December 11

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Events

Pre-1600

220 – Emperor Xian of Han is forced to abdicate the throne by Cao Cao's son Cao Pi, ending the Han dynasty.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
361 – Julian enters Constantinople as sole Roman Emperor.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
861 – Assassination of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil by the Turkish guard, who raise al-Muntasir to the throne, start of the "Anarchy at Samarra".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
969 – Byzantine Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas is assassinated by his wife Theophano and her lover, the later Emperor John I Tzimiskes.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1041 – Michael V, adoptive son of Empress Zoë of Byzantium, is proclaimed emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1239 – Treaty of Benavente: the heiresses of the Kingdom of León renounce their throne to King Ferdinand III of Castile<ref>H. Salvador Martínez, Alfonso X, the Learned: A Biography (Brill, 2010), p. 32.</ref>
1282 – Battle of Orewin Bridge: Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last native Prince of Wales, is killed at Cilmeri near Builth Wells in mid-Wales.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

1601–1900

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.)
1640 – The Root and Branch petition, signed by 15,000 Londoners calling for the abolition of the episcopacy, is presented to the Long Parliament.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1675 – Antonio de Vea expedition enters San Rafael Lake in western Patagonia.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1688 – Glorious Revolution: James II of England, while trying to flee to France, throws the Great Seal of the Realm into the River Thames.
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 the Paraguayan Army at the Battle of Avay.
1899 – Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.

1901–present

1901 – Guglielmo Marconi transmits the first transatlantic radio signal from Poldhu, Cornwall, England to Saint John's, Newfoundland.<ref>Template:Cite book|</ref>
1905 – A workers' uprising occurs in Kyiv, Ukraine (then part of the Russian Empire), and establishes the Shuliavka Republic.
1907 – The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
1913 – More than two years after it was stolen from the Louvre, Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona Lisa is recovered in Florence, Italy. The thief, Vincenzo Peruggia, is immediately arrested.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1917 – World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
1920 – Irish War of Independence: In retaliation for a recent IRA ambush, British forces burn and loot numerous buildings in Cork city. Many civilians report 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 final 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.
1941 – World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during the Battle of Wake Island.
1946 – The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is established.
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 (now Burkina Faso) 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.
1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and final 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.
1988 – A Soviet Air Force Il-76 aircraft crashes while participating in the Armenian earthquake relief, killing 78 people.<ref name="Remnick">Template:Cite news</ref>
1990 – Demonstrations by students and workers across Albania begin, which eventually trigger the fall of communism in Albania.
1990 – Several fatal collisions in the 1990 Interstate 75 fog disaster result in a total of 12 deaths and 42 being injured<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
1993 – A block of the Highland Towers condominium complex collapses following a landslide caused by heavy rain and water flowing from a construction site at Ampang district in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 48 of its residents die, including one who died in hospital after being rescued alive, leaving only two survivors.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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 land the plane safely.
1997 – The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
1998 – Thai Airways Flight 261 crashes near Surat Thani Airport, killing 101. The pilot flying the Airbus A310-200 is thought to have suffered spatial disorientation.
1999 – SATA Air Açores Flight 530M crashes into Pico da Esperança on São Jorge Island in the Azores, killing 35.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2001 – China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).
2005 – The Buncefield Oil Depot catches fire in Hemel Hempstead, England.
2005 – Cronulla riots: Thousands of White Australians demonstrate against ethnic violence resulting in a riot against anyone thought to be Lebanese in Cronulla, New South Wales; 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 – Bernie Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
2009 – Finnish game developer Rovio Entertainment releases the hit mobile game Angry Birds internationally on iOS.<ref name="tmo">Template:Cite web</ref>
2012 – At least 125 people are killed and up to 200 injured in bombings in the Alawite village of Aqrab, Syria.
2017 – New York City Subway bombing: A pipe bomb partially detonates in the New York City Subway, in the Times Square–42nd Street/Port Authority Bus Terminal. Four people are injured, including the perpetrator.
2019 – The results of the 2019 Bougainvillean independence referendum are announced. The results are overwhelmingly one-sided. Over 98% of voters vote for Bougainville's independence.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2020 – The Food and Drug Administration issues an Emergency Use Authorization on the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved by the agency.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Births

Pre-1600

1445 – Eberhard I, Duke of Württemberg (d. 1496)
1465 – Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Japanese shogun (d. 1489)
1475 – Pope Leo X (d. 1521)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1566 – Manuel Cardoso, Portuguese organist and composer (d. 1650)
1595 – Heo Mok, Korean politician, poet and scholar (d. 1682)

1601–1900

1613 – Amar Singh Rathore, Rajput nobleman (d. 1644)
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 dramatist, poet, and novelist (d. 1857)
1830 – Kamehameha V of Hawaii (d. 1872)
1837 – Webster Paulson, English civil engineer (d. 1887)
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)
1861 – Frederick Eveleigh-de-Moleyns, 5th Baron Ventry, British Army officer and Anglo-Irish peer (d. 1923)
1863 – Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer and academic (d. 1941)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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 – Subramania Bharati, 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)
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)
1892 – Arnold Majewski, Finnish military hero of Polish descent (d. 1942)<ref name="castrén">Castrén, Klaus: Majewski-suku Suomessa Template:Webarchive, GENOS - journal of the Finnish genealogy society, issue #70/1999. Accessed on 24 June 2021.</ref>
1893 – Leo Ornstein, Russian-American pianist and composer (d. 2002)
1897 – Ronald Skirth, English soldier (d. 1977)
1899 – Julio de Caro, Argentinian violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1980)
1900 – Hermína Týrlová, Czechoslovakian animator, screenwriter, and film director (d. 1993)
1900 – Gerd Arntz, German Modernist artist, co-creator of Isotype (d. 1988)<ref name="arntz">Template:Cite web</ref>

1901–present

1904 – Marge, American cartoonist (d. 1993)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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, fourth Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands (d. 1987)
1908 – Amon Göth, Austrian Nazi war criminal (d. 1946)
1909 – Ronald McKie, Australian soldier, journalist, and author (d. 1991)
1910 – Mildred Cleghorn, Native American chairwoman and educator (d. 1997)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1911 – Val Guest, English-American director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 2006)
1911 – Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian author, playwright, and screenwriter, 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 – Elena Garro, Mexican author and playwright (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 novelist, historian, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
1919 – Cliff Michelmore, English television host and producer (d. 2016)
1919 – Marie Windsor, American actress (d. 2000)
1920 – Mary Ivy Burks, American environmental activist (d. 2007)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1920 – Denis Jenkinson, English motorcycle racer and journalist (d. 1996)
1921 – Ilmar Laaban, Estonian poet and publicist (d. 2000)
1921 – Liz Smith, English actress (d. 2016)
1922 – Grigoris Bithikotsis, Greek singer-songwriter (d. 2005)
1922 – Dilip Kumar, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2021<ref name="NDTV-PTI-Dies-21">Template:Cite web</ref>)
1922 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)<ref name="UPI">Template:Cite web</ref>
1922 – Grace Paley, American short story writer and poet (d. 2007)
1923 – Betsy Blair, American actress and dancer (d. 2009)
1923 – Lillian Cahn, Hungarian-born American businesswoman, co-founded Coach, Inc. (d. 2013)
1923 – Morrie Turner, American comics creator (d. 2014)
1924 – Doc Blanchard, American football player and colonel (d. 2009)<ref name="UPI"></ref>
1925 – Aaron Feuerstein, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2021)
1925 – Paul Greengard, American neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019)
1925 – James Sullivan, American politician (d. 2012)
1926 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer-songwriter (d. 1984)<ref name="UPI"></ref>
1927 – John Buscema, American illustrator (d. 2002)
1929 – Axel Anderson, German actor and production manager (d. 2012)
1929 – Subhash Gupte, Indian cricketer (d. 2002)
1930 – Chus Lampreave, Spanish actress (d. 2016)
1930 – Jean-Louis Trintignant, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2022)
1931 – Ernie Beck, American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1931 – Ronald Dworkin, American philosopher and scholar (d. 2013)
1931 – Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican actress, singer, and dancer<ref name="AP">Template:Cite web</ref>
1931 – Pierre Pilote, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2017)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1931 – Rajneesh, Indian guru, mystic, and educator (d. 1990)
1932 – Enrique Bermúdez, Nicaraguan colonel and engineer (d. 1991)
1932 – Keith Waldrop, American author and poet (d. 2023)
1933 – Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., Filipino civil servant and politician, 23rd President of the Senate of the Philippines (d. 2019)
1934 – Salim Durani, Afghan-Indian cricketer (d. 2023)
1935 – Pranab Mukherjee, Indian journalist and politician, 13th President of India (d. 2020)
1935 – Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1998)
1936 – Hans van den Broek, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs
1936 – Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
1937 – Jim Harrison, American novelist, essayist, and poet (d. 2016)
1938 – Enrico Macias, Algerian-French singer-songwriter and guitarist
1938 – McCoy Tyner, American jazz musician (d. 2020)
1939 – Tom Hayden, American activist and politician (d. 2016)
1939 – Thomas McGuane, American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter
1940 – David Gates, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer<ref name="AP"></ref>
1940 – Donna Mills, American actress and producer<ref name="AP"></ref>
1941 – Max Baucus, American lawyer, politician, and diplomat, 11th United States Ambassador to China
1941 – J. P. Parisé, Canadian 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 (d. 1991)
1942 – Anna Carteret, English actress
1943 – John Kerry, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 68th United States Secretary of State<ref name="UPI"></ref>
1944 – Teri Garr, American actress and comedian (d. 2024)<ref name="UPI"></ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1944 – Jon Garrison, American tenor and educator
1944 – Lynda Day George, American actress<ref name="AP"></ref>
1944 – Michael Lang, American concert promoter and producer (d. 2022)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
1944 – Brenda Lee, American singer-songwriter<ref name="AP"></ref>
1946 – Rhoma Irama, Indonesian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1946 – Rick McCosker, Australian cricketer
1946 – Diana Palmer, American journalist and author
1948 – Stamatis Spanoudakis, Greek guitarist and composer
1948 – Shinji Tanimura, Japanese singer-songwriter (d. 2023)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1949 – Christina Onassis, Greek-Argentine businesswoman, socialite, and heiress (d. 1988)
1951 – Mazlan Othman, Malaysian astrophysicist and astronomer
1951 – Ria Stalman, Dutch discus thrower and shot putter
1953 – Bess Armstrong, American actress<ref name="AP"></ref>
1954 – Brad Bryant, American golfer
1954 – Sylvester Clarke, Barbadian cricketer (d. 1999)
1954 – Santiago Creel, Mexican lawyer and politician, Mexican Secretary of the Interior
1954 – Jermaine Jackson, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer<ref>Template:Cite Grove</ref>
1954 – Guðlaugur Kristinn Óttarsson, Icelandic guitarist, mathematician, and engineer
1955 – Gene Grossman, American economist and academic
1955 – Stu Jackson, American basketball player, coach, and manager
1955 – Ray Kelvin, British fashion designer
1955 – Christian Sackewitz, German footballer and manager
1956 – Lani Brockman, American actress and director
1956 – Andrew Lansley, English politician, Secretary of State for Health
1957 – Peter Bagge, American author and illustrator
1958 – Chris Hughton, English-born Irish footballer and manager
1958 – Tom Shadyac, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1958 – Nikki Sixx, American bass player, songwriter, and producer<ref name="AP"></ref>
1960 – Anders Eldebrink, Swedish ice hockey player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1961 – Dave King, Irish-American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1961 – Steve Nicol, Scottish footballer and manager
1961 – Macky Sall, Senegalese engineer and politician, fourth President of Senegal
1961 – Marco Pierre White, English chef and mentor
1962 – Ben Browder, American actor<ref name="AP"></ref>
1963 – Mario Been, Dutch footballer and manager
1963 – Mark Greatbatch, New Zealand cricketer
1963 – Claudia Kohde-Kilsch, German tennis player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1963 – John Lammers, Dutch footballer and manager
1963 – Nigel Winterburn, English footballer and coach
1964 – Justin Currie, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref name="AP"></ref>
1964 – Dave Schools, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer<ref name="AP"></ref>
1964 – Carolyn Waldo, Canadian swimmer and sportscaster
1965 – Jay Bell, American baseball player and coach
1965 – Gavin Hill, New Zealand rugby player
1965 – Glenn Lazarus, Australian rugby league player and politician
1965 – Giannis Ragousis, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister for National Defence
1966 – Gary Dourdan, American actor<ref name="AP"></ref>
1966 – Erik Honoré, Norwegian guitarist and producer
1966 – Göran Kropp, Swedish race car driver and mountaineer (d. 2002)
1966 – Leon Lai, Hong Kong singer and actor
1967 – Peter Kelamis, Australian voice actor
1967 – Mo'Nique, American comedian, actress, and producer<ref name="AP"></ref>
1967 – Chris Shepherd, English animator, director, producer, and screenwriter
1967 – Katy Steding, American basketball player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1968 – Emmanuelle Charpentier, French researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry, and Nobel laureate<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1968 – Fabrizio Ravanelli, Italian footballer and manager
1969 – Viswanathan Anand, Indian chess player
1969 – Stig Inge Bjørnebye, Norwegian footballer and manager
1969 – Max Martini, American actor, director, and screenwriter<ref name="AP"></ref>
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 – Murray Goodwin, Zimbabwean cricketer
1972 – Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1973 – Mos Def, American rapper<ref name="AP"></ref>
1974 – Maarten Lafeber, Dutch golfer
1974 – Rey Mysterio, American wrestler
1974 – Lisa Ortiz, American theatre and voice actress
1974 – Ben Shephard, English journalist and television host
1974 – Gete Wami, Ethiopian runner
1975 – Gerben de Knegt, Dutch cyclist
1976 – Shareef Abdur-Rahim, American basketball player, coach, and manager
1976 – Yujiro Shirakawa, Japanese actor
1977 – Mark Streit, Swiss ice hockey player
1978 – Roy Wood, Jr., American comedian, actor, and radio host
1979 – Colleen Hoover, American author<ref name="UPI"></ref>
1979 – Valdis Mintals, Estonian figure skater
1979 – Rider Strong, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter<ref name="AP"></ref>
1980 – Adi Keissar, Israeli poet
1980 – Kristjan Kitsing, Estonian basketball player
1981 – Rebekkah Brunson, American basketball player and coach<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1981 – Jason Kennedy, American journalist
1981 – Jeff McComsey, American author and illustrator
1981 – Paul Medhurst, Australian footballer
1981 – Javier Saviola, Argentine footballer
1982 – Roman Harper, American football player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1982 – Pablo Pérez Companc, Argentine race car driver
1984 – Leighton Baines, English footballer
1984 – Sandra Echeverría, Mexican actress and singer
1984 – James Ellsworth, American wrestler
1984 – Xosha Roquemore, American actress<ref name="AP"></ref>
1985 – Karla Souza, Mexican actress<ref name="UPI"></ref>
1986 – Roy Hibbert, American basketball player
1987 – Violetta Bock, German politician<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1987 – Clifton Geathers, American football player
1987 – Alex Russell, Australian actor<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1987 – Miranda Tapsell, Australian actress
1988 – Tim Southee, New Zealand cricketer
1989 – Kellie Harrington, Irish boxer<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
1990 – Alexa Demie, American actress and singer<ref name="UPI"></ref>
1992 – Tiffany Alvord, American singer-songwriter
1992 – Malcolm Brogdon, American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1993 – Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
1995 – Abbi Grant, Scottish footballer<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1996 – Hailee Steinfeld, American actress, singer and songwriter<ref name="AP"></ref>
1997 – Matthew Tkachuk, American ice hockey player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2000 – Onyeka Okongwu, American basketball player<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Deaths

Pre-1600

384 – Pope Damasus I (b. c.304)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
861 – Al-Fath ibn Khaqan, chief confidant and councillor to al-Mutawakkil
969 – Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine emperor (b. 912)
1121 – Al-Afdal Shahanshah, Egyptian political adviser (b. 1066)
1198 – Averroes, Spanish astronomer, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1126)<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>
1241 – Ögedei Khan, Mongolian emperor (b. 1186)
1282 – Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Welsh prince (b. 1223)
1282 – Michael VIII Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (b. 1225)
1474 – Henry IV of Castile, King of the Crown of Castile (b. 1425)
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)

1601–1900

1610 – Adam Elsheimer, German artist working in Rome (b. 1578)
1686 – Louis, Grand Condé, French general (b. 1621)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1694 – Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1630)
1737 – John Strype, English priest, 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)

1901–present

1906 – Charles Townsend, American fencer, engineer, and academic (b. 1872)
1909 – Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (b. 1839)
1913 – Carl von In der Maur, Governor of Liechtenstein (b. 1852)
1918 – Ivan Cankar, Slovenian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1876)
1920 – Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (b. 1855)
1936 – Myron Grimshaw, American baseball player (b. 1875)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1937 – Jaan Anvelt, Estonian theorist and politician (b. 1884)
1937 – Hugh Thackeray Turner, English architect and painter (b. 1853)
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 and academic (b. 1867)
1950 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and author (b. 1893)
1951 – Mustafa Muğlalı, Turkish general (b. 1882)
1951 – Hijri Dede, Iraqi Turkmen poet and writer (b. 1881)
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)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
1964 – Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (b. 1931)
1964 – Percy Kilbride, American actor (b. 1888)
1966 – Augusta Fox Bronner, American psychologist, specialist in juvenile psychology (b. 1881)
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)
1975 – Nihal Atsız, Turkish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1905)
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)
1984 – George Waggner, American director, producer and actor (b. 1894)
1987 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic (b. 1923)
1989 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
1991 – Robert Q. Lewis, American actor, comedian, game show host/panelist, and television personality (b. 1921)
1991 – Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906)
1994 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900)
1995 – Greg Bahnsen, American minister and philosopher (b. 1948)
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 (b. 1949)
1998 – André Lichnerowicz, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1915)
1998 – Lynn Strait, American singer-songwriter (b. 1968)
2000 – Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Pakistani politician and diplomat (b. 1915)
2000 – David Lewis, American actor (b. 1916)
2001 – Mainza Chona, Zambian lawyer and politician, first 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)
2008 – Bettie Page, American model (b. 1923)
2010 – Dick Hoerner, American football player (b. 1922)
2011 – John Patrick Foley, American cardinal (b. 1935)
2012 – Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian soprano and actress (b. 1926)
2012 – Mendel Weinbach, Polish-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1933)
2012 – Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer (b. 1920)
2013 – Nadir Afonso, Portuguese painter and architect (b. 1920)
2013 – Barbara Branden, Canadian-American author and academic (b. 1929)
2013 – Javier Jáuregui (boxer), Mexican boxer (b. 1973)
2013 – Sheikh Mussa Shariefi, Indian philosopher and scholar (b. 1942)
2014 – Hans Wallat, German conductor and director (b. 1929)
2015 – Abish Kekilbayev, Kazakh academic and politician (b. 1939)
2015 – H. Arnold Steinberg, Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and academic (b. 1933)
2015 – Hema Upadhyay, Indian painter and sculptor (b. 1972)
2015 – John "Hot Rod" Williams, American basketball player (b. 1962)
2015 – Ken Woolley, Australian architect (b. 1933)
2017 – Keith Chegwin, British TV presenter (b. 1957)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2020 – James Flynn, New Zealand intelligence researcher. (b. 1934)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2021 – Anne Rice, American author (b. 1941)<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>
2023 – Andre Braugher, American actor (b. 1962)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
2024 – David Bonderman, American billionaire businessman (b. 1942)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2024 – Khalil Haqqani, Afghan politician and warlord (b. 1966)<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
2024 – Purushottam Upadhyay, Indian musician, singer and composer (b. 1934)<ref name=":2">Template:Cite news</ref>

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:
Establishment of Kurdish Women's Union (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Indiana Day (United States)
International Mountain Day<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
National Tango Day (Argentina)
Pampanga Day (Pampanga province, Philippines)
Republic Day, the day when Upper Volta became an autonomous republic in the French Community in 1958. (Burkina Faso)

References

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External links

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