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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd of December 1409 | EVENT | The University of Leipzig opens. |
| 2nd of December 1755 | EVENT | The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire. |
| 2nd of December 1763 | EVENT | Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what became the United States. |
| 2nd of December 1775 | EVENT | The USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones. |
| 2nd of December 1804 | EVENT | At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years. |
| 2nd of December 1805 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Austerlitz : French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force. |
| 2nd of December 1823 | EVENT | Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts. |
| 2nd of December 1845 | EVENT | Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. |
| 2nd of December 1848 | EVENT | Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria. |
| 2nd of December 1851 | EVENT | French President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic. |
| 2nd of December 1852 | EVENT | Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French (Napoleon III). |
| 2nd of December 1859 | EVENT | Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper's Ferry. |
| 2nd of December 1867 | EVENT | At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States. |
| 2nd of December 1899 | EVENT | Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought. |
| 2nd of December 1908 | EVENT | Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two |
| 2nd of December 1917 | EVENT | An armistice is signed between Russia and the Central Powers at Brest-Litovsk and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk began. |
| 2nd of December 1920 | EVENT | Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded. |
| 2nd of December 1927 | EVENT | Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile. |
| 2nd of December 1930 | EVENT | Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy. |
| 2nd of December 1939 | EVENT | New York City's La Guardia Airport opens. |
| 2nd of December 1942 | EVENT | Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. |
| 2nd of December 1943 | EVENT | A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including an American Liberty ship, the John Harvey, with a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas. |
| 2nd of December 1946 | EVENT | The British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly. |
| 2nd of December 1947 | EVENT | Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan. |
| 2nd of December 1954 | EVENT | Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute". |
| 2nd of December 1954 | EVENT | The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, D.C.. |
| 2nd of December 1956 | EVENT | The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution. |
| 2nd of December 1961 | EVENT | In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism. |
| 2nd of December 1962 | EVENT | Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official not to make an optimistic public comment on the war's progress. |
| 2nd of December 1970 | EVENT | The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations. |
| 2nd of December 1971 | EVENT | Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates. |
| 2nd of December 1975 | EVENT | Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People's Democratic Republic. |
| 2nd of December 1976 | EVENT | Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado. |
| 2nd of December 1980 | EVENT | Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador. |
| 2nd of December 1988 | EVENT | Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state. |
| 2nd of December 1993 | EVENT | Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellin. |
| 2nd of December 1993 | EVENT | Space Shuttle program: STS-61 : NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. |
| 2nd of December 1999 | EVENT | Glenbrook rail accident near Sydney, New South Wales. |
| 2nd of December 1999 | EVENT | The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive. |
| 2nd of December 2001 | EVENT | Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. |
| 2nd of December 2008 | EVENT | Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat resigns after the 2008 Thailand political crisis. |
| 2nd of December 1578 | BIRTHDAY | Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer and music theorist (d. 1640) |
| 2nd of December 1694 | BIRTHDAY | William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1771) |
| 2nd of December 1703 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (d. 1759) |
| 2nd of December 1710 | BIRTHDAY | Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (d. 1783) |
| 2nd of December 1738 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (d. 1775) |
| 2nd of December 1754 | BIRTHDAY | William Cooper, American judge (d. 1809) |
| 2nd of December 1760 | BIRTHDAY | John Breckinridge, American politician and 5th United States Attorney General (d. 1806) |
| 2nd of December 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Yesler, American entrepreneur and politician (d. 1892) |
| 2nd of December 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (d. 1885) |
| 2nd of December 1817 | BIRTHDAY | Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895) |
| 2nd of December 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (d. 1891) |
| 2nd of December 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (d. 1904) |
| 2nd of December 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Seurat, French painter (d. 1891) |
| 2nd of December 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Ringling, American circus owner (d. 1926) |
| 2nd of December 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Erima Harvey Northcroft, New Zealand lawyer and judge (d. 1953) |
| 2nd of December 1885 | BIRTHDAY | George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (d. 1950) |
| 2nd of December 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Burleigh, American composer (d. 1949) |
| 2nd of December 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1969) |
| 2nd of December 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. (d. 1987) |
| 2nd of December 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (d. 2002) |
| 2nd of December 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (d. 1948) |
| 2nd of December 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Harriet Cohen, British pianist (d. 1967) |
| 2nd of December 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (d. 1982) |
| 2nd of December 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (d. 1918) |
| 2nd of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | John Cobb, British racing driver (d. 1952) |
| 2nd of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Morehart, American baseball player (d. 1989) |
| 2nd of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | John Barbirolli, British conductor (d. 1970) |
| 2nd of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (d. 1986) |
| 2nd of December 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (d. 1977) |
| 2nd of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper's Magazine (d. 1991) |
| 2nd of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Erwin, American actor (d. 2010) |
| 2nd of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Adolph Green, American composer (d. 2002) |
| 2nd of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Walston, American actor (d. 2001) |
| 2nd of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Mikasa, Japanese royal |
| 2nd of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (d. 1992) |
| 2nd of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Furno, Cardinal Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem |
| 2nd of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Iakovos Kambanelis, Greek poet, playwright, lyricist, and novelist |
| 2nd of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Callas, Greek soprano (d. 1977) |
| 2nd of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Haig, American Soldier & Civil servant, 7th Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 5th White House Chief of Staff and 59th United States Secretary of State (d. 2010) |
| 2nd of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Vilgot Sjoman, Swedish writer and film director (d. 2006) |
| 2nd of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Harris, American actress |
| 2nd of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize |
| 2nd of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | David Piper, British race car driver |
| 2nd of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Nigel Calder, British science writer |
| 2nd of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (d. 1971) |
| 2nd of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Masaaki Hatsumi, founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization |
| 2nd of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Meese, American jurist and 75th United States Attorney General |
| 2nd of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Larrabee, American athlete (d. 2003) |
| 2nd of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist |
| 2nd of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Sissela Bok, Swedish philosopher and ethicist |
| 2nd of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Rodgers, baseball player (d. 2004) |
| 2nd of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Tarcisio Bertone, Cardinal Secretary of State and Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church |
| 2nd of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | David Hackett Fischer, American historian |
| 2nd of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Manohar Joshi, Indian politician |
| 2nd of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician |
| 2nd of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate |
| 2nd of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Reid, American politician |
| 2nd of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Allard, American politician |
| 2nd of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Cathy Lee Crosby, American actress |
| 2nd of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (d. 2006) |
| 2nd of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Inger Davidson, Swedish politician |
| 2nd of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter |
| 2nd of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Botho Strauss, German author |
| 2nd of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Penelope Spheeris, American film director |
| 2nd of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (d. 1997) |
| 2nd of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations) |
| 2nd of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Jenkins, English football player |
| 2nd of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist |
| 2nd of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer |
| 2nd of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Amin Saikal, Afghan-Australian academic |
| 2nd of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd on Whale Wars. |
| 2nd of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Kevoian, American radio personality |
| 2nd of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Stora, French historian |
| 2nd of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher |
| 2nd of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman |
| 2nd of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Butler, American actor |
| 2nd of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Stone Phillips, American television journalist |
| 2nd of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Bauer, American actor |
| 2nd of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Dagfinn H?ybraten, Norwegian politician |
| 2nd of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | George Saunders, American writer |
| 2nd of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer |
| 2nd of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Dietrich, German footballer |
| 2nd of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Boman Irani, Indian actor |
| 2nd of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard) |
| 2nd of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (d. 1984) |
| 2nd of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family |
| 2nd of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Gauthier, American actor |
| 2nd of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ann Patchett, American novelist |
| 2nd of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Sutter, National Hockey League player |
| 2nd of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rich Sutter, National Hockey League player |
| 2nd of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Coyle, English actor |
| 2nd of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 2nd of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Laurie Morgan, Channel Islands chief minister |
| 2nd of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Lucy Liu, American actress |
| 2nd of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters) |
| 2nd of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Darryl Kile, baseball player (d. 2002) |
| 2nd of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Rena Sofer, American actress |
| 2nd of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature) |
| 2nd of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Yang Hyun Suk, South Korean record producer |
| 2nd of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Lo Truglio, American actor, writer and comedian |
| 2nd of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor |
| 2nd of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Toldo, Italian football player |
| 2nd of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (d. 2004) |
| 2nd of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer |
| 2nd of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player |
| 2nd of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Ullrich, German cyclist |
| 2nd of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Masafumi Goto, Japanese singer (Asian Kung-Fu Generation) |
| 2nd of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Eddy Garabito, Dominican baseball player |
| 2nd of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer |
| 2nd of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Archer, American actress |
| 2nd of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nelly Furtado, Portuguese-Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 2nd of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jarron Collins, American basketball player |
| 2nd of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Collins, American basketball player |
| 2nd of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Moylan, Australian baseball player |
| 2nd of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Luigi Malafronte, Italian footballer |
| 2nd of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Maelle Ricker, Canadian snowboarder, Olympic Gold Medalist |
| 2nd of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | David Rivas, Spanish footballer |
| 2nd of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse) |
| 2nd of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer |
| 2nd of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress |
| 2nd of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Kreek, Canadian rower |
| 2nd of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Danijel Pranjic, Croatian football player |
| 2nd of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Britney Spears, American singer, dancer and entertainer |
| 2nd of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen |
| 2nd of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Christos Karipidis, Greek footballer |
| 2nd of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Pizon, American rapper/producer |
| 2nd of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Ware, American football player |
| 2nd of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Burke, Scottish footballer |
| 2nd of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jana Kramer, American actress |
| 2nd of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player |
| 2nd of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Rodgers, American football player |
| 2nd of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Daniela Ruah, Portuguese actress |
| 2nd of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Mate, Hungarian footballer |
| 2nd of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Amaury Leveaux, French swimmer |
| 2nd of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Dorell Wright, American basketball player |
| 2nd of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Claudiu Keseru, Romanian football player |
| 2nd of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Teairra Mari, American R&B singer |
| 2nd of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Enoch, British actor |
| 2nd of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Soniya Mehra, Indian actress |
| 2nd of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Cassie Steele, Canadian actress |
| 2nd of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Hikaru Yaotome, Japanese idol (Hey! Say! JUMP) |
| 2nd of December 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Brandon Knight, American basketball player |
| 2nd of December 1348 | DEATH | Emperor Hanazono of Japan (Born 1297) |
| 2nd of December 1381 | DEATH | John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic |
| 2nd of December 1463 | DEATH | Archduke Albert VI of Austria (Born 1418) |
| 2nd of December 1469 | DEATH | Piero di Cosimo de' Medici of Florence (Born 1416) |
| 2nd of December 1515 | DEATH | Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, Spanish general and statesman (Born 1453) |
| 2nd of December 1547 | DEATH | Hernan Cortes, Spanish explorer and conqueror (Born 1485) |
| 2nd of December 1552 | DEATH | Francis Xavier, Spanish Catholic missionary (Born 1506) |
| 2nd of December 1594 | DEATH | Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (Born 1512) |
| 2nd of December 1615 | DEATH | Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, French general |
| 2nd of December 1665 | DEATH | Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (Born 1588) |
| 2nd of December 1694 | DEATH | Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (Born 1622) |
| 2nd of December 1719 | DEATH | Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (Born 1634) |
| 2nd of December 1726 | DEATH | Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (Born 1665) |
| 2nd of December 1747 | DEATH | Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (Born 1695) |
| 2nd of December 1748 | DEATH | Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (Born 1662) |
| 2nd of December 1774 | DEATH | Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist (Born 1720) |
| 2nd of December 1814 | DEATH | Marquis de Sade, French writer (Born 1740) |
| 2nd of December 1844 | DEATH | Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (Born 1768) |
| 2nd of December 1849 | DEATH | Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of William IV of the United Kingdom (Born 1792) |
| 2nd of December 1859 | DEATH | John Brown, American abolitionist (Born 1800) |
| 2nd of December 1860 | DEATH | Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (Born 1796) |
| 2nd of December 1888 | DEATH | Nam?k Kemal, Turkish poet (Born 1840) |
| 2nd of December 1892 | DEATH | Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (Born 1836) |
| 2nd of December 1899 | DEATH | Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (Born 1875) |
| 2nd of December 1918 | DEATH | Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (Born 1868) |
| 2nd of December 1924 | DEATH | Kazimieras Buga, Lithuanian philologist (Born 1879) |
| 2nd of December 1931 | DEATH | Vincent d'Indy, French composer (Born 1851) |
| 2nd of December 1936 | DEATH | John Ringling, American circus owner (Born 1866) |
| 2nd of December 1943 | DEATH | Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian author and journalist (Born 1902) |
| 2nd of December 1944 | DEATH | Josef Lhevinne, Russian pianist (Born 1874) |
| 2nd of December 1944 | DEATH | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer (Born 1876) |
| 2nd of December 1944 | DEATH | Eiji Sawamura, Japanese baseball player (Born 1917) |
| 2nd of December 1950 | DEATH | Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (Born 1917) |
| 2nd of December 1953 | DEATH | Reginald Baker, Australian athlete and actor (Born 1884) |
| 2nd of December 1957 | DEATH | Harrison Ford, American actor (Born 1884) |
| 2nd of December 1957 | DEATH | Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (Born 1902) |
| 2nd of December 1963 | DEATH | Thomas J. Hicks, British-born American runner (Born 1875) |
| 2nd of December 1963 | DEATH | Sabu Dastagir, Indian-born American actor (Born 1924) |
| 2nd of December 1966 | DEATH | Giles Cooper, Anglo-Irish playwright (Born 1918) |
| 2nd of December 1967 | DEATH | Billy Chapman, English footballer (Born 1902) |
| 2nd of December 1968 | DEATH | Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson), Estonian painter (Born 1902) |
| 2nd of December 1969 | DEATH | Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Russian politician (Born 1881) |
| 2nd of December 1969 | DEATH | Jose Maria Arguedas, Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist (Born 1911) |
| 2nd of December 1972 | DEATH | Yip Man, Chinese martial artist (Born 1893) |
| 2nd of December 1974 | DEATH | Max Weber, Swiss politician (Born 1897) |
| 2nd of December 1976 | DEATH | Danny Murtaugh, American baseball player and manager (Born 1917) |
| 2nd of December 1980 | DEATH | Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Pakistani politician (Born 1905) |
| 2nd of December 1980 | DEATH | Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (Born 1914) |
| 2nd of December 1982 | DEATH | Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor (Born 1933) |
| 2nd of December 1983 | DEATH | Fifi d'Orsay, Canadian actress (Born 1904) |
| 2nd of December 1985 | DEATH | Aniello Dellacroce, American organized crime figure (Born 1914) |
| 2nd of December 1985 | DEATH | Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic (Born 1922) |
| 2nd of December 1986 | DEATH | Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor and band leader (Born 1917) |
| 2nd of December 1986 | DEATH | John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (Born 1912) |
| 2nd of December 1987 | DEATH | Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1906) |
| 2nd of December 1987 | DEATH | Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (Born 1914) |
| 2nd of December 1988 | DEATH | Karl-Heinz Burger, German SS-Oberfuhrer (Born 1904) |
| 2nd of December 1988 | DEATH | Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Born 1922) |
| 2nd of December 1990 | DEATH | Aaron Copland, American composer (Born 1900) |
| 2nd of December 1990 | DEATH | Robert Cummings, American actor (Born 1908) |
| 2nd of December 1992 | DEATH | Michael Gothard, English actor (Born 1939) |
| 2nd of December 1993 | DEATH | Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug trafficker (Born 1949) |
| 2nd of December 1995 | DEATH | Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (Born 1913) |
| 2nd of December 1995 | DEATH | Roxie Roker, American actress (Born 1929) |
| 2nd of December 1997 | DEATH | Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (Born 1930) |
| 2nd of December 1997 | DEATH | Michael Hedges, American guitarist (Born 1953) |
| 2nd of December 2000 | DEATH | Gail Fisher, American actress (Born 1935) |
| 2nd of December 2002 | DEATH | Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (Born 1926) |
| 2nd of December 2002 | DEATH | Arno Peters, German historian (Born 1916) |
| 2nd of December 2003 | DEATH | Alan Davidson, British author (Born 1924) |
| 2nd of December 2004 | DEATH | Mona Van Duyn, American poet (Born 1921) |
| 2nd of December 2004 | DEATH | Alicia Markova, British ballerina (Born 1910) |
| 2nd of December 2005 | DEATH | Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (Born 1948) |
| 2nd of December 2005 | DEATH | Van Tuong Nguyen, Thai-born Australian drug smuggler (Born 1980) |
| 2nd of December 2005 | DEATH | William P. Lawrence, American naval officer (Born 1930) |
| 2nd of December 2005 | DEATH | Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (Born 1919) |
| 2nd of December 2006 | DEATH | Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (Shocking Blue) (Born 1947) |
| 2nd of December 2007 | DEATH | Jennifer Alexander, Canadian ballet dancer (Born 1972) |
| 2nd of December 2008 | DEATH | Edward Samuel Rogers, Canadian entrepreneur (Born 1933) |
| 2nd of December 2008 | DEATH | Kathleen Baskin-Ball, American religious figure (Born 1958) |
| 2nd of December 2008 | DEATH | Odetta, American singer (Born 1930) |
| 2nd of December 2009 | DEATH | Maggie Jones, English actress (Born 1934) |
| 2nd of December 2009 | DEATH | Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer and producer (The Alan Parsons Project) (Born 1945) |
| 2nd of December 2009 | DEATH | Foge Fazio, American college football coach (Born 1938) |
| 2nd of December 2010 | DEATH | Ron Santo, American baseball player and broadcaster (Born 1940) |