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Events
- 546 - Gothic War (535–552): The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome bribing the Byzantine garrison.
- 942 - Assassination of William I of Normandy.
- 1398 - Sultan Mehmud's armies in Delhi defeated by Timur.
- 1531 - Pope Clement VII established a parallel to the Spanish Inquisition in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
- 1577 - Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for British Queen Elizabeth I.
- 1586 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan becomes Emperor of Japan.
- 1600 - Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
- 1637 - Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasants led by Amakusa Shiro rise against daimyo Matsukura Shigeharu.
- 1718 - Great Britain declares war to Spain.
- 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven is baptised at Bonn.
- 1807 - France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
- 1819 - Simón Bolívar declares the independence of the Republic of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
- 1834 - The Dublin_and_Kingstown_Railway opened in Ireland, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
- 1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11 (1862), expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
- 1903 - The Wright Brothers made their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- 1919 - Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention copyright treaty.
- 1935 - First flight of the Douglas DC-3 fixed-wing aircraft.
- 1939 - World War II: Battle of the River Plate - The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
- 1941 - World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Sevastopol.
- 1941 - World War II: Imperial Japanese Army land in Northern Borneo.
- 1944 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge - Malmedy massacre - United States 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper.
- 1961 - History of Goa: Operation Vijay (1961) - India seizes Goa from Portugal.
- 1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria.
- 1969 - The SALT I talks begin.
- 1969 - Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings were generated as a result of 'A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, Psychopathological persons, and Misidentification of various conventional objects'.
- 1970 - Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
- 1973 - 32 are killed in an attempt at the Aeroporto di Fiumicino.
- 1978 - The Workers Party of Jamaica is founded by Trevor Munroe.
- 1981 - Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigade in Verona, Italy.
- 1981 - Founding of the Senegambia Confederation.
- 1983 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb Harrods Department Store in London, killing seven people (see Harrods bombing).
- 1989 - Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timişoara with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
- 1989 - First free elections in Brazil in 25 years.
- 1999 - The United Nations General Assembly passes resolution 54/134 designating November 25 as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
- 2002 - Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
- 2003 - SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes the first privately-funded manned supersonic flight.
- 2005 - Anti-WTO protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Births
- 1239 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256)
- 1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)
- 1619 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
- 1632 - Anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695)
- 1685 - Thomas Tickell, English writer (d. 1740)
- 1706 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)
- 1734 - Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen (d. 1816)
- 1749 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (d. 1801)
- 1770 - (Baptism) - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d. 1827)
- 1778 - Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
- 1796 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
- 1799 - Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)
- 1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892)
- 1830 - Jules de Goncourt, French publisher (d. 1870)
- 1835 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (d. 1910)
- 1847 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)
- 1853 - Émile Roux, French physician (d. 1933)
- 1859 - Paul César Helleu, French artist (d. 1927)
- 1873 - Ford Madox Ford, English writer (d. 1939)
- 1874 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)
- 1883 - Raimu, French actor (d. 1946)
- 1887 - Josef Lada, Czech painter (d. 1957)
- 1888 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
- 1892 - Sam Barry, American basketball coach (d. 1950)
- 1893 - Erwin Piscator, German film director (d. 1966)
- 1894 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
- 1900 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (d. 1998)
- 1900 - Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973)
- 1903 - Erskine Caldwell, American author (d. 1987)
- 1903 - Ray Noble (musician), English bandleader and actor (d. 1978)
- 1904 - Paul Cadmus, American artist (d. 1999)
- 1905 - Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper (d. 2002)
- 1905 - Érico Lopes Veríssimo, Brazilian writer (d. 1975)
- 1906 - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (d. 1994)
- 1908 - Willard Frank Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1980)
- 1910 - Sy Oliver, American jazz arranger and bandleader (d. 1988)
- 1915 - André Claveau, French singer (d. 2003)
- 1916 - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (d. 2000)
- 1920 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (d. 2004)
- 1922 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
- 1923 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (d. 2006)
- 1926 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)
- 1927 - Richard Long (actor), American actor (d. 1974)
- 1929 - Jacqueline Hill, English actress (d. 1993)
- 1929 - William Safire, American columnist
- 1930 - Bob Guccione, American magazine publisher
- 1930 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete and congressman (d. 2006)
- 1930 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
- 1931 - Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor
- 1934 - Ray Wilson (footballer), English footballer
- 1935 - George Lindsey, American actor
- 1935 - Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball coach (d. 1999)
- 1936 - Tommy Steele, English singer and actor
- 1937 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (d. 2005)
- 1937 - John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969)
- 1937 - Calvin Waller, US Army general (d. 1996)
- 1938 - Carlo Little, English drummer (d. 2005)
- 1938 - Peter Snell, New Zealand runner
- 1939 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1992)
- 1940 - Kåre Valebrokk, Norwegian journalist
- 1942 - Paul Butterfield, American musician (d. 1987)
- 1943 - Mary Brunner, American former "Manson Family" member
- 1943 - Ron Geesin, Scottish musician and composer
- 1944 - Jack L. Chalker, American novelist
- 1944 - Bernard Hill, English actor
- 1945 - Ernie Hudson, American actor
- 1945 - Chris Matthews, American journalist
- 1945 - Jacqueline Wilson, English author
- 1946 - Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
- 1947 - Wes Studi, American actor
- 1949 - Paul Rodgers, English singer (Free (band); Bad Company)
- 1950 - Laurence F. Johnson, American educator
- 1951 - Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey coach
- 1951 - Tatyana Kazankina, Soviet athlete
- 1953 - Samuel Hadida, film distributor
- 1953 - Barry Livingston, American actor
- 1953 - Bill Pullman, American actor
- 1955 - Brad Davis (basketball), American basketball player
- 1956 - Peter Farrelly, American film director
- 1957 - Earl Hudson, American drummer (Bad Brains)
- 1958 - Mike Mills, American musician (R.E.M. (band))
- 1960 - Moreno Argentin, Italian cyclist
- 1962 - Paul Dobson (footballer), English footballer
- 1962 - Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (d. 2007)
- 1962 - Rocco Mediate, American golfer
- 1964 - Ginger (singer), English singer and guitarist (The Wildhearts)
- 1964 - Frank Musil, Czech ice hockey player
- 1966 - Tracy Byrd (musician) American musician
- 1966 - Valeri Liukin, Soviet gymnast
- 1966 - Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician
- 1967 - Vincent Damphousse, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 - Chris Mason (darts player) PDC Darts player
- 1968 - Andrey Golovatiuk, Russian politician
- 1968 - Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver
- 1969 - Chuck Liddell, American martial artist
- 1970 - Joshua Seth, American voice actor
- 1971 - Alan Khan, South African radio disc jockey
- 1971 - Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
- 1972 - John Abraham (actor), Indian actor
- 1972 - Laurie Holden, American actress
- 1973 - Paula Radcliffe, English runner
- 1973 - Konstadinos Gatsioudis, Greek javelin thrower
- 1974 - Duff Goldman, American chef
- 1974 - Giovanni Ribisi, American actor
- 1975 - Nick Dinsmore, American professional wrestler
- 1975 - Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-born actress
- 1975 - Sarah Paulson, American actress
- 1975 - Bree Sharp, American singer/songwriter
- 1976 - Éric Bédard, Canadian speed skater
- 1976 - Zsanett Égerházi, Hungarian-born porn actress
- 1976 - Patrick Müller, Swiss footballer
- 1976 - Takeo Spikes, American football player
- 1977 - Arnaud Clement, French tennis player
- 1978 - Alex Cintrón, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1978 - Neil Sanderson, Drummer for rock band "Three Days Grace"
- 1978 - Riteish Deshmukh, Indian actor
- 1978 - Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer
- 1978 - Chase Utley, American baseball player
- 1979 - Jaimee Foxworth, American actress
- 1979 - Ryan Key, American musician and songwriter (Yellowcard)
- 1979 - Matt Murley, American ice hockey player
- 1980 - Eli Pariser, American political activist (MoveOn.org)
- 1980 - Ryan Hunter-Reay, American race car driver
- 1982 - Josh Barfield, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1982 - Craig Kielburger, Canadian labour activist
- 1982 - Stephane Lasme, Gabonese basketball player
- 1983 - Ruslana , Swedish Royalty
- 1984 - Andrew Davies (footballer), English footballer
- 1994 - Nat Wolff, American Singer, Actor and songwriter
Deaths
- 942 - William I of Normandy
- 1187 - Pope Gregory VIII
- 1195 - Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
- 1273 - Rumi (b.1207)
- 1663 - Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
- 1721 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640)
- 1830 - Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan-born libertator, six nations (b. 1783)
- 1833 - Kaspar Hauser, German foundling (b. 1812)
- 1897 - Alphonse Daudet, French writer (b. 1840)
- 1907 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (b. 1824)
- 1909 - Léopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
- 1917 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, British physician (b. 1836)
- 1917 - Frank Gotch, wrestler (b. 1878)
- 1933 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
- 1940 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)
- 1957 - Dorothy L. Sayers, British writer (b. 1893)
- 1962 - Thomas Mitchell (actor) , American actor (b. 1892)
- 1964 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1883)
- 1967 - Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (b. 1908)
- 1967 - Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896)
- 1978 - Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934)
- 1982 - Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (b. 1889)
- 1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903)
- 1987 - Linda Wong, pornographic actress (b. 1951)
- 1992 - Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
- 1998 - Claudia Benton, Peruvian, Pediatric Neurologist and researcher (b. 1959)
- 1999 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
- 1999 - Rex Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1920)
- 2002 - James Hazeldine, British actor (b. 1947)
- 2003 - Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925)
- 2003 - Otto Graham, American football player (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Jack Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922)
- 2005 - Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (Sol (comedian)) (b. 1929)
- 2006 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (b. 1935)
Holidays and observances
- Roman festivals – Saturnalia, in honor of Saturn (mythology), began.
- Calendar of Saints – O Sapientia ; Saint Lazarus
- Greek orthodox church-Saint Barbaras day – Feast of Daniel the Prophet
- Bhutan – National Day (1907)
- United States – Wright Brothers Day (by Presidential Proclamation)
- Fiery furnace
External links
- BBC: On This Day
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- On This Day in Canada
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Events
- 546 - Gothic War (535–552): The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome bribing the Byzantine garrison.
- 942 - Assassination of William I of Normandy.
- 1398 - Sultan Mehmud's armies in Delhi defeated by Timur.
- 1531 - Pope Clement VII established a parallel to the Spanish Inquisition in Lisbon, Portugal.
- 1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
- 1577 - Francis Drake set sail from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for British Queen Elizabeth I.
- 1586 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan becomes Emperor of Japan.
- 1600 - Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
- 1637 - Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasants led by Amakusa Shiro rise against daimyo Matsukura Shigeharu.
- 1718 - Great Britain declares war to Spain.
- 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven is baptised at Bonn.
- 1807 - France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
- 1819 - Simón Bolívar declares the independence of the Republic of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela).
- 1834 - The Dublin_and_Kingstown_Railway opened in Ireland, the first public railway on the island of Ireland.
- 1862 - American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11 (1862), expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
- 1903 - The Wright Brothers made their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
- 1919 - Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires Convention copyright treaty.
- 1935 - First flight of the Douglas DC-3 fixed-wing aircraft.
- 1939 - World War II: Battle of the River Plate - The German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
- 1941 - World War II: Beginning of the Battle of Sevastopol.
- 1941 - World War II: Imperial Japanese Army land in Northern Borneo.
- 1944 - World War II: Battle of the Bulge - Malmedy massacre - United States 285th Field Artillery Observation Battalion POWs are shot by Waffen-SS Kampfgruppe Joachim Peiper.
- 1961 - History of Goa: Operation Vijay (1961) - India seizes Goa from Portugal.
- 1967 - Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria.
- 1969 - The SALT I talks begin.
- 1969 - Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings were generated as a result of 'A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, Psychopathological persons, and Misidentification of various conventional objects'.
- 1970 - Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
- 1973 - 32 are killed in an attempt at the Aeroporto di Fiumicino.
- 1978 - The Workers Party of Jamaica is founded by Trevor Munroe.
- 1981 - Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigade in Verona, Italy.
- 1981 - Founding of the Senegambia Confederation.
- 1983 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb Harrods Department Store in London, killing seven people (see Harrods bombing).
- 1989 - Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timişoara with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
- 1989 - First free elections in Brazil in 25 years.
- 1999 - The United Nations General Assembly passes resolution 54/134 designating November 25 as the annual International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women.
- 2002 - Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
- 2003 - SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes the first privately-funded manned supersonic flight.
- 2005 - Anti-WTO protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Births
- 1239 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256)
- 1267 - Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)
- 1619 - Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
- 1632 - Anthony Wood, English antiqurian (d. 1695)
- 1685 - Thomas Tickell, English writer (d. 1740)
- 1706 - Émilie du Châtelet, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)
- 1734 - Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen (d. 1816)
- 1749 - Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (d. 1801)
- 1770 - (Baptism) - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (d. 1827)
- 1778 - Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
- 1796 - Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
- 1799 - Titian Peale, American artist (d. 1885)
- 1807 - John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892)
- 1830 - Jules de Goncourt, French publisher (d. 1870)
- 1835 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (d. 1910)
- 1847 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)
- 1853 - Émile Roux, French physician (d. 1933)
- 1859 - Paul César Helleu, French artist (d. 1927)
- 1873 - Ford Madox Ford, English writer (d. 1939)
- 1874 - William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)
- 1883 - Raimu, French actor (d. 1946)
- 1887 - Josef Lada, Czech painter (d. 1957)
- 1888 - King Alexander I of Yugoslavia (d. 1934)
- 1892 - Sam Barry, American basketball coach (d. 1950)
- 1893 - Erwin Piscator, German film director (d. 1966)
- 1894 - Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
- 1900 - Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (d. 1998)
- 1900 - Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973)
- 1903 - Erskine Caldwell, American author (d. 1987)
- 1903 - Ray Noble (musician), English bandleader and actor (d. 1978)
- 1904 - Paul Cadmus, American artist (d. 1999)
- 1905 - Simo Häyhä, Finnish sniper (d. 2002)
- 1905 - Érico Lopes Veríssimo, Brazilian writer (d. 1975)
- 1906 - Fernando Lopes-Graça, Portuguese composer and musicologist (d. 1994)
- 1908 - Willard Frank Libby, American chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1980)
- 1910 - Sy Oliver, American jazz arranger and bandleader (d. 1988)
- 1915 - André Claveau, French singer (d. 2003)
- 1916 - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (d. 2000)
- 1920 - Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (d. 2004)
- 1922 - Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
- 1923 - Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (d. 2006)
- 1926 - Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)
- 1927 - Richard Long (actor), American actor (d. 1974)
- 1929 - Jacqueline Hill, English actress (d. 1993)
- 1929 - William Safire, American columnist
- 1930 - Bob Guccione, American magazine publisher
- 1930 - Bob Mathias, American decathlete and congressman (d. 2006)
- 1930 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
- 1931 - Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor
- 1934 - Ray Wilson (footballer), English footballer
- 1935 - George Lindsey, American actor
- 1935 - Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball coach (d. 1999)
- 1936 - Tommy Steele, English singer and actor
- 1937 - Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (d. 2005)
- 1937 - John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969)
- 1937 - Calvin Waller, US Army general (d. 1996)
- 1938 - Carlo Little, English drummer (d. 2005)
- 1938 - Peter Snell, New Zealand runner
- 1939 - Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1992)
- 1940 - Kåre Valebrokk, Norwegian journalist
- 1942 - Paul Butterfield, American musician (d. 1987)
- 1943 - Mary Brunner, American former "Manson Family" member
- 1943 - Ron Geesin, Scottish musician and composer
- 1944 - Jack L. Chalker, American novelist
- 1944 - Bernard Hill, English actor
- 1945 - Ernie Hudson, American actor
- 1945 - Chris Matthews, American journalist
- 1945 - Jacqueline Wilson, English author
- 1946 - Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
- 1953 - Samuel Hadida, film distributor
- 1953 - Barry Livingston, American actor
- 1953 - Bill Pullman, American actor
- 1955 - Brad Davis (basketball), American basketball player
- 1956 - Peter Farrelly, American film director
- 1957 - Earl Hudson, American drummer (Bad Brains)
- 1958 - Mike Mills, American musician (R.E.M. (band))
- 1960 - Moreno Argentin, Italian cyclist
- 1962 - Paul Dobson (footballer), English footballer
- 1962 - Richard Jewell, central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing (d. 2007)
- 1962 - Rocco Mediate, American golfer
- 1964 - Ginger (singer), English singer and guitarist (The Wildhearts)
- 1964 - Frank Musil, Czech ice hockey player
- 1966 - Tracy Byrd (musician) American musician
- 1966 - Valeri Liukin, Soviet gymnast
- 1966 - Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician
- 1967 - Vincent Damphousse, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 - Chris Mason (darts player) PDC Darts player
- 1968 - Andrey Golovatiuk, Russian politician
- 1968 - Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver
- 1969 - Chuck Liddell, American martial artist
- 1970 - Joshua Seth, American voice actor
- 1971 - Alan Khan, South African radio disc jockey
- 1971 - Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
- 1972 - John Abraham (actor), Indian actor
- 1972 - Laurie Holden, American actress
- 1973 - Paula Radcliffe, English runner
- 1973 - Konstadinos Gatsioudis, Greek javelin thrower
- 1974 - Duff Goldman, American chef
- 1974 - Giovanni Ribisi, American actor
- 1975 - Nick Dinsmore, American professional wrestler
- 1975 - Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-born actress
- 1975 - Sarah Paulson, American actress
- 1975 - Bree Sharp, American singer/songwriter
- 1976 - Éric Bédard, Canadian speed skater
- 1976 - Zsanett Égerházi, Hungarian-born porn actress
- 1976 - Patrick Müller, Swiss footballer
- 1976 - Takeo Spikes, American football player
- 1977 - Arnaud Clement, French tennis player
- 1978 - Alex Cintrón, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1978 - Neil Sanderson, Drummer for rock band "Three Days Grace"
- 1978 - Riteish Deshmukh, Indian actor
- 1978 - Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer
- 1978 - Chase Utley, American baseball player
- 1979 - Jaimee Foxworth, American actress
- 1979 - Ryan Key, American musician and songwriter (Yellowcard)
- 1979 - Matt Murley, American ice hockey player
- 1980 - Eli Pariser, American political activist (MoveOn.org)
- 1980 - Ryan Hunter-Reay, American race car driver
- 1982 - Josh Barfield, Venezuelan baseball player
- 1982 - Craig Kielburger, Canadian labour activist
- 1982 - Stephane Lasme, Gabonese basketball player
- 1983 - Ruslana , Swedish Royalty
- 1984 - Andrew Davies (footballer), English footballer
- 1994 - Nat Wolff, American Singer, Actor and songwriter
Deaths
- 942 - William I of Normandy
- 1187 - Pope Gregory VIII
- 1195 - Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (b. 1150)
- 1273 - Rumi (b.1207)
- 1663 - Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (b. 1583)
- 1721 - Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (b. 1640)
- 1830 - Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan-born libertator, six nations (b. 1783)
- 1833 - Kaspar Hauser, German foundling (b. 1812)
- 1897 - Alphonse Daudet, French writer (b. 1840)
- 1907 - William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (b. 1824)
- 1909 - Léopold II of Belgium (b. 1835)
- 1917 - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, British physician (b. 1836)
- 1917 - Frank Gotch, wrestler (b. 1878)
- 1933 - Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama, 13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876)
- 1940 - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)
- 1957 - Dorothy L. Sayers, British writer (b. 1893)
- 1962 - Thomas Mitchell (actor) , American actor (b. 1892)
- 1964 - Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1883)
- 1967 - Harold Holt, Australian Prime Minister (b. 1908)
- 1967 - Jack Perrin, American actor (b. 1896)
- 1978 - Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (b. 1934)
- 1982 - Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (b. 1889)
- 1987 - Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (b. 1903)
- 1987 - Linda Wong, pornographic actress (b. 1951)
- 1992 - Dana Andrews, American actor (b. 1909)
- 1998 - Claudia Benton, Peruvian, Pediatric Neurologist and researcher (b. 1959)
- 1999 - Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (b. 1943)
- 1999 - Rex Allen, American actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1920)
- 2002 - James Hazeldine, British actor (b. 1947)
- 2003 - Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (b. 1925)
- 2003 - Otto Graham, American football player (b. 1921)
- 2005 - Jack Anderson, American journalist (b. 1922)
- 2005 - Marc Favreau, French Canadian humourist (Sol (comedian)) (b. 1929)
- 2006 - Larry Sherry, American baseball player (b. 1935)
Holidays and observances
External links
- BBC: On This Day
-
- On This Day in Canada
DEC
The DEC is an umbrella organisation which represents 13 leading UK aid agencies. Its members are: ActionAid, British Red Cross, CAFOD, CARE International UK, Christian Aid, Concern ...
'I am drawn to extremes' | Media | The Guardian
This article appeared in the Guardian on Friday December 17 2004 on p4 of the Comment & features section. It was last updated at 02:35 on December 17 2004.
Muslim academic resigns from US university | Education ...
Muslim academic resigns from US university This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Friday December 17 2004. It was last updated at 13:17 on December 17 2004.
WMCIU » 2007» December» 17
Current entry forms for the 2008 season are below, you will need adobe acrobat reader to open and print them. Individual Darts. Individual Pool . Cribbage Pairs
Work - December 17 - December 21
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Dept_Diary - Wednesday, December 17
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Dept_Diary - Monday, December 17
Deadline for MSc students who took resits to submit dissertations
BBC ON THIS DAY | 17
1944: Germany counter-attacks in Ardennes. German tanks, aircraft and paratroops cross the Luxembourg and Belgian borders in massive counter-offensive.
Today in History: December 17
Each day an event from American history is illustrated by digitized items from the Library of Congress American Memory historic collections.
