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Day of the year
December 7 is the 341st day of the year (342nd in
leap years ) in the
Gregorian calendar ; 24 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
Pre-1600
1601–1900
1703 – The
Great Storm of 1703 , the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.
1724 –
Tumult of Thorn : Religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine
Protestant citizens and the mayor of
Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.
1732 – The
Royal Opera House opens at
Covent Garden , London, England.
1776 –
Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette , arranges to enter the American military as a major general.
1787 –
Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the
United States Constitution .
1837 – The
Battle of Montgomery's Tavern , the only battle of the
Upper Canada Rebellion , takes place in
Toronto , where the rebels are quickly defeated.
[4]
1842 – First concert of the
New York Philharmonic , founded by
Ureli Corelli Hill .
1901–present
1904 – Comparative fuel trials begin between
warships
HMS Spiteful and
HMS Peterel : Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by
fuel oil , and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the
Royal Navy .
1917 –
World War I : The United States declares war on
Austria-Hungary .
1922 – The
Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the
United Kingdom and not unify with
Southern Ireland .
1930 –
W1XAV in
Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the
CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers . The telecast also includes the first
television advertisement in the United States, for I.J. Fox Furriers, which also sponsored the radio show.
1932 – German-born Swiss
physicist
Albert Einstein is granted an American
visa .
1936 – Australian
cricketer
Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score
centuries in four consecutive
Test innings.
1941 –
World War II :
Attack on Pearl Harbor : The
Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the
United States Pacific Fleet and its defending
Army and Marine air forces at
Pearl Harbor , Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on
Eastern Hemisphere targets, see
December 8 .)
1942 – World War II: British commandos conduct
Operation Frankton , a raid on shipping in
Bordeaux harbour.
1944 –
An earthquake along the coast of Wakayama Prefecture in Japan causes a tsunami which kills 1,223 people.
[5]
1946 –
A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in
Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.
1949 –
Chinese Civil War : The
Government of the Republic of China
moves from
Nanjing to
Taipei ,
Taiwan .
1962 – Prince
Rainier III of
Monaco revises the
principality 's
constitution , devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.
1963 –
Instant replay makes its debut during the
Army-Navy football game in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , United States.
1965 –
Pope Paul VI and
Patriarch Athenagoras I
simultaneously revoke mutual
excommunications that had been in place since
1054 .
1971 – The
Battle of Sylhet is fought between the
Pakistani military and the
Indian Army .
[6]
1971 –
Pakistan President
Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with
Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
1972 –
Apollo 17 , the last
Apollo Moon mission , is launched.
[7] The crew takes the photograph known as
The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.
[8]
1982 – In
Texas ,
Charles Brooks Jr. , becomes the first person to be
executed by
lethal injection in the United States.
1982 – The
Senior Road Tower collapses in less than 17 seconds. Five workers on the tower are killed and three workers on a building nearby are injured.
[9]
[10]
1983 – An
Iberia Airlines
Boeing 727
collides with an
Aviaco
DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at
Madrid–Barajas Airport , killing 93 people.
1987 –
Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 , a
British Aerospace 146-200A , crashes near
Paso Robles, California , killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground.
1988 – The 6.8 Ms
Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum
MSK intensity of X (Devastating ), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.
1993 –
Long Island Rail Road shooting : Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the
LIRR in
Nassau County, New York .
1995 – The
Galileo spacecraft arrives at
Jupiter , a little more than six years after it was launched by
Space Shuttle Atlantis during
Mission STS-34 .
1995 –
Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashes into the
Bo-Dzhausa Mountain , killing 98.
[11]
1995 – An Air Saint Martin (now
Air Caraïbes )
Beechcraft 1900
crashes near the Haitian commune of
Belle Anse , killing 20.
[12]
2003 – The
Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the
Canadian Alliance and the
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada .
2005 –
Rigoberto Alpizar , a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S.
federal air marshals at
Miami International Airport .
2015 – The
JAXA probe
Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around
Venus five years after the first attempt.
2016 –
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661 , a domestic passenger flight from
Chitral to
Islamabad , operated by an
ATR-42-500 crashes near
Havelian , killing all 47 on board.
2017 –
Aztec High School shooting : Former student William Atchison opens fire on former high school, killing 2.
Births
Pre-1600
521 –
Columba , Irish missionary, monk, and saint (d. 597)
903 –
Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi , Persian astronomer and author (d. 986)
967 –
Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr , Persian Sufi poet (d. 1049)
1302 –
Azzone Visconti , Italian nobleman (d. 1339)
1532 –
Louis I , German nobleman and politician (d. 1605)
1545 –
Henry Stuart , English-Scottish husband of
Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1567)
1561 –
Kikkawa Hiroie , Japanese daimyō (d. 1625)
1595 –
Injo of Joseon , Korean king (d. 1649)
1598 –
Gian Lorenzo Bernini , Italian sculptor and painter (d. 1680)
1601–1900
1643 –
Giovanni Battista Falda , Italian architect and engraver (d. 1678)
1637 –
Bernardo Pasquini , Italian organist and composer (d. 1710)
1756 –
John Littlejohn , American sheriff and Methodist preacher (d. 1836)
[13]
1764 –
Claude Victor-Perrin , French general and politician (d. 1841)
1784 –
Allan Cunningham , Scottish author and poet (d. 1842)
1791 –
Ferenc Novák , Hungarian-Slovene priest and poet (d. 1836)
1792 –
Abraham Jacob van der Aa , Dutch author and academic (d. 1857)
1801 –
Johann Nestroy , Austrian actor and playwright (d. 1862)
1810 –
Josef Hyrtl , Hungarian-Austrian anatomist and biologist (d. 1894)
1810 –
Theodor Schwann , German physiologist and biologist (d. 1882)
1823 –
Leopold Kronecker , Polish-German mathematician and academic (d. 1891)
1838 –
Thomas Bent , Australian businessman and politician, 22nd
Premier of Victoria (d. 1909)
1860 –
Joseph Cook , English-born Australian politician, 6th
Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
1861 –
Henri Mathias Berthelot , French general during World War I (d. 1931)
1862 –
Paul Adam , French author (d. 1920)
1863 –
Felix Calonder , Swiss soldier and politician, 36th
President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1952)
1863 –
Pietro Mascagni , Italian composer and conductor (d. 1945)
1863 –
Richard Warren Sears , American businessman, co-founded
Sears (d. 1914)
1869 –
Frank Laver , Australian cricketer (d. 1919)
1873 –
Willa Cather , American novelist, short story writer, and poet (d. 1947)
1878 –
Akiko Yosano , Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer (d. 1942)
1879 –
Rudolf Friml , Czech-American pianist, composer, and academic (d. 1972)
1884 –
John Carpenter , American sprinter (d. 1933)
1885 –
Mason Phelps , American golfer (d. 1945)
1885 –
Peter Sturholdt , American boxer and painter (d. 1919)
1887 –
Ernst Toch , Austrian-American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)
1888 –
Joyce Cary , Irish novelist (d. 1957)
[14]
1888 –
Hamilton Fish III , American captain and politician (d. 1991)
1892 –
Stuart Davis , American painter and academic (d. 1964)
1893 –
Fay Bainter , American actress (d. 1968)
1893 –
Hermann Balck , German general (d. 1982)
1894 –
Freddie Adkins , English author and illustrator (d. 1986)
1900 –
Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur , Ukrainian folk artist (d. 1961)
1901–present
1902 –
Hilda Taba , Estonian architect, author, and educator (d. 1967)
1903 –
Danilo Blanuša , Croatian mathematician, physicist, and academic (d. 1987)
1904 –
Clarence Nash , American voice actor and singer (d. 1985)
1905 –
Gerard Kuiper , Dutch-American astronomer and academic (d. 1973)
1906 –
Erika Fuchs , German translator (d. 2005)
[15]
1907 –
Fred Rose , Polish-Canadian politician and spy (d. 1983)
1909 –
Nikola Vaptsarov , Bulgarian poet and author (d. 1942)
1910 –
Duncan McNaughton , Canadian high jumper and geologist (d. 1998)
1910 –
Louis Prima , American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor (d. 1978)
1912 –
Daniel Jones , Welsh captain and composer (d. 1993)
1913 –
Kersti Merilaas , Estonian author and poet (d. 1986)
1915 –
Leigh Brackett , American author and screenwriter (d. 1978)
1915 –
Eli Wallach , American actor (d. 2014)
1920 –
Tatamkhulu Afrika , South African poet and author (d. 2002)
1920 –
Fiorenzo Magni , Italian cyclist (d. 2012)
1920 –
Walter Nowotny , Austrian-German soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
1921 –
Pramukh Swami Maharaj , Indian guru and scholar (d. 2016)
1923 –
Intizar Hussain , Indian-Pakistani author and scholar (d. 2016)
1923 –
Ted Knight , American actor and comedian (d. 1986)
1924 –
Bent Fabric , Danish pianist and composer (d. 2020)
1924 –
John Love , Zimbabwean race car driver (d. 2005)
1924 –
Mary Ellen Rudin , American mathematician (d. 2013)
[16]
1924 –
Mário Soares , Portuguese historian, lawyer, and politician, 17th
President of Portugal (d. 2017)
1925 –
Hermano da Silva Ramos , French-Brazilian race car driver
1925 –
Max Zaslofsky , American basketball player and coach (d. 1985)
[17]
1926 –
William John McNaughton , American bishop (d. 2020)
1927 –
Jack S. Blanton , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
1927 –
Helen Watts , Welsh opera singer (d. 2009)
1928 –
Noam Chomsky , American linguist and philosopher
[18]
1928 –
Mickey Thompson , American race car driver (d. 1988)
1930 –
Christopher Nicole , Guyanese-English author
1930 –
Hal Smith , American baseball player (d. 2020)
1931 –
Allan B. Calhamer , American game designer, created
Diplomacy (d. 2013)
1931 –
Bobby Osborne , American bluegrass singer and musician (d. 2023)
[18]
1932 –
Ellen Burstyn , American actress
[18]
1932 –
Oktay Ekşi , Turkish journalist and politician
1932 –
Rosemary Rogers , American journalist and author (d. 2019)
1932 –
J. B. Sumarlin , Indonesian economist and politician, 17th
Indonesian Minister of Finance (d. 2020)
1932 –
Bobby Whitton , Australian rugby league player (d. 2008)
1933 –
Krsto Papić , Croatian director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1935 –
Armando Manzanero , Mexican musician, singer and composer (d. 2020)
1937 –
Stan Boardman , English comedian
1937 –
Thad Cochran , American lawyer and politician (d. 2019)
1940 –
Gerry Cheevers , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1941 –
Melba Pattillo Beals , American journalist and activist
1942 –
Harry Chapin , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)
[19]
1942 –
Alex Johnson , American baseball player (d. 2015)
1942 –
Reginald F. Lewis , American businessman (d. 1993)
[20]
1942 –
Peter Tomarken , American game show host and producer (d. 2006)
1943 –
Susan Isaacs , American author and screenwriter
1943 –
Nick Katz , American mathematician and academic
1943 –
Bernard C. Parks , American police officer and politician
1943 –
John Bennett Ramsey , American businessman and pilot
1944 –
Daniel Chorzempa , American organist and composer
1944 –
Miroslav Macek , Czech dentist and politician
1947 –
Johnny Bench , American baseball player and sportscaster
[18]
1947 –
Anne Fine , English author
1947 –
James Keach , American actor, producer, and director
1947 –
Garry Unger , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
1948 –
Gary Morris , American country singer-songwriter and actor
[18]
1948 –
Tony Thomas , American screenwriter and producer
1949 –
James Rivière , Italian sculptor and jeweler
1949 –
Tom Waits , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
[18]
1950 –
Ron Hynes , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
1952 –
Susan Collins , American politician
1952 –
Eckhard Märzke , German footballer and manager
1954 –
Mary Fallin , American businesswoman and politician, 27th
Governor of Oklahoma
1955 –
John Watkins , Australian educator and politician, 14th
Deputy Premier of New South Wales
1956 –
Larry Bird , American basketball player and coach
[18]
1956 –
Chuy Bravo , Mexican-American comedian and actor (d. 2019)
[21]
1956 –
Anna Soubry , British politician
1957 –
Geoff Lawson , Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
1957 –
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande , Nigerian career-diplomat,
President of the United Nations General Assembly (2019)
1957 –
Tom Winsor , English lawyer and civil servant
1958 –
Tim Butler , English bass player and songwriter
[18]
1958 –
Rick Rude , American wrestler and sportscaster (d. 1999)
1959 –
Saleem Yousuf , Pakistani cricketer
1960 –
Craig Scanlon , English guitarist and songwriter
1962 –
Alain Blondel , French decathlete
1962 –
Jeffrey Donaldson , Northern Irish politician
1962 –
Imad Mughniyah , Lebanese activist (d. 2008)
1963 –
Theo Snelders , Dutch footballer and coach
1963 –
Katsuya Terada , Japanese illustrator
1963 –
Barbara Weathers , American R&B/soul singer
1964 –
Hugo Blick , English filmmaker
1964 –
Patrick Fabian , American actor
[18]
1964 –
Peter Laviolette , American ice hockey player and coach
1965 –
Deborah Bassett , Australian rower
[22]
1965 –
Colin Hendry , Scottish footballer and manager
1965 –
Jeffrey Wright , American actor
[18]
1966 –
C. Thomas Howell , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
[18]
1966 –
Shinichi Ito , Japanese motorcycle racer
1966 –
Kazue Itoh , Japanese actress
1966 –
Andres Kasekamp , Canadian-Estonian historian and academic
1966 –
Louise Post , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967 –
Mark Geyer , Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
1967 –
Tino Martinez , American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
1967 –
Nina Turner , American politician
1971 –
Vladimir Akopian , Azerbaijani-Armenian chess player
1972 –
Hermann Maier , Austrian skier
1972 –
Tammy Lynn Sytch , American wrestler and manager
1973 –
İbrahim Kutluay , Turkish basketball player
1973 –
Hack Meyers , American wrestler and trainer (d. 2015)
1973 –
Terrell Owens , American football player
[19]
1973 –
Fabien Pelous , French rugby player and coach
1973 –
Damien Rice , Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer
1974 –
Nicole Appleton , Canadian singer and actress
[19]
1974 –
Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez , Spanish shot putter and actor
1975 –
Jamie Clapham , English footballer and coach
1976 –
Alan Faneca , American football player
1976 –
Ivan Franceschini , Italian footballer
1976 –
Georges Laraque , Canadian ice hockey player and politician
1976 –
Derek Ramsay , Filipino-British actor, model and television personality
1976 –
Sunny Sweeney , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
[18]
1976 –
Benoît Tréluyer , French race car driver
1977 –
Eric Chavez , American baseball player and sportscaster
1977 –
Luke Donald , English golfer
1977 –
Dominic Howard , English drummer and producer
1978 –
Shiri Appleby , American actress, director, and producer
[18]
1978 –
Suzannah Lipscomb , English historian, academic and television presenter
1979 –
Sara Bareilles , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
[18]
1979 –
Jennifer Carpenter , American actress
[18]
1979 –
Lampros Choutos , Greek-Italian footballer
1979 –
Ayako Fujitani , Japanese actress and screenwriter
1980 –
Dan Bilzerian , American poker player and
internet celebrity
[23]
1980 –
John Terry , English footballer
1982 –
Lou Amundson , American basketball player
[24]
1982 –
Jack Huston , English actor
[18]
1983 –
Mike Mucitelli , American mixed martial artist
1983 –
Al Thornton , American basketball player
[25]
1984 –
Aaron Gray , American basketball player
1984 –
Robert Kubica , Polish race car driver
1984 –
Milan Michálek , Czech ice hockey player
1984 –
Luca Rigoni , Italian footballer
1985 –
Jon Moxley , American wrestler
1986 –
Billy Horschel , American golfer
1986 –
Nita Strauss , American guitarist
1987 –
Aaron Carter , American singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer, and actor (d. 2022)
[26]
1988 –
Nathan Adrian , American swimmer
1988 –
Emily Browning , Australian actress and singer
[19]
1988 –
Angelina Gabueva , Russian tennis player
1988 –
Andrew Goudelock , American basketball player
[27]
1989 –
Kyle Hendricks , American baseball player
1989 –
Nicholas Hoult , English actor
[18]
1989 –
Philip Larsen , Danish ice hockey player
[28]
1989 –
Alessandro Marchi , Italian footballer
1989 –
Kevin Séraphin , French basketball player
[29]
1990 –
Cameron Bairstow , Australian basketball player
[30]
1990 –
David Goffin , Belgian tennis player
1990 –
Aleksandr Menkov , Russian long jumper
1990 –
Yasiel Puig , Cuban baseball player
1990 –
Urszula Radwańska , Polish tennis player
1991 –
Eugenio Pisani , Italian race car driver
1992 –
Sean Couturier , American-Canadian ice hockey player
[31]
1993 –
Rahama Sadau , Nigerian actress
1994 –
Pete Alonso , American baseball player
[32]
1994 –
Yuzuru Hanyu , Japanese figure skater
1994 –
Hunter Henry , American football player
[33]
1997 –
Abi Harrison , Scottish footballer
[34]
1997 –
Tommy Nelson , American actor
1998 –
Tony Yike Yang , Canadian pianist
1999 –
Pavol Regenda , Slovak ice hockey player
[35]
Deaths
Pre-1600
43 BC –
Cicero , Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician (b. 106 BC)
283 –
Eutychian , pope of the Catholic Church
881 –
Anspert , archbishop of Milan
983 –
Otto II , Holy Roman Emperor (b. 955)
1254 –
Innocent IV , pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1195)
1279 –
Bolesław V , High Duke of Poland (b. 1226)
1295 –
Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester , English officer (b. 1243)
1383 –
Wenceslaus I , duke of Luxembourg (b. 1337)
1498 –
Alexander Hegius von Heek , German poet (b. 1433)
1562 –
Adrian Willaert , Dutch-Italian composer and educator (b. 1490)
1601–1900
1649 –
Charles Garnier , French missionary and saint (b. 1606)
1672 –
Richard Bellingham , English-American lawyer and politician, 8th
Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1592)
1680 –
Peter Lely , Dutch-English painter (b. 1618)
1683 –
Algernon Sidney , English philosopher and politician,
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1623)
1723 –
Jan Santini Aichel , Czech architect, designed the
Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk and
Karlova Koruna Chateau (b. 1677)
1725 –
Florent Carton Dancourt , French actor and playwright (b. 1661)
1772 –
Martín Sarmiento , Spanish monk, scholar, and author (b. 1695)
1775 –
Charles Saunders , English admiral and politician (b. 1715)
1793 –
Joseph Bara , French soldier and drummer (b. 1779)
1803 –
Küçük Hüseyin Pasha , Turkish admiral and politician (b. 1757)
1815 –
Michel Ney , German-French general (b. 1769)
1817 –
William Bligh , English admiral and politician, 4th
Governor of New South Wales (b. 1745)
1837 –
Robert Nicoll , Scottish poet (b.1814)
1842 –
Thomas Hamilton , Scottish philosopher and author (b. 1789)
1874 –
Constantin von Tischendorf , German theologian, scholar, and academic (b. 1815)
1879 –
Jón Sigurðsson , Icelandic scholar and politician, 1st
Speaker of the Parliament of Iceland (b. 1811)
1891 –
Arthur Blyth , English-Australian politician, 9th
Premier of South Australia (b. 1823)
1894 –
Ferdinand de Lesseps , French businessman and diplomat, co-developed the
Suez Canal (b. 1805)
1899 –
Juan Luna , Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
1901–present
1902 –
Thomas Nast , German-American cartoonist (b. 1840)
1906 –
Élie Ducommun , Swiss journalist and educator,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
1913 –
Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano , Italian cardinal (b. 1828)
1917 –
Ludwig Minkus , Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1826)
1918 –
Frank Wilson , English-Australian politician, 9th
Premier of Western Australia (b. 1859)
1941 –
Attack on Pearl Harbor :
Mervyn S. Bennion , American captain (b. 1887)
Frederick Curtice Davis , American sailor (b. 1915)
Julius Ellsberry , American sailor (b. 1921)
John C. England , American sailor (b. 1920)
Edwin J. Hill , American sailor (b. 1894)
Ralph Hollis , American sailor (b. 1906)
Herbert C. Jones , American sailor (b. 1918)
Isaac C. Kidd , American admiral (b. 1884)
Robert Lawrence Leopold , American sailor (b. 1916)
Herbert Hugo Menges , American sailor (b. 1917)
Thomas James Reeves , American sailor (b. 1895)
Aloysius Schmitt , American priest and sailor (b. 1909)
Robert R. Scott , American sailor (b. 1915)
Peter Tomich , American sailor (b. 1893)
Robert Uhlmann , American sailor (b. 1919)
Franklin Van Valkenburgh , American captain (b. 1888)
Eldon P. Wyman , American sailor (b. 1917)
1947 –
Tristan Bernard , French author and playwright (b. 1866)
1947 –
Nicholas Murray Butler , American philosopher and academic,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1949 –
Rex Beach , American author, playwright, and water polo player (b. 1877)
1956 –
Huntley Gordon , Canadian-American actor (b. 1887)
1956 –
Reşat Nuri Güntekin , Turkish author and playwright (b. 1889)
1960 –
Ioannis Demestichas , Greek admiral and politician (b. 1882)
1962 –
Kirsten Flagstad , Norwegian opera singer (b. 1895)
1969 –
Lefty O'Doul , American baseball player and manager (b. 1897)
1969 –
Eric Portman , English actor (b. 1903)
1970 –
Rube Goldberg , American cartoonist, sculptor, and author (b. 1883)
1975 –
Thornton Wilder , American novelist and playwright (b. 1897)
1975 –
Hardie Albright , American actor (b. 1903)
1976 –
Paul Bragg , American nutritionist (b. 1895)
1977 –
Paul Gibb , English cricketer and umpire (b. 1913)
1977 –
Peter Carl Goldmark , Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906)
1977 –
Georges Grignard , French race car driver (b. 1905)
1978 –
Alexander Wetmore , American ornithologist and paleontologist (b. 1886)
1979 –
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin , English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900)
1980 –
Darby Crash , American punk rock vocalist and songwriter (b. 1958)
[36]
1984 –
Jack Mercer , American voice actor (b. 1910)
1984 –
LeeRoy Yarbrough , American race car driver (b. 1938)
1985 –
J. R. Eyerman , American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)
1985 –
Robert Graves , English poet, novelist, critic (b. 1895)
1985 –
Potter Stewart , American soldier and jurist (b. 1915)
1989 –
Haystacks Calhoun , American wrestler and actor (b. 1934)
1989 –
Hans Hartung , French-German painter (b. 1904)
1990 –
Joan Bennett , American actress (b. 1910)
1990 –
Jean Paul Lemieux , Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904)
1992 –
Richard J. Hughes , American politician, 45th
Governor of New Jersey , and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (b. 1909)
1993 –
Abidin Dino , Turkish-French painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
1993 –
Félix Houphouët-Boigny , Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st
President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
1995 –
Kathleen Harrison , English actress (b. 1892)
1997 –
Billy Bremner , Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1942)
1998 –
John Addison , English-American composer and conductor (b. 1920)
1998 –
Martin Rodbell , American biochemist and endocrinologist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
2003 –
Carl F. H. Henry American journalist and theologian (b. 1913)
2003 –
Azie Taylor Morton , American educator and politician, 36th
Treasurer of the United States (b. 1933)
2004 –
Frederick Fennell , American conductor and educator (b. 1914)
2004 –
Jerry Scoggins , American singer and guitarist (b. 1913)
2004 –
Jay Van Andel , American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded
Amway (b. 1924)
2005 –
Bud Carson , American football player and coach (b. 1931)
2006 –
Jeane Kirkpatrick , American academic and diplomat, 16th
United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1926)
2008 –
Herbert Hutner , American banker and lawyer (b. 1908)
2010 –
Elizabeth Edwards , American lawyer and author (b. 1949)
2010 –
Kari Tapio , Finnish singer (b. 1945)
[37]
2011 –
Harry Morgan , American actor (b. 1915)
2012 –
Roelof Kruisinga , Dutch physician and politician,
Dutch Minister of Defence (b. 1922)
2012 –
Ralph Parr , American colonel and pilot (b. 1924)
2012 –
Marty Reisman , American table tennis player and author (b. 1930)
2012 –
Saul Steinberg , American businessman and financier (b. 1939)
2013 –
Édouard Molinaro , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2013 –
Chick Willis , American singer and guitarist (b. 1934)
2014 –
Mark Lewis , American author and educator (b. 1954)
2015 –
Gerhard Lenski , American sociologist and academic (b. 1924)
2015 –
Hyron Spinrad , American astronomer and academic (b. 1934)
2015 –
Peter Westbury , English race car driver (b. 1938)
2016 –
Junaid Jamshed , Pakistani recording artist, television personality, fashion designer, occasional actor, singer-songwriter and preacher. (b. 1964)
2015 –
Shirley Stelfox , English actress (b. 1941)
[38]
2016 –
Greg Lake , English musician (b. 1947)
2017 –
Steve Reevis , Native American actor (b. 1962)
[39]
2019 –
Ron Saunders , English football player and manager (b. 1932)
[40]
2020 –
Dick Allen , American baseball player and tenor (b. 1942)
[41]
2020 –
Chuck Yeager , American aviator (b. 1923)
[42]
2023 –
Benjamin Zephaniah , British writer and
dub poet (b.1958)
[43]
2023 –
Refaat Alareer , Palestinian professor and writer (b.1979)
[44]
2023 –
Emiko Miyamoto , Japanese volleyball player (b.1937)
[45]
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