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December 5 is the 339th day of the year (340th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 26 days remaining until the end of the year.
63 BC – Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catiline Orations .
633 – Fourth Council of Toledo takes place.
1082 – Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona is assassinated.
1408 – Emir Edigu of Golden Horde reaches Moscow.
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.
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.
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.
1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga , Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts .
1815 – Foundation of Maceió , Brazil.
1831 – Former U.S. President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives .
1847 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the U.S. senate.
1848 – California Gold Rush : In a message to the United States Congress , U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California .
1865 – Chincha Islands War : Peru allies with Chile against Spain.
1876 – The Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn , New York.
1916 – British premier H. H. Asquith resigns from his post.
1920 – Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece .
1931 – Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed by an order of Joseph Stalin .
1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa .
1933 – Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution , thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment. (This overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States.)
1934 – Abyssinia Crisis : Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia , taking four days to capture the 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, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.
1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania .
1943 – World War II: Allied air forces begin attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow .
1945 – Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle .
1952 – Great Smog : A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.
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 .
1957 – Sukarno expels all Dutch people from Indonesia .
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 discovered 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.
1969 – The four node ARPANET network is established.
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.
1978 – The Soviet Union signs a "friendship treaty" with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan .
1983 – Dissolution of the Military Junta in Argentina .
1993 – The mayor of Vienna , Helmut Zilk , is injured by a letter bomb .
1995 – Sri Lankan Civil War : The Sri Lankan government announces the conquest of the Tamil stronghold of Jaffna .
2004 – The Civil Partnership Act comes into effect in the United Kingdom, and the first civil partnership is registered there.
2005 – The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
2006 – Commodore Frank Bainimarama overthrows the government in Fiji .
2007 – Westroads Mall shooting : A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska , mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.
2012 – At least 8 people are killed and 12 others injured after a 5.6 earthquake strikes Iran 's South Khorasan Province .
2013 – Militants attack a Defense Ministry compound in Sana'a , Yemen , killing at least 56 people and injuring 200 others.
2014 – The first flight test of NASA 's Orion spacecraft launches successfully.
852 – Zhu Wen , Chinese emperor (d. 912)
1377 – Jianwen Emperor of China (d. 1402)
1443 – Pope Julius II (d. 1513)
1495 – Nicolas Cleynaerts , Flemish philologist and lexicographer (d. 1542)
1537 – Ashikaga Yoshiaki , Japanese shogun (d. 1597)
1539 – Fausto Sozzini , Italian theologian and author (d. 1604)
1547 – Ubbo Emmius , Dutch historian and geographer (d. 1625)
1595 – Henry Lawes , English composer (d. 1662)
1661 – Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer , English 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 draughtsman and watercolour 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 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)
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)
1863 – Paul Painlevé , French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (d. 1933)
1866 – Traian Demetrescu , Romanian poet and novelist (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)
1871 – Bill Pickett , American rodeo performer (d. 1932)
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 – Pieter Oud , Dutch historian, academic, and politician, Minister of Finance of the Netherlands (d. 1968)
1886 – Rose Wilder Lane , American journalist and author (d. 1968)
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)
1901 – Milton H. Erickson , American psychiatrist and author (d. 1980)
1901 – Werner Heisenberg , German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976)
1901 – Marjorie Eaton , American painter and actress (d. 1986)
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)
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 – Gus Mancuso , American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster (d. 1984)
1906 – Otto Preminger , Austrian-American actor, director, and producer (d. 1986)
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)
1909 – Musashiyama Takeshi , Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1969)
1910 – Abraham Polonsky , American director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
1911 – Władysław Szpilman , Polish pianist and composer (d. 2000)
1912 – Sonny Boy Williamson II , American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (d. 1965)
1913 – Esther Borja , Cuban soprano and actress (d. 2013)
1914 – Hans Hellmut Kirst , German lieutenant and author (d. 1989)
1916 – Margaret Hayes , American actress (d. 1977)
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 race car driver (d. 2004)
1917 – Wenche Foss , Norwegian actress (d. 2011)
1919 – Alun Gwynne Jones, Baron Chalfont , English historian and politician
1921 – Alvy Moore , American actor and producer (d. 1997)
1922 – Casey Ribicoff , American philanthropist and socialite (d. 2011)
1924 – Robert Sobukwe , South African politician (d. 1978)
1925 – Anastasio Somoza Debayle , Nicaraguan politician, 73rd President of Nicaragua (d. 1980)
1927 – Bhumibol Adulyadej , Thai king
1929 – Stanisław Bareja , Polish director (d. 1987)
1929 – Madis Kõiv , Estonian physicist, philosopher, and author (d. 2014)
1931 – Ladislav Novák , Czech footballer and manager (d. 2011)
1932 – Alf Dubs, Baron Dubs , Czech-English politician
1932 – Sheldon Lee Glashow , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 – Jim Hurtubise , American race car driver (d. 1989)
1932 – Little Richard , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
1933 – Gennadiy Agapov , Russian race walker (d. 1999)
1934 – Joan Didion , American author and screenwriter
1934 – Nikos Kourkoulos , Greek actor and director (d. 2007)
1935 – Marise Chamberlain , New Zealand runner
1935 – Calvin Trillin , American journalist, author, and poet
1935 – Yury Vlasov , Ukrainian-Russian weightlifter and politician
1936 – James Lee Burke , American journalist, author, and academic
1938 – JJ Cale , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Leathercoated Minds ) (d. 2013)
1938 – J.D. McDuffie , American race car driver (d. 1991)
1939 – Minita Chico-Nazario , Filipino lawyer and jurist
1940 – Boris Ignatyev , Russian footballer and manager
1940 – Peter Pohl , Swedish author, director, and screenwriter
1940 – Adrian Street , Welsh wrestler and actor
1940 – Frank Wilson , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2012)
1943 – Eva Joly , Norwegian-French judge and politician
1943 – Andrew Yeom Soo-jung , South Korean priest, 5th Archbishop of Seoul
1944 – Jeroen Krabbé , Dutch actor, director, and producer
1944 – Loukas Sideras , Greek drummer and producer (Aphrodite's Child )
1945 – Serge Chapleau , Canadian cartoonist
1945 – Moshe Katsav , Iranian-Israeli educator and politician, 8th President of Israel
1946 – José Carreras , Spanish tenor and actor
1946 – Andy Kim , Canadian singer-songwriter
1946 – Sarel van der Merwe , South African race car driver
1947 – Bruce Golding , Jamaican politician, 8th Prime Minister of Jamaica
1947 – Tony Gregory , Irish educator and politician (d. 2009)
1947 – Jim Messina , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Buffalo Springfield , Loggins and Messina , and Poco )
1947 – Jim Plunkett , American football player and radio host
1947 – Don Touhig , Welsh journalist and politician
1947 – Rick Wills , English bass player (Foreigner , Small Faces , Bad Company , Jokers Wild , and The Jones Gang )
1947 – Rudy Fernandez , Filipino triathlete
1949 – John Altman , English composer and conductor
1949 – David Manning , English diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States
1949 – Abdullah Senussi , Sudanese-Libyan general
1950 – Camarón de la Isla , Spanish singer and guitarist (d. 1992)
1950 – James Knaggs , American Salvation Army officer
1951 – Morgan Brittany , American actress
1951 – Link Byfield , Canadian journalist and author (d. 2015)
1951 – Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven , Belgian painter and illustrator
1951 – Larry Zbyszko , American wrestler
1952 – Bobby Barth , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Blackfoot )
1953 – Sachiko Kobayashi , Japanese singer and voice actress
1953 – Gwen Lister , South African-Namibian journalist, publisher, and activist
1954 – Hanif Kureishi , English author and playwright
1954 – Gary Roenicke , American baseball player
1955 – Juha Tiainen , Finnish hammer thrower (d. 2003)
1956 – Klaus Allofs , German footballer and manager
1956 – Brian Backer , American actor
1956 – Adam Thorpe , French-English author, poet, and playwright
1956 – Krystian Zimerman , Polish pianist and educator
1957 – Raquel Argandoña , Chilean model, actress, and politician
1957 – Patriz Ilg , German runner
1957 – Art Monk , American football player
1958 – Dean Erickson , American actor
1958 – Dynamite Kid , English wrestler
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 (Great White )
1960 – Matthew Taylor , English politician
1961 – Ralf Dujmovits , German mountaineer
1961 – Sophia Vossou , Greek singer and producer
1961 – Laura Flanders , English broadcast journalist
1962 – José Cura , Argentinian tenor, conductor, and director
1962 – Pablo Morales , American swimmer and coach
1962 – Nivek Ogre , Canadian singer-songwriter and actor (Skinny Puppy , ohGr , Ministry , and Rx )
1962 – Samart Payakaroon , Thai boxer, actor, and singer
1962 – Fred Rutten , Dutch footballer and manager
1963 – Doctor Dré , American television and radio host
1963 – Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards , English ski jumper
1963 – Ty England , American singer and guitarist
1963 – Carrie Hamilton , American actress (d. 2002)
1963 – Alberto Nisman , Argentinian lawyer (d. 2015)
1964 – Cliff Eidelman , American composer and conductor
1965 – Manish Malhotra , Indian fashion designer
1965 – John Rzeznik , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Goo Goo Dolls )
1965 – Wayne Smith , Jamaican rapper (d. 2014)
1965 – Valeriy Spitsyn , Russian race walker
1966 – Patricia Kaas , French singer-songwriter and actress
1966 – Lee Seung-chul , South Korean singer (Boohwal )
1967 – Gary Allan , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1967 – Konstantin-Assen, Prince of Vidin
1967 – Amanda Lepore , American model and singer
1968 – Margaret Cho , American comedian, actress, producer, and screenwriter
1968 – John Lundberg , English artist and documentary filmmaker
1968 – Lisa Marie , American model and actress
1968 – Lydia Millet , American author
1968 – Falilat Ogunkoya , Nigerian sprinter
1969 – Eric Etebari , American actor, director, and producer
1969 – Morgan J. Freeman , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1969 – Alex Kapp Horner , American actress
1969 – Sajid Javid , English banker and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
1969 – Lewis Pugh , English swimmer and lawyer
1969 – Ramón Ramírez , Mexican footballer
1970 – Kevin Haller , Canadian ice hockey player
1971 – Ashia Hansen , American-English triple jumper
1971 – Kali Rocha , American actress and screenwriter
1971 – Kavus Torabi , Iranian-English guitarist (Knifeworld , Cardiacs , The Monsoon Bassoon , Guapo , and Chrome Hoof )
1971 – Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg , German politician, Federal Minister of Defence
1972 – Cliff Floyd , American baseball player and sportscaster
1972 – Mike Mahoney , American baseball player
1972 – Duane Ross , American hurdler and coach
1972 – Angela Shelton , American actress, producer, and screenwriter
1973 – Argo Arbeiter , Estonian footballer
1973 – Arik Benado , Israeli footballer and manager
1973 – Shalom Harlow , Canadian model and actress
1973 – Andrei Krasnopjorov , Estonian footballer
1973 – Mikelangelo Loconte , Italian singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1973 – Luboš Motl , Czech physicist and academic
1973 – Danielle Winits , Brazilian actress, singer, and dancer
1974 – Charlie Batch , American football player
1974 – Brian Lewis , American sprinter
1974 – Elbrus Tedeyev , Ukrainian wrestler and politician
1975 – Ronnie O'Sullivan , English snooker player
1975 – Paula Patton , American actress
1976 – Amy Acker , American actress
1976 – Xavier Garbajosa , French rugby player
1976 – Rachel Komisarz , American swimmer
1977 – Peter van der Vlag , Dutch footballer
1978 – Pachrapa Chaichua , Thai actress
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 – Evonne Hsu , American-Taiwanese singer and actress
1979 – Gareth McAuley , Irish footballer
1979 – Nick Stahl , American actor and producer
1980 – Tamara Feldman , American actress
1980 – Shizuka Itō , Japanese voice actress and singer
1980 – Ibrahim Maalouf , Lebanese-French trumpet player and composer
1981 – Leila Tong , Hong Kong actress and singer
1982 – Eddy Curry , American basketball player
1982 – Trai Essex , American football player
1982 – Keri Hilson , American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress (The Clutch )
1982 – Karl Palatu , Estonian footballer
1983 – Cooper Cronk , Australian rugby player
1983 – Samantha Lewthwaite , British fugitive
1983 – Tiffany Weimer , American soccer player
1983 – JP White , Swedish bass player (Vains of Jenna )
1984 – Chris Solinsky , American runner
1985 – Shikhar Dhawan , Indian cricketer
1985 – Frankie Muniz , American actor, drummer, and race car driver (Kingsfoil )
1985 – Josh Smith , American basketball player
1985 – Nico Verdonck , Belgian race car driver
1986 – LeGarrette Blount , American football player
1986 – James Hinchcliffe , Canadian race car driver
1987 – James Argent , English singer, actor, and radio host
1987 – Tommy Fraser , English footballer
1988 – Joanna Rowsell , English cyclist
1988 – Miralem Sulejmani , Serbian footballer
1989 – Pamela Jelimo , Kenyan runner
1989 – Linet Masai , Kenyan runner
1989 – Kwon Yuri , South Korean singer, dancer, and actress
1989 – Kim Ye-won , South Korean singer and actress
1990 – Montee Ball , American football player
1990 – Parvathy Nair , Indian actress
1991 – Jacopo Sala , Italian footballer
1991 – Carolin Schäfer , German heptathlete
1992 – Ilja Antonov , Estonian footballer
1993 – Ross Barkley , English footballer
1994 – Grant Ward , English footballer
2009 – Ayelet Galena , American child born with Dyskeratosis congenita (d. 2012)
63 BC – Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura , Roman politician (b. 114 BC)
1082 – Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona (b. 1053)
1355 – John III, Duke of Brabant (b. 1300)
1560 – Francis II of France (b. 1544)
1570 – Johan Friis , Danish politician (b. 1494)
1624 – Gaspard Bauhin , Swiss botanist and physician (b. 1560)
1654 – Jean François Sarrazin , French author (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 , Senegalese-American slave and poet (b. 1753)
1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Austrian pianist and composer (b. 1756)
1819 – Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg , German poet and lawyer (b. 1750)
1870 – Alexandre Dumas , French author and playwright (b. 1802)
1887 – Eliza R. Snow , American poet and songwriter (b. 1804)
1891 – Pedro II of Brazil (b. 1825)
1895 – Gall , American tribal chief (b. 1840)
1918 – Schalk Willem Burger , South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th President of the South African Republic (b. 1852)
1925 – Władysław Reymont , Polish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1926 – Claude Monet , French painter (b. 1840)
1931 – Vachel Lindsay , American poet (b. 1879)
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 (b. 1872)
1950 – Sri Aurobindo , Indian guru and poet (b. 1872)
1951 – Shoeless Joe Jackson , American baseball player and manager (b. 1887)
1951 – Abanindranath Tagore , Indian painter, author, and academic (b. 1871)
1953 – Jorge Negrete , Mexican-American singer and actor (b. 1911)
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 (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)
1966 – Sylvère Maes , Belgian cyclist (b. 1909)
1968 – Fred Clark , American actor and singer (b. 1914)
1969 – Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885)
1969 – Claudius Dornier , German businessman, founded Dornier Flugzeugwerke (b. 1884)
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)
1986 – Edward Youde , Welsh-Chinese sinologist and diplomat, 26th Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
1989 – John Pritchard , English conductor (b. 1921)
1989 – George Selden , American author (b. 1929)
1990 – Alfonso A. Ossorio , American painter (b. 1916)
1991 – Robert Karvelas , American actor (b. 1921)
1991 – Richard Speck , American murderer (b. 1941)
1993 – Doug Hopkins , American guitarist and songwriter (Gin Blossoms ) (b. 1961)
1994 – Harry Horner , Czech-American director, producer, and production designer (b. 1910)
1994 – Günter Meisner , German actor (b. 1926)
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 – Lisa McPherson , American homicide victim (b. 1959)
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)
2005 – Kevin McQuay , Australian businessman (b. 1949)
2005 – Frits Philips , Dutch businessman (b. 1905)
2006 – David Bronstein , Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player (b. 1924)
2007 – Andrew Imbrie , American composer and academic (b. 1921)
2007 – George Paraskevaides , Greek-Cypriot businessman, 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 artist (b. 1926)
2008 – Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu , Romanian politician (b. 1928)
2008 – Nina Foch , Dutch-American actress (b. 1924)
2008 – Basil Kelly , Northern Irish barrister, judge and politician (b. 1920)
2008 – Anca Parghel , Romanian singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1957)
2009 – Vimolchatra , Thai princess (b. 1921)
2009 – William Lederer , American soldier and author (b. 1912)
2010 – Alan Armer , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2010 – John Leslie , American porn actor, director, and producer (b. 1945)
2010 – Don Meredith , American football player, sportscaster, and actor (b. 1938)
2011 – Peter Gethin , English race car driver (b. 1940)
2011 – Gennady Logofet , Russian footballer and manager (b. 1942)
2012 – Dave Brubeck , American pianist and composer (b. 1920)
2012 – Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII , Japanese actor (b. 1955)
2012 – Elisabeth Murdoch , Australian philanthropist (b. 1909)
2012 – Oscar Niemeyer , Brazilian architect, designed the United Nations Headquarters and Cathedral of Brasília (b. 1907)
2012 – Yves Niaré , French shot putter (b. 1977)
2012 – Kaisa Sere , Finnish computer scientist (b. 1954)
2012 – Ignatius IV of Antioch , Syrian patriarch (b. 1920)
2013 – Fred Bassetti , American architect, founded Bassetti Architects (b. 1917)
2013 – William B. Edmondson , American 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)
2013 – Danny Matt , German-Israeli general (b. 1927)
2013 – Colin Wilson , English philosopher and author (b. 1931)
2014 – Ernest C. Brace , American captain and pilot (b. 1931)
2014 – Manuel De Sica , Italian composer (b. 1949)
2014 – Queen Fabiola of Belgium (b. 1928)
2014 – Jackie Healy-Rae , Irish hurdler and politician (b. 1931)
2014 – Silvio Zavala , Mexican historian and author (b. 1909)
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