Events
Pre-1600
1271 – Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.
1499 – A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversions of Muslims in Spain.
1601–1900
1622 – Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.
1655 – The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.
1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1793 – Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed , she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
1833 – The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the Tsar!", is first performed.
1854 – The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada abolishes the seigneurial system.
1865 – US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the USA.
1878 – The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
1892 – Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of  in a Jeantaud electric car.
1901–present
1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when the second French offensive pushes the Germans back two or three kilometres, causing them to cease their attacks.
1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
1932 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL playoff game to win the NFL Championship.
1935 – The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
1939 – World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
1944 – World War II: XX Bomber Command responds to the Japanese Operation Ichi-Go offensive by dropping five hundred tons of incendiary bombs on a supply base in Hankow, China.
1958 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
1966 – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
1972 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
1973 – Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
1977 – United Airlines Flight 2860 crashes near Kaysville, Utah, killing all three crew members on board.
1977   – SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730 crashes near Madeira Airport in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, killing 36.
1981 – First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep wing aircraft built.
1995 –  A Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes in Jamba, Cuando Cubango, Angola, killing 141.
1999 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
2002 – California gubernatorial recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
2005 – The Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.
2006 – The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia.
The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
2006   – United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
2015 – Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.
2017 – Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501, derailed near DuPont, Washington, a city in United States near Olympia, Washington killing six people, and injuring 70 others.
2018 – List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
2019 – The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump for the first time.
Births
Pre-1600
1406 – Richard Olivier de Longueil, French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (d. 1470)
1499 – Sebald Heyden, German musicologist and theologian (d. 1561)
1481 – Sophie of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Saxony (d. 1503)
1505 – Philipp von Hutten, German explorer (d. 1546)
1507 – Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese daimyō (d. 1551)
1552 – Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi, Moroccan writer, judge and mathematician (d. 1616)
1590 – William Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (d. 1640)
1601–1900
1602 – Simonds d'Ewes, English historian and politician (d. 1650)
1610 – Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (d. 1688)
1620 – Heinrich Roth, German missionary and scholar (d. 1668)
1626 – Christina, Queen of Sweden (d. 1689)
1660 – Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1715)
1661 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and inventor (d. 1751)
1662 – James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish colonel and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (d. 1711)
1707 – Charles Wesley, English missionary and composer (d. 1788)
1725 – Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and theologian (d. 1791)
1734 – Jean-Baptiste Rey, French conductor and composer (d. 1810)
1800 – James Watney, English brewer and businessman (d. 1884)
1824 – John Hall, English-New Zealand politician, 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1907)
1825 – Charles Griffin, American general (d. 1876)
1825   – John S. Harris, American surveyor and politician (d. 1906)
1835 – Lyman Abbott, American minister, theologian, and author (d. 1922)
1847 – Augusta Holmès, French pianist and composer (d. 1903)
1849 – Henrietta Edwards, Canadian activist and author (d. 1931)
1856 – J. J. Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
1860 – Edward MacDowell, American pianist and composer (d. 1908)
1861 – Lionel Monckton, English composer and critic (d. 1924)
1863 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (d. 1914)
1867 – Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player and horse breeder (d. 1941)
1869 – Edward Willis Redfield, American painter and educator (d. 1965)
1870 – Saki, British short story writer (d. 1916)
1873 – Francis Burton Harrison, American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines (d. 1957)
1875 – Matt McGrath, Irish-American hammer thrower (d. 1941)
1878 – Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and politician, 4th Premier of the Soviet Union (d. 1953)
1879 – Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter and educator (d. 1940)
1882 – Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer, designed the Salta–Antofagasta railway (d. 1950)
1884 – Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist, co-founded clinical pharmacology (d. 1942)
1886 – Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (d. 1961)
1887 – Bhikhari Thakur, Indian actor, singer, and playwright (d. 1971)
1888 – Gladys Cooper, English actress and singer (d. 1971)
1888   – Robert Moses, American urban planner (d. 1981)
1890 – Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (d. 1954)
1896 – Gerald Barry, English colonel and cricketer (d. 1977)
1897 – Fletcher Henderson, American pianist and composer (d. 1952)
1899 – Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian philosopher and author (d. 1990)
1901–present
1904 – George Stevens, American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (d. 1975)
1907 – Bill Holland, American race car driver (d. 1984)
1907   – Lawrence Lucie, American guitarist and educator (d. 2009)
1908 – Celia Johnson, English actress (d. 1982)
1908   – Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer (d. 1969)
1910 – Abe Burrows, American author, playwright, and director (d. 1985)
1910   – Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player, cricketer, and umpire (d. 2010)
1911 – Jules Dassin, American-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2008)
1912 – Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American general and pilot (d. 2002)
1913 – Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (d. 1987)
1913   – Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
1913   – Ray Meyer, American basketball player and coach (d. 2006)
1916 – Douglas Fraser, Scottish-American trade union leader and academic (d. 2008)
1916   – Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (d. 1973)
1917 – Ossie Davis, American actor and activist (d. 2005)
1920 – Robert Leckie, American soldier and author (d. 2001)
1922 – Jack Brooks, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012)
1922   – Esther Lederberg, American microbiologist (d. 2006)
1923 – Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Greater London (d. 2019)
1927 – Ramsey Clark, American lawyer and politician, 66th United States Attorney General (d. 2021)
1927   – Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (d. 2009)
1928 – Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English caliph and author (d. 2003)
1928   – Harold Land, American tenor saxophonist (d. 2001)
1929 – Gino Cimoli, American baseball player (d. 2011)
1929   – Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (d. 2013)
1930 – Moose Skowron, American baseball player (d. 2012)
1931 – Allen Klein, American businessman and music publisher (d. 2009)
1931   – Alison Plowden, English historian and author (d. 2007)
1931   – Bill Thompson, American television host (d. 2014)
1932 – Norm Provan, Australian rugby league player, coach, and businessman
1932   – Roger Smith, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
1933 – Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 2017)
1934 – Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman, founded Glencore (d. 2013)
1934   – Boris Volynov, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut
1935 – Rosemary Leach, English actress (d. 2017)
1935   – Jacques Pépin, French-American chef and author
1936 – Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and wrestler (d. 1987)
1937 – Nancy Ryles, American politician (d. 1990)
1938 – Chas Chandler, English bass player and producer (d. 1996)
1938   – Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter and composer (d. 2005)
1939 – Michael Moorcock, English author and songwriter
1939   – Harold E. Varmus, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 – Ilario Castagner, Italian football manager
1940   – John Cooper, English sprinter and hurdler (d. 1974)
1941 – Sam Andrew, American singer-songwriter and guitarist  (d. 2015)
1941   – Wadada Leo Smith, American trumpet player and composer
1941   – Joan Wallach Scott, American historian, author, and academic
1942 – Lenore Blum, American mathematician and academic
1942   – Bobby Keyes, Australian rugby league player
1943 – Bobby Keys, American saxophone player (d. 2014)
1943   – Keith Richards, English musician
1943   – Alan Rudolph, American director and screenwriter
1944 – Crispian Steele-Perkins, English trumpet player and educator
1945 – Jean Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1946 – Steve Biko, South African activist, founded the Black Consciousness Movement (d. 1977)
1946   – Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks
1947 – Leonid Yuzefovich, Russian author and screenwriter
1948 – Bill Nelson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948   – Mimmo Paladino, Italian sculptor and painter
1948   – Laurent Voulzy, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – David A. Johnston, American volcanologist and geologist (d. 1980)
1950 – Gillian Armstrong, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
1950   – Randy Castillo, American drummer and songwriter (d. 2002)
1950   – Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lankan general and politician
1950   – Lizmark, Mexican wrestler (d. 2015)
1950   – Leonard Maltin, American historian, author, and critic
1951 – Bobby Jones, American basketball player
1952 – John Leventhal, American songwriter and producer
1953 – Elliot Easton, American guitarist and singer
1953   – Kevin Beattie, English footballer (d. 2018)
1954 – John Booth, English race car driver
1954   – Ray Liotta, American actor
1954   – Willi Wülbeck, German runner
1955 – Vijay Mallya, Indian businessman and politician
1955   – Bogusław Mamiński, Polish runner
1957 – Jonathan Cainer, English astrologer and author (d. 2016)
1958 – Geordie Walker, English guitarist
1958   – Julia Wolfe, American composer and educator
1960 – Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist and academic
1960   – Naoko Yamano, Japanese singer, guitarist and composer
1961 – Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater and coach
1961   – Leila Steinberg, American singer, producer, author, and poet
1961   – Daniel S. Loeb, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Third Point Management
1961   – Lalchand Rajput, former Indian cricketer
1963 – Greg D'Angelo, American drummer
1963   – Karl Dorrell, American football player and coach
1963   – Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundian soldier and politician, President of Burundi (d. 2020)
1963   – Charles Oakley, American basketball player and coach
1963   – Brad Pitt, American actor and producer
1964 – Stone Cold Steve Austin, American wrestler and producer
1964   – Don Beebe, American football player and coach
1965 – Shawn Christian, American actor, director, and screenwriter
1965   – Manuel Peña Escontrela, Spanish footballer (d. 2012)
1966 – Gianluca Pagliuca, Italian footballer and sportscaster
1967 – Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch journalist
1967   – Mille Petrozza, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968 – Mario Basler, German footballer and manager
1968   – Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress
1968   – Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1968   – Casper Van Dien, American actor and producer
1969 – Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
1969   – Justin Edinburgh, English footballer and manager (d. 2019)
1969   – Akira Iida, Japanese race car driver
1970 – DMX, American rapper and actor (d. 2021)
1970   – Lucious Harris, American basketball player
1970   – Giannis Ploutarhos, Greek singer-songwriter
1970   – Rob Van Dam, American wrestler
1970   – Jonathan Yeo, English painter
1970   – Norman Brown, American singer and guitarist
1971 – Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist
1971   – Noriko Matsueda, Japanese pianist and composer
1971   – Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player and sportscaster
1972 – Anzhela Balakhonova, Ukrainian pole vaulter
1972   – Raymond Herrera, American drummer and songwriter
1973 – Fatuma Roba, Ethiopian runner
1974 – Peter Boulware, American football player and politician
1974   – Knut Schreiner, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and producer
1975 – Sia, Australian singer-songwriter
1975   – Randy Houser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975   – Trish Stratus, Canadian wrestler and actress
1977 – José Acevedo, Dominican baseball player
1977   – Claudia Gesell, German runner
1978 – Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player
1978   – Ali Curtis, American soccer player
1978   – Josh Dallas, American actor
1978   – Katie Holmes, American actress
1980 – Christina Aguilera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1980   – Neil Fingleton, English actor and basketball player, one of the tallest 25 men in the world (d. 2017)
1980   – Benjamin Watson, American football player
1983 – Andy Fantuz, Canadian football player
1984 – Brian Boyle, American ice hockey player
1984   – Paul Harrison, English footballer
1984   – Giuliano Razzoli, Italian skier
1984   – Derrick Tribbett, American bass player and singer
1986 – François Hamelin, Canadian speed skater
1986   – Usman Khawaja, Pakistani-Australian cricketer
1987 – Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater
1988 – Lizzie Deignan, English cyclist
1988   – Seth Doege, American football player
1988   – Brianne Theisen-Eaton, Canadian heptathlete
1988   – Imad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer
1990 – Sierra Kay, American singer-songwriter
1990   – Victor Hedman, Swedish ice hockey defenceman
1991 – Marcus Butler, English internet celebrity
1992 – Bridgit Mendler, American singer, songwriter and actress
1992   – Ryan Crouser, American shot putter
1993 – Byron Buxton, American baseball player
1993   – Thomas Lam, Finnish professional football defender
1994 – Natália Kelly, American-Austrian singer
1994   – Gerard Gumbau, Spanish professional footballer
1995 – Barbora Krejčíková, Czech tennis player
2000 – Korapat Kirdpan, Thai actor and singer
2001 – Billie Eilish, American singer
Deaths
Pre-1600
919 – Lady Wu, wife of Qian Liu (b. 858)
933 – Yaonian Yanmujin, Chinese empress dowager
1075 – Edith of Wessex (b. 1025)
1133 – Hildebert, French poet and scholar (b. 1055)
1290 – Magnus III, king of Sweden (b. 1240)
1442 – Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (b. 1371)
1495 – Alfonso II of Naples (b. 1448)
1577 – Anna of Saxony, Princess consort of Orange (b. 1544)
1601–1900
1645 – Nur Jahan, empress consort of the Mughal Empire (b. 1577)
1651 – William Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath, English lawyer and politician (b. 1580)
1692 – Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German scholar and politician (b. 1626)
1737 – Antonio Stradivari, Italian instrument maker (b. 1644)
1787 – Soame Jenyns, English poet and politician (b. 1704)
1799 – Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician and historian (b. 1725)
1803 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian, and poet (b. 1744)
1829 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (b. 1744)
1843 – Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, Scottish-English general and politician (b. 1748)
1848 – Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian priest and mathematician (b. 1781)
1864 – José Justo Corro, Mexican politician and president, (1836-1837) (b. 1794)
1869 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (b. 1829)
1880 – Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (b. 1793)
1892 – Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (b. 1804)
1901–present
1919 – John Alcock, English captain and pilot (b. 1892)
1922 – Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851)
1925 – Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)
1932 – Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (b. 1850)
1936 – Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (b. 1857)
1939 – Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (b. 1873)
1961 – Leo Reisman, American violinist and bandleader (b. 1897)
1969 – Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach (b. 1878)
1971 – Bobby Jones, American golfer and lawyer (b. 1902)
1971   – Diana Lynn, American actress (b. 1926)
1973 – Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Indian-Pakistani religious leader and philosopher (b. 1908)
1974 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1887)
1975 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist and biologist (b. 1900)
1977 – Michio Nishizawa, Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1921)
1977   – Louis Untermeyer  American poet, anthologist, critic (b. 1885)
1980 – Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (b. 1902)
1980   – Alexei Kosygin, Russian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904)
1982 – Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and pilot (b. 1916)
1985 – Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author (b. 1916)
1987 – Conny Plank, German keyboard player and producer  (b. 1940)
1988 – Niyazi Berkes, Turkish Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (b. 1908)
1990 – Anne Revere, American actress (b. 1903)
1990   – Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (b. 1914)
1990   – Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (b. 1900)
1991 – George Abecassis, English race car driver (b. 1913)
1992 – Mark Goodson, American game show producer, created Family Feud and The Price Is Right (b. 1915)
1993 – Helm Glöckler, German race car driver (b. 1909)
1993   – Sam Wanamaker, American-English actor, director, and producer (b. 1919)
1994 – Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1916)
1994   – Lilia Skala, Austrian-American actress (b. 1896)
1995 – Brian Brockless, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1926)
1995   – Ross Thomas, American author (b. 1926)
1995   – Konrad Zuse, German engineer, designed the Z3 computer (b. 1910)
1996 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904)
1996   – Irving Caesar, American composer (b. 1895)
1997 – Chris Farley, American comedian and actor (b. 1964)
1998 – Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1926)
1999 – Robert Bresson, French director and screenwriter (b. 1901)
2000 – Stan Fox, American race car driver (b. 1952)
2000   – Randolph Apperson Hearst, American businessman (b. 1915)
2000   – Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2001 – Gilbert Bécaud, French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1927)
2001   – Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek violinist and composer (b. 1914)
2001   – Marcel Mule, French saxophonist and educator (b. 1901)
2002 – Necip Hablemitoğlu, Turkish historian and academic (b. 1954)
2002   – Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Governor General of Canada (b. 1934)
2002   – Wayne Owens, American lawyer and politician (b. 1937)
2002   – Lucy Grealy, Irish-American author (b. 1963)
2004 – Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author (b. 1926)
2005 – Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (b. 1922)
2006 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1911)
2006   – Ruth Bernhard, German-American photographer (b. 1905)
2006   – Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author and activist (b. 1923)
2007 – Hans Billian, Polish-German actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1918)
2007   – Gerald Le Dain, Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1924)
2007   – William Strauss, American author and playwright (b. 1947)
2007   – Alan Wagner, American businessman and critic (b. 1931)
2008 – Majel Barrett, American actress and producer (b. 1932)
2008   – Mark Felt, American FBI agent and informant (b. 1913)
2010 – Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player and manager (b. 1916)
2010   – Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist, author, and scholar (b. 1913)
2010   – Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian economist and politician, Italian Minister of Economy and Finances (b. 1940)
2010   – James Pickles, English judge and journalist (b. 1925)
2011 – Václav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, and politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic (b. 1936)
2012 – Frank Macchiarola, American lawyer and academic (b. 1941)
2012   – Mustafa Ould Salek, Mauritanian colonel and politician, President of Mauritania (b. 1936)
2012   – Jim Whalen, American football player (b. 1943)
2012   – Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1931)
2013 – Ken Hutcherson, American football player (b. 1952)
2013   – Graham Mackay, South African-English businessman (b. 1949)
2014 – Donald J. Albosta, American soldier and politician (b. 1925)
2014   – Gideon Ben-Yisrael, Israeli soldier and politician (b. 1923)
2014   – Larry Henley, American singer-songwriter (b. 1937)
2014   – Virna Lisi, Italian actress (b. 1936)
2014   – Mandy Rice-Davies, English model and actress (b. 1944)
2014   – Robert Simpson, American meteorologist and author (b. 1912)
2015 – Luc Brewaeys, Belgian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1959)
2015   – Helge Solum Larsen, Norwegian businessman and politician (b. 1969)
2016 – Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite (b. 1917)
2017 – Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer (b. 1990)
2020 – Jerry Relph, American politician and member of the Minnesota Senate (b. 1944)
2021 – Sayaka Kanda, Japanese actress and singer (b. 1986)
Holidays and observances
Christian feast day:
Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Flannán
Gatianus of Tours
O Adonai
Sebastian (Eastern Orthodox Church)
Winibald
December 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
International Migrants Day
National Day (Qatar)
Republic Day (Niger)
UN Arabic Language Day (United Nations)
References
External links
BBC: On This Day
Historical Events on December 18
Today in Canadian History
