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What happend on 7. December in History
In our data base we found 305 events happened on 7. December:
• 283: Pope Eutychian [category: Deaths]
• 1254: Pope Innocent IV (b. 1195) [category: Deaths]
• 1279: Bolesław V the Chaste, Polish husband of Kinga of Poland (b. 1226) [category: Deaths]
• 1295: Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (b. 1243) [category: Deaths]
• 1302: Azzone Visconti, Italian ruler, founded Milan (d. 1339) [category: Births]
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• 1498: Alexander Hegius von Heek, German poet (b. 1433) [category: Deaths]
• 1545: Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, English husband of Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1567) [category: Births]
• 1561: Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyo (d. 1625) [category: Births]
• 1562: Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer (b. 1490) [category: Deaths]
• 1598: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor and painter (d. 1680) [category: Births]
• 1637: Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (d. 1710) [category: Births]
• 1649: Charles Garnier, French missionary (b. 1606) [category: Deaths]
• 1672: Richard Bellingham, English-American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1592) [category: Deaths]
• 1683: Algernon Sidney, English politician (b. 1623) [category: Deaths]
• 1683: John Oldham, English poet (b. 1653) [category: Deaths]
• 1723: Jan Santini Aichel, Bohemian architect, designed Karlova Koruna Chateau (b. 1677) [category: Deaths]
• 1724: Louise of Great Britain (d. 1751) [category: Births]
• 1724: Tumult of Thorn – religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities. [category: Events]
• 1725: Florent Carton Dancourt, French actor and playwright (b. 1661) [category: Deaths]
• 1732: The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London. [category: Events]
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• 1764: Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, French marshal (d. 1841) [category: Births]
• 1775: Charles Saunders, English admiral (b. 1715) [category: Deaths]
• 1776: Marquis de Lafayette arranges to enter the American military as a major general. [category: Events]
• 1784: Allan Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (d. 1842) [category: Births]
• 1787: Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution. [category: Events]
• 1791: Ferenc Novák Hungarian-Slovene priest (d. 1836) [category: Births]
• 1792: Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Dutch literator (d. 1857) [category: Births]
• 1793: Joseph Bara, French soldier (b. 1780) [category: Deaths]
• 1801: Johann Nestroy, Austrian actor and playwright (d. 1862) [category: Births]
• 1803: Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (d. 1829) [category: Births]
• 1810: Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (d. 1894) [category: Births]
• 1810: Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (d. 1882) [category: Births]
• 1815: Michel Ney, French military officer (b. 1769) [category: Deaths]
• 1817: William Bligh, English admiral and administrator, 4th Governor of New South Wales (b. 1745) [category: Deaths]
• 1823: Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (d. 1891) [category: Births]
• 1838: Thomas Bent, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria (d. 1909) [category: Births]
• 1842: Thomas Hamilton, Scottish philosopher and author (b. 1789) [category: Deaths]
• 1847: Deacon White, American baseball player (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1860: Joseph Cook, Australian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1862: Paul Adam, French author (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1862: US Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. [category: Events]
• 1863: Felix Calonder, Swiss politician (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1863: Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1863: Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (d. 1914) [category: Births]
• 1869: American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri. [category: Events]
• 1873: Willa Cather, American author (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1874: Constantin von Tischendorf, German scholar (b. 1815) [category: Deaths]
• 1879: Rudolf Friml, American composer (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1879: Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence leader (b. 1811) [category: Deaths]
• 1885: Mason Phelps, American golfer (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1885: Peter Sturholdt, American boxer (d. 1919) [category: Births]
• 1887: Ernst Toch, Austrian composer (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1888: Hamilton Fish III, American soldier and politician (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1888: Joyce Cary, Irish author (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1891: Fay Bainter, American actress (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1894: Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and businessman, co-developed the Suez Canal (b. 1805) [category: Deaths]
• 1899: Juan Luna, Filipino painter (b. 1857) [category: Deaths]
• 1902: Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (b. 1840) [category: Deaths]
• 1903: Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1904: Clarence Nash, American voice actor (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1904: Konstantin Sokolsky, Russian singer (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1905: Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-American astronomer (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1906: Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833) [category: Deaths]
• 1907: Fred Rose, Canadian politician (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1909: Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet and activist (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1910: Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian singer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1910: Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1912: Daniel Jones, Welsh composer (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1913: Kersti Merilaas, Estonian author and poet (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1913: Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (b. 1828) [category: Deaths]
• 1915: Eli Wallach, American actor [category: Births]
• 1915: Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1916: Jean Carignan, Canadian fiddler (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1917: Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1826) [category: Deaths]
• 1917: World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary. [category: Events]
• 1919: Lis Løwert, Danish actress (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1920: Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1920: Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and author (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1920: Walter Nowotny, Austrian pilot (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1921: Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian guru and scholar [category: Births]
• 1923: Intizar Hussain, Pakistani author [category: Births]
• 1923: Ted Knight, American actor (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1924: John Love, Zimbabwean race car driver (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1924: Mário Soares, Portuguese politician, 17th President of Portugal [category: Births]
• 1925: Hernando da Silva Ramos, French-Brazilian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1927: Helen Watts, Welsh opera singer (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1928: Noam Chomsky, American linguist and philosopher [category: Births]
• 1930: Christopher Nicole, Guyanese author [category: Births]
• 1930: Hal Smith, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1930: W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show. [category: Events]
• 1932: Ellen Burstyn, American actress [category: Births]
• 1932: Paul Caponigro, American photographer [category: Births]
• 1932: Rosemary Rogers, Sri Lankan-American author [category: Births]
• 1936: Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings. [category: Events]
• 1937: Thad Cochran, American politician [category: Births]
• 1938: Anna Marie Hahn, German-American murderer (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: Gerry Cheevers, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1940: Stan Boardman, English comedian [category: Births]
• 1941: Melba Pattillo Beals, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1941: Among the 2,400 dead from the attack on Pearl Harbor [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Franklin Van Valkenburgh, American navy captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Herbert C. Jones, American navy officer, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Isaac C. Kidd, American admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Mervyn S. Bennion, American navy captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Thomas James Reeves, American navy officer, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor – The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States. [category: Events]
• 1942: Alex Johnson, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1942: Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1942: Peter Tomarken, American game show host (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1943: Bernard C. Parks, American politician [category: Births]
• 1943: Göran Lennmarker, Swedish politician [category: Births]
• 1943: John Bennett Ramsey, father of homicide victim JonBenét Ramsey [category: Births]
• 1943: Nicholas Katz, American mathematician [category: Births]
• 1943: Susan Isaacs, American author [category: Births]
• 1944: Daniel Chorzempa, American organist [category: Births]
• 1944: Jamiel Chagra, American drug trafficker (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1944: Miroslav Macek, Czech politician [category: Births]
• 1945: Marion Rung, Finnish singer [category: Births]
• 1946: Sada Yacco, Japanese actress and dancer (b. 1871) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history. [category: Events]
• 1947: Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1947: Johnny Bench, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1947: Tony Thomas, American television and film producer [category: Births]
• 1947: Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Tristan Bernard, French playwright and author (b. 1866) [category: Deaths]
• 1948: Gary Morris, American singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Mads Vinding, Danish bassist [category: Births]
• 1949: Tom Waits, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor [category: Births]
• 1949: Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (b. 1877) [category: Deaths]
• 1949: Chinese Civil War: The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei. [category: Events]
• 1952: Eckhard Märzke, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1952: Georges Corraface, Greek actor [category: Births]
• 1952: Susan Collins, American politician [category: Births]
• 1954: Mark Hofmann, American criminal and murderer [category: Births]
• 1954: Mary Fallin, American politician, 27th Governor of Oklahoma [category: Births]
• 1954: Mike Nolan, Irish singer (Bucks Fizz and Brooks) [category: Births]
• 1955: John Watkins, Australian politician [category: Births]
• 1955: Priscilla Barnes, American actress [category: Births]
• 1956: Larry Bird, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1956: Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Tom Winsor, English lawyer [category: Births]
• 1958: Rick Rude, American wrestler (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1958: Tim Butler, English bass player and songwriter (The Psychedelic Furs and Love Spit Love) [category: Births]
• 1960: Craig Scanlon, English guitarist and songwriter (The Fall) [category: Births]
• 1960: Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1961: Mario Miethig, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1962: Grecia Colmenares, Venezuelan actress [category: Births]
• 1962: Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils. [category: Events]
• 1963: Theo Snelders, Dutch footballer [category: Births]
• 1963: Instant replay makes its debut during an Army–Navy game. [category: Events]
• 1964: Patrick Fabian, American actor [category: Births]
• 1964: Peter Laviolette, American ice hockey player and coach [category: Births]
• 1964: Roberta Close, Brazilian model [category: Births]
• 1965: Colin Hendry, Scottish footballer [category: Births]
• 1965: Dorien de Vries, Dutch sailor [category: Births]
• 1965: Jeffrey Wright, American actor [category: Births]
• 1965: Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054. [category: Events]
• 1966: C. Thomas Howell, American actor and director [category: Births]
• 1966: Shinichi Itoh, Japanese motorcycle racer [category: Births]
• 1967: Tino Martinez, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1968: Mark Geyer, Australian rugby player [category: Births]
• 1969: Andrea Claudio Galluzzo, Italian historian [category: Births]
• 1969: Patrice O'Neal, American comedian and actor (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1969: Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Carmen Campuzano, Mexican actress and model [category: Births]
• 1970: Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1971: Chasey Lain, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1971: Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess player [category: Births]
• 1971: Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister. [category: Events]
• 1972: Hermann Maier, Austrian skier [category: Births]
• 1972: Tammy Lynn Sytch, American wrestler and manager [category: Births]
• 1972: Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth. [category: Events]
• 1973: Charles Carl Roberts, American murderer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1973: Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Juniper and Bell X1) [category: Births]
• 1973: Fabien Pelous, French rugby player [category: Births]
• 1973: Terrell Owens, American football player [category: Births]
• 1974: Kang Full, South Korean illustrator [category: Births]
• 1974: Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer and actress (All Saints and Appleton) [category: Births]
• 1975: Jamie Clapham, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Thornton Wilder, American playwright and author (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1975: Indonesia invades East Timor. [category: Events]
• 1976: Alan Faneca, American football player [category: Births]
• 1976: Brent Johnson, Canadian football player [category: Births]
• 1976: Georges Laraque, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1976: Ivan Franceschini, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Vanessa Lorenzo, Spanish model [category: Births]
• 1977: Dominic Howard, English drummer (Muse) [category: Births]
• 1977: Eric Chavez, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Chad Dukes, American radio host [category: Births]
• 1978: Frankie J, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and producer (Kumbia Kings) [category: Births]
• 1978: Mr. Porter, American rapper and producer (D12) [category: Births]
• 1978: Shiri Appleby, American actress [category: Births]
• 1978: Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Derek Ramsay, English-Filipino actor and model [category: Births]
• 1979: Jennifer Carpenter, American actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Lampros Choutos, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Sara Bareilles, American singer-songwriter and pianist [category: Births]
• 1980: John Terry, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Darby Crash, American singer-songwriter (Germs and Darby Crash Band) (b. 1958) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Ava Helen Pauling, American activist (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Chrispa, Greek singer [category: Births]
• 1982: Jack Huston, English actor [category: Births]
• 1982: Will Lee, American actor (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States. [category: Events]
• 1983: Fanny Cano, Mexican actress (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people. [category: Events]
• 1984: Aaron Gray, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1984: Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Milan Michalek, Czech ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1984: Robert Kubica, Polish race car driver [category: Births]
• 1984: Charles Ray Hatcher, American serial killer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Lee Roy Yarbrough, American race car driver (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Jon Moxley, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1985: J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Potter Stewart, American jurist (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Robert Graves, English author and poet (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Jonathan Gill, English singer (JLS) [category: Births]
• 1986: Thomas Fiss, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Varsity Fanclub) [category: Births]
• 1987: Aaron Carter, American singer, dancer, and actor [category: Births]
• 1987: Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself. [category: Events]
• 1988: Asia Ray Smith, American actress [category: Births]
• 1988: Emily Browning, Australian actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1988: Nathan Adrian, American swimmer [category: Births]
• 1988: Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless. [category: Events]
• 1988: Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist. [category: Events]
• 1989: Alessandro Marchi, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Nicholas Hoult, English actor [category: Births]
• 1989: William Calhoun, American wrestler and actor (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Urszula Radwańska, Polish tennis player [category: Births]
• 1990: Dee Clark, American singer (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Jean Duceppe, Canadian actor (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian painter (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Dori Sakurada, Japanese actor and singer [category: Births]
• 1993: Jasmine Villegas, American singer [category: Births]
• 1993: Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian politician, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York. [category: Events]
• 1994: J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34. [category: Events]
• 1997: Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: John Addison, English composer (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Martin Rodbell, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: The Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client alleging copyright infringement. [category: Events]
• 2000: Vlado Gotovac, Croatian poet and politician (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands [category: Births]
• 2003: Azie Taylor Morton, American politician, 36th Treasurer of the United States (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Carl F. H. Henry American theologian and journalist (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. [category: Events]
• 2004: Frederick Fennell, American conductor (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Jay Van Andel, American businessman, co-founded Amway (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Jerry Scoggins, American singer (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Lucy d'Abreu, Scottish super-centenarian (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Rigoberto Alpizar, Costa Rica-American shooting victim (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Ante Gotovina, a Croatian army general accused of war crimes, is captured in the Playa de las Américas, Tenerife by the Spanish police. [category: Events]
• 2005: Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport. [category: Events]
• 2006: Jay McShann, American singer and pianist (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Jeane Kirkpatrick, American diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties. [category: Events]
• 2007: The Hebei Spirit oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the Very Large Crude Carrier, Hebei Spirit. [category: Events]
• 2008: Herbert Hutner, American banker and lawyer (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Marky Cielo, Filipino actor and dancer (b. 1988) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Mark Ritts, American actor (b. 1946) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer and author (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Gus Mercurio, American-Australian actor (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Harry Morgan, American actor and director (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti, Kuwaiti terrorist (b. 1965) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Berthold Albrecht, German businessman (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Denis Houf, Belgian footballer (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: George Suppiah, Singaporean football referee (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Gilbert Durand, French academic (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Irene Hughes, American psychic (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jacintha Saldanha, Indian-English nurse (b. 1966) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Jeni Le Gon, American actress and dancer (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Joseph R. Weisberger, American politician and jurist (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Marty Reisman, American table tennis player and author (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Nikola Ilić, Serbian basketball player (b. 1985) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: P. J. Carey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Ralph Parr, American pilot (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Roelof Kruisinga, Dutch physician and politician (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Saul Steinberg, American businessman (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Thomas Cornell, American painter (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: William F. House, American physician (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 43_bc: Cicero, Roman politician and philosopher (b. 106 BC) [category: Deaths]
• 43_bc: Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated. [category: Events]
• 521: Columba, Irish missionary, monk, and saint (d. 597) [category: Births]
• 574: Emperor Justin II retires due to recurring seizures of insanity, he abdicates the throne in favour of his general Tiberius and proclaims him Caesar. [category: Events]
• 903: Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986) [category: Births]
• 983: Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 955) [category: Deaths]
• _: Aemilianus (Greek Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Ambrose [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Armed Forces Flag Day (India) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: December 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Día de las Velitas, begins after sunset. (Colombia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Eve of the Immaculate Conception-related observances: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: International Civil Aviation Day (International) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (United States) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Quema del Diablo, begins after sunset. (Guatemala) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Spitak Remembrance Day (Armenia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Student Day (Iran) [category: Holidays and observances]