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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 7th of December 1696 | EVENT | Connecticut Route 108, third oldest highway in Connecticut, is laid out to Trumbull. |
| 7th of December 1724 | EVENT | Tumult of Thorn : religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Torun) by Polish authorities. |
| 7th of December 1732 | EVENT | The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London. |
| 7th of December 1776 | EVENT | Marquis de Lafayette attempts to enter the American military as a major general. |
| 7th of December 1787 | EVENT | Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution. |
| 7th of December 1862 | EVENT | US Civil War: Battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas. |
| 7th of December 1869 | EVENT | American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri. |
| 7th of December 1900 | EVENT | Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission. |
| 7th of December 1917 | EVENT | World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary. |
| 7th of December 1930 | EVENT | W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts broadcasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The broadcast also includes the first television commercial in the United States, an advertisement for I.J. Fox Furriers, who sponsored the radio show. |
| 7th of December 1936 | EVENT | Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings. |
| 7th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor : The Imperial Japanese Navy attacks the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, causing a declaration of war upon Japan by the United States. |
| 7th of December 1946 | EVENT | A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history. |
| 7th of December 1949 | EVENT | Chinese Civil War: The government of Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei. |
| 7th of December 1962 | EVENT | Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils. |
| 7th of December 1963 | EVENT | Instant replay is used for the first time in an Army-Navy game by its inventor, director, Tony Verna. |
| 7th of December 1965 | EVENT | Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054. |
| 7th of December 1970 | EVENT | The first ever general election on the basis of direct adult franchise is held in Pakistan for 313 National Assembly seats. |
| 7th of December 1971 | EVENT | Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a Coalition Government at Centre with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as Vice-Prime Minister. |
| 7th of December 1972 | EVENT | Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth. |
| 7th of December 1975 | EVENT | Indonesia invades East Timor. |
| 7th of December 1982 | EVENT | In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr. becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States. |
| 7th of December 1983 | EVENT | An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid Barajas International Airport, killing 93 people. |
| 7th of December 1987 | EVENT | Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771 crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and himself. |
| 7th of December 1987 | EVENT | Alianza Lima air disaster. A plane crashes killing all Alianza Lima team in Ventanilla, Callao, Peru. |
| 7th of December 1988 | EVENT | Spitak Earthquake: In Armenia an earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale kills nearly 25,000, injures 15,000 and leaves 400,000 homeless. |
| 7th of December 1988 | EVENT | Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist. |
| 7th of December 1993 | EVENT | The Long Island Rail Road massacre: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York. |
| 7th of December 1994 | EVENT | Norfolk Southern ends its steam excursion program. This is the last time that Norfolk and Western 611 is under steam. |
| 7th of December 1995 | EVENT | The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34. |
| 7th of December 1999 | EVENT | The Recording Industry Association of America files a lawsuit against the Napster file-sharing client alleging copyright infringement. |
| 7th of December 2003 | EVENT | The Conservative Party of Canada is officially recognized after the merger of the Canadian Alliance and Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. |
| 7th of December 2005 | EVENT | Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport. |
| 7th of December 2006 | EVENT | A tornado strikes Kensal Green, North West London, seriously damaging about 150 properties. |
| 7th of December 2007 | EVENT | The Hebei Spirit oil spill begins in South Korea after a crane barge that had broken free from a tug collides with the Very Large Crude Carrier, Hebei Spirit. |
| 7th of December 0521 | BIRTHDAY | Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597) |
| 7th of December 0903 | BIRTHDAY | Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, Persian astronomer (d. 986) |
| 7th of December 1302 | BIRTHDAY | Azzone Visconti lord of Milan (d. 1339) |
| 7th of December 1545 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1567) |
| 7th of December 1561 | BIRTHDAY | Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (d. 1625) |
| 7th of December 1598 | BIRTHDAY | Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian artist (d. 1680) |
| 7th of December 1637 | BIRTHDAY | Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (d. 1710) |
| 7th of December 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Louise of Great Britain, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1751) |
| 7th of December 1764 | BIRTHDAY | Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (d. 1841) |
| 7th of December 1784 | BIRTHDAY | Allan Cunningham, British poet (d. 1842) |
| 7th of December 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Nestroy, Austrian dramatist and actor (d. 1862) |
| 7th of December 1803 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Josepha of Saxony, queen consort of Spain (d. 1829) |
| 7th of December 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Josef Hyrtl, Austrian anatomist (d. 1894) |
| 7th of December 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (d. 1882) |
| 7th of December 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (d. 1891) |
| 7th of December 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Cook, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947) |
| 7th of December 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Adam, French novelist (d. 1920) |
| 7th of December 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Calonder, Swiss politician (d. 1952) |
| 7th of December 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer (d. 1945) |
| 7th of December 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Sears, American department store founder (d. 1914) |
| 7th of December 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Willa Cather, American novelist (d. 1947) |
| 7th of December 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Friml, American composer (d. 1972) |
| 7th of December 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Toch, Austrian composer (d. 1964) |
| 7th of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Joyce Cary, Irish author (d. 1957) |
| 7th of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Hamilton Fish III, American politician (d. 1991) |
| 7th of December 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Fay Bainter, Academy Award-winning American actress (d. 1968) |
| 7th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Danilo Blanusa, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987) |
| 7th of December 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantin Sokolsky, Russian singer (d. 1991) |
| 7th of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-born American astronomer (d. 1973) |
| 7th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Rose, Canadian communist politician (d. 1983) |
| 7th of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian and Macedonian poet and revolutionary (d. 1942) |
| 7th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Prima, American musician (d. 1978) |
| 7th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Edmundo Ros, Trinidadian musician |
| 7th of December 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Jones, British composer (d. 1993) |
| 7th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Kersti Merilaas, Estonian author, poet (d. 1986) |
| 7th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Leigh Brackett, American screenwriter (d. 1978) |
| 7th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Eli Wallach, American actor |
| 7th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (d. 1988) |
| 7th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Yekaterina Budanova, Soviet pilot, one of only two female flying aces (d. 1943) |
| 7th of December 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Lis L?wert, Danish actress (d. 2009) |
| 7th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Nowotny, Austrian fighter pilot (d. 1944) |
| 7th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Tatamkulu Afrika, South African poet and writer (d. 2002) |
| 7th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist |
| 7th of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian spiritual leader |
| 7th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Knight, American actor (d. 1986) |
| 7th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | John Love, Zimbabwean Formula One driver (d. 2005) |
| 7th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Soares, former (17th) President of Portugal |
| 7th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Hernando da Silva Ramos, Brazilian racing driver |
| 7th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Helen Watts, British contralto (d. 2009) |
| 7th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Noam Chomsky, American linguist and political writer |
| 7th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Nicole, British writer |
| 7th of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Smith, American baseball player |
| 7th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Burstyn, American actress |
| 7th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Caponigro, American photographer |
| 7th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Thad Cochran, American politician, senator from Mississippi |
| 7th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Stan Boardman, English comedian |
| 7th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Cheevers, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 7th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Chapin, American singer and songwriter (d. 1981) |
| 7th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Johnson, American baseball player |
| 7th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Tomarken, American game show host (d. 2006) |
| 7th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Katz, American mathematician |
| 7th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Goran Lennmarker, Swedish politician |
| 7th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard C. Parks, Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department |
| 7th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jamiel Chagra, American drug trafficker |
| 7th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Chorzempa, American organist |
| 7th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Miroslav Macek, Czech politician |
| 7th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Marion Rung, Finnish singer |
| 7th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Bench, American baseball player |
| 7th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Thomas, American TV and film producer |
| 7th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 7th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Morris, American singer and actor |
| 7th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Mads Vinding, Danish bassist |
| 7th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor |
| 7th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Corraface, Greek actor, president of the Thessaloniki International Film Festival |
| 7th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Collins, American politician, junior senator from Maine |
| 7th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Hofmann, American forger and bomber |
| 7th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Nolan, Irish singer (Bucks Fizz) |
| 7th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Fallin, American politician |
| 7th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Loeb, Contemporary Jazz guitarist |
| 7th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | John Watkins, Australian politician |
| 7th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Priscilla Barnes, American actress |
| 7th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Bird, American basketball player |
| 7th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Winsor, British lawyer and economic regulator |
| 7th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Butler, English musician (The Psychedelic Furs) |
| 7th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Rude, American professional wrestler (d. 1999) |
| 7th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Scanlon, English guitarist (The Fall) |
| 7th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Fischer, American R&B singer |
| 7th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Miethig, German footballer |
| 7th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Grecia Colmenares, Venezuelan actress |
| 7th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Theo Snelders, former Dutch footballer |
| 7th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Laviolette, head coach Philadelphia Flyers |
| 7th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Roberta Close, Brazilian model |
| 7th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Hendry, Scottish footballer |
| 7th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Wright, American actor |
| 7th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | C. Thomas Howell, American actor |
| 7th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Shinichi Itoh, Japanese motorcycle racer |
| 7th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Tino Martinez, American baseball player |
| 7th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 7th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Claudio Galluzzo, Italian writer and journalist |
| 7th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Carmen Campuzano, Mexican actress and fashion model |
| 7th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Akopian, Armenian chess player |
| 7th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Chasey Lain, American pornographic actress |
| 7th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Maier, Austrian skier |
| 7th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Tammy Lynn Sytch, American professional wrestler |
| 7th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Damien Rice, Irish musician |
| 7th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Terrell Owens, American football player |
| 7th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Carl Roberts, American spree killer (d. 2006) |
| 7th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Fabien Pelous, French international rugby player |
| 7th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Appleton, Canadian-born singer |
| 7th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kang Full, South Korean webcomic artist |
| 7th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jamie Clapham, English footballer |
| 7th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Brent Johnson, Canadian football player |
| 7th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Franceschini, Italian fottballer |
| 7th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Laraque, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 7th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Lorenzo, Spanish fashion model |
| 7th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Faneca, American football player |
| 7th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Dominic Howard, English drummer (Muse) |
| 7th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Chavez, American baseball player |
| 7th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie J, Mexican-born American singer |
| 7th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Chad Dukes, Radio Personality |
| 7th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Shiri Appleby, American actress |
| 7th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Bareilles, American singer |
| 7th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Carpenter, American actress |
| 7th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Lampros Choutos, Greek footballer |
| 7th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Ramsay, Filipino actor and model |
| 7th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress |
| 7th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | John Terry, English footballer |
| 7th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Chrispa, Greek singer |
| 7th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Huston, English actor |
| 7th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Fausto Carmona, Dominican baseball player |
| 7th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Philip King, Winner of Barnsley's annual eating contest |
| 7th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Kubica, the first Polish Formula One racing driver |
| 7th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Gray, American basketball player |
| 7th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Milan Michalek, Czech ice hockey player |
| 7th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer |
| 7th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Gill, English singer (JLS) |
| 7th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Carter, American singer and actor |
| 7th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Fiss, American singer (Varsity Fanclub) |
| 7th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Asia Ray Smith, American actress |
| 7th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Browning, Australian actress |
| 7th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Adrian, American swimmer |
| 7th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Alessandro Marchi, Italian footballer |
| 7th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Hoult, English actor |
| 7th of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Urszula Radwanska, Polish tennis player |
| 7th of December 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Dori Sakurada, Japanese actor |
| 7th of December 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Jasmine Villegas, American R&B and pop singer |
| 7th of December 2003 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands |
| 7th of December 0283 | DEATH | Pope Eutychian |
| 7th of December 0983 | DEATH | Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 955) |
| 7th of December 1254 | DEATH | Pope Innocent IV |
| 7th of December 1279 | DEATH | King Boleslaus V of Poland (Born 1226) |
| 7th of December 1295 | DEATH | Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English politician (Born 1243) |
| 7th of December 1498 | DEATH | Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist (Born 1433) |
| 7th of December 1562 | DEATH | Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer |
| 7th of December 1649 | DEATH | Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (Born 1606) |
| 7th of December 1672 | DEATH | Richard Bellingham, English colonial magistrate (Born 1592) |
| 7th of December 1683 | DEATH | Algernon Sydney, English politician (Born 1623) |
| 7th of December 1683 | DEATH | John Oldham, English poet (Born 1653) |
| 7th of December 1723 | DEATH | Jan Santini Aichel, Bohemian architect (Born 1677) |
| 7th of December 1725 | DEATH | Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (Born 1661) |
| 7th of December 1775 | DEATH | Charles Saunders, British admiral |
| 7th of December 1793 | DEATH | Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (Born 1780) |
| 7th of December 1815 | DEATH | Michel Ney, French marshall (Born 1769) |
| 7th of December 1817 | DEATH | William Bligh, British admiral and HMS Bounty figure (Born 1745) |
| 7th of December 1842 | DEATH | Thomas Hamilton, Scottish writer (Born 1789) |
| 7th of December 1874 | DEATH | Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (Born 1815) |
| 7th of December 1879 | DEATH | Jon Sigur?sson, Icelandic independence movement figure (Born 1811) |
| 7th of December 1894 | DEATH | Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur (Suez Canal) (Born 1805) |
| 7th of December 1902 | DEATH | Thomas Nast, German-born American cartoonist (Born 1840) |
| 7th of December 1906 | DEATH | Elie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1833) |
| 7th of December 1913 | DEATH | Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian religious figure (Born 1828) |
| 7th of December 1917 | DEATH | Leon Minkus, German-born Czech composer and violinist (Born 1826) |
| 7th of December 1938 | DEATH | Anna Marie Hahn, German-born American serial killer (Born 1906) |
| 7th of December 1941 | DEATH | Among the 2,400 dead from the attack on Pearl Harbor |