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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== *[[63 BC]] – [[Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura]], Roman politician (born 114 BC) * [[334]] – [[Li Ban]], emperor of [[Cheng Han]] (born 288) * [[902]] – [[Ealhswith]], [[queen consort]] and wife of [[Alfred the Great]], King of [[Wessex]] *[[1082]] – [[Ramon Berenguer II, Count of Barcelona]] (born 1053) *[[1212]] – [[Dirk van Are]], bishop and lord of Utrecht *[[1244]] – [[Joan, Countess of Flanders]] and [[County of Hainaut|Hainault]] (born 1199 or 1200) *[[1355]] – [[John III, Duke of Brabant]] (born 1300) *[[1560]] – [[Francis II of France]] (born 1544)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Willert |first1=Paul Ferdinand |title=Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots in France |date=1893 |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons |location=New York |page=21}}</ref> *[[1570]] – [[Johan Friis]], Danish politician (born 1494) ===1601–1900=== *[[1624]] – [[Gaspard Bauhin]], Swiss botanist and physician (born 1560) *[[1654]] – [[Jean François Sarrazin]], French author and poet (born 1611) *[[1663]] – [[Severo Bonini]], Italian organist and composer (born 1582) *[[1749]] – [[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye]], Canadian commander and explorer (born 1685) *[[1758]] – [[Johann Friedrich Fasch]], German violinist and composer (born 1688) *[[1770]] – [[James Stirling (mathematician)|James Stirling]], Scottish mathematician and surveyor (born 1692) *[[1784]] – [[Phillis Wheatley]], Senegal-born slave, later American poet (born 1753) *[[1791]] – [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]], Austrian composer and musician (born 1756) *[[1854]] – [[Henry Ross]], Canadian-Australian gold miner (born 1829)<ref>{{cite web |last=Wickham |first=Dorothy |title=Eureka's Fallen |publisher=Ballarat Heritage Services |year=2019 |url=https://ballaratheritage.com.au/article/eurekas-fallen/ |access-date=16 September 2024}}</ref> *[[1819]] – [[Friedrich Leopold zu Stolberg-Stolberg]], German poet and lawyer (born 1750) *[[1870]] – [[Alexandre Dumas]], French novelist and playwright (born 1802) *[[1887]] – [[Eliza R. Snow]], American poet and songwriter (born 1804) *[[1891]] – [[Pedro II of Brazil]] (born 1825) ===1901–present=== *[[1918]] – [[Schalk Willem Burger]], South African commander, lawyer, and politician, 6th [[List of Presidents of the South African Republic|President of the South African Republic]] (born 1852) *[[1925]] – [[Władysław Reymont]], Polish novelist, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1867) *[[1926]] – [[Claude Monet]], French painter (born 1840)<ref>{{cite web |title=Claude Monet | Biography, Art, Water Lilies, Haystacks, Impression: Sunrise, & Facts | Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Claude-Monet |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=7 June 2022 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1931]] – [[Vachel Lindsay]], American poet (born 1879) *[[1933]] – [[Alexander Atabekian]], Armenian physician and anarchist publisher (born 1869)<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Biryukova |editor-first=Andreya |year=2013 |chapter=Предисловие |trans-chapter=Preface |title=Против власти: сборник статей |trans-title=Against Power: a collection of articles |location=[[Moscow]] |publisher=Librocom |isbn=978-5-397-03166-0 |oclc=840427393 |page=14 |language=ru}}</ref> *[[1940]] – [[Jan Kubelík]], Czech violinist and composer (born 1880) *[[1941]] – [[Amrita Sher-Gil]], Hungarian-Pakistani painter (born 1913) *[[1942]] – [[Jock Delves Broughton]], English captain (born 1883) *[[1946]] – [[Louis Dewis]], Belgian-French painter and educator (born 1872) *[[1951]] – [[Shoeless Joe Jackson]], American baseball player and manager (born 1887) * 1951 – [[Abanindranath Tagore]], Indian painter, author, and academic (born 1871) *[[1953]] – [[William Sterling Parsons]], American admiral (born 1901) *[[1955]] – [[Glenn L. Martin]], American pilot and businessman, founded the [[Glenn L. Martin Company]] (born 1886) *[[1961]] – [[Emil Fuchs (baseball)|Emil Fuchs]], German-American lawyer and businessman (born 1878) *[[1963]] – [[Karl Amadeus Hartmann]], German composer and educator (born 1905) * 1963 – [[Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy]], Indian-Pakistani lawyer and politician, 5th [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]] (born 1892) *[[1964]] – [[V. Veerasingam]], Sri Lankan educator and politician (born 1892) *[[1965]] – [[Joseph Erlanger]], American physiologist, neuroscientist, and academic [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1874) *[[1968]] – [[Fred Clark]], American actor (born 1914) *[[1969]] – [[Claude Dornier]], German engineer and businessman, founded [[Dornier Flugzeugwerke]] (born 1884) * 1969 – [[Princess Alice of Battenberg]] (born 1885)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lagos |first1=Constantinos |last2=Carr |first2=John |title=Philip, Prince of Greece: The Duke of Edinburgh's Early Life and the Greek Succession |date=30 June 2021 |publisher=Pen and Sword History |isbn=978-1-5267-9083-5 |page=282 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WBcuEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT282 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1973]] – [[Robert Watson-Watt]], Scottish engineer, invented the [[radar]] (born 1892) *[[1975]] – [[Constance McLaughlin Green]], American historian and author (born 1897) *[[1977]] – [[Katherine Milhous]], American author and illustrator (born 1894) * 1977 – [[Aleksandr Vasilevsky]], Russian marshal and politician, [[Minister of Defence (Soviet Union)|Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union]] (born 1895) *[[1979]] – [[Jesse Pearson (actor)|Jesse Pearson]], American actor, singer, and screenwriter (born 1930) *[[1983]] – [[Robert Aldrich]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1918) *[[1984]] – [[Cecil M. Harden]], American politician (born 1894) *[[1986]] – [[Edward Youde]], Welsh-Chinese sinologist and diplomat, 26th [[Governor of Hong Kong]] (born 1924) *[[1989]] – [[John Pritchard (conductor)|John Pritchard]], English conductor and director (born 1921) *[[1990]] – [[Alfonso A. Ossorio]], Filipino-American painter and sculptor (born 1916) *[[1991]] – [[Richard Speck]], American mass murderer (born 1941)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-12-02 |title=Richard Speck | Serial Killer, Murderer of 8 Nurses | Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-Speck |access-date=2023-12-05 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> *[[1994]] – [[Harry Horner]], Czech-American director, producer, and production designer (born 1910) *[[1995]] – [[L. B. Cole]], American illustrator and publisher (born 1918) * 1995 – [[Charles Evans (mountaineer)|Charles Evans]], English mountaineer, surgeon, and educator (born 1918) * 1995 – [[Gwen Harwood]], Australian poet and playwright (born 1920) * 1995 – [[Clair Patterson|Clair Cameron Patterson]], American scientist (born 1922) *[[1997]] – [[Eugen Cicero]], Romanian-German jazz pianist (born 1940) *[[1998]] – [[Albert Gore, Sr.]], American lawyer and politician (born 1907) *[[2001]] – [[Franco Rasetti]], Italian-American physicist and academic (born 1901) *[[2002]] – [[Roone Arledge]], American sportscaster and producer (born 1931) * 2002 – [[Ne Win]], Burmese general and politician, 4th [[President of Burma]] (born 1911) *[[2005]] – [[Edward L. Masry]], American lawyer and politician (born 1932) *[[2006]] – [[David Bronstein]], Ukrainian-Belarusian chess player and theoretician (born 1924) *[[2007]] – [[Andrew Imbrie]], American composer and academic (born 1921) * 2007 – [[George Paraskevaides]], Greek-Cypriot businessman and philanthropist, co-founded [[Joannou & Paraskevaides]] (born 1916) * 2007 – [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], German composer and academic (born 1928) *[[2008]] – [[Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow]] (born 1929) * 2008 – [[George Brecht]], American chemist and composer (born 1926) * 2008 – [[Nina Foch]], Dutch-American actress (born 1924) * 2008 – [[Beverly Garland]], American actress and businesswoman (born 1926) * 2008 – [[Anca Parghel]], Romanian singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1957) *[[2009]] – [[William Lederer]], American soldier and author (born 1912) *[[2010]] – [[Alan Armer]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1922) * 2010 – [[Don Meredith]], American football player, sportscaster, and actor (born 1938) *[[2011]] – [[Peter Gethin]], English racing driver (born 1940) * 2011 – [[Gennady Logofet]], Russian footballer and manager (born 1942) *[[2012]] – [[Dave Brubeck]], American pianist and composer (born 1920) * 2012 – [[Elisabeth Murdoch (philanthropist)|Elisabeth Murdoch]], Australian philanthropist (born 1909) * 2012 – [[Oscar Niemeyer]], Brazilian architect, designed the [[United Nations Headquarters]] and [[Cathedral of Brasília]] (born 1907) * 2012 – [[Ignatius IV of Antioch]], Syrian patriarch (born 1920) *[[2013]] – [[Fred Bassetti]], American architect and academic, founded [[Bassetti Architects]] (born 1917) * 2013 – [[William B. Edmondson]], American lawyer and diplomat, [[United States Ambassador to South Africa]] (born 1927) * 2013 – [[Nelson Mandela]], South African lawyer and politician, 1st [[President of South Africa]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1918) *[[2014]] – [[Ernest C. Brace]], American captain and pilot (born 1931) * 2014 – [[Queen Fabiola of Belgium|Fabiola]], Queen of Belgium (born 1928) * 2014 – [[Talât Sait Halman]], Turkish poet, translator, and historian (born 1931) * 2014 – [[Jackie Healy-Rae]], Irish hurdler and politician (born 1931)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Finn |first1=Christina |title=Tributes to the late Jackie Healy-Rae to be heard in the Dáil |url=https://www.thejournal.ie/tributes-to-the-late-jackie-healy-rae-to-be-heard-in-the-dail-4692837-Jun2019/ |website=TheJournal.ie |date=26 June 2019 |access-date=27 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref> * 2014 – [[Silvio Zavala]], Mexican historian and author (born 1909) *[[2015]] – [[Vic Eliason]], American clergyman and radio host, founded [[VCY America]] (born 1936) * 2015 – [[Tibor Rubin]], Hungarian-American soldier, [[Medal of Honor]] recipient (born 1929) * 2015 – [[Chuck Williams (author)|Chuck Williams]], American businessman and author, founded [[Williams Sonoma (brand)|Williams Sonoma]] (born 1915) *[[2016]] – [[Tyruss Himes]] ("Big Syke"), American rapper (born 1968)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tmz.com/2016/12/06/tupac-rapper-big-syke-dead |title=Rapper Big Syke Dead at 48 |publisher=Tmz.com |date=December 6, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vibe.com/2016/12/rapper-big-syke-dead-48-years-old-tupac |title=Rapper Big Syke Passed Away at 48 |publisher=Vibe.com |date=December 6, 2016}}</ref> *[[2017]] – [[Michael I of Romania]], fifth and last king of Romania (born 1921) * 2017 – [[August Ames]], Canadian American pornographic actress (born 1994) *[[2019]] – [[Robert Walker (actor, born 1940)|Robert Walker]], American actor (born 1940)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barnes |first=Mike |date=2019-12-06 |title=Robert Walker Jr., 'Star Trek' Actor and Son of Hollywood Superstars, Dies at 79 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/robert-walker-jr-dead-star-trek-actor-son-hollywood-superstars-was-79-1260215/ |url-status=live |access-date=2021-08-11 |website=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210811210608/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/robert-walker-jr-dead-star-trek-actor-son-hollywood-superstars-was-79-1260215/ |archive-date=2021-08-11}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[Peter Alliss]], English professional golfer (born 1931) <ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-golf-alliss/former-ryder-cup-player-alliss-the-voice-of-golf-dies-aged-89-idUSKBN28G0CX |title=Former Ryder Cup player Alliss, the 'voice of golf', dies aged 89 |website=Reuters |date=6 December 2020 |access-date=2020-12-07}}</ref> *[[2021]] – [[Bob Dole]], American politician (born 1923)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bob Dole, WWII hero and former Republican presidential candidate, dies at 98 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bob-dole-wwii-hero-former-republican-presidential-candidate-dies-98-n953981 |access-date=2021-12-05 |website=NBC News |date=5 December 2021 |language=en}}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Kirstie Alley]], American actress and producer (born 1951)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/kirstie-alley-died-after-battle-colon-cancer-rep-reveals |title=Kirstie Alley died after battle with colon cancer, rep reveals |website=[[Fox News]] |date=6 December 2022}}</ref> *[[2023]] – [[Norman Lear]], American screenwriter and producer (born 1922)<ref name="Morris">{{cite news |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/norman-lear-tv-legend-dies-133220344.html |work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |title=Norman Lear, TV Legend, Dies at 101 |via=[[Yahoo!]] |first1=Chris |last1=Morris |date=December 6, 2023}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Jacques Roubaud]], French poet, writer, and mathematician (born 1932)<ref>[https://www.telerama.fr/debats-reportages/mort-de-jacques-roubaud-le-poete-mathematicien-grand-chercheur-de-formes-0634-36850.php Le poète mathématicien Jacques Roubaud en 2014 dans “Télérama” : “L’Oulipo, c’était à la fois très sérieux et un peu dingue”]. telerama.fr, 5 December 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.</ref>
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