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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 1st of December 0800 | EVENT | Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican. |
| 1st of December 1420 | EVENT | Henry V of England enters Paris. |
| 1st of December 1640 | EVENT | End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King Joao IV of Portugal, ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the House of Habsburg (also called the Philippine Dynasty). |
| 1st of December 1768 | EVENT | The slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Trom?y in Norway. |
| 1st of December 1822 | EVENT | Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil. |
| 1st of December 1824 | EVENT | United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution. |
| 1st of December 1826 | EVENT | French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege. |
| 1st of December 1834 | EVENT | Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. |
| 1st of December 1864 | EVENT | In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation. |
| 1st of December 1885 | EVENT | First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas (United States). |
| 1st of December 1913 | EVENT | Buenos Aires, Argentina. The Buenos Aires Subway starts operating, it's the first underground railway system in the southern hemisphere and in Latin America |
| 1st of December 1913 | EVENT | The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line. |
| 1st of December 1913 | EVENT | Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece. |
| 1st of December 1918 | EVENT | Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28). |
| 1st of December 1918 | EVENT | Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom. |
| 1st of December 1918 | EVENT | The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed. |
| 1st of December 1919 | EVENT | Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom (she had been elected to that position on November 28). |
| 1st of December 1925 | EVENT | World War I aftermath: The final Locarno Treaty is signed in London, establishing post-war territorial settlements. |
| 1st of December 1934 | EVENT | In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad. |
| 1st of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol. |
| 1st of December 1952 | EVENT | The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgenson, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery. |
| 1st of December 1955 | EVENT | American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. |
| 1st of December 1958 | EVENT | The Central African Republic becomes independent from France. |
| 1st of December 1958 | EVENT | The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago, Illinois, kills 92 children and three nuns. |
| 1st of December 1959 | EVENT | Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent. |
| 1st of December 1960 | EVENT | Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested then deported from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson. |
| 1st of December 1961 | EVENT | The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea. |
| 1st of December 1963 | EVENT | Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India. |
| 1st of December 1964 | EVENT | Malawi, Malta and Zambia join the United Nations. |
| 1st of December 1964 | EVENT | Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam. |
| 1st of December 1965 | EVENT | The Border Security Force is formed in India as a special force to guard the borders. |
| 1st of December 1969 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II. |
| 1st of December 1971 | EVENT | The Indian Army recaptures part of Kashmir occupied forcibly by Pakistan. |
| 1st of December 1971 | EVENT | Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray. |
| 1st of December 1973 | EVENT | Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia. |
| 1st of December 1974 | EVENT | TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport killing all 92 people on board. |
| 1st of December 1974 | EVENT | Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport. |
| 1st of December 1975 | EVENT | Lambda Theta Phi - The first Latino fraternity is established in New Jersey. |
| 1st of December 1976 | EVENT | Angola joins the United Nations. |
| 1st of December 1981 | EVENT | The AIDS virus is officially recognized. |
| 1st of December 1981 | EVENT | A Yugoslavian Inex Adria Aviopromet DC-9 crashes in Corsica killing all 180 people on board. |
| 1st of December 1982 | EVENT | At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart. |
| 1st of December 1988 | EVENT | Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan. |
| 1st of December 1989 | EVENT | Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the communist party the leading role in the state. |
| 1st of December 1989 | EVENT | 1989 Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'etat. |
| 1st of December 1990 | EVENT | Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed. |
| 1st of December 1991 | EVENT | Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union. |
| 1st of December 2001 | EVENT | Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA's purchase by American Airlines. |
| 1st of December 2009 | EVENT | The Treaty of Lisbon, which amends the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, which together comprise the constitutional basis of European Union, comes into effect. |
| 1st of December 1081 | BIRTHDAY | Louis VI of France (d. 1137) |
| 1st of December 1083 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian (d. 1153) |
| 1st of December 1521 | BIRTHDAY | Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (d. 1573) |
| 1st of December 1525 | BIRTHDAY | Tadeas Hajek, Czech physician and astronomer (d. 1600) |
| 1st of December 1580 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (d. 1637) |
| 1st of December 1690 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (d. 1764) |
| 1st of December 1716 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne-Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (d. 1791) |
| 1st of December 1743 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist (d. 1817) |
| 1st of December 1761 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Tussaud, French creator of wax sculptures (Madame Tussauds) (d. 1850) |
| 1st of December 1766 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, Russian writer (d. 1826) |
| 1st of December 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1856) |
| 1st of December 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandra of Denmark, Danish Queen Consort of Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1925) |
| 1st of December 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Ann Moore, American poet (d. 1920) |
| 1st of December 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish assassin of Gabriel Narutowicz (d. 1923) |
| 1st of December 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Valery Bryusov, Russian poet (d. 1924) |
| 1st of December 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter (d. 1976) |
| 1st of December 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975) |
| 1st of December 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Williamson, English author (d. 1977) |
| 1st of December 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Georgy Zhukov, Russian general & Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974) |
| 1st of December 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Sinclair Garson, Canadian Premier of Manitoba (d. 1977) |
| 1st of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Ilona Feher, Hungarian-Jewish violinist (d. 1988) |
| 1st of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Wilson, Canadian and Notre Dame athlete (d. 1994) |
| 1st of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (d. 1984) |
| 1st of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Alicia Markova, English ballerina (d. 2004) |
| 1st of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Calvin Griffith, Canadian-born baseball executive (d. 1999) |
| 1st of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Alston, American baseball manager (d. 1984) |
| 1st of December 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (d. 1986) |
| 1st of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Martin, American actor and singer (d. 1990) |
| 1st of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Wan Li, Chinese government official |
| 1st of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager |
| 1st of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Hayward, American tenor (d.1995) |
| 1st of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Vsevolod Bobrov, Soviet ice hockey player (d. 1979) |
| 1st of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Picerni, American actor |
| 1st of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Morris, Belgian cartoonist (Lucky Luke) (d. 2001) |
| 1st of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Stansfield Turner, American admiral and 12th Director of Central Intelligence |
| 1st of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Rodbell, American scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998) |
| 1st of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Symonds, American actor (d. 2007) |
| 1st of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Scottish noble (d. 2010) |
| 1st of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Emily McLaughlin, American actress (d. 1991) |
| 1st of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Joachim Hoffmann, German historian (d. 2002) |
| 1st of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Lyons, American musician (d. 1986) |
| 1st of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Nesbitt, singer (d. 2007) |
| 1st of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Monro, English singer (d. 1985) |
| 1st of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoon artist (d. 1996) |
| 1st of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Rawls, American singer (d. 2006) |
| 1st of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Paul, American singer |
| 1st of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Woody Allen, American film director, actor, and comedian |
| 1st of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American mezzo-soprano (d. 2005) |
| 1st of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Low, American actor |
| 1st of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Vaira Vike-Freiberga, 6th President of Latvia |
| 1st of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Sandy Nelson, American drummer |
| 1st of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Trevino, American golfer |
| 1st of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Pryor, American comic and actor (d. 2005) |
| 1st of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | John Crowley, American author |
| 1st of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Arditi, French film and stage actor |
| 1st of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Tahar Ben Jelloun, French writer of Moroccan origin |
| 1st of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Bloom, American musician (Blue Oyster Cult) |
| 1st of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Pennac, French writer born in Morocco |
| 1st of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Michael W. Hagee, 33rd Commandant of the United States Marine Corps |
| 1st of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | John Densmore, American drummer (The Doors) |
| 1st of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Bette Midler, American actress and singer |
| 1st of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer |
| 1st of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Bashung, French singer (d.2009) |
| 1st of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Fulton, English-born Australian rugby league footballer |
| 1st of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Wright, English bishop and theologian |
| 1st of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | George Foster, American baseball player |
| 1st of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (d. 1993) |
| 1st of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Brett, American author illustrator |
| 1st of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian Pinera, Chilean businessman and elect President of Chile in 2010 |
| 1st of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Thibodeaux, American actor and drummer |
| 1st of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Obba Babatunde, American actor |
| 1st of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jaco Pastorius, American bassist (Weather Report; d. 1987) |
| 1st of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Treat Williams, American actor |
| 1st of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Goen, American television host |
| 1st of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Annette Haven, American pornographic actress |
| 1st of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Thompson, American disc jockey and actor |
| 1st of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Spillane, Gaelic footballer |
| 1st of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Veronica Forque, Spanish actress |
| 1st of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Julee Cruise, American singer and actress |
| 1st of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Poland, American guitarist (Megadeth) |
| 1st of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and coach |
| 1st of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Charlene Tilton, American actress |
| 1st of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Childish, English painter, writer and musician |
| 1st of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 1st of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Alt, American supermodel |
| 1st of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Turner, Australian actress/comedian |
| 1st of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Northam, English actor |
| 1st of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Armin Meiwes, German cannibal |
| 1st of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater |
| 1st of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Quesada, American comic book writer |
| 1st of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer |
| 1st of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Nathalie Lambert, Canadian short track speed skater |
| 1st of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Greco, Brazilian racing driver |
| 1st of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer |
| 1st of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player |
| 1st of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Katherine LaNasa, American actress |
| 1st of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Nestor Carbonell, American actor |
| 1st of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Chadwick, British actor and director |
| 1st of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Anders Holmertz, Swedish swimmer |
| 1st of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Coulton, American musician |
| 1st of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jouko Ahola, Finnish strongman |
| 1st of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Kirk Rueter, American baseball player |
| 1st of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Silverman, American actress and comedian |
| 1st of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Melanie Peres, Israeli singer , actress and model |
| 1st of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie Finochio, American professional wrestler |
| 1st of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Mortimer, English actress |
| 1st of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Dolgorsurengiin Serjbudee, Mongolian professional wrestler |
| 1st of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Van de Veire, Belgian radio-presenter |
| 1st of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | John Schlimm, American author |
| 1st of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mika Pohjola, Finnish jazz pianist and composer |
| 1st of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Norbert Wojtowicz, Polish historian and theologian |
| 1st of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Theodore, American musician |
| 1st of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Gibb, American musician (Black Label Society) |
| 1st of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Costinha, Portuguese footballer |
| 1st of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboardist (The Mars Volta) |
| 1st of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Sophia Skou, Danish swimmer |
| 1st of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Fraction, American comic book writer |
| 1st of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Ling, American journalist |
| 1st of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Shepard, American openly-gay murder victim (d. 1998) |
| 1st of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Brad Delson, American guitarist (Linkin Park) |
| 1st of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jared Fogle, American Subway spokesperson |
| 1st of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Lee McKenzie, Scottish television presenter |
| 1st of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Mat Kearney, American singer and songwriter |
| 1st of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Malone, American hockey player |
| 1st of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Angelique Bates, American actress |
| 1st of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer |
| 1st of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Luke McPharlin, Australian rules footballer |
| 1st of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Doyley, English footballer |
| 1st of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Christos Melissis, Greek footballer |
| 1st of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | John Coughlin (figure skater), American figure skater |
| 1st of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Janelle Monae, American musician |
| 1st of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | DeSean Jackson, American football player |
| 1st of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Tomas Tatar, Slovak ice hockey player |
| 1st of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Chanel Iman, American model. |
| 1st of December 2001 | BIRTHDAY | Aiko, Princess Toshi, Japanese royalty |
| 1st of December 1135 | DEATH | Henry I of England |
| 1st of December 1241 | DEATH | Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1214) |
| 1st of December 1377 | DEATH | King Magnus II of Sweden (Born 1316) |
| 1st of December 1433 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (Born 1377) |
| 1st of December 1455 | DEATH | Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (Born 1378) |
| 1st of December 1521 | DEATH | Pope Leo X (Born 1475) |
| 1st of December 1530 | DEATH | Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (Born 1480) |
| 1st of December 1580 | DEATH | Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (Born 1509) |
| 1st of December 1581 | DEATH | Alexander Briant, English saint (Born 1556) |
| 1st of December 1581 | DEATH | Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (Born 1550) |
| 1st of December 1581 | DEATH | Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (Born 1540) |
| 1st of December 1602 | DEATH | Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese warlord (Born 1582) |
| 1st of December 1633 | DEATH | Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (Born 1566) |
| 1st of December 1660 | DEATH | Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (Born 1592) |
| 1st of December 1707 | DEATH | Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (Born 1674) |
| 1st of December 1709 | DEATH | Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (Born 1644) |
| 1st of December 1723 | DEATH | Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress (Born 1667) |
| 1st of December 1729 | DEATH | Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (Born 1665) |
| 1st of December 1750 | DEATH | Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (Born 1671) |
| 1st of December 1755 | DEATH | Maurice Greene, English composer (Born 1696) |
| 1st of December 1767 | DEATH | Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (Born 1710) |
| 1st of December 1825 | DEATH | Tsar Alexander I of Russia (Born 1777) |
| 1st of December 1830 | DEATH | Pope Pius VIII (Born 1761) |
| 1st of December 1865 | DEATH | Abraham Emanuel Frohlich, Swiss poet (Born 1796) |
| 1st of December 1866 | DEATH | George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (Born 1790) |
| 1st of December 1884 | DEATH | William Swainson, British attorney and Attorney General of New Zealand (Born 1809) |
| 1st of December 1916 | DEATH | Charles de Foucauld, French religious figure (Born 1858) |
| 1st of December 1923 | DEATH | Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (Born 1836) |
| 1st of December 1928 | DEATH | Jose Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (Born 1888) |
| 1st of December 1934 | DEATH | Sergei Kirov, Russian revolutionary (Born 1886) |
| 1st of December 1943 | DEATH | Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (Born 1862) |
| 1st of December 1947 | DEATH | Aleister Crowley, English occultist (Born 1875) |
| 1st of December 1947 | DEATH | G. H. Hardy, English mathematician (Born 1877) |
| 1st of December 1950 | DEATH | E. J. Moeran, English composer (Born 1894) |
| 1st of December 1954 | DEATH | Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive (Born 1897) |
| 1st of December 1964 | DEATH | J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (Born 1892) |
| 1st of December 1968 | DEATH | Nicolae Bretan, Transylvania-born Romanian opera singer (Born 1887) |
| 1st of December 1968 | DEATH | Dario Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (Born 1921) |
| 1st of December 1969 | DEATH | Magic Sam, American blues guitarist and singer (Born 1937) |
| 1st of December 1973 | DEATH | David Ben-Gurion, Israeli statesman (Born 1886) |
| 1st of December 1975 | DEATH | Nellie Fox, American baseball player (Born 1927) |
| 1st of December 1975 | DEATH | Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (Born 1906) |
| 1st of December 1984 | DEATH | Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (Born 1911) |
| 1st of December 1986 | DEATH | Lee Dorsey, American R&B singer (Born 1924) |
| 1st of December 1986 | DEATH | Frank McCarthy, American producer (Born 1912) |
| 1st of December 1987 | DEATH | James Baldwin, American writer (Born 1924) |
| 1st of December 1987 | DEATH | Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager (Born 1918) |
| 1st of December 1989 | DEATH | Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (Born 1931) |
| 1st of December 1991 | DEATH | George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (Born 1911) |
| 1st of December 1996 | DEATH | Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (Born 1928) |
| 1st of December 1997 | DEATH | Michel Belanger, French Canadian businessman and banker (Born 1929) |
| 1st of December 1997 | DEATH | Stephane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (Born 1908) |
| 1st of December 1997 | DEATH | Endicott Peabody, American politician (Born 1920) |
| 1st of December 1998 | DEATH | Freddie Young, British cinematographer (Born 1902) |
| 1st of December 2001 | DEATH | Ellis R Dungan, American-born Indian film director (Born 1909) |
| 1st of December 2002 | DEATH | Dave McNally, American baseball player (Born 1942) |
| 1st of December 2003 | DEATH | Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (Born 1928) |
| 1st of December 2003 | DEATH | Clark Kerr, American academic (Born 1911) |
| 1st of December 2004 | DEATH | Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (Born 1911) |
| 1st of December 2005 | DEATH | Gust Avrakotos, American intelligence case officer (Born 1938) |
| 1st of December 2005 | DEATH | Mary Hayley Bell, English dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills (Born 1911) |
| 1st of December 2006 | DEATH | Claude Jade, French actress (Born 1948) |
| 1st of December 2006 | DEATH | Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist (Born 1937) |
| 1st of December 2007 | DEATH | Anton Rodgers, British actor (Born 1933) |
| 1st of December 2008 | DEATH | Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (Born 1934) |
| 1st of December 2008 | DEATH | Joseph B. Wirthlin, American religious figure (Born 1917) |
| 1st of December 2008 | DEATH | Paul Benedict, American actor (Born 1938) |
| 1st of December 2009 | DEATH | Gustavo Adolfo Palma, Guatemalan singer (Born 1920) |
| 1st of December 2010 | DEATH | Hillard Elkins, American theatre and film producer (Born 1929) |