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December 11 is the 345th day of the year (346th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 20 days remaining until the end of the year.
220 – Cao Pi forces Emperor Xian of Han to abdicate the Han dynasty throne. The Cao Wei empire is established. The Three Kingdoms period begins.
361 – Julian the Apostate enters Constantinople as sole Emperor of the Roman Empire .
630 – Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca .
969 – Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his wife Theophano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes .
1282 – Battle of Orewin Bridge : Llywelyn ap Gruffudd , the last native Prince of Wales , is killed at Cilmeri , near Builth Wells , in mid-Wales.
1602 – A surprise attack by forces under the command of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy , and his brother-in-law, Philip III of Spain , is repelled by the citizens of Geneva . (Commemorated annually by the Fête de l'Escalade .)
1688 – Glorious Revolution : James II of England , while trying to flee to France, allegedly throws the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames.
1789 – The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly .
1792 – French Revolution : King Louis XVI of France is put on trial for treason by the National Convention .
1815 – The U.S. Senate creates a select committee on finance and a uniform national currency, predecessor of the United States Senate Committee on Finance .
1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state .
1868 – Paraguayan War : Brazilian troops defeat Paraguayan at the Battle of Avay .
1905 – A workers' uprising occurs in Kiev , Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire ), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic .
1907 – The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
1917 – World War I : British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law .
1920 – Irish War of Independence : In retaliation for an IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city . Many civilians also reported being beaten, shot at, robbed and verbally abused by British forces.
1925 – Roman Catholic papal encyclical Quas primas introduces the Feast of Christ the King .
1927 – Guangzhou Uprising : Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou , China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet .
1931 – Statute of Westminster 1931 : The British Parliament establishes legislative equality between the UK and the Dominions of the Commonwealth —Australia, Canada, Newfoundland , New Zealand , South Africa , and Ireland .
1934 – Bill Wilson , co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous , takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.
1936 – Abdication Crisis : Edward VIII 's abdication as King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions beyond the Seas , and Emperor of India , becomes effective.
1937 – Second Italo-Ethiopian War : Italy leaves the League of Nations .
1941 – World War II : Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans' declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor . The United States, in turn, declares war on them.
1941 – World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.
1946 – The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF ) is established.
1948 – 1948 Arab–Israeli War : The United Nations passes General Assembly Resolution 194 , creating a Conciliation Commission to mediate the conflict.
1958 – French Upper Volta and French Dahomey gain self-government from France , becoming the Republic of Upper Volta and the Republic of Dahomey (now Benin ), respectively, and joining the French Community .
1960 – French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French President Charles de Gaulle .
1962 – Arthur Lucas , convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
1964 – Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
1968 – The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus , featuring the Rolling Stones , Jethro Tull , the Who , Taj Mahal , Marianne Faithfull , and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono , is filmed in Wembley , London.
1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon .
1978 – The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke . It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.
1980 – The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (Superfund ) is enacted by the U.S. Congress .
1981 – El Mozote massacre : Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War .
1990 – Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania .
1993 – Forty-eight people are killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapses near Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia .
1994 – First Chechen War : Russian President Boris Yeltsin orders Russian troops into Chechnya .
1994 – A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434 , en route from Manila , Philippines , to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to safely land the plane.
1997 – The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
1998 – Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport , killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-300 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation .
2001 – The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization .
2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead , England, United Kingdom.
2005 – Cronulla riots : Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese (and many who are not) in Cronulla, New South Wales , Australia. These are followed up by retaliatory ethnic attacks on Cronulla.
2006 – The International Conference to Review the Global Vision of the Holocaust is opened in Tehran , Iran , by then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ; nations such as Israel and the United States express concern.
2006 – Felipe Calderón , the President of Mexico , launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán . This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War .
2007 – Insurgency in the Maghreb : Two car bombs explode in Algiers , Algeria , one near the Supreme Constitutional Court and the other near the offices of the United Nations.
2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme .
2012 – At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab , Syria .
2014 – The city of Detroit, Michigan emerges from the largest municipal bankruptcy in United States history.[ 1]
1465 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa , Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
1475 – Pope Leo X (d. 1521)
1566 – Manuel Cardoso , Portuguese organist and composer (d. 1650)
1680 – Emanuele d'Astorga , Italian composer (d. 1736)
1709 – Louise Élisabeth d'Orléans , French wife of Louis I of Spain (d. 1742)
1712 – Francesco Algarotti , Italian poet, philosopher, and critic (d. 1764)
1725 – George Mason , American lawyer and politician (d. 1792)
1758 – Carl Friedrich Zelter , German composer, conductor, and educator (d. 1832)
1761 – Gian Domenico Romagnosi , Italian physicist, economist, and jurist (d. 1835)
1781 – David Brewster , Scottish physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1868)
1801 – Christian Dietrich Grabbe , German poet and playwright (d. 1836)
1803 – Hector Berlioz , French composer, conductor, and critic (d. 1869)
1810 – Alfred de Musset , French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1857)
1830 – Kamehameha V of Hawaii (d. 1872)
1838 – John Labatt , Canadian brewer and businessman (d. 1915)
1843 – Robert Koch , German microbiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
1856 – Georgi Plekhanov , Russian philosopher, theorist, and author (d. 1918)
1858 – Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko , Russian director, producer, and playwright (d. 1943)
1863 – Annie Jump Cannon , American astronomer and academic (d. 1941)
1867 – Antonio Conte , Italian fencer (d. 1953)
1872 – René Bull , British illustrator and photographer (d. 1942)
1873 – Josip Plemelj , Slovenian mathematician and academic (d. 1967)
1875 – Yehuda Leib Maimon , Moldovan-Israeli rabbi and politician (d. 1962)
1880 – Frank Tarrant , Australian cricketer and umpire (d. 1951)
1882 – Subramanya Bharathi , Indian journalist and poet (d. 1921)
1882 – Max Born , German physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
1882 – Fiorello H. La Guardia , American lawyer and politician, 99th Mayor of New York City (d. 1947)
1884 – Piet Ooms , Dutch swimmer and water polo player (d. 1961)
1885 – Carlo Wieth , Danish actor (d. 1943)
1889 – Walter Knott , American farmer and businessman, founded Knott's Berry Farm (d. 1981)
1890 – Carlos Gardel , French-Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1935)
1890 – Mark Tobey , American-Swiss painter and educator (d. 1976)
1897 – Ronald Skirth , English soldier (d. 1977)
1899 – Julio de Caro , Argentinian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1980)
1904 – Marge , American cartoonist (d. 1993)
1905 – Robert Henriques , English farmer, author, and broadcaster (d. 1967)
1905 – Gilbert Roland , Mexican-American actor and singer (d. 1994)
1908 – Elliott Carter , American composer and academic (d. 2012)
1908 – Manoel de Oliveira , Portuguese actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2015)
1908 – Hákun Djurhuus , Faroese educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1987)
1908 – Amon Goeth , Austrian SS officer (d. 1946)
1909 – Ronald McKie , Australian soldier, journalist, and author (d. 1991)
1910 – Noel Rosa , Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1937)
1911 – Val Guest , English-American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 2006)
1911 – Naguib Mahfouz , Egyptian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2006)
1911 – Qian Xuesen , Chinese aerodynamicist and academic (d. 2009)
1912 – Carlo Ponti , Italian-Swiss film producer (d. 2007)
1913 – Jean Marais , French actor and director (d. 1998)
1916 – Pérez Prado , Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter, pianist, and bandleader (d. 1989)
1918 – Clinton Adams , American painter and historian (d. 2002)
1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , Russian soldier and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
1919 – Cliff Michelmore , English television host and producer
1919 – Marie Windsor , American actress and singer (d. 2000)
1920 – Denis Jenkinson , English motorcycle racer and journalist (d. 1996)
1921 – Ilmar Laaban , Estonian poet and publicist (d. 2000)
1921 – Liz Smith , English actress
1922 – Grigoris Bithikotsis , Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
1922 – Maila Nurmi , Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1922 – Grace Paley , American author and poet (d. 2007)
1923 – Betsy Blair , American-English actress and dancer (d. 2009)
1923 – Nikolai Matvejev , Estonian cyclist (d. 1984)
1924 – Doc Blanchard , American football player and colonel (d. 2009)
1925 – Aaron Feuerstein , American businessman and philanthropist
1925 – Paul Greengard , American neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 – James Sullivan , American politician (d. 2012)
1926 – Big Mama Thornton , American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)
1927 – John Buscema , American illustrator (d. 2002)
1929 – Axel Anderson , German-Puerto Rican actor and production manager (d. 2012)
1930 – Chus Lampreave , Spanish actress
1930 – Jean-Louis Trintignant , French actor, director, and screenwriter
1931 – Rajneesh , Indian guru, mystic, and educator (d. 1990)
1931 – Ronald Dworkin , American philosopher and scholar (d. 2013)
1931 – Rita Moreno , Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, and dancer
1931 – Pierre Pilote , Canadian ice hockey player
1931 – Jerome Rothenberg , American anthropologist and poet
1932 – Enrique Bermúdez , Nicaraguan colonel and engineer (d. 1991)
1932 – Anne Heywood , English actress and singer
1932 – Aladár Kovácsi , Hungarian pentathlete (d. 2010)
1932 – Keith Waldrop , American author and poet
1933 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr. , Filipino politician, 23rd President of the Senate of the Philippines
1935 – Ron Carey , American actor (d. 2007)
1935 – Pranab Mukherjee , Indian journalist and politician, 13th President of India
1936 – Taku Yamasaki , Japanese politician
1936 – Hans van den Broek , Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
1938 – Reg Livermore , Australian actor and singer
1938 – Enrico Macias , Algerian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1938 – McCoy Tyner , American pianist and composer
1940 – David Gates , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Bread )
1940 – Donna Mills , American actress and producer
1941 – Max Baucus , American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 11th United States Ambassador to China
1941 – J. P. Parisé , Canadian-American ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2015)
1941 – Rogier van Otterloo , Dutch conductor and composer (d. 1988)
1941 – J. Frank Wilson , American singer-songwriter (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers ) (d. 1991)
1942 – Anna Carteret , Indian-English actress
1943 – Errol Brown , Jamaican-English singer-songwriter (Hot Chocolate ) (d. 2015)
1943 – John Kerry , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 68th United States Secretary of State
1944 – Jon Garrison , American tenor and educator
1944 – Lynda Day George , American actress
1944 – Brenda Lee , American singer
1944 – Juan E. Méndez , Argentinian lawyer, academic, and activist
1946 – Rhoma Irama , Indonesian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1946 – Diana Palmer , American journalist and author
1947 – Teri Garr , American actress and dancer
1948 – Stamatis Spanoudakis , Greek guitarist and composer
1949 – Noel Campbell , Irish footballer and manager
1950 – Nino Frassica , Italian actor
1950 – Christina Onassis , American-Argentinian businesswoman (d. 1988)
1951 – Mazlan Othman , Malaysian astrophysicist
1951 – Ria Stalman , Dutch discus thrower and shot putter
1953 – Bess Armstrong , American actress
1954 – Brad Bryant , American golfer
1954 – Santiago Creel , Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior
1954 – Jermaine Jackson , American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Jackson 5 )
1954 – Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson , Icelandic guitarist, mathematician, and engineer
1955 – Christian Sackewitz , German footballer and manager
1956 – Andrew Lansley , English politician, Secretary of State for Health
1956 – Stevie Young , Scottish-born Australian guitarist (AC/DC , Starfighters )
1958 – Isabella Hofmann , American actress
1958 – Chris Hughton , English-Irish footballer and manager
1958 – Nikki Sixx , American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Mötley Crüe , Sixx:A.M. , Sister )
1960 – Rachel Portman , English composer
1961 – Dave King , Irish-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Flogging Molly and Fastway )
1961 – Steve Nicol , Scottish footballer and manager
1961 – Macky Sall , Senegalese engineer and politician, 4th President of Senegal
1961 – Marco Pierre White , English chef and television host
1962 – Ben Browder , American actor and screenwriter
1962 – Paul Haslinger , Austrian-American keyboard player, guitarist, and composer (Tangerine Dream )
1962 – Nele Karajlić , Serbian singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and actor (Zabranjeno Pušenje )
1963 – Mario Been , Dutch footballer and manager
1963 – Jon Brion , American singer-songwriter and producer
1963 – Claudia Kohde-Kilsch , German tennis player
1963 – John Lammers , Dutch footballer and manager
1963 – Nigel Winterburn , English footballer and coach
1964 – Michel Courtemanche , Canadian comedian and actor
1964 – Ella Kovacs , Romanian runner
1964 – Carolyn Waldo , Canadian swimmer and sportscaster
1965 – Jay Bell , American baseball player and coach
1965 – Gavin Hill , New Zealand rugby player
1965 – Giannis Ragousis , Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister for National Defence
1966 – Gary Dourdan , American actor
1966 – Göran Kropp , Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (d. 2002)
1966 – Leon Lai , Chinese singer and actor
1966 – Erik Honoré , Norwegian writer, musician, record producer
1967 – Mo'Nique , American comedian, actress, and producer
1967 – DJ Yella , American DJ and producer (N.W.A and World Class Wreckin' Cru )
1968 – Fabrizio Ravanelli , Italian footballer and manager
1969 – Viswanathan Anand , Indian chess player
1969 – Francisco Javier Arellano Félix , Mexican drug trafficker
1969 – Stig Inge Bjørnebye , Norwegian footballer and manager
1969 – Max Martini , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1969 – Alessandro Melli , Italian footballer and manager
1970 – Victoria Fuller , American model and actress
1971 – Willie McGinest , American football player and sportscaster
1972 – Daniel Alfredsson , Swedish ice hockey player
1972 – Sami Al-Jaber , Saudi Arabian footballer and manager
1972 – Andriy Husin , Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1972 – Rusty Joiner , American model and actor
1973 – Mos Def , American rapper and actor (Black Star and Soulquarians )
1974 – Rey Mysterio , American wrestler and actor
1974 – Maarten Lafeber , Dutch golfer
1974 – Lisa Ortiz , American voice actress
1974 – Ben Shephard , English journalist and television host
1974 – Gete Wami , Ethiopian runner
1975 – Gerben de Knegt , Dutch cyclist
1975 – Tomoka Kurotani , Japanese actress
1975 – Dawn Steele , Scottish actress
1976 – Shareef Abdur-Rahim , American basketball player, coach, and manager
1976 – Yujiro Shirakawa , Japanese actor
1977 – Brandon Rogers , American singer
1977 – Mark Streit , Swiss ice hockey player
1978 – Roy Wood, Jr. , American comedian, actor, and radio host
1979 – Valdis Mintals , Estonian figure skater
1979 – Rider Strong , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1980 – Kristjan Kitsing , Estonian basketball player
1981 – Nikki Benz , Ukrainian-Canadian porn actress
1981 – Hamish Blake , Australian comedian, actor, and author
1981 – Paul Medhurst , Australian footballer
1981 – Javier Saviola , Argentinian footballer
1982 – Pablo Pérez Companc , Argentinian race car driver
1984 – Leighton Baines , English footballer
1984 – P.J. Lane , Australian actor and singer
1984 – Spyros Vrontaras , Greek footballer
1985 – Aiko Kayō , Japanese idol, singer, and actress
1985 – Yekta Kurtuluş , Turkish footballer
1985 – Anja Prislan , Slovenian tennis player
1986 – Roy Hibbert , American basketball player
1987 – Natalia Gordienko , Moldovan singer and dancer
1987 – Alex Russell , Australian actor
1988 – Ashley Hinshaw , American model and actress
1988 – Tim Southee , New Zealand cricketer
1991 – Anna Bergendahl , Swedish singer
1992 – Tiffany Alvord , American singer-songwriter
1994 – Alice Hirose , Japanese actress, television personality, and model
1996 – Jack Griffo , American actor and singer
1996 – Hailee Steinfeld , American actress
384 – Pope Damasus I (b. 305)
861 – Al-Mutawakkil , Iraqi caliph (b. 822)
969 – Nikephoros II Phokas , Byzantine emperor (b. 912)
1121 – Al-Afdal Shahanshah , Israeli-Egyptian political advisor (b. 1066)
1241 – Ögedei Khan , Mongolian emperor (b. 1186)
1282 – Llywelyn ap Gruffudd , Welsh prince (b. 1223)
1282 – Michael VIII Palaiologos , Byzantine emperor (b. 1225)
1532 – Pietro Accolti , Italian cardinal (b. 1455)
1582 – Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba , Spanish general and politician, 12th Constable of Portugal (b. 1508)
1686 – Louis, Grand Condé , French general (b. 1621)
1694 – Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
1737 – John Strype , English clergyman, historian, and author (b. 1643)
1747 – Edmund Curll , English bookseller and publisher (b. 1675)
1797 – Richard Brocklesby , English physician (b. 1722)
1826 – Maria Leopoldina of Austria (b. 1797)
1840 – Emperor Kōkaku of Japan (b. 1771)
1872 – Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830)
1880 – Oliver Winchester , American businessman, founded the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (b. 1810)
1892 – William Milligan , Scottish theologian and scholar (b. 1821)
1906 – Charles Townsend , American fencer, engineer, and academic (b. 1872)
1918 – Ivan Cankar , Slovenian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
1920 – Olive Schreiner , South African author and activist (b. 1855)
1937 – Jaan Anvelt , Estonian politician (b. 1884)
1938 – Christian Lous Lange , Norwegian historian and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
1941 – John Gillespie Magee, Jr. , American pilot and poet (b. 1922)
1941 – Émile Picard , French mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
1945 – Charles Fabry , French physicist (b. 1867)
1950 – Leslie Comrie , New Zealand astronomer and author (b. 1893)
1953 – Sedat Simavi , Turkish journalist and director (b. 1896)
1957 – Musidora , French actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
1959 – Jim Bottomley , American baseball player and manager (b. 1900)
1964 – Sam Cooke , American singer-songwriter (The Highway Q.C.'s and The Soul Stirrers ) (b. 1931)
1964 – Percy Kilbride , American actor and singer (b. 1888)
1968 – Richard Sagrits , Estonian painter and author (b. 1910)
1968 – Arthur Hays Sulzberger , American publisher (b. 1891)
1971 – Maurice McDonald , American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1902)
1975 – Lee Wiley , American singer (b. 1908)
1978 – Vincent du Vigneaud , American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)
1978 – Paul O'Dea , American baseball player and manager (b. 1920)
1979 – James J. Gibson , American psychologist and author (b. 1904)
1983 – Neil Ritchie , Guyanese-English general (b. 1897)
1984 – Oskar Seidlin , German-American author, poet, and scholar (b. 1911)
1987 – G. A. Kulkarni , Indian author and academic (b. 1923)
1987 – Adile Naşit , Turkish actress (b. 1930)
1989 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe , American photographer (b. 1895)
1991 – Robert Q. Lewis , American actor and game show host (b. 1921)
1991 – Artur Lundkvist , Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)
1991 – Pat Walshe , American actor (b. 1900)
1992 – Michael Robbins , English actor (b. 1930)
1993 – Elvira Popescu , Romanian-French actress and director (b. 1894)
1994 – Philip Phillips , American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900)
1995 – Arthur Mullard , English actor and singer (b. 1910)
1996 – Willie Rushton , English cartoonist, author, and publisher, co-founded Private Eye (b. 1937)
1997 – Eddie Chapman , English spy (b. 1914)
1997 – Simon Jeffes , English guitarist and composer (Penguin Cafe Orchestra ) (b. 1949)
1998 – André Lichnerowicz , French physicist and mathematician (b. 1915)
1998 – Lynn Strait , American singer-songwriter (Snot ) (b. 1968)
2000 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah , Pakistani politician and diplomat (b. 1915)
2001 – Mainza Chona , Zambian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Zambia (b. 1930)
2003 – Ahmadou Kourouma , Ivorian author and playwright (b. 1927)
2004 – José Luis Cuciuffo , Argentinian footballer (b. 1962)
2004 – Arthur Lydiard , New Zealand runner and coach (b. 1917)
2004 – M. S. Subbulakshmi , Indian singer and actress (b. 1916)
2006 – Elizabeth Bolden , American super-centenarian (b. 1890)
2007 – Christie Hennessy , Irish singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1945)
2008 – Maddie Blaustein , American voice actress and singer (b. 1960)
2008 – Bettie Page , American model and actress (b. 1923)
2011 – John Patrick Foley , American cardinal (b. 1935)
2012 – Toni Blankenheim , German opera singer (b. 1921)
2012 – B. B. Nimbalkar , Indian cricketer (b. 1919)
2012 – Ravi Shankar , Indian-American sitar player and composer (b. 1920)
2012 – Galina Vishnevskaya , Russian soprano and actress (b. 1926)
2012 – Mendel Weinbach , Polish-Israeli rabbi (b. 1933)
2013 – Nadir Afonso , Portuguese painter and architect (b. 1920)
2013 – Javier Jauregui , Mexican boxer (b. 1973)
2013 – Garry Robbins , Canadian wrestler and actor (b. 1957)
2013 – Sheikh Mussa Shariefi , Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1942)
2014 – Tom Adams , English actor (b. 1938)
2014 – Hans Wallat , German conductor (b. 1929)
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