The video game Doom, later considered the "father" of the first-person shooter genre, is released.
At the first open pro-democracy demonstration in Mongolia, journalist Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announced the formation of the Mongolian Democratic Union, which would be instrumental in ending communist rule four months later.
Raúl Alfonsín (pictured) became the first democratically elected president of Argentina to take office after more than seven years of military dictatorship.
Around the northern Thai village of Mae Salong, remnants of Chinese anti-communist forces now fighting on behalf of the Thai government launched a five-year campaign against local communist insurgents.
Soul and blues singer, Otis Redding, along with members of his back-up group, The Bar-Kays, are killed when their helicopter crashes in Lake Monona in Madison, Wisconsin.
Edward Raczyński of the Polish government-in-exile issued a note that was the first official report on the Holocaust.
Second World War: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse were sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers east of Malaya.
Edward VIII, desiring to marry the American socialite Wallis Simpson against widespread British opposition, signed the instrument of abdication to renounce the throne in favour of his brother George VI.
The conclusion of the Emu War, after the Australian Government ordered the withdrawal of all Australian forces from the conflict.
Calbraith Perry Rodgers completed the first transcontinental flight across the United States.
During the Brown Dog affair, protesters marched through London and clashed with police officers in Trafalgar Square over the existence of a memorial (pictured) for animals that had been vivisected.
On the fifth anniversary of the death of their founder, Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel, the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm.
The New York World Building, the then-tallest building in the United States at a height of 110 meters, is completed in New York City.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by American author Mark Twain was first published in the United Kingdom and Canada, two months earlier than in the US.
Militia forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial leader in southern Vietnam, sank the French lorcha L'Esperance.
Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte won France's first presidential election, and was elected as the first and only president of the French Second Republic.
The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was released in Edinburgh.
Edmond Halley presented the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, containing Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, to the Royal Society.
The Papal States, France, Aragon and the Holy Roman Empire formed the League of Cambrai, an alliance against the Republic of Venice.
A widespread, deadly, and violent tornado outbreak slams the Central, Midwestern, and Southern regions of the United States. Eighty-nine people are killed by the tornadoes, with most of the fatalities occurring in Kentucky, where a single tornado kills 57 people, and injures hundreds of others.
The Ostrava hospital attack in the Czech Republic results in eight deaths, including the perpetrator.
ISIL is defeated in Iraq.
Two explosions outside a football stadium in Istanbul, Turkey, kill 38 people and injure 166 others.
Rojava conflict: The Syrian Democratic Council is established in Dêrik, forming the political wing of the Syrian Democratic Forces in northeast Syria.
Palestinian minister Ziad Abu Ein is killed after the suppression of a demonstration by Israeli forces in the village (Turmus'ayya) in Ramallah.
Sosoliso Airlines Flight 1145 crashes at Port Harcourt International Airport in Nigeria, killing 108 people.
Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first following an election.
The new Constitution of South Africa is promulgated by Nelson Mandela.
The Israeli army withdraws from Nablus pursuant to the terms of Oslo Accord.
Rwandan genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.
The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
Nursultan Nazarbayev is sworn in as the 1st President of Kazakhstan.
The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic is renamed into the Republic of Kazakhstan.
Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union.
United Nations General Assembly recognizes the Convention against Torture.
Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.
Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.
An assassination attempt on the British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
The Human Rights Convention is signed by the United Nations.
World War II: Government of Poland in exile send Raczyński's Note (the first official report on the Holocaust) to 26 governments who signed the Declaration by United Nations.
World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya.
World War II: Battle of the Philippines: Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.
Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.
Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students, protesting against the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected, clash with 400 police officers.
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize in any field.
The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict. Spain cedes administration of Cuba to the United States, and the United States agrees to pay Spain $20 million for the Philippines.
Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Army captures Plevna after a 5-month siege. The garrison of 25,000 surviving Turks surrenders. The Russian victory is decisive for the outcome of the war and the Liberation of Bulgaria.
American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.
American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter.
Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy.
Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
The Nyköping Banquet: King Birger of Sweden treacherously seizes his two brothers, dukes Valdemar and Erik, who are subsequently starved to death in the dungeon of Nyköping Castle.
Jeremie Frimpong, Dutch footballer
Reiss Nelson, English footballer
Lucia Bronzetti, Italian tennis player
Viktoriia Savtsova, Ukrainian Paralympic swimmer
Joe Burrow, American football player
Kang Daniel, South Korean singer and entrepreneur
Tacko Fall, Senegalese basketball player
Richard Kennar, Samoan rugby league player
Matti Klinga, Finnish footballer
Carlos Rodón, American baseball player
Melissa Roxburgh, Canadian-American actress
KiKi Layne, American actress
Eric Reid, American football player
Dion Waiters, American basketball player
Kazenga LuaLua, Congolese-English footballer
Sakiko Matsui, Japanese singer and actress
Wil Myers, American baseball player
Teyana Taylor, American singer, songwriter, choreographer, and actress
Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (died 2010)
Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, French politician
Tom Sexton, Australian-Irish rugby player
Wilfried Bony, Ivorian footballer
Neven Subotić, Serbian footballer
Gonzalo Higuaín, French-Argentinian footballer
Kahlil Bell, American football player
Charlie Adam, Scottish footballer
Roman Červenka, Czech ice hockey player
Matt Forte, American football player
Trésor Mputu, Congolese footballer
Raven-Symoné, American actress, singer, and dancer
Lê Công Vinh, Vietnamese footballer
JTG, American wrestler
Patrick Flueger, American actor
Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
Claudia Hoffmann, German sprinter
Sultan Kösen, Turkish farmer, tallest living person
Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
Rene Bourque, Canadian ice hockey player
Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
Sarah Chang, American violinist
Matt Bentley, American wrestler
Iain Brunnschweiler, English cricketer
Yang Jianping, Chinese recurve archer
Anna Jesień, Polish hurdler
Summer Phoenix, American actress
Shane Byrne, English motorcycle racer
Steve Bradley, American wrestler (died 2008)
Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
Josip Skoko, Australian footballer
Meg White, American drummer
Rusty LaRue, American basketball player and coach
Gabriela Spanic, Venezuelan actress
Donavon Frankenreiter, American surfer, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
Brian Molko, British-Belgian singer-songwriter
Kevin Sharp, American singer-songwriter (died 2014)
Bryant Stith, American basketball player and coach
Darren Berry, Australian cricketer and coach
Rob Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and executive
Yōko Oginome, Japanese singer, actress, and voice actress
Rein Ahas, Estonian geographer and academic
Robin Brooke, New Zealand rugby player
Mel Rojas, Dominican baseball player
Penelope Trunk, American writer
Greg Giraldo, American lawyer, comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2010)
J Mascis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Stephanie Morgenstern, Swiss-Canadian actress, producer, and screenwriter
Stephen Billington, English actor
Stef Blok, Dutch banker and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior
Bobby Flay, American chef and author
Edith González, Mexican actress (died 2019)
Jahangir Khan, Pakistani squash player
Rakhat Aliyev, Kazakh politician and diplomat (died 2015)
John de Wolf, Dutch footballer and manager
Mark McKoy, Canadian hurdler and sprinter
Nia Peeples, American singer and actress
Kenneth Branagh, British actor director, producer, and screenwriter
Kōichi Satō, Japanese actor
Mark Aguirre, American basketball player and coach
Udi Aloni, American-Israeli director and author
Kevin Ash, English journalist and author (died 2013)
Wolf Hoffmann, German guitarist
Cornelia Funke, German-American author
Kathryn Stott, English pianist and academic
Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (died 2012)
Paul Hardcastle, English composer and producer
Prem Rawat, Indian-American guru and educator
Rod Blagojevich, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Illinois
Roberto Cassinelli, Italian lawyer and politician
Jan van Dijk, Dutch footballer and manager
Eudine Barriteau, Barbadian economist and academic
Price Cobb, American race car driver and manager
Jack Hues, English singer-songwriter and musician
Chris Bury, American journalist and academic
Clive Anderson, English lawyer and television host
Susan Dey, American actress
Greg Mortimer, Australian geologist and mountaineer
Greg Laurie, American author and pastor
Paul Varul, Estonian lawyer and politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Justice
Johnny Rodriguez, American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2025)
John Boozman, American football player, lawyer, and politician
Simon Owen, New Zealand golfer
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Ugandan-English journalist and author
David Perdue, American politician
Dušan Bajević, Bosnian footballer and manager
Jessica Cleaves, American singer-songwriter (died 2014)
Jasuben Shilpi, Indian sculptor (died 2013)
Rasul Guliyev, Azerbaijani engineer and politician, 22nd Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan
Douglas Kenney, American satirist (died 1980)
Mukhtar Altynbayev, Kazakhstani general and politician, 3rd Defence Minister of Kazakhstan
Andris Bērziņš, Latvian businessman and politician, 8th President of Latvia
John Birt, Baron Birt, English businessman
Steve Renko, American baseball player
Ann Gloag, Scottish nurse and businesswoman
Ken Campbell, English actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2008)
Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress and producer
Tommy Kirk, American actor (died 2021)
Tommy Rettig, American child actor (died 1996)
Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (died 1985)
Dick Bavetta, American basketball player and referee
Barry Cunliffe, English archaeologist and academic
Bill Dunk, Australian golfer
Yuri Temirkanov, Russian viola player and conductor (died 2023)
Howard Smith, American journalist, director, and producer (died 2014)
Terry Allcock, English footballer and cricketer (died 2024)
Jaromil Jireš, Czech director and screenwriter (died 2001)
Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1994)
Philip R. Craig, American author (died 2007)
Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese actor (died 2006)
Peter Baker, English-South African footballer and manager (died 2016)
Wayne D. Anderson, American baseball player and coach (died 2013)
Ray Felix, American basketball player (died 1991)
Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, English farmer and politician, Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Barbara Nichols, American actress (died 1976)
Bob Farrell, American businessman, founded Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour (died 2015)
Danny Matt, German-Israeli general (died 2013)
Guitar Slim, American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1959)
Carolyn Kizer, American poet and academic (died 2014)
Ken Albers, American singer and musician (died 2007)
Michael Manley, Jamaican pilot and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (died 1997)
Harold Gould, American actor (died 2010)
Clorindo Testa, Italian-Argentinian architect, designed the National Library of the Argentine Republic and Marriott Plaza Hotel (died 2013)
Agnes Nixon, American television writer and director (died 2016)
Toh Chin Chye, Singaporean academic and politician, 1st Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore (died 2012)
Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian journalist and author (died 1977)
Reginald Rose, American screenwriter and producer (died 2002)
Alexander Courage, American composer and conductor (died 2008)
Anne Gwynne, American actress (died 2003)
Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (died 1995)
Walt Arfons, American race car driver (died 2013)
Nicky Barr, Australian rugby player, soldier, and pilot (died 2006)
Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (died 1996)
Pannonica de Koenigswarter, English-American jazz patron and writer (died 1988)
Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1996)
Harry Locke, English actor (died 1987)
Ray Nance, American trumpeter, violinist, and singer (died 1976)
Philip Hart, American lawyer and politician, 49th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (died 1976)
Tetsuji Takechi, Japanese theatrical and film director, critic, and author (died 1988)
René Toribio, Guadeloupean politician (died 1990)
Chet Huntley, American journalist (died 1974)
Ambrosio Padilla, Filipino basketball player and politician (died 1996)
Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (died 1990)
Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (died 1992)
Rumer Godden, English author and poet (died 1998)
Lucien Laurent, French footballer and coach (died 2005)
Amedeo Nazzari, Italian actor (died 1979)
Harold Adamson, American lyricist (died 1980)
Jules Ladoumègue, French runner (died 1973)
Antonín Novotný, Czechoslovak politician, President of Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (died 1975)
Una Merkel, American actress (died 1986)
Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (died 1948)
Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (died 1969)
Arlie Mucks, American discus thrower and shot putter (died 1967)
Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1970)
László Bárdossy, Hungarian politician and diplomat, 33rd Prime Minister of Hungary (died 1946)
Ray Collins, American actor (died 1965)
Victor McLaglen, English-American actor (died 1959)
Elizabeth Baker, American economist and academic (died 1973)
Marios Varvoglis, Greek composer and conductor (died 1967)
Giovanni Messe, Italian field marshal and politician (died 1968)
Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and philosopher (died 1945)
Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician, 37th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (died 1950)
C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer and politician, 45th Governor-General of India (died 1972)
Mohammad Ali Jauhar, Indian Muslim activist (died 1931)
Jadunath Sarkar, Indian historian (died 1958)
Adolf Loos, Austrian architect and theoretician (died 1933)
Pierre Louÿs, Belgian-French author and poet (died 1925)
Louis Bolk, Dutch anatomist and biologist (died 1930)
Melvil Dewey, American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System (died 1931)
Emily Dickinson, American poet (died 1886)
Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (died 1913)
George MacDonald, Scottish minister, author, and poet (died 1905)
César Franck, Belgian organist and composer (died 1890)
Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (died 1877)
Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist (died 1852)
Caroline Mehitable Fisher Sawyer, American poet, biographer, and editor (died 1894)
William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist, founded The Liberator (died 1879)
Joseph Škoda, Czech physician, dermatologist, and academic (died 1881)
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (died 1851)
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator, founded the American School for the Deaf (died 1851)
María Bibiana Benítez, Puerto Rican poet and playwright (died 1873)
Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria-Este (died 1848)
George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (died 1813)
Johann Nicolaus Mempel, German cantor and organist (died 1747)
Lancelot Blackburne, Archbishop of York (died 1743)
Giovanni Gioseffo dal Sole, Italian painter (died 1719)
Adriaen van Ostade, Dutch painter (died 1685)
Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (died 1637)
Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (died 1512)
Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (died 1481)
Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1531)
Edmund Mortimer, English nobleman and rebel (died 1409)
Houzhu, emperor of the Chen dynasty (died 604)
Rocky Colavito, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1933)
Michael Cole, American actor (born 1940)
Kreskin, American mentalist (born 1935)
S. M. Krishna, Indian politician and statesman, Minister of External Affairs, 10th Chief Minister of Karnataka, 19th Governor of Maharashtra (born 1932)
Julian Carroll, American politician, 54th Governor of Kentucky (born 1931)
Michael Nesmith, American musician (The Monkees), songwriter, actor, producer, and novelist (born 1942)
Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr., American actor and wrestler (born 1958)
Joseph Safra, Lebanese-Brazilian financier (born1938)
Carol Sutton, American actress (born 1944)
Barbara Windsor, English actress (born 1937)
Philip McKeon, American actor (born 1964)
Gershon Kingsley, American composer and musician (born 1922)
Emily Mason, American painter (born 1932)
Bruce Brown, American filmmaker (born 1937)
Max Clifford, British publicist (born 1943)
Charles M. Green Jr., American Internet personality (born 1950)
Curtis W. Harris, American minister (born 1924)
Ron Bouchard, American race car driver and businessman (born 1948)
Denis Héroux, Canadian director and producer (born 1940)
Arnold Peralta, Honduran footballer (born 1989)
Dolph Schayes, American basketball player and coach (born 1928)
Ralph Giordano, German author and publicist (born 1923)
Robert B. Oakley, American diplomat, 19th United States Ambassador to Pakistan (born 1931)
Bob Solinger, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1925)
Judy Baar Topinka, American journalist and politician (born 1944)
Gerard Vianen, Dutch cyclist (born 1944)
Alan Coleman, English-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1936)
Jim Hall, American guitarist and composer (born 1930)
Don Lund, American baseball player and coach (born 1923)
Srikanta Wadiyar, Indian politician and the titular Maharaja of Mysore(born 1946)
Iajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi academic and politician, 13th President of Bangladesh (born 1931)
Antonio Cubillo, Spanish lawyer and politician (born 1930)
Tommy Roberts, English fashion designer (born 1942)
John Fenn, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1917)
J. Michael Hagopian, Armenian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1913)
MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (born 1921)
Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian soldier and physicist (born 1925)
Vitali Hakko, Turkish businessman, founded Vakko (born 1913)
Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and educator (born 1908)
Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and dictator, 30th President of Chile (born 1915)
Mary Jackson, American actress (born 1910)
Eugene McCarthy, American poet, academic, and politician (born 1916)
Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1940)
Gary Webb, American journalist and author (born 1955)
Sean McClory, Irish actor and director (born 1924)
Andres Küng, Swedish journalist and politician (born 1945)
Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, director, and producer (born 1925)
Ashok Kumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer (born 1911)
Marie Windsor, American actress (born 1919)
Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (born 1943)
Franjo Tuđman, Croatian general and politician, 1st President of Croatia (born 1922)
Woodrow Borah, American historian of Spanish America (born 1912)
Faron Young, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1932)
Darren Robinson, American rapper (born 1967)
Keith Joseph, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Education (born 1918)
Alex Wilson, Canadian-American sprinter (born 1905)
Alice Tully, American soprano (born 1902)
Dan Maskell, English tennis player and sportscaster (born 1908)
Greta Kempton, Austrian-American painter and academic (born 1901)
Armand Hammer, American businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum (born 1898)
Richard S. Castellano, American actor (born 1933)
Johnny Lawrence, English cricketer and coach (born 1911)
Dorothy de Rothschild, English philanthropist and activist (born 1895)
Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-American violinist and educator (born 1901)
Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (born 1899)
Ann Dvorak, American actress (born 1911)
Ed Wood, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1924)
Adolph Rupp, American basketball player and coach (born 1901)
Toshinari Shōji, Japanese general (born 1890)
Wolf V. Vishniac, German-American microbiologist and academic (born 1922)
Mark Van Doren, American poet, critic, and academic (born 1894)
Chen Qiyou, Chinese politician and revolutionary (born 1892)
Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (born 1886)
George Forrest, Northern Irish lawyer and politician (born 1921)
Thomas Merton, American monk and author (born 1915)
Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (born 1941)
K. M. Panikkar, Indian historian and diplomat (born 1894)
Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder, rancher, and philanthropist (born 1864)
Napoleon Zervas, Greek general (born 1891)
David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet and translator (born 1891)
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar and translator (born 1872)
Algernon Blackwood, English author and playwright (born 1869)
Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (born 1896)
Walter Johnson, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (born 1887)
Damon Runyon, American newspaperman and short story writer (born 1884)
Theodor Dannecker, German captain (born 1913)
John Brunt, English captain, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1922)
Colin Kelly, American captain and pilot (born 1915)
John Grieb, American gymnast and triathlete (born 1879)
Bobby Abel, English cricketer (born 1857)
Luigi Pirandello, Italian dramatist, novelist, and poet Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)
Joseph Carruthers, Australian politician, 16th Premier of New South Wales (born 1857)
Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (born 1898)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and painter (born 1868)
Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Serbia (born 1845)
Clement Lindley Wragge, English meteorologist and author (born 1852)
Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (born 1868)
Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian journalist and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1823)
Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (born 1817)
Red Cloud, American tribal chief (of the Oglala nation) (born 1822)
Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (born 1833)
Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and politician (born 1836)
Leopold I of Belgium (born 1790)
Józef Bem, Polish general and physicist (born 1794)
François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (born 1787)
Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist and academic (born 1770)
Jacob Frank, Polish religious leader (born 1726)
António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese soldier and politician (born 1663)
Tarquinio Merula, Italian organist, violinist, and composer (born 1594)
Edmund Gunter, English mathematician and academic (born 1581)
Giulio Caccini, Italian composer and educator (born 1551)
Caspar Schwenckfeld, German theologian and writer
Thomas Culpeper, English courtier (born 1514)
Francis Dereham, English courtier (born c. 1513)
René II, Duke of Lorraine (born 1451)
Paolo Uccello, Italian painter (born 1397)
Ignatius Behnam Hadloyo, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch.
Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria (born 1271)
Radwan, ruler of Aleppo
Nikephoros III Botaneiates, deposed Byzantine Emperor (born c.1002)
Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine emperor (born 1010)
Folcmar, bishop of Utrecht
Herman I, Duke of Swabia
Sancho I, king of Pamplona
Alfred Nobel Day or Nobeldagen (Sweden)
Christian feast day: Behnam, Sarah, and the Forty Martyrs (Syriac Orthodox Church)
Christian feast day: Eulalia of Mérida
Christian feast day: Karl Barth (Episcopal Church (USA))
Christian feast day: Thomas Merton (Episcopal Church (USA))
Christian feast day: Translation of the Holy House of Loreto
Christian feast day: December 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Thailand)
Human Rights Day (International)