December 1
December 1 this yearin various calendars Akan Fobene Armenian 14 Kʿaloch 1476 Aztec Tlacaxipehualiztli 20, 1 Ācatl Babylonian 20 Arakhsamna, 2337 SE Balinese pawukon Menga, Pasah, Jaya, Paing, Tungleh, Anggara of Taulu, Kala, Dangu, Suka Bengali 16 Ogrohayon , BS 1433 Chinese Yin Earth Rooster ・Turtle Beak Mansion Fire Horse Year, Month 10 , Day 23Xiaoxue , 6 days until Daxue )Common Era 1 December 2026 CE Coptic 22 Hathor , AM 1743Egyptian 19 Pharmuthi , 2775 NE Ethiopian 22 H̱edār, 2019 Amätä Məhrät French Republican Décade I, Décadi de Frimaire de l'Année 235 de la République Gregorian 1 December , AD 2026 Hebrew 21 Kislev , AM 5787 Hindu Maghā ・Vaidhṛti Mārgaśīrṣa , 1948 SE Aṣṭamī , Kṛishna pakṣa of Kārtika , 2083 VE Rāudra ・5127 KY ・1,872,910 Icelandic Þriðjudagur, 9 Ýlir 2026 Islamic 20 Jumada al-thani , AH 1448tabular method ) ISO week date 2026-W49-2 Japanese 23 Kannazuki , Reiwa 8Shōsetsu , 6 days until Taisetsu ) Julian 18 November , AD 2026 (AM 7535)Julian day 2461376 Korean 23 Dwaejidal , 4359 DE Maya 13.0.14.2.13 6 Mac , 1 Ben Roman ante diem XIV Kalendas Decembres , MMDCCLXXIX AUC Solar Hijri 10 Azar , SH 1405 Tibetan 23 smin drug, me pho rta
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Day of the year
December 1 is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 30 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro , the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.1913 – Crete , having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War , is annexed by Greece.
1916 – An armed confrontation in Athens between the Kingdom of Greece and the Allied Powers , arising from a dispute over Greece's neutrality in World War I , followed by reprisals and riots against Greek supporters of the Allies marking the height of the National Schism .1918 – Transylvania unites with Romania , following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27 ) and Bukovina (November 28 ) and thus concluding the Great Union .1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state , yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is proclaimed.
1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament (MP) to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom . (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)1924 – The National Hockey League 's first United States–based franchise, the Boston Bruins , plays their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.1924 – A Soviet-backed communist 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt fails in Estonia .
1934 – Sergei Kirov is assassinated , paving way for the repressive Great Purge , and Vinnytsia massacre by General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union , Joseph Stalin .1939 – World War II : A day after the beginning of the Winter War in Finland , the Cajander III Cabinet resigns and is replaced by the Ryti I Cabinet , while the Finnish Parliament move from Helsinki to Kauhajoki to escape the Soviet airstrikes .1939 – The Soviet Union establishes the Finnish Democratic Republic puppet state in Terijoki .
1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives his tacit approval to the decision of the imperial council to initiate war against the United States.1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia , Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense , signs Administrative Order 9 , creating the Civil Air Patrol .
1952 – The New York Daily News Christine Jorgensen , the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery .1955 – American Civil Rights Movement : In Montgomery, Alabama , seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott .1958 – The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union .1958 – The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
1959 – Cold War : Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty , which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.1960 – Patrice Lumumba is arrested by Mobutu Sese Seko 's men on the banks of the Sankuru River , for inciting the army to rebellion.1963 – Nagaland , became the 16th state of India.1964 – Vietnam War : U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam .1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II .1971 – Cambodian Civil War : Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.1971 – Purge of Croatian Spring leaders starts in Yugoslavia at the meeting of the League of Communists at the Karađorđevo estate .
1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.1974 – TWA Flight 514 , a Boeing 727 , crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport , killing all 92 people on board.1974 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231 , another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport .
1981 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308 , a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 , crashes in Corsica , killing all 180 people on board.1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration , wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.1988 – World AIDS Day is proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states .1988 – Benazir Bhutto , is named as the Prime Minister of Pakistan , becoming the first female leader to lead a Muslim nation.
1989 – Philippine coup attempt : The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état .1989 – Cold War : East Germany 's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed.1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union .1997 – In the Indian state of Bihar , Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower-caste people.1997 – Fourteen-year-old Michael Carneal opens fire at a group of students in Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky , killing three and injuring five.
2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico , marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.2001 – The United Russia political party was founded.2005 – As a result of the merger of the Perm Oblast and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug , a new subject of the Russian Federation , the Perm Krai , was created.2006 – The law on same-sex marriage comes into force in South Africa , legalizing same-sex marriage for the first time on the African continent .2009 – The Treaty of Lisbon entered into force in the European Union .2011 – The Alma-Ata Metro was opened.2018 – The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of the much larger child sexual exploitation in Oulu , Finland .2019 – Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women breaks the record for most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match, with Vivianne Miedema involved in ten of the eleven Arsenal goals.2019 – The outbreak of coronavirus infection begins in Wuhan .
2020 – The Arecibo Telescope collapses.Births
Pre-1600
624 – Hasan ibn Ali , the second Shia Imam (died 670)1081 – Louis VI , French king (died 1137)1083 – Anna Komnene , Byzantine medical doctor and scholar (died 1153)1415 – Jan Długosz , Polish historian (died 1480)1438 – Peter II, Duke of Bourbon , son of Charles I (died 1503)1443 – Magdalena of France , French princess (died 1495)1521 – Takeda Shingen , Japanese daimyō (died 1573)1525 – Tadeáš Hájek , Czech medical doctor and astronomer (died 1600)1530 – Bernardino Realino , Italian Jesuit (died 1616)1561 – Sophie Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel , Duchess consort of Pomerania-Wolgast (died 1631)1580 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc , French astronomer and historian (died 1637)1690 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke , English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (died 1764)1709 – Franz Xaver Richter , Czech composer, violinist, and conductor (died 1789)1716 – Étienne Maurice Falconet , French sculptor (died 1791)1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth , German chemist and academic (died 1817)1761 – Marie Tussaud , French-English sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (died 1850)1792 – Nikolai Lobachevsky , Russian mathematician and geometer (died 1856)1800 – Mihály Vörösmarty , Hungarian poet (died 1855)1805 – 9th Dalai Lama , Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader (died 1815)1844 – Alexandra of Denmark , Queen Consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Empress Consort of India (died 1925)1846 – Ledi Sayadaw , Burmese monk and philosopher (died 1923)1847 – Julia A. Moore , American poet (died 1920)1855 – John Evans , English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (died 1943)1869 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski , Polish painter and critic (died 1923)1871 – Archie MacLaren , English cricketer (died 1944)1883 – Henry Cadbury , American historian, scholar, and academic (died 1974)1884 – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff , German painter and etcher (died 1976)1886 – Rex Stout , American detective novelist (died 1975)1886 – Zhu De , Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China (died 1976)
1894 – Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral , Brazilian herpetologist (died 1982)1895 – Henry Williamson , English farmer, soldier, and author (died 1977)1896 – Georgy Zhukov , Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (died 1974)1898 – Stuart Garson , Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba (died 1977)1898 – Cyril Ritchard , Australian-American actor and singer (died 1977)
1900 – Karna Maria Birmingham , Australian artist, illustrator and print maker (died 1987)1901 – Ilona Fehér , Hungarian-Israeli violinist and educator (died 1988)1903 – Nikolai Voznesensky , Soviet economic planner , member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (died 1950)1905 – Alex Wilson , Canadian sprinter and coach (died 1994)1910 – Alicia Markova , English ballerina and choreographer (died 2004)1911 – Walter Alston , American baseball player and manager (died 1984)1911 – Calvin Griffith , Canadian-American businessman (died 1999)
1912 – Billy Raimondi , American baseball player (died 2010)1912 – Minoru Yamasaki , American architect, designed the World Trade Center (died 1986)
1913 – Mary Martin , American actress and singer (died 1990)1916 – Wan Li , Chinese educator and politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 2015)1917 – Marty Marion , American baseball player and manager (died 2011)1920 – Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami , Japanese priest, 1st Bishop of Naha (died 2014)1922 – Vsevolod Bobrov , Russian ice hockey player, footballer, and manager (died 1979)1923 – Dick Shawn , American actor (died 1987)1923 – Stansfield Turner , American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central Intelligence (died 2018)
1924 – Masao Horiba , Japanese businessman, founded Horiba (died 2015)1925 – Martin Rodbell , American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)1926 – Mother Antonia , American-Mexican nun and activist (died 2013)1926 – Allyn Ann McLerie , Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2018)
1926 – Keith Michell , Australian actor (died 2015)
1927 – Micheline Bernardini , French dancer and model1928 – Malachi Throne , American actor (died 2013)1929 – David Doyle , American actor (died 1997)1930 – Marie Bashir , Australian psychiatrist, academic, and politician, 37th Governor of New South Wales (died 2026)1930 – Joachim Hoffmann , German historian and author (died 2002)
1931 – George Maxwell Richards , Trinidadian politician, 4th President of Trinidad and Tobago (died 2018)1933 – Lou Rawls , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2006)1933 – Violette Verdy , French ballerina (died 2016)
1934 – Billy Paul , American soul singer (died 2016)1935 – Sola Sierra , Chilean human rights activist (died 1999)1936 – Igor Rodionov , Russian general and politician, 3rd Russian Minister of Defence (died 2014)1937 – Muriel Costa-Greenspon , American soprano and actress (died 2005)1937 – Gordon Crosse , English composer and academic (died 2021)
1937 – Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga , Latvian psychologist and politician, President of Latvia
1938 – Sandy Nelson , American rock and roll drummer (died 2022)1939 – Lee Trevino , American golfer and sportscaster1940 – Mike Denness , Scottish cricketer and referee (died 2013)1940 – Jerry Lawson , American electronic engineer and inventor (died 2011)
1940 – Richard Pryor , American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2005)
1942 – Mohamed Kamel Amr , Egyptian politician, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs 1942 – John Crowley , American author and academic
1942 – Ross Edwards , Australian cricketer
1943 – Kenny Moore , American runner and journalist (died 2022)1944 – Eric Bloom , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1944 – John Densmore , American drummer and songwriter
1944 – Tahar Ben Jelloun , Moroccan author and poet
1945 – Ásta B. Þorsteinsdóttir , Icelandic politician1945 – Lyle Bien , American vice admiral in the United States Navy
1945 – Bette Midler , American singer-songwriter, actress and producer
1946 – Jonathan Katz , American comedian and actor1946 – Kemal Kurspahić , Bosnian journalist and author (died 2021)
1946 – Gilbert O'Sullivan , Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
1947 – Alain Bashung , French singer-songwriter and actor (died 2009)1947 – Bob Fulton , English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2021)
1948 – Geraint Davies , Welsh politician1948 – George Foster , American baseball player and radio host
1948 – Sarfraz Nawaz , Pakistani cricketer and politician
1948 – John Roskelley , American mountaineer and author
1948 – Neil Warnock , English footballer and manager
1948 – N. T. Wright , English bishop and scholar
1948 – Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa , Nigerian civil servant and politician, Governor of Kaduna State (died 2012)
1949 – Pablo Escobar , Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist (died 1993)1949 – Sebastián Piñera , Chilean businessman and politician, 35th President of Chile (died 2024)
1950 – Manju Bansal , Indian biologist and academic1950 – Ross Hannaford , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016)
1950 – Filippos Petsalnikos , Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice (died 2020)
1951 – Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov , Bulgarian cosmonaut1951 – Obba Babatundé , American actor, director, and producer
1951 – Jaco Pastorius , American bass player, songwriter, and producer (died 1987)
1951 – Nozipho Schroeder , South African lawn bowler
1951 – Treat Williams , American actor (died 2023)
1952 – Stephen Poliakoff , English director, producer, and playwright1952 – Rick Scott , American politician and businessman
1954 – Judith Hackitt , English chemist and engineer1954 – François Van der Elst , Belgian footballer (died 2017)
1955 – Veikko Aaltonen , Finnish actor, director, and screenwriter1955 – Verónica Forqué , Spanish actress (died 2021)
1955 – Udit Narayan , Indian playback singer
1955 – Pat Spillane , Irish footballer and sportscaster
1956 – Julee Cruise , American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (died 2022)1957 – Chris Poland , American guitarist and songwriter1957 – Deep Roy , Kenyan-British actor
1957 – Vesta Williams , American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2011)
1958 – Javier Aguirre , Mexican footballer and manager1958 – Candace Bushnell , American journalist and author
1958 – Alberto Cova , Italian runner
1958 – Gary Peters , American politician
1958 – Charlene Tilton , American actress and singer
1959 – Wally Lewis , Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster1960 – Carol Alt , American model and actress1960 – Jane Turner , Australian actress and producer
1961 – Safra Catz , Israeli-American businesswoman and boss of Oracle1961 – Raymond E. Goldstein , American biophysicist and academic
1961 – Jeremy Northam , English actor
1962 – Sylvie Daigle , Canadian speed skater1962 – Pamela McGee , American basketball player and coach
1963 – Marco Greco , Brazilian race car driver1963 – Nathalie Lambert , Canadian speed skater
1963 – Arjuna Ranatunga , Sri Lankan cricketer and politician
1964 – Salvatore Schillaci , Italian footballer (died 2024)1964 – Jo Walton , Welsh-Canadian author and poet
1965 – Henry Honiball , South African rugby player1965 – Magnifico , Slovenian singer
1966 – Andrew Adamson , New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter1966 – Katherine LaNasa , American actress, ballet dancer, and choreographer
1966 – Larry Walker , Canadian baseball player and coach
1967 – Nestor Carbonell , American actor1967 – Reggie Sanders , American baseball player
1968 – Justin Chadwick , English actor and director1968 – Sarah Fitzgerald , Australian squash player
1968 – Anders Holmertz , Swedish swimmer
1969 – Richard Carrier , American author and blogger1970 – Golden Brooks , American actress1970 – Jonathan Coulton , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1970 – Kirk Rueter , American baseball player
1970 – Sarah Silverman , American comedian, actress, and singer
1970 – Tisha Waller , American high jumper and educator
1971 – Christian Pescatori , Italian race car driver1971 – Mika Pohjola , Finnish-American pianist and composer
1971 – John Schlimm , American author and educator
1972 – Stanton Barrett , American race car driver and stuntman1972 – Bart Millard , American singer-songwriter
1973 – Steve Gibb , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1974 – Costinha , Portuguese footballer and manager1975 – Matt Fraction , American author1975 – Isaiah "Ikey" Owens , American keyboard player and producer (died 2014)
1975 – Thomas Schie , Norwegian racing driver and sportscaster
1975 – Farah Shah , Pakistani actress and host
1975 – Sophia Skou , Danish swimmer
1976 – Tomasz Adamek , Polish boxer1976 – Laura Ling , American journalist and author
1976 – Dean O'Gorman , New Zealand actor, artist, and photographer
1976 – Matthew Shepard , American hate crime victim (died 1998)
1976 – Evangelos Sklavos , Greek basketball player
1977 – Brad Delson , American guitarist and producer1977 – Sophie Guillemin , French actress
1977 – Lee McKenzie , Scottish journalist
1977 – Nate Torrence , American actor and comedian
1978 – Mat Kearney , American musician1979 – Stephanie Brown Trafton , American discus thrower1979 – Ryan Malone , American ice hockey player
1979 – Richard James , Jamaican sprinter
1980 – Iftikhar Anjum , Pakistani cricketer1980 – Mohammad Kaif , Indian cricketer and politician
1980 – Mubarak Hassan Shami , Kenyan-Qatari runner
1980 – Gianna Terzi , Greek singer
1981 – Park Hyo-shin , South Korean singer-songwriter and actor1981 – I Made Wirawan , Indonesian footballer
1982 – Riz Ahmed , English actor and rapper1982 – Christos Kalantzis , Greek footballer
1982 – Christos Melissis , Greek footballer
1984 – Charles Michael Davis , American actor1984 – Yolandi Visser , South African rapper and actress
1985 – Philip DeFranco , American media host and YouTube personality1985 – Ilfenesh Hadera , American actress
1985 – Janelle Monáe , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1985 – Emiliano Viviano , Italian footballer
1986 – DeSean Jackson , American football player1987 – Tabarie Henry , Virgin Islander sprinter1987 – Vance Joy , Australian singer-songwriter
1988 – Tyler Joseph , American musician and singer1988 – Zoë Kravitz , American actress, singer, and model
1988 – Dan Mavraides , Greek-American basketball player
1988 – Michael Raffl , Austrian ice hockey player
1989 – Sotelúm , Mexican trumpet player, composer, and producer1990 – Tomáš Tatar , Slovak ice hockey player1991 – Rakeem Christmas , American basketball player1991 – Hilda Melander , Swedish tennis player
1991 – Sun Yang , Chinese swimmer
1992 – Masahudu Alhassan , Ghanaian footballer1992 – Javier Báez , Puerto Rican baseball player
1992 – Linos Chrysikopoulos , Greek basketball player
1992 – Gary Payton II , American basketball player
1992 – Marco van Ginkel , Dutch footballer
1993 – Beau Webster , Australian cricketer1994 – Seedy Njie , English footballer1995 – Agnė Čepelytė , Lithuanian tennis player1995 – Jenna Fife , Scottish footballer
1995 – James Wilson , English footballer
1997 – Sada Williams , Barbadian sprinter1997 – Jung Chae-yeon , South Korean actress and singer1999 – Lloyd Pope , Australian cricketer1999 – Nico Schlotterbeck , German footballer
2001 – Carole Monnet , French tennis player2003 – Robert Irwin , Australian conservationist and television personality2008 – Ella Gross , American singer, model and actressDeaths
Pre-1600
217 – Yehudah HaNasi , 'Nasi ', Rabbi and editor of the Mishnah (born 135)660 – Eligius , Frankish bishop and saint (born 588)948 – Gao Conghui , Chinese governor and prince (born 891)969 – Fujiwara no Morotada , Japanese statesman (born 920)1018 – Thietmar of Merseburg , German bishop (born 975)1135 – Henry I , king of England (born 1068)1241 – Isabella of England , Holy Roman Empress (born 1214)1255 – Muhammad III of Alamut , Nizari Ismaili Imam1335 – Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan , Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (born 1305)1374 – Magnus Eriksson , king of Sweden (born 1316)1433 – Go-Komatsu , emperor of Japan (born 1377)1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti , Italian goldsmith and sculptor (born 1378)1521 – Leo X , pope of the Catholic Church (born 1475)1530 – Margaret of Austria , duchess of Savoy (born 1480)1580 – Giovanni Morone , Italian cardinal (born 1509)1581 – Alexander Briant , English Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (born 1556)1581 – Edmund Campion , English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint (born 1540)
1581 – Ralph Sherwin , English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint (born 1550) 1633 – Isabella Clara Eugenia , infanta of Spain (born 1566)1640 – Miguel de Vasconcelos , Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1590)1660 – Pierre d'Hozier , French genealogist and historian (born 1592)1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi , French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (born 1665)1750 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr , German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (born 1671)1755 – Maurice Greene , English organist and composer (born 1696)1767 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan , Scottish politician (born 1710)1825 – Alexander I , emperor and autocrat of Russia (born 1777)1865 – Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich , Swiss pastor, poet, and educator (born 1796)1866 – George Everest , Welsh geographer and surveyor (born 1790)1867 – Charles Gray Round , English lawyer and politician (born 1797)1884 – William Swainson , English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (born 1809)1913 – Juhan Liiv , Estonian poet and author (born 1864)1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan , American captain and historian (born 1840)1916 – Charles de Foucauld , French priest and martyr (born 1858)1923 – Virginie Loveling , Belgian author and poet (born 1836)1928 – José Eustasio Rivera , Colombian-American lawyer and poet (born 1888)1933 – Pekka Halonen , Finnish painter (born 1865)1934 – Sergey Kirov , Russian engineer and politician (born 1886)1935 – Bernhard Schmidt , Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (born 1879)1942 – Leon Wachholz , Polish scientist and medical examiner (born 1867)1943 – Damrong Rajanubhab , Thai historian and educator (born 1862)1944 – Charlie Kerins , Irish Republican executed by hanging (born 1918)1947 – Aleister Crowley , English magician, poet, and mountaineer (born 1875)1947 – G. H. Hardy , English mathematician and theorist (born 1877)
1950 – Ernest John Moeran , English pianist and composer (born 1894)1954 – Fred Rose , American pianist, composer, and publisher (born 1898)1958 – Elizabeth Peratrovich , American civil rights activist (born 1911)1964 – J. B. S. Haldane , English-Indian geneticist and biologist (born 1892)1964 – Charilaos Vasilakos , Greek runner (born 1877)
1968 – Nicolae Bretan , Romanian opera singer, composer, and conductor (born 1887)1968 – Darío Moreno , Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1921)
1973 – David Ben-Gurion , Israeli politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (born 1886)1975 – Nellie Fox , American baseball player and coach (born 1927)1975 – Ernesto Maserati , Italian race car driver and engineer (born 1898)
1975 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted , American journalist (born 1906)
1981 – Russ Manning , American author and illustrator (born 1929)1984 – Roelof Frankot , Dutch painter and photographer (born 1911)1986 – Frank McCarthy , American general and film producer (born 1912)1987 – James Baldwin , American novelist, poet, and critic (born 1924)1987 – Punch Imlach , Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (born 1918)
1988 – J. Vernon McGee , American pastor and theologian (born 1904)1989 – Alvin Ailey , American dancer and choreographer (born 1931)1990 – Carla Lehmann , Canadian-English actress (born 1917)1991 – Pat O'Callaghan , Irish athlete (born 1906)1991 – George Stigler , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
1993 – Ray Gillen , American singer-songwriter (born 1959)1995 – Hopper Levett , English cricketer (born 1908)1995 – Colin Tapley , New Zealand-English actor (born 1907)
1995 – Maxwell R. Thurman , American general (born 1931)
1996 – Peter Bronfman , Canadian businessman (born 1928)1997 – Michel Bélanger , Canadian banker and businessman (born 1929)1997 – Stéphane Grappelli , French violinist (born 1908)
1997 – Endicott Peabody , American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (born 1920)
1998 – Janet Lewis , American poet and novelist (born 1899)2001 – Ellis R. Dungan , American director and producer (born 1909)2002 – Edward L. Beach Jr. , American captain and author (born 1918)2002 – Dave McNally , American baseball player (born 1942)
2003 – Clark Kerr , American economist and academic (born 1911)2003 – Eugenio Monti , Italian bobsledder (born 1928)
2004 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (born 1911)2004 – Bill Brown , Scottish footballer (born 1931)
2004 – Norman Newell , English record producer and lyricist (born 1919)
2005 – Gust Avrakotos , American CIA officer (born 1938)2005 – Mary Hayley Bell , English actress and playwright (born 1911)
2005 – Freeman V. Horner , American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1922)
2006 – Claude Jade , French actress (born 1948)2006 – Bruce Trigger , Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian (born 1937)
2007 – Ken McGregor , Australian tennis player and footballer (born 1929)2007 – Anton Rodgers , British actor (born 1933)
2007 – Ivo Rojnica , Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent (born 1915)
2008 – Paul Benedict , American actor (born 1938)2008 – Joseph B. Wirthlin , American businessman and religious leader (born 1917)
2010 – Adriaan Blaauw , Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1914)2010 – Hillard Elkins , American actor and producer (born 1929)
2011 – Christa Wolf , German author and critic (born 1929)2012 – Jovan Belcher , American football player (born 1987)2012 – Arthur Chaskalson , South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of South Africa (born 1931)
2012 – Rick Majerus , American basketball player and coach (born 1948)
2012 – Ed Price , American soldier, pilot, and politician (born 1918)
2012 – Israel Keyes , American serial killer (born 1978)
2013 – Richard Coughlan , English drummer (born 1947)2013 – Stirling Colgate , American physicist and academic (born 1925)
2013 – Edward Heffron , American soldier (born 1923)
2013 – Martin Sharp , Australian cartoonist and songwriter (born 1942)
2014 – Mario Abramovich , Argentinian violinist and composer (born 1926)2014 – Dimitrios Trichopoulos , Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic (born 1938)
2014 – Rocky Wood , New Zealand-Australian author (born 1959)
2015 – Rob Blokzijl , Dutch physicist and computer scientist (born 1943)2015 – Joseph Engelberger , American physicist and engineer (born 1925)
2015 – Jim Loscutoff , American basketball player (born 1930)
2015 – Trevor Obst , Australian footballer and coach (born 1940)
2018 – Vivian Lynn , New Zealand artist (born 1931)2018 – Ken Berry , American actor, dancer, and singer (born 1933)
2019 – Paula Tilbrook , English actress (born 1930)2020 – Arnie Robinson , American athlete (born 1948)2022 – Gaylord Perry , American baseball player and coach (born 1938)2023 – Sandra Day O'Connor , first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1981–2006) (born 1930)2024 – Terry Griffiths , Welsh snooker player and coach (born 1947)2024 – Ian Redpath , Australian cricketer and coach (born 1941)