An Amtrak Cascades passenger train derailed near DuPont, Washington, killing three people and injuring sixty-five others.
The Copenhagen Summit on climate change ended with the drafting of the non-binding Copenhagen Accord.
The school board of Oakland, California, passed a controversial resolution officially declaring African-American Vernacular English to be a separate language or dialect.
Mohammad Mofatteh, an Iranian philosopher, was assassinated by the Furqan Group.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth James Bond film and the only one to star George Lazenby, premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London.
Epimetheus, one of the moons of Saturn, was discovered, but was mistaken for Janus; it took twelve years to determine that they are two distinct objects sharing the same orbit.
Ghanaian and other African students organized a protest in Moscow's Red Square in response to the alleged murder of medical student Edmund Assare-Addo.
The United States launched SCORE (rocket pictured), the world's first communications satellite.
Second World War: The Luftwaffe won a victory over the Royal Air Force in the Battle of the Heligoland Bight, greatly influencing both sides' future aerial warfare strategy.
Playing indoors at Chicago Stadium on a modified American football field, the Chicago Bears defeated the Portsmouth Spartans in the first playoff game of the National Football League.
The Jew's Christmas, the first American film to include a rabbi as a character, was released.
Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat (pictured) set the first official land speed record, averaging 63.16 km/h (39.245 mph) over 1 km (0.62 mi) in Achères, France.
In Angola, New York, the last coach of a Lake Shore Railway train derailed, plunged 40 feet (12 m) down a gully, and caught fire, resulting in approximately 49 deaths.
Portuguese forces and their Imbangala allies defeated the Kongo army at the Battle of Mbumbi.
Muslims in Granada began a rebellion against their Castilian rulers in response to forced conversions to Catholicism.
Argentina win the FIFA World Cup final, defeating title holders France 4–2 on penalties following a 3–3 draw after extra time.
The United States House of Representatives impeaches Donald Trump for the first time.
List of bolides: A meteor exploded over the Bering Sea with a force over 10 times greater than the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.
Amtrak Cascades passenger train 501, derailed near DuPont, Washington, a city in United States near Olympia, Washington killing six people, and injuring 70 others.
Kellingley Colliery, the last deep coal mine in Great Britain, closes.
The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
The Chadian Civil War begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.
California gubernatorial recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
A Lockheed L-188 Electra crashes in Jamba, Cuando Cubango, Angola, killing 141 people.
First flight of the Russian heavy strategic bomber Tu-160, the world's largest combat aircraft, largest supersonic aircraft and largest variable-sweep wing aircraft built.
United Airlines Flight 2860 crashes near Kaysville, Utah, killing all three crew members on board.
SA de Transport Aérien Flight 730 crashes near Madeira Airport in Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, killing 36.
Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
A violent F5 tornado wipes out the entire community of Sunfield, Illinois.
World War II: XX Bomber Command responds to the Japanese Operation Ichi-Go offensive by dropping five hundred tons of incendiary bombs on a supply base in Hankow, China.
The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Korematsu v. United States supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066 which cleared the way for the incarceration of nearly all 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were U.S. citizens, born and raised in the United States.
World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans in the first NFL playoff game to win the NFL Championship.
The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when the second French offensive pushes the Germans back two or three kilometres, causing them to cease their attacks.
Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 63.159 km/h (39.245 mph) in a Jeantaud electric car.
Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
A magnitude 7.0 earthquakes strikes off the coast of Taiwan, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 580 people.
US Secretary of State William Seward proclaims the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment, prohibiting slavery throughout the United States.
The Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada abolishes the seigneurial system.
The national anthem of the Russian Empire, "God Save the Tsar!", is first performed.
Surrender of the frigate La Lutine by French Royalists to Lord Samuel Hood; renamed HMS Lutine, she later becomes a famous treasure wreck.
New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the American rebels over British General John Burgoyne at Saratoga in October.
The Whitehall Conference ends with the determination that there was no law preventing Jews from re-entering England after the Edict of Expulsion of 1290.
Portuguese forces score a military victory over the Kingdom of Kongo at the Battle of Mbumbi in present-day Angola.
A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversions of Muslims in Spain.
Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China.
The city of Zaragoza is conquered by king Alfonso I of Aragon from the Almoravid.
Giuliano Simeone, Argentine footballer
Billie Eilish, American singer
Jalen Johnson, American basketball player
Jayden Daniels, American football player
Korapat Kirdpan, Thai actor and singer
Travon Walker, American football player
Ronald Acuña Jr., Venezuelan baseball player
Alex DeBrincat, American ice hockey player
Barbora Krejčíková, Czech tennis player
Lim Na-young, South Korean singer and actress
Gerard Gumbau, Spanish footballer
Natália Kelly, American-Austrian singer
Byron Buxton, American baseball player
Thomas Lam, Finnish footballer
Ryan Crouser, American shot putter
Bridgit Mendler, American singer-songwriter and actress
Marcus Butler, English model and YouTuber
Victor Hedman, Swedish ice hockey player
Sierra Kay, American singer-songwriter
Ashley Benson, American actress and singer
Lizzie Deignan, English cyclist
Seth Doege, American football player
Brianne Theisen-Eaton, Canadian heptathlete
Imad Wasim, Pakistani cricketer
Miki Ando, Japanese figure skater
Chris Carter, American baseball player
François Hamelin, Canadian speed skater
Usman Khawaja, Pakistani-Australian cricketer
Brian Boyle, American ice hockey player
Paul Harrison, English footballer
Giuliano Razzoli, Italian skier
Derrick Tribbett, American bass player and singer
Andy Fantuz, Canadian football player
Christina Aguilera, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
Neil Fingleton, English actor and basketball player, one of the tallest 25 men in the world (died 2017)
Benjamin Watson, American football player
Daniel Cleary, Canadian ice hockey player
Ali Curtis, American soccer player
Josh Dallas, American actor
Katie Holmes, American actress
Axwell, Swedish DJ, record producer, member of Swedish House Mafia
Claudia Gesell, German runner
Randy Houser, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
Sia, Australian singer-songwriter
Trish Stratus, Canadian wrestler and actress
Peter Boulware, American football player and politician
Knut Schreiner, Norwegian singer, guitarist, and producer
Fatuma Roba, Ethiopian runner
Anzhela Balakhonova, Ukrainian pole vaulter
Raymond Herrera, American drummer and songwriter
DJ Lethal, Latvian-American musician
Lawrence Wong, Singaporean civilist and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Singapore
Barkha Dutt, Indian journalist
Noriko Matsueda, Japanese pianist and composer
Arantxa Sánchez Vicario, Spanish tennis player and sportscaster
Norman Brown, American singer and guitarist
DMX, American rapper and actor (died 2021)
Lucious Harris, American basketball player
Giannis Ploutarhos, Greek singer-songwriter
Rob Van Dam, American wrestler
Jonathan Yeo, English painter
Santiago Cañizares, Spanish footballer
Justin Edinburgh, English footballer and manager (died 2019)
Akira Iida, Japanese race car driver
Mario Basler, German footballer and manager
Rachel Griffiths, Australian actress
Alejandro Sanz, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist
Casper Van Dien, American actor and producer
Mille Petrozza, German singer-songwriter and guitarist
Toine van Peperstraten, Dutch journalist
Gianluca Pagliuca, Italian footballer and sportscaster
Shawn Christian, American actor, director, and screenwriter
Manolo Peña, Spanish footballer (died 2012)
Stone Cold Steve Austin, American wrestler and producer
Don Beebe, American football player and coach
Greg D'Angelo, American drummer
Karl Dorrell, American football player and coach
Pierre Nkurunziza, Burundian soldier and politician, 9th President of Burundi (died 2020)
Charles Oakley, American basketball player and coach
Brad Pitt, American actor and producer
Brian Orser, Canadian figure skater and coach
Lalchand Rajput, Indian cricketer
Leila Steinberg, American singer, producer, author, and poet
Angie Stone, American singer, songwriter, and actress (died 2025)
Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist and academic
Naoko Yamano, Japanese singer, guitarist and composer
Geordie Walker, English guitarist (died 2023)
Julia Wolfe, American composer and educator
Jonathan Cainer, English astrologer and author (died 2016)
Ron White, American comedian
Vijay Mallya, Indian businessman and politician
Bogusław Mamiński, Polish runner
John Booth, English race car driver
Ray Liotta, American actor (died 2022)
Willi Wülbeck, German runner
Kevin Beattie, English footballer (died 2018)
Elliot Easton, American guitarist and singer
John Leventhal, American songwriter and producer
Bobby Jones, American basketball player
Gillian Armstrong, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
Randy Castillo, American drummer and songwriter (died 2002)
Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lankan general and politician
Lizmark, Mexican wrestler (died 2015)
Leonard Maltin, American historian, author, and critic
David A. Johnston, American volcanologist and geologist (died 1980)
George T. Johnson, American basketball player
Bill Nelson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Mimmo Paladino, Italian sculptor and painter
Laurent Voulzy, French-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
Leonid Yuzefovich, Russian author and screenwriter
Steve Biko, South African activist, founded the Black Consciousness Movement (died 1977)
Steven Spielberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded DreamWorks
Jean Pronovost, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Crispian Steele-Perkins, English trumpet player and educator
Bobby Keys, American saxophone player (died 2014)
Keith Richards, English musician
Alan Rudolph, American director and screenwriter
Lenore Blum, American mathematician and academic
Bobby Keyes, Australian rugby league player (died 2022)
Sam Andrew, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2015)
Wadada Leo Smith, American trumpet player and composer
Joan Wallach Scott, American historian, author, and academic
Ilario Castagner, Italian football manager (died 2023)
John Cooper, English sprinter and hurdler (died 1974)
Pedro Jirón, Nicaraguan footballer (died 2018)
Michael Moorcock, English author and songwriter
Harold E. Varmus, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
Chas Chandler, English bass player and producer (died 1996)
Joel Hirschhorn, American songwriter and composer (died 2005)
Nancy Ryles, American politician (died 1990)
Malcolm Kirk, English rugby player and wrestler (died 1987)
Rosemary Leach, English actress (died 2017)
Jacques Pépin, French-American chef and author
Marc Rich, Belgian-American businessman, founded Glencore (died 2013)
Boris Volynov, Russian colonel, engineer, and cosmonaut
Lonnie Brooks, American blues singer and guitarist (died 2017)
Norm Provan, Australian rugby league player, coach, and businessman (died 2021)
Roger Smith, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2017)
Allen Klein, American businessman and music publisher (died 2009)
Alison Plowden, English historian and author (died 2007)
Gene Shue, American basketball player, coach, and executive (died 2022)
Bill Thompson, American television host (died 2014)
Moose Skowron, American baseball player (died 2012)
Gino Cimoli, American baseball player (died 2011)
Józef Glemp, Polish cardinal (died 2013)
Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Indian-English caliph and author (died 2003)
Harold Land, American tenor saxophonist (died 2001)
Ramsey Clark, American lawyer and politician, 66th United States Attorney General (died 2021)
Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (died 2009)
Edwin Bramall, Baron Bramall, English field marshal and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Greater London (died 2019)
Jack Brooks, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (died 2012)
Esther Lederberg, American microbiologist (died 2006)
Robert Leckie, American soldier and author (died 2001)
Ossie Davis, American actor and activist (died 2005)
Douglas Fraser, Scottish-American trade union leader and academic (died 2008)
Betty Grable, American actress, singer, and dancer (died 1973)
Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (died 1987)
Willy Brandt, German politician, 4th Chancellor of Germany, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1992)
Ray Meyer, American basketball player and coach (died 2006)
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., American general and pilot (died 2002)
Jules Dassin, American-Greek actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)
Abe Burrows, American author, playwright, and director (died 1985)
Eric Tindill, New Zealand rugby player, cricketer, and umpire (died 2010)
Celia Johnson, English actress (died 1982)
Paul Siple, American geographer and explorer (died 1969)
Bill Holland, American race car driver (died 1984)
Lawrence Lucie, American guitarist and educator (died 2009)
George Stevens, American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer (died 1975)
Peter Wessel Zapffe, Norwegian philosopher and author (died 1990)
Fletcher Henderson, American pianist and composer (died 1952)
Gerald Barry, English colonel and cricketer (died 1977)
Edwin Howard Armstrong, American engineer, invented FM radio (died 1954)
Gladys Cooper, English actress and singer (died 1971)
Robert Moses, American urban planner (died 1981)
Bhikhari Thakur, Indian actor, singer, and playwright (died 1971)
Ty Cobb, American baseball player and manager (died 1961)
Emil Starkenstein, Czech pharmacologist, co-founded clinical pharmacology (died 1942)
Richard Maury, American-Argentinian engineer, designed the Salta–Antofagasta railway (died 1950)
Paul Klee, Swiss-German painter and educator (died 1940)
Joseph Stalin, Georgian-Russian marshal and politician,General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (died 1953)
Matt McGrath, Irish-American hammer thrower (died 1941)
Francis Burton Harrison, American general and politician, 6th Governor-General of the Philippines (died 1957)
Saki, British short story writer (died 1916)
Edward Willis Redfield, American painter and educator (died 1965)
Foxhall P. Keene, American polo player and horse breeder (died 1941)
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (died 1914)
Lionel Monckton, English composer and critic (died 1924)
Edward MacDowell, American pianist and composer (died 1908)
J. J. Thomson, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940)
Henrietta Edwards, Canadian activist and author (died 1931)
Augusta Holmès, French pianist and composer (died 1903)
Lyman Abbott, American minister, theologian, and author (died 1922)
Charles Griffin, American general (died 1876)
John S. Harris, American surveyor and politician (died 1906)
Mariano Ignacio Prado, Peruvian general, twice President of Peru (died 1901)
John Hall, English-New Zealand politician, 12th Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1907)
James Watney, English brewer and businessman (died 1884)
Jean-Baptiste Rey, French conductor and composer (died 1810)
Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and theologian (died 1791)
Charles Wesley, English missionary and composer (died 1788)
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, Scottish colonel and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (died 1711)
Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and inventor (died 1751)
Countess Johanna Magdalene of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1715)
Christina, Queen of Sweden (died 1689)
John Hull, colonial American merchant and politician (died 1683)
Heinrich Roth, German missionary and scholar (died 1668)
Charles du Fresne, sieur du Cange, French philologist and historian (died 1688)
Simonds d'Ewes, English historian and politician (died 1650)
William Louis, Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken (died 1640)
Ahmad Ibn al-Qadi, Moroccan writer, judge and mathematician (died 1616)
Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese daimyō (died 1551)
Philipp von Hutten, German explorer (died 1546)
Sebald Heyden, German musicologist and theologian (died 1561)
Sophie of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Mecklenburg, Duchess of Saxony (died 1503)
Richard Olivier de Longueil, French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal (died 1470)
Slim Dunlap, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1951)
John Marsden, Australian writer (born 1950)
Sayaka Kanda, Japanese actress and singer (born 1986)
Jerry Relph, American politician and member of the Minnesota Senate (born 1944)
Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer (born 1990)
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Hungarian-American actress and socialite (born 1917)
Luc Brewaeys, Belgian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1959)
Helge Solum Larsen, Norwegian businessman and politician (born 1969)
Donald J. Albosta, American soldier and politician (born 1925)
Gideon Ben-Yisrael, Israeli soldier and politician (born 1923)
Larry Henley, American singer-songwriter (born 1937)
Virna Lisi, Italian actress (born 1936)
Mandy Rice-Davies, English model and actress (born 1944)
Robert Simpson, American meteorologist and author (born 1912)
Ken Hutcherson, American football player (born 1952)
Graham Mackay, South African-English businessman (born 1949)
Frank Macchiarola, American lawyer and academic (born 1941)
Mustafa Ould Salek, Mauritanian colonel and politician, President of Mauritania (born 1936)
Jim Whalen, American football player (born 1943)
Anatoliy Zayaev, Ukrainian footballer, coach, and manager (born 1931)
Václav Havel, Czech poet, playwright, and politician, 1st President of the Czech Republic (born 1936)
Phil Cavarretta, American baseball player and manager (born 1916)
Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist, author, and scholar (born 1913)
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Italian economist and politician, Italian Minister of Economy and Finances (born 1940)
James Pickles, English judge and journalist (born 1925)
Majel Barrett, American actress and producer (born 1932)
Mark Felt, American FBI agent and informant (born 1913)
Hans Billian, Polish-German actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1918)
Gerald Le Dain, Canadian lawyer and judge (born 1924)
William Strauss, American author and playwright (born 1947)
Alan Wagner, American businessman and critic (born 1931)
Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (born 1911)
Ruth Bernhard, German-American photographer (born 1905)
Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author and activist (born 1923)
Alan Voorhees, American engineer and urban planner (born 1922)
Anthony Sampson, English journalist and author (born 1926)
Necip Hablemitoğlu, Turkish historian and academic (born 1954)
Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Governor General of Canada (born 1934)
Wayne Owens, American lawyer and politician (born 1937)
Lucy Grealy, Irish-American author (born 1963)
Gilbert Bécaud, French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1927)
Dimitris Dragatakis, Greek violinist and composer (born 1914)
Marcel Mule, French saxophonist and educator (born 1901)
Stan Fox, American race car driver (born 1952)
Randolph Apperson Hearst, American businessman (born 1915)
Kirsty MacColl, British singer-songwriter (born 1959)
Robert Bresson, French director and screenwriter (born 1901)
Lev Dyomin, Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1926)
Chris Farley, American comedian and actor (born 1964)
Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (born 1904)
Irving Caesar, American composer (born 1895)
Brian Brockless, English organist, composer, and conductor (born 1926)
Ross Thomas, American author (born 1926)
Konrad Zuse, German engineer, designed the Z3 computer (born 1910)
Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician and academic (born 1916)
Lilia Skala, Austrian-American actress (born 1896)
Helm Glöckler, German race car driver (born 1909)
Sam Wanamaker, American-English actor, director, and producer (born 1919)
Mark Goodson, American game show producer, created Family Feud and The Price Is Right (born 1915)
George Abecassis, English race car driver (born 1913)
Anne Revere, American actress (born 1903)
Paul Tortelier, French cellist and composer (born 1914)
Joseph Zubin, Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (born 1900)
Niyazi Berkes, Turkish Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (born 1908)
Conny Plank, German keyboard player and producer (born 1940)
Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet and author (born 1916)
Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German colonel and pilot (born 1916)
Dobriša Cesarić, Croatian poet and translator (born 1902)
Alexei Kosygin, Russian soldier and politician, 8th Premier of the Soviet Union (born 1904)
Michio Nishizawa, Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1921)
Louis Untermeyer American poet, anthologist, critic (born 1885)
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian geneticist and biologist (born 1900)
Harry Hooper, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1887)
Allamah Rasheed Turabi, Indian-Pakistani religious leader and philosopher (born 1908)
Neilia Hunter Biden, first wife of Joe Biden (born 1942)
Bobby Jones, American golfer and lawyer (born 1902)
Diana Lynn, American actress (born 1926)
Charles Dvorak, American pole vaulter and coach (born 1878)
Leo Reisman, American violinist and bandleader (born 1897)
Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (born 1873)
Andrija Mohorovičić, Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (born 1857)
Eduard Bernstein, German theorist and politician (born 1850)
Hamo Thornycroft, English sculptor and academic (born 1850)
Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet, German-English banker and businessman (born 1851)
John Alcock, English captain and pilot (born 1892)
Richard Owen, English biologist, anatomist, and paleontologist (born 1804)
Michel Chasles, French mathematician and academic (born 1793)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer (born 1829)
José Justo Corro, Mexican politician, President of Mexico (1836–1837) (born 1794)
Bernard Bolzano, Bohemian priest and mathematician (born 1781)
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch, Scottish-English general and politician (born 1748)
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French soldier, biologist, and academic (born 1744)
Johann Gottfried Herder, German philosopher, theologian, and poet (born 1744)
Jean-Étienne Montucla, French mathematician and historian (born 1725)
Soame Jenyns, English poet and politician (born 1704)
Antonio Stradivari, Italian instrument maker (born 1644)
Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German scholar and politician (born 1626)
William Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath, English lawyer and politician (born 1580)
Nur Jahan, empress consort of the Mughal Empire (born 1577)
Anna of Saxony, Princess consort of Orange (born 1544)
Alfonso II of Naples (born 1448)
Pierre Cauchon, French Catholic bishop (born 1371)
Magnus III, king of Sweden (born 1240)
Hildebert, French poet and scholar (born 1055)
Edith of Wessex (born 1025)
Yaonian Yanmujin, Chinese empress dowager
Lady Wu, wife of Qian Liu (born 858)
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