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Day of the year
December 26 is the 360th day of the year (361st in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; five days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1704 –
Second Battle of Anandpur : In the Second Battle of Anandpur, Aurangzeb's two generals, Wazir Khan and Zaberdast Khan executed two children of
Guru Gobind Singh , Zorawar Singh aged eight and Fateh Singh aged five, by burying them alive into a wall.
[3]
1709 – The opera
Agrippina by
George Frideric Handel premiered in Venice.
[4]
1723 –
Bach led the first performance of
Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes , BWV 40 , his first
Christmas Cantata composed for Leipzig.
[5]
1776 –
American Revolutionary War : In the
Battle of Trenton , the
Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of
Hessian forces .
[6]
1790 –
Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to
Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the
French Revolution .
[7]
1793 –
Second Battle of Wissembourg : France defeats Austria.
[8]
1799 –
Henry Lee III 's eulogy to
George Washington in congress declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen".
[9]
1805 – Austria and France sign the
Treaty of Pressburg .
[10]
1806 – Battles of
Pultusk and
Golymin : Russian forces hold
French forces under
Napoleon .
[11]
1811 – A
theater fire in
Richmond, Virginia kills 72 people, including the
Governor of Virginia
George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia
Abraham B. Venable .
[12]
1825 – Advocates of
liberalism in Russia rise up against
Czar Nicholas I in the
Decembrist revolt , but are later suppressed.
[13]
1843 – The discovery of
octonions by
John T. Graves , who denoted them with a boldface O , was announced to his mathematician friend
William Hamilton , discoverer of
quaternions , in a letter on this date.
[14]
1860 – First
Rules derby is held between
Sheffield F.C. and
Hallam F.C. , the oldest football fixture in the world.
[15]
1861 –
American Civil War : The
Trent Affair :
Confederate diplomatic envoys
James Murray Mason and
John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
[16]
1862 – American Civil War: The
Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins as General
William Tecumseh Sherman begins landing his troops.
[17]
1862 – The
largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in
Mankato, Minnesota , where 38 Native Americans died.
[18]
1871 –
Thespis , the first
Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts.
[19]
1898 –
Marie and
Pierre Curie announce the isolation of
radium .
[20]
1901–present
1919 –
Babe Ruth of the
Boston Red Sox is sold to the
New York Yankees by owner
Harry Frazee , allegedly establishing the
Curse of the Bambino superstition.
1941 – U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as
Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
1941 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
addresses a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.
[21]
1943 –
World War II : German warship
Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's
North Cape after a
battle against major Royal Navy forces .
1944 – World War II:
George S. Patton 's
Third Army
breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at
Bastogne , Belgium.
1948 – Cardinal
József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of
treason and conspiracy.
1948 – The last
Soviet troops withdraw from
North Korea .
1963 –
The Beatles ' "
I Want to Hold Your Hand " and "
I Saw Her Standing There " are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.
1966 – The first
Kwanzaa is celebrated by
Maulana Karenga , the chair of
Black Studies at
California State University, Long Beach .
1968 – The
Communist Party of the Philippines is established by
Jose Maria Sison , breaking away from the
Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 .
1972 –
Vietnam War : As part of
Operation Linebacker II , 120 American
B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked
Hanoi , including 78 launched from
Andersen Air Force Base in
Guam , the largest single combat launch in
Strategic Air Command history.
1975 –
Tu-144 , the world's first commercial
supersonic aircraft , surpassing
Mach 2 , goes into service.
1978 – The inaugural
Paris-Dakar Rally begins.
[22]
[23]
1980 – Witnesses report the first of several sightings of
unexplained lights near
RAF Woodbridge , in
Rendlesham Forest ,
Suffolk , England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's
Roswell ".
[24]
1989 –
United Express Flight 2415 crashes on approach to the
Tri-Cities Airport in
Pasco, Washington , killing all six people on board.
[25]
1991 – The
Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally
dissolves the Soviet Union , ending the
Cold War .
[26]
1994 – Four
Armed Islamic Group
hijackers seize control of
Air France Flight 8969 . When the plane lands at
Marseille , a
French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.
1998 –
Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern
no-fly zones .
1999 – The storm
Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
2003 – The 6.6 Mw
Bam earthquake shakes southeastern
Iran with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ), leaving more than 26,000 dead and 30,000 injured.
2004 – The 9.1–9.3 Mw
Indian Ocean earthquake shakes northern
Sumatra with a maximum
Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent ). One of the largest observed
tsunamis , it affected coastal and partially mainland areas of
Thailand ,
India ,
Sri Lanka , the
Maldives ,
Malaysia ,
Myanmar ,
Bangladesh , and
Indonesia ; death toll is estimated at 227,898.
2004 –
Orange Revolution : The final
run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
2006 –
Two earthquakes in Hengchun, Taiwan measuring 7.0 and 6.9 on the
moment magnitude scale kill two and disrupt telecommunications across
Asia .
[27]
2012 – China
opens the
world's longest high-speed
rail route , which links
Beijing and
Guangzhou .
2015 – During the
December 2015 North American storm complex , a
tornado outbreak affects the
Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex , killing 13 people. One EF4 tornado caused 10 of the 13 fatalities, doing substantial damage to the suburb of
Rowlett .
Births
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1618 –
Elisabeth of the Palatinate , German princess, philosopher, and Calvinist (d. 1680)
1628 –
John Page , English Colonial
[29] politician (d. 1692)
1646 –
Robert Bolling , English/English Colonial
[29] merchant and planter (d. 1709)
1687 –
Johann Georg Pisendel , German violinist and composer (d. 1755)
1716 –
Thomas Gray , English poet and scholar (d. 1771)
1716 –
Jean François de Saint-Lambert , French soldier and philosopher (d. 1803)
1723 –
Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm , German-French author and playwright (d. 1807)
1737 –
Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1815)
1751 –
Lord George Gordon , English lieutenant and politician (d. 1793)
1751 –
Clemens Maria Hofbauer , Austrian priest, missionary, and saint (d. 1820)
1769 –
Ernst Moritz Arndt , German writer and poet (d. 1860)
1780 –
Mary Somerville , Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and author (d. 1872)
[30]
1785 –
Étienne Constantin de Gerlache , Belgian lawyer and politician, 1st
Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1871)
1782 –
Philaret Drozdov , Russian metropolitan and saint (d. 1867)
1791 –
Charles Babbage , English mathematician and engineer, invented the
Difference engine (d. 1871)
1803 –
Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald , Estonian physician and author (d. 1882)
1819 –
E. D. E. N. Southworth , American author and educator (d. 1899)
1820 –
Dion Boucicault , Irish actor and playwright (d. 1890)
1837 –
Morgan Bulkeley , American soldier and politician, 54th
Governor of Connecticut (d. 1922)
1837 –
George Dewey , American admiral (d. 1917)
1852 –
Johannes François Snelleman , Dutch zoologist, orientalist, and ethnographer (d. 1938)
1853 –
René Bazin , French author and academic (d. 1932)
1854 –
José Yves Limantour , Mexican financier and politician,
Mexican Secretary of Finance (d. 1935)
1859 –
William Stephens , American lawyer and politician, 24th
Governor of California (d. 1944)
1863 –
Charles Pathé , French record producer, co-founded
Pathé Records (d. 1957)
1864 –
Yun Chi-ho , Korean activist and politician (d. 1945)
1867 –
Phan Bội Châu , Vietnamese activist (d. 1940)
1869 –
Mathieu Cordang , Dutch cyclist (d. 1942)
1872 –
Norman Angell , English journalist, academic, and politician,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1873 –
Thomas Wass , English cricketer (d. 1953)
1874 –
Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah , Bangladeshi theologian and academic (d. 1965)
1883 –
Maurice Utrillo , French painter (d. 1955)
1885 –
Bazoline Estelle Usher , African-American educator (d. 1992)
[31]
1887 –
Arthur Percival , English general (d. 1966)
1888 –
Marius Canard , French orientalist and historian (d. 1982)
1889 –
Ragnhild Kaarbø , Norwegian painter (d. 1949)
[32]
1890 –
Konstantinos Georgakopoulos , Greek lawyer and politician,
Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1973)
1890 –
Percy Hodge , English runner (d. 1967)
1891 –
Henry Miller , American author and painter (d. 1980)
1892 –
Don Barclay , American actor and illustrator (d. 1975)
1893 –
Mao Zedong , Chinese politician,
Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 1976)
1894 –
Jean Toomer , American author and poet (d. 1967)
1900 –
Evelyn Bark , leading member of the
British Red Cross , first female recipient of the
CMG (d. 1993)
[33]
1901–present
1901 –
Elmar Muuk , Estonian linguist and author (d. 1941)
1902 –
Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan , Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1980)
1903 –
Elisha Cook, Jr. , American actor (d. 1995)
1904 –
Alejo Carpentier , Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (d. 1980)
1905 –
William Loeb III , American publisher (d. 1981)
1907 –
Albert Gore, Sr. , American lawyer and politician (d. 1998)
1908 –
Ralph Hill , American runner (d. 1994)
1909 –
Matt Gordy , American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
1910 –
Imperio Argentina , Argentine-Spanish actress and singer (d. 2003)
1910 –
Marguerite Churchill , American actress (d. 2000)
1912 –
Arsenio Lacson , Filipino journalist and politician,
Mayor of Manila (d. 1962)
1913 –
Frank Swift , English footballer and journalist (d. 1958)
1914 –
Richard Widmark , American actor (d. 2008)
1915 –
Rolf Botvid , Swedish actor and screenwriter (d. 1998)
1918 –
Olga Lopes-Seale , Guyanese-Barbadian singer and radio host (d. 2011)
1918 –
Georgios Rallis , Greek lieutenant and politician, 173rd
Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006)
1921 –
Steve Allen , American actor, singer, talk show host, and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1921 –
John Severin , American illustrator (d. 2012)
1922 –
Richard Mayes , English actor (d. 2006)
1923 –
Richard Artschwager , American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 2013)
1924 –
Frank Broyles , American football player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 2017)
[34]
1926 –
Earle Brown , American composer (d. 2002)
1927 –
Denis Gifford , English journalist and historian (d. 2000)
1927 –
Alan King , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1927 –
Stu Miller , American baseball player (d. 2015)
1927 –
Denis Quilley , English actor (d. 2003)
1928 –
Martin Cooper , American engineer, invented the
mobile phone
[35]
1929 –
Kathleen Crowley , American actress (d. 2017)
1929 –
Régine Zylberberg , Belgian-French singer and actress (d. 2022)
1930 –
Jean Ferrat , French singer-songwriter and poet (d. 2010)
1930 –
Harry Gamble , American football player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
1930 –
Donald Moffat , English-American actor (d. 2018)
1933 –
Caroll Spinney , American puppeteer and voice actor (d. 2019)
1935 –
Rohan Kanhai , Guyanese cricketer
1935 –
Norm Ullman , Canadian ice hockey player
1936 –
Peep Jänes , Estonian architect
1936 –
Trevor Taylor , English race car driver (d. 2010)
1937 –
John Horton Conway , English mathematician, known for
Conway's Game of Life (d. 2020)
1938 –
Bahram Beyzai , Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter
1938 –
Robert Hamerton-Kelly , South African-American pastor, scholar, and author (d. 2013)
1938 –
Alamgir Kabir , Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1938 –
Mirko Kovač , Yugoslav-Croatian author, playwright, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1939 –
Fred Schepisi , Australian director and screenwriter
1939 –
Phil Spector , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2021)
1940 –
Edward C. Prescott , American economist and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022)
1940 –
Ray Sadecki , American baseball player (d. 2014)
1941 –
Daniel Schmid , Swiss actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1942 –
Vinicio Cerezo , Guatemalan politician, 28th
President of Guatemala
1942 –
Catherine Coulter , American author
1942 –
Gray Davis , American captain, lawyer, and politician, 37th
Governor of California
1944 –
William Ayers , American academic and activist
1945 –
John Walsh , American television host, producer, and activist, created
America's Most Wanted
1946 –
Alan Frumin , American lawyer and politician
1946 –
Tiit Rosenberg , Estonian historian and academic
1947 –
James T. Conway , American general
1947 –
Jean Echenoz , French author
1947 –
Carlton Fisk , American baseball player
1947 –
Josef Janíček , Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboard player
1947 –
Liz Lochhead , Scottish poet and playwright
[36]
1947 –
Richard Levis McCormick , American historian and academic
1948 –
Candy Crowley , American journalist
1949 –
José Ramos-Horta , East Timorese lawyer and politician, 2nd
President of East Timor ,
Nobel Prize laureate
1950 –
Raja Pervaiz Ashraf , Pakistani businessman and politician, 17th
Prime Minister of Pakistan
1950 –
Mario Mendoza , Mexican baseball player and manager
1953 –
Leonel Fernández , Dominican lawyer and politician, 51st
President of the Dominican Republic
1953 –
Toomas Hendrik Ilves , Swedish-Estonian journalist and politician, 4th
President of Estonia
1953 –
Makis Katsavakis , Greek footballer and manager
1953 –
Henning Schmitz , German drummer
1954 –
Peter Hillary , New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist
1954 –
Ozzie Smith , American baseball player and sportscaster
1955 –
Evan Bayh , American lawyer and politician, 46th
Governor of Indiana
1956 –
David Sedaris , American comedian, author, and radio host
1957 –
Dermot Murnaghan , English-Northern Irish journalist and game show host
1958 –
Adrian Newey , English aerodynamicist and engineer
1959 –
Wang Lijun , Chinese police officer and politician
1959 –
Kōji Morimoto , Japanese animator and director
1959 –
Hans Nielsen , Danish motorcycle racer
1960 –
Keith Martin Ball , American mathematician and academic
1960 –
Ruud Kaiser , Dutch footballer and manager
1960 –
Cem Uzan , Turkish businessman and politician
1961 –
Andrew Lock , Australian mountaineer
1962 –
James Kottak , American drummer (d. 2024)
1962 –
Mark Starr , English wrestler (d. 2013)
1963 –
Craig Teitzel , Australian rugby league player
1963 –
Lars Ulrich , Danish-American drummer, songwriter, and producer
[37]
1964 –
Elizabeth Kostova , American author
1966 –
Jay Farrar , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1966 –
Tim Legler , American basketball player and sportscaster
1968 –
Matt Zoller Seitz , American film critic and author
1969 –
Isaac Viciosa , Spanish runner
1970 –
James Mercer , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1971 –
Jared Leto , American actor and musician
1971 –
Mika Nurmela , Finnish footballer
1971 –
Tatiana Sorokko , Russian-American model and journalist
1972 –
Esteban Fuertes , Argentinian footballer
1972 –
Robert Muchamore , English author
1973 –
Paulo Frederico Benevenute , Brazilian footballer
1973 –
Gianluca Faliva , Italian rugby player
1973 –
Nobuhiko Matsunaka , Japanese baseball player
1973 –
Steve Prescott , English rugby player (d. 2013)
1974 –
Joshua John Miller , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1975 –
Chris Calaguio , Filipino basketball player
1975 –
Marcelo Ríos , Chilean tennis player
[38]
1975 –
María Vasco , Spanish race walker
1976 –
Simon Goodwin , Australian footballer and coach
1977 –
Fatih Akyel , Turkish footballer and manager
1977 –
Adrienn Hegedűs , Hungarian tennis player
[39]
1978 –
Karel Rüütli , Estonian lawyer and politician
1978 –
Kaoru Sugayama , Japanese volleyball player
1979 –
Fabián Carini , Uruguayan footballer
1979 –
Chris Daughtry , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 –
Dimitry Vassiliev , Russian ski jumper
1979 –
Craig Wing , Australian rugby player
1980 –
Todd Dunivant , American soccer player
1980 –
Ceylan Ertem , Turkish singer
1981 –
Pablo Canavosio , Argentine-Italian rugby player
1981 –
Omar Infante , Venezuelan baseball player
[40]
1982 –
Kenneth Darby , American football player
1982 –
Noel Hunt , Irish footballer
1982 –
Aksel Lund Svindal , Norwegian skier
1983 –
Yu Takahashi , Japanese singer-songwriter
1983 –
Alexander Wang , American fashion designer
1984 –
Ahmed Barusso , Ghanaian footballer
1984 –
Leonardo Ghiraldini , Italian rugby player
1984 –
Alex Schwazer , Italian race walker
1985 –
Damir Markota , Croatian basketball player
[41]
1986 –
Joe Alexander , American-Israeli basketball player
[42]
1986 –
Kit Harington , English actor
1986 –
Hugo Lloris , French footballer
1986 –
Selen Soyder , Turkish actress and beauty queen
1987 –
Oskar Osala , Finnish ice hockey player
[43]
1989 –
Yohan Blake , Jamaican sprinter
1989 –
Tomáš Kundrátek , Czech ice hockey player
[44]
1990 –
Denis Cheryshev , Russian footballer
1990 –
Cory Jefferson , American basketball player
[45]
1990 –
Aaron Ramsey , Welsh footballer
[46]
1991 –
Brandon Scherff , American football player
[47]
1991 –
Eden Sher , American actress
1991 –
Trevor Siemian , American football player
[48]
1992 –
Cecilia Costa Melgar , Chilean tennis player
[49]
1992 –
Jade Thirlwall , English singer
1994 –
Colby Cave , Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2020)
[50]
1994 –
Souleymane Coulibaly , Ivorian footballer
1997 –
Tamara Zidanšek , Slovenian tennis player
[51]
2001 –
Aleksej Pokuševski , Serbian basketball player
[52]
Deaths
Pre-1600
268 –
Dionysius , pope of the Catholic Church
[53]
418 –
Zosimus , pope of the Catholic Church
831 –
Euthymius of Sardis , Byzantine bishop and saint (b. 754)
865 –
Zheng , empress of the Tang Dynasty
893 –
Masrur al-Balkhi , Abbasid general
1006 –
Gao Qiong , Chinese general (b. 935)
1191 –
Reginald Fitz Jocelin , archbishop-elect of Canterbury
1302 –
Valdemar , king of Sweden (b. 1239)
1331 –
Philip I, Prince of Taranto , titular Latin Emperor (b. 1278)
1350 –
Jean de Marigny , French archbishop
1352 –
John, 3rd Earl of Kent , English politician (b. 1330)
1360 –
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent , English commander (b. 1314)
1413 –
Michele Steno , doge of Venice (b. 1331)
1441 –
Niccolò III d'Este , marquess of Ferrara
1458 –
Arthur III , duke of Brittany (b. 1393)
1476 –
Galeazzo Maria Sforza , duke of Milan (b. 1444)
1530 –
Babur , Mughal emperor (b. 1483)
1574 –
Charles de Lorraine , French cardinal (b. 1524)
1601–1900
1646 –
Henri de Bourbon , prince of Condé (b. 1588)
1731 –
Antoine Houdar de la Motte , French author (b. 1672)
1771 –
Claude Adrien Helvétius , French philosopher and activist (b. 1715)
1780 –
John Fothergill , English physician and botanist (b. 1712)
1784 –
Seth Warner , American colonel (b. 1743)
1786 –
Gasparo Gozzi , Italian playwright and critic (b. 1713)
1863 –
Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont , Irish politician,
Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (b. 1775)
1869 –
Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille , French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
1890 –
Heinrich Schliemann , German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
1901–present
1902 –
Mary Hartwell Catherwood , American author and poet (b. 1849)
[54]
1909 –
Frederic Remington , American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
1923 –
Dietrich Eckart , German journalist, poet, and politician (b. 1868)
1925 –
Jan Letzel , Czech architect, designed the
Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
1929 –
Albert Giraud , Belgian poet (b. 1860)
1931 –
Melvil Dewey , American librarian and educator, created the
Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
1933 –
Anatoly Lunacharsky , Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
1933 –
Henry Watson Fowler , English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)
1959 –
Jack Tresadern , English footballer and manager (b. 1890)
1960 –
Tetsuro Watsuji , Japanese historian and philosopher (b. 1889)
1963 –
Gorgeous George , American wrestler (b. 1915)
1966 –
Ina Boudier-Bakker , Dutch author (b. 1875)
1966 –
Herbert Otto Gille , German general (b. 1897)
1966 –
Guillermo Stábile , Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1905)
1968 –
Weegee , Ukrainian-American photographer and journalist (b. 1898)
1970 –
Lillian Board , South African-English runner (b. 1948)
1972 –
Harry S. Truman , American colonel and politician, 33rd
President of the United States (b. 1884)
1973 –
Harold B. Lee , American religious leader, 11th
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
1974 –
Farid al-Atrash , Syrian-Egyptian singer-songwriter,
oud player, and actor (b. 1915)
1974 –
Jack Benny , American comedian, vaudevillian, actor, and violinist (b. 1894)
1974 –
Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton , Scottish admiral (b. 1890)
1977 –
Howard Hawks , American director and screenwriter (b. 1896)
1980 –
Tony Smith , American sculptor and educator (b. 1912)
1980 –
Richard Chase , American cannibalistic serial killer and necrophile (b. 1950)
[55]
1981 –
Amber Reeves , New Zealand-English author and scholar (b. 1887)
1981 –
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü , Turkish politician,
Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1903)
1981 –
Savitri , Indian actress, playback singer, dancer, director and producer (b. 1936)
1983 –
Hans Liska , Austrian-German artist (b. 1907)
[56]
1986 –
Elsa Lanchester , English-American actress (b. 1902)
1987 –
Dorothy Bliss , American invertebrate zoologist, curator at the American Museum of Natural History (b. 1916)
1988 –
Glenn McCarthy , American businessman, founded the
Shamrock Hotel (b. 1907)
1988 –
Pablo Sorozábal , German-Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1897)
1989 –
Doug Harvey , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924)
1990 –
Gene Callahan , American art director and production designer (b. 1923)
1994 –
Sylva Koscina , Italian actress (b. 1933)
1996 –
JonBenét Ramsey , American child beauty queen and prominent unsolved murder victim (b. 1990)
1997 –
Cahit Arf , Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1910)
1997 –
Cornelius Castoriadis , Greek economist and philosopher (b. 1922)
1998 –
Ram Swarup , Indian writer on Hindu philosophy and religion (b. 1920)
1999 –
Curtis Mayfield , American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1942)
1999 –
Shankar Dayal Sharma , Indian academic and politician, 9th
President of India (b. 1918)
2000 –
Jason Robards , American actor (b. 1922)
2001 –
Nigel Hawthorne , English actor (b. 1929)
2002 –
Herb Ritts , American photographer and director (b. 1952)
2002 –
Armand Zildjian , American businessman, founded the
Avedis Zildjian Company (b. 1921)
2003 –
Virginia Coffey , American civil rights activist (b. 1904)
2004 –
Jonathan Drummond-Webb , South African surgeon and academic (b. 1959)
2004 –
Angus Ogilvy , English businessman (b. 1928)
2004 –
Reggie White , American football player and wrestler (b. 1961)
Casualties of the
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami :
2005 –
Muriel Costa-Greenspon , American soprano (b. 1937)
2005 –
Ted Ditchburn , English footballerand manager (b. 1921)
2005 –
Kerry Packer , Australian publisher and businessman (b. 1937)
2005 –
Viacheslav Platonov , Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1939)
2005 –
Vincent Schiavelli , American actor (b. 1948)
2005 –
Erich Topp , German commander (b. 1914)
2006 –
Gerald Ford , American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th
President of the United States (b. 1913)
2006 –
Ivar Formo , Norwegian skier and engineer (b. 1951)
2006 –
Munir Niazi , Indian-Pakistani poet (b. 1928)
2009 –
Felix Wurman , American cellist and composer (b. 1958)
2010 –
Salvador Jorge Blanco , 48th President of the Dominican Republic (b. 1926)
2010 –
Edward Bhengu , South African activist (b. 1934)
2010 –
Teena Marie , American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1956)
2011 –
Houston Antwine , American football player (b. 1939)
2011 –
Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. , Mexican-American actor and producer (b. 1940)
2011 –
Sarekoppa Bangarappa , Indian politician, 15th
Chief Minister of Karnataka (b. 1932)
2011 –
Joe Bodolai , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1948)
2011 –
James Rizzi , American painter and illustrator (b. 1950)
2012 –
Gerry Anderson , English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
2012 –
Gerald McDermott , American author and illustrator (b. 1941)
2012 –
Ibrahim Tannous , Lebanese general (b. 1929)
2013 –
Paul Blair , American baseball player and coach (b. 1944)
2013 –
Marta Eggerth , Hungarian-American actress and singer (b. 1912)
2014 –
Stanisław Barańczak , Polish-American poet, critic, and scholar (b. 1946)
2014 –
James B. Edwards , American dentist, soldier, and politician, 3rd
United States Secretary of Energy (b. 1927)
2014 –
Leo Tindemans , Belgian politician, 43rd
Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1922)
2015 –
Sidney Mintz , American anthropologist and academic (b. 1922)
2015 –
Jim O'Toole , American baseball player (b. 1937)
2016 –
Ricky Harris , American comedian, actor (b. 1962)
2016 –
George S. Irving , American actor, singer and dancer (b. 1922)
2017 –
Irv Weinstein , American broadcaster and television news anchor (b. 1930)
2020 –
Brodie Lee , American Professional Wrestler (b. 1979)
2021 –
Giacomo Capuzzi , Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodi (b. 1929)
[57]
2021 –
Paul B. Kidd , Australian author, journalist, and radio show host (b. 1945)
[58]
2021 –
Karolos Papoulias , Greek politician,
President of Greece from 2005 to 2015 (b. 1929)
[59]
2021 –
Desmond Tutu , South African Anglican bishop, theologian and anti-apartheid and human rights activist (b. 1931)
[60]
2021 –
Edward O. Wilson , American biologist (b. 1929)
[61]
2023 –
Lukas Enembe , Indonesian politician,
Governor of Papua from 2013 to 2023 (b.1967)
[62]
2023 –
Tom Smothers , American comedian, actor, and activist (b. 1937)
[63]
Holidays and observances
Boxing Day , except when December 26 is a Sunday. If it is a Sunday, Boxing Day is transferred to
December 27 by Royal Proclamation. (
Commonwealth of Nations ), and its related observances:
Christian
feast day :
Independence and Unity Day (Slovenia)
Mauro Hamza Day (
Houston, Texas )
Mummer's Day (
Padstow ,
Cornwall )
St. Stephen's Day (public holiday in
Alsace , Austria,
Catalonia ,
Croatia , the Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy,
Ireland ,
Luxembourg , Poland,
Slovakia and Switzerland), and its related observances:
The first day of
Kwanzaa , celebrated until January 1 (United States)
The first day of
Junkanoo street parade, the second day is on the
New Year's Day (
The Bahamas )
The second day of the
Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
Second day of Christmas (Public holiday in
the Netherlands , Poland and Slovakia)
Veer Baal Divas, is observed to pay tribute to martyr sons of
Guru Gobind Singh ji .
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Wren Day (
Ireland and the
Isle of Man )
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