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What happend on 10. December in History
In our data base we found 294 events happened on 10. December:
• 220: Cao Pi forces Emperor Xian of Han to abdicate the Han Dynasty throne. The Cao Wei empire is established. The Three Kingdoms period begins. [category: Events]
• 949: Herman I, Duke of Swabia [category: Deaths]
• 1041: Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010) [category: Deaths]
• 1041: The adopted son of Empress Zoe of Byzantium succeeds to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V. [category: Events]
• 1198: Averroes, Spanish philosopher and polymath (b. 1126) [category: Deaths]
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• 1452: Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531) [category: Births]
• 1508: René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451) [category: Deaths]
• 1508: The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice. [category: Events]
• 1510: Portuguese Conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule. [category: Events]
• 1520: Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate. [category: Events]
• 1541: Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII. [category: Events]
• 1588: Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637) [category: Births]
• 1603: William Gilbert, English astronomer, physicist, and physician (b. 1544) [category: Deaths]
• 1618: Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (b. 1551) [category: Deaths]
• 1626: Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581) [category: Deaths]
• 1665: Tarquinio Merula, Italian organist, violinist, and composer (b. 1594) [category: Deaths]
• 1665: The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter [category: Events]
• 1677: Samuel Gorton, English-American civic leader (b. 1593) [category: Deaths]
• 1684: Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmund Halley. [category: Events]
• 1713: Johann Nicolaus Mempel, German cantor and organist (d. 1747) [category: Births]
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• 1736: António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese military leader (b. 1663) [category: Deaths]
• 1751: George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813) [category: Births]
• 1787: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator, founded the American School for the Deaf (d. 1851) [category: Births]
• 1799: France adopts the metre as its official unit of length. [category: Events]
• 1804: Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851) [category: Births]
• 1805: Joseph Škoda, Czech physician (d. 1881) [category: Births]
• 1815: Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852) [category: Births]
• 1817: Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state. [category: Events]
• 1821: Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet (d. 1877) [category: Births]
• 1822: César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890) [category: Births]
• 1824: George MacDonald, Scottish author, poet, and minister (d. 1905) [category: Births]
• 1827: Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman (d. 1913) [category: Births]
• 1830: Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886) [category: Births]
• 1831: Thomas Seebeck, German physicist (b. 1770) [category: Deaths]
• 1850: François Sulpice Beudant, French geologist (b. 1787) [category: Deaths]
• 1850: Józef Bem, Polish general (b. 1794) [category: Deaths]
• 1851: Melvil Dewey, American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1861: American Civil War: the Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy. [category: Events]
• 1861: Forces led by Nguyen Trung Truc, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance. [category: Events]
• 1864: American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia. [category: Events]
• 1865: Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790) [category: Deaths]
• 1866: Louis Bolk, Dutch anatomist (d. 1930) [category: Births]
• 1868: The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. [category: Events]
• 1869: Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia. [category: Events]
• 1870: Adolf Loos, Austrian architect, designed Villa Müller (d. 1933) [category: Births]
• 1870: Mary Bonaparte, French daughter of Napoléon Charles Grégoire Jacques Philippe Bonaparte (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1870: Pierre Louÿs, French author (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1878: C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer and politician, 1st Governor General of India (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1880: Charles King, American jumper (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1880: Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1882: Louis Wilkins, American pole vaulter (d. 1950) [category: Births]
• 1882: Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and philosopher (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1882: Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician (d. 1950) [category: Births]
• 1884: Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-French painter (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1884: Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1885: Marios Varvoglis, Greek composer (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1886: Annie Bos, Dutch actress (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1886: Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal, 17th Governor General of Canada (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1891: Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1896: Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and film director (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1896: Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833) [category: Deaths]
• 1898: Spanish-American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict. [category: Events]
• 1899: Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York. [category: Events]
• 1901: The first Nobel Prizes are awarded. [category: Events]
• 1902: Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania. [category: Events]
• 1903: Una Merkel, American actress (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1904: The Pi Kappa Phi fraternity is founded at the College of Charleston. [category: Events]
• 1906: U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize. [category: Events]
• 1907: Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1907: Rumer Godden, English author (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1907: The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected. [category: Events]
• 1908: Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992) [category: Births]
• 1909: Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1909: Red Cloud, American tribal chief (b. 1822) [category: Deaths]
• 1909: Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature [category: Events]
• 1911: Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1911: Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817) [category: Deaths]
• 1911: The first transcontinental flight across the United States is completed. Calbraith Perry Rodgers began the flight on 17 September 1911, taking off from Sheepshead Bay NY. [category: Events]
• 1912: Philip Hart, American lawyer and politician, 49th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1913: Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1913: Morton Gould, American composer (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1913: Pannonica de Koenigswarter, English-American singer (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1914: Dorothy Lamour, American actress (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1914: Robert Williams, American archer (b. 1841) [category: Deaths]
• 1916: Rafael Ruiz, Spanish field hockey player (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1917: Yahya Petra of Kelantan (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1917: Mackenzie Bowell, Canadian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823) [category: Deaths]
• 1918: Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1918: Anne Gwynne, American actress (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1919: Alexander Courage, American composer (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1920: Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian author (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1920: Reginald Rose, American screenwriter (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1920: Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
• 1922: Lucía Hiriart, Chilean wife of Augusto Pinochet, First Lady of Chile [category: Births]
• 1922: Clement Lindley Wragge, English meteorologist (b. 1852) [category: Deaths]
• 1923: Harold Gould, American actor (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1924: Michael Manley, Jamaican politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1925: Carolyn Kizer, American poet [category: Births]
• 1925: Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1926: Nikola Pašić, Serbian-Yugoslav politician, 5th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1845) [category: Deaths]
• 1927: Agnes Nixon, American actress, director, and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1927: The phrase "Grand Ole Opry" is used for the first time on-air. [category: Events]
• 1928: Dan Blocker, American actor (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1928: John Colicos, Canadian actor (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1928: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect (b. 1868) [category: Deaths]
• 1932: Thailand adopts a constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy. [category: Events]
• 1933: Larry Morris, American football player (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1933: Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-American actor (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1933: Philip R. Craig, American author (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1934: Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1935: Terry Allcock, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1935: The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago. [category: Events]
• 1936: Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Luigi Pirandello, Italian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication. [category: Events]
• 1938: Yuri Temirkanov, Russian conductor [category: Births]
• 1939: Barry Cunliffe, English archaeologist [category: Births]
• 1939: Dick Bavetta, American basketball referee [category: Births]
• 1939: John Grieb, American gymnast (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Chad Stuart, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chad & Jeremy) [category: Births]
• 1941: Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress [category: Births]
• 1941: Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1941: Peter Sarstedt, Indian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1941: Tommy Kirk, American actor [category: Births]
• 1941: Tommy Rettig, American actor (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1941: Colin Kelly, American pilot (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland. [category: Events]
• 1941: World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya. [category: Events]
• 1944: Steve Renko, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1944: John Brunt, English military officer (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Mukhtar Altynbayev, Kazakhstani general and politician [category: Births]
• 1945: Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Thomas Lux, American poet [category: Births]
• 1946: Damon Runyon, American journalist and author (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Walter Johnson, American baseball player (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Douglas Kenney, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1947: Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player [category: Births]
• 1947: Rasul Guliyev, Azerbaijani politician [category: Births]
• 1948: Muhammad Zaidan, Syrian terrorist, founder and leader of Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1948: Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1948: The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. [category: Events]
• 1949: Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan. [category: Events]
• 1950: John Boozman, American politician [category: Births]
• 1951: Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1951: Algernon Blackwood, English author (b. 1869) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: Clive Anderson, English lawyer and television host [category: Births]
• 1952: Greg Mortimer, Australian mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1952: Susan Dey, American actress [category: Births]
• 1953: Chris Bury, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1953: Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian scholar and translator (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1954: Jack Hues, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Wang Chung) [category: Births]
• 1955: Nazir Sabir, Pakistani mountaineer [category: Births]
• 1955: The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television. [category: Events]
• 1956: Jacquelyn Mitchard, American journalist and author [category: Births]
• 1956: Jan van Dijk, Dutch footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1956: Roberto Cassinelli, Italian politician [category: Births]
• 1956: Rod Blagojevich, American politician, 40th Governor of Illinois [category: Births]
• 1956: David Shimoni, Israeli poet (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1957: Paul Hardcastle, English composer and producer [category: Births]
• 1957: Prem Rawat, Indian spiritual leader [category: Births]
• 1958: Cornelia Funke, German author [category: Births]
• 1958: John J. York, American actor [category: Births]
• 1958: Pepsi Demacque, English singer (Pepsi & Shirlie) [category: Births]
• 1958: Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1959: Mark Aguirre, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1959: Udi Aloni, American-Israeli director and author [category: Births]
• 1959: Wolf Hoffmann, German guitarist (Accept) [category: Births]
• 1960: Kenneth Branagh, Irish actor and director [category: Births]
• 1960: Michael Schoeffling, American actor [category: Births]
• 1961: Nia Peeples, American singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1961: Oded Schramm, Israel-American mathematician [category: Births]
• 1962: John de Wolf, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1963: Jahangir Khan, Pakistani squash player [category: Births]
• 1964: Bobby Flay, American chef [category: Births]
• 1964: George Newbern, American actor [category: Births]
• 1964: Stef Blok, Dutch politician [category: Births]
• 1965: Greg Giraldo, American comedian (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1965: J Mascis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dinosaur Jr., Witch, Deep Wound, and Upsidedown Cross) [category: Births]
• 1965: Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1965: The Grateful Dead's first concert performance under this new name. [category: Events]
• 1966: Mel Rojas, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1967: Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Phalon Jones, American saxophonist (The Bar-Kays) (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Ronnie Caldwell, American organist (The Bar-Kays) (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: George Forrest, Irish politician (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Karl Barth, Swiss theologian (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo. [category: Events]
• 1969: Rob Blake, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1970: Bryant Stith, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1971: Bill Baroni, American politician [category: Births]
• 1971: Brian Nichols, American spree killer [category: Births]
• 1972: Brian Molko, Belgian-Luxembourger singer-songwriter and guitarist (Placebo) [category: Births]
• 1972: Donavon Frankenreiter, American surfer, singer-songwriter, and guitarist [category: Births]
• 1973: Wolf V. Vishniac, American microbiologist (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes) [category: Births]
• 1975: Josip Skoko, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Kristel Verbeke, Belgian singer and actress (K3) [category: Births]
• 1975: Steve Bradley, American wrestler (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1976: The 9th Congress of the Sammarinese Communist Party convenes [category: Events]
• 1976: The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques. [category: Events]
• 1977: Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1977: Mr. Águila, Mexican wrestler [category: Births]
• 1977: Adolph Rupp, American basketball player and coach (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Summer Phoenix, American actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Ed Wood, American director, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Arab-Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. [category: Events]
• 1979: Matt Bentley, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1979: Ann Dvorak, American actress (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested. [category: Events]
• 1980: Massari, Lebanese-Canadian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1980: Sarah Chang, American violinist [category: Births]
• 1981: Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinean swimmer [category: Births]
• 1981: Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer [category: Births]
• 1982: Claudia Hoffmann, German sprinter [category: Births]
• 1982: Shilpa Anand, South African-Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1982: Freeman Fisher Gosden, American actor (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Katrin Siska, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja) [category: Births]
• 1983: Patrick Flueger, American actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Xavier Samuel, Australian actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín. [category: Events]
• 1984: JTG, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1984: Mark Applegarth, English rugby player [category: Births]
• 1985: Charlie Adam, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Matt Forte, American football player [category: Births]
• 1985: Raven-Symoné, American actress, singer, and dancer [category: Births]
• 1985: T. J. Hensick, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1985: Trésor Mputu, Congolese footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Matthew Bates, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Kate Wolf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Gonzalo Higuaín, French-Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Jascha Heifetz, Russian violinist (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Mitchell Donald, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Wilfried Bony, Ivorian footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Johnny Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, French politician [category: Births]
• 1989: Ng Chee Yang, Singaporean singer [category: Births]
• 1989: Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement that changes the second oldest communist country into a democracy. [category: Events]
• 1990: Kazenga LuaLua, Congolese-English footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1990: Armand Hammer, American businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Greta Kempton, American painter (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Headman Shabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Dan Maskell, English tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Alice Tully, American singer (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages. [category: Events]
• 1994: Matti Klinga, Finnish footballer [category: Births]
• 1994: Alex Wilson, Canadian sprinter (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Keith Joseph, English politician (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Rwandan Genocide: Military advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations Maurice Baril recommends that the UN multi-national forces in Zaire stand down. [category: Events]
• 1995: Darren Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Faron Young, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Franjo Tuđman, Croate politician, 1st President of Croatia (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Band) (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Marie Windsor, American actress (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Andres Küng, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Gary Webb, American journalist (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Eugene McCarthy, America politician (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and politician, 30th President of Chile (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Aqsa Parvez, Pakistani-Canadian murder victim (b. 1991) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian actress (b. 1981) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Didith Reyes, Filipino actress and singer (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian physicist (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: J. Michael Hagopian, Armenian-American director and producer (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: John Fenn, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Antonio Cubillo, Spanish politician, founder the Canary Islands Independence Movement (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Bob Munden, American target shooter (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ciarán Maher, Irish footballer (b. 1962) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Cliff Brown, American football player (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Harry Iauko, Vanuatuan politician [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Iajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi politician, 13th President of Bangladesh (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: John Small, American football player (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Johnny Lira, American boxer (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Paul Rauch, American television producer (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Tommy Roberts, English fashion designer (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Vladimir Bakulin, Kazakhstani wrestler (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• _: Alfred Nobel Day or Nobeldagen, presentation ceremony of the Nobel Prize. (Sweden) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Constitution Day (Thailand) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Eulalia of Mérida [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Human Rights Day (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Miltiades [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Translation of the Holy House of Loreto [category: Holidays and observances]