaga Yoshiaki , Japanese shōgun (d. 1597)
1539 –
Fausto Sozzini , Italian theologian and author (d. 1604)
1547 –
Ubbo Emmius , Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)
1556 –
Anne Cecil, Countess of Oxford , English countess (d. 1588)
1596 –
Henry Lawes , English composer (d. 1662)
1661 –
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer , English lawyer and politician,
Secretary of State for the Northern Department (d. 1724)
1666 –
Francesco Scarlatti , Italian violinist and composer (d. 1741)
1687 –
Francesco Geminiani , Italian violinist and composer (d. 1762)
1697 –
Giuseppe de Majo , Italian organist and composer (d. 1771)
1782 –
Martin Van Buren , American lawyer and politician, 8th
President of the United States (d. 1862)
1784 –
George Shepherd , English illustrator and painter (d. 1862)
1803 –
Fyodor Tyutchev , Russian poet and diplomat (d. 1873)
1820 –
Afanasy Fet , Russian poet and author (d. 1892)
1822 –
Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz , American philosopher and academic, co-founded
Radcliffe College (d. 1907)
1829 –
Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière , French-Canadian lawyer and politician, 4th
Premier of Quebec (d. 1908)
1830 –
Christina Rossetti , English poet and author (d. 1894)
1839 –
George Armstrong Custer , American general (d. 1876)
1841 –
Marcus Daly , Irish-American businessman (d. 1900)
1849 –
Eduard Seler , German anthropologist, ethnohistorian, linguist, and academic (d. 1922)
1855 –
Clinton Hart Merriam , American zoologist, ornithologist, entomologist, and ethnographer (d. 1942)
1859 –
John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe , English admiral and politician, 2nd
Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1935)
1861 –
Konstantin Korovin , Russian-French painter and set designer (d. 1939)
1862 –
John Henry Leech , English entomologist (d. 1900)
1863 –
Paul Painlevé , French mathematician and politician, 84th
Prime Minister of France (d. 1933)
1866 –
John Beresford , Irish polo player (d. 1944)
1866 –
Traian Demetrescu , Romanian poet and author (d. 1896)
1867 –
Antti Aarne , Finnish author and academic (d. 1925)
1867 –
Józef Piłsudski , Polish field marshal and politician, 15th
Prime Minister of Poland (d. 1935)
1868 –
Arnold Sommerfeld , German physicist and academic (d. 1951)
1869 –
Ellis Parker Butler , American author and poet (d. 1937)
1870 –
Vítězslav Novák , Czech composer and educator (d. 1949)
1872 –
Harry Nelson Pillsbury , American chess player (d. 1906)
1875 –
Arthur Currie , Canadian general (d. 1933)
1879 –
Clyde Vernon Cessna , American pilot and businessman, founded the
Cessna Aircraft Corporation (d. 1954)
1881 –
René Cresté , French actor and director (d. 1922)
1886 –
Rose Wilder Lane , American journalist and author (d. 1968)
1886 –
Pieter Oud , Dutch historian, academic, and politician,
Minister of Finance of the Netherlands (d. 1968)
1886 –
Nikolai Uglanov , Soviet politician (d. 1937)
1890 –
David Bomberg , English painter, illustrator, and academic (d. 1957)
1890 –
Fritz Lang , Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1976)
1891 –
Paul Kogerman , Estonian chemist and academic (d. 1951)
1894 –
Charles Robberts Swart , South African lawyer and politician, 1st
State President of South Africa (d. 1982)
1895 –
Elbert Frank Cox , American mathematician and academic (d. 1969)
1896 –
Ann Nolan Clark , American historian, author, and educator (d. 1995)
1896 –
Carl Ferdinand Cori , Czech-American biochemist and pharmacologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1897 –
Nunnally Johnson , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1977)
1897 –
Gershom Scholem , German-Israeli philosopher and historian (d. 1982)
1898 –
Josh Malihabadi , Indian-Pakistani poet and translator (d. 1982)
1898 –
Grace Moore , American soprano and actress (d. 1947)
1900 –
Jimmy Dimmock , English footballer (d. 1972)
1901 –
Walt Disney , American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded
The Walt Disney Company (d. 1966)
[23]
1901 –
Milton H. Erickson , American psychiatrist and author (d. 1980)
1901 –
Werner Heisenberg , German physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
[24]
1902 –
Emeric Pressburger , Hungarian-English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1988)
1902 –
Strom Thurmond , American educator, general, and politician, 103rd
Governor of South Carolina (d. 2003)
[24]
1903 –
Johannes Heesters , Dutch-German actor and singer (d. 2011)
1903 –
C. F. Powell , English-Italian physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1969)
1905 –
Francisco Javier Arana , Guatemalan Army colonel and briefly Guatemalan head of state (d. 1949)
1905 –
Otto Preminger , Austrian-American actor, director, and producer (d. 1986)
[24]
1907 –
Lin Biao , Chinese general and politician, 2nd
Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1971)
1907 –
Giuseppe Occhialini , Italian-French physicist and academic (d. 1993)
1910 –
Abraham Polonsky , American director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1911 –
Władysław Szpilman , Polish pianist and composer (d. 2000)
1912 –
Kate Simon , American travel writer (d. 1990)
1912 –
Sonny Boy Williamson II , American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 1965)
1913 –
Esther Borja , Cuban soprano and actress (d. 2013)
1914 –
Helen Dettweiler , American golfer (d. 1990)
[25]
1914 –
Hans Hellmut Kirst , German lieutenant and author (d. 1989)
1916 –
Hilary Koprowski , Polish-American virologist and immunologist, created the world's first effective live
polio vaccine (d. 2013)
1916 –
Walt McPherson , American basketball player and coach (d. 2013)
1917 –
Ken Downing , English racing driver (d. 2004)
1919 –
Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont , English historian and politician (d. 2020)
1921 –
Alvy Moore , American actor and producer (d. 1997)
1922 –
Casey Ribicoff , American philanthropist (d. 2011)
1922 –
Don Robertson , American songwriter and pianist (d. 2015)
1924 –
Robert Sobukwe , South African banker and politician (d. 1978)
1925 –
Anastasio Somoza Debayle , Nicaraguan politician, 73rd
President of Nicaragua (d. 1980)
1926 –
Adetowun Ogunsheye , first female Nigerian professor and university dean
[26]
1927 –
Bhumibol Adulyadej , King of Thailand (d. 2016)
[24]
1927 –
W.D. Amaradeva , Sri Lankan musician and composer (d. 2016)
1929 –
Madis Kõiv , Estonian physicist, philosopher, and author (d. 2014)
1930 –
Yi-Fu Tuan , Chinese-American geographer (d. 2022)
1931 –
Ladislav Novák , Czech footballer and manager (d. 2011)
1932 –
Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs , British politician
1932 –
Sheldon Glashow , American physicist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate
1932 –
Jim Hurtubise , American race car driver (d. 1989)
1932 –
Nadira , Indian actress (d. 2006)
1932 –
Little Richard , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (d. 2020)
[24]
1933 –
Gennadiy Agapov , Russian race walker (d. 1999)
1933 –
Harry Holgate , Australian politician, 36th
Premier of Tasmania (d. 1997)
1934 –
Joan Didion , American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2021)
[24]
1935 –
Calvin Trillin , American novelist, humorist, and journalist
[24]
1935 –
Yury Vlasov , Ukrainian-Russian weightlifter and politician (d. 2021)
1936 –
James Lee Burke , American journalist, author, and academic
1938 –
J. J. Cale , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2013)
[24]
1940 –
Tony Crafter , Australian cricket umpire
1940 –
Boris Ignatyev , Russian footballer and manager
1940 –
Peter Pohl , Swedish author, director, and screenwriter
1940 –
Frank Wilson , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2012)
1942 –
Bryan Murray , Canadian ice hockey coach (d. 2017)
1943 –
Eva Joly , Norwegian-French judge and politician
1943 –
Andrew Yeom Soo-jung , South Korean cardinal
1944 –
Jeroen Krabbé , Dutch actor, director, and producer
[27]
1945 –
Serge Chapleau , Canadian cartoonist
1945 –
Moshe Katsav , Iranian-Israeli educator and politician, 8th
President of Israel
1946 –
José Carreras , Spanish tenor and actor
[27]
1946 –
Andy Kim , Canadian pop singer-songwriter
1946 –
Sarel van der Merwe , South African racing driver
1947 –
Rudy Fernandez , Filipino triathlete (d. 2022)
1947 –
Bruce Golding , Jamaican lawyer and politician, 8th
Prime Minister of Jamaica
1947 –
Tony Gregory , Irish activist and politician (d. 2009)
1947 –
Jügderdemidiin Gürragchaa , Mongolian cosmonaut and military leader
[28]
1947 –
Jim Messina , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
[27]
1947 –
Jim Plunkett , American football player and radio host
[24]
1947 –
Kim Simmonds , Welsh blues-rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2022)
1947 –
Don Touhig , Welsh journalist and politician
1948 –
Denise Drysdale , Australian television host and actress
1949 –
John Altman , English composer and conductor
1949 –
David Manning , English civil servant and diplomat,
British Ambassador to the United States
1951 –
Morgan Brittany , American actress
[27]
1951 –
Link Byfield , Canadian journalist and author (d. 2015)
1951 –
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven , Belgian painter and illustrator
1953 –
Gwen Lister , South African-Namibian journalist, publisher, and activist
1954 –
Hanif Kureishi , English author and playwright
1955 –
Miyuki Kawanaka , Japanese singer
1955 –
Juha Tiainen , Finnish hammer thrower (d. 2003)
1956 –
Klaus Allofs , German footballer and manager
1956 –
Butch Lee , Puerto Rican basketball player
[29]
1956 –
Adam Thorpe , French-English author, poet, and playwright
1956 –
Krystian Zimerman , Polish virtuoso pianist
1957 –
Raquel Argandoña , Chilean model, actress, and politician
1957 –
Art Monk , American football player
[30]
1958 –
Dynamite Kid , English wrestler (d. 2018)
1959 –
Lee Chapman , English footballer
1959 –
Oleksandr Yaroslavsky , Ukrainian businessman
1960 –
Frans Adelaar , Dutch footballer and manager
1960 –
Osvaldo Golijov , Argentinian-American composer and educator
1960 –
Jack Russell , American singer-songwriter and producer
1960 –
Matthew Taylor , English businessman and politician
1961 –
Ralf Dujmovits , German mountaineer
1961 –
Laura Flanders , British journalist
1962 –
José Cura , Argentinian tenor, conductor, and director
1962 –
Pablo Morales , American swimmer and coach
1962 –
Nivek Ogre , Canadian singer-songwriter
1962 –
Fred Rutten , Dutch footballer and manager
1963 –
Doctor Dré , American television and radio host
1963 –
Carrie Hamilton , American actress and playwright (d. 2002)
1963 –
Alberto Nisman , Argentinian lawyer (d. 2015)
1964 –
Martin Vinnicombe , Australian cyclist
1965 –
Manish Malhotra , Indian fashion designer
1965 –
John Rzeznik , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
[27]
1965 –
Wayne Smith , Jamaican rapper (d. 2014)
1965 –
Valeriy Spitsyn , Russian race walker
1967 –
Gary Allan , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[27]
1968 –
Margaret Cho , American comedian, actress, producer, and screenwriter
[27]
1968 –
Lisa Marie , American model and actress
1968 –
Lydia Millet , American novelist
1968 –
Falilat Ogunkoya , Nigerian sprinter
1969 –
Eric Etebari , American actor, director, and producer
1969 –
Morgan J. Freeman , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1969 –
Sajid Javid , British Pakistani banker and politician,
Chancellor of the Exchequer
1969 –
Lewis Pugh , English swimmer and lawyer
1969 –
Ramón Ramírez , Mexican footballer
1969 –
Catherine Tate , English actress, comedian, and writer
[24]
1970 –
Kevin Haller , Canadian ice hockey player
1970 –
Michel'le , American singer-songwriter
1971 –
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg , German businessman and politician,
German Federal Minister of Defence
1971 –
Ashia Hansen , American-English triple jumper
1971 –
Gabriel Hjertstedt , Swedish golfer
1971 –
Kali Rocha , American actress
[27]
1972 –
Cliff Floyd , American baseball player and sportscaster
1972 –
Duane Ross , American hurdler and coach
[31]
1973 –
Argo Arbeiter , Estonian footballer
1973 –
Arik Benado , Israeli footballer
[32]
1973 –
Mikelangelo Loconte , Italian singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1973 –
Luboš Motl , Czech physicist and academic
1974 –
Ravish Kumar , Indian journalist and author
1974 –
Brian Lewis , American sprinter
[33]
1975 –
Ronnie O'Sullivan , English snooker player and radio host
1975 –
Paula Patton , American actress
[27]
1976 –
Amy Acker , American actress
[27]
1976 –
Xavier Garbajosa , French rugby player
1976 –
Norishige Kanai , Japanese doctor and astronaut
[34]
1976 –
Sachiko Kokubu , Japanese actress and model
1976 –
Rachel Komisarz , American swimmer and coach
1977 –
Peter van der Vlag , Dutch footballer
1978 –
Neil Druckmann , American video game designer and author
[35]
1978 –
Olli Jokinen , Finnish ice hockey player
1978 –
Marcelo Zalayeta , Uruguayan footballer
1979 –
Matteo Ferrari , Italian footballer
1979 –
Niklas Hagman , Finnish ice hockey player
1979 –
Gareth McAuley , Northern Irish footballer
1979 –
Nick Stahl , American actor
[27]
1980 –
Ibrahim Maalouf , Lebanese-French trumpet player and composer
1980 –
Jessica Paré , Canadian actress
1981 –
Adan Canto , Mexican actor
[27] (d. 2024)
1982 –
Eddy Curry , American basketball player
[36]
1982 –
Keri Hilson , American singer-songwriter and actress
[27]
1982 –
Gabriel Luna , American actor
[27]
1983 –
Joakim Lindström , Swedish ice hockey player
[37]
1984 –
Lauren London , American actress
[24]
1985 –
Shikhar Dhawan , Indian cricketer
1985 –
Frankie Muniz , American actor, drummer, and race car driver
[27]
1985 –
Josh Smith , American basketball player
[38]
1985 –
Danny Wicks , Australian rugby league player
1986 –
LeGarrette Blount , American football player
1986 –
James Hinchcliffe , Canadian Indycar racing driver
1986 –
Justin Smoak , American baseball player
1987 –
A. J. Pollock , American baseball player
[39]
1988 –
Ross Bagley , American actor
[27]
1988 –
Tina Charles , American basketball player
[40]
1988 –
Kyle Long , American football player
[41]
1988 –
Joanna Rowsell , English cyclist
1989 –
Jurrell Casey , American football player
[42]
1989 –
Kwon Yu-ri , South Korean singer-songwriter and actress
[43]
1990 –
Montee Ball , American football player
1991 –
Cam Fowler , Canadian-American ice hockey player
[44]
1991 –
Jacopo Sala , Italian footballer
1991 –
Christian Yelich , American baseball player
[45]
1992 –
Ilja Antonov , Estonian footballer
1992 –
Natalie Sourisseau , Canadian field hockey player
[46]
1993 –
Ross Barkley , English footballer
1994 –
Ondrej Duda , Slovak footballer
1994 –
Semi Ojeleye , American basketball player
[47]
1995 –
Danny Levi , New Zealand rugby league player
1995 –
Anthony Martial , French footballer
1995 –
Kaetlyn Osmond , Canadian figure skater
1995 –
Levy Rozman , American chess
International Master , streamer and youtuber
[48]
1997 –
Maddie Poppe , American singer-songwriter and musician
[49]
1997 –
Quinnen Williams , American football player
[50]
1998 –
Conan Gray , American singer-songwriter
1624 –
Gaspard Bauhin , Swiss botanist and physician (b. 1560)
1654 –
Jean François Sarrazin , French author and poet (b. 1611)
1663 –
Severo Bonini , Italian organist and composer (b. 1582)
1749 –
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye , Canadian commander and explorer (b. 1685)
1758 –
Johann Friedrich Fasch , German violinist and composer (b. 1688)
1770 –
James Stirling , Scottish mathematician and surveyor (b. 1692)
1784 –
Phillis Wheatley , Senegal-born slave, later American poet (b. 1753)
1791 –
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Austrian composer and musician (b. 1756)
1819 –
Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg , German poet and lawyer (b. 1750)
1870 –
Alexandre Dumas , French novelist and playwright (b. 1802)
1887 –
Eliza R. Snow , American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
1891 –
Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
1918 –
Schalk Willem Burger , South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th
President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
1925 –
Władysław Reymont , Polish novelist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1926 –
Claude Monet , French painter (b. 1840)
[52]
1931 –
Vachel Lindsay , American poet (b. 1879)
1933 –
Alexander Atabekian , Armenian physician and anarchist publisher (b. 1869)
[53]
1940 –
Jan Kubelík , Czech violinist and composer (b. 1880)
1941 –
Amrita Sher-Gil , Hungarian-Pakistani painter (b. 1913)
1942 –
Jock Delves Broughton , English captain (b. 1883)
1946 –
Louis Dewis , Belgian-French painter and educator (b. 1872)
1951 –
Shoeless Joe Jackson , American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
1951 –
Abanindranath Tagore , Indian painter, author, and academic (b. 1871)
1953 –
William Sterling Parsons , American admiral (b. 1901)
1955 –
Glenn L. Martin , American pilot and businessman, founded the
Glenn L. Martin Company (b. 1886)
1961 –
Emil Fuchs , German-American lawyer and businessman (b. 1878)
1963 –
Karl Amadeus Hartmann , German composer and educator (b. 1905)
1963 –
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy , Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th
Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1892)
1964 –
V. Veerasingam , Sri Lankan educator and politician (b. 1892)
1965 –
Joseph Erlanger , American physiologist, neuroscientist, and academic
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874)
1968 –
Fred Clark , American actor (b. 1914)
1969 –
Claude Dornier , German engineer and businessman, founded
Dornier Flugzeugwerke (b. 1884)
1969 –
Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885)
[54]
1973 –
Robert Watson-Watt , Scottish engineer, invented the
radar (b. 1892)
1975 –
Constance McLaughlin Green , American historian and author (b. 1897)
1977 –
Katherine Milhous , American author and illustrator (b. 1894)
1977 –
Aleksandr Vasilevsky , Russian marshal and politician,
Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (b. 1895)
1979 –
Jesse Pearson , American actor, singer, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
1983 –
Robert Aldrich , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
1984 –
Cecil M. Harden , American politician (b. 1894)
1986 –
Edward Youde , Welsh-Chinese sinologist and diplomat, 26th
Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
1989 –
John Pritchard , English conductor and director (b. 1921)
1990 –
Alfonso A. Ossorio , Filipino-American painter and sculptor (b. 1916)
1991 –
Richard Speck , American mass murderer (b. 1941)
[55]
1994 –
Harry Horner , Czech-American director, producer, and production designer (b. 1910)
1995 –
L. B. Cole , American illustrator and publisher (b. 1918)
1995 –
Charles Evans , English mountaineer, surgeon, and educator (b. 1918)
1995 –
Gwen Harwood , Australian poet and playwright (b. 1920)
1995 –
Clair Cameron Patterson , American scientist (b. 1922)
1997 –
Eugen Cicero , Romanian-German jazz pianist (b. 1940)
1998 –
Albert Gore, Sr. , American lawyer and politician (b. 1907)
2001 –
Franco Rasetti , Italian-American physicist and academic (b. 1901)
2002 –
Roone Arledge , American sportscaster and producer (b. 1931)
2002 –
Ne Win , Burmese general and politician, 4th
President of Burma (b. 1911)
2005 –
Edward L. Masry , American lawyer and politician (b. 1932)
2006 –
David Bronstein , Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player and theoretician (b. 1924)
2007 –
Andrew Imbrie , American composer and academic (b. 1921)
2007 –
George Paraskevaides , Greek-Cypriot businessman and philanthropist, co-founded
Joannou & Paraskevaides (b. 1916)
2007 –
Karlheinz Stockhausen , German composer and academic (b. 1928)
2008 –
Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (b. 1929)
2008 –
George Brecht , American chemist and composer (b. 1926)
2008 –
Nina Foch , Dutch-American actress (b. 1924)
2008 –
Beverly Garland , American actress and businesswoman (b. 1926)
2008 –
Anca Parghel , Romanian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1957)
2009 –
William Lederer , American soldier and author (b. 1912)
2010 –
Alan Armer , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2010 –
Don Meredith , American football player, sportscaster, and actor (b. 1938)
2011 –
Peter Gethin , English racing driver (b. 1940)
2011 –
Gennady Logofet , Russian footballer and manager (b. 1942)
2012 –
Dave Brubeck , American pianist and composer (b. 1920)
2012 –
Elisabeth Murdoch , Australian philanthropist (b. 1909)
2012 –
Oscar Niemeyer , Brazilian architect, designed the
United Nations Headquarters and
Cathedral of Brasília (b. 1907)
2012 –
Ignatius IV of Antioch , Syrian patriarch (b. 1920)
2013 –
Fred Bassetti , American architect and academic, founded
Bassetti Architects (b. 1917)
2013 –
William B. Edmondson , American lawyer and diplomat,
United States Ambassador to South Africa (b. 1927)
2013 –
Nelson Mandela , South African lawyer and politician, 1st
President of South Africa ,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
2014 –
Ernest C. Brace , American captain and pilot (b. 1931)
2014 –
Fabiola , Queen of Belgium (b. 1928)
2014 –
Talât Sait Halman , Turkish poet, translator, and historian (b. 1931)
2014 –
Jackie Healy-Rae , Irish hurdler and politician (b. 1931)
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Silvio Zavala , Mexican historian and author (b. 1909)
2015 –
Vic Eliason , American clergyman and radio host, founded
VCY America (b. 1936)
2015 –
Tibor Rubin , Hungarian-American soldier,
Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1929)
2015 –
Chuck Williams , American businessman and author, founded
Williams Sonoma (b. 1915)
2016 –
Tyruss Himes ("Big Syke"), American rapper (b. 1968)
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2017 –
Michael I of Romania , fifth and last king of Romania (b. 1921)
2017 –
August Ames , Canadian American pornographic actress (b. 1994)
2019 –
Robert Walker , American actor (b. 1940)
[59]
2020 –
Peter Alliss , English professional golfer (b. 1931)
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Bob Dole , American politician (b. 1923)
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Kirstie Alley , American actress and producer (b. 1951)
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Norman Lear , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1922)
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