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12th of December 0627 EVENT Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh.
12th of December 1098 EVENT First Crusade: Massacre of Ma'arrat al-Numan : Crusaders breach the town's walls and massacre about 20,000 inhabitants. After finding themselves with insufficient food, they resort to cannibalism.
12th of December 1408 EVENT The Order of the Dragon a monarchical chivalric order is created by Sigismund of Luxembourg, then King of Hungary.
12th of December 1531 EVENT Our Lady of Guadalupe (Spanish: Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe.) An image appeared miraculously on the cloak of Juan Diego, a simple indigenous peasant, on the hill of Tepeyac near Mexico City.[dubious : discuss]
12th of December 1781 EVENT American Revolutionary War: Second Battle of Ushant : A Royal Navy squadron, commanded by Rear Admiral Richard Kempenfelt in HMS Victory, defeats a French fleet.
12th of December 1787 EVENT Pennsylvania becomes the second state to ratify the United States Constitution five days after Delaware became the first.
12th of December 1862 EVENT USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
12th of December 1870 EVENT Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman, the first one being Hiram Revels.
12th of December 1897 EVENT Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded.
12th of December 1901 EVENT Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
12th of December 1911 EVENT Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
12th of December 1911 EVENT King George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck are enthroned as Emperor and Empress of India.
12th of December 1915 EVENT President of the Republic of China, Yuan Shikai announces his intention to reinstate the monarchy and proclaim himself Emperor of China.
12th of December 1917 EVENT In Nebraska, Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
12th of December 1918 EVENT Flag of Estonia is raised atop the Pikk Hermann for the first time.
12th of December 1925 EVENT The Majlis of Iran votes to crown Reza Khan as the new Shah of Persia.
12th of December 1935 EVENT Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
12th of December 1936 EVENT Xi'an Incident: The Generalissimo of the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek is kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang.
12th of December 1937 EVENT Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink US gunboat Panay on the Yangtze River in China.
12th of December 1939 EVENT Winter War: Battle of Tolvajarvi : Finnish forces defeat those of the Soviet Union in their first major victory of the conflict.
12th of December 1939 EVENT HMS Duchess (H64) sinks after a collision with HMS Barham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men
12th of December 1940 EVENT World War II: Approximately 70 people are killed in the Marples Hotel, Fitzalan Square, Sheffield as a result of a German air raid.
12th of December 1941 EVENT World War II: Fifty four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesus Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; Cesar Basa is killed.
12th of December 1941 EVENT Adolf Hitler announces extermination of the Jews at a meeting in the Reich Chancellery
12th of December 1941 EVENT World War II: USMC F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island.
12th of December 1941 EVENT World War II: UK declares war on Bulgaria. Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States. India declares war on Japan.
12th of December 1942 EVENT World War II: German troops begin Operation Winter Storm, an attempt to relieve encircled Axis forces during the Battle of Stalingrad.
12th of December 1942 EVENT A fire in a hostel in St. John's, Newfoundland kills 100 people.
12th of December 1946 EVENT A fire at a New York City ice plant spreads to a nearby tenement killing 37 people.
12th of December 1948 EVENT Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali Massacre : 14 members of the Scots Guards stationed in Malaysia allegedly massacre 24 unarmed civilians and set fire to the village.
12th of December 1950 EVENT Paula Ackerman, the first woman appointed to perform rabbinical functions in the United States, leads the congregation in her first services.
12th of December 1956 EVENT Beginning of the Irish Republican Army's "Border Campaign".
12th of December 1958 EVENT Guinea joins the United Nations.
12th of December 1963 EVENT Kenya gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
12th of December 1964 EVENT Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta becomes the first President of the Republic of Kenya.
12th of December 1969 EVENT Strategy of tension: Piazza Fontana bombing : The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
12th of December 1979 EVENT President of Pakistan, Zia-ul-Haq, confers Nishan-e-Imtiaz on Nobel laureate Dr Abdus Salam.
12th of December 1979 EVENT Coup d'etat of December Twelfth: South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa without authorization from President Choi Kyu-ha, alleging involvement in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung Hee.
12th of December 1979 EVENT The unrecognised state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia returns to British control and resumes using the name Southern Rhodesia.
12th of December 1979 EVENT A major earthquake and tsunami kill 259 people in Colombia.
12th of December 1982 EVENT Women's peace protest at Greenham Common : 30,000 women hold hands and form a human chain around the 14.5 kilometres (9.0 mi) perimeter fence.
12th of December 1984 EVENT Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya becomes the third president of Mauritania after a coup d'etat against Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla while the latter is attending a summit.
12th of December 1985 EVENT Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashes after takeoff in Gander, Newfoundland killing 256, including 236 members of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division.
12th of December 1988 EVENT The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains : one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.
12th of December 1991 EVENT Russian Federation gains independence from the USSR.
12th of December 2000 EVENT The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore
12th of December 2005 EVENT Gebran Tueni, Lebanese journalist and politician, is assassinated.
12th of December 2006 EVENT Peugeot produces its last car at the Ryton Plant signalling the end of mass car production in Coventry, formerly a major centre of the British motor industry.
12th of December 1298 BIRTHDAY Albert II of Austria (d. 1358)
12th of December 1574 BIRTHDAY Anne of Denmark, queen consort of James I of England (d. 1619)
12th of December 1610 BIRTHDAY Saint Vasilije (d. 1671)
12th of December 1659 BIRTHDAY Francesco Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/designer (d. 1739)
12th of December 1712 BIRTHDAY Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Austrian military leader (d. 1780)
12th of December 1724 BIRTHDAY Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, British admiral (d. 1816)
12th of December 1745 BIRTHDAY John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1829)
12th of December 1779 BIRTHDAY Madeleine Sophie Barat, French saint (d. 1865)
12th of December 1783 BIRTHDAY Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (d. 1865)
12th of December 1786 BIRTHDAY William L. Marcy, American statesman (d. 1857)
12th of December 1791 BIRTHDAY Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, wife of Napoleon (d. 1847)
12th of December 1792 BIRTHDAY Alexander Ypsilantis, Greek prince (d. 1828)
12th of December 1799 BIRTHDAY Karl Briullov, Russian painter (d. 1852)
12th of December 1805 BIRTHDAY William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist (d. 1879)
12th of December 1805 BIRTHDAY Henry Wells, American banking executive (d. 1878)
12th of December 1806 BIRTHDAY Stand Watie, American Confederate general (d. 1871)
12th of December 1812 BIRTHDAY John Sandfield Macdonald, Canadian premier of Ontario (d. 1872)
12th of December 1821 BIRTHDAY Gustave Flaubert, French writer (d. 1880)
12th of December 1845 BIRTHDAY Bruce Price, American architect (d. 1903)
12th of December 1849 BIRTHDAY William Kissam Vanderbilt, member of the Vanderbilt family (d. 1920)
12th of December 1862 BIRTHDAY J. Bruce Ismay, British ocean liner executive and Titanic survivor (d. 1937)
12th of December 1863 BIRTHDAY Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter (d. 1944)
12th of December 1864 BIRTHDAY Paul Elmer More, American essayist (d. 1937)
12th of December 1866 BIRTHDAY Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1919)
12th of December 1870 BIRTHDAY Walter Benona Sharp, American oil industry executive (d. 1912)
12th of December 1875 BIRTHDAY Gerd von Rundstedt, German field marshal (d. 1953)
12th of December 1876 BIRTHDAY Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (d. 1928)
12th of December 1887 BIRTHDAY Kurt Atterberg, Swedish composer (d. 1974)
12th of December 1892 BIRTHDAY Milko Kos, Slovenian historian (d. 1972)
12th of December 1892 BIRTHDAY Herman Potocnik, Slovenian rocket engineer (d. 1929)
12th of December 1893 BIRTHDAY Edward G. Robinson, American actor (d. 1973)
12th of December 1900 BIRTHDAY Sammy Davis, Sr., American dancer (d. 1988)
12th of December 1902 BIRTHDAY Koloman Sokol, Slovak painter (d. 2003)
12th of December 1903 BIRTHDAY Dagmar Nordstrom, American composer (d. 1976)
12th of December 1903 BIRTHDAY Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (d. 1963)
12th of December 1904 BIRTHDAY Nicolas de Gunzburg, French magazine editor (d. 1981)
12th of December 1905 BIRTHDAY Manes Sperber, Austrian writer (d. 1984)
12th of December 1907 BIRTHDAY Roy Douglas, English composer and orchestrator
12th of December 1908 BIRTHDAY Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and conductor (d. 1993)
12th of December 1909 BIRTHDAY Karen Morley, American actress (d. 2003)
12th of December 1909 BIRTHDAY Hans Keilson, German-born Dutch writer and child psychologist
12th of December 1910 BIRTHDAY Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter (d. 1968)
12th of December 1914 BIRTHDAY Patrick O'Brian, English author (d. 2000)
12th of December 1915 BIRTHDAY Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor (d. 1998)
12th of December 1917 BIRTHDAY James Wall, American actor and stage manager (d. 2010)
12th of December 1918 BIRTHDAY Joe Williams, American singer (d. 1999)
12th of December 1919 BIRTHDAY Dan DeCarlo, American cartoonist (d. 2001)
12th of December 1919 BIRTHDAY Olivia Barclay, English astrologer (d. 2001)
12th of December 1920 BIRTHDAY Fred Kida, American comics artist
12th of December 1922 BIRTHDAY Christian Dotremont, Belgian painter and writer (d. 1979)
12th of December 1923 BIRTHDAY Bob Barker, American television game show host
12th of December 1923 BIRTHDAY Bob Dorough, American jazz pianist/vocalist
12th of December 1923 BIRTHDAY Ken Kavanagh, Australian racing driver
12th of December 1924 BIRTHDAY Ray Cordeiro, Hong Kong radio personality
12th of December 1924 BIRTHDAY Robert Coogan, American actor (d. 1978)
12th of December 1924 BIRTHDAY Ed Koch, American politician
12th of December 1925 BIRTHDAY Vladimir Shainsky, Russian composer
12th of December 1925 BIRTHDAY Ahmad Shamlou, Iranian poet (d. 2000)
12th of December 1927 BIRTHDAY Robert Noyce, American inventor (d. 1990)
12th of December 1928 BIRTHDAY Chinghiz Aitmatov, Soviet-born Kyrgyz writer (d. 2008)
12th of December 1929 BIRTHDAY Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician
12th of December 1929 BIRTHDAY John Osborne, English dramatist (d. 1994)
12th of December 1930 BIRTHDAY Silvio Santos, Brazilian TV show host
12th of December 1930 BIRTHDAY Bill Beutel, American journalist (d. 2006)
12th of December 1931 BIRTHDAY Lionel Blair, English actor and choreographer
12th of December 1932 BIRTHDAY Bob Pettit, American basketball player
12th of December 1934 BIRTHDAY Miguel de la Madrid, Mexican politician
12th of December 1937 BIRTHDAY Buford Pusser, American law enforcement official (d. 1974)
12th of December 1938 BIRTHDAY Connie Francis, American singer
12th of December 1940 BIRTHDAY Sharad Pawar, Indian politician
12th of December 1940 BIRTHDAY Dionne Warwick, American singer
12th of December 1940 BIRTHDAY Frances Willard, American magician
12th of December 1942 BIRTHDAY Peter Sarstedt, British musician
12th of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Dickey Betts, American musician (The Allman Brothers Band)
12th of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Vassilis Alexakis, Greek-French writer
12th of December 1943 BIRTHDAY Grover Washington, Jr., American saxophonist (d. 1999)
12th of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Kenneth Cranham, Scottish actor
12th of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Jean Dore, Canadian politician
12th of December 1944 BIRTHDAY Rob Tyner, American Singer, Songwriter and activist (The MC5) (d. 1991)
12th of December 1945 BIRTHDAY Tony Williams, American jazz drummer (d. 1997)
12th of December 1946 BIRTHDAY Emerson Fittipaldi, Brazilian race car driver
12th of December 1946 BIRTHDAY Paula Wagner, American film executive
12th of December 1949 BIRTHDAY Bill Nighy, English actor
12th of December 1950 BIRTHDAY Pedro Ferriz de Con, Mexican radio and TV news anchor
12th of December 1950 BIRTHDAY Rajinikanth, Indian actor
12th of December 1950 BIRTHDAY Billy Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
12th of December 1952 BIRTHDAY Brenton Broadstock, Australian composer and academic
12th of December 1952 BIRTHDAY Cathy Rigby, American gymnast and actress
12th of December 1952 BIRTHDAY Sarah Douglas, English actress
12th of December 1952 BIRTHDAY Herb Dhaliwal, Canadian politician
12th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Bruce Kulick, American guitarist (Kiss, Grand Funk Railroad)
12th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Dave Meniketti, American guitarist
12th of December 1953 BIRTHDAY Rafael Septien, Mexican placekicker in the National Football League for the Dallas Cowboys and convicted sex offender
12th of December 1955 BIRTHDAY Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Greek businesswoman
12th of December 1955 BIRTHDAY Eddy Schepers, Belgian cyclist
12th of December 1956 BIRTHDAY Johan van der Velde, Dutch cyclist
12th of December 1957 BIRTHDAY Sheila E., American musician
12th of December 1957 BIRTHDAY Robert Lepage, French Canadian playwright
12th of December 1957 BIRTHDAY Susan Powter, Australian author and motivational speaker
12th of December 1958 BIRTHDAY Monica Attard, Australian journalist
12th of December 1958 BIRTHDAY Lucie Guay, Canadian canoer
12th of December 1958 BIRTHDAY Dag Ingebrigtsen, Norwegian musician
12th of December 1958 BIRTHDAY Sheree J. Wilson, American actress
12th of December 1962 BIRTHDAY Tracy Austin, American tennis player
12th of December 1962 BIRTHDAY Mike Golic, American football player
12th of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Liz Claman, American television anchor
12th of December 1963 BIRTHDAY Ai Orikasa, Japanese voice actress and singer
12th of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Haywood Jeffries, American football player
12th of December 1964 BIRTHDAY Sabu, American professional wrestler
12th of December 1965 BIRTHDAY Will Carling, English rugby union footballer
12th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Royce Gracie, Brazilian martial artist
12th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Kouichi Nagano, Japanese voice actor
12th of December 1966 BIRTHDAY Ultimo Dragon, Japanese professional wrestler
12th of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Yuzo Koshiro, Japanese composer
12th of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Takenobu Mitsuyoshi, Japanese composer
12th of December 1967 BIRTHDAY Deke Sharon, American musician
12th of December 1967 BIRTHDAY John Randle, American football player
12th of December 1968 BIRTHDAY Rory Kennedy, American documentarian
12th of December 1968 BIRTHDAY Laurie Williams, Jamaican cricketer (d. 2002)
12th of December 1968 BIRTHDAY Kate Humble, English television presenter
12th of December 1969 BIRTHDAY Carrie Westcott, American model and actress
12th of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Madchen Amick, American actress
12th of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Regina Hall, American actress
12th of December 1970 BIRTHDAY Jennifer Connelly, American actress
12th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Wilson Kipketer, Danish middle-distance runner
12th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Nicky Eaden, English footballer
12th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Brandon Teena, American murder victim (d. 1993)
12th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Yeoryios Theodoridis, Greek sprinter
12th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Hank Williams III, American musician
12th of December 1972 BIRTHDAY Kevin Parent, French Canadian singer and songwriter
12th of December 1973 BIRTHDAY Walter Otta, Argentine footballer
12th of December 1974 BIRTHDAY Nolberto Solano, Peruvian footballer
12th of December 1975 BIRTHDAY Wesley Charles, Vincentian footballer
12th of December 1975 BIRTHDAY Craig Moore, Australian footballer
12th of December 1975 BIRTHDAY Mayim Bialik, American actress
12th of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Lloyd Owusu, Ghanaian footballer
12th of December 1976 BIRTHDAY Dan Hawkins, English guitarist (The Darkness)
12th of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Nicole, Erica and Jaclyn Dahm, American triplet models
12th of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Bridget Hall, American supermodel
12th of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Colin White, Canadian ice hockey player
12th of December 1977 BIRTHDAY Orlando Hudson, American baseball player
12th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Monica Barladeanu, Romanian actress
12th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Louis (artist), Korean singer
12th of December 1978 BIRTHDAY Jennifer Rovero, American model
12th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Garrett Atkins, American baseball player
12th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Nate Clements, American football player
12th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY Sharin Foo, Danish singer and bassist
12th of December 1979 BIRTHDAY John Salmons, American basketball player
12th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Ronnie Brown, American football player
12th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Pedro Rios Maestre, Spanish footballer
12th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Jeret Peterson, American aerial skier
12th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Stephen Warnock, English footballer
12th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Shane Costa, American baseball player
12th of December 1981 BIRTHDAY Yuvraj Singh, Indian cricketer
12th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Dmitry Tursunov, Russian tennis player
12th of December 1982 BIRTHDAY Ai Kato, Japanese actress
12th of December 1983 BIRTHDAY Katrina Elam, American singer
12th of December 1984 BIRTHDAY Daniel Agger, Danish footballer
12th of December 1984 BIRTHDAY Daniel Merrett, Australian football player
12th of December 1984 BIRTHDAY Sohail Tanvir,Pakistani cricketer
12th of December 1985 BIRTHDAY Chris Jennings, American football player
12th of December 1985 BIRTHDAY David Veikune, American football player
12th of December 1986 BIRTHDAY Perparim Hetemaj, Finnish footballer
12th of December 1986 BIRTHDAY Mitsuhiro Hidaka, Japanese singer (AAA (band))
12th of December 1986 BIRTHDAY Thomas Wansey, English actor
12th of December 1986 BIRTHDAY T. J. Ward, American football player
12th of December 1988 BIRTHDAY Ham Eun-jeong, Korean singer and actress
12th of December 1990 BIRTHDAY Seungri, Korean singer
12th of December 1990 BIRTHDAY Victor Moses, Nigerian-born British footballer
12th of December 1991 BIRTHDAY Daniel Magder, Canadian actor
12th of December 0884 DEATH Carloman, King of the West Franks
12th of December 1212 DEATH Geoffrey, Archbishop of York
12th of December 1569 DEATH Metropolitan Philip of Moscow (Born 1507)
12th of December 1574 DEATH Selim II, Ottoman Sultan (Born 1524)
12th of December 1586 DEATH Stefan Batory, King of Poland (Born 1533)
12th of December 1685 DEATH John Pell, English mathematician (Born 1610)
12th of December 1751 DEATH Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (Born 1678)
12th of December 1754 DEATH Wu Jingzi, Chinese writer (Born 1701)
12th of December 1766 DEATH Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (Born 1700)
12th of December 1789 DEATH John Ponsonby, Irish politician (Born 1713)
12th of December 1790 DEATH Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and writer (Born 1733)
12th of December 1817 DEATH Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (Born about 1751)
12th of December 1843 DEATH King William I of the Netherlands, (Born 1772)
12th of December 1858 DEATH Jacques Viger, antiquarian and archeologist, first mayor of Montreal (Born 1787)
12th of December 1889 DEATH Robert Browning, English poet (Born 1812)
12th of December 1889 DEATH Viktor Bunyakovsky, Russian mathematician (Born 1804)
12th of December 1894 DEATH Sir John Thompson, fourth Prime Minister of Canada (Born 1845)
12th of December 1913 DEATH Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia (Born 1844)
12th of December 1923 DEATH Raymond Radiguet, French author (Born 1903)
12th of December 1926 DEATH Jean Richepin, French poet (Born 1849)
12th of December 1929 DEATH Charles Goodnight, American cattle baron (Born 1836)
12th of December 1934 DEATH Thorleif Haug, Norwegian Nordic skier (Born 1894)
12th of December 1939 DEATH Douglas Fairbanks, American actor (Born 1883)
12th of December 1941 DEATH Cesar Basa, Philippine Air Force and World War II hero (Born 1915)
12th of December 1951 DEATH Mildred Bailey, American jazz singer (Born 1907)
12th of December 1952 DEATH Bedrich Hrozny, Czech orientalist and linguist (Born 1879)
12th of December 1958 DEATH Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (Born 1900)
12th of December 1963 DEATH Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (Born 1903)
12th of December 1968 DEATH Tallulah Bankhead, American actress (Born 1902)
12th of December 1970 DEATH Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (Born 1889)
12th of December 1971 DEATH Yechezkel Kutscher, Israeli philologist and Hebrew linguist (Born 1909)
12th of December 1971 DEATH David Sarnoff, Russian-born American General Manager of RCA (Born 1891)
12th of December 1976 DEATH Jack Cassidy, American actor (Born 1927)
12th of December 1976 DEATH Vinko Zganec, Croatian ethnomusicologist (Born 1890)
12th of December 1977 DEATH Lady Spencer Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (Born 1885)
12th of December 1980 DEATH Jean Lesage, Canadian politician (Born 1912)
12th of December 1985 DEATH Anne Baxter, American actress (Born 1923)
12th of December 1985 DEATH Ian Stewart, Scottish musician (Born 1938)
12th of December 1987 DEATH Enrique Jorrin, Cuban musician and composer (Born 1926)
12th of December 1988 DEATH Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, American Mafia figure (Born 1917)
12th of December 1992 DEATH Suzanne Lilar, Belgian essayist, novelist and playwright (Born 1901)
12th of December 1993 DEATH Jozsef Antall, Hungarian politician (Born 1932)
12th of December 1994 DEATH Stuart Roosa, American astronaut (Born 1933)
12th of December 1994 DEATH Donna J. Stone, American poet (Born 1933)
12th of December 1996 DEATH Vance Packard, American author (Born 1914)
12th of December 1997 DEATH Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (Born 1921)
12th of December 1998 DEATH Lawton Chiles, U.S. Senator from Florida and Governor of Florida (Born 1930)
12th of December 1998 DEATH Marco Denevi, Argentine writer (Born 1922)
12th of December 1998 DEATH Mo Udall, American politician (Born 1922)
12th of December 1999 DEATH Joseph Heller, American author (Born 1923)
12th of December 1999 DEATH Paul Cadmus, American artist (Born 1904)
12th of December 2000 DEATH George Montgomery, American actor (Born 1916)
12th of December 2000 DEATH Ndabaningi Sithole, Zimbabwean Nationalist politician (Born 1920)
12th of December 2001 DEATH Jean Richard, French actor (Born 1921)
12th of December 2001 DEATH Ardito Desio, Italian explorer, geologist and leader of the 1954 K2 expedition (Born 1897)
12th of December 2002 DEATH Brad Dexter, American actor (Born 1917)
12th of December 2002 DEATH Jay Wesley Neill, American convicted murderer (Born 1965)
12th of December 2002 DEATH Dee Brown, American author (Born 1908)
12th of December 2003 DEATH Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan (Born 1923)
12th of December 2003 DEATH Joseph Anthony Ferrario, American Catholic prelate (Born 1926)
12th of December 2005 DEATH Robert Newmyer, American film producer (Born 1956)
12th of December 2005 DEATH Annette Vadim, Danish actress (Born 1936)
12th of December 2005 DEATH Gebran Tueni, Lebanese politician (Born 1957)
12th of December 2006 DEATH Peter Boyle, American actor (Born 1935)
12th of December 2006 DEATH Paul Arizin, American basketball player (Born 1928)
12th of December 2006 DEATH Al Shugart, pioneering American computer engineer and co-founder of Seagate Technology (Born 1930)
12th of December 2006 DEATH Raymond P. Shafer, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania (Born 1917)
12th of December 2006 DEATH Kenny Davern, American jazz clarinetist (Born 1935)
12th of December 2007 DEATH Ike Turner, American singer, former husband of Tina Turner (Born 1931)
12th of December 2007 DEATH Francois Hajj, Lebanese Army's chief of operations (Born 1953)
12th of December 2008 DEATH Tassos Papadopoulos, President of Cyprus (Born 1934)
12th of December 2008 DEATH Van Johnson, American actor (Born 1916)
12th of December 2008 DEATH Avery Dulles, Roman Catholic Cardinal, theologian (Born 1918)
12th of December 2010 DEATH Peter Pagel, German footballer (Born 1956)
12th of December 2010 DEATH Tom Walkinshaw, former racing driver and Formula One team owner (Born 1946)