10th of December
The December 10 is the 344th day of the Gregorian calendar (the 345th in leap years ), thus remain 21 days to the year.
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events
Politics and world events
- 1041: Michael V becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire after the death of his uncle Michael IV . One of his first official acts is to banish his uncle Johannes Orphanotrophos , to whom he owes the throne, to a monastery.
- 1508: The League of Cambrai is formed. Officially committed to the fight against the Ottoman Turks, the alliance of several rulers and the Pope is actually directed against the Republic of Venice .
- 1652: With their victory over England in the sea battle at Dungeness during the First Anglo-Dutch War and the retreat of the opposing warships, the Netherlands gain control of the English Channel .
- 1665: Council pensioner Johan de Witt and Admiral Michiel de Ruyter found the Regiment de Marine during the Second Anglo-Dutch War , which is now part of the Dutch Royal Navy as Korps Mariniers .
- 1708: After almost four months of holding against the besieging troops of the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene of Savoy , the French commander of the Citadel of Lille surrendered in the War of the Spanish Succession .
- 1710: In the Battle of Villaviciosa, the Allies suffer a defeat in the War of the Spanish Succession in the Spanish theater of war.
- 1798: In Turin, after the French victory in the First Coalition War on the territory of the Principality of Piedmont, the Piedmontese Republic , a subsidiary of the Republic of France, is proclaimed.
- 1809: The Danish-Swedish war comes to an end with the peace treaty of Jönköping .
- 1817: Mississippi becomes the 20th state in the USA .
- 1830: The government of the canton of Aargau accepts the demands of the rebels of the Freiämtersturm . The drafting of a new constitution is beginning.
- 1832: In the course of the nullification crisis , the American President Andrew Jackson publishes a proclamation in which he rejects the nullification doctrine and asserts that he will continue to enforce the Customs Act of 1832, which South Carolina had declared invalid.
- 1835: The publications of the literary movement Junge Deutschland are banned in the Vormärz by a resolution of the Frankfurt Bundestag .
- 1848: In the further course of the February Revolution , Louis Napoleon Bonaparte , a nephew of the former Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte , is elected President of France .
- 1865: With the death of his father Leopold I , Leopold II becomes King of the Belgians .
- 1870: In the Franco-Prussian War , the two-day battle at Beaugency ends . In order to avoid an impending containment, the French Loire Army withdraws towards Le Mans under the command of General Antoine Chanzy .
- 1871: During the Kulturkampf , a new section 130a is inserted into the German penal code under the leadership of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck . The pulpit paragraph prohibits clergy from commenting on political events in their sermons and is valid in Germany until 1953.
- 1898: The Peace of Paris ends the Spanish-American War . The United States will receive Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines from Spain, but will have to pay $ 20 million in return.
- 1899: In the Battle of Stormberg during the Second Boer War, the British suffer their first defeat in the so-called Black Week .
- 1901: On the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death, the Nobel Peace Prize is awarded every year from now on . It is the only Nobel Prize awarded in Oslo. The respective winners of the Nobel Prize can be found under List of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates . The other Nobel Prizes will be presented to the honorees on the same day in Stockholm .
- Selected Nobel Peace Prize Laureates
Henry Dunant, 1901
Bertha von Suttner, 1905
Theodore Roosevelt, 1906
- 1907: The civil code is passed in Switzerland . The reform of private law came into force on January 1, 1912.
- 1929: In Germany, the Opium Act , the forerunner of the Narcotics Act , comes into force: cannabis has also been banned since then .
- 1932: Siam (now Thailand ) gets its first permanent constitution. As "Constitution Day", the day is a public holiday to this day.
- 1936: Edward VIII abdicates : Because of his divorced bourgeois partner Wallis Simpson , the British King Edward VIII renounces the British crown .
- 1938: In Switzerland, the chairman Ernst Leonhardt dissolves the National Socialist Swiss Workers' Party that emerged from the Volksbund . Their rallies and the party newspaper had been officially banned a few weeks earlier.
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- 1941: Japanese pilots associations engage in the Pacific War , the Force Z and sink the HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse the only two capital ships of the British in the Pacific.
- 1941: Japanese landing forces under the command of General Homma Masaharu land on the main Philippine island of Luzon in the Battle of the Philippines .
- 1948: The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights .
- 1949: The Chinese People's Liberation Army takes Chengdu , the last Kuomintang- held major city on the mainland. The government of the Republic of China had previously withdrawn to the island of Taiwan .
- 1959: The South African police shoot eleven people in the uprising at the old shipyard in Windhoek, southwest Africa , and many others are injured.
- 1963: Zanzibar and Pemba become independent from Great Britain as a sultanate .
- 1981: Government troops from the Batallón Atlacatl reach the cantons of El Mozote, La Joya and Los Toriles in the northern department of Morazán during the civil war in El Salvador and commit the largest war crime in Central America's history in the following two days with the El Mozote massacre . According to the investigation by the Truth Commission , around 900 people were murdered during the Operación Rescate .
- 1989: At the first demonstration for democratic reforms in Mongolia in front of the Youth Palace in Ulan Bator, Tsachiagiin Elbegdorsch announced the establishment of a democracy movement.
- 1991: In Azerbaijan , the majority of declared Armenians inhabited area of Nagorno-Karabakh independence.
- 1997: In Kazakhstan , the capital Akmola is renamed Astana (Nur-Sultan since 2019) .
- 1998: The death penalty is abolished in Bulgaria .
- 1998: In South Africa found Zackie Achmat and other persons the Treatment Action Campaign .
- 1999: In Albania , the constitutional court declares the death penalty unconstitutional.
- 1999: Helen Clark becomes Prime Minister of New Zealand . Your Labor Party is provisionally leading a minority cabinet with the Alliance Party and the Green Party .
- 2000: Ion Iliescu , who played a key role in the revolution against Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1989 , becomes President of Romania . He prevails in the runoff election against the ultra-nationalist Corneliu Vadim Tudor .
- 2003: In the elections in Switzerland , the Swiss People's Party under Christoph Blocher becomes the strongest party in both chambers of parliament. For this reason, it claims a second Federal Council . This breaks the " magic formula " that has existed since 1959 .
- 2004: In Italy , Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is acquitted of the allegation of corruption by a court in Milan or, in the case of proven cash payments to a Roman judge, a shortened limitation period is applied due to attenuating circumstances .
business
- 1845: The Scottish inventor Robert William Thomson is granted a patent for the solid rubber tire he had invented.
- 1878: The first cremation is carried out in a German crematorium at the main cemetery in Gotha .
- 1947: During the currency reform in Austria , the schilling is devalued by a third.
- 1987: After another and unexpectedly high US foreign trade deficit of 17.6 billion dollars in October, there are strong sales on the New York Stock Exchange .
- 2002: The European Court of Justice confirms the ban on the use of “light” and “mild” on cigarette packets .
- 2008: At a Christie's auction in London, the Blue Wittelsbacher is sold for 16.4 million pounds sterling, the highest price ever achieved for a diamond .
science and technology
- 1799: France chooses the first country in the metric system and preserves the original meter of platinum on.
- 1868: The world's first traffic light is put up in front of the House of Parliament in London. It is initially operated with gas light.
- 1890: The New York World Building of the newspaper publisher New York World is completed in New York City . At 94 meters, it was the tallest skyscraper in the world at the time and the first building to tower over Trinity Church .
- 1901: When the Nobel Prizes were awarded for the first time, the Germans Emil von Behring ( medicine ) and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ( physics ) were honored.
- 1902: The dam wall planned by the British engineer Sir William Willcocks in the Nile near Aswan is put into operation after the construction work has been completed.
- 1974: With Helios 1 , the first not from the will USSR or the US -built spacecraft in the universe transported. The German probe launched from Cape Canaveral provides data for solar exploration after reaching its orbit around the sun .
- 2002: The Vágatunnilin , the longest and first submarine tunnel in the Faroe Islands by April 2006, is inaugurated.
- 2006: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off from the Kennedy Space Center on the STS-116 mission to the International Space Station . The crew on board is Christer Fuglesang, the first space traveler from Sweden.
For the annual Nobel Prize winners, see the list of Nobel Prize winners .
Culture
- 1908: The orchestral work Le Poème de l'Extase by Alexander Scriabin is premiered in New York .
- 1910: Conducted by Arturo Toscanini made at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, the world premiere of the opera La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) by Giacomo Puccini on the eponymous play by David Belasco .
- 1930: Luis Buñuel's surrealist sound film The Golden Age is banned from showing in France. It lasts until 1981.
- 1932: In Zurich, is operetta Venus in silk by Robert Stolz premiered.
- 1993: The computer game Doom by id Software is released worldwide for MS-DOS . Due to its new game engine , it quickly developed into one of the most popular and commercially successful first-person shooter computer games of the 1990s.
For the annual Nobel Prize winners in Literature, see the List of Nobel Prize Winners in Literature .
religion
- 741: Zacharias , the last Greek so far, is enthroned as Pope .
- 1270: The Parisian bishop Étienne Tempier condemns 13 theses of the radical Aristotelianism known as averroism , but without naming its main representative Siger von Brabant .
- 1324: Pope John XXII. publishes the papal bull Quia quorundam , in which he accuses Emperor Ludwig IV , who sided with the Franciscans in the poverty dispute , of heresy . He also quotes the religious superiors Michael of Cesena , Wilhelm of Ockham and Bonagratia of Bergamo to come to Avignon to judge them.
- 1520: Martin Luther burns the papal bull Exsurge Domine in Wittenberg , which declared him a heretic , thereby breaking with the Church in Rome .
- 1524: The Protestant preacher Heinrich von Zütphen , attacked by Dominican monks , is killed in Heide (Holstein) after severe abuse .
- 1888: In the encyclical Quam aerumnosa , Pope Leo XIII worries . about the Italian immigrants in America. A shortage of priests and language problems could have repercussions on the giving of the sacraments . Sent clergy from Italy are supposed to remedy the bottleneck.
society
- 1997: In a media-effective campaign, the American environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill climbs a California coastal redwood tree and lives there for 738 days to protect it from deforestation.
Disasters
- 1586: In the first Höchst city fire , a large part of the small town of Höchst am Main is destroyed, 56 houses and 23 barns in the town of around 100 buildings are destroyed by flames.
- 2005: A Sosoliso airline misses the runway while landing at Port Harcourt Airport , Nigeria, and goes up in flames. 108 people are killed, only two survive.
Minor accidents are listed in the sub-articles of Disaster .
Sports
- 1988: The Swede Jan Boklöv wins in Lake Placid the first World Cup ski jumping in the V-style .
Entries of track and field world records can be found under the respective discipline under track and field .
Born
Before the 18th century
- 1452: Johannes Stöffler , German mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, pastor, professor and manufacturer of astronomical instruments
- 1472: Anne Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk , English noblewoman
- 1483: Tommaso Badia , Italian Dominican and cardinal of the Catholic Church
- 1489: Gaston de Foix , French military leader
- 1538: Giovanni Battista Guarini , Italian poet
- 1585: Gregor Francke , German Protestant theologian
- 1588: Isaac Beeckman , Dutch philosopher and scientist
- 1588: Johann Graf von Aldringen , Luxembourg general in the Thirty Years' War
- 1591: Magnus Ernst Dönhoff , voivode von Pernau and Starost von Dorpat
- 1592: Silvester Hiller , Swiss medic and mayor of St. Gallen
- 1621: Christian Albrecht von Dohna , general in Brandenburg
- 1625: Melchior Barthel , German sculptor
- 1631: Francesco Lana Terzi , Italian Jesuit, designer of a vacuum airship and braille
- 1660: Georg Neuhofer , German entrepreneur in the field of calico printing technology.
- 1676: Johann George Schreiber , German engraver, cartographer and publisher
- 1695: Johann Jakob Zimmermann , Swiss Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1699: Bernhard Friedrich von Ahlimb , Prussian colonel and commander of the garrison in Magdeburg
- 1699: Christian VI. , King of Denmark and Norway, Duke of Schleswig and Count of Holstein
- 1700: Placidus Amon , Austrian Benedictine and philologist
18th century
- 1702: Moritz Adolf Karl von Sachsen-Zeitz-Neustadt , Bishop of Leitmeritz and Canon in Cologne
- 1710: Johan Christian Wentzinger , German sculptor, painter and architect
- 1724: Giacomo Maria Brignole , last doge of the Republic of Genoa
- 1724: Karl Theodor , Elector Palatinate and Bavaria
- 1735: Christian Gottlieb Gilling , German theologian
- 1739: Agostino Poli , Italian composer and conductor
- 1741: Aagje Deken , Dutch poet
- 1741: Salomon Landolt , Swiss politician
- 1743: Johann Christoph Schwab , German philosopher
- 1744: Antoine-Joseph-Eulalie de Beaumont d'Autichamp , French military
- 1745: Arthur Fenner , American politician, governor of Rhode Island
- 1751: George Shaw , British botanist and zoologist
- 1753: Melchior Ludolf Herold , German hymn composer and priest
- 1753: Louis-Philippe de Ségur , Count of Segur d'Aguesseau, French diplomat
- 1756: Friedrich Franz I , Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- 1756: Peleg Sprague , American politician
- 1758: Johan Magnus Lannerstjerna , Swedish writer and librettist
- 1764: Agathe de Rambaud , governess of the French Dauphins
- 1776: Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy , German banker and cultural promoter
- 1778: Joachim Wenthin , German organ builder
- 1780: Johann Friedrich von Türckheim , Alsatian-French politician
- 1787: Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet , American clergyman, founder of education for deaf children
- 1791: Friedrich von Gärtner , German architect
- 1795: Matthias William Baldwin , American industrialist
- 1795: Johann Caspar Kummer , German flautist, composer and music teacher
- 1798: Alexander Pawlowitsch Brjullow , Russian architect and watercolorist
19th century
1801-1850
- 1804: Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi , German mathematician
- 1804: Eugène Sue , French writer
- 1805: Karl Ferdinand Sohn , German painter
- 1810: Abraham K. Allison , American politician, governor of Florida
- 1810: Gozewijn Jan Loncq , Dutch medic
- 1815: Ada Byron of Lovelace , British mathematician
- 1822: César Franck , Belgian composer
- 1823: Theodor Kirchner , German composer and conductor, organist and pianist
- 1824: George MacDonald , British writer, poet and pastor from Scotland
- 1826: Franz Susemihl , German classical philologist
- 1830: Emily Dickinson , American poet
- 1831: Alexander Conze , German university professor and archaeologist, director of the Berlin Collection of Antiquities
- 1832: Karl Eduard Ferdinand Ascherson , German classical philologist and librarian
- 1841: Joseph Henry Blackburne , British chess grandmaster
- 1845: Wilhelm von Bode , German art historian and museum director
- 1847: Adolph Woermann , German businessman, shipowner and politician
1851-1900
- 1851: James Albert Manning Aikins , Canadian attorney
- 1851: Melvil Dewey , American librarian
- 1854: Ernst Henrici , German high school teacher, writer, colonial adventurer and anti-Semitic politician
- 1855: August Spies , German-American editor and publisher
- 1860: Anna Croissant-Rust , German writer
- 1860: Kanō Jigorō , Japanese teacher, founder of the sport of judo
- 1861: Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick , British high society lady and mistress
- 1861: Karl Groos , German philosopher and psychologist
- 1861: Elisabeth von Heyking , German writer and painter
- 1863: Alfred Geist , German-Baltic pastor and Protestant confessor
- 1863: Maurice Hennequin , French writer and librettist
- 1865: René de Knyff , French racing car driver and chairman of the CSI motorsport association
- 1866: Emilio Zanini , Swiss teacher and writer
- 1870: Adolf Loos , Austrian architect and architectural theorist
- 1870: Pierre Louÿs , French writer
- 1870: Ferdynand Ruszczyc , Polish painter
- 1872: Ludwig Klages , German philosopher of life, psychologist and founder of scientific graphology
- 1878: Edmond Closset , French racing car driver
- 1879: Paul Münch , German dialect poet
- 1879: Ernest Shepard , British illustrator
- 1882: Otto Neurath , Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist
- 1883: Giovanni Messe , Italian general and politician
- 1883: Rudolf Veiel , German general
- 1884: Albert Steffen , Swiss anthroposophist and poet
- 1885: Hans Rubenbauer , German classical philologist
- 1885: Marios Varvoglis , Greek composer
- 1887: Arthur Hoffmann , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1889: Ray Collins , American actor
- 1889: Ludwig Huber , German farmer, politician
- 1890: Byron Ingemar Johnson , Canadian politician
- 1890: Zeki Velidi Togan , Turkish historian and politician
- 1891: Nelly Sachs , Jewish-German-Swedish writer and poet, Nobel Prize winner
- 1894: Gertrud Kolmar , German poet
- 1897: Ernesto Cortázar , Mexican composer, actor, director and screenwriter
- 1897: Jakob Bräckle , German painter
- 1897: Karl Heinrich Waggerl , Austrian writer
- 1897: Carl Wirths , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
20th century
1901-1925
- 1902: Michail Wladimirowitsch Alpatow , Russian art historian
- 1903: Sylvère Caffot , French composer
- 1903: Johannes Even , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1903: Mary Norton , British children's author
- 1903: Luis Humberto Salgado , Ecuadorian composer
- 1903: Winthrop Sargeant , American music critic
- 1904: Antonín Novotný , Czechoslovak politician, General Secretary of KSČ, President
- 1904: Shmuel Rodensky , Israeli actor
- 1905: Heinrich Amersdorffer , German painter, graphic artist and art teacher
- 1905: Renato Birolli , Italian painter
- 1906: Aimo Aaltonen , Finnish politician, chairman of the SKP
- 1906: Harold Adamson , American composer, film composer, and songwriter
- 1906: Phyllis Holtby , Canadian pianist, harpsichordist and music teacher
- 1906: Julius Maus , German cyclist
- 1906: Itō Shizuo , Japanese lyric poet
- 1907: Sidney Fox , American actress
- 1908: Marino Evaristo , Argentine footballer
- 1908: Olivier Messiaen , French composer and organist
- 1909: Franz Scholz , German priest and theologian
- 1909: Frank W. Walbank , British ancient historian and classical philologist
- 1913: Morton Gould , American composer, conductor and pianist
- 1913: Pannonica de Koenigswarter , American jazz patron
- 1914: Roman Jankowiak , Polish conductor and music teacher
- 1914: Erich Pizka , Austrian horn player and professor
- 1915: Margaret Drynan , Canadian organist and choir director, composer and music teacher
- 1915: Karl Fruchtmann , German director and filmmaker
- 1916: Ruedi Walter , Swiss actor
- 1919: Vicentico Valdés , Cuban singer
- 1920: Alfred Dregger , German politician, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1920: Clarice Lispector , Ukrainian-Brazilian writer
- 1920: Reginald Rose , American writer
- 1921: Richard Ackerschott , German football player
- 1921: Christine Brückner , German writer
- 1921: Georg Stefan Troller , Austrian writer and television journalist
- 1923: Jorge Semprún , Spanish writer
- 1924: Paul Mikat , German lawyer, state minister, Member of the Bundestag, Member of the Bundestag
- 1925: Zdeněk Šesták , Czech composer and musicologist
1926-1950
- 1926: Noël Goemanne , Belgian-American composer, church musician, organist and choir director
- 1926: Thomas Höhle , German literary scholar
- 1926: Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones , American musician
- 1927: Klaus Hafner , German chemist
- 1928: Dagfinn Aarskog , Norwegian pediatrician and human geneticist
- 1928: Egon Christian Andresen , German electrical engineer
- 1928: Dan Blocker , American actor
- 1930: John D. Anderson , American nuclear physicist
- 1931: Luis Santi , Cuban pianist, singer and band leader
- 1932: Godehard Joppich , German Gregorian
- 1933: Larry Morris , American football player
- 1934: Ireneo A. Amantillo , former Filipino Bishop of Tandag
- 1934: Howard M. Temin , American biologist
- 1935: Joachim Hruschka , German legal scholar
- 1936: Ara Baliozian , Armenian writer
- 1936: Thor Helland , Norwegian medium and long distance runner
- 1939: Alexander Fjodorowitsch Andrejew , Russian physicist
- 1940: Libertina Amathila , Namibian politician, minister
- 1940: Leonas Apšega , Lithuanian politician
- 1940: Giampaolo Tronchin , Italian rower, canoeist and canoe trainer
- 1941: Franco Ambrosetti , Swiss jazz trumpeter and piano horn player
- 1941: Fionnula Flanagan , Irish-American actress
- 1941: Jan Flieger , German children's, youth and crime writer
- 1941: Ricarda Liver , Swiss Romance philologist
- 1941: Günter Willumeit , German humorist, parodist, entertainer and dentist
- 1942: Meinhard Hemp , German soccer player and coach
- 1942: Peter Sarstedt , British musician, singer and songwriter
- 1942: Klaus Ulonska , German athlete
- 1943: Bo Emanuelsson , Swedish racing car driver
- 1945: Marek Grechuta , Polish songwriter
- 1946: Eberhard Aurich , German party functionary, member of the Central Committee of the SED, First Secretary of the Central Council of the FDJ
- 1946: Werner Brinkmann , German lawyer, sole director of Stiftung Warentest
- 1946: Catherine Hiegel , French actress
- 1947: Jürgen Barth , German racing car driver
- 1948: Abu Abbas , Palestinian terrorist, founder and leader of the PLF, is considered to be the mastermind behind the kidnapping of Achille Lauro
- 1948: Richard Francis-Bruce , Australian film editor
1951-1975
- 1951: Eduard Angele , German soccer player
- 1951: Louis Descartes , French racing car driver and racing team owner
- 1951: Hans-Peter Müller , German sociologist
- 1951: Johnny Rodriguez , American musician and singer
- 1952: Julianne Baird , American soprano and specialist author
- 1952: Susan Dey , American actress
- 1952: Bernd Jakubowski , German soccer player
- 1953: Rainer Adrion , German soccer player and coach
- 1953: Friedhelm Funkel , German soccer player and coach
- 1954: Price Cobb , American racing car driver
- 1954: DJ Hollywood , American rapper and DJ
- 1954: Florentin Smarandache , American-Romanian mathematician, writer, poet, and artist
- 1955: Lothar Krieg , German athlete, Olympic medalist
- 1956: Christine Goll , Swiss politician
- 1957: Michael Clarke Duncan , American actor
- 1957: Paul Hardcastle , British keyboardist, songwriter and producer
- 1957: Ivan Lebanow , Bulgarian cross-country skier
- 1957: Prem Rawat , Indian spiritual guide and meditation teacher
- 1958: Cornelia Funke , German author for children and young people
- 1959: Mark Aguirre , American basketball player
- 1960: Kenneth Branagh , British actor and director
- 1960: Stefan Münz , German author
- 1962: Rachat Aliyev , Kazakh politician and diplomat
- 1963: Hasko Weber , German theater director
- 1964: Thomas Stühlmeyer , German pastoral theologian
- 1965: Jörg Jäger , German politician, MdL
- 1965: Michal Šanda , Czech writer
- 1965: J. Mascis , American musician
- 1966: Jennifer Nitsch , German actress
- 1967: Donghua Li , Sino-Swiss gymnast
- 1968: Juan Amador , German chef
- 1970: Regula Grauwiller , Swiss actress
- 1970: Tommy Jakobsen , Norwegian ice hockey player
- 1970: Hagen Matzeit , German countertenor and baritone, film composer and producer
- 1971: Elisha Abas , Israeli pianist
- 1971: Alessia Arisi , Italian table tennis player
- 1972: Brian Molko , British-American guitarist, keyboardist and singer
- 1974: Meg White , American musician ( The White Stripes )
- 1975: Emmanuelle Chriqui , Canadian actress
- 1975: Stephen Huss , Australian tennis player
- 1975: Josip Skoko , Australian soccer player
1976-2000
- 1976: Kuniva , American rapper (D12)
- 1977: Matthias Heidrich , German soccer player
- 1977: Andrea Henkel , German biathlete, Olympic champion
- 1977: Thomas Klitgaard , Danish handball player
- 1977: Bastian Obermayer , German journalist
- 1977: Frida Östberg , Swedish soccer player
- 1978: José Mari , Spanish football player
- 1978: Neda Rahmanian , German actress
- 1979: Tatjana Nikolajewna Andrianowa , Russian middle-distance runner
- 1979: Tora Augestad , Norwegian classical, new music and jazz singer, conductor and actress
- 1979: Ildefons Lima Solà , Andorran football player
- 1980: Roland Schwarzl , Austrian athlete
- 1981: Sanel Jahić , Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
- 1981: Takahito Sōma , Japanese soccer player
- 1982: Aïmen Demai , French football player
- 1982: Sultan Kösen , Turk of Kurdish origin, largest z. Currently living person
- 1983: Patrick Flueger , American actor
- 1983: Katrin Siska , Estonian pop singer ( Vanilla Ninja )
- 1985: Charlie Adam , Scottish soccer player
- 1985: Sander Armée , Belgian road cyclist
- 1985: Bu Xiangzhi , Chinese chess player
- 1986: Mate Ghwinianidze , Georgian football player
- 1987: Alexei Alexandrovich Aksjonow , Russian sprinter
- 1987: Sergio Luis Henao , Colombian racing cyclist
- 1987: Gonzalo Gerardo Higuaín , Argentine soccer player
- 1988: Jon Lancaster , British racing driver
- 1988: Neven Subotić , Serbian-American soccer player
- 1988: Imke Wübbenhorst , German soccer player
- 1990: Aruwa Late Ameh , Nigerian soccer player
- 1990: Timothy Boldt , German actor
- 1990: Kazenga LuaLua , Congolese soccer player
- 1990: Shōya Tomizawa , Japanese motorcycle racer
- 1991: Claudia Bujna , German soccer player
- 1991: Mikael Dyrestam , Swedish football player
- 1991: Alexander Hermann , Austrian handball player
- 1991: Maximilian Hermann , Austrian handball player
- 1991: Tommy Oar , Australian-Spanish soccer player
- 1992: Nicholas Anziutti , Italian grass skier
- 1992: Veronica Paccagnella , Italian rower
- 1993: Sebastian Mai , German soccer player
- 1993: Philipp Schobesberger , Austrian soccer player
Alicia von Rittberg (* 1993)
- 1993: Alicia von Rittberg , German actress
- 1993: Hampus Wanne , Swedish handball player
- 1994: Matti Klinga , Finnish soccer player
- 1994: Franz Pfanne , German soccer player
- 1995: Tacko Fall , Senegalese basketball player
- 1995: Marc Stendera , German soccer player
- 1996: Suleiman Abdullahi , Nigerian soccer player
- 1997: Phillip Kinono , Marshall Islands swimmer
- 1998: Matthew Durrans , Canadian-English soccer player
- 2000: Levent Mercan , German soccer player
Died
Before the 16th century
- 100 BC Chr .: Lucius Appuleius Saturninus , Roman tribune
- 304: Eulalia of Mérida , Spanish martyr
- 949: Hermann I , Duke of Swabia
- 1041: Michael IV , Byzantine emperor
- 1101: al-Mustali , Caliph of the Fatimids
- 1198: Averroes , Spanish-Arabic philosopher, doctor and mystic
- 1238: Johann von Apremont , Bishop of Verdun and Metz
- 1262: Berthold II von Pfirt , Bishop of Basel
- 1307: Dietrich IV. , Margrave of Lusatia
- 1310: Stephan I , Duke of Lower Bavaria
- 1311: Étienne de Suisy , Bishop of Tournai and cardinal
- 1339: Hedwig von Kalisch , Queen of Poland
- 1362: Friedrich III. , Duke of Habsburg
- 1363: Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster , Anglo-Irish noblewoman
- 1394: Eberhard , Count of Zweibrücken
- 1475: Paolo Uccello , Italian painter
- 1477: Matthäus Hummel , founding rector of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
16th to 18th centuries
- 1508: René II , Duke of Lorraine
- 1524: Heinrich von Zütphen , reformer and evangelical martyr (* 1488)
- 1541: Francis Dereham , lover of Catherine Howard, fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England.
- 1561: Kaspar Schwenckfeld , Silesian reformer and religious writer
- 1563: Georg von Pappenheim , Bishop of Regensburg
- 1564: Domenico Campagnola , Italian painter, draftsman and engraver
- 1569: Paul Eber , German Protestant theologian, hymn poet and reformer
- 1579: Paulus Hector Mair , council servant in Augsburg
- 1603: William Gilbert , English physician and naturalist
- 1616: Diogo de Couto , Portuguese historian
- 1618: Giulio Caccini , Italian composer
- 1675: Johann Fink , German painter
- 1679: Francesco Barberini , Italian cardinal, antiquarian and patron
- 1692: Johann Michael Strauss , German Lutheran theologian
- 1696: Johann Christoph Arnschwanger , German pastor and hymn poet
- 1714: Anton Günther , Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst and Prussian Lieutenant General
- 1718: Stede Bonnet , Anglo-Barbadian landowner and pirate
- 1725: Nicolas Hartsoeker , Dutch biologist, mathematician and physicist
- 1726: Thomas Fritsch , German publisher
- 1727: Georg Hösle , German Roman Catholic theologian
- 1729: Karl Joseph von Kuenburg , Prince-Bishop of Seckau and Prince-Bishop of Chiemsee
- 1729: Johann Georg Seidenbusch , Bavarian priest and founder of the Oratorian Institute
- 1736: Antonio Manoel de Vilhena , Grand Master of the Order of Malta
- 1739: Agostino Poli , Italian composer and conductor
- 1746: Teodorico Pedrini , Italian missionary, harpsichordist and composer
- 1748: Friedemann Andreas Zülich , Protestant clergyman and university professor
- 1761: Johann Georg Platzer , Tyrolean baroque painter
- 1771: Friedrich Benjamin Paul Loriol d'Anières , Prussian lawyer
- 1788: Wilhelm Christian Justus Chrysander , German Lutheran theologian, mathematician and orientalist
- 1789: William Pierce , Georgia delegate to the Continental Congress
- 1792: Franz Anton Knittel , German Protestant clergyman and paleographer
- 1799: Alexander von Knobelsdorff , Prussian Field Marshal General
19th century
- 1801: Heinrich Wilhelm von Anhalt , Prussian officer
- 1814: José Ángel Lamas , Venezuelan composer
- 1824: Peder Anker , Norwegian statesman and landowner
- 1826: Benedikt Schak , Austrian tenor and composer
- 1833: Dieudonné-Pascal Pieltain , called the Elder , Belgian composer and violinist
- 1836: Friedrich von Warnstedt , Danish civil servant
- 1838: Karl Friedrich von Beyme , Prussian lawyer and politician
- 1839: Johann Daniel Hensel , German educator, writer and composer
- 1844: Joseph Widmer , Swiss Roman Catholic theologian and university professor
- 1850: Johann Friedrich von Türckheim , Alsatian-French politician
- 1851: Karl Drais , German inventor
- 1865: Louis Adrien Huart , French journalist, writer and theater director
- 1865: Leopold I , first king of the Belgians
- 1874: Friedrich August Belcke , German trombonist and composer
- 1875: Franz Toldy , Hungarian literary historian
- 1877: Federico Ricci , Italian composer
- 1878: Henry Wells , American entrepreneur
- 1884: Eduard Rüppell , German natural scientist and Africa explorer
- 1888: Auguste Placet , French violinist and conductor
- 1889: Ludwig Anzengruber , Austrian writer
- 1891: Wilhelm Koch , German dialect author
- 1895: Josef Marastani , Austrian painter, etcher and lithographer
- 1896: Alfred Nobel , Swedish inventor and industrialist, founder of the Nobel Prize
20th century
1901-1950
- 1908: Julius Dammann , German clergyman and writer
- 1909: Red Cloud , Oglala Lakota warrior, leader of the Plains Indians
- 1911: Joseph Dalton Hooker , British botanist and researcher
- 1917: Mackenzie Bowell , Prime Minister of Canada
- 1926: Nikola Pašić , Serbian politician and prime minister
- 1927: Bruno Ertler , Austrian writer
- 1928: Charles Rennie Mackintosh , British architect
- 1929: Frederick Abberline , British inspector
- 1929: Franz Rosenzweig , German philosopher
- 1931: Georg von Ompteda , German writer and translator
- 1936: Luigi Pirandello , Italian writer
- 1937: Rosa Valetti , German actress, cabaret artist and chanson singer
- 1941: Albert Döderlein , German gynecologist
- 1944: Ulrich Wilcken , German ancient historian and papyrologist
- 1945: Theodor Dannecker , German SS officer, adviser to Jews, one of Adolf Eichmann's closest collaborators
- 1947: Pierre Petit de Julleville , French priest, Archbishop of Rouen, cardinal
- 1948: Friedrich Altrichter , German officer and military writer
- 1948: Enrique Mario Casella , Argentine composer
1951-2000
- 1951: Algernon Blackwood , British writer
- 1958: Heinrich Aschoff , German farmer, Righteous Among the Nations
- 1959: Franz Albermann , German sculptor
- 1959: Henri Vidal , French actor
- 1960: Mado Robin , French coloratura soprano
- 1962: Cheíto González , Puerto Rican singer, guitarist and composer
- 1963: Ōta Yōko , Japanese writer
- 1965: Henry Cowell , American composer
- 1967: Brasílio Itiberê da Cunha Luz , Brazilian composer
- 1967: Otis Redding , American musician
- 1968: Karl Barth , Swiss Protestant Reformed theologian, is considered the "Church Father of the 20th Century"
- 1968: Tian Han , Chinese playwright
- 1969: Franco Capuana , Italian conductor and composer
- 1970: Thelma Wood , American Silverpoint artist and sculptor.
- 1977: Adolph Rupp , American basketball coach
- 1978: Paul Arnsberg , German historian, journalist, writer and publisher
- 1978: Emilio Portes Gil , President of Mexico
- 1978: Ed Wood , American film director
- 1979: Alfredo Núñez de Borbón , Mexican violinist and composer
- 1982: Roy Webb , American composer
- 1984: Luke Johnsos , American football player and coach
- 1986: Fred Stone , Canadian flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer
- 1987: Giovanni Arpino , Italian writer and journalist
- 1987: Jascha Heifetz , Russian-American violinist
- 1987: Bruno Mora , Italian soccer player
- 1987: Denis Sanders , American filmmaker and Oscar winner
- 1987: Boris Alexandrowitsch Tschagin , Russian philosopher and historian
- 1990: Tsuchiya Bunmei , Japanese lyric poet
- 1991: Gustav Schäfer , German rower, Olympic champion
- 1994: Jiří Marek , Czech writer
- 1994: Garnett Silk , Jamaican reggae musician
- 1995: Udo Aschenbeck , German writer, bookseller and social worker
- 1996: Faron Young , American country musician
- 1999: Franjo Tuđman , Croatian President
21st century
- 2001: Marta Emmenegger , Swiss journalist and sex consultant
- 2002: Hans Eisen , German general
- 2003: Ronald Aspery , British fusion musician
- 2003: Günter Seuren , German writer
- 2004: Adalbert Pilch , Austrian painter and graphic artist
- 2004: Adolfo Schlosser , Austrian sculptor
- 2005: Richard Pryor , American actor
- 2006: Salvatore Pappalardo , Archbishop of Palermo, Cardinal
- 2006: Augusto Pinochet , Chilean general and dictator
- 2006: Wolfgang Rumpf , German forester and politician, Member of the Bundestag
- 2006: Wigand Freiherr von Salmuth , German entrepreneur
- 2008: Henning Christiansen , Danish Fluxus composer
- 2010: John B. Fenn , American chemist, Nobel Prize winner
- 2010: Rüdiger Proske , German television journalist
- 2012: Reiner Arntz , German linguist
- 2012: Albert O. Hirschman , German-American sociologist
- 2013: Jim Hall , American jazz musician and composer
- 2013: Margot Kruse , German Romanist
- 2014: Ralph Giordano , German journalist
- 2014: Otto Pöggeler , German philosopher
- 2015: Dolph Schayes , American basketball player and coach
- 2017: María Judith Franco , Puerto Rican actress and voice actress
- 2017: Angry Grandpa , American internet personality
- 2018: Robert Spaemann , German philosopher
- 2019: Yuri Luzhkov , Russian politician
- 2020: Thomas Lister junior , American actor and wrestler
- 2020: Barbara Windsor , British actress
Holidays and memorial days
- Church memorial days
- Heinrich von Zütphen , Dutch prior, reformer and martyr (Protestant)
- Name days
- Commemoration days of international organizations
- Human Rights Day ( UN )
- State holidays and memorial days:
- Thailand : Constitution Day (anniversary of the entry into force of the first Thai constitution in 1932)
- More information about the day
The list of commemorative and action days contains further entries .
Commons : December 10th - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
