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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)