December 31st
Holidays and Celebrations
New Year's Eve * CLICK HERE
Universal Hour of Peace Day
World Peace Meditation Day
Festival de Iemanja Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Seventh day of Christmas (Western Christianity)
Make Up Your Mind Day
Unlucky Day
No Interruptions Day
Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
Hogmanay Scotland Scottish New Year (3-4) * CLICK HERE
The seventh day of Christmas in Western Christianity.
Feast of St. Sylvester I (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Eastern Orthodox Church (Apodosis of Christmas)
* New Year's Eve a.k.a. NYE, or Old Year's Night (Gregorian Calendar) * CLICK HERE
Fête de la Granit Translation: Granite Day (French Republican) The 11th day of the Month of Nivôse in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to min',
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
And days of auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
And here's a hand, my trusty fierce,
And gie's a hand o' thine,
And we'll tak' a right guid willie-waught,
For auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
And surely ye'll be your pint stowpt,
And surely I'll be mine,
And we'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne."
- Robert Burns
- Alternative -
"Go mbeire muid beo ar an am seo arís.
Athbhliain faoi mhaise duit!"
Translation : "May we be alive at this time next year.
A prosperous New Year!"
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Mimosa
One part champagne
one Part orange juice
Ensure both ingredients are well chilled, then mix together into the glass. Serve cold.
- Alternative -
Buck's Fizz
1 2/3 oz. Champagne
3 1/3 oz. Orange Juice
Pour orange juice into flute and gently add champagne. Stir gently. Garnish with orange twist (optional).
Wine of The Day
Gosset NV Brut Excellence
Style - Champagne
$38
-Alternative-
Salon
Style - blanc de blancs Champagne
Champagne, France
$350
Beer of The Day
Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale
Brewer - Sierra Nevada Brewing
Style - American IPA
ABV - 6.8%
Joke of The Day
On New Year’s Eve, Marilyn stood up in the local pub and said that it was time to get ready.
At the stroke of midnight, she wanted every husband to be standing next to the one person who made his life worth living.
As the clock struck - the bartender was almost crushed to death.
Quote of The Day
"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind"
- Humphrey Bogart
- Alternative -
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves"
- Bill Vaughan
Whiskey of The Day
The Dalmore 40 Year OId Single Highland Malt Scotch Whisky
Price: $3000 (500ml)
- Alternative -
(A little Easier on the Wallet)
Johnnie Walker Blue Label Whisky
Price: $200.
News Article of The Day
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
Christmas Week, December 25th through January 6thKwanzaa, December 26th through January 1st
The Twelve Days of Christmas, December 25th through January 6th
Holiday Week, Final Week of December
Yuletide, Final Week of December
It's About Time Week, Final Week of December
Christmas Bird Count Week, December 14th through February 5th
New Years Run, December 29th through January 1st
Historical Events on December 31st
406 80,000 Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine at Mainz, beginning an invasion of Gaul.
535 Byzantine General Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Ostrogothic garrison of Syracuse, (Palermo) and ending his consulship for the year.
765 Coffin of Ho-tse Shen-hui interred in a stupa built in China
870 Skirmish at Englefield: Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army
1225 The Lý Dynasty of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor Tran Thai Tong, husband of the last Ly monarch, Ly Chieu Hoang, starting the Trần Dynasty.
1229 James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma, Spain) thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Majorca.
1492 100,000 Jews expelled from Sicily
1501 The First Battle of Cannanore commences.
1502 Cesare Borgia (son of pope Alexander VI) occupies Urbino
1564 Willem van Orange demands freedom of conscience/religion
1600 The British East India Company is chartered.
1604 Admiral Steven van der Haghen's fleet reaches Bantam
1621 Hungarian King Bethlen Gabor/Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Mikulov
1660 James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
1669 France & Brandenburg sign secret treaty
1670 France & England sign Boyne-treaty
1680 Amsterdam opera at Leidsegracht opens
1687 The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
1688 Pro-James II-earl of Devonshire occupies Nottingham
1695 A window tax is imposed in England, causing many shopkeepers to brick up their windows to avoid the tax.
1700 Frisia & Groningen adopt Gregorian calendar, the next day is is 1/12/1701
1708 Great Alliance captures Bridge
1711 Duke of Marlborough fired as English army commander
1744 James Bradley announces discovery of Earth's nutation motion (wobble)
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlies army meets with de Esk
1756 Russia joins the Alliance of Versailles
1758 British expeditionary army occupies Goree (Dakar) Senegal
1759 Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
1762 Mozart family moves from Vienna to Salzburg
1775 Battle of Quebec of the American Revolutionary War, British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.
1776 Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70 cents a day for carpenters, 42 cents for tailors
1779 English fleet beat Dutch Merchant vessels
1781 Bank of North America, 1st US bank opens
1783 Import of African slaves banned by all of the Northern states
1790 Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today is published for the first time.
1805 End of French Republican calendar; France returns to Gregorianism
1831 Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City, New York.
1841 Alabama becomes first state to license dental surgeons
1853 A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England, United Kingdom
1857 Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.
1859 Dutch colony in Dutch Indies counts 4,800 slaves
1861 22,990 mm of rain falls in Cherrapunji Assam in 1861, world record
1862 Battle of Stone's River (Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennesse) in American Civil War begins
1862 Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two during the American Civil War.
1862 Skirmish at Parker Cross Roads, Tennessee
1862 Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sinks off Cape Hatteras, NC
1870 J D Schneiter patents rocket mail in France, (not done)
1878 Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.
1879 Cornerstone laid for Honolulu's Iolani Palace (only royal palace in US)
1879 Gilbert and Sullivan's Opera "Pirates of Penzance," premieres in NYC
1879 Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
1890 Ellis Island (NYC) opens as a US immigration depot
1896 25th auto built in US
1897 Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898)
1902 Boers & British army sign peace treaty
1904 The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square, then known as Longacre Square, in New York, New York.
1906 French, British, & Italian treaty concerning rights on Abyssinia
1906 Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
1907 For the first time a ball drops at Times Square to signal new year due to fireworks ban.
1907 G Mahler conducts the Metropolitan Opera
1909 Manhattan Bridge opens.
1910 US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910
1911 Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize
1914 Colonel Jacob Ruppert & Cap Huston purchase NY Yankees for $460,000
1917 Dutch Social-democratic trade union NVV counts 159,450 members
1918 Kid Gleason replaces Pants Rowland as White Sox manager
1920 Roy Park makes 1st-ball duck in only Test Cricket inn, v Eng at MCG
1921 Last San Francisco firehorses retired
1923 First transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester
1923 BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID
1923 H Tierney & J McCarthy's musical "Kid Boots," premieres in NYC
1923 The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.
1924 Hubble announces existence of distant galaxies
1925 14th congress of CPSU decides to accelerate industry
1927 Ponsford scores 336 against SA, giving him 1146 for month
1929 Pope Pius XI publishes encyclical Divini illius magistri
1930 Pontifical encyclical Casti connubii against mixed marriages
1930 US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930
1932 John P O'Brien sworn-in as mayor of NYC
1934 Helen Richey becomes 1st woman to pilot an airmail transport
1935 CPH becomes Dutch Communist Party
1935 Charles Darrow patents Monopoly
1938 Dr R N Harger's "drunkometer," 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana
1938 Dutch national debt hits ƒ3,986,629,805.70
1939 25 U boats sunk this month (81,000 ton)
1939 Dutch national debt hits ƒ4,218,553,180.99
1940 37 U boats sunk this month (213,000 ton)
1941 Young Park (2) in the Bronx named in honor of Samuel Young
1942 60 U boats sunk this month (330,000 ton)
1942 Battle in Barents Sea
1942 Potatoes rationed in Holland
1943 NYC's Times Square greets Frank Sinatra at Paramount Theater
1944 48 people die in a train accident in Ogden, Utah
1944 Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab
1944 Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany in World War II.
1944 Operation Nordwind, the last major German offensive on the Western Front in World War II begins.
1945 Bradman scores 112, his 1st post-War century, SA v Aust Services
1945 Ratification of UN Charter completed
1946 French troops leave Lebanon
1946 President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
1948 Dutch police actions up Java gone on strike
1949 18 countries recognize Republic Indonesia
1950 Jockeys W Shoemaker & Joe Culmone set record of 388 wins in a year
1951 First battery to convert radioactive energy to electrical announced
1951 The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.
1953 Hulan Jack sworn in as Manhattan Borough president
1953 WFBC (now WYFF) TV channel 4 in G'ville-Spartanburg, SC (NBC) begins
1953 Willie Shoemaker shatters record, riding 485 winners in a year
1955 "Vamp" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 60 performances
1955 General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
1955 The General Motors Corporation becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over $1 billion USD in a year.
1957 AAU awards Bobby Morrow, James Sullivan Memorial Trophy
1958 47th Davis Cup, USA beats Australia in Brisbane (3-2)
1958 Cubans dictator Batista flees
1958 International Geophyscial Year ends
1958 Willie Shoemaker becomes the first jockey to win national riding championship 4X
1960 The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.
1961 "lrma La Douce" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 527 performances
1961 Debut performance of the Beach Boys (using the name Beach Boys)
1961 Failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon
1961 Green Bay Packers shutout NY Giants 37-0 in NFL championship game
1961 Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion
1961 RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.
1962 "Match Game" debuts on NBC with host Gene Rayburn
1962 American Basketball League announces suspension of operation
1962 Dutch leave New Guinea
1962 Katanga becomes part of Democratic Republic of Congo
1962 Ohio ends suit against Reds when they agree to stay in Cin for 10 yrs
1963 Chicago Bears win NFL championship
1963 Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years)
1963 Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir played music together for the 1st time
1963 The Central African Federation officially collapses and splits into Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
1964 Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph)
1964 Indonesia proclaims expelled from the UN
1965 Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begins a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.
1966 Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks
1966 Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting
1966 Test Cricket debut of Bishen Singh Bedi, India v WI Calcutta, 2-92
1966 Toboggan Chutes begin operation in Cleveland Metroparks
1967 "Henry, Sweet Henry" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 80 perfs
1967 First NBA game at Great Western Forum, LA Lakers beat Houston 147-118
1967 Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game
1967 Packers beat Cowboys 21-17 in NFL championship game (-13°F)
1967 The Youth International Party, popularly known as the "Yippies", is founded.
1968 First supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
1968 First test flight of Tupolev TU 144
1968 NY Jets win AFL championship
1969 Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under major Ngouabi
1970 Congress authorizes Eisenhower dollar coin
1970 Paul McCartney files a lawsuit to disolve Beatles
1970 President Allende nationalizes Chilean coal mines
1970 Would have been start of Aust/Eng Test Cricket at MCG, washed out
1971 KAID TV channel 4 in Boise, ID (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 Lt. General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1972 39th Sugar Bowl, Oklahoma 14 beats Penn State 0
1972 Leap second day, also in 1973-79, 1987
1972 Miami Dolphins beat Pittsburgh Steelers 21-7 in AFC championship game
1972 Washington Redskins beat Dallas Cowboys 26-3 in NFC championship game
1973 40th Sugar Bowl, Notre Dame 24 beats Alabama 23
1973 61st Australian Mens Tennis, John Newcombe beats O Parun (63 67 75 61)
1973 Johan Cruyff chosen European soccer Player of year
1974 41st Sugar Bowl, Nebraska 13 beats Florida 10
1974 Free agent pitcher Catfish Hunter signs $3M 5 year NY Yank contract
1974 Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panama's Gold 100 balboa coin
1974 Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks join Fleetwood Mac
1974 NY Yankees sign Jim "Catfish" Hunter to 5 yrs for record $3.75 million
1974 Popular Electronics displays Altair 8800 computer
1975 42nd Sugar Bowl, Alabama 13 beats Penn State 6
1976 TV soap "Somerset" ends 6 year run
1976 The Cars played their 1st gig
1977 "Bubbling Brown Sugar" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 766 perfs
1977 "Man of La Mancha" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 124 performances
1977 Amir Sheikh Jabir al-Ahmad al-Jabir Al Sabah becomes leader of Kuwait
1977 Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with Vietnam
1977 Donald Woods, a banned white editor flees South Africa
1977 Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado
1977 WFAT (Bkln NY pirate radio station) begins broadcasting on 1620 AM
1978 "Magic Show" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 1859 performances
1978 "Runaways" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 199 performances
1978 CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy
1978 Iran shah names Chapour Bakhtiar premier
1978 Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with US
1979 Winterland Rock Concert Hall in San Francisco closes after 556 concerts
1980 A Jewish owned hotel in Nairobi Kenya is bombed killing 18
1980 NY Islanders greatest shutout margin (9-0) vs Chicago Black Hawks
1980 Senegal president Leopold Senghor resigns
1981 A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
1981 CNN Headline News debuts
1981 Lt. Jerry Rawlings becomes head of Ghana, suspends constitution
1981 Netherlands unemployment hits record 475,000
1982 CBS Mystery Theater final episode on radio after 8 years
1982 NBC radio cancels almost all of its network daily features
1982 TV soap "Doctors" ends 19 year run
1983 Brunei gains complete independence from Britain
1983 In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic, Nigeria's National Assembly dissolves.
1983 Jose Happart installed as mayor of Voeren Belgium
1983 The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
1984 Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen loses his arm in a car crash
1984 NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in NH
1984 Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India's 6th PM succeeds his mom, Indira
1984 Test Cricket debut of Mohammad Azharuddin, v England at Calcutta
1984 US leaves UNESCO
1986 A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.
1986 Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound
1986 WIS-AM in Columbia SC changes call letters to WVOC (now WOMG)
1988 First Winter Ascent of Lhotse (8,516m) by Krzysztof Wielicki (solo).
1988 Pittsburgh Penguins' Mario Lemieux becomes the only National Hockey League player to score goals in five different ways - even strength, shorthanded, power play, penalty shot, and empty net, during a 8-6 win over the New Jersey Devils.
1989 "Me & My Girl" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 1420 performances
1989 "Threepenny Opera" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 65 perfs
1989 Fog Bowl, Heavy fog rolls in on Bears 20-12 victory over Eagles
1989 Jockey Kent Desormeaux sets record with 598 wins in a year
1990 Iraq begins a military draft of 17 year olds
1990 Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
1990 United Somali Congress seizes Presidential Palace
1991 All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
1991 CPN, Communist Party of Netherland, last day of existance
1991 Daniel R McCarthy elected NY Yankee managing general partner
1991 Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83
1991 J Donald Crump resigned as CFL Commissioner
1991 USSR, last day of existence
1992 Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
1992 Target date for Europe's single market
1993 Barbra Striesand does her first live public concert in 20 years
1994 First snowless December in Baltimore Maryland
1994 Anti Apartheid Group of Netherlands (AABN) disbands
1994 The First Chechen War, Russian army began a New Year's storm of Grozny
1994 This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
1995 "Danny Gans on Broadway" closes at Neil Simon NYC
1995 "Having Our Say" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 308 performances
1995 "Heiress" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 340 performances
1995 "Paul Roebson" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 14 performances
1995 "Racing Demon" closes at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC after 48 perfs
1995 "Tempest" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 71 performances
1995 62nd Sugar Bowl, Virginia Tech beats Texas
1995 Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip
1995 Matthew Elliott scores separate cricket century same day for Victoria
1997 Intel cuts price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268
1997 Marv Levy, retires as coach of Buffalo Bills
1997 Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service
1997 More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809
1997 Orlando Hernandez, half-brother of pitcher Livan, defects from Cuba
1997 South Africa & US surgeons separate Zambian Siamese twins joined at the head
1998 US movie box office hits record $6.24 billion for year
1998 The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.
1999 First President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
1999 Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane, leave the plane with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed.
1999 The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
2004 The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft).
2007 Bocaue Fire. Seven people injured when a fire razed several fireworks stores in the Municipality of Bocaue, Bulacan, Philippines.
2007 The Massive Big Dig construction project in Boston, Massachusetts ends.
2009 At least six people are killed by a gunman at a shopping centre in Espoo, near Helsinki
2009 Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur
2011 NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the moon
2011 United States President Barack Obama signs the National Defense Authorization Act into law
2014 36 die and 47 are wounded during a stampede of New Year revellers on Shanghai's Bund riverfront
2014 Beji Caid Essebsi is sworn in as Tunisia's 1st ever freely elected President
2014 #20 Boise State beats #10 Arizona, 38-30 in the 44th Fiesta Bowl
2014 #10 Georgia Tech beats #8 Mississippi State, 49-34 in the 81st Orange Bowl
2015 US law enforcement kills 1,134 in 2015, young black men 9x more likely to be victims
Born on December 31st
695 Muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian general (d. 715)
1378 Callistus III, (Alfonso the Borja), Pope (1455-58) (d. 1458)
1491 Jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557)
1514 Andreas Vesalius, Belgian anatomist (Fabrica) (d. 1564)
1540 Silvio Antoniano, Italian cardinal, theologist (Tre libri)
1552 Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611)
1572 Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan, (d. 1617)
1585 Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish military leader, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan (d. 1645)
1668 Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician, botanist (d. 1738)
1704 Carl Gotthelf Gerlach, German organist (d. 1761)
1720 Charles Edward Stuart, Italian husband of Princess Louise of Stolberg-Gedern (d. 1788)
1724 Franz Joseph Oehlschlagel, composer
1738 Charles Cornwallis, First Marquess Cornwallis, English general "fire when ready Gridley", 3rd Governor-General of India (d. 1805)
1741 Gottfried August Bürger, German poet d.(1794)
1741 Isabella Maria, Princess of Parma, wife of future Holy Roman emperor (d. 1763)
1763 Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806)
1776 Johann Spurzheim, German physician (d. 1832)
1799 Thomas Taglichsbeck, composer
1805 Marie d' Flavigny Agoult (Daniel Stern), French author (Knife) (d. 1876)
1815 George Gordon Meade, American Major General (Union Army) (d. 1872)
1818 Maria J Small-Gartmann, actress
1825 Francis Trowbridge Sherman, Brigadeer General (Union volunteers) (d. 1905)
1826 Henry Hiles, composer
1830 Alexander Smith, Scottish poet (d. 1867)
1830 Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian politician, Kedive of Egypt (1863-79) (d. 1895)
1838 Emile Loubet, premier, president of France (1892, 1899-1906)
1846 Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis, Dutch anarchist (Right for all)
1846 Richard Kleinmichel, composer
1851 Henry Carter Adams, American economist (d. 1921)
1855 Giovanni Pascoli, Italian classicist poet (d. 1912)
1857 King Kelly, American baseball player (d. 1894)
1859 Max Fiedler, composer
1860 Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist, co-founder (Texaco) (d. 1937)
1863 Alfredo Panzini, Italian author (Dizionario Moderno)
1864 Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer (Binary Stars) (d. 1951)
1869 Henri Matisse, Le Cateau-Cambrésis, Nord, French impressionist painter (Odalisque) (d. 1954)
1870 Thomas Connolly, MLB baseball umpire for 50 years
1874 Ernest Austin, composer
1877 Lawrence Beesley, English journalist and author (d. 1967)
1878 Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman, founder (Elizabeth Arden, Inc.) (d. 1966)
1878 Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet (El Crimen del Otro), and playwright (d. 1937)
1880 Fred Beebe, American baseball player (d. 1957)
1880 George Marshall, American general and politician (Marshall Plan), 50th United States Secretary of State (Nobel Prize laureate 1953) (d. 1959)
1881 Colin G Fink, American chemist (electro chemistry)
1881 Jacob Israel de Haan, Dutch poet, writer (Pipelines, Jewish Song)
1881 Max Pechstein, German "entartet" painter, graphic artist (The Bridge) (d. 1955)
1882 Ben Jones, American horse trainer (Citation, Whirlaway)
1882 David Cohen, Dutch historian, chairman (Jewish Council)
1882 Martin O'Meara, Irish-Australian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1935)
1884 Bobby Byrne, American baseball player (d. 1964)
1885 Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1970)
1892 Jason Robards Sr, American actor (Acapulco)
1893 J M Blankenberg, South African cricketer
1893 Max Lamberty, Flemish sociologist, author (Flemish Resurrection)
1894 Ernest John Moeran, British composer
1894 Pola Negri (Barbara A Chalupiec), Polish-American actress (Madame Dubarry)
1896 Ronald Adam, English actor (Phantom Shot)
1897 Rhys Williams, Welsh actor (Nightmare, Okinawa, Cross My Heart)
1899 Gaston Glass, Paris France, film executive
1899 Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer (Sensemaya), conductor, and violinist (d. 1940)
1901 Júlia Báthory, Hungarian designer(d. 2000)
1901 Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek activist (d. 1954)
1902 Lionel Daunais, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1982)
1904 Chuck Gardiner, English NHL goalie (Vezina winner)
1904 Nathan Milstein, Russian concert violinist (Phila Orch 1942)
1904 Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1975)
1905 Guy Mollet, French socialist premier (1956-57)
1905 Jule Styne, English-American composer (1954 Acad Award, 1968 Tony) (d. 1994)
1905 Tadeusz Breza, writer
1906 Erna Bogen, Hungarian foils (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1908 Marko Rothmuller, composer
1908 Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor, nazi hunter (Wiesenthal Center) (d. 2005)
1909 Jonah Jones, American trumpet player (d. 2000)
1910 Carl Dudley, American director and producer (d. 1973)
1910 Dick Kollmar, American actor (Broadway Spotlight, Guess What)
1910 Roy Rowland, film director
1911 Dal Stivens, Australian author (d. 1997)
1912 John Frost, Indian-English Major General (d. 1993)
1914 Pat Brady, American actor (Roy Rodgers Show)
1915 Sam Ragan, American journalist, author, and poet (d. 1996)
1916 Suzy Delair, French actress (Utopia, White Paws)
1917 Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer (d. 1962)
1918 Virginia Davis, American actress (d. 2009)
1919 Tommy Byrne, American baseball player (d. 2007)
1920 Rex Allen, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
1921 Lynn Compton, American jurist (Sirhan Sirhan prosecutor) and commissioned officer (Easy Company, 101st Airborne) (d. 2012)
1922 Joan McCracken, American actress (Claudie Story of a Marriage)
1922 Rex Allen, American cowboy singer (Dr Baxter-Frontier Doctor)
1924 Taylor Mead, American actor
1924 Victoria Draves, American platform, springboard diver (Olympic-gold-1948)
1926 Billy Snedden, Australian politician (d. 1987)
1927 Dieter Noll, writer
1928 Amarillo Slim (Thomas Preston), American hall of fame professional poker player (1971 World Series main event) (d. 2012)
1928 Hugh McElhenny, NFL halfback (SF, Minnesota, Giants, Detroit)
1928 Ross Barbour, American singer (4 Freshmen)
1928 Siné, French cartoonist
1928 Veijo Meri, writer
1929 Mies Bouman, Dutch television hostess (Open the Village)
1929 Peter Barker Howard, cricketer
1929 Peter May, English cricketer
1929 Sidney Greenbaum, grammarian
1930 Ala Odetta (Odetta Holmes), American singer-songwriter (Sanctuary), guitarist, and actress (d. 2008)
1930 Jaime Escalante, Bolivian-American educator (d. 2010)
1931 Bob Shaw, Irish sci-fi author (Orbitsville, Ragged Astronauts, Vertigo) (d. 1996)
1932 George Schlatter, TV producer (Laugh-in)
1933 Edward Bunker, American author, screenwriter, and actor (d. 2005)
1934 Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan, Indian Islamic scholar
1934 Noel Tyl, American astrologer
1935 Peter Allan, Australian cricketer
1935 Rolf Haufs, writer
1937 Anthony Hopkins, Welsh-American actor (Elephant Man, Hannibal, Magic, Bounty) and composer
1937 Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist (Nobel Prize laureate)
1937 Barry Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager
1937 Nicolas Born, writer
1938 Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (world champ)
1938 Henricus G Wijmans, Dutch graphic artist
1938 Rosalind Cash, American actress (Omega Man, Wrong is Right) and singer (d. 1995)
1939 Afaq Hussain, Pakistani cricketer
1939 Willye White, American long jumper (Oly-silver-56, appeared in 5 Olympics)
1940 Mani Neumeier, German drummer and singer (Guru Guru)
1940 Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev, Russian cosmonaut
1941 Alex Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
1941 Milkha Singh, Indian cricketer
1941 Sarah Miles, English actress (Ryan's Hope, Big Sleep, Venom)
1941 Sean S. Cunningham, American director, screenwriter, and producer
1941 Sir Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager
1942 Andy Summers, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer (The Police, Zoot Money's Big Roll Band)
1943 Ben Kingsley, English actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice, Schindler's List)
1943 John Denver, American singer-songwriter (Rocky Mt High, Country Boy), guitarist (The John Denver Band, Chad Mitchell Trio), and actor (d. 1997)
1943 Pete Quaife, English bass player (The Kinks) (d. 2010)
1944 Neil Ross, English-American voice actor
1944 Taylor Hackford, American director (Devil's Advocate) and producer
1945 Barbara Carrera, Nicaraguan actress and model
1945 Claude D Marks, Argentina Argent, FALN member (FBI most wanted)
1945 Connie Willis, American author
1945 Diane von Fürstenberg, Belgian-American fashion designer
1945 Taylor Hackford, director (Idolmaker, Officer & a Gentleman)
1945 Vernon Wells, Actor (Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior)
1946 Barbara Carrera, Managua Nicaragua, actress (Angelica-Dallas)
1946 Pius Ncube, Zimbabwean Archbishop, human rights advocate
1947 Burton Cummings, Canadian keyboard player and songwriter (The Guess Who)
1947 Rita Lee, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actress (Os Mutantes)
1947 Tim Matheson, American actor (Animal House, Fletch, Up the Creek)
1948 Donna Summer, American singer-songwriter (Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio) (d. 2012)
1948 Joe Dallesandro American actor (Heat, Trash, AW Frankenstein)
1948 René Robert, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL
1948 Tony Hamilton, rocker (Aerosmith)
1948 Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasieyv, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-11, TM-18)
1949 Ellen Datlow, American anthologist and editor
1949 Seub Nakhasathien, Thai environmentalist (d. 1990)
1949 Susan Shwartz, American author
1950 Inge Helten, German sprinter (Olympic-bronze-1976)
1950 Robert Bryan Gilder, American PGA golfer (1980 Canadian Open)
1951 Fermin Goytisolo, Musician (KC & the Sunshine Band)
1951 Michael Allen Bantom, American basketball player (Olympic-silver-1972)
1951 Tom Hamilton, American bass player and songwriter (Aerosmith)
1952 Vaughan Jones, New Zealand mathematician
1953 James Remar, American actor (48 Hours, Rent-a-Cop, Cotton Club)
1953 Jane Badler, American actress (Fine Gold, Easy Kill, V)
1953 Michael Hedges, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1997)
1954 Alex Salmond, Scottish politician, 4th First Minister of Scotland
1954 Hermann Tilke, German race car driver, engineer, racing circuit architect
1955 Dawood Ibrahim, Indian crime boss
1956 Martin Joseph Fettman, American Astronaut (STS 58)
1956 Steve Rude, American writer and comic illustrator
1957 David Allen Ogrin, American PGA golfer (1994 Byron Nelson-2nd)
1958 Bebe Neuwirth, American actress (Lilith-Cheers, Jumanji)
1958 Geoff Marsh, Australian cricketer
1959 Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (d. 1981)
1959 Baron Waqa, Nauruan politician and musician
1959 Bebe Neuwirth, American actress (Lilith-Cheers, Damn Yankees)
1959 Liveris Andritsos, Greek basketball player
1959 Paul Westerberg, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Replacements)
1959 Phill Kline, American politician
1959 Ron Bennington, American radio host
1959 Val Kilmer, American actor (Top Secret, Top Gun, Willow, The Doors)
1960 Broderick Dyke, Australia, tennis star
1960 John Allen Muhammad, American murderer (d. 2009)
1960 Steve Bruce, English footballer
1961 Joanna Johnson, actress (Caroline-Bold & Beautiful)
1961 Nina Li, Chinese actress
1961 Rick Aguilera, American baseball player, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1962 Don Diamont, American actor (Brad-Young & Restless)
1962 Heather McCartney, American-English potter, activist
1962 Tyrone Corbin, American basketball player, NBA forward (Miami Heat, Atlanta Hawks)
1963 Ed Simmons, NFL tackle (Washington Redskins)
1963 Konishiki Yasokichi, American sumo wrestler
1963 Scott Ian, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Anthrax, Stormtroopers of Death, The Damned Things, Damnocracy)
1964 Denis Hickey, Australian cricketer
1964 Klari MacAskill, Hungarian kayaker (Olympics-5-92, 96)
1964 Liz Masakayan, American WPVA volley (Best of Beach-3rd-1994)
1964 Lowri Turner, British TV presenter
1964 Michael McDonald, American comedian (MADtv, actor (The Heat), and director
1964 Winston Benjamin, West Indian cricketer
1965 Julie Doucet, Canadian underground cartoonist
1965 Li Gong, Chinese actress (2046)
1965 Michelle Dobek, American golfer (1995 GHP Heartland Classic-45th)
1965 Nicholas Sparks, American author (The Notebook)
1965 Tony Dorigo, English footballer
1966 Lisa Joyner, American journalist
1966 Paula Barbieri, model, actress (Dangerous), girlfriend of OJ Simpson
1967 Brad Daluiso, NFL place kicker (NY Giants)
1968 Gerry Dee, Canadian comedian and actor
1968 Luciano Szafir, Brazilian actor
1969 Are Kalvø, Norwegian author
1969 Dominik Diamond, Scottish newspaper columnist, television and radio host
1969 Lance Reddick, American actor
1969 Martha Byrne, actress (Lily-As the World Turns)
1970 Bryon Russell, American basketball player, NBA forward (Utah Jazz)
1970 Carlos Morales Quintana, Spanish husband of Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark
1970 Chandra West, Actress (White Noise)
1970 Dan Howe, Canadian canoeist (Olympics-96)
1970 Danny McNamara, English singer-songwriter (Embrace)
1970 Dunstan Anderson, NFL defensive end (Dolphins, NO Saints, Rhein Fire)
1970 Edwin Huizinga, Dutch soccer player (SC Heerenveen, Emmen)
1970 Jorge Alberto da Costa Silva, Brazilian footballer
1970 Michel Brunet, Canadian ice dancer (1996 Canadians-2nd)
1970 Sven Kretschmer, German footballer
1971 Brent Barry, American basketball player, NBA guard (LA Clippers)
1971 Erin Warren, American luger (Olympics-1994)
1971 Esteban Loaiza, Mexican baseball player
1971 Heath Shuler, NFL quarterback (Washington Redskins, NO Saints)
1971 Ricardo López Felipe, Spanish footballer
1972 Chris Parker, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1972 Cole Ford, NFL kicker (Oakland Raiders)
1972 Joseph Mulrey McIntyre, American singer-songwriter (New Kids on the Block) and actor
1972 Kelvin Kinney, defensive end (Washington Redskins)
1973 Crystal Knight, American porn actress and model
1973 Curtis Myden, Canadian 200m & 400m swimmer (Oly-2 bronze-96)
1973 George Jones, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 Hiroyuki Miura, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1973 Malcolm Middleton, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Arab Strap)
1973 Shandon Anderson, American basketball player
1974 Mario Aerts, Belgian cyclist
1974 Ryan Sakoda, Japanese American professional wrestler
1974 Tony Kanaan, Brazilian race car driver
1975 Cole Ford, kicker (Oakland Raiders)
1975 Rami Alanko, Finnish ice hockey player
1975 Rob Penders, Dutch footballer
1975 Sander Schutgens, Dutch runner
1975 Toni Kuivasto, Finnish footballer
1976 Craig Reucassel, Australian comedian, member of The Chaser
1976 Luis Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (d. 2012)
1976 Steve Byers, Actor (Immortals)
1977 Donald Trump Jr., American businessman, son of Donald and Ivana Trump
1977 Ildiko Kecan, Hungarian Model, Miss Hungary Universe (1997)
1977 PSY, South Korean singer-songwriter (Gangam Style), producer, and dancer
1977 Wardy Alfaro, Costa Rican footballer
1978 Papoose, American rapper
1979 Bob Bryar, American drummer (My Chemical Romance, Gerardolopoly)
1979 Elaine Cassidy, Irish actress (The Others)
1979 Paul O'Neill, English race car driver
1980 Carsten Schlangen, German runner
1980 Jesse Carlson, American baseball player
1980 M-Dogg 20, American wrestler
1980 Matt Cross, American professional wrestler
1980 Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby union player
1981 Jason Campbell, American football player
1981 Matthew Pavlich, Australian rules footballer
1982 Craig Gordon, Scottish footballer
1982 Julio DePaula, Dominican baseball player
1982 Luke Schenscher, Australian basketball player
1982 The Rocket Summer, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer
1983 Mariana Renata, French-Indonesian actress
1984 Brittany Beede, American wrestler and model
1984 Paul Rodriguez, American skateboarder and actor
1984 Édgar Lugo, Mexican footballer
1985 Jan Smit, Dutch singer
1985 Jonathan Horton, American gymnast
1986 Bronson Pelletier, Canadian actor
1987 Danny Holla, Dutch footballer
1987 Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player
1987 Émilie Le Pennec, French gymnast
1988 Jada Stevens, Adult film Actress
1989 Roisin Kelly, Actress (Children of the Mist: The Lost Tribe)
1990 Patrick Chan, Canadian figure skater
1991 Bojana Jovanovski, Serbian tennis player
1991 Camila Giorgi, Italian tennis player
1992 Caroline Kovac, Actress (Silent Night)
1992 Lauren Mandel, Actress (Sweet Jesus)
1993 Sandra Itzel, Actress (El Color de la Esperanza)
1994 Fynn McKay, Actor (Crashing the Wake)
1995 Gabby Douglas, American gymnast
1997 Samantha Sadoff, Actress (Monsters University)
1999 Emman Buquid, Chef (Junior MasterChef: Pinoy Edition)
2000 Makoa Dacascos, Actor (Final Approach)
2005 Lakshmi Tatma, Indian deformed girl
Died on December 31st
192 Lucius AA Commodus, Emperor of Rome (180-192) (b. 161)
335 Silvester I, Catholic Pope & Saint
406 Godagisel, King of the Vandals, dies in battle
439 Melania the Younger, Roman monastery founder, saint
1164 Margrave Ottokar III of Styria (b. 1124)
1194 Leopold V, Duke of Austria, killed at a tournament (b. 1157)
1297 Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1249)
1302 Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1238)
1382 Daigaku, Zen teacher, 46th head of Engakuji
1384 John Wycliffe, English theologian, religious reformer, bible translator (b. c. 1328)
1424 Thomas Beaufort, First Duke of Exeter, English military leader (b. 1377)
1460 Edmund, Earl of Rutland, brother of Kings Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, executed (b. 1443)
1460 Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician (b. 1400)
1510 Bianca Maria Sforza, Italian wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1472)
1535 William Skeffington, English politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465)
1568 Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1493)
1575 Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (b. 1502)
1583 Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (b. 1524)
1610 Ludolph van Ceulen, German-Dutch mathematician (b. 1540)
1616 Jacques Le Maire, pirate, explorer (Lemaire Strait)
1647 Giovanni Maria Trabaci, composer
1650 Dorgon, Chinese emperor (b. 1612)
1652 Frances Cecil, 2nd wife of English earl of Shaftesbury
1655 Janusz Radziwiłł, Polish–Lithuanian noble and magnate (b. 1612)
1673 Oliver St John, English politician and judge (b. 1598)
1679 Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608)
1691 Dudley North, English economist (b. 1641)
1691 Robert Boyle, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1627)
1705 Catherine of Braganza (b. 1638)
1719 John Flamsteed, English First Astronomer Royal (b. 1646)
1733 Hubert K Poot, Dutch poet (Akkerleven)
1742 Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661)
1775 Richard Montgomery, General in Continental Army during American Revolutionary War, dies in the battle of Quebec
1799 Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (b. 1723)
1802 Francis Lewis, Welsh-American merchant, signer (Declaration of Indedepndence)
1802 Hugo Franz Karl Alexander von Kerpen, composer
1809 Franz Ignaz Beck, composer
1818 Jean-Pierre Duport, composer
1848 Oliver Shaw, composer
1859 Luigi Ricci, composer
1862 James Edward Rains, American lawyer, Confederate brig-gen, dies in the Battle of Stone's River
1862 Joshua Woodrow Sill, American Union brig-general, dies in Battle of Stone's River
1872 Aleksis Kivi (Stenvall), Finnish author, poet (Kanervala) (b. 1834)
1876 Catherine Labouré, French saint (b. 1806)
1877 Alberto Mazzucato, composer
1877 JD Gustave Courbet, French painter (Baigneuses) (b. 1819)
1882 Leon Michel Gambetta, French attorney, premier (1881-82)
1888 Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (b. 1808)
1889 Ion Creangă, Romanian author (fairy tales) and educator (b.1837)
1890 Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (b. 1826)
1891 Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Nigerian bishop (b. 1809)
1893 Jacob G de Scheffer, Dutch vicar, theologist
1894 Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician (Stieltjes-integral) (b. 1856)
1896 Leland Hone, English cricketer
1907 Jules de Trooz, Belgium Prime Minister
1909 Spencer Trask, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1844)
1910 Archibald Hoxsey, American aviator (b. 1884)
1910 John Moisant, American aviator (b. 1868)
1916 Ernst Rudorff, composer
1920 Albert Roelofs, Dutch painter, etcher
1921 Boies Penrose, American lawyer and U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (b. 1860)
1936 Miguel de Unamuno Jugo, Spanish author, poet (Cancionero), and philosopher (b. 1864)
1936 William FA Ellison, Irish clergyman, astronomer
1938 Richard N Roland Holst, Dutch artist, painter
1941 Sigwart Aspestrand, composer
1945 Donald Douglas II
1946 Frits (Frederik H) Tartaud, Dutch actor
1947 Franz X Ritter von Epp, German General (SW Africa)
1948 Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver (b. 1885)
1950 Charles Koechlin, French composer (Jungle Book, dies at 83
1950 Karl Renner, Austrian Chancellor, President (1918-20, 45-50)
1951 Maxim M Litvinov, (Meyer H Wallach), Russian diplomat
1951 Philipp A Kohnstamm, Dutch philosopher, physicist
1953 Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer, founder (KLM) (b. 1889)
1954 Peter Van Anrooy, conductor, composer (Piet Hein Rhapsodie)
1958 Gustav Hermann Unger, composer
1960 Germaine Loosveldt, Flemish actress (Trees die Upright)
1960 Semyon Semyonovich Bogatiryov, composer
1964 Bobby Byrne, American baseball player (b. 1884)
1964 Henry Maitland Wilson, First Baron Wilson, English field marshal (b. 1881)
1964 Ólafur Thors, Icelandic politician, 8th Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1892)
1966 Chief Nipo Strongheart, Native American actor (Pony Soldier)
1966 Pieter C A Geyl, historian (History of Dutch Race)
1967 Arthur Mailey, Australian cricketer
1968 Carl Oscar Ahues, German International Chess Master (1950)
1968 George Louis Francis Lewis, American clarinet player, composer (b. 1900)
1968 Sabin V Dragoi, composer
1969 Salvatore Baccaloni, opera singer, actor (Full of Life)
1970 Cyril M Scott, English composer, author (Alchemist)
1971 Marin Sais, American actress (b. 1890)
1971 Peter Deuel, American actor (Gidget, Love on a Rooftop), commits suicide (b. 1940)
1971 Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (b. 1919)
1972 Henry Gerber, German-American activist, founder (Society for Human Rights) (b. 1892)
1972 Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player (Pittsburg Pirates), dies in a plane crash (b. 1934)
1975 Donal Michalsky, composer
1977 Nora Marlowe, actress (Sara-Gov & JJ)
1977 Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, ruler of Kuwait (b. 1924)
1980 Arthur Wellard, English cricketer
1980 Marshall McLuhan, Canadian cultural philosopher (b. 1911)
1980 Raoul Walsh, American director (High Sierra) (b. 1887)
1981 Frantisek Chaun, composer
1983 Bill Hunt, Australian cricketer
1983 Frank Link, actor (Burns & Schreiber Comedy Show)
1985 Alexander Matheson, New Zealand cricketer
1985 Ricky Nelson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet) (b. 1940)
1985 Sam Spiegel, Academy Award winning producer (Betrayal)
1986 Lester Albert Trimble, composer
1986 Lloyd Haynes, actor (Pete Dixon-Room 222)
1986 Raj Narain, Indian politician (b. 1917)
1987 Jerry Turner, American journalist (b. 1929)
1987 (Gordon) Randall (P D) Garrett, author (Lord Darcy)
1988 Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic (b. 1907)
1990 Dalton Cathey
1990 George Allen, American NFL football coach (LA Rams, Wash Redskins) (b. 1918)
1990 Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect (Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station) (b. 1891)
1990 Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 12, 18A) (b. 1928)
1993 Arthur Dreifuss, director, producer (Murder in Amsterdam)
1993 Brandon Teena, American Transsexual murder victim (b. 1972)
1993 Lambert Fokkema, founder Dutch Export Combination
1993 Thomas J Watson Jr, president of IBM (1956-71), diplomat
1993 Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian politician, First President of Georgia (1991-1993), suicide (b. 1939)
1994 BAM "Bob" Schreiner, airline owner (S Aviation Group)
1994 Harri Webb, poet
1994 Leigh Bowery, Australian-English singer, actor, designer (b. 1961)
1994 Leo Fuchs, Polish-American Yiddish actor (Story of Ruth)
1994 Thomas J Watson Jr, CEO (IBM)
1994 Woodrow "Woody" Strode, American rugby player, decathlete, actor (Oil, Posse, Cotton Club, Vigilante) (b. 1914)
1995 Calvin & Hobbes, (comic strip)
1995 John Powell, campaigner
1996 Ann Susan Hills, freelance journalist
1996 David Sinclair, actor (Love & Hate)
1996 Frederico Davia, opera singer
1996 Michael Roberts, historian
1996 Phillip Edmund Clinton Manson-Bahr, tropical mediciner
1997 Billie Dove, American actress (b. 1903)
1997 Dominique de Menil, arts patron, human rights advocate
1997 Floyd Cramer, American pianist (Nashville Sound) (b. 1933)
1997 Lillian Billie Dove Bohney, actress
1997 Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, American son of Robert F. Kennedy, dies in ski accident (b. 1958)
1999 Elliot Richardson, American lawyer and politician, 69th United States Attorney General (b. 1920)
2000 Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (b. 1914)
2000 Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1966)
2000 José Greco, Italian-American flamenco dancer and choreographer (b. 1918)
2001 Eileen Heckart, American actress (b. 1919)
2002 Kevin MacMichael, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Cutting Crew) (b. 1951)
2003 Arthur R. von Hippel German-American physicist (b. 1898)
2004 Gérard Debreu, French economist and mathematician (Nobel Prize laureate) (b. 1921)
2005 Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor (b. 1932)
2005 Phillip Whitehead, British politician (b. 1937)
2006 George Sisler Jr., American baseball executive (b. 1917)
2006 Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist (b. 1922)
2007 Bill Idelson, American actor, screenwriter, and producer (b. 1919)
2007 Ettore Sottsass, Austrian-Italian architect and designer (b. 1917)
2007 Kathryn Ish, American actress (b. 1936)
2007 Markku Peltola, Finnish actor and singer (b. 1956)
2007 Michael Goldberg, American painter (b. 1924)
2007 Milton L. Klein, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1910)
2007 Tommy Dickson, Irish footballer (b. 1929)
2007 Tony Elliott, American football player (b. 1959)
2008 Donald E. Westlake, American author (b. 1933)
2009 Cahal Daly, Irish cardinal and philosopher(b. 1917)
2009 Justin Keating, Irish journalist and politician (b. 1930)
2010 Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (b. 1927)
2010 Raymond Impanis, Belgian cyclist (b. 1925)
2011 Omus Hirshbein, classical music impresario and music director
2012 Alasdair Liddell, English businessman (b. 1949)
2012 Annapurna Maharana, Indian activist (b. 1917)
2012 Béla Csécsei, Hungarian educator and politician (b. 1952)
2012 Günter Rössler, German photographer and journalist (b. 1926)
2012 James B. Reuter, American-Filipino priest and journalist (b. 1916)
2012 Jean-Henri Roger, French director, screenwriter, and actor (b. 1949)
2012 Konstantin Kobets, Russian general (b. 1939)
2012 Larry Bowie, American football player (b. 1939)
2012 Peter Ebert, German director (b. 1918)
2012 Susana Dalmás, Uruguayan politician (b. 1948)
2012 Tarak Mekki, Tunisian businessman and politician (b. 1958)
2013 James Avery, American actor
2015 Wayne Rogers, American actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls)
2015 Natalie Cole, American vocalist (Pink Cadillac, Miss You Like Crazy)
2015 Beth Howland, American actress (Vera - Alice, Company)