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{{pp-pc}} {{pp-move}} {{calendar}} {{This date in recent years}} {{Day}} ==Events== ===Pre-1600=== *[[1170]] – [[Thomas Becket]], [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], is assassinated inside [[Canterbury Cathedral]] by followers of [[Henry II of England|King Henry II]]; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the [[Anglican Communion]] and the [[Catholic Church]].<ref name=beck>{{cite book |last1=Attwater |first1=Donald |title=A New Dictionary of Saints |date=1994 |publisher=Liturgical Press |isbn=0-8146-2324-7 |pages=307–308}}</ref> *[[1503]] – The [[Battle of Garigliano (1503)|Battle of Garigliano]] was fought between a Spanish army under [[Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba]] and a French army commanded by [[Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Oman |first1=Charles |title=A History of the Art of War in the Sixteenth Century |date=2018 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-315-12171-0 |chapter=Battle of the Garigliano (December 29, 1503)}}</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1607]] – According to [[John Smith (explorer)|John Smith]], [[Pocahontas]], daughter of [[Powhatan]] leader [[Powhatan (Native American leader)|Wahunsenacawh]], successfully pleads for his life after tribal leaders attempt to execute him.<ref>{{cite book |first=Clifton |last=Daniel |title=Chronicle of America |publisher=Chronicle publication |year=1989 |page=47 |isbn=0-13-133745-9}}</ref> *[[1778]] – [[American Revolutionary War]]: British forces under the command of [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant Colonel]] [[Archibald Campbell (British Army officer, born 1739)|Archibald Campbell]] defeat American forces under [[Major general (United States)|Major General]] [[Robert Howe (Continental Army officer)|Robert Howe]] and [[Capture of Savannah|capture]] the port city of [[Savannah, Georgia]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lawrence |first1=Alexander A. |title=General Robert Howe and the British Capture of Savannah in 1778 |journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly |date=1952 |volume=36 |issue=4 |pages=303–327 |jstor=40577396 |issn=0016-8297}}</ref> *[[1812]] – {{USS|Constitution}}, under the command of [[Captain (United States O-6)|Captain]] [[William Bainbridge]], captures {{HMS|Java|1811|6}} off the coast of Brazil after a three-hour battle.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brodine |first1=Charles E. |title=Interpreting Old Ironsides: An Illustrated Guide to USS Constitution |date=2007 |publisher=Naval Historical Center, Dept. of the Navy |isbn=978-0-945274-54-4 |pages=102–104}}</ref> *[[1835]] – The [[Treaty of New Echota]] is signed, ceding all the lands of the [[Cherokee]] east of the [[Mississippi River]] to the United States.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Vipperman |first1=Carl J. |title=The Bungled Treaty of New Echota: The Failure of Cherokee Removal, 1836-1838 |journal=The Georgia Historical Quarterly |date=1989 |volume=73 |issue=3 |pages=540–558 |jstor=40582016 |issn=0016-8297}}</ref> *[[1845]] – The United States [[Texas annexation|annexes]] the [[Republic of Texas]] and admits it as the 28th state.<ref>{{cite book |last1=O'Neill |first1=R. |title=Texas War of Independence |date=2011 |publisher=[[Rosen Publishing|Rosen Publishing Group]] |page=85 |isbn=978-1-4488-1332-2}}</ref> *[[1860]] – The launch of {{HMS|Warrior|1860|6}}, with her combination of screw [[propeller]], iron hull and [[Ironclad warship|iron armour]], renders all previous warships obsolete.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davies |first1=Wyn |title=HMS Warrior: Ironclad Frigate 1860 |date=2011 |publisher=Seaforth |isbn=978-1-84832-095-6 |pages=6, 9, 19}}</ref> *[[1862]] – [[American Civil War]]: The [[Battle of Chickasaw Bayou]] ends in a [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] defeat as forces under General [[William Tecumseh Sherman|William T. Sherman]] are repulsed with heavy losses by [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] troops under General [[John C. Pemberton]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Chickasaw Bayou |url=https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battles-detail.htm?battleCode=ms003 |website=NPS.gov |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=November 30, 2024}}</ref> *[[1874]] – The military coup of [[Arsenio Martínez-Campos y Antón|Gen. Martinez Campos]] in [[Sagunto]] ends the failed [[First Spanish Republic]] and the [[Restoration (Spain)|monarchy is restored]] as [[Alfonso XII of Spain|Prince Alfonso]] is proclaimed King of [[Spain]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=López Sánchez |first1=Carmina |editor1-last=Müller |editor1-first=Frank Lorenz |editor2-last=Mehrkens |editor2-first=Heidi |title=Sons and Heirs: Succession and Political culture in Nineteenth-century Europe |date=2015 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-45498-0 |pages=147–159}}</ref> *[[1876]] – The [[Ashtabula River railroad disaster]] occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at [[Ashtabula, Ohio]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Aldrich |first1=Mark |title=Engineering Success and Disaster: American Railroad Bridges, 1840-1900 |journal=Railroad History |date=1999 |issue=180 |pages=31–72 |jstor=43522104 |issn=0090-7847}}</ref> *[[1890]] – [[Wounded Knee Massacre]]: On [[Pine Ridge Indian Reservation]], 300 [[Lakota people|Lakota]] are killed by the United States [[7th Cavalry Regiment]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=PRATT |first1=SCOTT L. |title=Wounded Knee and the Prospect of Pluralism |journal=The Journal of Speculative Philosophy |date=2005 |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=150–166 |doi=10.2307/25670562 |jstor=25670562 |issn=0891-625X}}</ref> ===1901–present=== *[[1911]] – [[Mongolia]] gains independence from the [[Qing dynasty]], enthroning [[Bogd Khan|8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu]] as [[Khagan of Mongolia]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Batbai︠a︡r |first1=T︠S︡. |last2=Kumar Soni |first2=Sharad |title=Modern Mongolia: A Concise History |date=2007 |publisher=Pentagon Press |isbn=978-81-8274-267-3 |pages=15–16 |edition=3rd rev. & enl.}}</ref> *[[1913]] – [[Cecil B. DeMille]] starts filming [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood's]] first feature film, ''[[The Squaw Man (1914 film)|The Squaw Man]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Birchard |first1=Robert |title=Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood |date=2004 |publisher=The University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-2636-4 |page=8}}</ref> *[[1930]] – Sir [[Muhammad Iqbal]]'s presidential address in [[Allahabad]] introduces the [[two-nation theory]] and outlines a vision for the creation of [[Pakistan]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fyzie |first1=Faiyaz Ahmad |title=Allama Iqbal, his two-nation theory and the ideas in his poetry that were anti-national |url=https://theprint.in/opinion/allama-iqbal-his-two-nation-theory-and-the-ideas-in-his-poetry-that-were-anti-national/763177/ |access-date=8 December 2022 |work=ThePrint |date=9 November 2021}}</ref> *[[1934]] – Japan renounces the [[Washington Naval Treaty]] of 1922 and the [[London Naval Treaty]] of 1930.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Nevins |first1=Allan |title=Japan Denounces the Naval Treaty |journal=Current History |date=1935 |volume=41 |issue=5 |pages=581–585 |jstor=45337519 |issn=2641-080X}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Watt |first1=D. C. |title=The Anglo-German Naval Agreement of 1935: An Interim Judgment |journal=The Journal of Modern History |date=June 1956 |volume=28 |issue=2 |pages=155–175 |doi=10.1086/237885 |s2cid=154892871}}</ref> *[[1937]] – The [[Irish Free State]] is replaced by a new state called [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] with the adoption of a new [[Constitution of Ireland|constitution]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=O'Leary |first1=Philip |title=Gaelic Prose in the Irish Free State, 1922-1939 |date=2004 |publisher=Pennsylvania State University Press |isbn=978-0-271-03010-4 |page=19}}</ref> *[[1940]] – In the [[Second Great Fire of London]], the [[Luftwaffe]] fire-bombs [[London]], England, killing almost 200 civilians during [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Allbeson |first1=Tom |title=Visualizing Wartime Destruction and Postwar Reconstruction: Herbert Mason's Photograph of St. Paul's Reevaluated |journal=The Journal of Modern History |date=September 2015 |volume=87 |issue=3 |pages=532–578 |doi=10.1086/682677 |s2cid=146192502 |url=https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/107159/1/Allbeson%20-%20Visualizing%20Wartime%20Destruction%20and%20Postwar%20Reconstruction.pdf}}</ref> *[[1972]] – [[Eastern Air Lines Flight 401]] (a [[Lockheed L-1011 TriStar]]) crashes in the [[Florida Everglades]] on approach to [[Miami International Airport]], [[Florida]], killing 101 of the 176 people on board.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ranter |first1=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Lockheed L-1011-385-1 TriStar 1 N310EA Everglades, FL |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19721229-0 |publisher=Aviation Safety Network |access-date=8 December 2022}}</ref> *[[1975]] – A [[1975 LaGuardia Airport bombing|bomb explodes]] at [[LaGuardia Airport]] in New York City, killing 11 people and injuring more than 75.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Martin |editor1-first=Gus |title=The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism |date=2011 |publisher=SAGE |isbn=978-1-4129-8017-3 |page=341 |edition=2nd |volume=1}}</ref> *[[1989]] – Czech writer, philosopher and dissident [[Václav Havel]] is elected the first post-communist President of [[Czechoslovakia]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Niland |first1=Lauren |title=29 December 1989: Václav Havel becomes president of Czechoslovakia |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2011/dec/19/from-the-archive-vaclav-havel-president-1989 |access-date=5 December 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=19 December 2011}}</ref> * 1989 – The [[Nikkei 225]] for the [[Tokyo Stock Exchange]] hits its all-time intra-day high of 38,957.44 and closing high at 38,915.87, serving as the apex of the [[Japanese asset price bubble]].<ref>{{cite web |website=Yahoo Finance UK |url=http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EN225&b=1&a=00&c=1980&e=1&d=00&f=1992&g=m |title=Nikkei 225 Historical prices, Nikkei 225 stocks |access-date=27 September 2019}}.</ref> *[[1992]] – [[Fernando Collor de Mello]], president of Brazil, tries to resign amidst corruption charges, but is then impeached.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Figueiredo |first1=Argelina Cheibub |editor1-last=Llanos |editor1-first=Mariana |editor2-last=Marsteintredet |editor2-first=Leiv |title=Presidential Breakdowns in Latin America: Causes and Outcomes of Executive Instability in Developing Democracies |date=2010 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-0-230-10581-2 |page=115 |edition=1st}}</ref> *[[1994]] – [[Turkish Airlines Flight 278]] (a [[Boeing 737 Classic|Boeing 737-400]]) crashes on approach to [[Van Ferit Melen Airport]] in [[Van, Turkey]], killing 57 of the 76 people on board.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19941229-0 |title=ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-4Y0 TC-JES Van Airport (VAN) |last=Ranter |first=Harro |website=aviation-safety.net |access-date=21 August 2019}}</ref> *[[1996]] – [[Guatemala]] and leaders of [[Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity]] sign a peace accord ending a 36-year [[Guatemalan Civil War|civil war]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Darling |first1=Juanita |title=Signing of Accord Ends 35-Year Civil War in Guatemala |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-12-30-mn-13866-story.html |access-date=5 December 2022 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=30 December 1996}}</ref> *[[1998]] – Leaders of the [[Khmer Rouge]] apologize for the [[Cambodian genocide]] that claimed over one million lives.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Koiwai |first1=Mayura |title=Regional report: Cambodia |journal=Peacekeeping & International Relations |date=January 1999 |volume=28 |issue=1 |page=14 |url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/1cedf89778b3c314246bbf97d0f1f22a/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=32034 |access-date=12 December 2022 |language=en |via=ProQuest}}</ref> *[[2003]] – The last known speaker of [[Akkala Sami language|Akkala Sami]] dies, rendering the language extinct.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.galdu.org/govat/doc/nordisk_samekonvensjon.pdf |title=Nordisk samekonvensjon |access-date=2014-02-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070411023150/http://www.galdu.org/govat/doc/nordisk_samekonvensjon.pdf |archive-date=11 April 2007 |language=sv}}</ref> *[[2006]] – The UK settles its [[Anglo-American loan]], post-WWII loan debt.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Thornton |first1=Philip |title=Britain pays off final instalment of US loan - after 61 years |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/britain-pays-off-final-instalment-of-us-loan-after-61-years-430118.html |access-date=9 December 2022 |work=The Independent |date=29 December 2006 |language=en}}</ref> *[[2012]] – A [[Tupolev Tu-204]] airliner [[Red Wings Airlines Flight 9268|crashes in a ditch]] between the airport fence and the [[M3 highway (Russia)|M3 highway]] after overshooting a runway at [[Vnukovo International Airport]] in Moscow, Russia, killing five people and leaving three others critically injured.<ref>{{cite news |title=Russian passenger jet crashes at Moscow's Vnukovo airport |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/29/russian-passenger-jet-crashes-moscow-vnukovo |access-date=9 December 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=29 December 2012 |language=en}}</ref> *[[2013]] – A [[December 2013 Volgograd bombings|suicide bomb attack]] at the [[Volgograd railway station|Volgograd-1 railway station]] in the southern Russian city of [[Volgograd]] kills at least 18 people and wounds 40 others.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Karpov |first1=Sergei |title=Suicide bomber kills at least 16 at Russian train station |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-blast-idUSBRE9BS02S20131229 |access-date=9 December 2022 |work=Reuters |date=29 December 2013 |language=en}}</ref> * 2013 – Seven-time [[Formula One]] [[List of Formula One World Drivers' Champions|champion]] [[Michael Schumacher]] suffers a massive head injury while skiing in the French Alps.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Schumacher injured in skiing accident |language=en-GB |work=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/25542340 |access-date=17 May 2021}}</ref> * 2020 – [[2020 Petrinja earthquake|A magnitude 6.4 earthquake]] hits near the town of [[Petrinja]] in [[Sisak-Moslavina County]], [[Croatia]], killing seven people.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-55474230.amp |title=Croatia earthquake: Seven dead as rescuers search rubble for survivors |work=BBC News |date=29 December 2020 |language=en-GB |access-date=21 March 2022}}</ref> * [[2024]] – [[Jeju Air Flight 2216]] crashes into a wall in [[Muan International Airport|Muan]], [[South Korea]], killing 179 of the 181 occupants. It is the worst aircraft accident on South Korean soil in history.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/28/asia/south-korea-plane-crash-intl-hnk/index.html |title=More than 170 killed after South Korean jet crash-lands at airport |publisher=[[CNN]] |date=2024-12-29 |access-date=2024-12-29 |author1=Yoonjung Seo |author2=Gawon Bae |author3=James Leggeu-min |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241229141458/https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/28/asia/south-korea-plane-crash-intl-hnk/index.html |archive-date=2024-12-29}}</ref> <!-- Do not add the death of Saddam Hussein here. He died December 30 (Baghdad time) --> ==Births== ===Pre-1600=== *[[1536]] – [[Henry VI, Burgrave of Plauen|Henry VI]], German nobleman (d. 1572)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Schmidt |first1=Berthold |title=Burggraf Heinrich IV zu Meissen, Oberstkanzler der Krone Böhmen und seine Regierung im Vogtlande |date=1888 |publisher=Griesbach |page=55 |language=de}}</ref> *[[1550]] – [[García de Silva Figueroa]], Spanish diplomat and traveller (d. 1624)<ref>{{citation |language=fr |title=Silva y Figueroa, García de (1550-1624) forme internationale}} {{BNF|122425443}}</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1633]] – [[Johannes Zollikofer]], Swiss vicar (d. 1692)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Postma |first1=Ferenc |last2=Verheij |first2=Arian |title=In Signum Benevoli Affectus I. Seven Album Inscriptions by Menasseh Ben Israel |journal=Zutot |date=2009 |volume=6 |issue=1 |page=46 |doi=10.1163/187502109790213023 |url=http://real.mtak.hu/53920/1/isba_mbi_2009.pdf}}</ref> *[[1721]] – [[Madame de Pompadour]], mistress of King Louis XV (d. 1764)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gordon |first1=Alden R. |title=Searching for the Elusive Madame de Pompadour |journal=Eighteenth-Century Studies |date=2003 |volume=37 |issue=1 |page=95 |doi=10.1353/ecs.2003.0062 |jstor=25098031 |s2cid=144477737 |issn=0013-2586}}</ref> *[[1746]] – [[Saverio Cassar]], Maltese priest and rebel leader (d. 1805)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bonnici |first1=Alfred |title=Letters by archpriest S. Cassar to his village commanders during the French occupation of Gozo |journal=The PSM Journal |date=December 1999 |volume=28 |issue=3 |page=4 |url=https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/76490 |access-date=12 December 2022}}</ref> *[[1766]] – [[Charles Macintosh]], Scottish chemist and the inventor of waterproof fabric (d. 1843)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Day |first1=Lance |last2=McNeil |first2=Ian |title=Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology |date=11 September 2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-65019-4 |page=786 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FmoTeX3aGl4C&dq=Charles+Macintosh+29+december+1766&pg=PA786}}</ref> *[[1788]] – [[Christian Jürgensen Thomsen]], Danish antiquarian (d. 1865)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Spjeldnaes |first1=Nils |editor1-last=Gillispie |editor1-first=Charles Coulston |title=Dictionary of Scientific Biography |date=1981 |publisher=Scribner |isbn=0-684-16962-2 |pages=357–358 |volume=13}}</ref> *[[1796]] – [[Johann Christian Poggendorff]], German physicist and journalist (d. 1877)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Salie |first1=Hans |last2=Oesper |first2=Ralph E. |title=Poggendorff and Poggendorff |journal=Isis |date=October 1966 |volume=57 |issue=3 |pages=389–392 |doi=10.1086/350147 |s2cid=143598386}}</ref> *[[1800]] – [[Charles Goodyear]], American chemist and engineer (d. 1860)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Kauffman |first1=George B. |title=Goodyear, Charles (1800-1860), inventor |date=February 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1000653}}</ref> *[[1804]] – [[John Langdon Sibley]], American librarian (d. 1885)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harris |first1=Michael H. |last2=Harmeling |first2=Deborah |editor1-last=Wynar |editor1-first=Bohdan S. |title=Dictionary of American Library Biography |date=1978 |publisher=Libraries Unlimited |isbn=0-87287-180-0 |pages=487–489}}</ref> *[[1808]] – [[Andrew Johnson]], American general and politician, 17th [[President of the United States]] (d. 1875)<ref>{{CongBio|name=JOHNSON, Andrew |id=J000116 |inline=YES}}</ref> *[[1809]] – [[George Washington Baines]], American politician, journalist and educator (d. 1882)<ref>{{cite book |author=President of the United States |author-link=President of the United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iHQ5AQAAMAAJ |title=Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States |publisher=[[Office of the Federal Register]] |publication-place=Washington, DC |year=1965 |page=1221 |chapter=Remarks in Raleigh at North Carolina State College, October 6, 1964 |via=Google Books}}</ref> *1809 – [[William Ewart Gladstone]], English lawyer and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (d. 1898)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Matthew |first1=H. C. G. |title=Gladstone, William Ewart (1809–1898), prime minister and author |date=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/10787}}</ref> *1809 – [[Albert Pike]], American author, poet, orator, editor, lawyer, jurist, and general (d. 1891)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.masonicinfo.com/pikesphilosophy.htm|title=Pike's Philosophy|author=Roscoe Pound|author-link=Roscoe Pound|year=1915|access-date=May 4, 2025}}</ref> *[[1811]] – [[Francisco Palau]], Catalan Discalced Carmelite friar and priest (d. 1872)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Attwater |first1=Donald |title=A New Dictionary of Saints |date=1994 |publisher=Liturgical Press |isbn=0-8146-2324-7 |page=116}}</ref> *[[1816]] – [[Carl Ludwig]], German physician and physiologist (d. 1895)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lüderitz |first1=Berndt |title=History |journal=Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology |date=December 2004 |volume=11 |issue=3 |pages=221–222 |doi=10.1023/B:JICE.0000048574.16990.8c |pmid=15548890 |s2cid=195692415}}</ref> *[[1843]] – [[Elisabeth of Wied]] (d. 1916)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lccn.loc.gov/n84181329|title=Sylva, Carmen|publisher=[[Library of Congress Authorities]]|access-date=Apr 30, 2025}}</ref> *[[1844]] – [[Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee]], Indian barrister and first president of [[the Indian National Congress|Indian National Congress]] (d. 1906)<ref>{{cite news |title=Womesh Chunder Bonnerjee: कांग्रेस के पहले अध्यक्ष, अंग्रेजी शासन को देश के लिए मानते थे अच्छा |url=https://www.aajtak.in/education/history/story/womesh-chunder-bonnerjee-elected-as-the-first-president-of-congress-party-tedu-578928-2018-12-29 |access-date=7 November 2022 |work=आज तक |date=29 December 2018 |language=hi}}</ref> *[[1855]] – [[August Kitzberg]], Estonian author and poet (d. 1927)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hasselblatt |first1=Cornelius |editor1-last=Arnold |editor1-first=Heinz Ludwig |title=KINDLERS LITERATUR LEXIKON (KLL) |date=2020 |publisher=J B METZLER |isbn=978-3-476-05728-0 |language=de |chapter=Kitzberg, August}}</ref> *[[1856]] – [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]], Dutch-French mathematician and academic (d. 1894)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mooney |first1=John |last2=Monna |first2=A. F. |last3=Dijk |first3=Gerrit |last4=Sher |first4=R. B. |title=The mathematical tourist |journal=The Mathematical Intelligencer |date=December 1994 |volume=16 |issue=1 |page=52 |doi=10.1007/BF03026616 |s2cid=189885425}}</ref> *[[1857]] – [[Sydney Young (chemist)|Sydney Young]], English chemist (d. 1937)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Atkins |first1=William Ringrose Gelston |title=Sydney Young, 1857-1937 |journal=Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society |date=1 January 1936 |volume=2 |issue=6 |pages=370–379 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1938.0021}}</ref> *[[1859]] – [[Venustiano Carranza]], Mexican soldier and politician, 37th [[President of Mexico]] (d. 1920)<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Encyclopedia of World Biography Online |date=1998 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631001172/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=7da9a76d |access-date=7 November 2022 |format=Collection |title=Venustiano Carranza}}</ref> *[[1870]] – [[Earl Gregg Swem]], American historian, bibliographer and librarian (d. 1965)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wessels |first1=Michael B. |editor1-last=Wynar |editor1-first=Bohdan S. |title=Dictionary of American Library Biography |date=1978 |publisher=Libraries Unlimited |isbn=0-87287-180-0 |pages=511–512}}</ref> *[[1876]] – [[Pablo Casals]], Catalan cellist and conductor (d. 1973)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Anderson |first1=Robert |title=Casals, Pablo |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.05061}}</ref> * 1876 – [[Lionel Tertis]], English violist (d. 1975)<ref>{{cite Grove |first=Watson |last=Forbes |title=Tertis, Lionel |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.27716 |date=2001}}</ref> *[[1879]] – [[Billy Mitchell]], American general and pilot (d. 1936)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=O'Neil |first1=William D. |title=Mitchell, Billy (1879-1936), army officer, air war pioneer, and air policy advocate |date=October 2007 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.0600441}}</ref> *[[1881]] – [[Scott Leary]], American swimmer (d. 1958)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/le/scott-leary-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417170039/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/le/scott-leary-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-17|title=Scott Leary|access-date=Apr 22, 2025}}</ref> * 1881 – [[Jess Willard]], American boxer (d. 1968)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Davis |first1=Luckett V. |title=Willard, Jess (1881-1968), world heavyweight boxing champion |date=June 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1900882}}</ref> *[[1886]] – [[Georg Hermann Struve]], German astronomer (d. 1933)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sokolovskaya |first1=Z. K. |editor1-last=Gillispie |editor1-first=Charles Coulston |title=Dictionary of Scientific Biography |date=1981 |publisher=Scribner |isbn=0-684-16962-2 |page=113 |volume=13}}</ref> *[[1892]] – [[Aku Korhonen]], Finnish actor (d. 1960)<ref>{{Danskefilm|TYPE=p|9196|Aku Korhonen}}</ref> *[[1894]] – [[J. Lister Hill]], American politician (d. 1984)<ref>{{CongBio |id=H000598 |name=HILL, Joseph Lister |inline=YES}}</ref> *[[1896]] – [[David Alfaro Siqueiros]], Mexican painter (d. 1974)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=O'Connor |first1=Francis V. |title=Siqueiros, David Alfaro |journal=Grove Art Online |date=2003 |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T078971}}</ref> ===1901–present=== *[[1903]] – [[Candido Portinari]], Brazilian painter (d. 1962)<ref>{{cite journal |title=Portinari, Candido |journal=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |date=31 October 2011 |doi=10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.B00144842}}</ref> *[[1904]] – [[Kuvempu]], Indian author and poet (d. 1994)<ref>{{cite news |title=Who is Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa? Know all about Indian novelist honoured by Google through doodle |url=https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/google-doodle-honours-kuppali-venkatappa-puttappa-know-more-about-indian-novelist/993654/ |access-date=9 December 2022 |work=Financial Express |date=29 December 2017}}</ref> *[[1908]] – [[Helmut Gollwitzer]], German theologian and author (d. 1993)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mohr |first1=Jürgen |title=Gollwitzer, Helmut |journal=Religion Past and Present |date=2011 |doi=10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_SIM_08831 |publisher=Brill}}</ref> * 1908 – [[Magnus Pyke]], English scientist and author (d. 1992)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Horrocks |first1=Sally M. |title=Pyke, Magnus Alfred (1908–1992), food scientist, author, and broadcaster |date=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/51288}}</ref> *[[1910]] – [[Ronald Coase]], English-American economist, author, and academic, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2013)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Ning |title=Ronald H. Coase, December 29, 1910–September 2, 2013 |journal=Man and the Economy |date=7 January 2014 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=125–140 |doi=10.1515/me-2014-0009 |s2cid=199573916}}</ref> *[[1911]] – [[Klaus Fuchs]], German physicist and spy (d. 1988)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Szasz |first1=Ferenc Morton |title=British Scientists and the Manhattan Project: The Los Alamos Years |date=1992 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-349-12731-3 |page=87}}</ref> *[[1914]] – [[Zainul Abedin]], Bangladeshi painter and academic (d. 1976)<ref>{{cite news |title=Zainul Abedin's birth centenary event starts |url=http://www.thedailystar.net/zainul-abedins-birth-centenary-event-starts-56215 |access-date=5 January 2016 |work=The Daily Star |date=20 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160105161823/http://www.thedailystar.net/zainul-abedins-birth-centenary-event-starts-56215 |archive-date=5 January 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> * 1914 – [[Billy Tipton]], American pianist and saxophonist (d. 1989)<ref>{{cite news |title=Musician's Death at 74 Reveals He Was a Woman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/02/us/musician-s-death-at-74-reveals-he-was-a-woman.html |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=2 February 1989}}</ref> * 1914 – [[Albert Tucker (artist)|Albert Tucker]], Australian painter and illustrator (d. 1999)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Haese |first1=Richard |title=Tucker, Albert |journal=Oxford Art Online |date=2003 |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T086480}}</ref> *[[1915]] – [[Robert Ruark]], American hunter and author (d. 1965)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Williams Glover |first1=Emma |editor1-last=Powell |editor1-first=William S. |title=Dictionary of North Carolina Biography |date=2000 |publisher=University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-0-8078-6700-6 |pages=264–265 |volume=5}}</ref> * 1915 – [[Jo Van Fleet]], American actress (d. 1996)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.californiabirthindex.org/birth/catherin_j_vanfleet_born_1915_327352 |title=The Birth of Cathrin Vanfleet |website=Online database of California birth records, 1905-1995 |access-date=7 November 2022}}</ref> *[[1917]] – [[Tom Bradley (American politician)|Tom Bradley]], American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 38th [[Mayor of Los Angeles]] (d. 1998)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Merl |first1=Jean |title=From the Archives: Mayor Who Reshaped L.A. Dies |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-tom-bradley-19980930-story.html |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=30 September 1998}}</ref> * 1917 – [[Ramanand Sagar]], Indian director and producer (d. 2005)<ref>{{cite news |title=Ramanand Sagar is dead |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-ramanand-sagar-is-dead-1001902 |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=DNA India |date=25 September 2015}}</ref> *[[1919]] – [[Alfred de Grazia]], American political scientist and author (d. 2014)<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2002 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000024279/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=6c5f89f4 |access-date=12 December 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Alfred de Grazia}}</ref> * 1919 – [[Roman Vlad]], Italian pianist and composer (d. 2013)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Costa |first1=Roberta |title=Vlad, Roman |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.29558}}</ref> *[[1920]] – [[Viveca Lindfors]], Swedish-American actress, singer and poet (d. 1995)<ref>{{cite news |title=Actress Viveca Lindfors dead at 74 |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1995/10/26/Actress-Viveca-Lindfors-dead-at-74/3520814680000/ |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=UPI |date=26 October 1995}}</ref> *[[1921]] – [[Robert C. Baker]], American inventor and professor (d. 2006)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March06/Baker_obit.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060711092410/http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March06/Baker_obit.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2006-07-11|title=Robert C. Baker, creator of chicken nuggets and Cornell chicken barbecue sauce, dies at 84|date=Mar 16, 2006|access-date=Apr 28, 2025}}</ref> * 1921 – [[Dobrica Ćosić]], Serbian politician, 1st [[President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] (d. 2014)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Yardley |first1=William |title=Dobrica Cosic, First Friend Then Foe of Serbia's Milosevic, Dies at 92 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/world/europe/dobrica-cosic-first-friend-then-foe-of-serbias-milosevic-dies-at-92.html |access-date=17 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=21 May 2014}}</ref> * 1921 – [[Michael Horne (engineer)|Michael Horne]], English structural engineer, scientist and academic (d. 2000)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Bryan |first1=E.R. |title=Michael Rex Horne, O.B.E. 29 December 1921 — 6 January 2000: Elected F.R.S. 1981 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |date=January 2001 |volume=47 |pages=279–292 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2001.0016 |s2cid=57647981}}</ref> *[[1922]] – [[Little Joe Cook]], American singer-songwriter (d. 2014)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Burnett |first1=James H. III |title=Little Joe Cook recalls high notes of doo-wop fame |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/style/2012/10/19/doo-wop-singer-little-joe-cook-approaches-with-style/Vx441imDMOo6WLRAPmr5MO/story.html |access-date=12 December 2022 |work=The Boston Globe |date=20 October 2012}}</ref> * 1922 – [[William Gaddis]], American author and academic (d. 1998)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Peschel |first1=Bill |title=Gaddis, William (29 December 1922–16 December 1998), novelist |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1603402}}</ref> *[[1923]] – [[Cheikh Anta Diop]], Senegalese historian, anthropologist, and physicist (d. 1986)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Juang |editor1-first=Richard M. |editor2-last=Morrissette |editor2-first=Noelle |title=Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History: A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia |date=2008 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-446-2 |page=366 |volume=1}}</ref> *1923 – [[Lily Ebert]], Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor (d. 2024)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lindner |first=Emmett |date=October 9, 2024 |title=Lily Ebert, Holocaust Survivor, Author and TikTok Star, Dies at 100 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/09/books/lily-ebert-dead.html |access-date=October 11, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> * 1923 – [[Morton Estrin]], American pianist and educator (d. 2017)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Cummings |editor1-first=David M. |title=International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory: In the Classical and Light Classical fields |date=2000 |publisher=International Biographical Centre |isbn=978-0-948875-53-3 |page=187 |edition=17th, 2000/2001}}</ref> * 1923 – [[Dina Merrill]], American actress, game show panelist, socialite, heiress, and businesswoman (d. 2017)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bergan |first1=Ronald |title=Dina Merrill obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/25/dina-merrill-obituary |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=25 May 2017}}</ref> * 1923 – [[Shlomo Venezia]], Greek-Italian author and [[Holocaust survivor]] (d. 2012)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hevesi |first1=Dennis |title=Shlomo Venezia Dies at 88; Wrote of Auschwitz Horror |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/shlomo-venezia-auschwitz-sonderkommando-and-survivor-dies-at-88.html |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=7 October 2012}}</ref> *[[1924]] – [[Joe Allbritton]], American businessman and publisher, founded the [[Allbritton Communications Company]] (d. 2012)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jr |first1=Robert D. Hershey |title=Joe Allbritton, TV and Banking Titan, Dies at 87 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/13/business/joe-allbritton-tv-and-banking-titan-dies-at-87.html |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=13 December 2012}}</ref> * 1924 – [[Kim Song-ae]], Korean politician (d. 2014)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nkinfo.unikorea.go.kr/nkp/theme/viewPeople.do?nkpmno=933 |title=북한정보포털 | 인물 |language=ko}}</ref> *[[1925]] – [[Pete Dye]], American golfer and architect (d. 2020)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Goldstein |first1=Richard |title=Pete Dye, 'Picasso' of Golf Course Design, Is Dead at 94 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/09/sports/golf/pete-dye-dead.html |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=9 January 2020}}</ref> *[[1928]] – [[Bernard Cribbins]], British actor (d. 2022)<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62330478 |title=Dr_Who_and_Wombles_Star_Bernard_Cribbins_Dies |work=BBC News |date=28 July 2022 |access-date=July 28, 2022}}</ref> *[[1931]] – [[Yi Ku]], Korean prince (d. 2005)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imperialhouse.kr/sub02/sub02_01_05.php|language=ko|script-title=ko:회은황태손(懷慇皇太孫 李玖, 1931~2005)|access-date=Apr 28, 2025}}</ref> *[[1932]] – [[Inga Swenson]], American actress and singer (d. 2023)<ref>{{cite book |title=Almanac of Famous People |date=2011 |publisher=Gale |issn=1040-127X |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1601058061/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=c91a1bd3 |access-date=12 December 2022 |chapter=Inga Swenson}}</ref> *[[1933]] – [[Samuel Brittan]], English journalist and author (d. 2020)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Keegan |first1=William |title=Sir Samuel Brittan obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/oct/19/sir-samuel-brittan-obituary |access-date=12 December 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=19 October 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1934]] – [[Ed Flanders]], American actor (d. 1995)<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Ed Flanders |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1618000659/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=12588054 |title=Newsmakers |publisher=Gale |access-date=12 December 2022 |date=1995 |issn=0899-0417}}</ref> *[[1936]] – [[Mary Tyler Moore]], American actress and producer (d. 2017)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Johnson |first1=Victoria E. |title=Moore, Mary Tyler (29 Dec. 1936–25 Jan. 2017), actress and producer in television, film, and theater |date=2020 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.013.369374}}</ref> * 1936 – [[Ray Nitschke]], American football player (d. 1998)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Brewster |first1=Keith |title=Nitschke, Ray (1936-1998), football player |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1900923}}</ref> *[[1937]] – [[Wayne Huizenga]], American businessman, founded [[AutoNation]] (d. 2018)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Scheiber |first1=Noam |title=H. Wayne Huizenga, Owner of Teams and a Business Empire, Dies at 80 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/obituaries/h-wayne-huizenga-entrepreneur-and-team-owner-is-dead-at-80.html |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=23 March 2018}}</ref> * 1937 – [[Barbara Steele]], English actress<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/91022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115225023/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/91022|url-status=dead|archive-date=2009-01-15|title=STEELE, Barbara|access-date=Apr 28, 2025}}</ref> *[[1938]] – [[Jon Voight]], American actor and producer<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2014 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000131849/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=fbe3693f |access-date=12 December 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Jon Voight}}</ref> *[[1939]] – [[Ed Bruce]], American country music singer-songwriter (d. 2021)<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Freeman |first1=Jon |title=Ed Bruce, 'Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys' Songwriter, Dead at 81 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/ed-bruce-songwriter-dead-obit-1111961/ |access-date=1 November 2022 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=8 January 2021}}</ref> *[[1940]] – [[Fred Hansen]], American pole vaulter<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=2512&Gender=M|title=Fred Hansen|access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref> *[[1941]] – [[Ray Thomas]], English singer-songwriter and flute player (d. 2018)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sweeting |first1=Adam |title=Ray Thomas obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/jan/09/ray-thomas-obituary |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=9 January 2018}}</ref> *[[1942]] – [[Rajesh Khanna]], Indian actor (d. 2012)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nazir |first1=Asjad |title=Rajesh Khanna obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/jul/29/rajesh-khanna |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=29 July 2012}}</ref> * 1942 – [[Dorothy Morkis]], American equestrian<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dorothy Morkis |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/11414 |website=olympedia.org |access-date=25 March 2024}}</ref> *[[1943]] – [[Bill Aucoin]], American talent manager (d. 2010)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wiegand |first1=Chris |title=Bill Aucoin obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jul/25/bill-aucoin-obituary-manager-kiss-rock-band |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=25 July 2010}}</ref> * 1943 – [[Molly Bang]], American author and illustrator<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2006 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000004913/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=5be335c7 |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Molly Garrett Bang}}</ref> * 1943 – [[Rick Danko]], Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (d. 1999)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=McDonald |first1=Chris |title=Band, the |date=25 July 2013 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2240142}}</ref> *[[1944]] – [[Andrew Foster (British public servant)|Andrew Foster]], British public servant<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.debretts.com:80/people/biographies/browse/f/3841/Andrew%20William%20FOSTER.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227122022/http://www.debretts.com:80/people/biographies/browse/f/3841/Andrew%20William%20FOSTER.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-12-27|title=Sir Andrew Foster|access-date=Apr 18, 2025}}</ref> * 1944 – [[Rodney Redmond]], New Zealand cricketer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/rodney-redmond-38244|title=Rodney Redmond|website=[[ESPNcricinfo]]|access-date=May 9, 2025}}</ref> * 1944 – [[Gerard Windsor]], Australian author and literary critic<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2002 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000107195/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=48bccc7a |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Gerard (Charles) Windsor}}</ref> *[[1945]] – [[Birendra of Nepal]], King of Nepal from 1972 to 2001 (d. 2001)<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Deva|url=https://snl.no/Birendra_Bir_Bikram_Shah_Deva|encyclopedia=[[Great Norwegian Encyclopedia]]|language=no|access-date=May 6, 2025}}</ref> * 1945 – [[Keith Milow]], British artist<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lewis |first1=Adrian |title=Milow, Keith |journal=Oxford Art Online |date=2003 |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T058325}}</ref> *[[1946]] – [[Marianne Faithfull]], English singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2025)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Farber |first=Jim |date=January 30, 2025 |title=Marianne Faithfull, a Pop Star Turned Survivor, Is Dead at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/arts/music/marianne-faithfull-dead.html |access-date=January 30, 2025 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Larkin |editor1-first=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=1998 |publisher=Muze UK |isbn=0-333-74134-X |page=1832 |edition=3rd |volume=3}}</ref> * 1946 – [[Laffit Pincay, Jr.]], Panamanian jockey<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://entities.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjxxpFw4hfPDGGcVDW4bd.html|title=Laffit Pincay, Jr.|publisher=[[OCLC]]|access-date=May 9, 2025}}</ref> * 1946 – [[Paul Trible]], American attorney, politician and academic administrator<ref>{{CongBio |id=T000367 |name=TRIBLE, Paul Seward, Jr. |inline=YES}}</ref> *[[1947]] – [[Richard Crandall]], American physicist and computer scientist (d. 2012)<ref>{{cite book |title=American Men & Women of Science |date=2008 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K3099024221/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=12619b64 |access-date=12 December 2022 |chapter=Richard E. Crandall}}</ref> * 1947 – [[Ted Danson]], American actor and producer<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Biography Online Collection |date=2013 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1650008605/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=582fa6e9 |access-date=12 December 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Ted Danson}}</ref> * 1947 – [[Leonhard Lapin]], Estonian architect and poet<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Svede |first1=Mark Allen |title=Lapin, Leonhard |journal=Oxford Art Online |date=2003 |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T049321}}</ref> (d. 2022) * 1947 – [[Cozy Powell]], English drummer, songwriter, and producer (d. 1998)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Elliott |first1=Paul |title=Powell, Colin Trevor [Cozy] (1947–1998), rock musician |date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/69722}}</ref> * 1947 – [[Vincent Winter]], Scottish actor, director, and production manager (d. 1998)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Vallance |first1=Tom |title=Obituaries: Vincent Winter |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituaries-vincent-winter-1186802.html |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The Independent |date=23 November 1998}}</ref> *[[1948]] – [[Jacky Clark Chisholm]], American gospel singer<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Black Biography |date=2018 |publisher=Gale |issn=1058-1316 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1606008467/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=37770c35 |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Jacky Clark Chisholm |volume=150}}</ref> * 1948 – [[Peter Robinson (Northern Ireland politician)|Peter Robinson]], Northern Irish politician, 3rd [[First Minister of Northern Ireland]]<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Riches |editor1-first=Christopher |editor2-last=Kavanagh |editor2-first=Dennis |title=A Dictionary of Political Biography |date=2013 |isbn=978-0-19-175108-0 |edition=2nd |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199569137.001.0001/acref-9780199569137-e-872 |chapter=Robinson, Peter David |publisher=Oxford University Press |url-access=subscription}}</ref> *[[1949]] – [[Syed Kirmani]], Indian cricketer and actor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/syed-kirmani-30116|title=Syed Kirmani|website=[[ESPNcricinfo]]|access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref> * 1949 – [[Ian Livingstone]], English fantasy author and entrepreneur<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?5365|title=Ian Livingstone|publisher=[[Internet Speculative Fiction Database]]|access-date=Apr 18, 2025}}</ref> * 1949 – [[David Topliss]], English rugby league player and coach (d. 2008)<ref>{{cite news |title=David Topliss |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2159424/David-Topliss.html |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The Telegraph |date=19 June 2008 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> *[[1950]] – [[Jon Polito]], American actor (d. 2016)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gilbey |first1=Ryan |title=Jon Polito obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/sep/04/jon-polito-obituary |access-date=17 November 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=4 September 2016}}</ref> *[[1951]] – [[Willem de Blécourt]], Dutch historical anthropologist<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2015 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000313419/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=b2e1741f |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Willem de Blécourt}}</ref> * 1951 – [[Yvonne Elliman]], American singer-songwriter and actress<ref name="AP">{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Mike |title=Today's famous birthdays list for December 29, 2022 includes celebrities Diego Luna, Alison Brie |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/12/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-december-29-2022-includes-celebrities-diego-luna-alison-brie.html |website=[[The Plain Dealer]] |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=28 December 2023 |date=29 December 2022}}</ref> * 1951 – [[Mike deGruy]], American documentary filmmaker (d. 2012)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1395814/|title=Michael deGruy(1951-2012)|access-date=Apr 22, 2025}}</ref> * 1951 – [[Georges Thurston]], Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 2007)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=bb412699-2f70-45d1-8e34-fbb463ea8e20&k=97669|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929111323/http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=bb412699-2f70-45d1-8e34-fbb463ea8e20&k=97669|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-09-29|title=Georges Thurston - aka Boule Noire - dead at age 55|author=Alan Hustak|access-date=Apr 29, 2025}}</ref> *[[1952]] – [[Gelsey Kirkland]], American ballerina and choreographer<ref>{{cite book |title=Almanac of Famous People |date=2011 |publisher=Gale |issn=1040-127X |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1601047243/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=61726594 |access-date=17 November 2022 |chapter=Gelsey Kirkland}}</ref> *[[1953]] – [[Gali Atari]], Israeli singer and actress<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/612755-Gali-Atari|title=Gali Atari|publisher=[[Discogs]]|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> * 1953 – [[Alan Rusbridger]], Zambian-English journalist and academic<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2014 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000085836/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=adea6871 |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Alan Rusbridger}}</ref> * 1953 – [[Stanley Williams]], American gang leader, co-founded the [[Crips]] (d. 2005)<ref>{{cite news |title=Timeline: Tookie's Path to Death Row |url=https://www.npr.org/2005/12/13/5047269/timeline-tookies-path-to-death-row |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=NPR |date=13 December 2005}}</ref> *[[1954]] – [[Albrecht Böttcher]], German mathematician<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/dmvm-1993-0306/html|title=Alfried Krupp-Förderpreis für junge Hochschullehrer|date=Apr 17, 2014|language=de|access-date=Apr 18, 2025}}</ref> * 1954 – [[Norihito, Prince Takamado]] of Japan (d. 2002)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://student.delta.edu/christopherschmandt/project02/Imperial%20Family.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728043726/http://student.delta.edu/christopherschmandt/project02/Imperial%20Family.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-07-28|title=The Imperial Family|access-date=May 2, 2025}}</ref> * 1954 – [[Mike Parry]], English broadcaster and former journalist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://entities.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxWWpM9DRKwqjBb3dFR8C.html|title=Mike Parry|publisher=[[OCLC]]|location=|access-date=Apr 30, 2025}}</ref> * 1954 – [[Roger Voudouris]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2003)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000836960|title=Roger Voudouris|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=Apr 30, 2025}}</ref> *[[1955]] – [[Chris Goodall]], English businessman and author<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2011 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000202584/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=3026c44e |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Chris Goodall}}</ref> * 1955 – [[Donald D. Hoffman]], American [[quantitative psychology|quantitative psychologist]] and author<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2019 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000133601/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=f718c99f |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Donald D. Hoffman}}</ref> *[[1956]] – [[Zaki Chehab]], Lebanese-British journalist<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2011 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000200423/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=d2a8457b |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Zaki Chehab}}</ref> * 1956 – [[Fred MacAulay]], Scottish comedian and radio host<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.film.ru/person/fred-macaulay|title=Fred MacAulay|publisher=[[Film.ru]]|language=ru|script-title=ru:Фред Маколэй|access-date=Apr 30, 2025}}</ref> * 1956 – [[Katy Munger]], American writer<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2014 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000306176/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=150f0d36 |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Katy Munger}}</ref> *[[1957]] – [[Brad Grey]], American screenwriter and producer (d. 2017)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barnes |first1=Brooks |title=Brad Grey, Former Chairman of Paramount Pictures, Dies at 59 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/business/media/brad-grey-former-chairman-of-paramount-pictures-dies-at-59.html |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=16 May 2017}}</ref> * 1957 – [[Paul Rudnick]], American author, playwright, and screenwriter<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2017 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000112064/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=d48a0175 |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Paul Rudnick}}</ref> *[[1958]] – [[Tyrone Benskin]], English-Canadian actor, theatre director and politician<ref>{{Canadian Parliament links|ID=17912 |nolist=yes |2=Mr. Tyrone Benskin, M.P.}}</ref> * 1958 – [[Nancy J. Currie-Gregg]], American colonel, engineer, and astronaut<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cavallaro |first1=Umberto |title=Women Spacefarers: Sixty different paths to Space |date=2017 |publisher=Springer Praxis Books |isbn=978-3-319-34048-7 |page=169}}</ref> *[[1959]] – [[Patricia Clarkson]], American actress<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Patricia Clarkson |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1618004112/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=230ec211 |title=Newsmakers |publisher=Gale |access-date=17 November 2022 |date=2005 |issn=0899-0417}}</ref> * 1959 – [[Ann Demeulemeester]], Belgian fashion designer<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Ann Demeulemeester |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1613000071/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=ee716880 |title=Contemporary Fashion |publisher=Gale |access-date=17 November 2022 |date=2002 |isbn=978-1-55862-173-2}}</ref> * 1959 – [[Martin Moran (actor)|Martin Moran]], American actor and author<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/martin-moran-74737 |title=Martin Moran |publisher=[[Internet Broadway Database]] |access-date=April 23, 2025}}</ref> * 1959 – [[Paula Poundstone]], American comedian and author<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2007 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000173175/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=c4d691f6 |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Paula Poundstone}}</ref> *[[1960]] – [[Katerina Didaskalou]], Greek actress<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/277369-katerina-didaskalou/galerie/|title=Katerina Didaskalou|language=cs|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> * 1960 – [[Brian A. Hopkins]], American author<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2003 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000132213/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=683a4530 |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Brian A. Hopkins}}</ref> * 1960 – [[David Boon]], Australian cricketer<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Boon Profile - Cricket Player Australia | Stats, Records, Video |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/david-boon-4169 |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=ESPNcricinfo |language=en}}</ref> * 1960 – [[Thomas Lubanga Dyilo]], Congolese militia leader, founded the [[Union of Congolese Patriots]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Black Biography |date=2013 |publisher=Gale |issn=1058-1316 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1606005767/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=c680a58b |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Thomas Lubanga |volume=104}}</ref> * 1960 – [[Dave Gilbert (Australian cricketer)|David Gilbert]], Australian cricketer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/dave-gilbert-5385|title=Dave Gilbert|website=[[ESPNcricinfo]]|access-date=May 9, 2025}}</ref> * 1960 – [[Michael James Pappas]], American politician<ref>{{CongBio |id=P000049 |name=PAPPAS, Michael James |inline=YES}}</ref> *[[1961]] – [[Kevin Granata]], American engineer and academic (d. 2007)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marras |first1=William S. |last2=Stokes |first2=Ian A. F. |last3=Abel |first3=Mark F. |title=Kevin Granata, PhD (December 29, 1961–April 16, 2007) |journal=Spine |date=July 2007 |volume=32 |issue=16 |page=1699 |doi=10.1097/BRS.0b013e318124ffb8}}</ref> *[[1962]] – [[Leza Lowitz]], American author<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2016 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000321877/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=1a38975b |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Leza Lowitz}}</ref> * 1962 – [[Carles Puigdemont]], Catalan politician and journalist, former president<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Biography Online Collection |date=2017 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1650010799/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=df287a8e |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Carles Puigdemont}}</ref> * 1962 – [[Wynton Rufer]], New Zealand footballer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fussballdaten.de/person/wynton-rufer/|title=Wynton Rufer|website=[[fussballdaten.de]]|language=de|access-date=May 9, 2025}}</ref> *[[1963]] – [[Francisco Bustamante]], Filipino [[billiards]] player<ref>{{AZBilliards|title=Francisco Bustamante|url=http://www.azbilliards.com/person/francisco-bustamante/|access-date=Apr 24, 2025}}</ref> * 1963 – [[Sean Payton]], American football player and coach<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Biography Online Collection |date=2022 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1650005555/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=2a783cf1 |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Sean Payton}}</ref> * 1963 – [[Ulf Kristersson]], Swedish politician, Leader of the Swedish Moderate Party and 35th [[Prime Minister of Sweden]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Britannica History & Society |date=2023 |publisher=Britannica |url=https://britannica.com/biography/Ulf-Kristersson |access-date=2 January 2024 |format=Collection |chapter=Ulf Kristersson}}</ref> *[[1964]] – [[Michael Cudlitz]], American actor<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Biography Online Collection |date=2010 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1650006843/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=66d04f78 |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Michael Cudlitz}}</ref> * 1964 – [[Josh Harris (businessman)|Josh Harris]], American investor and sports team owner<ref>{{cite web |title=Commanders notch first playoff berth under Harris |url=https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/12/30/washington-commanders |website=[[Sports Business Journal]] |access-date=December 30, 2024 |date=December 30, 2024}}</ref> * 1964 – [[Shingo Tsurumi]], Japanese actor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.horipro.co.jp/tsurumishingo/|publisher=[[Horipro]]|language=ja|script-title=ja:鶴見辰吾|access-date=Apr 22, 2025}}</ref> *[[1965]] – [[Dexter Holland]], American musician, singer, songwriter, and biologist<ref name="AP" /> * 1965 – [[John Newton (actor)|John Newton]], American actor<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |date=2010 |publisher=Gale |issn=0749-064X |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1609027205/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=275eacd2 |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=John Newton |series=Contemporary Theater, Film and Television: A Biographical Guide |volume=100}}</ref> * 1966 – [[Jason Gould]], American actor and singer<ref name="AP" /> * 1966 – [[Christian Kracht]], Swiss author<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2016 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000319225/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=84c8b0b2 |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Christian Kracht}}</ref> *[[1967]] – [[Chris Barnes (musician)|Chris Barnes]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tombofthemutilated.net/Chris-Barnes-Cannibal-Corpse-Biography.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509141047/http://www.tombofthemutilated.net/Chris-Barnes-Cannibal-Corpse-Biography.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-05-09|title=Biography of Chris Barnes|author=Tyler Watson|date=Feb 18, 2007|access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref> * 1967 – [[Lilly Wachowski]], American director, screenwriter and producer<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/11/lilly-wachowski-profile-gender-sense8-matrix |title=Lilly Wachowski: putting gender on the agenda in life and film |work=[[The Guardian]] |first1=Steve |last1=Rose |date=11 May 2016 |access-date=2 November 2018}}</ref> *[[1968]] – [[Li Bun-hui]], North Korean table tennis player<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161203123602/http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=LIBUN01|title=Bun-Hui Li|access-date=May 9, 2025}}</ref> * 1968 – [[James Mouton]], American baseball player<ref>{{cite book |title=Who's Who Among African Americans |date=2021 |publisher=Gale |issn=1081-1400 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1645533788/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=9bde8279 |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=James Raleigh Mouton}}</ref> *[[1969]] – [[Jason Cook (footballer)|Jason Cook]], English footballer<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Hugman |editor1-first=Barry J. |title=The PFA Premier & Football League players' records 1946-2015 |date=2015 |publisher=G2 Entertainment |isbn=978-1-78281-167-1 |page=183 |edition=1st}}</ref> * 1969 – [[Jennifer Ehle]], American actress<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |date=2009 |publisher=Gale |issn=0749-064X |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1609025385/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=bd850d63 |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Jennifer Ehle |series=Contemporary Theater, Film and Television: A Biographical Guide |volume=92}}</ref> * 1969 – [[Allan McNish]], Scottish race car driver and journalist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828085037/http://www.allanmcnish.com/output/biography.asp|title=Biography|access-date=May 9, 2025}}</ref> * 1969 – [[José Antonio Noriega]], Mexican footballer<ref>{{NFT player|10832/Jose_Antonio_Noriega|Noriega, José Antonio|accessdate=May 1, 2025}}</ref> * 1969 – [[Scott Patterson (author)|Scott Patterson]], American financial journalist and author<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2011 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000202412/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=20375fef |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Scott Patterson}}</ref> *[[1970]] – [[Hidetoshi Mitsusada]], Japanese race car driver<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/drivers/hidetoshi-mitsusada/|title=Hidetoshi Mitsusada|access-date=May 2, 2025}}</ref> * 1970 – [[Glen Phillips (singer)|Glen Phillips]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/385971-glen-phillips/biografie/|title=Glen Phillips|language=cs|access-date=May 2, 2025}}</ref> * 1970 – [[Kevin Weisman]], American actor<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |date=2009 |publisher=Gale |issn=0749-064X |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1609024957/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=594bf874 |access-date=17 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Kevin Weisman |series=Contemporary Theater, Film and Television: A Biographical Guide |volume=89}}</ref> *[[1971]] – [[Besnik Hasi]], Kosovo Albanian football manager and former player<ref>{{NFT player|68|Besnik Hasi}}</ref> * 1971 – [[Mike Pesca]], American radio journalist and podcaster<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2020 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000332134/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=b968e239 |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Mike Pesca}}</ref> * 1971 – [[Um Sang-hyun]], South Korean voice actor<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.csfd.cz/tvurce/187467-sang-hyeon-eom/biografie/|title=Sang-hyeon Eom|language=cs|access-date=Apr 24, 2025}}</ref> * 1971 – [[Margot Thien]], American swimmer<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/th/margot-thien-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161204021656/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/th/margot-thien-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-12-04|title=Margot Thien|access-date=Apr 22, 2025}}</ref> *[[1972]] – [[Andreas Dackell]], Swedish ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Andreas Dackell |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/andreas-dackell-8465090 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=28 December 2023}}</ref> * 1972 – [[Jason Kreis]], American soccer player and manager<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.mlssoccer.com/players/jason-kreis/|title=Jason Kreis|publisher=[[Major League Soccer]]|access-date=Apr 30, 2025}}</ref> * 1972 – [[Jude Law]], English actor<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Jude Law |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1618002980/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=0da7e7ba |title=Newsmakers |publisher=Gale |access-date=8 November 2022 |date=2000 |issn=0899-0417}}</ref> * 1972 – [[Leonor Varela]], Chilean-American model and actress<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cinemapassion.com/biographie-Leonor-Varela-1975.php|title=Léonor Varela|language=fr|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> *[[1973]] – [[Pimp C]], American rapper and producer ([[UGK]]) (d. 2007)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://boxden.com/showthread.php?t=1018261|title=Dec 13 - OBITUARY for: Mr. Chad Lamont Butler“Pimp C”|year=2007|access-date=Apr 24, 2025}}</ref> * 1973 – [[Theo Epstein]], American businessman<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Biography Online Collection |date=2003 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1650003044/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=18fb69a2 |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Theo Epstein}}</ref> * 1973 – [[Jenny Lawson]], American journalist and author<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2016 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000305612/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=7f37f4bc |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Jenny Lawson}}</ref> *[[1974]] – [[Asheru]], American rapper and producer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://data.carnegiehall.org/names/107705/about|title=Asheru|access-date=Apr 30, 2025}}</ref> * 1974 – [[O'Neil Bell]], Jamaican boxer (d. 2015)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cyberboxingzone.com/boxing/bell-oneil.htm|title=O'Neil Bell|access-date=Apr 25, 2025}}</ref> * 1974 – [[Maria Dizzia]], American actress<ref name="AP" /> * 1974 – [[Twinkle Khanna]], Indian actress and writer<ref>{{cite news |title=Happy Birthday Twinkle Khanna, Sprinkling Stardust @41 |url=https://www.ndtv.com/photos/entertainment/happy-birthday-twinkle-khanna-sprinkling-stardust-41-21212#photo-269461 |access-date=8 November 2022 |work=NDTV |date=29 December 2015}}</ref> * 1974 – [[Mahal (actress)|Mahal]], Filipino actress, comedian and vlogger (d. 2021)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diminutive comedienne Mahal dies at 46 |url=https://www.pep.ph/news/local/160445/mahal-dies-a734-20210831 |access-date=10 March 2022 |website=PEP.ph}}</ref> * 1974 – [[Mekhi Phifer]], American actor<ref>{{cite web |title=Celebrity Birthdays: Happy Birthday, Lee Daniels! |url=https://www.bet.com/photo-gallery/f2expn/celebrity-birthdays-happy-birthday-lee-daniels/kgieoe |publisher=[[BET]] |access-date=28 December 2022 |date=29 December 2013}}</ref> * 1974 – [[Ryan Shore]], Canadian composer and producer<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |date=2008 |publisher=Gale |issn=0749-064X |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1609023743/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=a7069b47 |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Ryan Shore |series=Contemporary Theater, Film and Television: A Biographical Guide |volume=83}}</ref> *[[1975]] – [[Shawn Hatosy]], American actor<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |date=2006 |publisher=Gale |issn=0749-064X |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1609019781/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=33ce6a43 |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Shawn Hatosy |series=Contemporary Theater, Film and Television: A Biographical Guide |volume=66}}</ref> *[[1976]] – [[Kate Ford]], English actress<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/564218/|title=Kate Ford|publisher=[[Kinopoisk]]|language=ru|script-title=ru:Кейт Форд|access-date=May 4, 2025}}</ref> * 1976 – [[Filip Kuba]], Czech ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Filip Kuba |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/filip-kuba-8462225 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=28 December 2023}}</ref> * 1976 – [[Danny McBride]], American actor, producer and screenwriter<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Biography Online Collection |date=2011 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1650007567/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=e5d4e89b |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Danny McBride}}</ref> *[[1977]] – [[Katherine Moennig]], American actress<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/katherine-moennig/bio/191998/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415234852/https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/katherine-moennig/bio/191998/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-04-15|title=Katherine Moennig|access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref> *[[1978]] – [[Alexis Amore]], Peruvian-American porn actress and director<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/667336/|title=Alexis Amore|publisher=[[Kinopoisk]]|language=ru|script-title=ru:Алексис Аморе|access-date=Apr 25, 2025}}</ref> * 1978 – [[Kieron Dyer]], English footballer and coach<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Hugman |editor1-first=Barry J. |title=The PFA Premier & Football League players' records 1946-2015 |date=2015 |publisher=G2 Entertainment |isbn=978-1-78281-167-1 |page=252 |edition=1st}}</ref> * 1978 – [[Danny Higginbotham]], English footballer and journalist<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Hugman |editor1-first=Barry J. |title=The PFA Premier & Football League players' records 1946-2015 |date=2015 |publisher=G2 Entertainment |isbn=978-1-78281-167-1 |page=390 |edition=1st}}</ref> * 1978 – [[LaToya London]], American singer and actress<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/latoya-london-506890|title=LaToya London|publisher=[[Internet Broadway Database]]|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> * 1978 – [[Angelo Taylor]], American hurdler and sprinter<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.angelotaylorusa.com/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915112205/http://www.angelotaylorusa.com/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-09-15|title=Angelo Taylor|access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref> *[[1979]] – [[Diego Luna]], Mexican actor, director and producer<ref>{{cite book |last1=Berumen |first1=Frank Javier Garcia |title=Latino Image Makers in Hollywood: Performers, Filmmakers and Films since the 1960s |date=2014 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-1411-3 |page=308}}</ref> * 1979 – [[Yuki Morisaki]], Japanese chef and television host<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/526846/|title=Yuki Morisaki|publisher=[[Oricon]]|language=ja|script-title=ja:森崎友紀|access-date=Apr 25, 2025}}</ref> * 1979 – [[George Parros]], American ice hockey player<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nhl.com/player/george-parros-8468095|title=George Parros|publisher=[[National Hockey League]]|access-date=May 8, 2025}}</ref> * 1979 – [[Reihan Salam]], American political commentator, columnist and author<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2010 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000191162/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=26da79e9 |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Reihan Salam}}</ref> * 1979 – [[Ariel Schrag]], American cartoonist and screenwriter<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nli.org.il/en/authorities/987007341738105171|title=Schrag, Ariel|publisher=[[National Library of Israel]]|access-date=Apr 29, 2025}}</ref> *[[1981]] – [[Shizuka Arakawa]], Japanese figure skater and sportscaster<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Shizuka Arakawa |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1618004354/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=336e5725 |title=Newsmakers |publisher=Gale |access-date=8 November 2022 |date=2006 |issn=0899-0417}}</ref> * 1981 – [[Janice Lynn Mather]], Bahamian-Canadian author<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2019 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000330882/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=fc72e43d |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Janice Lynn Mather}}</ref> * 1981 – [[Shaun Suisham]], American football player<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/S/suishsha01.htm|title=Shaun Suisham|publisher=[[Pro Football Reference]]|access-date=May 8, 2025}}</ref> * 1981 – [[Anna Woltz]], Dutch author<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2016 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000321966/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=58e79c9d |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Anna Woltz}}</ref> * 1981 – [[Vjatšeslav Zahovaiko]], Estonian footballer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100220094845/http://www.lpfp.pt/liga_sagres/pages/jogador.aspx?epoca=20092010&clube=u_leiria&jogador=3442|title=Zahovaiko (Leiria)|language=pt|access-date=May 8, 2025}}</ref> *[[1982]] – [[Alison Brie]], American actress<ref>{{cite web |title=Celebrate Alison Brie with the 'GLOW' Goddess's Hottest Shots Ever |url=https://www.maxim.com/women/alison-brie-birthday-2016-12/ |publisher=[[Maxim (magazine)|Maxim]] |access-date=28 December 2022 |date=29 December 2017}}</ref> * 1982 – [[Gabrielle Destroismaisons]], Canadian singer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/1933174-Gabrielle-Destroismaisons|title=Gabrielle Destroismaisons|publisher=[[Discogs]]|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> * 1982 – [[Norbert Siedler]], Austrian race car driver<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.racing-reference.info/driver/Norbert_Siedler/|title=Norbert Siedler|access-date=May 8, 2025}}</ref> * 1982 – [[Julia Wertz]], American cartoonist, writer and urban explorer<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2018 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000328710/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=47a524c2 |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Julia Wertz}}</ref> *[[1983]] – [[Jessica Andrews]], American singer and songwriter<ref name="AP" /> * 1983 – [[Gonzalo Olave]], Chilean actor (d. 2009)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/2274084/|title=Gonzalo Olave|publisher=[[Kinopoisk]]|language=ru|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> * 1983 – [[Angela Scanlon]], Irish television presenter and general television personality<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/angela_scanlon|title=Angela Scanlon|access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref> *[[1984]] – [[Branden Jacobs-Jenkins]], American playwright<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Black Biography |date=2017 |publisher=Gale |issn=1058-1316 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1606007930/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=7170f1ed |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Branden Jacobs-Jenkins |volume=139}}</ref> * 1984 – [[Brenton Lawrence]], Australian rugby league player<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807095857/http://www.seaeagles.com.au/team/profiles/brenton_lawrence_1.html|title=Brenton Lawrence|access-date=May 8, 2025}}</ref> *[[1985]] – [[Wang Ji-hye]], South Korean actress<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cinefox.com/actor/view?isb=Y&movieman_seq=10569|title=Wang Ji-hye|language=ko|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> * 1985 – [[Alexa Ray Joel]], American singer-songwriter<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Biography Online Collection |date=2010 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1650007200/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=3c7cdffd |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Alexa Ray Joel}}</ref> *[[1986]] – [[Derek Ryan (ice hockey)|Derek Ryan]], American ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Derek Ryan |url=https://www.nhl.com/oilers/player/derek-ryan-8478585 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=28 December 2023}}</ref> *[[1987]] – [[Iain De Caestecker]], Scottish actor<ref name="AP" /> *[[1988]] – [[Eric Berry]], American football player<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Black Biography |date=2015 |publisher=Gale |issn=1058-1316 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1606007144/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=054437fd |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Eric Berry |volume=125}}</ref> * 1988 – [[Christen Press]], American footballer<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Biography Online Collection |date=2019 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1650011710/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=54007996 |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Christen Press}}</ref> * 1988 – [[Ágnes Szávay]], Hungarian tennis player<ref>{{Cite web |title=Agnes Szavay | Player Stats & More – WTA Official |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/311872/name |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=Women's Tennis Association}}</ref> *[[1989]] – [[Jane Levy]], American actress<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Biography Online Collection |date=2021 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1650012358/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=01f324c7 |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Jane Levy}}</ref> * 1989 – [[Kei Nishikori]], Japanese tennis player<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Biography Online Collection |date=2014 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1650009584/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=af16c3e5 |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Kei Nishikori}}</ref> * 1989 – [[Harri Säteri]], Finnish ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Harri Sateri |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/harri-sateri-8474667 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=28 December 2023}}</ref> *[[1990]] – [[Allen Kim]], South Korean singer, dancer, and actor ([[U-KISS]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/p-et-tp0-20110827-826123.html|date=Aug 27, 2011|publisher=[[Nikkan Sports]]|language=ja|script-title=ja:U-KISS脱退キボムが「アレン」で活動|trans-title=Kibum, who left U-KISS, is active in "Allen"|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> *[[1991]] – [[Steven Caulker]], English footballer<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Hugman |editor1-first=Barry J. |title=The PFA Premier & Football League players' records 1946-2015 |date=2015 |publisher=G2 Entertainment |isbn=978-1-78281-167-1 |page=153 |edition=1st}}</ref> * 1991 – [[Patrick Feeney]], American sprinter<ref>{{cite web |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/united-states/patrick-feeney-14373686 |title=Patrick FEENEY |website=worldathletics.org}}</ref> *[[1992]] – [[Mislav Oršić]], Croatian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Mislav Oršić |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/mislav-orsic/85764/ |website=Soccerway |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref> * 1992 – [[Katsuhiro Suzuki (actor)|Katsuhiro Suzuki]], Japanese actor and model<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.douban.com/personage/27503023/|publisher=[[Douban]]|language=zh|script-title=zh:铃木胜大 Katsuhiko Suzuki|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> *[[1993]] – [[Gabby May]], Canadian artistic gymnast<ref>{{cite web |title=Gabrielle May - Women's Gymnastics |url=https://uicflames.com/sports/womens-gymnastics/roster/gabrielle-may/2154 |website=UIC Athletics |access-date=26 May 2020}}</ref> *[[1994]] – [[Kristel Fulgar]], Filipino actress<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abs-cbn.com/2020/12/30/fresh-scoops/kristel-fulgar-celebrates-26th-birthday-190709|title=Kristel Fulgar celebrates 26th birthday amid pandemic|date=Dec 30, 2020|website=[[Abs-cbn.com]]|access-date=Apr 22, 2025}}</ref> * 1994 – [[Princess Kako of Akishino]], Japanese princess<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kunaicho.go.jp/e-about/history/history03.html|title=Their Imperial Highnesses Crown Prince and Crown Princess Akishino and their family|publisher=[[Imperial House of Japan]]|access-date=Apr 18, 2025}}</ref> *[[1995]] – [[Myles Garrett]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Myles Garrett |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/3122132/myles-garrett |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref> * 1995 – [[Rina Ikoma]], Japanese singer and actress ([[Nogizaka46]] and [[AKB48]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.nogizaka46.com/member/detail/ikomarina.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526163557/http://www.nogizaka46.com/member/detail/ikomarina.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-05-26|title=Rina Ikoma|language=ja|script-title=ja:生駒 里奈|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> * 1995 – [[Ross Lynch]], American singer and actor<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Biography Online Collection |date=2020 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1650012231/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=3862dc37 |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Ross Lynch}}</ref> *[[1996]] – [[Sana Minatozaki]], Japanese singer<ref>{{cite web |title=TWICE(Profile) |url=http://twice.jype.com/profile.asp |website=JYP Entertainment - Twice |publisher=JYP Entertainment |access-date=26 October 2015 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190530110026/http://twice.jype.com/profile.asp |archive-date=30 May 2019}}</ref> * 1996 – [[Dylan Minnette]], American actor, musician and singer<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |date=2012 |publisher=Gale |issn=0749-064X |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1609031774/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=45940dcc |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Dylan Minnette |series=Contemporary Theater, Film and Television: A Biographical Guide |volume=123}}</ref> *[[1997]] – [[Felix Keisinger]], German skeleton racer<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibsf.org/en/athlete/262668|title=Felix Keisinger|publisher=[[International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation]]|access-date=May 8, 2025}}</ref> *[[1998]] – [[Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick]], American actor<ref>{{cite book |title=Contemporary Theatre, Film and Television |date=2010 |publisher=Gale |issn=0749-064X |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1609026714/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=90083ffc |access-date=8 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick |series=Contemporary Theater, Film and Television: A Biographical Guide}}</ref> * 1998 – [[Victor Osimhen]], Nigerian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Victor Osimhen |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/victor-james-osimhen/425645/ |website=Soccerway |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref> * 1998 – [[Brandon Thomas-Asante]], Ghanaian footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Brandon Thomas-Asante |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/brandon-thomas-asante/452353/ |website=Soccerway |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref> * [[1999]] – [[Andreas Skov Olsen]], Danish footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=A. Skov Olsen |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/andreas-skov-olsen/490969/ |website=Soccerway |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref> * 1999 – [[Francisco Trincão]], Portuguese footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Francisco Trincão |url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/67454/Trinc%C3%A3o/overview |website=[[Premier League]] |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref> *[[2000]] – [[Orkun Kökçü]], Dutch-Turkish footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Orkun Kökçü |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/orkun-kokcu/506333/ |website=Soccerway |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref> * 2000 – [[Julio Rodríguez]], Dominican baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Julio Rodriguez |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/julio-rodriguez-677594 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=28 December 2022}}</ref> *[[2006]] – [[Ethan Mbappé]], French footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=E. Mbappé |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/ethan-lottin/704242/ |website=Soccerway |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.--> ==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== *[[1170]] – [[Thomas Becket]], English archbishop and saint (b. 1118)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Barlow |first1=Frank |title=Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London] (1120?–1170), archbishop of Canterbury |date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/27201}}</ref> *[[1208]] – [[Emperor Zhangzong of Jin]], (b. 1168)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Franke |first1=Herbert |editor1-last=Franke |editor1-first=Herbert |editor2-last=Twitchett |editor2-first=Denis C. |title=The Cambridge History of China |date=1994 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-24331-5 |page=249 |volume=6}}</ref> *[[1380]] – [[Elizabeth of Poland]], queen consort of Hungary (b. 1305)<ref>{{cite book |title=Realm of St. Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary |first=Pál |last=Engel |publisher=I.B. Tauris |year=2005 |page=137}}</ref> *[[1550]] – [[Bhuvanaikabahu VII of Kotte|Bhuvanaikabahu VII]], King of Kotte (b. 1468)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Queyroz |first1=Fernão de |title=The Temporal and Spiritual Conquest of Ceylon |date=1975 |publisher=AMS Press |isbn=0-404-09630-1 |pages=292–293}}</ref> *[[1563]] – [[Sebastian Castellio]], French preacher and theologian (b. 1515)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Guggisberg |first1=Hans R. |title=Sebastian Castellio, 1515-1563: Humanist and Defender of Religious Toleration in a Confessional Age |date=2002 |publisher=Ashgate |isbn=978-0-7546-3019-7 |page=201}}</ref> ===1601–1900=== *[[1606]] – [[Stephen Bocskai]], Prince of Transylvania (b. 1557)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=WORMSER |first1=MORITZ |title=Coins and Medals of Transylvania in New York Collections |journal=American Journal of Numismatics |date=1914 |volume=48 |pages=163–164 |jstor=43587813 |issn=2381-4594}}</ref> *[[1661]] – [[Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant]], French poet (b. 1594)<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Saint-Amant, Marc Antoine de Gérard, Sieur de |volume=23 |page=1014}}</ref> *[[1689]] – [[Thomas Sydenham]], English physician and author (b. 1624)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Cook |first1=Harold J. |title=Sydenham, Thomas (bap. 1624, d. 1689), physician |date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/26864}}</ref> *[[1720]] – [[Maria Margaretha Kirch]], German astronomer and educator (b. 1670)<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Encyclopedia of World Biography Online |date=2000 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631007532/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=b174962a |access-date=7 November 2022 |format=Collection |title=Maria Winckelmann Kirch |volume=20}}</ref> *[[1731]] – [[Brook Taylor]], English mathematician and theorist (b. 1685)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Jeans |first1=Susi |last2=Gouk |first2=Penelope |title=Taylor, Brook |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.27582}}</ref> *[[1772]] – [[Ernst Johann von Biron]], 7th [[Duchy of Courland and Semigallia|duke of Courland and Semigallia]] (b. 1690){{citation needed|date=May 2025}} *[[1785]] – [[Johann Heinrich Rolle]], German composer (b. 1716)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Bauman |first1=Thomas |last2=Pyatt |first2=Janet B. |title=Rolle, Johann Heinrich |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.23711}}</ref> * 1785 – [[Johan Herman Wessel]], Norwegian-Danish poet and playwright (b. 1742)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bliksrud |first1=Liv |title=Norsk biografisk leksikon |date=29 June 2022 |url=https://nbl.snl.no/Johan_Herman_Wessel |access-date=12 December 2022 |language=no |chapter=Johan Herman Wessel}}</ref> *[[1807]] – [[Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo]], Portuguese diplomat and scientist (b. 1750)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bernardo |first1=Luís Miguel |title=Histórias da Luz e das Cores, Volume 1 |date=2009 |publisher=Universidade do Porto |isbn=978-972-8025-87-8 |pages=550–554 |edition=2a. |language=pt}}</ref> *[[1825]] – [[Jacques-Louis David]], French painter and illustrator (b. 1748)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lee |first1=Simon |title=David, Jacques-Louis |journal=Oxford Art Online |date=2003 |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T021541 |isbn=978-1-884446-05-4}}</ref> *[[1834]] – [[Thomas Robert Malthus]], English economist (b. 1766)<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|title=Thomas Robert Malthus summary|url=https://www.britannica.com/summary/Thomas-Malthus|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|access-date=May 4, 2025}}</ref> *[[1838]] – [[Søren Christian Sommerfelt]], Norwegian priest and botanist (b. 1794)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Søren Christian Sommerfelt |first= |last= |encyclopedia=[[Store norske leksikon]] |date=22 December 2023 |editor-last=Bolstad |editor-first=Erik |publisher=Norsk nettleksikon |location=Oslo |url=https://snl.no/Søren_Christian_Sommerfelt_-_prest |language=no |access-date=17 March 2024}}</ref> *[[1890]] – [[Spotted Elk]], American tribal leader (b. 1826)<ref>{{cite book |title=Notable Native Americans |date=1995 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-8103-9638-8 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1626000020/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=d67dd871 |access-date=7 November 2022 |chapter=Big Foot}}</ref> * 1890 – [[Octave Feuillet]], French novelist and dramatist (b. 1821)<ref>{{cite EB1911 |wstitle=Feuillet, Octave |volume=10 |pages=304-305 |first=Edmund William |last=Gosse}}</ref> *[[1891]] – [[Leopold Kronecker]], Polish-German mathematician and academic (b. 1823)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chang |first1=Sooyoung |title=Academic Genealogy of Mathematicians |date=2011 |publisher=World Scientific |isbn=978-981-4282-29-1 |page=32}}</ref> *[[1894]] – [[Christina Rossetti]], English poet and hymn-writer (b. 1830)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Duguid |first1=Lindsay |title=Rossetti, Christina Georgina (1830–1894), poet |date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/24139}}</ref> *[[1896]] – [[Jacob ben Moses Bachrach]], Polish apologist (b. 1824)<ref>{{Cite Jewish Encyclopedia|title=BACHRACH, JACOB BEN MOSES|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/2309-bachrach-jacob-ben-moses|author=[[Louis Ginzberg]] and [[Gotthard Deutsch]]|volume= 2|page=423}}</ref> *[[1897]] – [[William James Linton]], English-American painter, author, and activist (b. 1812)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Barnhill |first1=Georgia B. |title=Linton, William James (1812-1897), wood engraver, printer, and poet |date=February 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1700526}}</ref> *[[1898]] – [[Ilia Solomonovich Abelman]], Russian astronomer (b. 1866)<ref>{{Cite Jewish Encyclopedia|title=ABELMAN, ILIA SOLOMONOVICH|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/231-abelman-ilia-solomonovich|author=[[Herman Rosenthal]]|volume=1|page=52}}</ref> *[[1900]] – [[John Henry Leech]], English entomologist (b. 1862)<ref>{{cite book |last1=South |first1=Richard |title=Catalogue of the Collection of Palæarctic Butterflies Formed by the Late John Henry Leech, and Presented to the Trustees of the British Museum by His Mother, Mrs. Eliza Leech |date=1902 |publisher=British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology |page=iii}}</ref> ===1901–present=== *[[1905]] – [[Charles Yerkes]], American financier (b. 1837)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Salsbury |first1=Stephen |title=Yerkes, Charles Tyson (1837-1905), investment banker and traction entrepreneur |date=February 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1001789}}</ref> *[[1910]] – [[Samuel Butcher (classicist)|Samuel Butcher]], Anglo-Irish classical scholar and politician (b. 1850)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Prothero |first1=G. W. |first2=Roger T. |last2=Stearn |title=Butcher, Samuel Henry (1850–1910), classical scholar |date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/32205}}</ref> * 1910 – [[Reginald Doherty]], English tennis player (b. 1872)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Vamplew |first1=Wray |title=Doherty, (Hugh) Lawrence [Laurie] |date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/32851}}</ref> *[[1911]] – [[Rosamund Marriott Watson]], English poet, author and critic (b. 1860)<ref>{{cite ODNB |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/58579 |first1=Linda K. |last1=Hughes |title=Watson, Rosamund Marriott [''née'' Rosamund Ball; pseuds. Graham R. Tomson, R. Armytage] |date=2004}}</ref> *[[1918]] – [[Abby Leach]], American educator (b. 1855)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Briggs |first1=Ward |title=Abby Leach (1855-1918) |journal=The Classical World |date=1996 |volume=90 |issue=2/3 |pages=97–105 |doi=10.2307/4351924 |jstor=4351924}}</ref> *[[1919]] – [[William Osler]], Canadian physician and professor (b. 1849)<ref>{{cite ODNB |first1=W. F. |last1=Bynum |title=Osler, Sir William, baronet (1849–1919), physician |date=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35340}}</ref> *[[1921]] – [[Hermann Paul]], German philologist, linguist and lexicographer (b. 1846)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Reis |first1=Marga |author-link=Marga Reis |title=Hermann Paul |journal=Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur |date=1978 |volume=1978 |issue=100 |page=173 |doi=10.1515/bgsl.1978.1978.100.159 |s2cid=201828354 |language=de}}</ref> *[[1924]] – [[Carl Spitteler]], Swiss poet and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1845)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Senn |first1=Alfred |title=Carl Spittelers Dichtersprache |journal=The German Quarterly |date=May 1959 |volume=32 |issue=3 |pages=187–198 |doi=10.2307/401859 |jstor=401859}}</ref> *[[1925]] – [[Félix Vallotton]], Swiss-French painter (b. 1865)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Neff |first1=John Hallmark |title=Felix Vallotton: A Forgotten Master Painter |journal=Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts |date=June 1976 |volume=54 |issue=4 |page=166 |doi=10.1086/DIA41504576 |s2cid=192689405}}</ref> *[[1926]] – [[Rainer Maria Rilke]], Austrian poet and author (b. 1875)<ref>{{cite journal |title=Rilke, Rainer [René] (Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef) Maria |journal=Oxford Art Online |date=2003 |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T072164}}</ref> *[[1929]] – [[Wilhelm Maybach]], German engineer and businessman, founded [[Maybach]] (b. 1846)<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Encyclopedia of World Biography Online |date=2009 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1631009278/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=8fbcc7a1 |access-date=7 November 2022 |format=Collection |title=Wilhelm Maybach |volume=29}}</ref> * 1929 – [[Edward Christopher Williams]], American librarian (b. 1871)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Josey |first1=E. J. |editor1-last=Wynar |editor1-first=Bohdan S. |title=Dictionary of American Library Biography |date=1978 |publisher=Libraries Unlimited |isbn=0-87287-180-0 |pages=552–553}}</ref> *[[1937]] – [[Don Marquis]], American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1878)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Gale |first1=Robert L. |title=Marquis, Don (1878-1937), columnist, short-story writer, and poet |date=February 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1601062}}</ref> * 1937 – [[Alma Tell]], American actress (b. 1898)<ref>{{Cite book|author=Allan R. Ellenberger|title=Celebrities in Los Angeles Cemeteries: A Directory|url={{Google books|8bOJCgAAQBAJ|page=208|plainurl=yes}}|page=208}}</ref> *[[1939]] – [[Kelly Miller (scientist)|Kelly Miller]], American mathematician, sociologist, essayist, newspaper columnist and author (b. 1863)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Winston |first1=Michael R. |title=Miller, Kelly (1863-1939), educator and essayist |date=February 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1500478}}</ref> * 1939 – [[Madeleine Pelletier]], French psychiatrist, feminist and political activist (b. 1874)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mitchell |first1=Claudine |title=Madeleine Pelletier (1874–1939): The Politics of Sexual Oppression |journal=Feminist Review |date=November 1989 |volume=33 |issue=1 |pages=72–92 |doi=10.1057/fr.1989.31 |s2cid=143944956}}</ref> *[[1940]] – [[Stephen Birch]], American businessman (b. 1873)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ingham |first1=John N. |title=Biographical dictionary of American business leaders |date=1983 |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=978-0-313-23907-6 |page=75 |volume=1}}</ref> *[[1941]] – [[Louis Eilshemius]], American painter (b. 1864)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Karlstrom |first1=Paul J. |title=Eilshemius, Louis M(ichel) |journal=Oxford Art Online |date=2003 |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T025707}}</ref> * 1941 – [[Tullio Levi-Civita]], Italian mathematician and scholar (b. 1873)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hodge |first1=William Vallance Douglas |title=Tullio Levi-Civita, 1873-1941 |journal=Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society |date=30 November 1942 |volume=4 |issue=11 |pages=151–165 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1942.0013 |doi-access=free}}</ref> *[[1943]] – [[Art Young]], American cartoonist and writer (b. 1866)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Harvey |first1=Robert C. |title=Young, Arthur Henry (1866-1943), cartoonist |date=February 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1601815}}</ref> *[[1944]] – [[Khasan Israilov]], [[Chechen people|Chechen]] rebel (b. 1910)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Burds |first1=Jeffrey |title=The Soviet War against 'Fifth Columnists': The Case of Chechnya, 1942—4 |journal=Journal of Contemporary History |date=April 2007 |volume=42 |issue=2 |page=307 |doi=10.1177/0022009407075545 |s2cid=159523593}}</ref> *[[1945]] – [[Beulah Dark Cloud]], American actress (b. 1887)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Berumen |first1=Frank Javier Garcia |title=American Indian Image Makers of Hollywood |date=2020 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-3647-4 |page=25}}</ref> *[[1946]] – [[Mirko Breyer]], Croatian writer, bibliographer, and antiquarian (b. 1863)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://narod.hr/vjera-i-kultura/kultura/23-listopada-1863-roden-mirko-breyer-prvak-hrvatske-bibliografije|title=23. listopada 1863. – rođen Mirko Breyer, prvak hrvatske bibliografije|author=Nikola Banić|date=Oct 23, 2016|language=hr|trans-title=October 23, 1863 – Mirko Breyer, champion of Croatian bibliography, was born|access-date=Apr 28, 2025}}</ref> * 1946 – [[Camillo Schumann]], German composer and organist (b. 1872)<ref>{{cite book |title=Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians |date=2001 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K2420010737/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=c126745e |access-date=7 November 2022 |chapter=Camillo Schumann}}</ref> *[[1948]] – [[Harry Farjeon]], British composer and music teacher (b. 1878)<ref>{{cite book |title=Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians |date=2001 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K2420003354/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=614cc7c7 |access-date=7 November 2022 |chapter=Harry Farjeon}}</ref> *[[1949]] – [[Tyler Dennett]], American historian and author (b. 1883)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Vicary |first1=Elizabeth Zoe |title=Dennett, Tyler Wilbur (1883-1949), historian, government official, and college president |date=February 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1400140}}</ref> *[[1952]] – [[Fletcher Henderson]], American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1897)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Collier |first1=James Lincoln |title=Henderson, Fletcher |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.12781}}</ref> * 1952 – [[Beryl Rubinstein]], American pianist, composer and teacher (b. 1898)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Finn |first1=Robert |title=Rubinstein, Beryl |date=25 May 2016 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2292930}}</ref> *[[1954]] – [[William Merriam Burton]], American chemist (b. 1865)<ref>{{cite web |title=William Burton | Lemelson |url=https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/william-burton |website=lemelson.mit.edu |access-date=7 November 2022}}</ref> *[[1956]] – [[Miles Vandahurst Lynk]], American physician and author (b. 1871)<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2003 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000122810/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=9db4debf |access-date=7 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Miles V(andahurst) Lynk}}</ref> *[[1958]] – [[Doris Humphrey]], American dancer and choreographer (b. 1895)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Palfy |first1=Barbara |title=Humphrey, Doris |date=2 June 2011 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.A2103470}}</ref> *[[1959]] – [[Robin Milford]], English soldier and composer (b. 1903)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Hurd |first1=Michael |title=Milford, Robin |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.18673}}</ref> *[[1960]] – [[Eden Phillpotts]], English author and poet (b. 1862)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Moult |first1=Thomas |last2=Dayananda |first2=James Y. |title=Phillpotts, Eden (1862–1960), writer |date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/35518}}</ref> *[[1965]] – [[Frank Nugent]], American screenwriter, journalist and film reviewer (b. 1908)<ref>{{cite news |title=Frank S. Nugent, Screen Writer t And Former Film Critic, Dead; Credits Included 'Quiet Man' and 'Mister Roberts'-Reviewed for Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/12/31/archives/frank-s-nugent-screen-writer-t-and-former-film-critic-dead-credits.html |access-date=7 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=31 December 1965 |page=21}}</ref> * 1965 – [[Kōsaku Yamada]], Japanese composer and conductor (b. 1886)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Kanazawa |first1=Masakata |title=Yamada, Kósçak (opera) |date=2002 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.O907001}}</ref> *[[1967]] – [[Paul Whiteman]], American violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1890)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Johnson |first1=Carl |title=Whiteman, Paul |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.30223}}</ref> *[[1968]] – [[Austin Farrer]], English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Crombie |first1=I. M. |title=Farrer, Austin Marsden (1904–1968), philosopher, theologian, and biblical scholar |date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33092}}</ref> *[[1970]] – [[William King Gregory]], American zoologist and anatomist (b. 1876)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Root |first1=Nina J. |title=Gregory, William King (1876-1970), paleontologist |date=February 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1302317}}</ref> * 1970 – [[Marie Menken]], American director and painter (b. 1909)<ref>{{cite news |title=Marie Menken, 61, Early Leader In Underground Movies, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/12/31/archives/marie-menken-61-early-leader-in-underground-movies-dies.html |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=31 December 1970}}</ref> *[[1971]] – [[John Marshall Harlan II]], American lawyer and jurist (b. 1899)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Dorsen |first1=Norman |title=Harlan, John Marshall (1899-1971), lawyer and Supreme Court justice |date=February 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1101026}}</ref> *[[1972]] – [[Joseph Cornell]], American sculptor and director (b. 1903)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cooper |first1=Philip |title=Cornell, Joseph |journal=Oxford Art Online |date=2003 |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T019548}}</ref> * 1972 – [[Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos]], Greek priest and missionary (b. 1903)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vimaorthodoxias.gr/nea/oi-ierapostoloi-deichnoyn-to-dromo-stoys-ischyroys/|date=Jun 28, 2023|language=el|script-title=el:Οι ιεραπόστολοι δείχνουν το δρόμο στους ισχυρούς|trans-title=Missionaries Show the Way to the Powerful|access-date=May 8, 2025}}</ref> *[[1975]] – [[Euell Gibbons]], American author and naturalist (b. 1911)<ref>{{cite ANB |last1=Vicary |first1=Elizabeth Zoe |title=Gibbons, Euell Theophilus (1911-1975), author and naturalist |date=February 2000 |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1302575}}</ref> *[[1976]] – [[Ivo Van Damme]], Belgian runner (b. 1954)<ref>{{cite news |title=Van Damme, Belgian Track Star, Dies After Car Crash in France |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/30/archives/van-damme-belgian-track-star-dies-after-car-crash-in-france.html |access-date=2 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=30 December 1976}}</ref> *[[1979]] – [[F. Edward Hébert]], American journalist and politician (b. 1901)<ref>{{CongBio |id=H000437 |name=HÉBERT, Felix Edward |inline=YES}}</ref> * 1979 – [[Richard Tecwyn Williams]], Welsh biochemist (b. 1909)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Neuberger |first1=Albert |last2=Smith |first2=R. L. |title=Richard Tecwyn Williams, 20 February 1909 - 29 December 1979 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |date=1 November 1982 |volume=28 |pages=685–717 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1982.0026 |s2cid=86261072}}</ref> *[[1980]] – [[Tim Hardin]], American singer-songwriter (b. 1941)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.songsinger.info/th/biograph.html|title=Tim Hardin Biography|access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref> * 1980 – [[Nadezhda Mandelstam]], Russian author and educator (b. 1899)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Austin |first1=Anthony |title=RUSSIANS BURY NADEZHDA MANDELSTAM |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/03/world/russians-bury-nadezhda-mandelstam.html |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=3 January 1981}}</ref> * 1980 – [[Irvin F. Westheimer]], American businessman and social reformer (b. 1879)<ref>{{cite book |title=Almanac of Famous People |date=2011 |publisher=Gale |issn=1040-127X |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1601068804/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=ee3a634f |access-date=7 November 2022 |chapter=Irvin Ferdinand Westheimer}}</ref> *[[1981]] – [[Philip Handler]], American nutritionist, and biochemist (b. 1917)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Walter |title=DR. PHILIP HANDLER IS DEAD AT 64; EX-HEAD OF ACADEMY OF SCIENCES |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/30/obituaries/dr-philip-handler-is-dead-at-64-ex-head-of-academy-of-sciences.html |access-date=7 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=30 December 1981}}</ref> * 1981 – [[Miroslav Krleža]], Croatian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Możejko |first1=Edward |title=On the Edge of Reason: The Writing of Miroslav Krleža |journal=World Literature Today |date=1983 |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=24–30 |doi=10.2307/40138480 |jstor=40138480}}</ref> *[[1984]] – [[Indus Arthur]], American actress and singer (b. 1941)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://entities.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJrGyFVrqDp37khM7k7vHC.html|title=Indus Arthur|publisher=[[OCLC]]|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> * 1984 – [[P. H. Polk]], American photographer (b. 1898)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Holloway |first1=Camara Dia |title=Polk, P(rentice) H(erman) |journal=Oxford Art Online |date=26 May 2010 |doi=10.1093/gao/9781884446054.article.T2087080}}</ref> * 1984 – [[Leo Robin]], American composer, lyricist and songwriter (b. 1900)<ref>{{cite book |title=Almanac of Famous People |date=2011 |publisher=Gale |issn=1040-127X |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1601054193/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=2c8bde20 |access-date=5 November 2022 |chapter=Leo Robin}}</ref> *[[1986]] – [[Harold Macmillan]], English captain and politician, [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. 1894)<ref>{{cite news |title=HAROLD MACMILLAN DIES AT 92; WAS PRIME MINISTER OF BRITAIN |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/30/obituaries/harold-macmillan-dies-at-92-was-prime-minister-of-britain.html |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=30 December 1986}}</ref> * 1986 – [[Andrei Tarkovsky]], Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1932)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Goodman |first1=Walter |title=ANDREI TARKOVSKY, DIRECTOR AND SOVIET EMIGRE, DIES AT 54 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/30/obituaries/andrei-tarkovsky-director-and-soviet-emigre-dies-at-54.html |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=30 December 1986}}</ref> *[[1987]] – [[Jun Ishikawa]], Japanese author (b. 1899)<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2001 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000124115/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=c7fbe3db |access-date=5 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Jun Ishikawa}}</ref> * 1987 – [[Wilbert E. Moore]], American sociologist (b. 1914)<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2003 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000070096/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=643c49f4 |access-date=5 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Wilbert E(llis) Moore}}</ref> *[[1988]] – [[Mike Beuttler]], Egyptian race car driver (b. 1940)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Turner |first1=Victoria |title=Beuttler - Formula 1's LGBT+ pioneer |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/56141363 |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=BBC Sport |date=21 February 2021}}</ref> * 1988 – [[Ieuan Maddock]], Welsh scientist and nuclear researcher (b. 1917)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Duckworth |first1=W. E. |title=Ieuan Maddock, 29 March 1917 - 29 December 1988 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |date=1 November 1991 |volume=37 |pages=321–340 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1991.0016 |jstor=770032 |s2cid=71268985}}</ref> *[[1989]] – [[Süreyya Ağaoğlu]], Azerbaijani-Turkish lawyer and jurist (b. 1903)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ataturkansiklopedisi.gov.tr/detay/9/S%C3%BCreyya_A%C4%9Fao%C4%9Flu_(1903-1989)|title=Süreyya Ağaoğlu (1903-1989)|author=Selma Yel|date=Aug 7, 2023|language=tr|access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref> *[[1992]] – [[Vivienne Segal]], American actress and singer (b. 1897)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Goldstein |first1=Howard |title=Segal, Vivienne |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.47948}}</ref> *[[1993]] – [[Frunzik Mkrtchyan]], Armenian actor (b. 1930)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.peoples.ru/art/cinema/actor/mkrchyan/|language=ru|script-title=ru:Фрунзик Мкртчян / Phrunzik Mkrchyan|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> *[[1994]] – [[Frank Thring]], Australian actor (b. 1926)<ref>{{cite AuDB |first=Peter |last=Fitzpatrick |title=Thring, Francis William (Frank) (1926–1994) |volume=19 |edition= |year=2021 |id2=thring-francis-william-frank-19779 |access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref> *[[1995]] – [[Lita Grey]], American actress (b. 1908)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.virtual-history.com/movie/person/4904/lita-grey|title=Lita Grey (1908 - 1995)|location=|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> * 1995 – [[Hans Henkemans]], Dutch pianist, composer and psychiatrist (b. 1913)<ref>{{cite Grove |last1=Ryker |first1=Harrison |title=Henkemans, Hans |date=2001 |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.12791}}</ref> *[[1996]] – [[Pennar Davies]], Welsh clergyman and author (b. 1911)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Stephens |first1=Meic |title=Obituary: Pennar Davies |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-pennar-davies-1281297.html |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=The Independent |date=2 January 1997}}</ref> * 1996 – [[Mireille Hartuch]], French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1906)<ref>{{cite news |title=Mireille, French Songwriter, 90 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/30/arts/mireille-french-songwriter-90.html |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=The New York Times |agency=Reuters |date=30 December 1996}}</ref> * 1996 – [[Peggy Herbison]], Scottish politician (b. 1907)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Dalyell |first1=Tam |title=Herbison, Margaret McCrorie [Peggy] (1907–1996), politician |date=22 September 2011 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/64016}}</ref> *[[1998]] – [[Ralph Siu]], American scholar, military and civil servant, and author (b. 1917)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Estrada |first1=Louie |title=RALPH SIU, DEVELOPER OF 'PANETICS,' DIES AT 80 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1998/12/31/ralph-siu-developer-of-panetics-dies-at-80/d1d087a9-d466-45e1-bc90-fe4a8061015a/ |access-date=5 November 2022 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=31 December 1998}}</ref> * 1998 – [[Don Taylor (American filmmaker)|Don Taylor]], American actor and film director (b. 1920)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Oliver |first1=Myrna |title=Don Taylor; Actor in War Films, Director |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-dec-31-mn-59371-story.html |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=31 December 1998}}</ref> *[[1999]] – [[Leon Radzinowicz]], Polish-English criminologist and academic (b. 1906)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Morris |first1=Terence |title=Sir Leon Radzinowicz |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/jan/01/guardianobituaries |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=1 January 2000}}</ref> *[[2001]] – [[Takashi Asahina]], Japanese conductor (b. 1908)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Martin |title=Takashi Asahina |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/takashi-asahina-9198620.html |access-date=2 November 2022 |work=The Independent |date=11 January 2002}}</ref> * 2001 – [[Cássia Eller]], Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1962)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0,,EDR71017-5856,00.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150506172146/http://revistaepoca.globo.com/Revista/Epoca/0,,EDR71017-5856,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-05-06|title=Saiba mais sobre a cantora Cássia Eller|language=pt|trans-title=Learn more about the singer Cássia Eller|access-date=Apr 25, 2025}}</ref> * 2001 – [[György Kepes]], Hungarian painter, photographer, designer, educator and art theorist (b. 1906)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Ken |title=Gyorgy Kepes Is Dead at 95; Artist and Aesthetic Theorist |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/10/arts/gyorgy-kepes-is-dead-at-95-artist-and-aesthetic-theorist.html |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=10 January 2002}}</ref> *[[2002]] – [[Lloyd Barbee]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1925)<ref>{{cite web |title=Barbee, Lloyd A. 1925-2003 |url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS1741 |website=Dictionary of Wisconsin History |publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society |access-date=5 November 2022 |date=3 August 2012}}</ref> * 2002 – [[Ralph Clanton]], American actor (b. 1914)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/ralph-clanton-78098|title=Ralph Clanton|publisher=[[Internet Broadway Database]]|access-date=Apr 25, 2025}}</ref> *[[2003]] – [[Earl Hindman]], American actor (b. 1942)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=BIC&u=wikipedia&id=GALE%7CK1609013868&v=2.1&it=r&sid=bookmark-BIC&asid=78ea1cd7|title=Earl Hindman|publisher=[[Gale (publisher)|Gale]]|access-date=Apr 25, 2025}}</ref> * 2003 – [[Dinsdale Landen]], English actor (b. 1932)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barker |first1=Dennis |title=Obituary: Dinsdale Landen |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/dec/31/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=31 December 2003}}</ref> * 2003 – [[Bob Monkhouse]], English comedian, actor, and game show host (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barker |first1=Dennis |title=Obituary: Bob Monkhouse |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/dec/30/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=30 December 2003}}</ref> *[[2004]] – [[Julius Axelrod]], American biochemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1912)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Snyder |first1=Solomon H. |title=Julius Axelrod (1912–2004) |journal=Nature |date=February 2005 |volume=433 |issue=7026 |page=593 |doi=10.1038/433593a |pmid=15703735 |s2cid=4413335 |doi-access=free}}</ref> * 2004 – [[Ken Burkhart]], American baseball player and umpire (b. 1916)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/burkhke01.shtml|title=Ken Burkhart|publisher=[[Baseball Reference]]|access-date=May 8, 2025}}</ref> * 2004 – [[Peter Davison (poet)|Peter Davison]], American poet, essayist, teacher, lecturer, editor and publisher (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Peter Davison (1928-2004) |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/12/peter-davison-1928-2004/303707/ |access-date=7 November 2022 |magazine=The Atlantic |date=December 2004}}</ref> * 2004 – [[Liddy Holloway]], New Zealand actress and screenwriter (b. 1947)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nzonscreen.com/profile/liddy-holloway/biography|title=Liddy Holloway|publisher=[[NZ on Screen]]|access-date=Apr 28, 2025}}</ref> *[[2005]] – [[Gerda Boyesen]], Norwegian-English psychotherapist and author (b. 1922)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gbpev.de/gerda-boyesen-eine-kurzbiografie/|title=Gerda Boyesen – eine Kurzbiografie|author=Thomas Haudel|author2=Ebba Boyesen|language=de|trans-title=Gerda Boyesen – a short biography|access-date=Apr 28, 2025}}</ref> * 2005 – [[Cyril Philips]], British historian and academic director (b. 1912)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Yapp |first1=M. E. |title=Professor Sir Cyril Philips |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-sir-cyril-philips-523619.html |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=The Independent |date=19 January 2006}}</ref> * 2005 – [[Basil William Robinson]], British art scholar and author (b. 1912)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Hillenbrand |first1=Robert |last2=Bivar |first2=David |last3=Stronach |first3=David |last4=Crowe |first4=Yolande |title=Obituaries |journal=Iran |date=January 2006 |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=v–xiv |doi=10.1080/05786967.2006.11834678 |s2cid=218558465}}</ref> *[[2007]] – [[Phil O'Donnell (footballer)|Phil O'Donnell]], Scottish footballer (b. 1972)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Hugman |editor1-first=Barry J. |title=The PFA Premier & Football League players' records 1946-2015 |date=2015 |publisher=G2 Entertainment |isbn=978-1-78281-167-1 |page=640 |edition=1st}}</ref> * 2007 – [[Phil Dusenberry]], American advertising executive (b. 1936)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Story |first1=Louise |title=Philip B. Dusenberry, 71, Adman, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/business/media/31dusenberry.html?ref=business |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=31 December 2007}}</ref> * 2007 – [[Kevin Greening]], English radio host (b. 1962)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3115066.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100524101744/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3115066.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=2010-05-24|title=Kevin Greening|date=Jan 1, 2008|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> *[[2008]] – [[Freddie Hubbard]], American trumpet player and composer (b. 1938)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Keepnews |first1=Peter |title=Freddie Hubbard, Jazz Trumpeter, Dies at 70 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/arts/music/30hubbard.html |access-date=2 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=30 December 2008}}</ref> * 2008 – [[Victor H. Krulak]], American soldier (b. 1913)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Goldstein |first1=Richard |title=Victor H. Krulak, Marine Behind U.S. Landing Craft, Dies at 95 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/obituaries/05krulak.html |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=5 January 2009}}</ref> *[[2009]] – [[Janina Bauman]], Polish journalist and writer (b. 1926)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tester |first1=Keith |title=Introduction to a Special Section: Remembering Janina Bauman |journal=Thesis Eleven |date=November 2011 |volume=107 |issue=1 |pages=66–69 |doi=10.1177/0725513611421478 |s2cid=147135052}}</ref> * 2009 – [[David Levine]], American artist and illustrator (b. 1926)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Weber |first1=Bruce |title=David Levine, Biting Caricaturist, Dies at 83 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/arts/design/30levine.html |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=29 December 2009}}</ref> * 2009 – [[Steve Williams (wrestler)|Steve Williams]], American football player and wrestler (b. 1960)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wrestlingdata.com/index.php?befehl=bios&wrestler=237|title=Steve Williams|access-date=Apr 30, 2025}}</ref> *[[2010]] – [[Avi Cohen]], Israeli footballer and manager (b. 1956)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/dec/30/avi-cohen-obituary |title=Avi Cohen Obituary |date=30 December 2010 |work=The Guardian |first1=Brian |last1=Glanville |access-date=5 November 2022}}</ref> * 2010 – [[Bill Erwin]], American actor and cartoonist (b. 1914)<ref>{{cite news |title=Obituary: Bill Erwin, Seinfeld's grumpy old man |url=https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/television/2011/01/04/obituary_bill_erwin_seinfelds_grumpy_old_man.html |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=Toronto Star |agency=Associated Press |date=4 January 2011}}</ref> *[[2011]] – [[Constance Bartlett Hieatt]], American scholar (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite book |title=Gale Literature: Contemporary Authors |date=2001 |publisher=Gale |isbn=978-0-7876-3995-2 |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/H1000045333/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=5d6e20d5 |access-date=5 November 2022 |format=Collection |chapter=Constance B(artlett) Hieatt}}</ref> *[[2012]] – [[Mike Auldridge]], American singer and guitarist (b. 1938)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mn0000478847|title=Mike Auldridge|publisher=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref> * 2012 – [[Tony Greig]], South African-Australian cricketer and sportscaster (b. 1946)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Frith |first1=David |title=Tony Greig obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/dec/30/tony-greig |access-date=2 November 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=30 December 2012}}</ref> * 2012 – [[Roland Griffiths-Marsh]], Malaysian-Australian soldier and author (b. 1923)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/au/obituaries/theage-au/name/roland-griffiths-marsh-obituary?id=44428144#fbLoggedOut|title=Roland Griffiths-Marsh Obituary|date=Jan 4, 2013|website=[[Legacy.com]]|access-date=Apr 22, 2025}}</ref> * 2012 – [[Edward Meneeley]], American painter and sculptor (b. 1927)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531090200/http://pennsylvania.obituaries.funeral.com/2012/12/30/edward-meneeley-jr/|title=Edward S. Meneeley, Jr.|access-date=May 6, 2025}}</ref> * 2012 – [[Ben Overton]], American jurist (b. 1926)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2012/12/former-florida-supreme-court-justice-overton-dies.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130103233341/http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_politics/2012/12/former-florida-supreme-court-justice-overton-dies.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-01-03|title=Former Florida Supreme Court Justice Overton dies|date=Dec 30, 2012|access-date=Apr 21, 2025}}</ref> * 2012 – [[William Rees-Mogg]], British newspaper journalist (b. 1928)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bates |first1=Stephen |title=Lord Rees-Mogg obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/dec/29/william-rees-mogg-obituary |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=29 December 2012}}</ref> * 2012 – [[Salvador Reyes Monteón]], Mexican footballer and manager (b. 1936)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/17991/Salvador_Reyes.html|title=Salvador Reyes|access-date=Apr 21, 2025}}</ref> * 2012 – [[Paulo Rocha (film director)|Paulo Rocha]], Portuguese director and screenwriter (b. 1935)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/sv/item/?type=person&itemid=419843|title=Paulo Rocha|publisher=[[Swedish Film Database]]|language=sv|access-date=May 6, 2025}}</ref> * 2012 – [[Bruce Stark]], American cartoonist (b. 1933)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.invaluable.com/artist/xxln9wk1ls/#ARTIST_DETAIL_INFO|title=About Bruce Stark|access-date=May 6, 2025}}</ref> * 2012 – [[Ignacy Tokarczuk]], Polish archbishop (b. 1918)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/btoka.html|title=Archbishop Ignacy Marcin Tokarczuk †|website=[[Catholic-Hierarchy.org]]|access-date=Apr 21, 2025}}</ref> *[[2013]] – [[C. T. Hsia]], Chinese-American critic and scholar (b. 1921)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Yardley |first1=William |title=C. T. Hsia, Who Brought Chinese Literature to the West, Dies at 92 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/books/c-t-hsia-scholar-of-chinese-literature-dies-at-92.html |access-date=1 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=9 January 2014}}</ref> * 2013 – [[Paul Comstive]], English footballer (b. 1961)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/10903829.ex-bolton-wanderers-midfielder-paul-comstive-dies-aged-52/|title=Ex-Bolton Wanderers midfielder Paul Comstive dies, aged 52|access-date=Apr 23, 2025}}</ref> * 2013 – [[Benjamin Curtis (musician)|Benjamin Curtis]], American guitarist, drummer, and songwriter (b. 1978)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Brown |first1=August |title=School of Seven Bells' Benjamin Curtis dies at 35 |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-school-of-seven-bells-benjamin-curtis-dies-at-35-20131230-story.html |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=31 December 2013}}</ref> * 2013 – [[Connie Dierking]], American basketball player (b. 1936)<ref>{{cite news |title=Connie Dierking, 77, Journeyman Who Was Linked to N.B.A. Greats, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/01/sports/basketball/connie-dierking-dies-at-77-part-of-wilt-chamberlain-trade.html |access-date=2 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=1 January 2014}}</ref> * 2013 – [[Wojciech Kilar]], Polish classical and film music composer (b. 1932)<ref name="idziemy">{{cite news |date=29 December 2013 |title=Od pół roku Kilar zmagał się z nowotworem |url=http://www.idziemy.pl/kultura/od-pol-roku-kilar-zmagal-sie-z-nowotworem/ |newspaper=Tygodnik Idziemy |access-date=13 January 2013 |language=pl}}</ref> * 2013 – [[Besik Kudukhov]], Russian wrestler (b. 1986)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ku/besik-kudukhov-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304131914/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ku/besik-kudukhov-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-03-04|title=Besik Kudukhov|access-date=Apr 22, 2025}}</ref> * 2013 – [[Jagadish Mohanty]], Indian author and translator (b. 1951)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://lifeandlegends.com/sarojini-sahoo-translations-jagadish-mohanty/|title=Sarojini Sahoo: Translations by Jagadish Mohanty|date=Jun 11, 2014|access-date=May 8, 2025}}</ref> * 2013 – [[Mike O'Connor (journalist)|Mike O'Connor]], German-American journalist (b. 1946)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-mike-oconnor-20131231-story.html#axzz2p2NraEQk|title=Mike O'Connor dies at 67; advocate for journalists in Mexico|author=Richard Fausset|date=Dec 30, 2013|publisher=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=Apr 29, 2025}}</ref> *[[2014]] – [[Syed Hamid]], Indian academic and diplomat (b. 1920)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Eminent-Muslim-educationist-Saiyid-Hamid-dead/articleshow/45682694.cms|title=Eminent Muslim educationist Saiyid Hamid dead|author=Eram Agha|date=Dec 30, 2014|publisher=[[The Times of India]]|access-date=Apr 30, 2025}}</ref> * 2014 – [[Hari Harilela]], Indian-Hong Kong businessman and philanthropist (b. 1922)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Velloor |first1=Ravi |title=Hotelier and patriarch of Hong Kong's Harilela clan dies at age 92 |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hotelier-and-patriarch-of-hong-kongs-harilela-clan-dies-at-age-92 |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=The Straits Times |date=31 December 2014}}</ref> * 2014 – [[Odd Iversen]], Norwegian footballer (b. 1945)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/odd-iversen/|title=Odd Iversen|access-date=May 4, 2025}}</ref> * 2014 – [[Juanito Remulla, Sr.]], Filipino lawyer and politician, [[Governor of Cavite]] (b. 1933)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cinco |first1=Bong Lozada, Maricar |title=Former Cavite governor Juanito 'Johnny' Remulla dies |url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/660386/former-cavite-governor-juanito-johnny-remulla-dies |access-date=31 October 2022 |newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquirer |date=29 December 2014}}</ref> *[[2015]] – [[Om Prakash Malhotra]], Indian general and politician, 25th [[List of governors of Punjab (India)|Governor of Punjab]] (b. 1922)<ref>{{cite news |title=Former army chief General OP Malhotra passes away at 93 |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/former-army-chief-general-op-malhotra-passes-away-at-93/story-czfHaiZh63dRJfmAEfgDTI.html |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=Hindustan Times |date=30 December 2015}}</ref> * 2015 – [[Pavel Srníček]], Czech footballer and coach (b. 1968)<ref>{{cite news |title=Pavel Srnicek: Goalkeeper who won fans' hearts |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/pavel-srnicek-goalkeeper-who-won-fans-hearts-and-helped-take-newcastle-to-within-sight-of-the-a6791456.html |work=The Independent |access-date=30 June 2020 |date=30 December 2015 |first1=Ivan |last1=Ponting}}</ref> * 2015 – [[Kim Yang-gon]], North Korean politician (b. 1942)<ref>{{Cite news|author=<!-- not stated -->|date=Jan 9, 2016|title=Kim Yang-gon: North Korean official who helped to maintain the state's precarious diplomatic ties with Seoul|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/kim-yanggon-north-korean-official-who-helped-to-maintain-the-state-s-precarious-diplomatic-ties-with-seoul-a6803476.html|work=[[The Independent]]|access-date=May 2, 2025}}</ref> *[[2016]] – [[Keion Carpenter]], American football defensive back (b. 1977)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Klingaman |first1=Mike |title=Keion Carpenter, former Woodlawn High, NFL player, dies at 39 |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/nfl/bal-keion-carpenter-former-woodlawn-high-nfl-player-dies-at-39-20161229-story.html |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=Baltimore Sun}}</ref> * 2016 – [[LaVell Edwards]], American football head coach (b. 1930)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Goldstein |first1=Richard |title=LaVell Edwards, Coach Who Led B.Y.U. to a Football Title, Dies at 86 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/sports/football/lavell-edwards-dead-brigham-young-football-coach.html |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=30 December 2016}}</ref> *[[2017]] – [[Peggy Cummins]], Irish actress (b. 1925)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Michael Freedland |title=Peggy Cummins obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jan/09/peggy-cummins-obituary |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=9 January 2018}}</ref> * 2017 – [[John C. Portman Jr.]], American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer (b. 1924)<ref>{{cite news |last1=McFadden |first1=Robert D. |title=John Portman, Architect Who Made Skylines Soar, Dies at 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/obituaries/john-portman-dead.html |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=30 December 2017}}</ref> *[[2018]] – [[Brian Garfield]], American novelist, historian and screenwriter (b. 1939)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Seelye |first1=Katharine Q. |title=Brian Garfield, Prolific Author of 'Death Wish,' Dies at 79 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/obituaries/brian-garfield-dies-at-79.html |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=6 January 2019}}</ref> * 2018 – [[Rosenda Monteros]], Mexican actress (b. 1935)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Slotnik |first1=Daniel E. |title=Rosenda Monteros, Actress in 'The Magnificent Seven,' Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/obituaries/rosenda-monteros-dead.html |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=7 January 2019}}</ref> *[[2019]] – [[Alasdair Gray]], Scottish writer and artist (b. 1934)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=James |title=Alasdair Gray obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/29/alasdair-gray-obituary |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=29 December 2019}}</ref> * 2019 – [[Neil Innes]], English writer, comedian and musician (b. 1944)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Welch |first1=Chris |title=Neil Innes obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/30/neil-innes-obituary |access-date=5 November 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=30 December 2019}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[Pierre Cardin]], Italian-French fashion designer (b. 1922)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Horwell |first1=Veronica |title=Pierre Cardin obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2020/dec/29/pierre-cardin-obituary |access-date=31 October 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=29 December 2020}}</ref> * 2020 – [[Joe Louis Clark]], American educator (b. 1937)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Langer |first=Emily |date=30 December 2020 |title=Joe Clark, New Jersey principal who inspired 'Lean on Me,' dies at 83 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/joe-clark-dead/2020/12/30/df02c530-4aa0-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html |access-date=18 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210718024741if_/https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/joe-clark-dead/2020/12/30/df02c530-4aa0-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html |archive-date=18 July 2021}}</ref> * 2020 – [[Alexi Laiho]], Finnish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1979)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/96710|title=Alexi Laiho|access-date=May 5, 2025}}</ref> *[[2021]] – [[Peter Klatzow]], South African composer (b. 1945)<ref>{{cite book |title=Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians |date=2001 |publisher=Gale |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/K2420006220/BIC?u=wikipedia&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=a5645658 |access-date=4 November 2022 |chapter=Peter James Leonard Klatzow}}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Pelé]], Brazilian footballer (b. 1940)<ref>{{cite news |title=Pele: Brazil football legend dies aged 82 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/42751517 |access-date=29 December 2022 |publisher=[[BBC]]}}</ref> * 2022 – [[Edgar Savisaar]], Estonian politician, [[Minister of the Interior (Estonia)|Estonian Minister of the Interior]] (b. 1950)<ref>{{cite web |title=Edgar Savisaar 31.05.1950 - 29.12.2022 |url=https://www.eesti.ca/edgar-savisaar-31051950-29122022-/article59855 |website=Estonian World Review |access-date=30 December 2022 |language=en |date=29 December 2022}}</ref> * 2022 – [[Vivienne Westwood]], English fashion designer (b. 1941)<ref>{{cite web |title=Dame Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer, dies aged 81 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/dec/29/dame-vivienne-westwood-fashion-designer-dies-aged-81 |website=the Guardian |access-date=30 December 2022 |language=en |date=29 December 2022}}</ref> * [[2023]] – [[Gil de Ferran]], French-born Brazilian racing driver, [[Championship Auto Racing Teams|CART]] champion ([[2000 CART season|2000]], [[2001 CART season|2001]]), [[2003 Indianapolis 500]] winner (b. 1967)<ref>[https://www.motorsport.com/indycar/news/indy-500-winner-gil-de-ferran-dead-at-56/10561436/ 2003 Indy 500 winner Gil de Ferran dead at 56 ]</ref> * [[2024]] – [[Aaron Brown (journalist)|Aaron Brown]], American journalist and academic (b. 1948)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Watkins |first=Ali |date=December 31, 2024 |title=Aaron Brown, CNN Anchor During the Sept. 11 Attacks, Dies at 76 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/business/media/aaron-brown-dead-911.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250101060045/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/business/media/aaron-brown-dead-911.html |archive-date=January 1, 2025 |access-date=January 3, 2025 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en}}</ref> * 2024 – [[Jimmy Carter]], American politician, 39th [[President of the United States]] (b. 1924)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Suggs |first1=Ernie |last2=Quinn |first2=Christopher |title=Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 100, dies |url=https://www.ajc.com/news/former-us-president-jimmy-carter-100-dies/3ODQTR5NHVDTDF2SXOU34MKNZM/ |website=[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]] |access-date=29 December 2024}}</ref> * 2024 – [[Linda Lavin]], American actress and singer (b. 1937)<ref>{{cite web |title=Linda Lavin Dies: 'Alice' Star & Tony-Winning Broadway Actor Was 87 |url=https://deadline.com/2024/12/linda-lavin-dead-alice-no-good-deed-tony-winner-1236243483/ |website=Deadline Hollywood |access-date=30 December 2024 |language=en |date=29 December 2024}}</ref> * 2024 – [[Tomiko Itooka]], Japanese [[supercentenarian]] (b. 1908)<ref>{{cite web |title=World's Oldest Person, Tomiko Itooka, Dies at 116 |url=https://longeviquest.com/2025/01/worlds-oldest-person-tomiko-itooka-dies-at-116/ |website=LongeviQuest |access-date=4 January 2025 |language=en |date=4 January 2025}}</ref> <!-- Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence. --> ==Holidays and observances== * Christian [[Calendar of saints|feast day]]: ** [[Ebrulf]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Attwater |first1=Donald |title=A New Dictionary of Saints |date=1994 |publisher=Liturgical Press |isbn=0-8146-2324-7 |page=90}}</ref> ** [[Thomas Becket]]<ref name=beck /> ** [[Trophimus of Arles]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Attwater |first1=Donald |title=A New Dictionary of Saints |date=1994 |publisher=Liturgical Press |isbn=0-8146-2324-7 |page=311}}</ref> ** [[December 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]] * [[Constitution Day (Ireland)]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Coffey |first1=Donal K. |title=Constitutionalism in Ireland, 1932–1938 |date=2018 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-3-030-09438-6 |page=215}}</ref> * [[Independence Day (Mongolia)]]<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Troubat |first1=Nathalie |last2=Grünberger |first2=Klaus |title=Impact of survey design in the estimation of habitual food consumption |journal=Food Policy |date=October 2017 |volume=72 |page=137 |doi=10.1016/j.foodpol.2017.08.019}}</ref> * The fifth [[Twelve Days of Christmas|day of Christmas]] ([[Western Christianity]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pai |first1=Tanya |title=The 12 Days of Christmas: The story behind the holiday’s most annoying carol |url=https://www.vox.com/21796404/12-days-of-christmas-explained |website=Vox |access-date=11 May 2025 |date=1 December 2020}}</ref> * The fourth day of [[Kwanzaa]] (United States)<ref>{{cite web |title=Kwanzaa {{!}} History, Traditions, Dates, Symbols, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Kwanzaa |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=11 May 2025 |language=en |date=25 April 2025}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{commons}} * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/29 BBC: On This Day] * {{NYT On this day|month=12|day=29}} * [https://www.onthisday.com/events/december/29 Historical Events on December 29] {{months}} [[Category:Days of December]]
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