December 10th
Holidays and Festivals
Human Rights Day (International)
Constitution Day (Thailand)
Nobel Prize Award Ceremony (Sweeden, Norway) * CLICK HERE
Flag Day (Guinea) * CLICK HERE
Flipadelphia * (see below)
International Animal Rights Day
Translation of the Holy House of Loreto
Christian Feast Day of Eulalia of Mérida
Christian Feast Day of Miltiades
Nobel Prize Day (Sweden) a.k.a. Alfred Nobel Day a.k.a. Nobeldagen, presentation ceremony of the Nobel Prizes * CLICK HERE
* Flipadelphia From "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" episode "The Gang Reignites the Rivalry" 12/10/2009 featuring a flip cup competition between bar rivals.
Fête de la Hoyau Translation: Grub-hoe Day (French Republican) The 20th day of the Month of Frimaire in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"The horse and mule live thirty years
And never knows of wines and beers.
The goat and sheep at twenty die
Without a taste of scotch or rye.
The cow drinks water by the ton
And at eighteen is mostly done.
The dog at fifteen cashes in
Without the aid of rum or gin.
The modest, sober, bone-dry hen
Lays eggs for noggs and dies at ten.
But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men
Survive three-score years and ten.
And some of us...though mighty few
Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-two."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Gimlet
3 PartS Vodka
1 Part Lime Juice
Garnish with a Lime
Mix ingredients in a Cocktail Shaker with ice and strain into a Rocks Glass.
- December 10th is the Death of Edward Davis Wood, Jr. (October 10, 1924 – December 10, 1978), better known as Ed Wood, was an American screenwriter. His Favorite Drink was the Gimlet.
Wine of The Day
Potomac Point Winery NV "Rabelos"
Style - Port-Style Dessert Wine
Virginia
$40
Beer of The Day
Morning Bear
Brewer - Devils Backbone Brewing Co., Roseland, VA, USA
Style - Coffee Flavored Beer
Joke of The Day
Three men, a doctor, an accountant and a lawyer are dead and they appear in front of St Peter. St Peter tells them that they have to answer one question in order to get to Heaven. He looks at the doctor and asks, "There was a movie that was made about a ship that sank after hitting an iceberg, what was its name?" The doctor answers, "The Titanic" and he is sent through. He then looks at the accountant and say, "How many people died in that ship?" Fortunately the doctor had just watched the movie and he answers, "1 500!". St Peter sends him through and then finally turns to the lawyer and commands, in a very heavy voice, "Name them!".
Quote of The Day
“Question everything! Or shut up and be a victim of authority.”
- Unknown
December Observances
AIDS Awareness Month
Art and Architecture Month
Awareness Month of Awareness Months Month
Bingo's Birthday Month
Bingo Month
Cancer-Related Fatigue Awareness Month
Choose a Summer Camp Month, Natl
Colorectal Cancer Education and Awareness Month
Identity Theft Prevention and Awareness Month
International Calendar Awareness Month
International Sharps Injury Prevention and Awareness Month
Learn A Foreign Language Month
National Drugged and Drunk Driving Prevention Month
National Hand Washing Awareness Month
National Made in America Month
National Sign-Up for Camp Month
National Tie Month
National Write A Business Plan Month
Nativity Fast (Eastern churches) starts September 1st
Operation Santa Paws December 1st - 24th
Quince and Watermelon Month
Read a New Book Month
Root Vegetables and Exotic Fruits Month
Safe Toys and Gifts Month
Seasonal Depression Awareness Month
Spiritual Literacy Month
Take a New Year's Resolution to Stop Smoking (TANYRSS) December 17th - February 5th
The Christmas Seal Campaign Month
Tomato and Winter Squash Month
Universal Human Rights Month
Winter-een-mas season (to celebrate the joy of video gaming)
World Aids Month
Worldwide Food Service Safety Month
Write (to) a Friend Month
Observances this Week
Hand Washing Awareness Week, First Full Week in DecemberClerc-Gallaudet Week, First Full Week in December
National Handwashing Awareness Week, First Full Week in December
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week, First Full Week in December
Human Rights Week , December 10th - December 17th
Historical Events on December 10th
741 Zacharias becomes Pope
1041 Michael IV, Paphlagonicus, Byzantium Emperor dies of results of dropsy. His wife Empress Zoe elevates her adoptive son to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
1294 Pope Coelestinus V becomes Pope (until Dec 13th)
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.
1520 Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
1541 Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
1582 France begins use of Gregorian calendar
1652 Sea battle at Dungeness: lt-admiral Maarten Tromp beats English fleet
1665 The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter
1672 NY Gov Lovelace announces monthly mail service between NY & Boston
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.
1688 King James II flees London
1690 Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial goverment to borrow money
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester
1799 Metric system established in France
1810 Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial boxing championship (40 rounds)
1816 Dutch regain Sumatra
1817 Mississippi admitted as the 20th U.S. state.
1831 "Spirit of the Times" begins publishing (weekly horse racing sheet)
1836 Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia.
1861 The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy in the American Civil War.
1864 Sherman's March to the Sea of the American Civil War, Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach Savannah, Georgia and the 12 day siege begins.
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.
1869 The first American chapter of Kappa Sigma is founded at the University of Virginia.
1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
1882 John Brahms' "Gesang der the Parzen," premieres
1887 Austria-Hungary/Italy/Great-Britain signs military treaty of Balkan
1896 First intercollegiate basketball game (Wesleyan beats Yale 4-3)
1896 Alfred Jarry's "Ubu Roi," premieres in Paris
1898 The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the Spanish-American War, US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam.
1898 The first western pilgrims were welcomed at The House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá
1899 British "Black Week" due to nederlagen in South Africa
1899 Battle at Storm Berge South Africa Boers vs British army
1899 Frank Wedekind's "Der Kammersang," premieres in Berlin
1899 The Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.
1901 The first Nobel Prizes are awarded (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy).
1902 Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
1903 Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie Curie
1904 King Peter I of Sweden named nationalist regime
1904 Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity founded at the College of Charleston
1906 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
1907 Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature
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 who have been vivisected.
1910 Johannes van der Waals wins Nobel Prize for physics
1911 Calbraith Rogers completes 1st crossing of US by airplane (84 days)
1911 Tobias Asser given Nobel prize for peace
1913 Kamerlingh Onnes receives Nobel prize for physics
1914 French government returns to Paris
1915 10,000,000th model T Ford assembled
1918 John A Heyder becomes president of baseball's National League
1919 NL votes to ban the spitball's use by all new pitchers
1919 NY, Boston, & Chicago, oppose AL resolution accusing Ban Johnson of overstepping his duties
1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to US president Wilson
1922 Nobel prizes awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein
1922 Pete Henry makes longest known NFL drop-kicked field goal, 45 yards
1923 Polish government of Grabski, forms
1924 Aggrement reached on permanent rotation of World Series with each league, getting games 1, 2, 6, 7 in alternating years
1924 Willem Einthoven awarded Nobel for medicine
1925 George Bernard Shaw awarded Nobel
1926 First radio broadcast in the Sprinfield area (WCBS)
1926 2nd part of Hitler's Mein Kampf published
1927 The Grand Ole Opry makes its first radio broadcast, in Nashville, TN
1929 Bradman scores 225 in 2nd inn of Test Cricket trial after 124 in 1st
1931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1931 Manuel Azaña becomes premier and Niceto Zamora president of Spain
1932 King Rama VII (Prajadhipok) grants Thailand a constitution
1932 Thailand adopts a Constitution and becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1934 Fascist dictator of Latvia Ulmanis begins building concentration camp
1934 NFL adopts player waiver rule, applies after 6th game of season
1934 Saint-Adelbert cooperation formed by Catholic elite
1935 A's sell Jimmie Foxx to the Red Sox for $150,000
1935 The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded to halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
1935 White Sox sell Al Simmons to the Tigers for $75,000
1936 Abdication Crisis, Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
1936 England replaces King Edward VIII stamp series with King George VI
1936 physicist PBJ Debije receives Nobel prize for chemistry in Stockholm.
1938 26th CFL Grey Cup, Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 30-7
1938 Ruth Fuller Sasaki, Zen teacher, Rinzai line, enters Zen priesthood
1939 Green Bay Packers win NFL championship, beat NY Giants 27-0
1939 KNVB celebrates 50th anniversary
1940 British anti-offensive in Libya (Sidi Barrani)
1941 British battleship Prince of Wales sinks off Singapore
1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam in World War II.
1941 Battle of the Philippines Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on the Philippine mainland on northern Luzon, in World War II.
1941 The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya in World War II.
1942 Hitler names Mussert "leader of Netherland people"
1942 5th German pantser army forms under col-gen von Arnim in North Africa.
1943 British 8th Army (1st Canadian Infantry Division) occupies Orsogna-Ortona Italy
1944 9 Dutch citizens hanged by nazis
1944 German counter attack at Dillingen-bridgehead at Saar
1945 Australian Services lose 3rd Victory Test Cricket to India by 6 wkts
1945 Preston Tucker reveals plan to produce the Torpedo, a new 150 MPH car
1947 USSR & Czechoslovakia sign trade agreement
1948 The UN General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
1949 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 during the Chinese Civil War.
1950 Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented Nobel Peace Prize
1952 Izhak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1952 WSLS TV channel 10 in Roanoke, VA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1952 Yitchak Ben-Zvi elected 2nd president of Israel
1953 "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 perfs
1953 KOMO TV channel 4 in Seattle, WA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 WSTV (now WTOV) TV channel 9 in Steubenville-Wheeling, OH (CBS) begins
1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1954 Philadelphia Phillies purchase Connie Mack Stadium
1955 The Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on television.
1956 Establishment of MPLA in Angola
1958 First domestic (NY-Miami) passenger jet flight-National 707 flew 111
1958 U of Pitts agrees to buy Forbes Field from the Pirates
1961 Houston Oiler Billy Cannon gains record 373 yards against Titans
1961 USSR & Albania break diplomatic relations
1961 US performs nuclear test at Carlsbad New Mexico (underground)
1962 Hunters Point (SF) jitney ends service after 50 years
1963 6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on Andy Williams Show
1963 Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth
1964 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Jr
1965 "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
1965 Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia
1965 Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters v England at the Gabba
1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
1966 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken
1968 Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
1968 Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1970 North American Soccer League awards NY & Toronto franchises
1971 West German union chancellor W Burns receives Nobel prize of peace
1971 William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 First time since 1885, tennis has 2 top males (S Smith & J Connors)
1974 European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
1974 Space probe Helios 1 is launched by US & Germany. It later makes closest flyby of Sun
1975 Andrei Sakharov's wife Yelena Bonner, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1975 Terry Funk beats Jack Brisco in Miami Beach, to become NWA champ
1976 Wings release triple album "Wings Over America"
1977 Soyuz 26 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1978 "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances
1978 67th Davis Cup, USA beats Great Britain in Rancho Mirage (4-1)
1978 Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1978 In Oslo, Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept 1978 Nobel Peace Prize
1978 Islanders ends 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3) to Canadians
1979 Piet Dankert appointed as chairman of European Parliament
1980 Soyuz T-3 returns to Earth
1980 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1981 El Salvador army kills 900
1981 Jules Feiffer's "Grownups," premieres in NYC
1981 The United Nations General Assembly approves Pakistan's proposal for establishing nuclear free-zone in South Asia.
1982 Heavyweight Michael Doakes KOs Mike Weaver in 1:03 in Las Vegas
1982 Soyuz T-5 returns to Earth, 211 days after take-off
1983 58th Australian Womens Tennis: M Navratilova beats K Jordan (62 76)
1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Walesa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize
1983 Democracy is restored in Argentina with the assumption of President Raúl Alfonsín.
1983 Last NFL game at Shea Stadium, Steelers beat NY Jets 34-7
1983 Raul Alfonsin inaugurated as Argentina's 1st civilian president
1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
1984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his Nobel Peace Prize
1984 WNSY-AM in Newport News VA returns from WGH
1985 Bill to balance the federal budget passed by Congress
1985 Junta leaders Videla & Massera sentenced in Buenos Aires
1986 Atlanta Hawk Dominique Wilkins scores 57 points vs Chicago Bulls
1986 France performs nuclear test
1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
1987 "Nightline" is seen in USSR for 1st time
1988 Washington Capitals 1st NHL scoreless tie, vs Mont Canadiens
1989 President Gustav Husak of Czechoslovakia, resigns
1989 Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of Mongolia's democratic movement that changes the second oldest communist country into a democracy.
1990 Hindu-Muslim rebellion in Hyderabad-Aligargh India, 140 die
1990 Soyuz TM-10 lands
1990 Space Shuttle STS 35 (Columbia 11) lands
1991 "Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances
1991 Howard Spira sentenced to 2½ years in prison for trying to extort money from Yankees owner George Steinbrenner
1991 IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1991 Jackie Martling walks off of Howard Stern show for 1 day
1992 "My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 perfs
1992 NHL awards franchises to Mimai & Anaheim (for 1994-95)
1992 NY Yankees sign free agent pitcher Jimmy Key
1992 Orlanda Magic scores 14 3-pointers (2 shy of record)
1993 Dow Jones hits record 3740.67
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.
1994 60th Heisman Trophy Award, Rashaan Salaam, Colorado (RB)
1994 European Campaign against Racism "All different, All equal" begins
1994 Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres & Yasser Arafat
1995 First meeting of NBA expansion teams, Raptors beat Grizzlies 93-81
1995 Kelly Robbins & Tammie Green wins LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
1995 Michael Slater scores 219 v Sri Lanka at the WACA
1995 Muralitharan takes 2-224 in Australian innings of 5-617
1995 Ricky Ponting makes 96 on Test Cricket debut (Aust v Sri Lanka, WACA)
1995 Worst snowstorm in Buffalo history, 37.9" in 24 hours (Starting Dec 9 at 7 PM, breaks previous record of 25.3" in 1982
1996 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 for the Rwandan Genocide stand down.
2006 One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut, calling for the government to resign.
2012 9 people are killed and 32 are wounded after a bus falls of a 300 meter cliff in Columbia
2012 11 people are killed and 23 are injured after a bus falls into a roadside pond in Minquan County, China
2012 Google begins selling US$99 laptops
2012 Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M (QB) becomes the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy Award (78th)
2012 Norwegian Magnus Carlsen breaks Garry Kasparov’s 13-year Elo rating record
2013 Mary Barra of General Motors becomes the first female CEO of a major automotive company
2013 Uruguay becomes the first country to legalize the growth, sale, and use of marijuana
2015 Scientists at Cornell University announce world's first IVF puppies successfully born from a surrogate dog
Born on December 10th
1394 King James I of Scotland, Dunfermline Palace, Fife, (1406-1437), (d. 1437)
1452 Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
1538 Giovanni Battista Guarini, Italian writer (Faithfull Shepherd)
1588 Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)
1679 Willem Maurits, Dutch count of Nassau/gov of Zeeuws-Flanders
1691 Cornelis Pronk, Dutch portrait painter/cartoonist
1713 Johann Nicolaus Mempel, German cantor and organist (d. 1747)
1741 Agatha "Aagje" Deken, Dutch writer (For the Elderly & Children)
1750 Tipu Sultan, ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1799)
1751 George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)
1764 Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer
1765 [Izaak J] Alexander Gogel, Dutch minister of Finance/patriot
1787 Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator, founded the American School for the Deaf (d. 1851)
1794 James Wolfe Ripley, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1870
1804 Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
1805 John E Feisser, theologist, founder 1st Dutch baptist church
1805 Joseph Škoda, Czech physician (d. 1881)
1805 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist publisher (The Liberator)
1813 Errico Petrella, composer
1813 Zachariah Chandler, US, merchant/politician (found Republican Party)
1815 Ada Lovelace, English mathematician (d. 1852)
1820 David Allen Russell, Army Bvt Major General (Union), died in 1864
1820 Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (d. 1821)
1821 Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet, writer and publisher (Russkije Zjenjshiny) (d. 1877)
1822 César Franck, Belgian composer and organist (d. 1890)
1822 Thomas Casimer Devin, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers) (d. 1878)
1823 Wilhelm Kuhe, composer
1824 George MacDonald, Scottish sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie), poet, and minister (d. 1905)
1827 Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and brewer (d. 1913)
1830 Emily Dickinson, American poet (Collected Poems) (d. 1886)
1831 Alexander Conze, German archaeologist
1851 Melvil(le Louis K) Dewey, American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System (d. 1931)
1855 Marios Varvoglis, Greek Composer (d. 1967)
1866 Louis Bolk, Dutch anatomist (d. 1930)
1868 Louis Victor Saar, composer
1870 Adolf Loos, Austrian architect, House Builder, designed Villa Müller (d. 1933)
1870 Mary Bonaparte, pretender to the French imperial throne, French daughter of Napoléon Charles Grégoire Jacques Philippe Bonaparte (d. 1947)
1870 Pierre Louijs, French author, poet (Aphrodite, Woman & Puppet) (d. 1925)
1870 Rudolf W Canne, Fries playwright (Der de Wier Us)
1870 T R McKibbin, Australian cricketer
1872 Johann Babtist Thaller, composer
1872 Ludwig Klages, German philosopher (study of graves)
1878 C. Rajagopalachari (Rajaji), Indian lawyer, politician, freedom fighter, The first Governor General of independent India (d.1972)
1880 Charles King, American jumper (d. 1958)
1880 Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965)
1882 Louis Wilkins, American pole vaulter (d. 1950)
1882 Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and philosopher (Foundation of Social Sciences) (d. 1945)
1883 Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian lawyer, foreign minister, UN-ambassador
1884 Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-French painter (d. 1967)
1885 Janos Hammerschlag, composer
1885 Marios Varvoglis, Greek composer (d. 1967)
1886 Annie Bos, Dutch actress (d. 1975)
1886 Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal, 17th Governor General of Canada (d. 1969)
1886 Victor McLaglen, English actor (Informer Academy Award 1935)
1886 William Booth, English cricketer
1889 Ray Collins, American actor (Homecoming, Good Sam, Rose Marie)
1890 George Merritt, English actor (I Monster, Q Planes)
1891 Leonie "Nelly" Sachs, German-Swedish poet (O the Chimneys) (Nobel 1966) (d. 1970)
1891 Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
1893 Walter Rein, composer
1894 Earnest Haenchen, German new testament expert
1894 Gertrud Kolmar, writer
1894 Paul Dessau, composer
1897 Karl H Waggerl, Austria writer (Power of Love)
1898 Anton Mauve, Dutch painter
1898 Yuri N Libedinski, Ukrainian writer (Birth of Hero) [NS]
1901 F Fischer, German war criminal (Breda 4)
1903 George J Lewis, Mexican sacotr (Don-Zorro)
1903 Una Merkel, American actress (42nd Street, Abraham Lincoln) (d. 1986)
1903 William Plomer, Author (Paper Houses, I Speak of Africa)
1907 Amedeo Nazzari, Italian actor (Lure of Sila)
1907 Lucien Laurent, French footballer (d. 2005)
1907 Michael Blankfort, American writer/producer/director
1907 Rumer Godden, English author (Thursday's Children) (d. 1998)
1908 Arnold A van Ruler, Dutch theologist
1908 Olivier Messiaen, French composer (L'Ame en Bourgeon) and ornithologist (d. 1992)
1909 Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1990)
1910 Dennis Morgan, American actor (Dennis-21 Beacon Street)
1910 Jill Summers, actress (Agatha Coronation Street)
1911 Chet Huntley, American journalist, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report) (d. 1974)
1912 Philip A. Hart, American lawyer, politician, Senator, 49th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (d. 1976)
1912 Rien van Nunen, Dutch actor (Spuit Elf)
1913 Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
1913 Morton Gould, American composer (Verdun) (d. 1996)
1913 Pannonica de Koenigswarter, English-American singer (d. 1988)
1914 Dorothy Lamour (Mary Kaumeyer), American actress (Road to Bali) (d. 1996)
1916 Rafael Ruiz, Spanish field hockey player (d. 2006)
1917 Yahya Petra, Sultan & King of Malaysia (d. 1979)
1918 Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
1918 Anne Gwynne, American actress (Ride 'em Cowboy, House of Frankenstein) (d. 2003)
1918 Professor Longhair, King of New Orleans music
1919 Alexander Courage, American composer (d. 2008)
1919 Sven-Eric Emanuel Johanson, composer
1920 Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian author (d. 1977)
1920 Ragnhild Hveger, Denmark, 200m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1936)
1920 Reginald Rose, American screenwriter (d. 2002)
1922 Allen Dwight Sapp, composer
1922 Lucía Hiriart, Chilean wife of Augusto Pinochet, First Lady of Chile
1923 Abelardo Quinteros, composer
1923 Harold Gould, American actor (He & She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus) (d. 2010)
1923 Jorge Semprun, French writer (2nd mort de R Mercader, Z)
1924 Michael Manley, Jamaican politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)
1925 Carolyn Ashley Kizer, American writer (Yin, Pulitzer 1985)
1925 Carolyn Kizer, American poet
1925 Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006)
1926 Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, composer
1926 Eddie Jones, "Guitar Slim" rocker
1926 Harry Fowler, English actor (Great: Isambard Kingdom Brunel), (d. 2012)
1928 Dan Blocker, American actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza) (d. 1972)
1928 John Colicos, Canadian actor (Battlestar Galactica) (d. 2000)
1930 Clayton K Yeutter, American trade rep, Republican Natl chairman
1933 Grenville Alabaster, New Zealand cricketer
1933 Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-American actor (Memoirs of a Geisha) (d. 2006)
1933 Philip R. Craig, American author (d. 2007)
1934 Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist (Nobel Prize laureate) (d. 1994)
1935 Terry Allcock, English footballer
1937 Don Bies, American PGA golfer (1975 Sammy Davis Jr)
1937 Don Sebesky, American orchestra leader (Jimmy Dean Show)
1938 Yuri Temirkanov, Russian conductor (Kirov)
1939 Barry Cunliffe, English archaeologist, university professor
1939 Dick Bavetta, American basketball referee
1940 William Fred Dempster, American crew member (Biosphere 2)
1941 Chad Stuart, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chad & Jeremy)
1941 Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress (Rich Man Poor Man, THe Others)
1941 Jeff Jones, English cricketer ( left-arm pace bowler in 60's)
1941 Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor
1941 Peter Michael Goetz, actor (Jumping Jack Flash, King Kong Lives)
1941 Peter Sarstedt, Indian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941 Tim Considine, American actor (Mike-My 3 Sons)
1941 Tommy Kirk, American actor (Old Yeller)
1941 Tommy Rettig, American actor (Jeff's Collie-Lassie) (d. 1996)
1942 Bear Bossu (Berend F Gertenbach), actor, vocalist (Pub Chantant)
1943 Chad Stuart, vocalist, guitarist (Chad & Jeremy)
1943 Jessica Cleaves, rocker
1943 Theodore Wilson, American actor (That's My Mama, Sanford Arms)
1944 Steve Renko, American baseball player
1944 Tisha Sterling, American actress (Coogan's Bluff)
1945 Eric Boom, Dutch guitarist, producer
1945 Mukhtar Altynbayev, Kazakhstani general and politician
1946 Chris Kefford, Musician
1946 Gloria Loring, Amerfican actress, singer (Days of our Life)
1946 Thomas Lux, American poet
1946 Walter "Clyde" Orange, American musician (Commodores-Too Hot to Trot)
1947 Douglas Kenney, American actor, screenwriter, humorist (d. 1980)
1947 Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
1947 Rasul Guliyev, Azerbaijani politician
1947 Sinaida Woronin, Soviet gymnist (Olympic-gold/silver/2 bronze-1968)
1948 Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
1948 Brendan Harkin, Musician
1948 Muhammad Zaidan, Syrian terrorist, founder and leader of Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
1948 Ralph Tavares, rocker
1949 Linda Galloway, LPGA golfer
1950 John Boozman, American politician
1950 Simon Owen, New Zealand-Australasian golfer
1950 Tom Towles, American actor
1951 Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer and actress
1951 Frank Beard, American country rock drummer (ZZ Topp)
1951 Johnny Rodriquez, American actor (Nashville Girl, La Bamba Party)
1952 Clive Anderson, English lawyer and television host
1952 Greg Mortimer, Australian mountaineer
1952 Susan Hallock Dey, American actress (1st Love, Partridge Family, LA Law, Looker)
1953 Chris Bury, American journalist
1953 Jack Scalia, actor, director (Amore, Deadly Desire, Donor, T-Force)
1954 Jack Hues, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Wang Chung)
1955 Jacquelyn Mitchard, American novelist
1955 Nazir Sabir, Pakistani mountaineer
1956 Jacquelyn Mitchard, American journalist and author
1956 Jan van Dijk, Dutch footballer and manager
1956 Michael VerMeulen, journalist
1956 Roberto Cassinelli, Italian politician
1956 Rod Blagojevich, American politician, 40th Governor of Illinois
1957 Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (The Green Mile) (d. 2012)
1957 Paul Hardcastle, English composer and producer
1957 Prem Rawat (Guru Maharaj Ji, Maharaji), American-Indian spiritual leader and speaker
1958 Cornelia Funke, German author
1958 John J. York, American actor (Mac Scorpio-General Hospital)
1958 Paul Hardcastle, keyboardist (Don't Waste My Time, Just for Money)
1958 Pepsi Demacque, English singer (Pepsi & Shirlie)
1959 Burke Moses, American actor (Sean Baxter-As the World Turns)
1959 Mark Aguirre, American basketball player, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons)
1959 Udi Aloni, American-Israeli director and author
1959 Wolf Hoffmann, German guitarist (Accept)
1960 Kenneth Branagh, Irish actor and director (High Season, Dead Again)
1960 Michael Schoeffling, American actor (Sixteen Candles)
1960 Paul Assenmacher, American pitcher (Cleveland Indians)
1961 Mark McKoy, Canadian track star (world record 50m indoor)
1961 Nia Peeples (Vernia), American singer and actress (General Hospital), dancer, host (Fame, Party Machine)
1961 Oded Schramm, Israel-American mathematician
1962 John de Wolf, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord)
1963 Doug Henry, American pitcher (NY Mets)
1963 Gerald Sandel, soccer player (Sparta)
1963 Jahangir Khan, Pakistani squash player
1963 Michael Lofton, American fencer-sabre (Olympics-96)
1963 Robin White, American tennis player (US Open doubles 1988)
1964 Bobby Flay, American celebrity chef and restaurateur
1964 George Newbern, American actor
1964 Luis Polonia, Dominican outfielder (NY Yanks, Orioles)
1964 Stef Blok, Dutch politician
1965 Greg Giraldo, American comedian (d. 2010)
1965 J Mascis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dinosaur Jr., Witch, Deep Wound, Upsidedown Cross)
1965 Jennifer Wyatt, Canadian golfer (1992 Crestar-Farm Fresh)
1965 Stephanie Morgenstern, Canadian actress
1966 Eric Naposki, WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1966 Mel Rojas, Dominican baseball player
1966 Norberto Martin, Dominican infielder (Chic White Sox)
1968 Amanda Anka, Actress (Lost Highway)
1968 Rob Davis, NFL guard (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1969 Darren Berry, cricketer (Victorian wicket-keeper since 1989-90)
1969 Nadim Khan, cricketer (brother of Moin Pakistani lefty spinner 1993)
1969 Rob Blake, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Team Canada, LA Kings)
1969 Todd Furdyk, CFL tackle (BC Lions)
1970 Bryant Stith, American basketball player, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1971 Amanda Hardy, Australian badminton player (Olympics-96)
1971 Bill Baroni, American politician
1971 Brian Nichols, American spree killer
1971 Carla Sacramento, Lisbon, 1.5k runner
1971 Manjula Munasinghe, cricketer (Sri Lankan ODI pace bowler)
1972 Brian Molko, Belgian-Luxembourger singer-songwriter and guitarist (Placebo)
1972 Dimitri Tikovoi, French-born record producer
1972 Donavon Frankenreiter, American surfer, singer-songwriter, and guitarist (Life, Love, and Laughter)
1972 Marcos di Palma, Argentine racing driver
1973 Arden Myrin, Actress (Evan Almighty)
1973 Bernard Holsey, defensive tackle (NY Giants)
1973 Marcus Wall, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 Rusty LaRue, NBA guard (Chicago Bulls)
1974 Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
1975 Josip Skoko, Australian footballer
1975 Kristel Verbeke, Belgian singer and actress (K3)
1975 Steve Bradley, American wrestler (d. 2008)
1977 Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress (You Don't Mess with the Zohan)
1977 Mr. Águila, Mexican wrestler
1978 Brandon Novak, American skateboarder
1978 Donna Williams, co-founder of Neopets
1978 Summer Phoenix, American actress (The Believer)
1979 Matt Bentley, American professional wrestler
1980 Ledley King, English footballer
1980 Massari, Lebanese-Canadian singer-songwriter
1980 Sarah Chang, American violinist
1981 Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
1981 Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinean swimmer
1981 Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
1982 Claudia Hoffmann, German sprinter
1982 Shilpa Anand, South African-Indian actress
1982 Tim Deegan, Canadian MuchMusic VJ
1983 Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer
1983 Katrin Siska, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja)
1983 Patrick John Flueger, American actor (Brothers)
1983 Xavier Samuel, Australian actor (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse)
1983 Zé Kalanga, Angolan footballer
1984 JTG, American wrestler
1984 Jayson Paul, American professional wrestler
1984 Mark Applegarth, English rugby player
1985 Charlie Adam, Scottish footballer
1985 Matt Forte, American football player
1985 Raven-Symoné, American actress (Dr. Dolittle 2), singer, and dancer
1985 T. J. Hensick, American ice hockey player
1985 Trésor Mputu, Congolese footballer
1986 Matthew Bates, English footballer
1986 Ryoichi Tsukada, Japanese acrobat
1987 Gonzalo Higuaín, French-Argentine footballer
1988 Mitchell Donald, Dutch footballer
1988 Wilfried Bony, Ivorian footballer
1989 Ng Chee Yang, Singaporean singer
1990 Giulia Boverio, Italian actress
1990 Kazenga LuaLua, Congolese-English footballer
1990 Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2010)
1990 Vivien Endicott Douglas, Actress (How Eunice Got Her Baby)
1991 Ruari Cannon, Actor (World War Z)
1992 Melissa Roxburgh, Actress (Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days)
1993 Michael Horvath, Director (James Bond 007 Vs. The Joker)
1994 Alexis Raich, Actress (A Cinderella Story)
1994 Matti Klinga, Finnish footballer
1995 Inês Guimarães, Actress (Marginais)
1998 Conner Dwelly, Actress (Passengers)
1998 Taylor Drew Morgan, Actress (Big Momma's House 2)
2005 Rhiannon Rodriguez, Daughter of Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellan
2006 Taylor Dior, Actress (Don't Tell Mama)
2009 Josie Duggar, Reality TV Star (17 Kids and Counting)
Died on December 10th
949 Herman I, Duke of Swabia
969 Nicephorus II Phocas, Byzantine co-Emperor (963-69), murdered
1041 Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1010)
1198 Averroes, Arab physician and philosopher (b. 1126)
1490 Antoine Haneron, Bourgundy diplomat, dies at about 90
1508 René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
1524 Henry van Zutphen, Dutch Augustine, Luthern minister, burned to death
1572 Cornelis Musius, Dutch humanist/poet, murdered
1595 Reynier Cant, mayor of Amsterdam, dies at about 59
1603 William Gilbert, English scientist, Queen Elizabeth's physician (b. 1544)
1616 Diogo do Couto, Portuguese historian/archivist of Goa
1618 Giulio Caccini, Italian composer (b. 1551)
1626 Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (b. 1581)
1638 Ivan (Dzivo F) Gundulic, Dalmatian writer (Osman)
1665 Tarquinio Merula, Italian composer
1736 António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese ruler of Malta (b. 1663)
1749 Gabrielle Chôtelet (La belle Emilie), writer (Voltaire)
1770 Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat, German court organist, composer
1805 Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer
1826 Benedikt Emanuel Schack, composer
1831 Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
1833 Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer
1850 François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
1850 Józef Bem, Polish general and a national hero of Poland and Hungary (b. 1794)
1865 Léopold I, King of Belgium (b. 1790)
1875 Otogaki Rengetsu, zen nun, benefactress of Tessai
1877 Federico Ricci, composer
1877 Jared Kirtland, US physician, naturalist
1888 Mariano Obiols, composer
1889 Ludwig Anzengruber, Austrian playwright
1890 Ludolf Sloet van de Beele, Governor-General (Netherlands-India 1861-66)
1896 Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
1904 James Cranston, English cricketer
1909 Red Cloud, Sioux indian chief (b. 1822)
1910 Pablo Hernandez Salces, composer
1911 Joseph D(alton) Hooker, English botanist (b. 1817)
1917 Mackenzie Bowell, Fifth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
1920 Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile manufacturing pioneer (b. 1868)
1921 Viktor Jacobi, composer
1926 Nikola Pašic, Kingdom of Serbia and Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes prime minister (b. 1845)
1928 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (b. 1868)
1931 Max Elskamp, Belgian author, poet (Six Chansons)
1935 John H Aberson, First rector of Landbouw high school
1936 Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
1936 Luigi Pirandello, Italian writer (Enrico IV) (Nobel laureate 1934) (b. 1867)
1936 Robert Abel, English cricketer
1938 Mario Pilati, composer
1939 Wilhelm Grosz, composer
1941 Colin Kelly, American pilot (b. 1915)
1944 John Henry Cound Brunt, Victoria Cross holder (b. 1922)
1945 Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (b. 1913)
1946 Damon Runyon, American writer, journalist (b. 1884)
1946 Walter Johnson, American baseball player, pitcher (Washington Senators) (b. 1887)
1951 Algernon Blackwood, English writer (b. 1869)
1953 Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born scholar and translator (b. 1872)
1956 David Shimoni, Israeli poet and writer (b. 1891)
1958 Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder (b. 1864)
1958 Juliane Gabriels, Flemish physician
1959 Charles Jones, West Indian cricket batsman
1959 Henri Vidal, French actor (Fabiola)
1964 Sam Cooke, American singer (Sad Moon), killed at a motel
1965 Henry (Dixon) Cowell, American pianist, composer (Aeolian Harp)
1966 Boris Koutzen, composer
1967 Brazilio da Cunha Luz Itibere, composer
1967 Carl Cunningham, musician (Bar-kays), killed in a plane crash
1967 Jimmy King, musician (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash
1967 Otis Redding, American soul singer (Dock of Bay), dies in plane crash (b. 1941)
1967 Phalon Jones, American soul and R&B musician (Bar-kays), dies in plane crash (b. 1949)
1967 Ron(nie) Caldwell, American soul and R&B musician (Bar-kays), dies in a plane crash (b. 1948)
1968 George Forrest, Northern Irish MP (b. 1921)
1968 Karl Barth, Swiss theologis, minister (Kirchliche Dogma) (b. 1886)
1968 Patsy Moran, actress (Children of the Wild)
1968 Thomas Merton, French-American monk and author (7 Story Mountain) (b. 1915)
1969 Franco Capuana, composer
1969 Leigh Harline, composer
1971 Jozef Cals, Dutch min of Education, premier (1965-66)
1972 Mark A Van Doren, American literary (Our Lady Peace)
1973 Earle Foxe, actor (Dance Fools Dance)
1973 Wolf Vishniac, American microbiologist (b. 1922)
1974 Paul Richards, American actor (Dr Thompson-Breaking Point)
1977 Adolph Rupp, American basketball coach (b. 1901)
1978 Edward D. Wood Jr., American filmmaker (Plan 9) (b. 1924)
1978 Miura Isshu, Zen teacher, Hakuin Rinzai line
1979 Ann Dvorak, American film actress (G Men, Life of Her Own, Scarface) (b. 1912)
1979 Fulton J Sheen, bishop (Life is Worth Living)
1981 John Kieran, TV host (Information Please)
1982 Freeman "Amos" Gosden, American radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy) (b. 1899)
1982 Roy Webb, composer
1983 Dorothy Cummings, actress (Dancing Mothers)
1983 Patrick O'Moore, actor (Jungle Gents)
1986 Kate Wolf, American folk singer and songwriter (Back Roads) (b. 1942)
1986 Susan Cabot-Roman, American actress (Sorority Girl, Carnival Rock) (b. 1927)
1987 Jascha Heifetz, Russian-born violinist (b. 1901)
1987 Nikos Stavridis, Greek actor (b. 1910)
1988 Dick Clair, comedian (Clair & McMahon, Facts of Life)
1988 Johnny Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1911)
1988 Richard S. Castellano, American actor (Honor thy Father) (b. 1933)
1990 Armand Hammer, American industrialist and art collector, CEO (Occidental Petroleum) (b. 1898)
1991 Berenice Abbott, US photographer
1991 Greta Kempton, American artist (b. 1901)
1991 Headman Shabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (b. 1945)
1992 Carlomagno Andrade, Equadorian general
1992 Dan Maskell, English tennis commentator (b. 1908)
1993 Maroun Bagdadi, director, writer (Little Wars, Veiled Man)
1994 Alexander Wilson, Canadian athlete (b. 1905)
1994 Garnett Silk, vocalist
1994 George G F van Renesse, concert pianist, music director
1994 Keith Joseph, English politician (b. 1918)
1994 Ruth Evelyn Mansfield, doctor
1995 Darren Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (b. 1967)
1995 Gillian Rose, philosopher, writer
1995 John Francis Boyd, journalist
1995 Mary Madge Lascelles, literary critic, poet
1995 Phillip Piratin, communist
1996 Faron Young, American country singer, actor (Hidden Guns), commits suicide (b. 1932)
1996 John Duffey, bluegrass musician
1997 Violet Carlson, stage dancer, singer
1999 Franjo Tudman, President of Croatia (b. 1922)
1999 Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band) (b. 1942)
1999 Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
2000 Marie Windsor, American film actress (b. 1919)
2001 Ashok Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1911)
2002 Andres Küng, Swedish-Estonian politician, journalist (b. 1945)
2004 Gary Webb, American journalist (b. 1955)
2005 Eugene McCarthy, U.S. Senator (b. 1916)
2005 Richard Pryor, American comedian and actor (b. 1940)
2006 Augusto Pinochet, Former Chilean dictator (b. 1915)
2007 Aqsa Parvez, Canadian victim of an honor crime (b. 1991)
2007 Ashleigh Aston Moore, Actress, (b. 1981)
2008 Didith Reyes, Filipino singer (b. 1948)
2010 J. Michael Hagopian, Turkish-born American documentarian (b. 1913)
2010 John Bennett Fenn, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1917)
2010 MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921)
2012 Iajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi President
2013 Jim Hall, American jazz guitarist
2013 Rossana Podestà, Italian actress
2014 Ziad Abu Ein, Palestinian government minister, killed in confrontation with Israeli troops at protest on West Bank
2015 Dolph Schayes, American basketball Hall of Famer (Syracuse Nationals/Philadelphia 76ers)
