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Acontecimientos (62)

  1. 406Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.
  2. 535Byzantine general Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Gothic garrison of Palermo (Panormos), and ending his consulship for the year.
  3. 870Battle of Englefield: The Vikings clash with ealdorman Æthelwulf of Berkshire. The invaders are driven back to Reading (East Anglia); many Danes are killed.
  4. 1105Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV is forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Henry V, in Ingelheim.
  5. 1225The Lý dynasty of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor Trần Thái Tông, husband of the last Lý monarch, Lý Chiêu Hoàng, starting the Trần dynasty.
  6. 1229James I the Conqueror, King of Aragon, enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma de Mallorca, Spain), thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Mallorca.
  7. 1501The First Battle of Cannanore commences, seeing the first use of the naval line of battle.
  8. 1600The British East India Company is chartered.
  9. 1660James, Duke of York is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France.
  10. 1670The expedition of John Narborough leaves Corral Bay, having surveyed the coast and lost four hostages to the Spanish.
  11. 1687The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.
  12. 1757Empress Elizabeth I of Russia issues her ukase incorporating Königsberg into Russia.
  13. 1759Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000-year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.
  14. 1775American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces under General Guy Carleton repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery in a snowstorm.
  15. 1790Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, is published for the first time.
  16. 1796The incorporation of Baltimore as a city.
  17. 1831Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.
  18. 1844The Philippines skipped this date in order to align the country with the rest of Asia, as the trading interest switched to China, Dutch East Indies and neighboring territories after Mexico gained independence from Spain on 27 September 1821. In the islands, Monday, 30 December 1844 was immediately followed by Wednesday, 1 January 1845.
  19. 1853A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England.
  20. 1857Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of the Province of Canada.
  21. 1862American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Stones River begins near Murfreesboro, Tennessee between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Braxton Bragg and the Union Army of the Cumberland under General William S. Rosecrans.
  22. 1862American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an enabling act that would admit West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.
  23. 1878Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, files for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine. He was granted the patent in 1879.
  24. 1879Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
  25. 1906Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
  26. 1907The first ever ball drop in Times Square.
  27. 1942USS Essex, first aircraft carrier of a 24-ship class, is commissioned.
  28. 1942World War II: The Royal Navy defeats the Kriegsmarine at the Battle of the Barents Sea. This leads to the resignation of Grand Admiral Erich Raeder a month later.
  29. 1944World War II: Operation Nordwind, the last major Wehrmacht offensive on the Western Front, begins.
  30. 1946President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.
  31. 1951Cold War: The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Western Europe.
  32. 1955General Motors becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.
  33. 1956The Romanian Television network begins its first broadcast in Bucharest.
  34. 1961RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.
  35. 1963The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
  36. 1965Jean-Bédel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begin a coup d'état against the government of President David Dacko.
  37. 1968The first flight of the Tupolev Tu-144, the first civilian supersonic transport in the world.
  38. 1968MacRobertson Miller Airlines Flight 1750 crashes near Port Hedland, Western Australia, killing all 26 people on board.
  39. 1981A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
  40. 1983The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
  41. 1983Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.
  42. 1983In Nigeria, a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.
  43. 1986Three disgruntled employees set fire to the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, killing more than 90 people and injuring 140 others, making it the second-deadliest hotel fire in American history.
  44. 1991All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date, five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
  45. 1992Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.
  46. 1994This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
  47. 1994The First Chechen War: The Russian Ground Forces begin a New Year's storming of Grozny.
  48. 1995The final comic of Calvin and Hobbes is published.
  49. 1998The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.
  50. 1999The first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, resigns from office, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President and successor.
  51. 1999The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
  52. 1999Indian Airlines Flight 814 hijacking ends after seven days with the release of 190 survivors at Kandahar Airport, Afghanistan.
  53. 2001Rwanda adopts a new national flag and anthem.
  54. 2004The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of .
  55. 2009Both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occur.
  56. 2010Tornadoes touch down in midwestern and southern United States, including Washington County, Arkansas; Greater St. Louis, Sunset Hills, Missouri, Illinois, and Oklahoma, with a few tornadoes in the early hours. A total of 36 tornadoes touched down, resulting in the deaths of nine people and $113 million in damages.
  57. 2011NASA succeeds in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon.
  58. 2014A New Year's Eve celebration stampede in Shanghai kills at least 36 people and injures 49 others.
  59. 2015A fire breaks out at the Downtown Address Hotel in Downtown Dubai, United Arab Emirates, located near the Burj Khalifa, two hours before the fireworks display is due to commence. Sixteen injuries were reported; one had a heart attack, another suffered a major injury, and fourteen others with minor injuries.
  60. 2018Thirty-nine people are killed after a ten-story building collapses in the industrial city of Magnitogorsk, Russia.
  61. 2019The World Health Organization is informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan. This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic.
  62. 2020The World Health Organization issues its first emergency use validation for a COVID-19 vaccine.

Nacimientos (225)

  1. 695Muhammad ibn al-Qasim, Umayyad general (died 715)
  2. 1378Pope Callixtus III (died 1458)
  3. 1491Jacques Cartier, French navigator and explorer (died 1557)
  4. 1493Eleonora Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino (died 1570)
  5. 1504Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy (died 1538)
  6. 1514Andreas Vesalius, Belgian anatomist, physician, and author (died 1564)
  7. 1539John Radcliffe, English politician (died 1568)
  8. 1550Henry I, Duke of Guise (died 1588)
  9. 1552Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (died 1611)
  10. 1572Emperor Go-Yōzei of Japan, (died 1617) las demás fuentes: 31 dic 1571
  11. 1585Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and politician, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan (died 1645)
  12. 1668Herman Boerhaave, Dutch botanist and physician (died 1738)
  13. 1714Arima Yoriyuki, Japanese mathematician and educator (died 1783)
  14. 1720Charles Edward Stuart, Scottish claimant to the throne of England (died 1788) juliano y gregoriano
  15. 1738Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, English general and politician, 3rd Governor-General of India (died 1805)
  16. 1741Gottfried August Bürger, German poet and academic (died 1794) las demás fuentes: 31 dic 1747
  17. 1763Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (died 1806)
  18. 1774James Bunbury White, American politician (died 1819)
  19. 1776Johann Spurzheim, German-American physician and phrenologist (died 1832)
  20. 1798Friedrich Robert Faehlmann, Estonian physician, philologist, and academic (died 1850)
  21. 1805Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (died 1876)
  22. 1815George Meade, American general and engineer (died 1872)
  23. 1830Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian ruler (died 1895)
  24. 1830Alexander Smith, Scottish poet and critic (died 1867)
  25. 1833Hugh Nelson, Scottish-Australian politician, 11th Premier of Queensland (died 1906)
  26. 1834Queen Kapiolani of Hawaii (died 1899)
  27. 1838Émile Loubet, French lawyer and politician, 7th President of France (died 1929) las demás fuentes: 30 dic 1838
  28. 1842Giovanni Boldini, Italian painter (died 1931)
  29. 1851Henry Carter Adams, American economist and academic (died 1921)
  30. 1855Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet and scholar (died 1912)
  31. 1857King Kelly, American baseball player and manager (died 1894)
  32. 1860Joseph S. Cullinan, American businessman, co-founder of Texaco (died 1937)
  33. 1864Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer and academic (died 1951)
  34. 1869Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (died 1954)
  35. 1872Fred Marriott, American race car driver (died 1956)
  36. 1873Konstantin Konik, Estonian surgeon and politician, 19th Estonian Minister of Education (died 1936)
  37. 1874Julius Meier, American businessman and politician, 20th Governor of Oregon (died 1937)
  38. 1877Lawrence Beesley, English journalist and author (died 1967)
  39. 1878Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (died 1966) las demás fuentes: 31 dic 1881
  40. 1878Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian author, poet, and playwright (died 1937)
  41. 1880Fred Beebe, American baseball player and coach (died 1957) las demás fuentes: 31 dic 1879
  42. 1880George Marshall, American general and politician, 50th United States Secretary of State (died 1959)
  43. 1881Max Pechstein, German painter and academic (died 1955)
  44. 1884Bobby Byrne, American baseball and soccer player (died 1964)
  45. 1884Mihály Fekete, Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director (died 1960)
  46. 1885Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (died 1970)
  47. 1899Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1940)
  48. 1901Karl-August Fagerholm, Finnish politician, 20th Prime Minister of Finland (died 1984)
  49. 1901Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek educator and politician (died 1954)
  50. 1902Lionel Daunais, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 1982) las demás fuentes: 31 dic 1901
  51. 1902Roy Goodall, English footballer (died 1982)
  52. 1903William Heynes, English engineer (died 1989)
  53. 1905Helen Dodson Prince, American astronomer and academic (died 2002)
  54. 1908Simon Wiesenthal, Ukrainian-Austrian Nazi hunter and author (died 2005)
  55. 1909Jonah Jones, American trumpet player and saxophonist (died 2000)
  56. 1910Carl Dudley, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1973)
  57. 1910Enrique Maier, Spanish tennis player (died 1981)
  58. 1911Dal Stivens, Australian soldier and author (died 1997)
  59. 1912John Frost, Indian-English general (died 1993)
  60. 1914Mary Logan Reddick, American neuroembryologist (died 1966)
  61. 1915Sam Ragan, American journalist, author, and poet (died 1996)
  62. 1917Evelyn Knight, American singer (died 2007)
  63. 1917Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer and author (died 1962)
  64. 1918Ray Graves, American football player and coach (died 2015)
  65. 1919Tommy Byrne, American baseball player, coach, and politician (died 2007)
  66. 1919Carmen Contreras-Bozak, Puerto Rican-American soldier (died 2017)
  67. 1920Rex Allen, American actor and singer-songwriter (died 1999)
  68. 1922Tomás Balduino, Brazilian bishop (died 2014)
  69. 1922Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Polish pianist and educator (died 2001)
  70. 1922Luis Zuloaga, Venezuelan baseball player (died 2013)
  71. 1923Giannis Dalianidis, Greek actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2010)
  72. 1924Taylor Mead, American actor and poet (died 2013)
  73. 1925Irina Korschunow, German author and screenwriter (died 2013)
  74. 1925Sri Lal Sukla, Indian author (died 2011)
  75. 1925Daphne Oram, British composer and electronic musician (died 2003)
  76. 1926Valerie Pearl, English historian and academic (died 2016)
  77. 1926Billy Snedden, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Attorney-General for Australia (died 1987)
  78. 1927Vishnudevananda Saraswati, Indian yoga guru (died 1993)
  79. 1928Ross Barbour, American pop singer (died 2011)
  80. 1928Hugh McElhenny, American football player (died 2022)
  81. 1928Veijo Meri, Finnish author and translator (died 2015)
  82. 1928Tatyana Shmyga, Russian actress and singer (died 2011)
  83. 1928Siné, French cartoonist (died 2016)
  84. 1929Mies Bouwman, Dutch television host (died 2018)
  85. 1929Peter May, English cricketer (died 1994)
  86. 1930Jaime Escalante, Bolivian-American educator (died 2010)
  87. 1930Odetta, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress (died 2008)
  88. 1931Bob Shaw, Northern Irish journalist and author (died 1996)
  89. 1932Don James, American football player and coach (died 2013)
  90. 1932Felix Rexhausen, German journalist and author (died 1992)
  91. 1933Edward Bunker, American author, screenwriter, and actor (died 2005)
  92. 1934Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan, Indian author, poet, and scholar (died 2017)
  93. 1934Maria Krushelnytska, Ukrainian pianist (died 2025)
  94. 1937Avram Hershko, Hungarian-Israeli biochemist and physician
  95. 1937Barry Hughes, Welsh footballer and manager (died 2019)
  96. 1937Tess Jaray, Austrian-English painter and educator
  97. 1938Rosalind Cash, American actress (died 1995)
  98. 1938Atje Keulen-Deelstra, Dutch speed skater (died 2013)
  99. 1939Willye White, American sprinter and long jumper (died 2007)
  100. 1940Mani Neumeier, German drummer
  101. 1941Sir Alex Ferguson, Scottish footballer and manager
  102. 1944Taylor Hackford, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  103. 1945Connie Willis, American author
  104. 1946Roy Greenslade, English journalist and academic
  105. 1946Bryan Hamilton, Northern Irish footballer and coach
  106. 1946Raphael Kaplinsky, South African international development academic
  107. 1946Pius Ncube, Zimbabwean archbishop
  108. 1946Lyudmila Pakhomova, Russian ice dancer (died 1986)
  109. 1946Cliff Richey, American tennis player
  110. 1946Eric Robson, Scottish journalist and author
  111. 1946Nigel Rudd, English businessman, founder of Williams Holdings
  112. 1946Tim Stevens, English bishop
  113. 1947Rita Lee, Brazilian musician and author (died 2023)
  114. 1948Sandy Jardine, Scottish footballer and manager (died 2014)
  115. 1948René Robert, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2021)
  116. 1949Ellen Datlow, American anthologist and author
  117. 1949Flora Gomes, Bissau-Guinean filmmaker
  118. 1949Susan Shwartz, American author
  119. 1950Bob Gilder, American golfer
  120. 1950Inge Helten, German sprinter
  121. 1950Cheryl Womack, American businesswoman
  122. 1951Kenny Roberts, American motorcycle racer
  123. 1952Vaughan Jones, New Zealand mathematician and academic (died 2020)
  124. 1952Jean-Pierre Rives, French rugby player, painter, and sculptor
  125. 1953Jane Badler, American actress
  126. 1954Alex Salmond, Scottish economist and politician (died 2024)
  127. 1954Hermann Tilke, German racing driver, architect and engineer
  128. 1955Pula Nikolao Pula, 9th governor of American Samoa
  129. 1956Robert Goodwill, English farmer and politician
  130. 1956Helma Knorscheidt, German shot putter
  131. 1956Steve Rude, American author and illustrator
  132. 1958Geoff Marsh, Australian cricketer and coach
  133. 1959Liveris Andritsos, Greek basketball player
  134. 1959Val Kilmer, American actor (died 2025)
  135. 1959Phill Kline, American lawyer and politician
  136. 1959Baron Waqa, Nauruan composer and politician, 14th President of Nauru
  137. 1959Paul Westerberg, American musician, singer, and songwriter
  138. 1960Steve Bruce, English footballer and manager
  139. 1961Rick Aguilera, American baseball player and coach
  140. 1961Jeremy Heywood, English economist and civil servant (died 2018)
  141. 1961Nina Li Chi, Hong Kong actress
  142. 1961Fabian Nicieza, Argentine-American comic book writer and editor
  143. 1962Tyrone Corbin, American basketball player and coach
  144. 1962Chris Hallam, English-Welsh swimmer and wheelchair racer (died 2013)
  145. 1962Jennifer Higdon, American composer
  146. 1964Winston Benjamin, Antiguan cricketer
  147. 1964Michael McDonald, American comedian, actor, and director
  148. 1965Tony Dorigo, Australian-English footballer and sportscaster
  149. 1965Julie Doucet, Canadian cartoonist and author
  150. 1965Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Indian cricketer
  151. 1967Paul McGregor, Australian rugby league player and coach
  152. 1968Gerry Dee, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter
  153. 1968Junot Diaz, Dominican-born American novelist, short story writer, and essayist
  154. 1970Jorjão, Brazilian footballer
  155. 1970Danny McNamara, English singer-songwriter fecha discutida
  156. 1970Carlos Morales Quintana, Spanish-Danish architect and sailor las demás fuentes: 10 jul 1965
  157. 1970Bryon Russell, American basketball player
  158. 1971Brent Barry, American basketball player and sportscaster
  159. 1971Esteban Loaiza, Mexican baseball player
  160. 1971Heath Shuler, American football player and politician
  161. 1972Grégory Coupet, French footballer
  162. 1972Scott Manley, Scottish YouTube personality
  163. 1973Shandon Anderson, American basketball player
  164. 1973Malcolm Middleton, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
  165. 1973Curtis Myden, Canadian swimmer
  166. 1974Mario Aerts, Belgian cyclist
  167. 1974Tony Kanaan, Brazilian race car driver
  168. 1974Ryan Sakoda, Japanese-American wrestler and trainer las demás fuentes: 31 dic 1972
  169. 1975Rami Alanko, Finnish ice hockey player
  170. 1975Toni Kuivasto, Finnish footballer and coach
  171. 1975Rob Penders, Dutch footballer
  172. 1975Sander Schutgens, Dutch runner
  173. 1976Luís Carreira, Portuguese motorcycle racer (died 2012)
  174. 1976Matthew Hoggard, English cricketer
  175. 1977Wardy Alfaro, Costa Rican footballer and coach
  176. 1979Paul O'Neill, English racing driver
  177. 1979Jeff Waldstreicher, American lawyer and politician
  178. 1979Ricky Whittle, British actor las demás fuentes: 31 dic 1981
  179. 1980Jesse Carlson, American baseball player
  180. 1980Matt Cross, American wrestler
  181. 1980Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player
  182. 1980Carsten Schlangen, German runner
  183. 1981Jason Campbell, American football player
  184. 1981Francisco García, Dominican basketball player
  185. 1981Matthew Pavlich, Australian footballer
  186. 1981Margaret Simpson, Ghanaian heptathlete
  187. 1982Julio DePaula, Dominican baseball player
  188. 1982Craig Gordon, Scottish footballer
  189. 1982Luke Schenscher, Australian basketball player
  190. 1982The Rocket Summer, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
  191. 1983Jana Veselá, Czech basketball player
  192. 1984Corey Crawford, Canadian ice hockey player
  193. 1984Ben Hannant, Australian rugby league player
  194. 1984Édgar Lugo, Mexican footballer
  195. 1984Calvin Zola, Congolese footballer
  196. 1985Jonathan Horton, American gymnast
  197. 1985Jan Smit, Dutch singer and television host
  198. 1986Nate Freiman, American baseball player
  199. 1986Kade Snowden, Australian rugby league player
  200. 1987Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player
  201. 1987Seydou Doumbia, Ivorian footballer
  202. 1987Danny Holla, Dutch footballer
  203. 1987Nemanja Nikolić, Hungarian footballer
  204. 1988Michal Řepík, Czech ice hockey player
  205. 1989Ryo Aitaka, Japanese kickboxer and professional wrestler
  206. 1989Kelvin Herrera, Dominican baseball player
  207. 1991Dennis Everberg, Swedish ice hockey player
  208. 1991Djené, Togolese footballer
  209. 1991ND Stevenson, American cartoonist
  210. 1991Brandon Tanev, Canadian ice hockey player
  211. 1992Amy Cure, Australian track cyclist
  212. 1992Karl Kruuda, Estonian racing driver
  213. 1995Gabby Douglas, American gymnast
  214. 1995Edmond Sumner, American basketball player
  215. 1996J. J. Arcega-Whiteside, Spanish-American football player
  216. 1997Ludovic Blas, French footballer
  217. 1997Cameron Carter-Vickers, English-American soccer player
  218. 1997Bright Osayi-Samuel, Nigerian footballer
  219. 1999Calvin Bassey, Italian-Nigerian footballer
  220. 1999Leif Davis, English footballer
  221. 2000Alycia Parks, American tennis player
  222. 2001Katie Volynets, American tennis player
  223. 2002Ryan Flamingo, Dutch footballer
  224. 2002Sophia Laforteza, Filipino-American singer
  225. 2002Joe Scally, American soccer player

Fallecimientos (129)

  1. 45 a. C.Quintus Fabius Maximus, consul suffectus
  2. 192Commodus, Roman emperor (born 161)
  3. 335Pope Sylvester I
  4. 669Li Shiji, Chinese general (born 594)
  5. 914Ibn Hawshab, founder of the Isma'ili community in Yemen
  6. 1032Ahmad Maymandi, Persian statesman, vizier of the Ghaznavid Empire
  7. 1164Ottokar III of Styria (born 1124)
  8. 1194Leopold V, Duke of Austria (born 1157)
  9. 1298Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1249)
  10. 1299Margaret, Countess of Anjou (born 1273)
  11. 1302Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (born 1238)
  12. 1384John Wycliffe, English philosopher, theologian, and translator (born 1331)
  13. 1386Johanna of Bavaria, Queen of Bohemia (born c. 1362)
  14. 1426Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter (born 1377)
  15. 1439Margaret Holland, English noblewoman (born 1385)
  16. 1460Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (born 1400)
  17. 1510Bianca Maria Sforza, Holy Roman Empress (born 1472)
  18. 1535William Skeffington, English-Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (born 1465)
  19. 1568Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyō (born 1493)
  20. 1575Pierino Belli, Italian commander and jurist (born 1502)
  21. 1583Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (born 1524)
  22. 1610Ludolph van Ceulen, German-Dutch mathematician and academic (born 1540)
  23. 1637Christian, Count of Waldeck-Wildungen, German count (born 1585)
  24. 1650Dorgon, Chinese emperor (born 1612)
  25. 1655Janusz Radziwiłł, Polish–Lithuanian politician (born 1612)
  26. 1655Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet, English politicians and Roundheads supporter (born 1586)
  27. 1673Oliver St John, English judge and politician, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (born 1598)
  28. 1679Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (born 1608)
  29. 1691Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist (born 1627) juliano y gregoriano
  30. 1691Dudley North, English merchant and economist (born 1641)
  31. 1705Catherine of Braganza, Queen Consort of England, Scotland and Ireland (born 1638)
  32. 1719John Flamsteed, English astronomer and academic (born 1646)
  33. 1730Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer and poet (born 1651)
  34. 1742Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (born 1661)
  35. 1775Richard Montgomery, American general (born 1738)
  36. 1799Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (born 1723)
  37. 1818Jean-Pierre Duport, French cellist (born 1741)
  38. 1872Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author and playwright (born 1834)
  39. 1876Catherine Labouré, French nun and saint (born 1806)
  40. 1877Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (born 1819)
  41. 1888Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (born 1808)
  42. 1889Ion Creangă, Romanian author and educator (born 1837)
  43. 1889George Kerferd, English-Australian politician, 10th Premier of Victoria (born 1831)
  44. 1890Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier (born 1826)
  45. 1891Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Nigerian bishop and linguist (born 1809)
  46. 1894Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician and academic (born 1856)
  47. 1909Spencer Trask, American financier and philanthropist (born 1844)
  48. 1910Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (born 1884)
  49. 1910John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (born 1868)
  50. 1921Boies Penrose, American lawyer and politician (born 1860)
  51. 1934Cornelia Clapp, American marine biologist (born 1849)
  52. 1936Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher, author, and poet (born 1864)
  53. 1948Malcolm Campbell, English racing driver and journalist (born 1885)
  54. 1949Rıza Tevfik Bölükbaşı, Turkish philosopher, poet, and politician (born 1869)
  55. 1949Raimond Valgre, Estonian pianist and composer (born 1913)
  56. 1950Charles Koechlin, French composer and educator (born 1867)
  57. 1951Murtaza Hasan Chandpuri, Indian Muslim scholar (born 1868)
  58. 1953Albert Plesman, Dutch businessman, founded KLM (born 1889)
  59. 1964Bobby Byrne, American baseball and soccer player (born 1884)
  60. 1964Ólafur Thors, Icelandic lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Iceland (born 1892)
  61. 1964Henry Maitland Wilson, English field marshal (born 1881)
  62. 1968George Lewis, American clarinet player and composer (born 1900)
  63. 1970Cyril Scott, English composer, writer, and poet (born 1879)
  64. 1972Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican-American baseball player and Marine (born 1934)
  65. 1972Henry Gerber, German-American activist, founded the Society for Human Rights (born 1892)
  66. 1978Basil Wolverton, American illustrator (born 1909)
  67. 1980Marshall McLuhan, Canadian philosopher and theorist (born 1911)
  68. 1980Raoul Walsh, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1887)
  69. 1983Sevim Burak, Turkish author and playwright (born 1931)
  70. 1985Ricky Nelson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1940)
  71. 1987Jerry Turner, American journalist (born 1929)
  72. 1988Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and critic (born 1907)
  73. 1990George Allen, American football player and coach (born 1918)
  74. 1990Vasily Lazarev, Russian physician, colonel, and astronaut (born 1928)
  75. 1990Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (born 1891)
  76. 1993Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian anthropologist and politician, 1st President of Georgia (born 1939)
  77. 1993Brandon Teena, American murder victim (born 1972)
  78. 1993Big Bertha, Irish cattle and twice Guinness World Record holder (oldest cow, cow with most offspring) (born 1945)
  79. 1994Woody Strode, American football player, wrestler, and actor (born 1914)
  80. 1996Wesley Addy, American actor (born 1913)
  81. 1997Floyd Cramer, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1933)
  82. 1997Billie Dove, American actress (born 1903)
  83. 1998Ted Glossop, Australian rugby league player and coach (born 1934)
  84. 1999Elliot Richardson, American lawyer and politician, 69th United States Attorney General (born 1920)
  85. 1999Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi, Indian Muslim scholar and author (born 1914)
  86. 2000Alan Cranston, American journalist and politician (born 1914)
  87. 2000José Greco, Italian-American dancer and choreographer (born 1918)
  88. 2000Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (born 1966)
  89. 2001Eileen Heckart, American actress (born 1919)
  90. 2002Kevin MacMichael, Canadian guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1951)
  91. 2003Arthur R. von Hippel German-American physicist and author (born 1898)
  92. 2004Gérard Debreu, French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921)
  93. 2005Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor and educator (born 1932)
  94. 2005Phillip Whitehead, English screenwriter, producer, and politician (born 1937)
  95. 2006Ya'akov Hodorov, Israeli footballer (born 1927)
  96. 2006Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist, author, and academic (born 1922)
  97. 2006George Sisler, Jr., American businessman (born 1917)
  98. 2007Roy Amara, American scientific researcher (born 1925)
  99. 2007Michael Goldberg, American painter and educator (born 1924)
  100. 2007Bill Idelson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1919)
  101. 2007Milton L. Klein, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1910)
  102. 2007Ettore Sottsass, Austrian-Italian architect and designer (born 1917)
  103. 2008Donald E. Westlake, American author and screenwriter (born 1933)
  104. 2009Cahal Daly, Irish cardinal and philosopher, Archbishop of Armagh (born 1917)
  105. 2009Justin Keating, Irish surgeon, journalist, and politician, Minister for Industry and Commerce (born 1930)
  106. 2010Raymond Impanis, Belgian cyclist (born 1925)
  107. 2010Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1927)
  108. 2012Tarak Mekki, Tunisian businessman and politician (born 1958)
  109. 2012Jovette Marchessault, Canadian author and playwright (born 1938)
  110. 2012Günter Rössler, German photographer and journalist (born 1926)
  111. 2013James Avery, American actor (born 1945)
  112. 2013Roberto Ciotti, Italian guitarist and composer (born 1953)
  113. 2013Bob Grant, American radio host (born 1929)
  114. 2013Irina Korschunow, German author and screenwriter (born 1925)
  115. 2014Edward Herrmann, American actor (born 1943)
  116. 2014Abdullah Hussain, Malaysian author (born 1920)
  117. 2014Norm Phelps, American author and activist (born 1939)
  118. 2014S. Arthur Spiegel, American captain, lawyer, and judge (born 1920)
  119. 2014Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, British soldier and politician (born 1915)
  120. 2015Natalie Cole, American singer-songwriter and actress (born 1950)
  121. 2015Wayne Rogers, American actor and investor (born 1933)
  122. 2016William Christopher, American actor (born 1932)
  123. 2018Kader Khan, Indian actor (born 1937)
  124. 2021Betty White, American actress, comedian and producer (born 1922)
  125. 2022Pope Benedict XVI, German Roman Catholic cardinal and theologian, pope (2005–2013) and archbishop of Munich and Freising (1977–1982) (born 1927)
  126. 2022Barry Lane, English golfer (born 1960)
  127. 2023Cale Yarborough, American Hall of Fame racing driver and founder of Cale Yarborough Motorsports, NASCAR Cup Series champion (1976, 1977, 1978) (born 1939)
  128. 2024Arnold Rüütel, Estonian politician, 3rd President of Estonia (born 1928)
  129. 2024Johnnie Walker, British radio DJ (born 1945)

Celebraciones (9)

  1. International Solidarity Day of Azerbaijanis (Azerbaijan)
  2. New Year's Eve (International observance), and its related observances:
  3. First Night (United States)
  4. Last Day of the Year or Bisperás ng Bagong Taón, special holiday between Rizal Day and New Year's Day (Philippines)
  5. Novy God Eve (Russia)
  6. Ōmisoka (Japan)
  7. The first day of Hogmanay or "Auld Year's Night" (Scotland)
  8. The seventh of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
  9. The sixth and penultimate day of Kwanzaa (United States)

Santoral (2)

  1. Pope Sylvester I (Catholic Church)
  2. December 31 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)