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17th of December 0546 EVENT Gothic War: The Ostrogoths of King Totila conquer Rome by bribing the Byzantine garrison.
17th of December 0920 EVENT Romanos I is crowned co-emperor of the underage Emperor Constantine VII.
17th of December 0942 EVENT Assassination of William I of Normandy.
17th of December 1398 EVENT Sultan Nasir-u Din Mehmud's armies in Delhi are defeated by Timur.
17th of December 1531 EVENT Pope Clement VII establishes a parallel body to the Inquisition in Lisbon, Portugal.
17th of December 1538 EVENT Pope Paul III excommunicates Henry VIII of England.
17th of December 1577 EVENT Francis Drake sails from Plymouth, England, on a secret mission to explore the Pacific Coast of the Americas for English Queen Elizabeth I.
17th of December 1583 EVENT Cologne War: Forces under Ernest of Bavaria defeats the troops under Gebhard Truchsess von Waldburg at the Siege of Godesberg.
17th of December 1586 EVENT Emperor Go-Yozei becomes Emperor of Japan.
17th of December 1600 EVENT Marriage of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici.
17th of December 1637 EVENT Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasants led by Amakusa Shiro rise against daimyo Matsukura Shigeharu.
17th of December 1718 EVENT Great Britain declares war on Spain.
17th of December 1777 EVENT France formally recognizes the United States of America.
17th of December 1790 EVENT Discovery of the Aztec calendar stone.
17th of December 1807 EVENT France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
17th of December 1812 EVENT War of 1812: U.S. forces attack a friendly Lenape village in the Battle of the Mississinewa.
17th of December 1819 EVENT Simon Bolivar declares the independence of the Republic of Gran Colombia in Angostura (now Ciudad Bolivar in Venezuela).
17th of December 1837 EVENT Fire in the Winter Palace of Saint Petersburg occurred.
17th of December 1862 EVENT American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant issues General Order No. 11, expelling Jews from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
17th of December 1865 EVENT First performance of the Unfinished Symphony by Franz Schubert.
17th of December 1903 EVENT The Wright Brothers make their first powered and heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
17th of December 1907 EVENT Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan
17th of December 1918 EVENT Culmination of the Darwin Rebellion as some 1000 demonstrators march on Government House in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.
17th of December 1919 EVENT Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
17th of December 1926 EVENT Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'etat is successful.
17th of December 1935 EVENT First flight of the Douglas DC-3 airplane.
17th of December 1939 EVENT World War II: Battle of the River Plate : The Admiral Graf Spee is scuttled by Captain Hans Langsdorff outside Montevideo.
17th of December 1941 EVENT World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
17th of December 1947 EVENT First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
17th of December 1950 EVENT The F-86 Sabre's first mission over Korea.
17th of December 1957 EVENT The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
17th of December 1960 EVENT 1960 Munich Convair 340 crash: 20 passengers and crew on board as well as 32 people on the ground are killed.
17th of December 1960 EVENT Troops loyal to Haile Selassie I in Ethiopia crush the coup that began December 13, returning power to their leader upon his return from Brazil. Haile Selassie absolves his son of any guilt.
17th of December 1961 EVENT History of Goa: Operation Vijay : India seizes Goa from Portugal.
17th of December 1967 EVENT Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt disappears while swimming near Portsea, Victoria and is presumed drowned.
17th of December 1969 EVENT Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs, stating that sightings are generated as a result of "A mild form of mass hysteria, Individuals who fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity, psychopathological persons, and misidentification of various conventional objects."
17th of December 1969 EVENT The SALT I talks begin.
17th of December 1970 EVENT Polish 1970 protests: In Gdynia soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
17th of December 1973 EVENT Terrorism: 30 passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport.
17th of December 1973 EVENT The American Psychiatric Association removes homosexuality from its list of mental diseases.
17th of December 1981 EVENT The Senegambia Confederation is founded.
17th of December 1981 EVENT Brigadier General James L. Dozier is abducted by the Red Brigade in Verona, Italy.
17th of December 1983 EVENT The IRA bombs Harrods Department Store in London, killing six people.
17th of December 1989 EVENT Fernando Collor de Mello defeats Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, becoming the first democratically elected President in almost 30 years.
17th of December 1989 EVENT The first episode of television series The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", airs in the United States.
17th of December 1989 EVENT Romanian Revolution: Protests continue in Timisoara with rioters breaking into the Romanian Communist Party's District Committee building and attempting to set it on fire.
17th of December 1997 EVENT The United Kingdom commences its Firearms (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1997, which extends the state's gun ban to include all handguns--with the exception of antique and show weapons.
17th of December 2002 EVENT Second Congo War: The Congolese parties of the Inter Congolese Dialogue sign a peace accord which makes provision for transitional governance and legislative and presidential elections within two years.
17th of December 2003 EVENT The Soham murder trial ends at the Old Bailey in London, with Ian Huntley found guilty of two counts of murder. His girlfriend Maxine Carr is found guilty of perverting the course of justice.
17th of December 2003 EVENT SpaceShipOne flight 11P, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first supersonic flight.
17th of December 2005 EVENT Anti-WTO protesters riot in Wan Chai, Hong Kong
17th of December 2005 EVENT Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicate the throne as King of Bhutan.
17th of December 2009 EVENT MV Danny F II sinks off the coast of Lebanon, resulting in the deaths of 44 people and over 28,000 animals.
17th of December 2010 EVENT Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire.This act became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution. The success of the Tunisian protests sparked protests in several other Arab countries.
17th of December 1239 BIRTHDAY Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese Shogun (d. 1256)
17th of December 1267 BIRTHDAY Emperor Go-Uda of Japan (d. 1324)
17th of December 1619 BIRTHDAY Prince Rupert of the Rhine, commander in the English Civil War (d. 1682)
17th of December 1632 BIRTHDAY Anthony Wood, English antiquarian (d. 1695)
17th of December 1685 BIRTHDAY Thomas Tickell, English writer (d. 1740)
17th of December 1706 BIRTHDAY Emilie du Chatelet, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1749)
17th of December 1734 BIRTHDAY Maria I of Portugal, Portuguese queen (d. 1816)
17th of December 1749 BIRTHDAY Domenico Cimarosa, Italian composer (d. 1801)
17th of December 1778 BIRTHDAY Sir Humphry Davy, English chemist and physicist (d. 1829)
17th of December 1796 BIRTHDAY Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canadian novelist (d. 1865)
17th of December 1797 BIRTHDAY Joseph Henry, American physicist (d. 1878).
17th of December 1807 BIRTHDAY John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892)
17th of December 1830 BIRTHDAY Jules de Goncourt, French publisher (d. 1870)
17th of December 1835 BIRTHDAY Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (d. 1910)
17th of December 1842 BIRTHDAY Sophus Lie, Norwegian mathematician; (d. 1899)
17th of December 1847 BIRTHDAY Emile Faguet, French writer and critic (d. 1916)
17th of December 1853 BIRTHDAY Emile Roux, French physician (d. 1933)
17th of December 1859 BIRTHDAY Paul Cesar Helleu, French artist (d. 1927)
17th of December 1873 BIRTHDAY Ford Madox Ford, English writer (d. 1939)
17th of December 1874 BIRTHDAY William Lyon Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1950)
17th of December 1881 BIRTHDAY Aubrey Faulkner, South African cricketer (d. 1930)
17th of December 1883 BIRTHDAY Raimu, French actor (d. 1946)
17th of December 1887 BIRTHDAY Josef Lada, Czech painter (d. 1957)
17th of December 1887 BIRTHDAY Hermine Reuss, Empress of Germany and Duchess of Bohemia (d. 1947)
17th of December 1892 BIRTHDAY Sam Barry, American basketball coach (d. 1950)
17th of December 1893 BIRTHDAY Erwin Piscator, German film director (d. 1966)
17th of December 1894 BIRTHDAY Arthur Fiedler, American conductor (d. 1979)
17th of December 1895 BIRTHDAY Nils Asheim, Norwegian politician (d. 1966)
17th of December 1900 BIRTHDAY Mary Cartwright, English mathematician (d. 1998)
17th of December 1900 BIRTHDAY Katina Paxinou, Greek actress (d. 1973)
17th of December 1903 BIRTHDAY Ray Noble, English bandleader and actor (d. 1978)
17th of December 1903 BIRTHDAY Erskine Caldwell, American author (d. 1987)
17th of December 1904 BIRTHDAY Paul Cadmus, American artist (d. 1999)
17th of December 1905 BIRTHDAY Simo Hayha, Finnish sniper (d. 2002)
17th of December 1905 BIRTHDAY Erico Lopes Verissimo, Brazilian writer (d. 1975)
17th of December 1906 BIRTHDAY Fernando Lopes-Graca, Portuguese composer and musicologist (d. 1994)
17th of December 1906 BIRTHDAY Russell C. Newhouse, Inventor (d. 1998)
17th of December 1908 BIRTHDAY Willard Frank Libby, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
17th of December 1910 BIRTHDAY Sy Oliver, American jazz arranger and bandleader (d. 1988)
17th of December 1912 BIRTHDAY Edward Short, British politician
17th of December 1913 BIRTHDAY Burt Baskin, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Baskin and Robbins, d. 1967
17th of December 1914 BIRTHDAY Raymond Fernandez, American convicted murderer (d. 1951)
17th of December 1915 BIRTHDAY Andre Claveau, French singer (d. 2003)
17th of December 1916 BIRTHDAY Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (d. 2000)
17th of December 1920 BIRTHDAY Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist (d. 2004)
17th of December 1921 BIRTHDAY Lore Berger, Swiss writer (d. 1943)
17th of December 1922 BIRTHDAY Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (d. 2005)
17th of December 1923 BIRTHDAY Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (d. 2006)
17th of December 1926 BIRTHDAY Ray Jablonski, American baseball player (d. 1985)
17th of December 1927 BIRTHDAY Richard Long, American actor (d. 1974)
17th of December 1929 BIRTHDAY Jacqueline Hill, English actress (d. 1993)
17th of December 1929 BIRTHDAY William Safire, American columnist (d. 2009)
17th of December 1930 BIRTHDAY Armin Mueller-Stahl, German actor
17th of December 1930 BIRTHDAY Bob Guccione, American magazine publisher (d. 2010)
17th of December 1931 BIRTHDAY Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor
17th of December 1931 BIRTHDAY James McGaugh, American professor and neurobiologist
17th of December 1934 BIRTHDAY Ray Wilson, English footballer
17th of December 1935 BIRTHDAY George Lindsey, American actor
17th of December 1935 BIRTHDAY Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball coach (d. 1999)
17th of December 1936 BIRTHDAY Jorge Bergoglio, Argentine cardinal
17th of December 1936 BIRTHDAY Tommy Steele, English singer and actor
17th of December 1937 BIRTHDAY Calvin Waller, American Army general (d. 1996)
17th of December 1937 BIRTHDAY John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (d. 1969)
17th of December 1937 BIRTHDAY Kerry Packer, Australian businessman (d. 2005)
17th of December 1937 BIRTHDAY Art Neville, American musician (The Neville Brothers)
17th of December 1938 BIRTHDAY Carlo Little, English drummer (d. 2005)
17th of December 1938 BIRTHDAY Peter Snell, New Zealand runner
17th of December 1939 BIRTHDAY Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1992)
17th of December 1940 BIRTHDAY Kare Valebrokk, Norwegian journalist
17th of December 1942 BIRTHDAY Paul Butterfield, American musician (d. 1987)
17th of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Mary Brunner, American former "Manson Family" member
17th of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Ron Geesin, Scottish musician and composer
17th of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Jack L. Chalker, American novelist (d. 2005)
17th of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Bernard Hill, English actor
17th of December 1945 BIRTHDAY Ernie Hudson, American actor
17th of December 1945 BIRTHDAY Chris Matthews, American journalist
17th of December 1945 BIRTHDAY Jacqueline Wilson, English author
17th of December 1946 BIRTHDAY Eugene Levy, Canadian actor
17th of December 1947 BIRTHDAY Wes Studi, American actor
17th of December 1949 BIRTHDAY Paul Rodgers, English singer (Free; Bad Company)
17th of December 1949 BIRTHDAY Sotiris Kaiafas, Cypriot footballer
17th of December 1950 BIRTHDAY Laurence F. Johnson, American educator
17th of December 1951 BIRTHDAY Ken Hitchcock, Canadian ice hockey coach
17th of December 1951 BIRTHDAY Tatyana Kazankina, Soviet athlete
17th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Sally Menke, American Film Editor (d. 2010)
17th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Samuel Hadida, film distributor
17th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Barry Livingston, American actor
17th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Bill Pullman, American actor
17th of December 1955 BIRTHDAY Brad Davis, American basketball player
17th of December 1956 BIRTHDAY Peter Farrelly, American film director
17th of December 1957 BIRTHDAY Earl Hudson, American drummer (Bad Brains)
17th of December 1958 BIRTHDAY Mike Mills, American musician (R.E.M.)
17th of December 1959 BIRTHDAY Albert King, American basketball player
17th of December 1960 BIRTHDAY Moreno Argentin, Italian cyclist
17th of December 1961 BIRTHDAY Sara Dallin, English singer (Bananarama)
17th of December 1962 BIRTHDAY Paul Dobson, English footballer
17th of December 1962 BIRTHDAY Rocco Mediate, American golfer
17th of December 1962 BIRTHDAY Richard Jewell, American security guard and accused bomber (d. 2007)
17th of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Ginger, English singer and guitarist (The Wildhearts)
17th of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Frank Musil, Czech ice hockey player
17th of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Joe Wolf, American basketball player
17th of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Michele Tafoya, American sportcaster
17th of December 1965 BIRTHDAY Craig Berube, Canadian ice hockey player
17th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Tracy Byrd, American musician
17th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Valeri Liukin, Soviet gymnast
17th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Kristiina Ojuland, Estonian politician
17th of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Gigi D'Agostino, Italian DJ and musician
17th of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Vincent Damphousse, Canadian ice hockey player
17th of December 1968 BIRTHDAY Andrey Golovatiuk, Russian politician
17th of December 1968 BIRTHDAY Paul Tracy, Canadian race car driver
17th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Chuck Liddell, American mixed martial artist
17th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Chris Mason, English darts player
17th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Michael V., Filipino comedian and actor
17th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Mick Quinn, English Musician (Supergrass)
17th of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Sean Patrick Thomas, American actor
17th of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Sinan Akkus, Turkish-German actor
17th of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Antoine Rigaudeau, French basketball player
17th of December 1971 BIRTHDAY Alan Khan, South African radio & TV presenter
17th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY John Abraham, Indian actor
17th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Laurie Holden, American actress
17th of December 1973 BIRTHDAY Konstadinos Gatsioudis, Greek javelin thrower
17th of December 1973 BIRTHDAY Rian Johnson, American writer and director
17th of December 1973 BIRTHDAY Paula Radcliffe, English runner
17th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Duff Goldman, American chef
17th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Sarah Paulson, American actress
17th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Giovanni Ribisi and Marissa Ribisi, American actor and actress
17th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Ian Petrella, American actor
17th of December 1975 BIRTHDAY Nick Dinsmore (Eugene), American professional wrestler
17th of December 1975 BIRTHDAY Milla Jovovich, Ukrainian-born actress
17th of December 1975 BIRTHDAY Bree Sharp, American singer/songwriter
17th of December 1975 BIRTHDAY Mayuko Aoki, Japanese voice actress
17th of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Zsanett Egerhazi, Hungarian-born porn actress
17th of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Patrick Muller, Swiss footballer
17th of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Eric Bedard, Canadian speed skater
17th of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Takeo Spikes, American football player
17th of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Nir Davidovich, Israeli footballer
17th of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Samuel Pahlsson, Swedish hockey player
17th of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Oxana Fedorova (?????? ????????), Miss Universe 2002
17th of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Arnaud Clement, French tennis player
17th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Alex Cintron, Puerto Rican baseball player
17th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Riteish Deshmukh, Indian actor
17th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Manny Pacquiao, Filipino boxer and politician
17th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Chase Utley, American baseball player
17th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Neil Sanderson, Canadian drummer (Three Days Grace)
17th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Jaimee Foxworth, American actress and porn star
17th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Ryan Key, American musician and songwriter (Yellowcard)
17th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Matt Murley, American ice hockey player
17th of December 1980 BIRTHDAY Alexandra Papageorgiou, Greek hammer thrower
17th of December 1980 BIRTHDAY Ryan Hunter-Reay, American race car driver
17th of December 1980 BIRTHDAY Eli Pariser, American political blogger and activist
17th of December 1980 BIRTHDAY Stella Ng, Singaporean singer & actress
17th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Jerry Hsu, American pro skater
17th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Rena Takeshita, Japanese fashion model
17th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Lorenzo Cittadini, Italian rugby player
17th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Craig Kielburger, Canadian anti-child-labor activist
17th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Josh Barfield, American baseball player
17th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Ryan Moats, football player
17th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Stephane Lasme, Gabonese basketball player
17th of December 1983 BIRTHDAY Kosuke Saito, Japanese DJ
17th of December 1983 BIRTHDAY Erik Christensen, Canadian hockey player
17th of December 1984 BIRTHDAY Luis Maria Alfageme, Argentine footballer
17th of December 1984 BIRTHDAY Andrew Davies, English footballer
17th of December 1985 BIRTHDAY Ryuichi Ogata, Japanese singer (w-inds.)
17th of December 1986 BIRTHDAY Vanessa Zima, American actress
17th of December 1990 BIRTHDAY Ashley Edner, American actress
17th of December 2007 BIRTHDAY James, Viscount Severn, British royal
17th of December 0535 DEATH Emperor Ankan of Japan (Born 466)
17th of December 0942 DEATH William Longsword (Born 893)
17th of December 1187 DEATH Pope Gregory VIII
17th of December 1195 DEATH Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (Born 1150)
17th of December 1273 DEATH Rumi (Born 1207)
17th of December 1663 DEATH Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (Born 1583)
17th of December 1721 DEATH Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough, English statesman (Born 1640)
17th of December 1830 DEATH Simon Bolivar, Venezuelan military leader (Born 1783)
17th of December 1833 DEATH Kaspar Hauser, German foundling (Born 1812)
17th of December 1847 DEATH Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, second wife of Napoleon (Born 1791)
17th of December 1860 DEATH Desiree Clary, Queen of Sweden and Norway (Born 1777)
17th of December 1907 DEATH William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, Irish-born physicist (Born 1824)
17th of December 1909 DEATH Leopold II of Belgium (Born 1835)
17th of December 1917 DEATH Frank Gotch, American professional wrestler (Born 1878)
17th of December 1917 DEATH Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician (Born 1836)
17th of December 1927 DEATH Rajendra Lahiri, Indian British anti-occupation activist (Born 1892)
17th of December 1929 DEATH Manuel Gomes da Costa, Portuguese politician (Born 1863)
17th of December 1930 DEATH Peter Warlock, Anglo-Welsh composer (Born 1894)
17th of December 1933 DEATH Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama (Born 1876)
17th of December 1940 DEATH Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (Born 1860)
17th of December 1957 DEATH Dorothy L. Sayers, English writer (Born 1893)
17th of December 1962 DEATH Thomas Mitchell, American actor (Born 1892)
17th of December 1964 DEATH Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1883)
17th of December 1967 DEATH Harold Holt, Australian politician (Born 1908)
17th of December 1967 DEATH Jack Perrin, American actor (Born 1896)
17th of December 1978 DEATH Don Ellis, American jazz band leader (Born 1934)
17th of December 1982 DEATH Homer S. Ferguson, American politician (Born 1889)
17th of December 1987 DEATH Linda Wong, American porn star (Born 1951)
17th of December 1987 DEATH Marguerite Yourcenar, Belgian novelist (Born 1903)
17th of December 1992 DEATH Dana Andrews, American actor (Born 1909)
17th of December 1992 DEATH Gunther Anders, Polish philosopher (Born 1902)
17th of December 1998 DEATH Allan D'Arcangelo, American artist (Born 1930)
17th of December 1999 DEATH Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (Born 1943)
17th of December 1999 DEATH Rex Allen, American actor, singer, and songwriter (Born 1920)
17th of December 2002 DEATH James Hazeldine, English actor (Born 1947)
17th of December 2003 DEATH Ed Devereaux, Australian actor (Born 1925)
17th of December 2003 DEATH Otto Graham, American football player (Born 1921)
17th of December 2004 DEATH Tom Wesselmann, American collage artist (Born 1931)
17th of December 2005 DEATH Jack Anderson, American journalist (Born 1922)
17th of December 2005 DEATH Marc Favreau, French-Canadian humourist (Born 1929)
17th of December 2006 DEATH Larry Sherry, American baseball player (Born 1935)
17th of December 2008 DEATH Sammy Baugh, American football player (Born 1914)
17th of December 2008 DEATH Dave Smith, American baseball player (Born 1955)
17th of December 2008 DEATH Freddy Breck, German schlager singer and news anchor (Born 1942)
17th of December 2009 DEATH Chris Henry, American football player (Born 1983)
17th of December 2009 DEATH Jennifer Jones, American actress (Born 1919)
17th of December 2009 DEATH Dan O'Bannon, American screenwriter and actor (Born 1943)
17th of December 2010 DEATH Captain Beefheart, American musician (Born 1941)
17th of December 2010 DEATH Walt Dropo, American baseball player (Born 1923)