Events That Happened on December 14

A total solar eclipse is visible from parts of the South Pacific Ocean, southern South America, and the South Atlantic Ocean.

The Walt Disney Company announces that it would acquire 21st Century Fox, including the 20th Century Fox movie studio, for $52.4 billion.

A reported coup attempt in South Sudan leads to continued fighting and hundreds of casualties.

Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting: Twenty-eight people, including the gunman, are killed in Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

The Millau Viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, is formally inaugurated near Millau, France.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.

Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.

Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav Army ambushes a group of Kosovo Liberation Army fighters attempting to smuggle weapons from Albania into Kosovo, killing 36.

Yugoslav Wars: The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris by the leaders of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Construction begins on the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river.

War in Abkhazia: Siege of Tkvarcheli: A helicopter carrying evacuees from Tkvarcheli is shot down, resulting in at least 52 deaths, including 25 children. The incident catalyses more concerted Russian military intervention on behalf of Abkhazia.

Qasba Aligarh massacre: Over 400 Muhajirs killed in revenge killings in Qasba colony after a raid on Pashtun heroin processing and distribution center in Sohrab Goth by the security forces.

Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

Arab–Israeli conflict: Israel's Knesset ratifies the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the Golan Heights.

Apollo program: Eugene Cernan is the most recent person to walk on the Moon, after he and Harrison Schmitt complete the third and final extravehicular activity (EVA) of the Apollo 17 mission.

Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan's intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.)

American Civil Rights Movement: Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Congress can use the Constitution's Commerce Clause to fight discrimination.

The dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir bursts, killing five people and damaging hundreds of homes in Los Angeles, California.

NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.

Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.

The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Spain join the United Nations through United Nations Security Council Resolution 109.

Thomas T. Goldsmith Jr. and Estle Ray Mann are granted a patent for their cathode-ray tube amusement device, the earliest known interactive electronic game.

An Aeroflot Tupolev ANT-20 crashes near Tashkent, killing all 36 people on board.

Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.

Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.

Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.

Portuguese President Sidónio Pais is assassinated.

The 1918 United Kingdom general election occurs, the first where women were permitted to vote. In Ireland the Irish republican political party Sinn Féin wins a landslide victory with nearly 47% of the popular vote.

Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premieres at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

Lisandro de la Torre and others found the Democratic Progressive Party (Partido Demócrata Progresista, PDP) at the Hotel Savoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.

Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.

New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.

The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.

The Wright brothers make their first attempt to fly with the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.

Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law (quantum theory) at the Physic Society in Berlin.

The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.

American Civil War: The Confederate victory under General James Longstreet at the Battle of Bean's Station in East Tennessee ends the Knoxville Campaign, but achieves very little as Longstreet returns to Virginia next spring.

The Toledo War unofficially ends as the "Frostbitten Convention" votes to accept Congress' terms for admitting Michigan as a U.S. state.

Alabama becomes the 22nd U.S. state.

War of 1812: The Royal Navy seizes control of Lake Borgne, Louisiana.

The French invasion of Russia comes to an end as the remnants of the Grande Armée are expelled from Russia.

The Montgolfier brothers first test fly an unmanned hot air balloon in France; it floats nearly 2.5 km (1.6 mi).

Founding Father Alexander Hamilton marries Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton at the Schuyler Mansion in Albany, New York.

The Theresian Military Academy is founded in Wiener Neustadt, Austria.

Princess Mary Stuart becomes Queen of Scots at the age of one week on the death of her father, James V of Scotland.

St. Lucia's flood: The Zuiderzee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses, killing over 50,000 people.

Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of the Tang dynasty conspires to kill the powerful eunuchs of the Tang court, but the plot is foiled.

Constantinople is severely damaged by an earthquake, which cracks the dome of Hagia Sophia.

Francisco Conceição, Portuguese footballer

Joshua Rush, American actor and activist

Lonnie Walker IV, American basketball player

Kim Ji-woong, South Korean singer and actor

DK Metcalf, American football player

Barbie Ferreira, American actress and model

Li Zijun, Chinese figure skater

Ivan Barbashev, Russian ice hockey player

Calvyn Justus, South African swimmer

Álvaro Odriozola, Spanish footballer

Antonio Giovinazzi, Italian race car driver

Tori Kelly, American singer-songwriter

Ryo Miyaichi, Japanese footballer

Ben Henry, New Zealand rugby league player

Offset, American rapper

Robert Covington, American basketball player

Pedro Botelho, Brazilian footballer

Sam Burgess, English rugby league player

Onew, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer

Nicolas Batum, French basketball player

Nate Ebner, American football player

Vanessa Hudgens, American actress and singer

Hayato Sakamoto, Japanese baseball player

Kenneth Medwood, Belizean-American hurdler

Jakub Błaszczykowski, Polish footballer

Alex Pennie, Welsh keyboard player

Tom Smith, English-Welsh rugby player

Nonami Takizawa, Japanese actress and singer

Chris Brunt, Northern Irish footballer

Rana Daggubati, Indian actor and producer

Ed Rainsford, Zimbabwean cricketer

Jackson Rathbone, American actor, singer, and musician

Leanne Mitchell, English singer-songwriter

Josh Fields, American baseball player

Steve Sidwell, English footballer

Anthony Way, English singer and actor

Amber Chia, Malaysian model

Johnny Jeter, American wrestler

Liam Lawrence, Irish footballer

Shaun Marcum, American baseball player

Thed Björk, Swedish race car driver

Gordon Greer, Scottish footballer

Didier Zokora, Ivorian footballer

Jean-Alain Boumsong, French footballer

Andrei Makrov, Estonian ice hockey player

Kyle Shanahan, American football coach

Sophie Monk, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress

Michael Owen, English footballer and sportscaster

Dean Brogan, Australian footballer and coach

Shedrack Kibet Korir, Kenyan runner

Zdeněk Pospěch, Czech footballer

Patty Schnyder, Swiss tennis player

Kim St-Pierre, Canadian ice hockey player

Brendan Nash, Australian-Jamaican cricketer

Jamie Peacock, English rugby player and manager

Tammy Blanchard, American actress and singer

Leland Chapman, American bounty hunter

Sebastien Chaule, French-German rugby player

André Couto, Portuguese race car driver

Santiago Ezquerro, Spanish footballer

Justin Furstenfeld, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Ben Kay, English rugby player

KaDee Strickland, American actress

Billy Koch, American baseball player

Falk Balzer, German hurdler

Pat Burke, Irish basketball player

Tomasz Radzinski, Canadian soccer player

Saulius Štombergas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach

Miranda Hart, English actress

Marcus Jensen, American baseball player and coach

Michaela Watkins, American actor and comedian

Anna Maria Jopek, Polish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer

Beth Orton, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

Scott Hatteberg, American baseball player and sportscaster

Archie Kao, American actor and producer

Natascha McElhone, English-Irish actress

Dave Nilsson, Australian baseball player and manager

Arthur Numan, Dutch footballer and manager

Kelley Armstrong, Canadian author

Mohamed Saad, Egyptian actor

Ewa Białołęcka, Polish author

Hanne Haugland, Norwegian high jumper and coach

Fabrizio Giovanardi, Italian race car driver

Carl Herrera, Trinidadian-Venezuelan basketball player

Anthony Mason, American basketball player (died 2015)

Bill Ranford, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Tim Sköld, Swedish bass player and producer

Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Danish academic and politician, 41st Prime Minister of Denmark

Craig Biggio, American baseball player and coach

Ken Hill, American baseball player

Ted Raimi, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Greg Abbott, English footballer and manager

William Bedford, American basketball player

Diana Gansky, German discus thrower

Cynthia Gibb, American actress and model

Patrik Sundström, Swedish ice hockey player

James Comey, American lawyer, 7th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

Don Franklin, American actor

Chris Waddle, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster

Diane Williams, American sprinter

Bob Paris, American-Canadian bodybuilder and actor

Jorge Vaca, Mexican boxer

Mike Scott, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist

Spider Stacy, English singer-songwriter and guitarist

T. K. Carter, American actor

Linda Fabiani, Scottish politician

Hanni Wenzel, German skier

Jane Crafter, Australian golfer

Jill Pipher, American mathematician and academic

Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (died 1993)

Steve MacLean, Canadian physicist and astronaut

Vijay Amritraj, Indian tennis player and sportscaster

Wade Davis, Canadian anthropologist, author, and photographer

René Eespere, Estonian composer

Vangelis Meimarakis, Greek lawyer and politician, 4th Greek Minister for National Defence

Mikael Odenberg, Swedish soldier and politician, 29th Swedish Minister for Defence

John Lurie, American actor, saxophonist, painter, director, and producer

John Brown, American basketball player

Jan Timman, Dutch chess player and author

Bill Buckner, American baseball player and manager (died 2019)

David A. Cherry, American artist and illustrator

Cliff Williams, Australian bass player

Lester Bangs, American journalist and author (died 1982)

Kim Beazley, Australian politician and diplomat, 9th Deputy Prime Minister of Australia

Boudewijn Büch, Dutch author, poet, and television host (died 2002)

Peeter Kreitzberg, Estonian lawyer and politician (died 2011)

Dee Wallace, American actress

Christopher Parkening, American guitarist and educator

Dilma Rousseff, Brazilian economist and politician, 36th President of Brazil

Antony Beevor, English historian and author

Jane Birkin, English-French actress and singer (died 2023)

John Du Prez, English conductor and composer

Patty Duke, American actress (died 2016)

Ruth Fuchs, German javelin thrower and politician (died 2023)

Peter Lorimer, Scottish footballer (died 2021)

Michael Ovitz, American talent agent, co-founded Creative Artists Agency

Stan Smith, American tennis player and coach

Lynne Marie Stewart, American actress (died 2025)

Joyce Vincent Wilson, American singer

Graham Kirkham, Baron Kirkham, English businessman, founded DFS

Denis Thwaites, English professional footballer murdered in the 2015 Sousse attacks (died 2015)

Britt Allcroft, English writer (died 2024)

Tommy McAvoy, Scottish politician (died 2024)

Emmett Tyrrell, American journalist, author, and publisher, founded The American Spectator

Chris Harris, English actor and director (died 2014)

Dick Wagner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2014)

Karan Armstrong, American soprano and actress (died 2021)

Ellen Willis, American journalist, critic, and academic (died 2006)

Lex Gold, Scottish footballer and civil servant

Ann Cryer, English academic and politician

Ernie Davis, American football player (died 1963)

Leonardo Boff, Brazilian theologian and author

Charlie Griffith, Barbadian cricketer

Lewis Arquette, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2001)

Lee Remick, American actress (died 1991)

Shyam Benegal, Indian director and screenwriter (died 2024)

Charlie Hodge, American guitarist and singer (died 2006)

George Furth, American actor and playwright (died 2008)

Abbe Lane, American actress, singer, and dancer

Charlie Rich, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1995)

Jon Elia, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and scholar (died 2002)

Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar, Estonian director and politician (died 2015)

Margaret Bakkes, South African author (died 2016)

David R. Harris, English geographer, anthropologist, and archaeologist (died 2013)

Ron Jarden, New Zealand rugby player (died 1977)

Richard Cassilly, American tenor and actor (died 1998)

Koos Rietkerk, Dutch lawyer and politician, Dutch Minister of the Interior (died 1986)

Raj Kapoor, Indian actor, director, and producer (died 1988)

Gerard Reve, Dutch-Belgian author and poet (died 2006)

Nikolay Basov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2001)

Don Hewitt, American journalist and producer, created 60 Minutes (died 2009)

Junior J. Spurrier, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1984)

Clark Terry, American trumpet player, composer, and educator (died 2015)

James T. Aubrey, American broadcaster (died 1994)

Radu Beligan, Romanian actor and director (died 2016)

B. K. S. Iyengar, Indian yoga instructor and author, founded Iyengar Yoga (died 2014)

C.-H. Hermansson, Swedish author and politician (died 2016)

Elyse Knox, American actress and fashion designer (died 2012)

June Taylor, American dancer and choreographer (died 2004)

Shirley Jackson, American novelist and short story writer (died 1965)

Dan Dailey, American dancer and actor (died 1978)

Karl Carstens, German lieutenant and politician, 5th President of the Federal Republic of Germany (died 1992)

Rosalyn Tureck, American pianist and harpsichord player (died 2003)

Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz, Greek-Polish swimmer and water polo player (died 1943)

Spike Jones, American singer and bandleader (died 1965)

Hans von Ohain, German-American physicist and engineer (died 1998)

Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1975)

Morey Amsterdam, American actor, singer, and screenwriter (died 1996)

Claude Davey, Welsh rugby player (died 2001)

Mária Szepes, Hungarian journalist, author, and screenwriter (died 2007)

Virginia Coffey, American civil rights activist (died 2003)

Walter Rangeley, English sprinter (died 1982)

Frances Bavier, American actress (died 1989)

Herbert Feigl, Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (died 1988)

Henri Cochet, French tennis player (died 1987)

Paul of Greece (died 1964)

DeFord Bailey, American Hall of Fame country and blues musician (died 1982)

Kurt Schuschnigg, Italian-Austrian lawyer and politician, 15th Federal Chancellor of Austria (died 1977)

Margaret Chase Smith, American educator and politician (died 1995)

Jimmy Doolittle, American general and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1993)

George VI of the United Kingdom (died 1952)

Paul Éluard, French poet and author (died 1952)

Alexander Nelke, Estonian-American painter and carpenter (died 1974)

Xul Solar, Argentinian painter and sculptor (died 1963)

Jane Cowl, American actress and playwright (died 1950)

Manolis Kalomiris, Greek pianist and composer (died 1962)

Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist, developed aikido (died 1969)

Katherine MacDonald, American actress and producer (died 1956)

Karl Renner, Austrian lawyer and politician, 4th President of Austria (died 1950)

Roger Fry, English painter and critic (died 1934)

Louis Marshall, American lawyer and activist (died 1929)

Daniel De Leon, Curaçaoan-American journalist and politician (died 1914)

Mary Tappan Wright, American novelist and short story writer (died 1916)

Daniel H. Reynolds, American general, lawyer, and politician (died 1902)

Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, French painter and illustrator (died 1898)

Abraham Hochmuth, Hungarian rabbi and educator (died 1889)

Erastus Corning, American businessman and politician (died 1872)

Charles Wolfe, Irish priest and poet (died 1823)

Maria Szymanowska, Polish composer and pianist (died 1831)

Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily (died 1806)

Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon, Irish politician, Lord Lieutenant of Tyrone (died 1839)

Philander Chase, American bishop and educator, founded Kenyon College (died 1852)

Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Scottish admiral and politician (died 1860)

Jan Antonín Koželuh, Czech composer and educator (died 1814)

Capel Bond, English organist and composer (died 1790)

Justus Möser, German jurist and theorist (died 1794)

Daniel Neal, English historian and author (died 1743)

Aphra Behn, English playwright and author (died 1689)

Anne Conway, English philosopher and author (died 1679)

Barthélemy d'Herbelot, French orientalist and academic (died 1695)

János Kemény, Hungarian prince (died 1662)

Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge, English politician (died 1668)

Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and chemist (died 1601)

Frederick III, German nobleman (died 1381)

Go-Suzaku, emperor of Japan (died 1045)

Isak Andic, Turkish-Spanish billionaire businessman (born 1953)

Tomáš Janovic, Slovak writer (born 1937)

Jean Franco, American academic and literary critic (born 1924)

Gérard Houllier, French Football manager (born 1947)

Chuy Bravo, Mexican-American comedian and actor (born 1956)

Yu Kwang-chung, Chinese writer (born 1928)

Paulo Evaristo Arns, Brazilian cardinal (born 1921)

Bernard Fox, Welsh actor (born 1927)

Terry Backer, American soldier and politician (born 1954)

Glen Sonmor, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1929)

Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (born 1963)

Lillian Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (born 1927)

Theo Colborn, American zoologist and academic (born 1927)

Irene Dalis, American soprano and pianist (born 1925)

Louis Alphonse Koyagialo, Congolese politician, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (born 1947)

Bess Myerson, American model, activist, game show panelist and television personality; Miss America 1945 (born 1924)

Fred Thurston, American football player (born 1933)

Janet Dailey, American author (born 1944)

C. N. Karunakaran, Indian painter and illustrator (born 1940)

Dennis Lindley, English statistician and academic (born 1923)

Peter O'Toole, British-Irish actor (born 1932)

George Rodrigue, American painter (born 1944)

John Graham, English general (born 1923)

Edward Jones, American police officer and politician (born 1950)

Victoria Leigh Soto, American educator (born 1985)

Joe Simon, American author and illustrator (born 1913)

Billie Jo Spears, American singer-songwriter (born 1937)

Timothy Davlin, American politician, Mayor of Springfield (born 1957)

Neva Patterson, American actress (born 1920)

Dale Roberts, English footballer (born 1986)

Alan A'Court, English footballer and manager (born 1934)

Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan-English strategist and negotiator (born 1938)

Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-American composer and producer, co-founded Atlantic Records (born 1923)

Mike Evans, American actor and screenwriter (born 1949)

Rod Kanehl, American baseball player (born 1934)

Fernando Poe Jr., Filipino actor, director, producer, and politician (born 1939)

Jeanne Crain, American actress (born 1925)

Blas Ople, Filipino journalist and politician, 21st President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1927)

Frank Sheeran, American union leader and mobster (born 1920)

W. G. Sebald, German novelist, essayist, and poet (born 1944)

Norman Fell, American actor and comedian (born 1924)

A. Leon Higginbotham Jr., American lawyer, judge, and activist (born 1928)

Annette Strauss, American philanthropist and politician, Mayor of Dallas (born 1924)

Stubby Kaye, American actor and comedian (born 1918)

Emily Cheney Neville, American author (born 1919)

Kurt Winter, Canadian guitarist and songwriter (born 1946)

Gaston Miron, Canadian poet and author (born 1928)

G. C. Edmondson, American soldier and author (born 1922)

Orval Faubus, American soldier and politician, 36th Governor of Arkansas (born 1910)

Jeff Alm, American football player (born 1968)

Myrna Loy, American actress (born 1905)

Robert Eddison, Japanese-English actor (born 1908)

Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Swiss author and playwright (born 1921)

Paula Nenette Pepin, French composer, pianist and lyricist (born 1908)

Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman (born 1919)

Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1921)

Jean Schramme, Belgian mercenary, farmer, and convicted murderer (born 1929)

Catherine Doherty, Russian-Canadian activist, founded the Madonna House Apostolate (born 1896)

Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (born 1934)

Vicente Aleixandre, Spanish poet and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)

Elston Howard, American baseball player and coach (born 1929)

Salvador de Madariaga, Spanish historian and diplomat, co-founded the College of Europe (born 1886)

Arthur Treacher, English-American entertainer (born 1894)

Walter Lippmann, American journalist and author (born 1889)

Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury, Bangladeshi linguist and scholar (born 1926)

Munier Choudhury, Bangladeshi author, playwright, and critic (born 1925)

Shahidullah Kaiser, Bangladeshi journalist and author (born 1927)

Franz Schlegelberger, German judge and politician, German Reich Minister of Justice (born 1876)

William Bendix, American actor (born 1906)

Dinah Washington, American singer and pianist (born 1924)

Juho Kusti Paasikivi, Finnish lawyer and politician, 7th President of Finland (born 1870)

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American author and academic (born 1896)

Stanley Baldwin, English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1867)

Edward Higgins, English-American 3rd General of The Salvation Army (born 1864)

Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress (born 1908)

John Harvey Kellogg, American physician and businessman, co-invented corn flakes (born 1852)

Anton Korošec, Slovenian priest and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1872)

Fabián de la Rosa, Filipino painter and educator (born 1869)

Stanley G. Weinbaum, American author (born 1902)

Henry B. Jackson, British admiral (born 1855)

Julian Sochocki, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1842)

George Gipp, American football player (born 1895)

Phil Waller, Welsh rugby player (born 1889)

Eva Gouel, French choreographer and girlfriend of Pablo Picasso

Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, English lieutenant and explorer (born 1887)

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom (born 1843)

Louis Agassiz, Swiss-American zoologist and geologist (born 1807)

Johan Georg Forchhammer, Danish geologist and mineralogist (born 1794)

Albert, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom (born 1819)

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1784)

Ben Crack-O, king of several tribes around Cape Palmas

Jean-Olivier Chénier, Canadian physician (born 1806)

Martin Baum, American businessman and politician, 5th Mayor of Cincinnati (born 1765)

George Washington, American general and politician, 1st President of the United States (born 1732)

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer (born 1714)

Charles III of Spain (born 1716)

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Italian painter and engraver (born 1727)

Charles Rollin, French historian and educator (born 1661)

Thomas Tanner, English bishop and historian (born 1674)

Thomas Tenison, English archbishop (born 1636)

Pierre Dupuy, French historian and scholar (born 1582)

Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English politician, Lord High Admiral of England (born 1536)

Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon (born 1535)

John of the Cross, Spanish priest and saint (born 1542)

James V of Scotland (born 1512)

Friedrich of Saxony (born 1473)

Sten Sture the Elder, regent of Sweden (born 1440)

Niccolò Perotti, humanist scholar (born 1429)

Guarino da Verona, Italian scholar and translator (born 1370)

John Oldcastle, English Lollard leader

Cangrande II della Scala, Lord of Verona (born 1332)

Rinchinbal Khan, Mongolian emperor (born 1326)

Margaret of Brabant, German queen consort (born 1276)

Al-Ashraf Khalil, Mamluk sultan of Egypt

Agnes of Poitou, Holy Roman Empress and regent (born c. 1025)

Pope Adrian II (born 792)

Aldfrith, king of Northumbria (or 705)

John III of the Sedre, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch

Xue Rengao, emperor of Qin

Christian feast day: Folcwin

Christian feast day: John of the Cross

Christian feast day: John III of the Sedre (Syriac Orthodox Church)

Christian feast day: Matronian

Christian feast day: Nicasius of Rheims

Christian feast day: Nimatullah Kassab (Maronite Church)

Christian feast day: Spyridon (Western Church)

Christian feast day: Venantius Fortunatus

Christian feast day: December 14 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Alabama Day (Alabama)

Forty-seven Ronin Remembrance Day (Sengaku-ji, Tokyo)

Martyred Intellectuals Day (Bangladesh)

Monkey Day