December 30
Day of the year
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December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; one day remains until the end of the year.
| December 30 in recent years |
| 2025 (Tuesday) |
| 2024 (Monday) |
| 2023 (Saturday) |
| 2022 (Friday) |
| 2021 (Thursday) |
| 2020 (Wednesday) |
| 2019 (Monday) |
| 2018 (Sunday) |
| 2017 (Saturday) |
| 2016 (Friday) |
Events
Pre-1600
- 534 â The second and final edition of the Code of Justinian comes into effect in the Byzantine Empire.[1]
- 999 â Battle of Glenmama: The combined forces of Munster and Meath under king Brian Boru inflict a crushing defeat on the allied armies of Leinster and Dublin near Lyons Hill in Ireland.
- 1066 â Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.
- 1419 â Hundred Years' War: Battle of La Rochelle.
- 1460 â Wars of the Roses: Lancastrians kill the 3rd Duke of York and win the Battle of Wakefield.
1601â1900
- 1641 â Reapers' War: Louis XIII of France swears the Catalan constitutions, being appointed Count of Barcelona and thus establishing the personal union of the Principality of Catalonia with the Kingdom of France.[2]
- 1702 â Queen Anne's War: James Moore, Governor of the Province of Carolina, abandons the Siege of St. Augustine.
- 1813 â War of 1812: British soldiers burn Buffalo, New York.
- 1816 â The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the united Ottawa, Ojibwa, and Potawatomi Indian tribes is proclaimed.
- 1825 â The Treaty of St. Louis between the United States and the Shawnee Nation is proclaimed.
- 1853 â Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.
- 1890 â Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.[3]
- 1896 â Filipino patriot and reform advocate José Rizal is executed by a Spanish firing squad in Manila.
- 1896 â Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6â5.
- 1897 â The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
1901âpresent
- 1902 â The Discovery Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott attains a Farthest South at 82°17â²S in Antarctica.[4]
- 1903 â A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills at least 605.
- 1905 â Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell.
- 1906 â The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).
- 1916 â Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin is murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Petrograd river three days later.
- 1916 â The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.
- 1922 â The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is formed.
- 1927 â The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
- 1935 â The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
- 1936 â The Flint sit-down strike hits General Motors.
- 1943 â Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
- 1944 â King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant.
- 1947 â Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
- 1952 â An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashes in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground.[5]
- 1954 â The Finnish National Bureau of Investigation is established to consolidate criminal investigation and intelligence into a single agency.[6]
- 1958 â The Guatemalan Air Force sinks several Mexican fishing boats alleged to have breached maritime borders, killing three and sparking international tension.
- 1967 â Aeroflot Flight L-51 crashes near LiepÄja International Airport in LiepÄja, Latvia, killing 43.[7]
- 1970 â Hurricane Creek mine disaster, near Hyden, Kentucky[8]
- 1972 â Vietnam War: Operation Linebacker II ends.
- 1987 â Stella Sigcau, Prime minister of the South African Bantustan of Transkei, is ousted from power in a bloodless military coup led by General Bantu Holomisa.[9]
- 1993 â Israel establishes diplomatic relations with Vatican City and also upgrades to full diplomatic relations with Ireland.
- 1996 â Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
- 1997 â In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.
- 2000 â Rizal Day bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.
- 2004 â A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina, kills 194.
- 2005 â Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.
- 2006 â MadridâBarajas Airport is bombed.
- 2006 â The Indonesian passenger ferry MV Senopati Nusantara sinks in a storm, resulting in at least 400 deaths.
- 2006 â Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is executed.
- 2009 â A segment of the LanzhouâZhengzhouâChangsha pipeline ruptures in Shaanxi, China, and approximately 150,000 L (40,000 US gal) of diesel oil flows down the Wei River before finally reaching the Yellow River.
- 2009 â A suicide bomber kills nine people at Forward Operating Base Chapman, a key facility of the Central Intelligence Agency in Afghanistan.
- 2013 â More than 100 people are killed when anti-government forces attack key buildings in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 2020 â A large explosion at the airport in the southern Yemeni city of Aden kills at least 22 people and wounds 50.[10]
Births
Preâ1600
- AD 39 â Titus, Roman emperor (probable)[11] (died 81)
- 159 â Empress Dowager Bian, second wife of Cao Cao, mother of Cao Wei's first emperor, Cao Pi (died 230)
- 1204 â Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (died 1282)
- 1371 â Vasily I of Moscow (died 1425)
- 1490 â Ebussuud Efendi, Ottoman lawyer and jurist (died 1574)
- 1548 â David Pareus, German theologian (died 1622)
- 1578 â Ulrik of Denmark, Danish prince-bishop (died 1624)
1601â1900
- 1642 â Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (died 1707)
- 1673 â Ahmed III, Ottoman sultan (died 1736)
- 1678 â William Croft, English organist and composer (died 1727)
- 1722 â Charles Yorke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (died 1770)
- 1724 â Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter and educator (died 1805)
- 1757 â Sebastián Kindelán y O'Regan, colonial governor of East Florida, Santo Domingo and Cuba (died 1826)[12]
- 1760 â Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French general (died 1829)
- 1792 â Sylvester Jordan, German lawyer and politician (died 1861)
- 1819 â Theodor Fontane, German author and poet (died 1898)
- 1819 â John W. Geary, American lawyer and politician, 16th Governor of Pennsylvania (died 1873)
- 1825 â Samuel Newitt Wood, American lawyer and politician (died 1891)
- 1842 â Osman Hamdi Bey, Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and painter (died 1910)
- 1849 â John Milne, English seismologist and geologist (died 1913)
- 1851 â Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (died 1929)[13]
- 1853 â André Messager, French pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1929)[14]
- 1857 â Sylvio Lazzari, French-Austrian composer (died 1944)[15]
- 1865 â Rudyard Kipling, Indian-English author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1936)[16]
- 1869 â Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (died 1944)
- 1869 â Åzutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (died 1918)
- 1873 â Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York (died 1944)
- 1878 â William Aberhart, Canadian evangelist and politician, seventh Premier of Alberta (died 1943)
- 1879 â Ramana Maharshi, Indian guru and philosopher (died 1950)
- 1883 â Archer Baldwin, American-English farmer and politician (died 1966)
- 1883 â Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 1960)
- 1884 â Hideki TÅjÅ, Japanese general and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1948)
- 1886 â Austin Osman Spare, English artist and occultist (died 1956)[17]
- 1887 â William Kolehmainen, Finnish-American runner and coach (died 1967)
- 1887 â K. M. Munshi, Indian politician, writer and educationist, founder of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan (died 1971)[18]
- 1890 â Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Mexican soldier and politician, 47th President of Mexico (died 1973)[19]
- 1897 â Alfredo Bracchi, Italian songwriter and screenwriter (died 1976)
- 1899 â Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer, lawyer, and politician, 2nd Governor of Svalbard (died 2001)
1901âpresent
- 1904 â Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian composer and academic (died 1987)
- 1905 â Daniil Kharms, Russian poet, author, and playwright (died 1942)
- 1906 â Alziro Bergonzo, Italian architect and painter (died 1997)
- 1906 â Carol Reed, English director and producer (died 1976)
- 1910 â Paul Bowles, American composer and author (died 1999)
- 1911 â Jeanette Nolan, American actress (died 1998)
- 1913 â Lucio Agostini, Italian-Canadian conductor and composer (died 1996)
- 1913 â Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (died 2002)
- 1914 â Bert Parks, American actor, singer, television personality, and beauty pageant host (died 1992)
- 1917 â Seymour Melman, American engineer and author (died 2004)
- 1919 â Dick Spooner, English cricketer (died 1997)
- 1919 â David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor (died 2015)
- 1921 â Rashid Karami, Lebanese lawyer and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Lebanon (died 1987)
- 1922 â Jane Langton, American author and illustrator (died 2018)
- 1923 â Prakash Vir Shastri, Indian academic and politician (died 1977)
- 1924 â Yvonne Brill, Canadian-American propulsion engineer (died 2013)
- 1925 â Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, producer, and director (died 2002)[20]
- 1926 â Stan Tracey, English pianist and composer (died 2013)
- 1927 â Jan KubÃÄek, Czech painter and sculptor (died 2013)
- 1928 â Bo Diddley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2008)[21]
- 1929 â Rosalinde Hurley, English physician, microbiologist, and academic (died 2004)
- 1930 â Roy Yorke Calne, English surgeon and academic (died 2024)
- 1930 â Elmira Minita Gordon, Belizean educator, 1st Governor-General of Belize[22] (died 2021)
- 1930 â Red Rhodes, American pedal steel guitarist (died 1995)
- 1930 â Tu Youyou, Chinese chemist and pharmacist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1931 â Skeeter Davis, American singer-songwriter (died 2004)
- 1931 â John T. Houghton, Welsh physicist and author (died 2020)
- 1931 â Frank Torre, American baseball player and manager (died 2014)
- 1933 â Timité Bassori, Ivorian filmmaker, actor, and writer[23]
- 1934 â John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and astronomer, co-developed the Hubble Space Telescope (died 2005)[24]
- 1934 â Joseph Bologna, American actor, director, playwright and screenwriter (died 2017)[25]
- 1934 â Barry Briggs, New Zealand motorcycle racer and sportscaster[26]
- 1934 â Joseph P. Hoar, American general (died 2022)[27]
- 1934 â Tony Serra, American criminal defense and civil rights attorney, political activist and tax resister[28]
- 1934 â Del Shannon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1990)[29]
- 1934 â Russ Tamblyn, American actor[30]
- 1935 â Omar Bongo, Gabonese lieutenant and politician, President of Gabon (died 2009)
- 1935 â Sandy Koufax, American baseball player and sportscaster[31]
- 1935 â Jack Riley, American actor (died 2016)
- 1937 â Gordon Banks, English footballer and manager (died 2019)
- 1937 â John Hartford, American singer-songwriter and fiddler (died 2001)
- 1937 â Jim Marshall, American football player (died 2025)[32]
- 1937 â Paul Stookey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[33]
- 1938 â Ron Wolf, American Football Hall of Fame General Manager
- 1939 â Glenda Adams, Australian author and academic (died 2007)
- 1939 â Felix Pappalardi, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (died 1983)
- 1940 â James Burrows, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter[33]
- 1941 â Mel Renfro, American football player and coach
- 1942 â Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and activist (died 2019)
- 1942 â Guy Edwards, English race car driver
- 1942 â Michael Nesmith, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (died 2021)[21]
- 1942 â Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian, academic, and politician
- 1942 â Robert Quine, American guitarist (died 2004)
- 1942 â Toomas Savi, Estonian physician and politician
- 1942 â Fred Ward, American actor (died 2022)
- 1944 â William J. Fallon, American admiral
- 1944 â Joseph Hilbe, American mathematician and philosopher (died 2017)
- 1945 â Davy Jones, English singer-songwriter and actor (died 2012)[21]
- 1945 â Lloyd Kaufman, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Troma Entertainment
- 1945 â Paola Pigni, Italian runner (died 2021)
- 1945 â Concetta Tomei, American actress[33]
- 1946 â Clive Bunker, English drummer and songwriter
- 1946 â Patti Smith, American singer-songwriter and poet[33]
- 1946 â Berti Vogts, German footballer and coach
- 1947 â James Kahn, American author, screenwriter, and producer
- 1947 â Jeff Lynne, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer[33]
- 1947 â Steve Mix, American basketball player and coach
- 1948 â Jed Johnson, American interior designer and director (died 1996)
- 1949 â David Bedford, English runner
- 1949 â Jerry Coyne, American biologist and author[34][35]
- 1949 â Jim Flaherty, Canadian lawyer and politician, 37th Canadian Minister of Finance (died 2014)
- 1950 â Timothy Mo, Chinese-English author
- 1950 â Lewis Shiner, American journalist and author
- 1950 â Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist, created the C++ programming language
- 1950 â Martti Vainio, Finnish runner
- 1951 â Doug Allder, English footballer and coach
- 1951 â Chris Jasper, American musician, singer-songwriter, and producer (died 2025)[36]
- 1951 â Nick Rose, English runner
- 1952 â June Anderson, American soprano and actress
- 1953 â Daniel T. Barry, American engineer and astronaut
- 1953 â Dana Key, American singer, guitarist, and producer (died 2010)
- 1953 â Graham Vick, English director and producer (died 2021)
- 1953 â Meredith Vieira, American journalist and game show host[33]
- 1954 â Barry Greenstein, American poker player and philanthropist
- 1956 â Ingus BauÅ¡Ä·enieks, Latvian singer-songwriter and producer
- 1956 â Suzy Bogguss, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist[33]
- 1956 â Patricia Kalember, American actress[33]
- 1956 â Sheryl Lee Ralph, American actress and singer
- 1957 â Matt Lauer, American journalist and television host[33]
- 1957 â Glenn Robbins, Australian comedian and actor[37]
- 1958 â Pedro Costa, Portuguese director, screenwriter, and cinematographer
- 1958 â Steven Smith, American engineer and astronaut
- 1959 â Antonio Pappano, English pianist and conductor
- 1959 â KÃ¥re Thomsen, Norwegian guitarist and graphic designer
- 1959 â Tracey Ullman, English-American actress, singer, director, and screenwriter[33]
- 1959 â Josée Verner, Canadian politician, 8th Canadian Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
- 1960 â Richard M. Durbin, English biologist and academic
- 1961 â Douglas Coupland, German-Canadian author and playwright
- 1961 â Bill English, New Zealand farmer and politician, 39th Prime Minister of New Zealand
- 1961 â Sean Hannity, American radio and television host[33]
- 1961 â Ben Johnson, Jamaican-Canadian sprinter
- 1961 â Charlie Nicholas, Scottish footballer and sportscaster
- 1963 â Chandler Burr, American journalist and author
- 1963 â Mike Pompeo, American diplomat and politician; 70th United States Secretary of State
- 1963 â Johnny Rogers, American-Spanish basketball player[38]
- 1963 â Milan Å rejber, Czech tennis player[39]
- 1964 â Almir Kayumov, Russian footballer and referee (died 2013)
- 1964 â Sylvie Moreau, Canadian actress and screenwriter
- 1964 â George Newbern, American actor[33]
- 1965 â Heidi Fleiss, American procurer
- 1966 â Gary Chartier, American philosopher, scholar, and academic
- 1966 â Bennett Miller, American director and producer
- 1967 â Carl Ouellet, Canadian wrestler and sportscaster
- 1968 â Bryan Burk, American screenwriter and producer
- 1968 â Adam Dale, Australian cricketer
- 1968 â Sandra Glover, American hurdler
- 1968 â Albano Mucci, Australian activist
- 1969 â Emmanuel Clérico, French race car driver
- 1969 â Dave England, American snowboarder and stuntman
- 1969 â Jay Kay, English singer and songwriter[40]
- 1969 â Kersti Kaljulaid, President of Estonia
- 1969 â Michelle McGann, American golfer
- 1969 â Meredith Monroe, American actress[33]
- 1971 â Sister Bliss, English keyboard player, songwriter, and producer
- 1971 â C. S. Lee, Korean-American actor
- 1971 â Ricardo, Spanish footballer and manager
- 1971 â Daniel Sunjata, American actor[33]
- 1972 â Daniel Amokachi, Nigerian footballer and manager
- 1972 â Maureen Flannigan, American actress and producer[33]
- 1972 â Paul Keegan, Irish footballer
- 1972 â Dita Indah Sari, Indonesian trade union leader and activist
- 1973 â Jason Behr, American actor[33]
- 1973 â Ato Boldon, Trinidadian runner, sportscaster, and politician
- 1974 â Alexandro Alves do Nascimento, Brazilian footballer (died 2012)
- 1974 â Dr. Jitheshji, Indian Speed Cartoonist and Pictorial Orator[41]
- 1975 â Scott Chipperfield, Australian footballer
- 1975 â Tiger Woods, American golfer[42]
- 1976 â Kastro, American rapper
- 1976 â Patrick Kerney, American football player
- 1976 â A. J. Pierzynski, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1977 â Laila Ali, American boxer and actress
- 1977 â Glory Alozie, Nigerian-Spanish sprinter and hurdler
- 1977 â Grant Balfour, Australian baseball player
- 1977 â SaÅ¡a IliÄ, Serbian footballer and manager
- 1977 â Kenyon Martin, American basketball player
- 1977 â Lucy Punch, English actress[33]
- 1977 â Kazuyuki Toda, Japanese footballer
- 1978 â Devin Brown, American basketball player
- 1978 â Tyrese Gibson, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor[33]
- 1978 â Phillips Idowu, English triple jumper
- 1978 â Zbigniew Robert PromiÅski, Polish drummer
- 1978 â Rob Scuderi, American ice hockey player
- 1979 â Michael Grimm, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1980 â Eliza Dushku, American former actress and producer[33]
- 1980 â D. J. Mbenga, Congolese-Belgian basketball player
- 1980 â Alison McGovern, British politician
- 1981 â Ali Al-Habsi, Omani footballer
- 1981 â Cédric Carrasso, French footballer
- 1981 â Michael RodrÃguez, Costa Rican footballer
- 1981 â Matt Ulrich, American football player
- 1982 â Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress[33]
- 1982 â Tobias Kurbjuweit, German footballer
- 1982 â Dawan Landry, American football player
- 1983 â Eddie Edwards, American professional wrestler
- 1983 â Nick Symmonds, American runner
- 1983 â Kevin Systrom, American computer programmer and businessman, co-founded Instagram
- 1984 â Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer
- 1984 â Andra Day, American singer and songwriter[43]
- 1984 â LeBron James, American basketball player, producer and businessman[44]
- 1985 â Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist
- 1985 â Bryson Goodwin, Australian rugby league player
- 1985 â Anna Wood, American actress[33]
- 1986 â Domenico Criscito, Italian footballer
- 1986 â Ellie Goulding, English singer-songwriter and producer[33]
- 1986 â Caity Lotz, American actress[33]
- 1986 â Jeff Ward, American actor[33]
- 1986 â Gianni Zuiverloon, Dutch footballer
- 1987 â Jakub Nakládal, Czech ice hockey player[45]
- 1989 â Tyler Anderson, American baseball player[46]
- 1989 â Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder and entrepreneur
- 1989 â KateÅina VaÅková, Czech tennis player[47]
- 1990 â Bruno Henrique, Brazilian footballer
- 1990 â Joe Root, English cricketer
- 1990 â C. J. Wilcox, American basketball player[48]
- 1991 â Camila Giorgi, Italian tennis player[49]
- 1992 â Ryan Tunnicliffe, English footballer
- 1992 â Carson Wentz, American football player
- 1995 â Igor Shesterkin, Russian hockey goaltender[50]
- 1995 â Joshua, American singer[51]
- 1995 â Ollie Watkins, English footballer[52]
- 1995 â V, South Korean singer[53]
Deaths
Pre-1600
- 274 â Pope Felix I[54]
- 717 â Egwin of Evesham, bishop of Worcester
- 903 â Tian Jun, Chinese warlord (born 858)
- 925 â Wang Shenzhi, founder of Min (born 862)
- 1115 â Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine
- 1331 â Bernard Gui, inquisitor (born 1261 or 1262)
- 1435 â Bonne of Berry, Regent of Savoy (born 1362)
- 1436 â Louis III, Elector Palatine (born 1378)
- 1460 â Edmund, Earl of Rutland, Irish politician, Lord Chancellor of Ireland (born 1443)
- 1460 â Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York (born 1411)
- 1525 â Jakob Fugger, German banker and businessman (born 1459)
- 1572 â Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect, designed the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli (born 1512)
- 1573 â Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian author and poet (born 1504)
- 1591 â Pope Innocent IX (born 1519)[55]
1601â1900
- 1606 â Heinrich Bünting, German priest and cartographer (born 1545)[56]
- 1621 â Job of Manyava, Ukrainian monk and saint (born 1550)
- 1640 â John Francis Regis, French priest and saint (born 1597)
- 1643 â Giovanni Baglione, Italian painter and historian of art (born 1566)
- 1644 â Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician (born 1577)
- 1662 â Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (born 1628)
- 1769 â Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Irish-Austrian soldier and courtier (born 1685)
- 1777 â Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (born 1727)
- 1788 â Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian painter and academic (born 1702)
- 1803 â Francis Lewis, Welsh-American merchant and politician (born 1713)
- 1879 â Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre, Baron of Santo Ãngelo, Brazilian poet and painter (born 1806)
- 1885 â Martha Darley Mutrie, British painter (born 1824)[57]
- 1896 â José Rizal, Filipino ophthalmologist, journalist, and author (born 1861)
1901âpresent
- 1906 â Josephine Butler, English feminist and social reformer (born 1828)
- 1908 â Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (born 1844)
- 1916 â Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (born 1869)
- 1928 â Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (born 1874)
- 1937 â Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (born 1852)
- 1940 â Childe Wills, American engineer (born 1878)
- 1941 â El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (born 1890)
- 1944 â Romain Rolland, French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1866)
- 1945 â Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (born 1889)
- 1947 â Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter (born 1889)
- 1947 â Alfred North Whitehead, English-American mathematician and philosopher (born 1861)
- 1954 â Archduke Eugen of Austria (born 1863)
- 1955 â Rex Ingamells, Australian poet and author (born 1913)
- 1967 â Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (born 1887)
- 1968 â Trygve Lie, Norwegian journalist and politician, first Secretary-General of the United Nations (born 1896)
- 1970 â Sonny Liston, American boxer (born 1932)
- 1971 â Jo Cals, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1914)
- 1971 â Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (born 1919)
- 1979 â Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer (born 1902)[58]
- 1982 â Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (born 1896)
- 1983 â Violette Cordery, English race car driver (born 1900)
- 1986 â Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (born 1905)
- 1988 â Yuli Daniel, Russian author and poet (born 1925)
- 1988 â Isamu Noguchi, American sculptor and landscaper (born 1904)
- 1990 â Raghuvir Sahay, Indian author, poet, and critic (born 1929)
- 1992 â Romeo Muller, American actor, screenwriter, for screenplays like the 1964, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (TV special) (born 1928)[59]
- 1993 â Ä°hsan Sabri ÃaÄlayangil, Turkish lawyer and politician, 20th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1908)
- 1993 â Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American talent agent (born 1907)
- 1993 â Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic (born 1907)
- 1994 â Dmitri Ivanenko, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (born 1904)
- 1995 â Ralph Flanagan, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1914)
- 1995 â Doris Grau, American voice actor and script supervisor (born 1924)
- 1996 â Lew Ayres, American actor (born 1908)
- 1997 â Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese author and illustrator (born 1926)
- 1998 â Sam Muchnick, American wrestling promoter, co-founded the National Wrestling Alliance (born 1905)
- 1999 â Joff Ellen, Australian comedian and actor (born 1915)
- 1999 â Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, co-designed the Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge and Fernsehturm Stuttgart (born 1909)
- 1999 â Des Renford, Australian swimmer (born 1927)
- 1999 â Sarah Knauss, American supercentenarian (born 1880)
- 2000 â Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter and producer (born 1909)
- 2002 â Mary Brian, American actress (born 1906)
- 2002 â Eleanor J. Gibson, American psychologist and academic (born 1910)
- 2002 â Mary Wesley, English author (born 1912)
- 2003 â John Gregory Dunne, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (born 1932)
- 2004 â Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (born 1910)
- 2005 â Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer and coach (born 1940)
- 2005 â Rona Jaffe, American novelist (born 1932)
- 2006 â Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, fifth President of Iraq (born 1937)
- 2006 â Terry Peck, Falkland Islander police officer and spy (born 1938)
- 2006 â Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1948)
- 2009 â Rowland S. Howard, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1959)
- 2009 â Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian journalist and politician, fourth President of Indonesia (born 1940)
- 2010 â Bobby Farrell, Dutch dancer and performer from Aruba (born 1949)
- 2011 â Ronald Searle, English-French cartoonist (born 1920)
- 2012 â Philip Coppens, Belgian-American journalist and author (born 1971)
- 2012 â Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (born 1923)
- 2012 â Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1909)
- 2012 â Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (born 1928)
- 2012 â Dennis Ferguson, Australian sex offender (born 1948)
- 2013 â Kinnaird R. McKee, American admiral (born 1929)
- 2013 â José MarÃa Maguregui, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1934)
- 2013 â Eiichi Ohtaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (born 1948)
- 2013 â Johnny Orr, American basketball player and coach (born 1927)
- 2013 â Paul Sally, American mathematician and academic (born 1933)
- 2014 â Terry Becker, American actor, director, and producer (born 1921)
- 2014 â Jim Galloway, Scottish-Canadian clarinet player and saxophonist (born 1936)
- 2014 â Luise Rainer, German-born American-British actress (born 1910)
- 2015 â Doug Atkins, American football player (born 1930)
- 2015 â Howard Davis, Jr., American boxer and trainer (born 1956)
- 2015 â Mangesh Padgaonkar, Indian poet, playwright, and translator (born 1929)
- 2015 â Howard Pawley, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Premier of Manitoba (born 1934)
- 2017 â Erica Garner, American civil rights activist (born 1990)[60]
- 2020 â Dawn Wells, American actress, (born 1938)[61]
- 2022 â Barbara Walters, American journalist, producer, and author (born 1929)[62]
- 2023 â Bryan Ansell, British role-playing and wargame designer (born 1955)[63]
- 2023 â Tom Wilkinson, English actor (born 1948)[64]
- 2023 â Aki Yashiro, Japanese singer (born 1950)[65]
- 2025 â Khaleda Zia, Bangladeshi Politician, Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh[66]
Holidays and observances
- Christian feast day:
- Day of the Declaration of Slovakia as an Independent Ecclesiastic Province (Slovakia)
- Rizal Day (Philippines)
- The fifth day of Kwanzaa (United States)
- The sixth of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
