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==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[1060]] – [[Béla I of Hungary|Béla I]] is crowned king of [[Kingdom of Hungary in the Middle Ages|Hungary]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Steinhübel|first=Ján|title=The Nitrian Principality: The Beginnings of Medieval Slovakia|location=Leiden, Netherlands|publisher=Brill|date=2021|isbn=9789004437821|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vqUPEAAAQBAJ|page=447}}</ref>
*[[1240]] – [[Mongol invasion of Rus']]: [[Kyiv]], defended by [[Voivode Dmytro]], [[Siege of Kiev (1240)|falls]] to the [[Mongols]] under [[Batu Khan]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Langer|first=Lawrence|title=Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia|location=Lanham. Md.|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|date=2021|isbn=9781538119419|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8I6EAAAQBAJ|page=130}}</ref>
*[[1492]] – After exploring the island of [[Cuba]] (which he had mistaken for [[Japan]]) for gold, [[Christopher Columbus]] lands on an island he names [[Hispaniola]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Fisher|first=Robert John|title=The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America: 1492—1810|location=Liverpool, U.K.|publisher=Liverpool University Press|date=1997|isbn=9780853235521|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHRvEAAAQBAJ|page=16}}</ref>
*[[1534]] – The city of [[Quito]] in [[Ecuador]] is founded by Spanish settlers led by [[Sebastián de Belalcázar]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Newson|first=Linda A.|title=Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador|location=Norman, Okla.|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|date=1995|isbn=9780806126975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P6oBA7UsdawC|page=174}}</ref>
===1601–1900===
*[[1648]] – [[Pride's Purge]] removes royalist sympathizers from Parliament so that the [[High Court of Justice (1649)|High Court of Justice]] could put the King on trial.
*[[1704]] – [[Battle of Chamkaur (1704)|Battle of Chamkaur]]: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered [[Khalsa|Sikh Khalsa]] defeats a [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] army.
*[[1745]] – [[Charles Edward Stuart]]'s army begins retreat during the [[Jacobite rising of 1745|second Jacobite Rising]].
*[[1790]] – The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] moves from [[New York City]] to [[Philadelphia]].
*[[1803]] – Five [[French Navy|French warships]] attempting to escape the [[Blockade of Saint-Domingue|Royal Naval blockade of Saint-Domingue]] are all seized by British warships, signifying the end of the [[Haitian Revolution]].<ref name="EPB294">{{cite book | last = Brenton | first = Edward Pelham | author-link = Edward Pelham Brenton | year = 1837| title = The Naval History of Great Britain, Vol. III | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-2cUAAAAQAAJ&q=edward+pelham+brenton | publisher = C Rice|page= 294 |location = London}}</ref>
*[[1865]] – [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] ratifies the [[13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2013/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2013.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225114303/http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2013/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2013.pdf |archive-date=2014-02-25 |url-status=live|title=THE CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION Centennial Edition INTERIM EDITION: ANALYSIS OF CASES DECIDED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES TO JUNE 26, 2013s|access-date=February 17, 2014|last=U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE|first=112th Congress, 2nd Session, SENATE DOCUMENT No. 112–9|page=30|date=2013}}</ref>
*[[1882]] – [[1882 transit of Venus|Transit of Venus]], second and last of the [[19th century]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-03|title=The American Transit of Venus Expeditions of 1882, Including San Antonio|url=http://aas.org/archives/BAAS/v27n4/aas187/S035002.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212432/http://aas.org/archives/BAAS/v27n4/aas187/S035002.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-03-03|access-date=2020-07-01}}</ref>
*[[1884]] – The [[Washington Monument]] in Washington, D.C., is completed.
*[[1897]] – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed [[taxicab]]s.
===1901–present===
*[[1904]] – [[Theodore Roosevelt]] articulated his [[Roosevelt Corollary|"Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine]], stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
*[[1907]] – A [[Monongah mining disaster|coal mine explosion]] at [[Monongah, West Virginia]], kills 362 workers.
*[[1912]] – The [[Nefertiti Bust]] is discovered.
*[[1916]] – [[World War I]]: The Central Powers [[Battle of Bucharest|capture Bucharest]].
*[[1917]] – [[Finnish Declaration of Independence|Finland declares independence]] from [[Russian Empire|the Russian Empire]].
* 1917 – [[Halifax Explosion]]: A munitions explosion near [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]] kills more than 1,900 people in the [[Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions#Largest accidental artificial non-nuclear explosions by magnitude|largest artificial explosion up to that time]].
* 1917 – World War I: {{USS|Jacob Jones|DD-61|6}} is the first American [[destroyer]] to be sunk by enemy action when it is [[torpedo]]ed by German submarine {{ship|SM|U-53}}.<ref>{{cite news |title=US World War One wreck found off Cornish coast |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cornwall-62597453 |access-date=20 August 2022}}</ref>
*[[1921]] – The [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]] is signed in [[London]] by British and Irish representatives.
*[[1922]] – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the [[Irish Free State]] comes into existence.
*[[1928]] – The government of Colombia [[Banana massacre|sends military forces]] to suppress a month-long [[strike action|strike]] by [[United Fruit Company]] workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
*[[1933]] – In [[United States v. One Book Called Ulysses]] Judge [[John M. Woolsey]] rules that [[James Joyce]]'s novel ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' is not obscene despite coarse language and sexual content, a leading decision affirming free expression.
*[[1941]] – [[World War II]]: [[Camp X]] opens in Canada to begin training Allied secret agents for the war.
*[[1956]] – A violent [[Blood in the Water match|water polo match]] between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the [[1956 Summer Olympics]] in [[Melbourne]], against the backdrop of the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]].
*[[1957]] – [[Project Vanguard]]: A [[Launch pad|launchpad]] explosion of [[Vanguard TV3]] thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a [[satellite]] into Earth orbit.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burgess |first1=Colin |last2=Hall |first2=Rex |title=The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact |date=2009 |publisher=Springer |location=Berlin |isbn=9780387848235 |pages=8–9 |lccn=2008935694}}</ref>
*[[1967]] – [[Adrian Kantrowitz]] performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
*[[1969]] – [[Altamont Free Concert]]: At a free concert performed by the [[Rolling Stones]], eighteen-year old Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by [[Hells Angels]] security guards.
*[[1971]] – Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]].
*[[1973]] – [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|The Twenty-fifth Amendment]]: The [[United States House of Representatives]] votes 387–35 to confirm [[Gerald Ford]] as [[Vice President of the United States]]. (On [[November 27]], the [[United States Senate|Senate]] confirmed him 92–3.)
*[[1975]] – [[The Troubles]]: Fleeing from the police, a [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] unit takes a British couple hostage in their flat on Balcombe Street, London, beginning a [[Balcombe Street siege|six-day siege]].
*[[1977]] – South Africa grants independence to [[Bophuthatswana]], although it is not recognized by any other country.
*[[1978]] – Spain ratifies the [[Spanish Constitution of 1978]] in a referendum.<ref>{{cite web |title=Spain starts a new post-Franco era - archive, 1978 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2018/jun/01/spain-constitution-new-era-1978 |website=The Guardian |access-date=8 March 2022 |language=en |date=1 June 2018}}</ref>
*[[1982]] – The Troubles: The [[Irish National Liberation Army]] [[Droppin Well bombing|bombs a pub]] frequented by British soldiers in [[Ballykelly, County Londonderry|Ballykelly, Northern Ireland]], killing eleven soldiers and six civilians.
*[[1989]] – The [[École Polytechnique massacre]] (or Montreal Massacre): [[Marc Lépine]], an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the [[École Polytechnique de Montréal|École Polytechnique]] in [[Montreal]].
*[[1990]] – A military jet of the [[Italian Air Force]], abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, [[1990 Italian Air Force MB-326 crash|crashed into a high school]] near [[Bologna]], Italy, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other people.<ref name="NYT-01">{{cite news| title=Jet Hits a School in Italy, Killing 12 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/07/world/jet-hits-a-school-in-italy-killing-12.html | access-date=13 September 2020 | work=[[The New York Times]] | agency=[[Associated Press]] | date=7 December 1990 }}</ref>
*[[1991]] – [[Yugoslav Wars]]: In [[Croatia]], forces of the Serb-dominated [[Yugoslav People's Army]] (JNA) heaviest bombardment of [[Dubrovnik]] during a siege of seven months.
*[[1992]] – The [[Babri Masjid]] in [[Ayodhya]], India, is [[Demolition of the Babri Masjid|demolished]], leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1,500 people.
*[[1998]] – in [[Venezuela]], [[Hugo Chávez]] is victorious in presidential elections.
*[[1999]] – ''[[A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. (2000)|A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.]]'': The [[Recording Industry Association of America]] sues the [[peer-to-peer]] [[file sharing|file-sharing]] service [[Napster]], alleging [[copyright infringement]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/114/896/2343353/| title = A & M RECORDS, INC. v. Napster, Inc., 114 F. Supp. 2d 896 (N.D. Cal. 2000)}}</ref>
*[[2005]] – An [[Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force|Iranian Air Force]] [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules|C-130]] military transport aircraft [[2005 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash|crashes into a ten-floor apartment building]] in a residential area of [[Tehran]], killing all 94 on board and 12 more on the ground.
*[[2006]] – [[NASA]] reveals photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid [[water on Mars]].
*[[2015]] – [[2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election|Venezuelan parliamentary election]]: For the first time in 17 years, the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] loses its majority in parliament.
*[[2017]] – [[Donald Trump]]'s administration officially announces [[United States recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital|the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel]].
==Births==
===Pre-1600===
* [[846]] – [[Hasan al-Askari]], Arabian 11th of [[the Twelve Imams]] (d. 874)
*[[1285]] – [[Ferdinand IV of Castile]] (d. 1312)<ref>{{cite web |title=Ferdinand IV {{!}} king of Castile and Leon |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdinand-IV-king-of-Castile-and-Leon |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=18 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1421]] – [[Henry VI of England]] (d. 1471)
*[[1478]] – [[Baldassare Castiglione]], Italian courtier, diplomat, and author (d. 1529)
*[[1520]] – [[Barbara Radziwiłł]], queen of Poland (d. 1551)
*[[1545]] – [[Janus Dousa]], Dutch historian and noble (d. 1604)
*[[1586]] – [[Niccolò Zucchi]], Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1670)
*[[1592]] – [[William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle]] (d. 1676)
===1601–1900===
*[[1608]] – [[George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle]], English general and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] (d. 1670)
*[[1637]] – [[Edmund Andros]], English courtier and politician, 4th [[Colonial Governor of New York]] (d. 1714)
*[[1640]] – [[Claude Fleury]], French historian and author (d. 1723)
*[[1645]] – [[Maria de Dominici]], Maltese sculptor and painter (d. 1703)<ref>{{cite book|first1=Delia|last1=Gaze|first2=Maja|last2=Mihajlovic|first3=Leanda|last3=Shrimpton|title=Dictionary of women artists|location=London|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn|year=1997|page=462|isbn=978-1-88496-421-3}}</ref>
*[[1685]] – [[Marie Adélaïde of Savoy]] (d. 1712)
*[[1721]] – [[Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes]], French minister and politician (d. 1794)
* 1721 – [[James Elphinston]], Scottish philologist and linguist (d. 1809)
*[[1732]] – [[Warren Hastings]], British colonial administrator of India (d. 1818)<ref>{{Cite book |author=Sir Alfred Lyall |title=Warren Hastings |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91491 |year=1889 |publisher=Macmillan and Co.}} p. 1.</ref>
*[[1752]] – [[Gabriel Duvall]], American jurist and politician (d. 1844)
*[[1778]] – [[Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac]], French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
*[[1792]] – [[William II of the Netherlands]] (d. 1849)
*[[1803]] – [[Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony]] (d. 1829)
*[[1805]] – [[Richard Hanson (Australian politician)|Richard Hanson]], English-Australian politician, 4th [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. 1876)
*[[1812]] – [[Robert Spear Hudson]], English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1884)
*[[1823]] – [[Max Müller]], German-English philologist and orientalist (d. 1900)
*[[1827]] – [[William Arnott (biscuit manufacturer)|William Arnott]], Australian biscuit manufacturer and founder of [[Arnott's Biscuits]] (d. 1901)
*[[1833]] – [[John S. Mosby]], American colonel (d. 1916)
*[[1835]] – [[Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig]], German chemist (d. 1910)
*[[1841]] – [[Frédéric Bazille]], French painter and soldier (d. 1870)
*[[1848]] – [[Johann Palisa]], Austrian astronomer (d. 1925)<ref>{{cite web |title = Johann Palisa, the most successful visual discoverer of asteroids |author = Herbert Raab |author-link = Herbert Raab |publisher = Astrometrica |url = http://www.astrometrica.at/Papers/Palisa.pdf |access-date = 15 July 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author = Anneliese Schnell |author-link = :de:Anneliese Schnell |title = The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |date = 2007 |publisher = Springer, New York, NY |doi = 10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1046 }}</ref>
*[[1849]] – [[August von Mackensen]], German field marshal (d. 1945)
*[[1853]] – [[Hans Molisch]], Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (d. 1937)
* 1853 – [[Haraprasad Shastri]], Indian historian and scholar (d. 1931)
*[[1863]] – [[Charles Martin Hall]], American chemist and engineer (d. 1914)
*[[1864]] – [[William S. Hart]], American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1946)
*[[1872]] – [[Arthur Henry Adams]], Australian journalist and author (d. 1936)
*[[1875]] – [[Albert Bond Lambert]], American golfer and pilot (d. 1946)
* 1875 – [[Evelyn Underhill]], English mystic and author (d. 1941)
*[[1876]] – [[Fred Duesenberg]], German-American businessman, co-founded the [[Duesenberg|Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company]] (d. 1932)
*[[1878]] – [[Elvia Carrillo Puerto]], Mexican politician (d. 1968)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.senado.gob.mx/hoy/elvia_carrillo/biografia.php|title=Elvia Carrillo Puerto|website=www.senado.gob.mx|language=es|access-date=2018-08-03}}</ref>
*[[1882]] – [[Warren Bardsley]], Australian cricketer (d. 1954)
*[[1884]] – [[Cornelia Meigs]], American author, playwright, and academic (d. 1973)
*[[1886]] – [[Joyce Kilmer]], American soldier, author, and poet (d. 1918)
*[[1887]] – [[Lynn Fontanne]], British actress (d. 1983)
* 1887 – [[Joseph Lamb (composer)|Joseph Lamb]], American pianist and composer (d. 1960)
*[[1888]] – [[Will Hay]], English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1949)
*[[1890]] – [[Dion Fortune]], Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author (d. 1946)
* 1890 – [[Yoshio Nishina]], Japanese physicist and academic (d. 1951)
* 1890 – [[Rudolf Schlichter]], German painter and illustrator (d. 1955)
*[[1892]] – [[Osbert Sitwell]], English-Italian captain, poet, and author (d. 1969)
*[[1893]] – [[Homer N. Wallin]], American admiral (d. 1984)
* 1893 – [[Sylvia Townsend Warner]], English author and poet (d. 1978)
*[[1896]] – [[Ira Gershwin]], American songwriter (d. 1983)
*[[1898]] – [[Alfred Eisenstaedt]], German-American photographer and journalist (d. 1995)
* 1898 – [[John McDonald (Victorian politician)|John McDonald]], Scottish-Australian politician, 37th [[Premier of Victoria]] (d. 1977)
* 1898 – [[Gunnar Myrdal]], Swedish sociologist and economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1987)
* 1898 – [[Winifred Lenihan]], American actress, writer, and director (d. 1964)
*[[1900]] – [[Agnes Moorehead]], American actress (d. 1974)
===1901–present===
*[[1901]] – [[Eliot Porter]], American photographer and academic (d. 1990)
*[[1903]] – [[Tony Lazzeri]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1946)
*[[1904]] – [[Ève Curie]], French-American journalist and pianist (d. 2007)<ref name="UPI">{{cite web |title=Famous birthdays for Dec. 6: Judd Apatow, Tom Hulce |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2022/12/06/Famous-birthdays-for-Dec-6-Judd-Apatow-Tom-Hulce/5631670284105/ |publisher=[[UPI]] |access-date=4 December 2023 |date=6 December 2022}}</ref>
*[[1905]] – [[Elizabeth Yates (author)|Elizabeth Yates]], American journalist and author (d. 2001)
*[[1907]] – [[John Barkley Rosser Sr.]], American logician (d. 1989)
*[[1908]] – [[Herta Freitag]], Austrian-American mathematician (d. 2000)
* 1908 – [[Pierre Graber]], Swiss lawyer and politician, 69th [[List of Presidents of the Swiss Confederation|President of the Swiss Confederation]] (d. 2003)
* 1908 – [[Baby Face Nelson]], American gangster (d. 1934)<ref name="UPI"></ref>
* 1908 – [[Miklós Szabó (middle-distance runner)|Miklós Szabó]], Hungarian runner (d. 2000)
*[[1909]] – [[Rulon Jeffs]], American religious leader (d. 2002)
* 1909 – [[Alan McGilvray]], Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1996)
*[[1910]] – [[David M. Potter]], American historian, author, and academic (d. 1971)
*[[1913]] – [[Karl Haas]], German-American pianist, conductor, and radio host (d. 2005)
* 1913 – [[Eleanor Holm]], American swimmer and actress (d. 2004)
*[[1914]] – [[Cyril Washbrook]], English cricketer (d. 1999)
*[[1916]] – [[Yekaterina Budanova]], Russian captain and pilot (d. 1943)
* 1916 – [[Kristján Eldjárn]], Icelandic educator and politician, 3rd [[President of Iceland]] (d. 1982)
* 1916 – [[Hugo Peretti]], American songwriter and producer (d. 1986)
*[[1917]] – [[Dean Hess]], American minister and colonel (d. 2015)
* 1917 – [[Kamal Jumblatt]], Lebanese lawyer and politician (d. 1977)
* 1917 – [[Irv Robbins]], Canadian-American businessman, co-founded [[Baskin-Robbins]] (d. 2008)
*[[1918]] – [[Tauba Biterman]], Polish Holocaust survivor (d. 2019)
*[[1919]] – [[Skippy Baxter]], Canadian-American figure skater and coach (d. 2012)
* 1919 – [[Paul de Man]], Belgian-born philosopher, literary critic and theorist (d. 1983)
*[[1920]] – [[Dave Brubeck]], American pianist and composer (d. 2012)<ref name="UPI"></ref>
* 1920 – [[Peter Dimmock]], English sportscaster and producer (d. 2015)
* 1920 – [[George Porter]], English chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2002)
*[[1921]] – [[Otto Graham]], American football player and coach (d. 2003)<ref name="UPI"></ref>
* 1921 – [[Piero Piccioni]], Italian lawyer, pianist, and composer (d. 2004)
*[[1922]] – [[John Brunt]], English captain, [[Victoria Cross]] recipient (d. 1944)
* 1922 – [[Benjamin A. Gilman]], American soldier and politician (d. 2016)
*[[1924]] – [[Wally Cox]], American actor (d. 1973)
*[[1927]] – [[Jim Fuchs]], American shot putter and discus thrower (d. 2010)
*[[1928]] – [[Bobby Van]], American actor, dancer, and singer (d. 1980)
*[[1929]] – [[Philippe Bouvard]], French journalist and radio host
* 1929 – [[Nikolaus Harnoncourt]], German-Austrian cellist and conductor (d. 2016)
* 1929 – [[Frank Springer]], American comic book illustrator (d. 2009)
* 1929 – [[Alain Tanner]], Swiss director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2022)
*[[1930]] – [[Daniel Lisulo]], Zambian banker and politician, 3rd [[Prime Minister of Zambia]] (d. 2000)
*[[1931]] – [[Zeki Müren]], Turkish singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1996)
*[[1932]] – [[Kamleshwar (writer)|Kamleshwar]], Indian author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2007)
*[[1933]] – [[Henryk Górecki]], Polish composer and academic (d. 2010)
* 1933 – [[Donald J. Kutyna]], American general
*[[1934]] – [[Nick Bockwinkel]], American wrestler, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2015)
*[[1935]] – [[Jean Lapointe]], Canadian actor, singer, and politician (d. 2022)
*[[1936]] – [[Bill Ashton (jazz musician)|Bill Ashton]], English saxophonist and composer
* 1936 – [[Kenneth Copeland]], American evangelist and author
* 1936 – [[David Ossman]], American writer and comedian
*[[1937]] – [[Alberto Spencer]], Ecuadorian-American soccer player (d. 2006)
*[[1938]] – [[Patrick Bauchau]], Belgian-American actor<ref name="AP"></ref>
*[[1939]] – [[Franco Carraro]], Italian politician and sports administrator
*[[1940]] – [[Lawrence Bergman]], Canadian lawyer and politician
* 1940 – [[Richard Edlund]], American visual effects designer and cinematographer
*[[1941]] – [[Helen Cornelius]], American country singer-songwriter and actress<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1941 – [[Bruce Nauman]], American sculptor and illustrator
* 1941 – [[Richard Speck]], American murderer (d. 1991)
* 1941 – [[Bill Thomas]], American academic and politician
*[[1942]] – [[Peter Handke]], Austrian author and playwright, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* 1942 – [[Robb Royer]], American guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter
*[[1943]] – [[Mike Smith (Dave Clark Five)|Mike Smith]], English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (d. 2008)
* 1943 – [[Keith West]], English rock singer-songwriter and music producer
*[[1944]] – [[Jonathan King]], English singer-songwriter, record producer, music entrepreneur, television/radio presenter, and convicted sex offender
*[[1945]] – [[Shekhar Kapur]], Indian director, producer, and screenwriter<ref name="UPI"></ref>
*[[1946]] – [[Frankie Beverly]], American soul/funk singer-songwriter, musician, and producer<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1946 – [[Willy van der Kuijlen]], Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2021)
*[[1947]] – [[Lawrence Cannon]], Canadian businessman and politician, 9th [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada)|Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
* 1947 – [[Henk van Woerden]], Dutch-South African painter and author (d. 2005)
* 1947 – [[Miroslav Vitouš]], Czech-American bassist and songwriter
*[[1948]] – [[Jean-Paul Ngoupandé]], Central African politician, [[Prime Minister of the Central African Republic]] (d. 2014)
* 1948 – [[Don Nickles]], American businessman and politician
* 1948 – [[Keke Rosberg]], Finnish racing driver<ref>{{Cite web | first=Juha | last=Kärkkäinen | title=Rosberg, Keijo (1948 - ) | work=[[Suomen kansallisbiografia|National Biography of Finland]] | url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/english/person/1934 | access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref>
* 1948 – [[JoBeth Williams]], American actress<ref name="UPI"></ref>
*[[1949]] – [[Linda Barnes (writer)|Linda Barnes]], American author, playwright, and educator
* 1949 – [[Linda Creed]], American singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
* 1949 – [[Doug Marlette]], American author and cartoonist (d. 2007)
* 1949 – [[Peter Willey]], English cricketer and umpire
*[[1950]] – [[Guy Drut]], French hurdler and politician
* 1950 – [[Joe Hisaishi]], Japanese pianist, composer, and conductor
* 1950 – [[Helen Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke]], Scottish journalist and politician, [[Secretary of State for Scotland]]
*[[1951]] – [[Wendy Ellis Somes]], English ballerina and producer
* 1951 – [[Maurice Hope]], Caribbean-English boxer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/sport/maurice-hope-became-a-true-boxing-hero-of-hackney-6577764|title=World light-middleweight champ Hope became a true boxing hero of Hackney|date=November 26, 2020|author=Chris Kempson|website=Hackney Gazette|access-date=September 1, 2021}}</ref>
*[[1952]] – [[Nicolas Bréhal]], French author and critic (d. 1999)
* 1952 – [[Craig Newmark]], American computer programmer and entrepreneur; founded [[Craigslist]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/feb/19/news.theobserver1 |title=The nerd who became a crusader |last=Harris |first=Paul |date=February 18, 2006 |website=The Guardian |publisher= |access-date=January 4, 2021}}</ref>
* 1952 – [[Shio Satō]], Japanese illustrator (d. 2010)
*[[1953]] – [[Sue Carroll]], English journalist (d. 2011)
* 1953 – [[Gary Goodman]], Australian cricketer and coach
* 1953 – [[Geoff Hoon]], English academic and politician, [[Minister of State for Europe]]
* 1953 – [[Tom Hulce]], American actor<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1953 – [[Masami Kurumada]], Japanese author and illustrator
*[[1954]] – [[Nicola De Maria]], Italian painter
* 1954 – [[Chris Stamey]], American singer-songwriter, musician, and music producer
*[[1955]] – [[Anne Begg]], Scottish educator and politician
* 1955 – [[Rick Buckler]], English drummer, songwriter, and producer<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1955 – [[Graeme Hughes]], Australian cricketer, rugby league player, and sportscaster
* 1955 – [[Tony Woodcock (footballer)|Tony Woodcock]], English footballer
* 1955 – [[Steven Wright]], American actor, comedian, and screenwriter<ref name="AP"></ref>
*[[1956]] – [[Peter Buck]], American guitarist, songwriter, and producer<ref name="AP">{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Mike |title=Today's famous birthdays list for December 6, 2022 includes celebrities Judd Apatow, Lindsay Price |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/12/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-december-6-2022-includes-celebrities-judd-apatow-lindsay-price.html |website=[[The Plain Dealer]] |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=4 December 2023 |date=6 December 2022}}</ref>
* 1956 – [[Hans Kammerlander]], Italian mountaineer and guide
* 1956 – [[Randy Rhoads]], American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 1982)
*[[1957]] – [[Adrian Borland]], English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1999)
* 1957 – [[Andrew Cuomo]], American politician, 56th [[Governor of New York]]<ref name="UPI"></ref>
* 1957 – [[Bill Hanzlik]], American basketball player and coach<ref>{{cite web |title=Bill Hanzlik |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/76944/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
*[[1958]] – [[Nick Park]], English animator, director, producer, and screenwriter<ref name="UPI"></ref>
*[[1959]] – [[Deborah Estrin]], American computer scientist and academic
* 1959 – [[Stephen Hepburn]], English politician
* 1959 – [[Satoru Iwata]], Japanese game programmer and businessman (d. 2015)<ref name="UPI"></ref>
* 1959 – [[Stephen Muggleton]], English computer scientist and engineer
*[[1960]] – [[Masahiko Katsuya]], Japanese journalist and photographer (d. 2018)
*[[1961]] – [[David Lovering]], American drummer<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1961 – [[Jonathan Melvoin]], American musician (d. 1996)
* 1961 – [[Manuel Reuter]], German race car driver
*[[1962]] – [[Janine Turner]], American actress<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1962 – [[Ben Watt]], English singer-songwriter, musician, author, DJ, and radio presenter<ref name="AP"></ref>
*[[1963]] – [[Ulrich Thomsen]], Danish actor and producer
*[[1964]] – [[Mall Nukke]], Estonian painter
*[[1965]] – [[Gordon Durie]], Scottish footballer and manager
*[[1966]] – [[Natascha Badmann]], Swiss triathlete
* 1966 – [[Per-Ulrik Johansson]], Swedish golfer
*[[1967]] – [[Judd Apatow]], American director, producer, and screenwriter<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1967 – [[Helen Greiner]], American businesswoman and engineer
* 1967 – [[Arnaldo Mesa]], Cuban boxer (d. 2012)
*[[1968]] – [[Karl Ove Knausgård]], Norwegian author<ref name="UPI"></ref>
* 1968 – [[Ali Latifiyan]], Iranian writer and political theorist
* 1968 – [[Akihiro Yano]], Japanese baseball player
*[[1969]] – [[Torri Higginson]], Canadian actress
*[[1970]] – [[Ulf Ekberg]], Swedish singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1970 – [[Adrian Fenty]], American lawyer and politician, 6th [[Mayor of the District of Columbia]]
* 1970 – [[Mark Reckless]], English politician
* 1970 – [[Jeff Rouse]], American swimmer
*[[1971]] – [[Craig Brewer]], American director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1971 – [[José Contreras]], Cuban baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Jose Contreras |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/jose-contreras-425747 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
* 1971 – [[Richard Krajicek]], Dutch tennis player
* 1971 – [[Naozumi Takahashi]], Japanese singer and voice actor
* 1971 – [[Carole Thate]], Dutch field hockey player
* 1971 – [[Ryan White]], American activist (d. 1990)<ref name="UPI"></ref>
*[[1972]] – [[Ewan Birney]], English scientist<ref name=oralhistorygenome>{{cite web|url=https://www.genome.gov/sites/default/files/media/files/2020-07/OralHistory_EwanBirney_transcript.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011022359/https://www.genome.gov/sites/default/files/media/files/2020-07/OralHistory_EwanBirney_transcript.pdf |archive-date=2020-10-11 |url-status=live|website=genome.gov|publisher=[[National Human Genome Research Institute]]|author=Anon|year=2017|title=So, I am Ewan Birney}}</ref>
* 1972 – [[Heather Mizeur]], American lawyer and politician
*[[1974]] – [[Jens Pulver]], American mixed martial artist and boxer
* 1974 – [[Nick Stajduhar]], Canadian ice hockey player
*[[1975]] – [[Noel Clarke]], English actor, director, and screenwriter
* 1975 – [[Adrian García Arias]], Mexican footballer
*[[1976]] – [[Lindsay Price]], American actress<ref name="AP"></ref>
*[[1977]] – [[Kevin Cash]], American baseball player and manager
* 1977 – [[Andrew Flintoff]], English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
* 1977 – [[Paul McVeigh]], Irish footballer
*[[1978]] – [[Chris Başak]], American baseball player
* 1978 – [[Darrell Jackson]], American football player
* 1978 – [[Adriana Moisés Pinto]], Brazilian basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Adriana Moises Pinto |url=https://www.wnba.com/player/100718/adriana-moises-pinto |publisher=[[WNBA]] |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
* 1978 – [[Ramiro Pez]], Argentine rugby player
*[[1979]] – [[Tim Cahill]], Australian footballer
*[[1980]] – [[Danielle Downey]], American golfer and coach (d. 2014)
* 1980 – [[Steve Lovell]], English footballer
* 1980 – [[Carlos Takam]], Cameroonian-French boxer
*[[1981]] – [[Federico Balzaretti]], Italian footballer
*[[1982]] – [[Ryan Carnes]], American actor and producer
* 1982 – [[Alberto Contador]], Spanish cyclist<ref name="UPI"></ref>
* 1982 – [[Sean Ervine]], Zimbabwean cricketer
* 1982 – [[Robbie Gould]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Robbie Gould |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/9354/robbie-gould |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
* 1982 – [[Aaron Sandilands]], Australian footballer
* 1982 – [[Susie Wolff]], Scottish race car driver
*[[1984]] – [[Syndric Steptoe]], American football player
* 1984 – [[Nora Kirkpatrick]], American actress and musician
* 1984 – [[Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland]]
*[[1985]] – [[Shannon Bobbitt]], American basketball player
* 1985 – [[Aristeidis Grigoriadis]], Greek swimmer
* 1985 – [[R. P. Singh]], Indian cricketer
*[[1986]] – [[Sean Edwards (racing driver)|Sean Edwards]], English race car driver (d. 2013)
* 1986 – [[Matt Niskanen]], American ice hockey player
*[[1988]] – [[Adam Eaton (outfielder)|Adam Eaton]], American baseball player
* 1988 – [[Ravindra Jadeja]], Indian cricketer<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ravindra Jadeja|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/234675.html|access-date=2020-07-17|website=Cricinfo}}</ref>
* 1988 – [[Sandra Nurmsalu]], Estonian singer and violinist
* 1988 – [[Nils Petersen]], German footballer
* 1988 – [[Nobunaga Shimazaki]], Japanese voice actor
*[[1989]] – [[Felix Schiller]], German footballer
*[[1990]] – [[Tamira Paszek]], Austrian tennis player
*[[1991]] – [[Rachel Jarry]], Australian basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Rachel Jarry |url=https://www.wnba.com/player/202647/rachel-jarry |publisher=[[WNBA]] |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
* 1991 – [[Milica Mandić]], Serbian taekwondo athlete<ref>{{cite web |title=MANDIC, Milica |url=http://www.taekwondodata.com/milica-mandic.ab8h.html |website=Taekwondo Data |access-date=28 July 2021}}</ref>
* 1991 – [[Coco Vandeweghe]], American tennis player
*[[1992]] – [[Viktor Antipin]], Russian ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Viktor Antipin |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/victor-antipin-8479755 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
* 1992 – [[Britt Assombalonga]], Congolese footballer
* 1992 – [[Johnny Manziel]], American football player<ref name="AP"></ref>
*[[1993]] – [[Jasprit Bumrah]], Indian cricketer
* 1993 – [[Elián González]], Cuban technician, known for a child custody and immigration case held in 2000<ref>{{cite web |title=Elián González |url=https://www.biography.com/political-figure/elian-gonzalez |website=[[Biography.com]] |date=13 May 2020 |access-date=29 September 2022}}</ref>
* 1993 – [[Tautau Moga]], Australian-Samoan rugby league player
*[[1994]] – [[Giannis Antetokounmpo]], Greek-Nigerian basketball player<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1994 – [[Wakatakakage Atsushi]], Japanese sumo wrestler<ref>{{cite web |title=Wakatakakage Atsushi profile |url=http://sumo.or.jp/EnSumoDataRikishi/profile/3761/|website=sumo.or.jp |access-date=5 December 2020}}</ref>
* 1994 – [[Shreyas Iyer]], Indian cricketer<ref>{{Cite web|title=Shreyas Iyer|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/642519.html|access-date=2020-07-17|website=Cricinfo}}</ref>
*[[1995]] – [[A Boogie wit da Hoodie]], American rapper and singer-songwriter<ref name="UPI"></ref>
*[[1996]] – [[Davide Calabria]], Italian footballer
* 1996 – [[Stefanie Scott]], American actress and singer<ref name="UPI"></ref>
*[[1997]] – [[Sabrina Ionescu]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Sabrina Ionescu |url=https://www.wnba.com/player/1629477/sabrina-ionescu |publisher=[[WNBA]] |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
*[[1998]] – [[Angelīna Kučvaļska]], Latvian figure skater
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==Deaths==
===Pre-1600===
* [[343]] – [[Saint Nicholas]], Greek bishop and saint (b. 270)
* [[735]] – [[Prince Toneri]] of Japan (b. 676)
* [[762]] – [[Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya]], Arab rebel leader (b. 710)
*[[1185]] – [[Afonso I of Portugal]] (b. 1109)
*[[1305]] – [[Maximus, Metropolitan of all Rus|Maximus, Metropolitan of Kyiv]]
*[[1306]] – [[Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk]] (b. 1270)
*[[1352]] – [[Pope Clement VI]] (b. 1291)<ref>{{cite web |title=Clement VI {{!}} pope {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clement-VI |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=20 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1562]] – [[Jan van Scorel]], Dutch painter (b. 1495)
===1601–1900===
*[[1616]] – [[Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi]], Moroccan writer, judge and mathematician (b. 1552)
*[[1618]] – [[Jacques Davy Duperron]], French cardinal (b. 1556)
*[[1658]] – [[Baltasar Gracián]], Spanish priest and author (b. 1601)
*[[1675]] – [[John Lightfoot]], English priest, scholar, and academic (b. 1602)
*[[1686]] – [[Eleonora Gonzaga (1630–1686)|Eleonora Gonzaga]], Queen consort of Ferdinand III (b. 1630)
*[[1716]] – [[Benedictus Buns]], Dutch priest and composer (b. 1642)
*[[1718]] – [[Nicholas Rowe (writer)|Nicholas Rowe]], English poet and playwright (b. 1674)
*[[1746]] – [[Lady Grizel Baillie]], Scottish poet and songwriter (b. 1665)
*[[1771]] – [[Giovanni Battista Morgagni]], Italian anatomist and pathologist (b. 1682)
*[[1779]] – [[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]], French painter (b. 1699)
*[[1788]] – [[Jonathan Shipley]], English bishop (b. 1714)
*[[1855]] – [[William John Swainson]], English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
*[[1867]] – [[Jean Pierre Flourens]], French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
*[[1868]] – [[August Schleicher]], German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
*[[1878]] – [[Theodoros Vryzakis]], Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
*[[1879]] – [[Erastus Brigham Bigelow]], American businessman (b. 1814)
*[[1882]] – [[Alfred Escher]], Swiss businessman and politician, founded [[Credit Suisse]] (b. 1819)
* 1882 – [[Anthony Trollope]], English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815)
*[[1889]] – [[Jefferson Davis]], American general and politician, [[President of the Confederate States of America]] (b. 1808)
*[[1892]] – [[Werner von Siemens]], German engineer and businessman, founded the [[Siemens|Siemens Company]] (b. 1816)
===1901–present===
*[[1918]] – [[Alexander Dianin]], Russian chemist (b. 1851)
*[[1921]] – [[Said Halim Pasha]], Ottoman politician, 280th [[List of Ottoman Grand Viziers|Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]] (b. 1865)
*[[1924]] – [[Gene Stratton-Porter]], American author and screenwriter (b. 1863)
*[[1945]] – [[Edmund Dwyer-Gray]], Irish-Australian politician, 29th [[Premier of Tasmania]] (b. 1870)
*[[1951]] – [[Harold Ross]], American journalist and publisher, founded ''[[The New Yorker]]'' (b. 1892)
*[[1955]] – [[Honus Wagner]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)
*[[1956]] – [[B. R. Ambedkar]], Indian economist and politician, 1st [[Ministry of Law and Justice (India)|Indian Minister of Justice]] (b. 1891)
*[[1961]] – [[Frantz Fanon]], Martinique-French psychiatrist and author (b. 1925)
*[[1964]] – [[Evert van Linge]], Dutch footballer and architect (b. 1895)
*[[1972]] – [[Janet Munro]], English actress and singer (b. 1934)
*[[1974]] – [[Nikolay Kuznetsov (officer)|Nikolay Kuznetsov]], Soviet naval officer (b. 1904)
*[[1976]] – [[João Goulart]], Brazilian lawyer and politician, 24th [[President of Brazil]] (b. 1918)
*[[1980]] – [[Charles Deutsch]], French engineer and businessman, co-founded [[DB (car)|DB]] (b. 1911)
*[[1982]] – [[Jean-Marie Seroney]], Kenyan activist and politician (b. 1927)
*[[1983]] – [[Lucienne Boyer]], French singer and actress (b. 1903)
* 1983 – [[Gul Khan Nasir]], Pakistani poet, historian, and politician (b. 1914)
*[[1985]] – [[Burr Tillstrom]], American actor and puppeteer (b. 1917)
* 1985 – [[Burleigh Grimes]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1893)
*1985 – [[Carroll Cole]], American serial killer, arsonist, and cannibal (b. 1938)<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/07/us/confessed-murderer-of-13-is-executed-in-nevada.html | title=Confessed Murderer of 13 is Executed in Nevada | work=The New York Times | date=7 December 1985 }}</ref>
*[[1988]] – [[Roy Orbison]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
*[[1989]] – [[Frances Bavier]], American actress (b. 1902)
* 1989 – [[Sammy Fain]], American pianist and composer (b. 1902)
* 1989 – [[John Payne (actor)|John Payne]], American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1912)
*[[1990]] – [[Pavlos Sidiropoulos]], Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
* 1990 – [[Tunku Abdul Rahman]], Malaysian lawyer and politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Malaysia]] (b. 1903)
*[[1991]] – [[Mimi Smith]], English nurse (b. 1906)
* 1991 – [[Richard Stone]], English economist and statistician, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1913)
*[[1993]] – [[Don Ameche]], American actor (b. 1908)
*[[1994]] – [[Heinz Baas]], German footballer and manager (b. 1922)
* 1994 – [[Gian Maria Volonté]], Italian actor and director (b. 1933)
*[[1996]] – [[Pete Rozelle]], American businessman (b. 1926)
*[[1997]] – [[Willy den Ouden]], Dutch swimmer (b. 1918)
*[[1998]] – [[César Baldaccini]], French sculptor and educator (b. 1921)
*[[2000]] – [[Werner Klemperer]], German-American actor (b. 1920)
* 2000 – [[Aziz Mian]], Pakistani singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1942)
*[[2001]] – [[Charles McClendon]], American football player and coach (b. 1923)
*[[2002]] – [[Philip Berrigan]], American priest and activist (b. 1923)
*[[2003]] – [[Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio]], Guatemalan general and politician, [[President of Guatemala]] (b. 1918)
*[[2005]] – [[Charly Gaul]], Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1932)
* 2005 – [[Devan Nair]], Malaysian-Singaporean union leader and politician, 3rd [[President of Singapore]] (b. 1923)
* 2005 – [[Danny Williams (singer)|Danny Williams]], South African singer (b. 1942)
* 2005 – [[William P. Yarborough]], American general (b. 1912)
*[[2006]] – [[John Feeney (filmmaker)|John Feeney]], New Zealand director and producer (b. 1922)
*[[2010]] – [[Mark Dailey]], American-Canadian journalist and actor (b. 1953)
*[[2011]] – [[Dobie Gray]], American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
*[[2012]] – [[Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó]], Equatoguinean engineer and politician, [[Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea]] (b. 1961)
* 2012 – [[Jan Carew]], Guyanese author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
* 2012 – [[Jeffrey Koo Sr.]], Taiwanese banker and businessman (b. 1933)
* 2012 – [[Huw Lloyd-Langton]], English guitarist (b. 1951)
* 2012 – [[Pedro Vaz (diplomat)|Pedro Vaz]], Uruguayan lawyer and politician, [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Uruguay)|Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay]] (b. 1963)
*[[2013]] – [[Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers]], French poet and critic (b. 1939)
* 2013 – [[Stan Tracey]], English pianist and composer (b. 1926)
* 2013 – [[M. K. Turk]], American basketball player and coach (b. 1942)
*[[2014]] – [[Ralph H. Baer]], German-American video game designer, created the [[Magnavox Odyssey]] (b. 1922)
* 2014 – [[Jimmy Del Ray]], American wrestler and manager (b. 1962)
* 2014 – [[Fred Hawkins (golfer)|Fred Hawkins]], American golfer (b. 1923)
* 2014 – [[Luke Somers]], English-American photographer and journalist (b. 1981)
*[[2015]] – [[Ko Chun-hsiung]], Taiwanese actor, director, and politician (b. 1945)
* 2015 – [[Liu Juying]], Chinese general and politician (b. 1917)
* 2015 – [[Nicholas Smith (actor)|Nicholas Smith]], British actor (b. 1934)
*[[2016]] – [[Peter Vaughan]], British actor (b. 1923)
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==Holidays and observances==
* [[Anniversary of the Founding of Quito]] ([[Ecuador]])
* [[Armed Forces Day#Ukraine|Armed Forces Day]] ([[Ukraine]])
* Christian [[feast day]]:
** [[Abraham of Kratia]]
** [[Saint Aemilianus|Aemilianus]] ([[Roman Catholic Church]])
** [[Denise, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilianus, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus|Denise and companions]]
**[[Beatification|Blessed]] [[János Scheffler]]
** [[María del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras]]
** [[Saint Nicholas|Nicholas of Myra]], and its related observances:
*** [[St Nicholas Day]], where [[St. Nicholas]]/[[Santa Claus]] leaves little presents in children's shoes. ([[International observance|International]])
** [[December 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]]
* [[Constitution Day (Spain)]]
* [[Azerbaijan|Day of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan]]
* [[Independence Day (Finland)|Independence Day]], celebrates the [[independence of Finland]] from [[Russia]] in 1917.
* [[National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women]] ([[Canada]])
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==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[1060]] – [[Béla I of Hungary|Béla I]] is crowned king of [[Kingdom of Hungary in the Middle Ages|Hungary]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Steinhübel|first=Ján|title=The Nitrian Principality: The Beginnings of Medieval Slovakia|location=Leiden, Netherlands|publisher=Brill|date=2021|isbn=9789004437821|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vqUPEAAAQBAJ|page=447}}</ref>
*[[1240]] – [[Mongol invasion of Rus']]: [[Kyiv]], defended by [[Voivode Dmytro]], [[Siege of Kiev (1240)|falls]] to the [[Mongols]] under [[Batu Khan]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Langer|first=Lawrence|title=Historical Dictionary of Medieval Russia|location=Lanham. Md.|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|date=2021|isbn=9781538119419|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8I6EAAAQBAJ|page=130}}</ref>
*[[1492]] – After exploring the island of [[Cuba]] (which he had mistaken for [[Japan]]) for gold, [[Christopher Columbus]] lands on an island he names [[Hispaniola]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Fisher|first=Robert John|title=The Economic Aspects of Spanish Imperialism in America: 1492—1810|location=Liverpool, U.K.|publisher=Liverpool University Press|date=1997|isbn=9780853235521|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHRvEAAAQBAJ|page=16}}</ref>
*[[1534]] – The city of [[Quito]] in [[Ecuador]] is founded by Spanish settlers led by [[Sebastián de Belalcázar]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Newson|first=Linda A.|title=Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador|location=Norman, Okla.|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|date=1995|isbn=9780806126975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P6oBA7UsdawC|page=174}}</ref>
===1601–1900===
*[[1648]] – [[Pride's Purge]] removes royalist sympathizers from Parliament so that the [[High Court of Justice (1649)|High Court of Justice]] could put the King on trial.
*[[1704]] – [[Battle of Chamkaur (1704)|Battle of Chamkaur]]: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered [[Khalsa|Sikh Khalsa]] defeats a [[Mughal Empire|Mughal]] army.
*[[1745]] – [[Charles Edward Stuart]]'s army begins retreat during the [[Jacobite rising of 1745|second Jacobite Rising]].
*[[1790]] – The [[United States Congress|U.S. Congress]] moves from [[New York City]] to [[Philadelphia]].
*[[1803]] – Five [[French Navy|French warships]] attempting to escape the [[Blockade of Saint-Domingue|Royal Naval blockade of Saint-Domingue]] are all seized by British warships, signifying the end of the [[Haitian Revolution]].<ref name="EPB294">{{cite book | last = Brenton | first = Edward Pelham | author-link = Edward Pelham Brenton | year = 1837| title = The Naval History of Great Britain, Vol. III | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-2cUAAAAQAAJ&q=edward+pelham+brenton | publisher = C Rice|page= 294 |location = London}}</ref>
*[[1865]] – [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] ratifies the [[13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2013/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2013.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225114303/http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/GPO-CONAN-2013/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2013.pdf |archive-date=2014-02-25 |url-status=live|title=THE CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION Centennial Edition INTERIM EDITION: ANALYSIS OF CASES DECIDED BY THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES TO JUNE 26, 2013s|access-date=February 17, 2014|last=U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE|first=112th Congress, 2nd Session, SENATE DOCUMENT No. 112–9|page=30|date=2013}}</ref>
*[[1882]] – [[1882 transit of Venus|Transit of Venus]], second and last of the [[19th century]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-03|title=The American Transit of Venus Expeditions of 1882, Including San Antonio|url=http://aas.org/archives/BAAS/v27n4/aas187/S035002.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303212432/http://aas.org/archives/BAAS/v27n4/aas187/S035002.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-03-03|access-date=2020-07-01}}</ref>
*[[1884]] – The [[Washington Monument]] in Washington, D.C., is completed.
*[[1897]] – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed [[taxicab]]s.
===1901–present===
*[[1904]] – [[Theodore Roosevelt]] articulated his [[Roosevelt Corollary|"Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine]], stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
*[[1907]] – A [[Monongah mining disaster|coal mine explosion]] at [[Monongah, West Virginia]], kills 362 workers.
*[[1912]] – The [[Nefertiti Bust]] is discovered.
*[[1916]] – [[World War I]]: The Central Powers [[Battle of Bucharest|capture Bucharest]].
*[[1917]] – [[Finnish Declaration of Independence|Finland declares independence]] from [[Russian Empire|the Russian Empire]].
* 1917 – [[Halifax Explosion]]: A munitions explosion near [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]] kills more than 1,900 people in the [[Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions#Largest accidental artificial non-nuclear explosions by magnitude|largest artificial explosion up to that time]].
* 1917 – World War I: {{USS|Jacob Jones|DD-61|6}} is the first American [[destroyer]] to be sunk by enemy action when it is [[torpedo]]ed by German submarine {{ship|SM|U-53}}.<ref>{{cite news |title=US World War One wreck found off Cornish coast |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cornwall-62597453 |access-date=20 August 2022}}</ref>
*[[1921]] – The [[Anglo-Irish Treaty]] is signed in [[London]] by British and Irish representatives.
*[[1922]] – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the [[Irish Free State]] comes into existence.
*[[1928]] – The government of Colombia [[Banana massacre|sends military forces]] to suppress a month-long [[strike action|strike]] by [[United Fruit Company]] workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
*[[1933]] – In [[United States v. One Book Called Ulysses]] Judge [[John M. Woolsey]] rules that [[James Joyce]]'s novel ''[[Ulysses (novel)|Ulysses]]'' is not obscene despite coarse language and sexual content, a leading decision affirming free expression.
*[[1941]] – [[World War II]]: [[Camp X]] opens in Canada to begin training Allied secret agents for the war.
*[[1956]] – A violent [[Blood in the Water match|water polo match]] between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the [[1956 Summer Olympics]] in [[Melbourne]], against the backdrop of the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1956]].
*[[1957]] – [[Project Vanguard]]: A [[Launch pad|launchpad]] explosion of [[Vanguard TV3]] thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a [[satellite]] into Earth orbit.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burgess |first1=Colin |last2=Hall |first2=Rex |title=The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact |date=2009 |publisher=Springer |location=Berlin |isbn=9780387848235 |pages=8–9 |lccn=2008935694}}</ref>
*[[1967]] – [[Adrian Kantrowitz]] performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
*[[1969]] – [[Altamont Free Concert]]: At a free concert performed by the [[Rolling Stones]], eighteen-year old Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by [[Hells Angels]] security guards.
*[[1971]] – Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971]].
*[[1973]] – [[Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|The Twenty-fifth Amendment]]: The [[United States House of Representatives]] votes 387–35 to confirm [[Gerald Ford]] as [[Vice President of the United States]]. (On [[November 27]], the [[United States Senate|Senate]] confirmed him 92–3.)
*[[1975]] – [[The Troubles]]: Fleeing from the police, a [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Provisional IRA]] unit takes a British couple hostage in their flat on Balcombe Street, London, beginning a [[Balcombe Street siege|six-day siege]].
*[[1977]] – South Africa grants independence to [[Bophuthatswana]], although it is not recognized by any other country.
*[[1978]] – Spain ratifies the [[Spanish Constitution of 1978]] in a referendum.<ref>{{cite web |title=Spain starts a new post-Franco era - archive, 1978 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2018/jun/01/spain-constitution-new-era-1978 |website=The Guardian |access-date=8 March 2022 |language=en |date=1 June 2018}}</ref>
*[[1982]] – The Troubles: The [[Irish National Liberation Army]] [[Droppin Well bombing|bombs a pub]] frequented by British soldiers in [[Ballykelly, County Londonderry|Ballykelly, Northern Ireland]], killing eleven soldiers and six civilians.
*[[1989]] – The [[École Polytechnique massacre]] (or Montreal Massacre): [[Marc Lépine]], an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the [[École Polytechnique de Montréal|École Polytechnique]] in [[Montreal]].
*[[1990]] – A military jet of the [[Italian Air Force]], abandoned by its pilot after an on-board fire, [[1990 Italian Air Force MB-326 crash|crashed into a high school]] near [[Bologna]], Italy, killing 12 students and injuring 88 other people.<ref name="NYT-01">{{cite news| title=Jet Hits a School in Italy, Killing 12 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/07/world/jet-hits-a-school-in-italy-killing-12.html | access-date=13 September 2020 | work=[[The New York Times]] | agency=[[Associated Press]] | date=7 December 1990 }}</ref>
*[[1991]] – [[Yugoslav Wars]]: In [[Croatia]], forces of the Serb-dominated [[Yugoslav People's Army]] (JNA) heaviest bombardment of [[Dubrovnik]] during a siege of seven months.
*[[1992]] – The [[Babri Masjid]] in [[Ayodhya]], India, is [[Demolition of the Babri Masjid|demolished]], leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1,500 people.
*[[1998]] – in [[Venezuela]], [[Hugo Chávez]] is victorious in presidential elections.
*[[1999]] – ''[[A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc. (2000)|A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.]]'': The [[Recording Industry Association of America]] sues the [[peer-to-peer]] [[file sharing|file-sharing]] service [[Napster]], alleging [[copyright infringement]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp2/114/896/2343353/| title = A & M RECORDS, INC. v. Napster, Inc., 114 F. Supp. 2d 896 (N.D. Cal. 2000)}}</ref>
*[[2005]] – An [[Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force|Iranian Air Force]] [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules|C-130]] military transport aircraft [[2005 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash|crashes into a ten-floor apartment building]] in a residential area of [[Tehran]], killing all 94 on board and 12 more on the ground.
*[[2006]] – [[NASA]] reveals photographs taken by [[Mars Global Surveyor]] suggesting the presence of liquid [[water on Mars]].
*[[2015]] – [[2015 Venezuelan parliamentary election|Venezuelan parliamentary election]]: For the first time in 17 years, the [[United Socialist Party of Venezuela]] loses its majority in parliament.
*[[2017]] – [[Donald Trump]]'s administration officially announces [[United States recognition of Jerusalem as Israeli capital|the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel]].
==Births==
===Pre-1600===
* [[846]] – [[Hasan al-Askari]], Arabian 11th of [[the Twelve Imams]] (d. 874)
*[[1285]] – [[Ferdinand IV of Castile]] (d. 1312)<ref>{{cite web |title=Ferdinand IV {{!}} king of Castile and Leon |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdinand-IV-king-of-Castile-and-Leon |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=18 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1421]] – [[Henry VI of England]] (d. 1471)
*[[1478]] – [[Baldassare Castiglione]], Italian courtier, diplomat, and author (d. 1529)
*[[1520]] – [[Barbara Radziwiłł]], queen of Poland (d. 1551)
*[[1545]] – [[Janus Dousa]], Dutch historian and noble (d. 1604)
*[[1586]] – [[Niccolò Zucchi]], Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1670)
*[[1592]] – [[William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle]] (d. 1676)
===1601–1900===
*[[1608]] – [[George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle]], English general and politician, [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]] (d. 1670)
*[[1637]] – [[Edmund Andros]], English courtier and politician, 4th [[Colonial Governor of New York]] (d. 1714)
*[[1640]] – [[Claude Fleury]], French historian and author (d. 1723)
*[[1645]] – [[Maria de Dominici]], Maltese sculptor and painter (d. 1703)<ref>{{cite book|first1=Delia|last1=Gaze|first2=Maja|last2=Mihajlovic|first3=Leanda|last3=Shrimpton|title=Dictionary of women artists|location=London|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn|year=1997|page=462|isbn=978-1-88496-421-3}}</ref>
*[[1685]] – [[Marie Adélaïde of Savoy]] (d. 1712)
*[[1721]] – [[Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes]], French minister and politician (d. 1794)
* 1721 – [[James Elphinston]], Scottish philologist and linguist (d. 1809)
*[[1732]] – [[Warren Hastings]], British colonial administrator of India (d. 1818)<ref>{{Cite book |author=Sir Alfred Lyall |title=Warren Hastings |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91491 |year=1889 |publisher=Macmillan and Co.}} p. 1.</ref>
*[[1752]] – [[Gabriel Duvall]], American jurist and politician (d. 1844)
*[[1778]] – [[Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac]], French physicist and chemist (d. 1850)
*[[1792]] – [[William II of the Netherlands]] (d. 1849)
*[[1803]] – [[Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony]] (d. 1829)
*[[1805]] – [[Richard Hanson (Australian politician)|Richard Hanson]], English-Australian politician, 4th [[Premier of South Australia]] (d. 1876)
*[[1812]] – [[Robert Spear Hudson]], English businessman and philanthropist (d. 1884)
*[[1823]] – [[Max Müller]], German-English philologist and orientalist (d. 1900)
*[[1827]] – [[William Arnott (biscuit manufacturer)|William Arnott]], Australian biscuit manufacturer and founder of [[Arnott's Biscuits]] (d. 1901)
*[[1833]] – [[John S. Mosby]], American colonel (d. 1916)
*[[1835]] – [[Wilhelm Rudolph Fittig]], German chemist (d. 1910)
*[[1841]] – [[Frédéric Bazille]], French painter and soldier (d. 1870)
*[[1848]] – [[Johann Palisa]], Austrian astronomer (d. 1925)<ref>{{cite web |title = Johann Palisa, the most successful visual discoverer of asteroids |author = Herbert Raab |author-link = Herbert Raab |publisher = Astrometrica |url = http://www.astrometrica.at/Papers/Palisa.pdf |access-date = 15 July 2020 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author = Anneliese Schnell |author-link = :de:Anneliese Schnell |title = The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers |date = 2007 |publisher = Springer, New York, NY |doi = 10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_1046 }}</ref>
*[[1849]] – [[August von Mackensen]], German field marshal (d. 1945)
*[[1853]] – [[Hans Molisch]], Czech-Austrian botanist and academic (d. 1937)
* 1853 – [[Haraprasad Shastri]], Indian historian and scholar (d. 1931)
*[[1863]] – [[Charles Martin Hall]], American chemist and engineer (d. 1914)
*[[1864]] – [[William S. Hart]], American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1946)
*[[1872]] – [[Arthur Henry Adams]], Australian journalist and author (d. 1936)
*[[1875]] – [[Albert Bond Lambert]], American golfer and pilot (d. 1946)
* 1875 – [[Evelyn Underhill]], English mystic and author (d. 1941)
*[[1876]] – [[Fred Duesenberg]], German-American businessman, co-founded the [[Duesenberg|Duesenberg Automobile & Motors Company]] (d. 1932)
*[[1878]] – [[Elvia Carrillo Puerto]], Mexican politician (d. 1968)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.senado.gob.mx/hoy/elvia_carrillo/biografia.php|title=Elvia Carrillo Puerto|website=www.senado.gob.mx|language=es|access-date=2018-08-03}}</ref>
*[[1882]] – [[Warren Bardsley]], Australian cricketer (d. 1954)
*[[1884]] – [[Cornelia Meigs]], American author, playwright, and academic (d. 1973)
*[[1886]] – [[Joyce Kilmer]], American soldier, author, and poet (d. 1918)
*[[1887]] – [[Lynn Fontanne]], British actress (d. 1983)
* 1887 – [[Joseph Lamb (composer)|Joseph Lamb]], American pianist and composer (d. 1960)
*[[1888]] – [[Will Hay]], English actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1949)
*[[1890]] – [[Dion Fortune]], Welsh occultist, psychologist, and author (d. 1946)
* 1890 – [[Yoshio Nishina]], Japanese physicist and academic (d. 1951)
* 1890 – [[Rudolf Schlichter]], German painter and illustrator (d. 1955)
*[[1892]] – [[Osbert Sitwell]], English-Italian captain, poet, and author (d. 1969)
*[[1893]] – [[Homer N. Wallin]], American admiral (d. 1984)
* 1893 – [[Sylvia Townsend Warner]], English author and poet (d. 1978)
*[[1896]] – [[Ira Gershwin]], American songwriter (d. 1983)
*[[1898]] – [[Alfred Eisenstaedt]], German-American photographer and journalist (d. 1995)
* 1898 – [[John McDonald (Victorian politician)|John McDonald]], Scottish-Australian politician, 37th [[Premier of Victoria]] (d. 1977)
* 1898 – [[Gunnar Myrdal]], Swedish sociologist and economist, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 1987)
* 1898 – [[Winifred Lenihan]], American actress, writer, and director (d. 1964)
*[[1900]] – [[Agnes Moorehead]], American actress (d. 1974)
===1901–present===
*[[1901]] – [[Eliot Porter]], American photographer and academic (d. 1990)
*[[1903]] – [[Tony Lazzeri]], American baseball player and manager (d. 1946)
*[[1904]] – [[Ève Curie]], French-American journalist and pianist (d. 2007)<ref name="UPI">{{cite web |title=Famous birthdays for Dec. 6: Judd Apatow, Tom Hulce |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2022/12/06/Famous-birthdays-for-Dec-6-Judd-Apatow-Tom-Hulce/5631670284105/ |publisher=[[UPI]] |access-date=4 December 2023 |date=6 December 2022}}</ref>
*[[1905]] – [[Elizabeth Yates (author)|Elizabeth Yates]], American journalist and author (d. 2001)
*[[1907]] – [[John Barkley Rosser Sr.]], American logician (d. 1989)
*[[1908]] – [[Herta Freitag]], Austrian-American mathematician (d. 2000)
* 1908 – [[Pierre Graber]], Swiss lawyer and politician, 69th [[List of Presidents of the Swiss Confederation|President of the Swiss Confederation]] (d. 2003)
* 1908 – [[Baby Face Nelson]], American gangster (d. 1934)<ref name="UPI"></ref>
* 1908 – [[Miklós Szabó (middle-distance runner)|Miklós Szabó]], Hungarian runner (d. 2000)
*[[1909]] – [[Rulon Jeffs]], American religious leader (d. 2002)
* 1909 – [[Alan McGilvray]], Australian cricketer and sportscaster (d. 1996)
*[[1910]] – [[David M. Potter]], American historian, author, and academic (d. 1971)
*[[1913]] – [[Karl Haas]], German-American pianist, conductor, and radio host (d. 2005)
* 1913 – [[Eleanor Holm]], American swimmer and actress (d. 2004)
*[[1914]] – [[Cyril Washbrook]], English cricketer (d. 1999)
*[[1916]] – [[Yekaterina Budanova]], Russian captain and pilot (d. 1943)
* 1916 – [[Kristján Eldjárn]], Icelandic educator and politician, 3rd [[President of Iceland]] (d. 1982)
* 1916 – [[Hugo Peretti]], American songwriter and producer (d. 1986)
*[[1917]] – [[Dean Hess]], American minister and colonel (d. 2015)
* 1917 – [[Kamal Jumblatt]], Lebanese lawyer and politician (d. 1977)
* 1917 – [[Irv Robbins]], Canadian-American businessman, co-founded [[Baskin-Robbins]] (d. 2008)
*[[1918]] – [[Tauba Biterman]], Polish Holocaust survivor (d. 2019)
*[[1919]] – [[Skippy Baxter]], Canadian-American figure skater and coach (d. 2012)
* 1919 – [[Paul de Man]], Belgian-born philosopher, literary critic and theorist (d. 1983)
*[[1920]] – [[Dave Brubeck]], American pianist and composer (d. 2012)<ref name="UPI"></ref>
* 1920 – [[Peter Dimmock]], English sportscaster and producer (d. 2015)
* 1920 – [[George Porter]], English chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (d. 2002)
*[[1921]] – [[Otto Graham]], American football player and coach (d. 2003)<ref name="UPI"></ref>
* 1921 – [[Piero Piccioni]], Italian lawyer, pianist, and composer (d. 2004)
*[[1922]] – [[John Brunt]], English captain, [[Victoria Cross]] recipient (d. 1944)
* 1922 – [[Benjamin A. Gilman]], American soldier and politician (d. 2016)
*[[1924]] – [[Wally Cox]], American actor (d. 1973)
*[[1927]] – [[Jim Fuchs]], American shot putter and discus thrower (d. 2010)
*[[1928]] – [[Bobby Van]], American actor, dancer, and singer (d. 1980)
*[[1929]] – [[Philippe Bouvard]], French journalist and radio host
* 1929 – [[Nikolaus Harnoncourt]], German-Austrian cellist and conductor (d. 2016)
* 1929 – [[Frank Springer]], American comic book illustrator (d. 2009)
* 1929 – [[Alain Tanner]], Swiss director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2022)
*[[1930]] – [[Daniel Lisulo]], Zambian banker and politician, 3rd [[Prime Minister of Zambia]] (d. 2000)
*[[1931]] – [[Zeki Müren]], Turkish singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1996)
*[[1932]] – [[Kamleshwar (writer)|Kamleshwar]], Indian author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2007)
*[[1933]] – [[Henryk Górecki]], Polish composer and academic (d. 2010)
* 1933 – [[Donald J. Kutyna]], American general
*[[1934]] – [[Nick Bockwinkel]], American wrestler, sportscaster, and actor (d. 2015)
*[[1935]] – [[Jean Lapointe]], Canadian actor, singer, and politician (d. 2022)
*[[1936]] – [[Bill Ashton (jazz musician)|Bill Ashton]], English saxophonist and composer
* 1936 – [[Kenneth Copeland]], American evangelist and author
* 1936 – [[David Ossman]], American writer and comedian
*[[1937]] – [[Alberto Spencer]], Ecuadorian-American soccer player (d. 2006)
*[[1938]] – [[Patrick Bauchau]], Belgian-American actor<ref name="AP"></ref>
*[[1939]] – [[Franco Carraro]], Italian politician and sports administrator
*[[1940]] – [[Lawrence Bergman]], Canadian lawyer and politician
* 1940 – [[Richard Edlund]], American visual effects designer and cinematographer
*[[1941]] – [[Helen Cornelius]], American country singer-songwriter and actress<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1941 – [[Bruce Nauman]], American sculptor and illustrator
* 1941 – [[Richard Speck]], American murderer (d. 1991)
* 1941 – [[Bill Thomas]], American academic and politician
*[[1942]] – [[Peter Handke]], Austrian author and playwright, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate
* 1942 – [[Robb Royer]], American guitarist, keyboard player, and songwriter
*[[1943]] – [[Mike Smith (Dave Clark Five)|Mike Smith]], English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (d. 2008)
* 1943 – [[Keith West]], English rock singer-songwriter and music producer
*[[1944]] – [[Jonathan King]], English singer-songwriter, record producer, music entrepreneur, television/radio presenter, and convicted sex offender
*[[1945]] – [[Shekhar Kapur]], Indian director, producer, and screenwriter<ref name="UPI"></ref>
*[[1946]] – [[Frankie Beverly]], American soul/funk singer-songwriter, musician, and producer<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1946 – [[Willy van der Kuijlen]], Dutch footballer and manager (d. 2021)
*[[1947]] – [[Lawrence Cannon]], Canadian businessman and politician, 9th [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada)|Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs]]
* 1947 – [[Henk van Woerden]], Dutch-South African painter and author (d. 2005)
* 1947 – [[Miroslav Vitouš]], Czech-American bassist and songwriter
*[[1948]] – [[Jean-Paul Ngoupandé]], Central African politician, [[Prime Minister of the Central African Republic]] (d. 2014)
* 1948 – [[Don Nickles]], American businessman and politician
* 1948 – [[Keke Rosberg]], Finnish racing driver<ref>{{Cite web | first=Juha | last=Kärkkäinen | title=Rosberg, Keijo (1948 - ) | work=[[Suomen kansallisbiografia|National Biography of Finland]] | url=https://kansallisbiografia.fi/english/person/1934 | access-date=1 September 2021}}</ref>
* 1948 – [[JoBeth Williams]], American actress<ref name="UPI"></ref>
*[[1949]] – [[Linda Barnes (writer)|Linda Barnes]], American author, playwright, and educator
* 1949 – [[Linda Creed]], American singer-songwriter (d. 1986)
* 1949 – [[Doug Marlette]], American author and cartoonist (d. 2007)
* 1949 – [[Peter Willey]], English cricketer and umpire
*[[1950]] – [[Guy Drut]], French hurdler and politician
* 1950 – [[Joe Hisaishi]], Japanese pianist, composer, and conductor
* 1950 – [[Helen Liddell, Baroness Liddell of Coatdyke]], Scottish journalist and politician, [[Secretary of State for Scotland]]
*[[1951]] – [[Wendy Ellis Somes]], English ballerina and producer
* 1951 – [[Maurice Hope]], Caribbean-English boxer<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/sport/maurice-hope-became-a-true-boxing-hero-of-hackney-6577764|title=World light-middleweight champ Hope became a true boxing hero of Hackney|date=November 26, 2020|author=Chris Kempson|website=Hackney Gazette|access-date=September 1, 2021}}</ref>
*[[1952]] – [[Nicolas Bréhal]], French author and critic (d. 1999)
* 1952 – [[Craig Newmark]], American computer programmer and entrepreneur; founded [[Craigslist]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/feb/19/news.theobserver1 |title=The nerd who became a crusader |last=Harris |first=Paul |date=February 18, 2006 |website=The Guardian |publisher= |access-date=January 4, 2021}}</ref>
* 1952 – [[Shio Satō]], Japanese illustrator (d. 2010)
*[[1953]] – [[Sue Carroll]], English journalist (d. 2011)
* 1953 – [[Gary Goodman]], Australian cricketer and coach
* 1953 – [[Geoff Hoon]], English academic and politician, [[Minister of State for Europe]]
* 1953 – [[Tom Hulce]], American actor<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1953 – [[Masami Kurumada]], Japanese author and illustrator
*[[1954]] – [[Nicola De Maria]], Italian painter
* 1954 – [[Chris Stamey]], American singer-songwriter, musician, and music producer
*[[1955]] – [[Anne Begg]], Scottish educator and politician
* 1955 – [[Rick Buckler]], English drummer, songwriter, and producer<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1955 – [[Graeme Hughes]], Australian cricketer, rugby league player, and sportscaster
* 1955 – [[Tony Woodcock (footballer)|Tony Woodcock]], English footballer
* 1955 – [[Steven Wright]], American actor, comedian, and screenwriter<ref name="AP"></ref>
*[[1956]] – [[Peter Buck]], American guitarist, songwriter, and producer<ref name="AP">{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Mike |title=Today's famous birthdays list for December 6, 2022 includes celebrities Judd Apatow, Lindsay Price |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/12/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-december-6-2022-includes-celebrities-judd-apatow-lindsay-price.html |website=[[The Plain Dealer]] |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=4 December 2023 |date=6 December 2022}}</ref>
* 1956 – [[Hans Kammerlander]], Italian mountaineer and guide
* 1956 – [[Randy Rhoads]], American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (d. 1982)
*[[1957]] – [[Adrian Borland]], English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1999)
* 1957 – [[Andrew Cuomo]], American politician, 56th [[Governor of New York]]<ref name="UPI"></ref>
* 1957 – [[Bill Hanzlik]], American basketball player and coach<ref>{{cite web |title=Bill Hanzlik |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/76944/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
*[[1958]] – [[Nick Park]], English animator, director, producer, and screenwriter<ref name="UPI"></ref>
*[[1959]] – [[Deborah Estrin]], American computer scientist and academic
* 1959 – [[Stephen Hepburn]], English politician
* 1959 – [[Satoru Iwata]], Japanese game programmer and businessman (d. 2015)<ref name="UPI"></ref>
* 1959 – [[Stephen Muggleton]], English computer scientist and engineer
*[[1960]] – [[Masahiko Katsuya]], Japanese journalist and photographer (d. 2018)
*[[1961]] – [[David Lovering]], American drummer<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1961 – [[Jonathan Melvoin]], American musician (d. 1996)
* 1961 – [[Manuel Reuter]], German race car driver
*[[1962]] – [[Janine Turner]], American actress<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1962 – [[Ben Watt]], English singer-songwriter, musician, author, DJ, and radio presenter<ref name="AP"></ref>
*[[1963]] – [[Ulrich Thomsen]], Danish actor and producer
*[[1964]] – [[Mall Nukke]], Estonian painter
*[[1965]] – [[Gordon Durie]], Scottish footballer and manager
*[[1966]] – [[Natascha Badmann]], Swiss triathlete
* 1966 – [[Per-Ulrik Johansson]], Swedish golfer
*[[1967]] – [[Judd Apatow]], American director, producer, and screenwriter<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1967 – [[Helen Greiner]], American businesswoman and engineer
* 1967 – [[Arnaldo Mesa]], Cuban boxer (d. 2012)
*[[1968]] – [[Karl Ove Knausgård]], Norwegian author<ref name="UPI"></ref>
* 1968 – [[Ali Latifiyan]], Iranian writer and political theorist
* 1968 – [[Akihiro Yano]], Japanese baseball player
*[[1969]] – [[Torri Higginson]], Canadian actress
*[[1970]] – [[Ulf Ekberg]], Swedish singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1970 – [[Adrian Fenty]], American lawyer and politician, 6th [[Mayor of the District of Columbia]]
* 1970 – [[Mark Reckless]], English politician
* 1970 – [[Jeff Rouse]], American swimmer
*[[1971]] – [[Craig Brewer]], American director, producer, and screenwriter
* 1971 – [[José Contreras]], Cuban baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Jose Contreras |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/jose-contreras-425747 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
* 1971 – [[Richard Krajicek]], Dutch tennis player
* 1971 – [[Naozumi Takahashi]], Japanese singer and voice actor
* 1971 – [[Carole Thate]], Dutch field hockey player
* 1971 – [[Ryan White]], American activist (d. 1990)<ref name="UPI"></ref>
*[[1972]] – [[Ewan Birney]], English scientist<ref name=oralhistorygenome>{{cite web|url=https://www.genome.gov/sites/default/files/media/files/2020-07/OralHistory_EwanBirney_transcript.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201011022359/https://www.genome.gov/sites/default/files/media/files/2020-07/OralHistory_EwanBirney_transcript.pdf |archive-date=2020-10-11 |url-status=live|website=genome.gov|publisher=[[National Human Genome Research Institute]]|author=Anon|year=2017|title=So, I am Ewan Birney}}</ref>
* 1972 – [[Heather Mizeur]], American lawyer and politician
* 1972 – [[Sarah Rafferty]], American Actress
*[[1974]] – [[Jens Pulver]], American mixed martial artist and boxer
* 1974 – [[Nick Stajduhar]], Canadian ice hockey player
*[[1975]] – [[Noel Clarke]], English actor, director, and screenwriter
* 1975 – [[Adrian García Arias]], Mexican footballer
*[[1976]] – [[Lindsay Price]], American actress<ref name="AP"></ref>
*[[1977]] – [[Kevin Cash]], American baseball player and manager
* 1977 – [[Andrew Flintoff]], English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
* 1977 – [[Paul McVeigh]], Irish footballer
*[[1978]] – [[Chris Başak]], American baseball player
* 1978 – [[Darrell Jackson]], American football player
* 1978 – [[Adriana Moisés Pinto]], Brazilian basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Adriana Moises Pinto |url=https://www.wnba.com/player/100718/adriana-moises-pinto |publisher=[[WNBA]] |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
* 1978 – [[Ramiro Pez]], Argentine rugby player
*[[1979]] – [[Tim Cahill]], Australian footballer
*[[1980]] – [[Danielle Downey]], American golfer and coach (d. 2014)
* 1980 – [[Steve Lovell]], English footballer
* 1980 – [[Carlos Takam]], Cameroonian-French boxer
*[[1981]] – [[Federico Balzaretti]], Italian footballer
*[[1982]] – [[Ryan Carnes]], American actor and producer
* 1982 – [[Alberto Contador]], Spanish cyclist<ref name="UPI"></ref>
* 1982 – [[Sean Ervine]], Zimbabwean cricketer
* 1982 – [[Robbie Gould]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Robbie Gould |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/9354/robbie-gould |publisher=[[ESPN]] |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
* 1982 – [[Aaron Sandilands]], Australian footballer
* 1982 – [[Susie Wolff]], Scottish race car driver
*[[1984]] – [[Syndric Steptoe]], American football player
* 1984 – [[Nora Kirkpatrick]], American actress and musician
* 1984 – [[Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland]]
*[[1985]] – [[Shannon Bobbitt]], American basketball player
* 1985 – [[Aristeidis Grigoriadis]], Greek swimmer
* 1985 – [[R. P. Singh]], Indian cricketer
*[[1986]] – [[Sean Edwards (racing driver)|Sean Edwards]], English race car driver (d. 2013)
* 1986 – [[Matt Niskanen]], American ice hockey player
*[[1988]] – [[Adam Eaton (outfielder)|Adam Eaton]], American baseball player
* 1988 – [[Ravindra Jadeja]], Indian cricketer<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ravindra Jadeja|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/234675.html|access-date=2020-07-17|website=Cricinfo}}</ref>
* 1988 – [[Sandra Nurmsalu]], Estonian singer and violinist
* 1988 – [[Nils Petersen]], German footballer
* 1988 – [[Nobunaga Shimazaki]], Japanese voice actor
*[[1989]] – [[Felix Schiller]], German footballer
*[[1990]] – [[Tamira Paszek]], Austrian tennis player
*[[1991]] – [[Rachel Jarry]], Australian basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Rachel Jarry |url=https://www.wnba.com/player/202647/rachel-jarry |publisher=[[WNBA]] |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
* 1991 – [[Milica Mandić]], Serbian taekwondo athlete<ref>{{cite web |title=MANDIC, Milica |url=http://www.taekwondodata.com/milica-mandic.ab8h.html |website=Taekwondo Data |access-date=28 July 2021}}</ref>
* 1991 – [[Coco Vandeweghe]], American tennis player
*[[1992]] – [[Viktor Antipin]], Russian ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Viktor Antipin |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/victor-antipin-8479755 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
* 1992 – [[Britt Assombalonga]], Congolese footballer
* 1992 – [[Johnny Manziel]], American football player<ref name="AP"></ref>
*[[1993]] – [[Jasprit Bumrah]], Indian cricketer
* 1993 – [[Elián González]], Cuban technician, known for a child custody and immigration case held in 2000<ref>{{cite web |title=Elián González |url=https://www.biography.com/political-figure/elian-gonzalez |website=[[Biography.com]] |date=13 May 2020 |access-date=29 September 2022}}</ref>
* 1993 – [[Tautau Moga]], Australian-Samoan rugby league player
*[[1994]] – [[Giannis Antetokounmpo]], Greek-Nigerian basketball player<ref name="AP"></ref>
* 1994 – [[Wakatakakage Atsushi]], Japanese sumo wrestler<ref>{{cite web |title=Wakatakakage Atsushi profile |url=http://sumo.or.jp/EnSumoDataRikishi/profile/3761/|website=sumo.or.jp |access-date=5 December 2020}}</ref>
* 1994 – [[Shreyas Iyer]], Indian cricketer<ref>{{Cite web|title=Shreyas Iyer|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/642519.html|access-date=2020-07-17|website=Cricinfo}}</ref>
*[[1995]] – [[A Boogie wit da Hoodie]], American rapper and singer-songwriter<ref name="UPI"></ref>
*[[1996]] – [[Davide Calabria]], Italian footballer
* 1996 – [[Stefanie Scott]], American actress and singer<ref name="UPI"></ref>
*[[1997]] – [[Sabrina Ionescu]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Sabrina Ionescu |url=https://www.wnba.com/player/1629477/sabrina-ionescu |publisher=[[WNBA]] |access-date=4 December 2023}}</ref>
*[[1998]] – [[Angelīna Kučvaļska]], Latvian figure skater
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==Deaths==
===Pre-1600===
* [[343]] – [[Saint Nicholas]], Greek bishop and saint (b. 270)
* [[735]] – [[Prince Toneri]] of Japan (b. 676)
* [[762]] – [[Muhammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya]], Arab rebel leader (b. 710)
*[[1185]] – [[Afonso I of Portugal]] (b. 1109)
*[[1305]] – [[Maximus, Metropolitan of all Rus|Maximus, Metropolitan of Kyiv]]
*[[1306]] – [[Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk]] (b. 1270)
*[[1352]] – [[Pope Clement VI]] (b. 1291)<ref>{{cite web |title=Clement VI {{!}} pope {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Clement-VI |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=20 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1562]] – [[Jan van Scorel]], Dutch painter (b. 1495)
===1601–1900===
*[[1616]] – [[Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi]], Moroccan writer, judge and mathematician (b. 1552)
*[[1618]] – [[Jacques Davy Duperron]], French cardinal (b. 1556)
*[[1658]] – [[Baltasar Gracián]], Spanish priest and author (b. 1601)
*[[1675]] – [[John Lightfoot]], English priest, scholar, and academic (b. 1602)
*[[1686]] – [[Eleonora Gonzaga (1630–1686)|Eleonora Gonzaga]], Queen consort of Ferdinand III (b. 1630)
*[[1716]] – [[Benedictus Buns]], Dutch priest and composer (b. 1642)
*[[1718]] – [[Nicholas Rowe (writer)|Nicholas Rowe]], English poet and playwright (b. 1674)
*[[1746]] – [[Lady Grizel Baillie]], Scottish poet and songwriter (b. 1665)
*[[1771]] – [[Giovanni Battista Morgagni]], Italian anatomist and pathologist (b. 1682)
*[[1779]] – [[Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin]], French painter (b. 1699)
*[[1788]] – [[Jonathan Shipley]], English bishop (b. 1714)
*[[1855]] – [[William John Swainson]], English ornithologist and entomologist (b. 1789)
*[[1867]] – [[Jean Pierre Flourens]], French physiologist and academic (b. 1794)
*[[1868]] – [[August Schleicher]], German linguist and academic (b. 1821)
*[[1878]] – [[Theodoros Vryzakis]], Greek painter and educator (b. 1814)
*[[1879]] – [[Erastus Brigham Bigelow]], American businessman (b. 1814)
*[[1882]] – [[Alfred Escher]], Swiss businessman and politician, founded [[Credit Suisse]] (b. 1819)
* 1882 – [[Anthony Trollope]], English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (b. 1815)
*[[1889]] – [[Jefferson Davis]], American general and politician, [[President of the Confederate States of America]] (b. 1808)
*[[1892]] – [[Werner von Siemens]], German engineer and businessman, founded the [[Siemens|Siemens Company]] (b. 1816)
===1901–present===
*[[1918]] – [[Alexander Dianin]], Russian chemist (b. 1851)
*[[1921]] – [[Said Halim Pasha]], Ottoman politician, 280th [[List of Ottoman Grand Viziers|Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire]] (b. 1865)
*[[1924]] – [[Gene Stratton-Porter]], American author and screenwriter (b. 1863)
*[[1945]] – [[Edmund Dwyer-Gray]], Irish-Australian politician, 29th [[Premier of Tasmania]] (b. 1870)
*[[1951]] – [[Harold Ross]], American journalist and publisher, founded ''[[The New Yorker]]'' (b. 1892)
*[[1955]] – [[Honus Wagner]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1874)
*[[1956]] – [[B. R. Ambedkar]], Indian economist and politician, 1st [[Ministry of Law and Justice (India)|Indian Minister of Justice]] (b. 1891)
*[[1961]] – [[Frantz Fanon]], Martinique-French psychiatrist and author (b. 1925)
*[[1964]] – [[Evert van Linge]], Dutch footballer and architect (b. 1895)
*[[1972]] – [[Janet Munro]], English actress and singer (b. 1934)
*[[1974]] – [[Nikolay Kuznetsov (officer)|Nikolay Kuznetsov]], Soviet naval officer (b. 1904)
*[[1976]] – [[João Goulart]], Brazilian lawyer and politician, 24th [[President of Brazil]] (b. 1918)
*[[1980]] – [[Charles Deutsch]], French engineer and businessman, co-founded [[DB (car)|DB]] (b. 1911)
*[[1982]] – [[Jean-Marie Seroney]], Kenyan activist and politician (b. 1927)
*[[1983]] – [[Lucienne Boyer]], French singer and actress (b. 1903)
* 1983 – [[Gul Khan Nasir]], Pakistani poet, historian, and politician (b. 1914)
*[[1985]] – [[Burr Tillstrom]], American actor and puppeteer (b. 1917)
* 1985 – [[Burleigh Grimes]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1893)
*1985 – [[Carroll Cole]], American serial killer, arsonist, and cannibal (b. 1938)<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/07/us/confessed-murderer-of-13-is-executed-in-nevada.html | title=Confessed Murderer of 13 is Executed in Nevada | work=The New York Times | date=7 December 1985 }}</ref>
*[[1988]] – [[Roy Orbison]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
*[[1989]] – [[Frances Bavier]], American actress (b. 1902)
* 1989 – [[Sammy Fain]], American pianist and composer (b. 1902)
* 1989 – [[John Payne (actor)|John Payne]], American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1912)
*[[1990]] – [[Pavlos Sidiropoulos]], Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948)
* 1990 – [[Tunku Abdul Rahman]], Malaysian lawyer and politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of Malaysia]] (b. 1903)
*[[1991]] – [[Mimi Smith]], English nurse (b. 1906)
* 1991 – [[Richard Stone]], English economist and statistician, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1913)
*[[1993]] – [[Don Ameche]], American actor (b. 1908)
*[[1994]] – [[Heinz Baas]], German footballer and manager (b. 1922)
* 1994 – [[Gian Maria Volonté]], Italian actor and director (b. 1933)
*[[1996]] – [[Pete Rozelle]], American businessman (b. 1926)
*[[1997]] – [[Willy den Ouden]], Dutch swimmer (b. 1918)
*[[1998]] – [[César Baldaccini]], French sculptor and educator (b. 1921)
*[[2000]] – [[Werner Klemperer]], German-American actor (b. 1920)
* 2000 – [[Aziz Mian]], Pakistani singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1942)
*[[2001]] – [[Charles McClendon]], American football player and coach (b. 1923)
*[[2002]] – [[Philip Berrigan]], American priest and activist (b. 1923)
*[[2003]] – [[Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio]], Guatemalan general and politician, [[President of Guatemala]] (b. 1918)
*[[2005]] – [[Charly Gaul]], Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1932)
* 2005 – [[Devan Nair]], Malaysian-Singaporean union leader and politician, 3rd [[President of Singapore]] (b. 1923)
* 2005 – [[Danny Williams (singer)|Danny Williams]], South African singer (b. 1942)
* 2005 – [[William P. Yarborough]], American general (b. 1912)
*[[2006]] – [[John Feeney (filmmaker)|John Feeney]], New Zealand director and producer (b. 1922)
*[[2010]] – [[Mark Dailey]], American-Canadian journalist and actor (b. 1953)
*[[2011]] – [[Dobie Gray]], American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1940)
*[[2012]] – [[Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó]], Equatoguinean engineer and politician, [[Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea]] (b. 1961)
* 2012 – [[Jan Carew]], Guyanese author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
* 2012 – [[Jeffrey Koo Sr.]], Taiwanese banker and businessman (b. 1933)
* 2012 – [[Huw Lloyd-Langton]], English guitarist (b. 1951)
* 2012 – [[Pedro Vaz (diplomat)|Pedro Vaz]], Uruguayan lawyer and politician, [[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Uruguay)|Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay]] (b. 1963)
*[[2013]] – [[Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers]], French poet and critic (b. 1939)
* 2013 – [[Stan Tracey]], English pianist and composer (b. 1926)
* 2013 – [[M. K. Turk]], American basketball player and coach (b. 1942)
*[[2014]] – [[Ralph H. Baer]], German-American video game designer, created the [[Magnavox Odyssey]] (b. 1922)
* 2014 – [[Jimmy Del Ray]], American wrestler and manager (b. 1962)
* 2014 – [[Fred Hawkins (golfer)|Fred Hawkins]], American golfer (b. 1923)
* 2014 – [[Luke Somers]], English-American photographer and journalist (b. 1981)
*[[2015]] – [[Ko Chun-hsiung]], Taiwanese actor, director, and politician (b. 1945)
* 2015 – [[Liu Juying]], Chinese general and politician (b. 1917)
* 2015 – [[Nicholas Smith (actor)|Nicholas Smith]], British actor (b. 1934)
*[[2016]] – [[Peter Vaughan]], British actor (b. 1923)
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==Holidays and observances==
* [[Anniversary of the Founding of Quito]] ([[Ecuador]])
* [[Armed Forces Day#Ukraine|Armed Forces Day]] ([[Ukraine]])
* Christian [[feast day]]:
** [[Abraham of Kratia]]
** [[Saint Aemilianus|Aemilianus]] ([[Roman Catholic Church]])
** [[Denise, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilianus, Boniface, Majoricus, and Servus|Denise and companions]]
**[[Beatification|Blessed]] [[János Scheffler]]
** [[María del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras]]
** [[Saint Nicholas|Nicholas of Myra]], and its related observances:
*** [[St Nicholas Day]], where [[St. Nicholas]]/[[Santa Claus]] leaves little presents in children's shoes. ([[International observance|International]])
** [[December 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]]
* [[Constitution Day (Spain)]]
* [[Azerbaijan|Day of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan]]
* [[Independence Day (Finland)|Independence Day]], celebrates the [[independence of Finland]] from [[Russia]] in 1917.
* [[National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women]] ([[Canada]])
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/6 BBC: On This Day]
* {{NYT On this day|month=12|day=6}}
* [https://www.onthisday.com/events/december/6 Historical Events on December 6]
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