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December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian
calendar. 17 days remain until the end of the year.

Contents
  1Events
 2Births
 3Deaths
 4Holidays and observances
 5References
 6External links

Events[edit]
 557 – Constantinople is severely damaged by an
earthquake.
 835 – Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of
the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the
powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is
foiled.
 1287 – St. Lucia's flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in
the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000
people.
 1542 – Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen of
Scots at the age of one week on the death of her
father, James V of Scotland.
 1751 – The Theresian Military Academy is founded
in Wiener Neustadt, Austria.
 1780 – Founding Father Alexander
Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at
the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York.
 1782 – The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an
unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly
2 km (1.2 mi).
 1812 – The French invasion of Russia comes to an
end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are
expelled from Russia.
 1814 – War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes
control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.
 1819 – Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.
 1836 – The Toledo War unofficially ends.
 1863 – American Civil War: The Confederate victory
under General James Longstreet at the Battle of
Bean's Station in East Tennessee ends the Knoxville
Campaign, but achieves very little as Longstreet
returns to Virginia next spring.[1]
 1896 – The Glasgow Underground Railway is
opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
 1900 – Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a
theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
 1902 – The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays
the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San
Francisco to Honolulu.
 1903 – The Wright brothers make their first attempt
to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North
Carolina.
 1907 – The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever
ship without a heat engine, runs aground and
founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles
of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
 1909 – New South Wales Premier Charles
Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act
1909, formally completing the transfer of State land
to the Commonwealth to create the Australian
Capital Territory.
 1911 – Roald Amundsen's team, comprising
himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre
Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to
reach the South Pole.
 1913 – Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship,
launches, eventually becoming one of
the Japanese workhorses during World War
I and World War II.
 1914 – Lisandro de la Torre and others found
the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido
Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel
Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 1918 – Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince
elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King
Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
 1918 – Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is
assassinated.
 1918 – The 1918 United Kingdom general
election occurs, the first where women were
permitted to vote.
 1939 – Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled
from the League of Nations for invading Finland.
 1940 – Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first
isolated at Berkeley, California.
 1948 – Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann
are granted a patent for their cathode-ray tube
amusement device, the earliest known
interactive electronic game.
 1955 – Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon
, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Liby
a, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join
the United Nations through United Nations Security
Council Resolution 109.
 1958 – The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes
the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.
 1960 – Convention against Discrimination in
Education of UNESCO is adopted.
 1962 – NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the
first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
 1963 – The dam containing the Baldwin Hills
Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging
hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California.
 1964 – American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of
Atlanta Motel v. United States: The Supreme Court
of the United States rules that Congress can use
the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight
discrimination.
 1971 – Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200
of East Pakistan's intellectuals are executed by the
Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is
commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred
Intellectuals Day.)
 1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the last
person to walk on the moon, after he and Harrison
Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular
activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.
 1981 – Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies
the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to
the Golan Heights.
 1985 – Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first
woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of
the Cherokee Nation.
 1992 – War in Abkhazia: Siege of Tkvarcheli: A
helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli is shot
down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, including 25
 children. The incident catalyses more concerted
Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.
 1994 – Construction begins on the Three Gorges
Dam on the Yangtze river.
 1995 – Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is
signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
 1998 – Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav
Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation
Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from
Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.
 1999 – Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas,
Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths,
the destruction of thousands of homes, and the
complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
 2003 – Pakistani President Pervez
Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination
attempt.
 2004 – The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the
world, is formally inaugurated near Millau, France.
 2008 – Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-
U.S. President George W. Bush during a press
conference in Baghdad, Iraq.
 2012 – Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting:
Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are
killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.
 2013 – A reported coup attempt in South
Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of
casualties.
 2017 – The Walt Disney Company announces that it
would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th
Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion.

Births[edit]
 1009 – Go-Suzaku, emperor of Japan (d. 1045)
 1332 – Frederick III, German nobleman (d. 1381)
 1546 – Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and
chemist (d. 1601)
 1599 – Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge,
English politician (d. 1668)
 1607 – János Kemény, Hungarian prince (d. 1662)
 1625 – Barthélemy d'Herbelot, French orientalist and
academic (d. 1695)
 1631 – Anne Conway, English philosopher and
author (d. 1679)
 1640 – Aphra Behn, English playwright and author
(d. 1689)
 1678 – Daniel Neal, English historian and author (d.
1743)
 1720 – Justus Möser, German jurist and theorist (d.
1794)
 1730 – Capel Bond, English organist and composer
(d. 1790)
 1738 – Jan Antonín Koželuh, Czech composer and
educator (d. 1814)
 1775 – Philander Chase, American bishop and
educator, founded Kenyon College (d. 1852)
 1775 – Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald,
Scottish admiral and politician (d. 1860)
 1777 – Du Pre Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon, Irish
politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (d. 1839)
 1784 – Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and
Sicily (d. 1806)
 1789 – Maria Szymanowska, Polish composer and
pianist (d. 1831)
 1791 – Charles Wolfe, Irish priest and poet (d. 1823)
 1794 – Erastus Corning, American businessman and
politician (d. 1872)
 1816 – Abraham Hochmuth, Hungarian rabbi and
educator (d. 1889)
 1824 – Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter
and illustrator (d. 1898)
 1832 – Daniel H. Reynolds, American general,
lawyer, and politician (d. 1902)
 1851 – Mary Tappan Wright,
American novelist and short story writer (d. 1916)
 1852 – Daniel De Leon, Curaçaoan-American
journalist and politician (d. 1914)
 1853 – Errico Malatesta, Italian activist and theorist
(d. 1932)
 1856 – Louis Marshall, American lawyer and activist
(d. 1929)
 1866 – Roger Fry, English painter and critic (d.
1934)
 1870 – Karl Renner, Austrian lawyer and politician,
4th President of Austria (d. 1950)
 1881 – Katherine MacDonald, American actress and
producer (d. 1956)
 1883 – Manolis Kalomiris, Greek pianist and
composer (d. 1962)
 1883 – Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist,
developed aikido (d. 1969)
 1884 – Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright
(d. 1950)
 1887 – Xul Solar, Argentinian painter and sculptor
(d. 1963)
 1894 – Alexander Nelke, Estonian-American painter
and carpenter (d. 1974)
 1895 – George VI of the United Kingdom (d. 1952)[2]
 1895 – Paul Éluard, French poet and author (d.
1952)
 1896 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general and
pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
 1897 – Kurt Schuschnigg, Italian-Austrian lawyer
and politician, 15th Federal Chancellor of Austria (d.
1977)
 1897 – Margaret Chase Smith, American educator
and politician (d. 1995)
 1899 – DeFord Bailey, American Hall of
Fame country and blues musician (d. 1982)
 1901 – Henri Cochet, French tennis player (d. 1987)
 1901 – Paul of Greece (d. 1964)
 1902 – Frances Bavier, American actress (d. 1989)
 1902 – Herbert Feigl, Austrian philosopher from the
Vienna Circle (d. 1988)
 1903 – Walter Rangeley, English sprinter (d. 1982)
 1904 – Virginia Coffey, American civil rights activist
(d. 2003)
 1908 – Morey Amsterdam, American actor, singer,
and screenwriter (d. 1996)
 1908 – Claude Davey, Welsh rugby player (d. 2001)
 1908 – Mária Szepes, Hungarian journalist, author,
and screenwriter (d. 2007)
 1909 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975)
 1911 – Spike Jones, American singer and
bandleader (d. 1965)
 1911 – Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist
and engineer (d. 1998)
 1911 – Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Greek-Polish
swimmer and water polo player (d. 1943)
 1914 – Karl Carstens, German lieutenant and
politician, 5th President of the Federal Republic of
Germany (d. 1992)
 1914 – Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist
and harpsichord player (d. 2003)
 1915 – Dan Dailey, American dancer and actor (d.
1978)
 1916 – Shirley Jackson, American novelist and short
story writer (d. 1965)
 1917 – C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish author and
politician (d. 2016)
 1917 – Elyse Knox, American actress and fashion
designer (d. 2012)
 1917 – June Taylor, American dancer and
choreographer (d. 2004)
 1918 – James T. Aubrey, American broadcaster (d.
1994)
 1918 – Radu Beligan, Romanian actor and director
(d. 2016)
 1918 – B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and
author, founded Iyengar Yoga (d. 2014)
 1920 – Clark Terry, American trumpet player,
composer, and educator (d. 2015)
 1922 – Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2001)
 1922 – Don Hewitt, American journalist and
producer, created 60 Minutes (d. 2009)
 1922 – Junior J. Spurrier, American sergeant, Medal
of Honor recipient (d. 1984)
 1923 – Gerard Reve, Dutch-Belgian author and poet
(d. 2006)
 1924 – Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, director, and
producer (d. 1988)
 1925 – Sam Jones, American baseball player (d.
1971)
 1927 – Richard Cassilly, American tenor and actor
(d. 1998)
 1927 – Koos Rietkerk, Dutch lawyer and
politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (d. 1986)
 1929 – Ron Jarden, New Zealand rugby player (d.
1977)
 1930 – David R. Harris, English geographer,
anthropologist, and archaeologist (d. 2013)
 1930 – Margaret Bakkes, South African author (d.
2016)
 1931 – Jon Elia, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and
scholar (d. 2002)
 1931 – Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar,
Estonian director and politician (d. 2015)
 1932 – George Furth, American actor and playwright
(d. 2008)
 1932 – Abbe Lane, American actress, singer, and
dancer
 1932 – Charlie Rich, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 1995)
 1934 – Shyam Benegal, Indian director and
screenwriter
 1934 – Charlie Hodge, American guitarist and singer
(d. 2006)
 1935 – Lewis Arquette, American actor, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2001)
 1935 – Lee Remick, American actress (d. 1991)
 1938 – Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian and
author
 1938 – Charlie Griffith, Barbadian cricketer
 1939 – Ann Cryer, English academic and politician
 1939 – Ernie Davis, American football player (d.
1963)
 1940 – Lex Gold, Scottish footballer and civil servant
 1941 – Karan Armstrong, American soprano and
actress
 1941 – Ellen Willis, American journalist, critic, and
academic (d. 2006)
 1942 – Chris Harris, English actor and director (d.
2014)
 1942 – Dick Wagner, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 2014)
 1943 – Tommy McAvoy, Scottish politician
 1943 – Emmett Tyrrell, American journalist, author,
and publisher, founded The American Spectator
 1944 – Graham Kirkham, Baron Kirkham, English
businessman, founded DFS
 1944 – Denis Thwaites, English professional
footballer murdered in the 2015 Sousse attacks (d.
2015)[3]
 1946 – Antony Beevor, English historian and author
 1946 – Jane Birkin, English-French actress and
singer
 1946 – John Du Prez, English conductor and
composer
 1946 – Patty Duke, American actress (d. 2016)
 1946 – Ruth Fuchs, German javelin thrower and
politician
 1946 – Peter Lorimer, Scottish footballer
 1946 – Michael Ovitz, American talent agent, co-
founded Creative Artists Agency
 1946 – Stan Smith, American tennis player and
coach
 1946 – Joyce Vincent Wilson, American singer
 1947 – Christopher Parkening, American guitarist
and educator
 1947 – Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian economist and
politician, 36th President of Brazil
 1948 – Lester Bangs, American journalist and author
(d. 1982)
 1948 – Kim Beazley, Australian politician and
diplomat, 9th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia
 1948 – Boudewijn Büch, Dutch author, poet, and
television host (d. 2002)
 1948 – Peeter Kreitzberg, Estonian lawyer and
politician (d. 2011)
 1949 – Bill Buckner, American baseball player and
manager (d. 2019)
 1949 – Cliff Williams, Australian bass player
 1951 – Jan Timman, Dutch chess player and author
 1952 – John Lurie, American actor, saxophonist,
painter, director, and producer
 1953 – Vijay Amritraj, Indian tennis player and
sportscaster
 1953 – Wade Davis, Canadian anthropologist,
author, and photographer
 1953 – René Eespere, Estonian composer
 1953 – Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and
politician, 4th Greek Minister for National Defence
 1953 – Mikael Odenberg, Swedish soldier and
politician, 29th Swedish Minister for Defence
 1954 – Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (d.
1993)
 1954 – Steve MacLean, Canadian physicist and
astronaut
 1955 – Jane Crafter, Australian golfer
 1955 – Jill Pipher, American mathematician and
academic
 1956 – Linda Fabiani, Scottish politician
 1956 – Hanni Wenzel, German skier
 1958 – Mike Scott, Scottish singer-songwriter and
guitarist
 1958 – Spider Stacy, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist
 1959 – Bob Paris, American-Canadian bodybuilder
and actor
 1959 – Jorge Vaca, Mexican boxer
 1960 – Don Franklin, American actor
 1960 – Chris Waddle, English footballer, manager,
and sportscaster
 1960 – Diane Williams, American sprinter
 1960 – James Comey, 7th Director of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation
 1961 – Jeff Robinson, American baseball player (d.
2014)
 1961 – Patrik Sundström, Swedish ice hockey player
 1963 – Greg Abbott, English footballer and manager
 1963 – Diana Gansky, German discus thrower
 1965 – Craig Biggio, American baseball player and
coach
 1965 – Ken Hill, American baseball player
 1965 – Ted Raimi, American actor, director, and
screenwriter
 1966 – Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian race car driver
 1966 – Anthony Mason, American basketball player
(d. 2015)
 1966 – Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Danish academic
and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Denmark
 1966 – Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach
 1966 – Tim Sköld, Swedish bass player and
producer
 1967 – Ewa Białołęcka, Polish author
 1967 – Hanne Haugland, Norwegian high jumper
and coach
 1968 – Kelley Armstrong, Canadian author
 1969 – Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player
and sportscaster
 1969 – Archie Kao, American actor and producer
 1969 – Arthur Numan, Dutch footballer and manager
 1969 – Natascha McElhone, English-Irish actress
 1970 – Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer-songwriter,
pianist, and producer
 1970 – Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist
 1971 – Michaela Watkins, American actor and
comedian
 1972 – Miranda Hart, English actress
 1972 – Marcus Jensen, American baseball player
and coach
 1973 – Falk Balzer, German hurdler
 1973 – Pat Burke, Irish basketball player
 1973 – Tomasz Radzinski, Polish-Canadian
footballer
 1973 – Saulius Štombergas, Lithuanian basketball
player and coach
 1974 – Billy Koch, American baseball player
 1975 – Justin Furstenfeld, American singer-
songwriter, guitarist, and producer
 1975 – Ben Kay, English rugby player
 1976 – Tammy Blanchard, American actress and
singer
 1976 – Leland Chapman, American bounty hunter
 1976 – Sebastien Chaule, French-German rugby
player
 1976 – André Couto, Portuguese race car driver
 1976 – Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish footballer
 1977 – Brendan Nash, Australian-Jamaican cricketer
 1977 – Jamie Peacock, English rugby player and
manager
 1978 – Dean Brogan, Australian footballer and
coach
 1978 – Shedrack Kibet Korir, Kenyan runner
 1978 – Zdeněk Pospěch, Czech footballer
 1978 – Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player
 1978 – Kim St-Pierre, Canadian ice hockey player
 1979 – Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer
 1979 – Andrei Makrov, Estonian ice hockey player
 1979 – Sophie Monk, English-Australian singer-
songwriter and actress
 1979 – Michael Owen, English footballer and
sportscaster
 1979 – Rocc, Slovenian opera stage director and
designer[4]
 1980 – Gordon Greer, Scottish footballer
 1980 – Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer
 1980 – Thed Björk, Swedish race car driver
 1981 – Rebecca Jarvis, American journalist
 1981 – Johnny Jeter, American wrestler
 1981 – Liam Lawrence, Irish footballer
 1981 – Shaun Marcum, American baseball player
 1982 – Josh Fields, American baseball player
 1982 – Steve Sidwell, English footballer
 1982 – Anthony Way, English singer and actor
 1983 – Leanne Mitchell, English singer-songwriter
 1984 – Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer
 1984 – Rana Daggubati, Indian actor and producer
 1984 – Ed Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer
 1985 – Jakub Błaszczykowski, Polish footballer
 1985 – Alex Pennie, Welsh keyboard player
 1985 – Paul Rabil, American lacrosse player
 1985 – Tom Smith, English-Welsh rugby player
 1985 – Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress and
singer
  1987 – Kenneth Medwood, Belizean-American
hurdler
 1988 – Nicolas Batum, French basketball player
 1988 – Nate Ebner, American football player
 1988 – Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and
singer
 1988 – Hayato Sakamoto, Japanese baseball player
 1989 – Sam Burgess, English rugby league player
 1989 – Pedro Roberto Silva Botelho, Brazilian
footballer
 1989 – Onew, South Korean singer-songwriter and
dancer
 1991 – Ben Henry, New Zealand rugby league
player
 1991 – Offset, American rapper
 1992 – Tori Kelly, American singer-songwriter
 1992 – Ryo Miyaichi, Japanese footballer
 1993 – Antonio Giovinazzi, Italian race car driver
 1995 – Calvyn Justus, South African swimmer
 1996 – Li Zijun, Chinese figure skater

Deaths[edit]
 618 – Xue Rengao, emperor of Qin
 648 – John III of the Sedre, Syriac Orthodox
Patriarch of Antioch[5]
 704 – Aldfrith, king of Northumbria (or 705)
 872 – Pope Adrian II (b. 792)
 1077 – Agnes of Poitou, Holy Roman Empress and
regent (b. c. 1025)
 1293 – Al-Ashraf Khalil, Mamluk sultan of Egypt
 1311 – Margaret of Brabant, German queen consort
(b. 1276)
 1332 – Rinchinbal Khan, Mongolian emperor (b.
1326)
 1359 – Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (b.
1332)
 1417 – John Oldcastle, English Lollard leader
 1460 – Guarino da Verona, Italian scholar and
translator (b. 1370)
 1480 – Niccolò Perotti, humanist scholar (b. 1429)
 1503 – Sten Sture the Elder, regent of Sweden (b.
1440)
 1510 – Friedrich of Saxony (b. 1473)
 1542 – James V of Scotland (b. 1512)
 1591 – John of the Cross, Spanish priest and saint
(b. 1542)
 1595 – Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (b.
1535)
 1624 – Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham,
English politician, Lord High Admiral (b. 1536)
 1651 – Pierre Dupuy, French historian and scholar
(b. 1582)
 1715 – Thomas Tenison, English archbishop (b.
1636)
 1735 – Thomas Tanner, English bishop and historian
(b. 1674)
 1741 – Charles Rollin, French historian and
educator (b. 1661)
 1785 – Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and
engraver (b. 1727)
 1788 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist
and composer (b. 1714)
 1788 – Charles III of Spain (b. 1716)
 1799 – George Washington, American general and
politician, 1st President of the United States (b.
1732)
 1831 – Martin Baum, American businessman and
politician, 5th Mayor of Cincinnati (b. 1765)
 1838 – Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician (b.
1806)
 1842 – Ben Crack-O, king of several tribes
around Cape Palmas
 1860 – George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of
Aberdeen, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom (b. 1784)
 1861 – Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom
(b. 1819)
 1865 – Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish
geologist and mineralogist (b. 1794)
 1873 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American zoologist and
geologist (b. 1807)
 1878 – Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (b.
1843)
 1912 – Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, English
lieutenant and explorer (b. 1887)
 1917 – Phil Waller, Welsh rugby player (b. 1889)
 1920 – George Gipp, American football player (b.
1895)
 1927 – Julian Sochocki, Russian mathematician and
academic (b. 1842)
 1929 – Henry B. Jackson, British admiral (b. 1855)
 1935 – Stanley G. Weinbaum, American author (b.
1902)
 1937 – Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and
educator (b. 1869)
 1940 – Anton Korošec, Slovenian priest and
politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b.
1872)
 1943 – John Harvey Kellogg, American physician
and businessman, co-invented corn flakes (b. 1852)
 1944 – Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (b. 1908)[6]
 1947 – Stanley Baldwin, English lieutenant and
politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b.
1867)
 1947 – Edward Higgins, English-American
3rd General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864)
 1953 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author
and academic (b. 1896)
 1956 – Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish lawyer and
politician, 7th President of Finland (b. 1870)
 1963 – Dinah Washington, American singer and
pianist (b. 1924)
 1964 – William Bendix, American actor (b. 1906)
 1970 – Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and
politician, German Reich Minister of Justice (b.
1876)
 1971 – Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury, Bangladeshi
linguist and scholar (b. 1926)
 1971 – Munier Choudhury, Bangladeshi author,
playwright, and critic (b. 1925)
 1971 – Shahidullah Kaiser, Bangladeshi journalist
and author (b. 1927)
 1974 – Walter Lippmann, American journalist and
author (b. 1889)
 1975 – Arthur Treacher, English-American
entertainer (b. 1894)
 1978 – Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish historian
and diplomat, co-founded the College of Europe (b.
1886)
 1980 – Elston Howard, American baseball player
and coach (b. 1929)
 1984 – Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1898)
 1985 – Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian
activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate (b.
1896)
 1985 – Roger Maris, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1934)
 1989 – Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman
(b. 1919)
 1989 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and
activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
 1990 – Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and
playwright (b. 1921)
 1991 – Robert Eddison, Japanese-English actor (b.
1908)
 1993 – Jeff Alm, American football player (b. 1968)
 1993 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
 1994 – Orval Faubus, American soldier and
politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (b. 1910)
 1995 – G. C. Edmondson, American soldier and
author (b. 1922)
 1996 – Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and author (b.
1928)
 1997 – Stubby Kaye, American actor and comedian
(b. 1918)
 1997 – Emily Cheney Neville, American author (b.
1919)
 1997 – Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist and
songwriter (b. 1946)
 1998 – Norman Fell, American actor and comedian
(b. 1924)
 1998 – A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., American lawyer,
judge, and activist (b. 1928)
 1998 – Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and
politician, Mayor of Dallas (b. 1924)
 2001 – W. G. Sebald, German novelist, essayist,
and poet (b. 1944)
 2003 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (b. 1925)
 2003 – Blas Ople, Filipino journalist and politician,
21st President of the Senate of the Philippines (b.
1927)
 2003 – Frank Sheeran, American union leader and
mobster (b. 1920)
 2004 – Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (b.
1934)
 2004 – Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor, director,
producer, and politician (b. 1939)
 2006 – Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan-English
strategist and negotiator (b. 1938)
 2006 – Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-American composer
and producer, co-founded Atlantic Records (b. 1923)
 2006 – Mike Evans, American actor and
screenwriter (b. 1949)
 2009 – Alan A'Court, English footballer and manager
(b. 1934)
 2010 – Timothy Davlin, American politician, Mayor of
Springfield (b. 1957)
 2010 – Neva Patterson, American actress (b. 1920)
 2010 – Dale Roberts, English footballer (b. 1986)
 2011 – Joe Simon, American author and illustrator
(b. 1913)
 2011 – Billie Jo Spears, American singer-songwriter
(b. 1937)
 2012 – John Graham, English general (b. 1923)
 2012 – Edward Jones, American police officer and
politician (b. 1950)
 2012 – Victoria Leigh Soto, American educator (b.
1985)
 2013 – Janet Dailey, American author (b. 1944)
 2013 – C. N. Karunakaran, Indian painter and
illustrator (b. 1940)
 2013 – Dennis Lindley, English statistician and
academic (b. 1923)
 2013 – Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor (b. 1932)
 2013 – George Rodrigue, American painter (b. 1944)
  2014 – Theo Colborn, American zoologist and
academic (b. 1927)
 2014 – Irene Dalis, American soprano and pianist (b.
1925)
 2014 – Louis Alphonse Koyagialo, Congolese
politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic
of the Congo (b. 1947)
 2014 – Bess Myerson, American model, activist,
game show panelist and television personality; Miss
America 1945 (b. 1924)
 2014 – Fred Thurston, American football player (b.
1933)
 2015 – Terry Backer, American soldier and politician
(b. 1954)
 2015 – Glen Sonmor, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach (b. 1929)
 2015 – Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and
manager (b. 1963)
 2015 – Lillian Vernon, German-American
businesswoman and philanthropist, founded
the Lillian Vernon Company (b. 1927)
 2016 – Paulo Evaristo Arns, Brazilian cardinal (b.
1921)
 2016 – Bernard Fox, Welsh actor (b. 1927)
 2017 – Yu Kwang-chung, Chinese writer (b. 1928)
 2020 – Gérard Houllier, French Football manager (b.
1947) [7]

Holidays and observances[edit]

 Christian feast day:
o Folcwin
o John of the Cross
o John III of the Sedre (Syriac Orthodox
Church)[5]
o Matronian
o Nicasius of Rheims
o Nimatullah Kassab (Maronite Church)
o Spyridon (Western Church)
o Venantius Fortunatus
o December 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  Alabama Day (Alabama)
 Forty-seven Ronin Remembrance Day (Sengaku-
ji, Tokyo)
 Martyred Intellectuals Day (Bangladesh)
 Monkey Day

References[edit]
1. ^ King, Spurgeon (October 8, 2017). "Battle of Bean's
Station".  Tennessee Encyclopedia. Retrieved December
7, 2020.
2. ^ "George VI | Biography & Stammer".  Encyclopedia
Britannica. Retrieved  9 October  2020.
3. ^ Denis Thwaites: Fast and skilful footballer who played for
Birmingham City and was murdered in a terrorist attack in
Tunisia | The Independent
4. ^ "Rocc". Archiv.narodni-divadlo.cz. Retrieved 19
March  2020.
5. ^ Jump up to:a b Barsoum, Ephrem (2003).  The Scattered Pearls:
A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences. Translated by
Matti Moosa (2nd ed.). Gorgias Press. p.  322. Retrieved 16
July  2020.
6. ^ Vogel, Michelle (2012).  Lupe Velez: The Life and Career of
Hollywood's Mexican Spitfire. McFarland. p.  153. ISBN 978-
0-7864-8997-8.
7. ^ "Houllier dies aged 73 - tributes and reaction".  BBC Sport.
2020-12-14. Retrieved 2020-12-14.

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