December 16 Events 714 - Pepin of Herstal , mayor of the Merovingian palace, dies at Jupille . He is succeeded by his infant grandson Theudoald while his wife Plectrude holds actual power in the Frankish Kingdom . 755 - An Lushan revolts against Chancellor Yang Guozhong at Yanjing , initiating the An Lushan Rebellion during the Tang dynasty of China. 1431 - Hundred Years' War: Henry VI of England is crowned King of France at Notre Dame in Paris. 1497 - Vasco da Gama passes the Great Fish River , where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal. 1575 - An earthquake with an estimated of 8.5 strikes Valdivia, Chile. 1598 - Seven-Year War: Battle of Noryang: The final battle of the Seven-Year War is fought between the China and the Korean allied forces and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive allied forces victory. 1653 - English Interregnum: The Protectorate: Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland . 1689 - Convention Parliament: The Declaration of Right is embodied in the Bill of Rights . 1761 - Seven Years' War: After a four-month siege , the Russians under Pyotr Rumyantsev take the Prussian fortress of Kołobrzeg . 1773 - American Revolution: Boston Tea Party: Members of the Sons of Liberty disguised as Mohawk Indians dump hundreds of crates of tea into Boston harbor as a protest against the Tea Act . 1777 - Virginia becomes the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation . 1782 - British East India Company: Muharram Rebellion: Hada and Mada Miah lead the first anti-British uprising in the subcontinent against Robert Lindsay and his contingents in Sylhet Shahi Eidgah . 1811 - The first two in a series of four severe earthquakes occur in the vicinity of New Madrid, Missouri . 1826 - Benjamin W. Edwards rides into Mexican-controlled Nacogdoches, Texas , and declares himself ruler of the Republic of Fredonia . 1838 - Great Trek: Battle of Blood River: Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius and Sarel Cilliers defeat Zulu impis , led by Dambuza and Ndlela kaSompisi in what is today KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa. 1843 - The discovery of octonions by John T. Graves, who denoted them with a boldface O , was announced to his mathematician friend William Hamilton , discoverer of quaternions , in a letter on this date. 1850 - The Charlotte Jane and the Randolph bring the first of the Canterbury Pilgrims to Lyttelton, New Zealand . 1863 - American Civil War: Joseph E. Johnston replaces Braxton Bragg as commander of the Confederate Army of Tennessee . 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Nashville: Major General George Thomas's Union forces defeat Lieutenant General John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee . 1880 - Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire . 1882 - Wales and England contest the first Home Nations rugby union match. 1883 - Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel. 1903 - Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests. 1907 - The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world. 1912 - First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli . 1914 - World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby . 1918 - Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas declares the formation of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic ; it is dissolved in 1919. 1920 - The Haiyuan earthquake of 8.5, rocks the Gansu province in China, killing an estimated 200,000. 1922 - President of Poland Gabriel Narutowicz is assassinated by Eligiusz Niewiadomski at the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw . 1930 - Bank robber Herman Lamm and members of his crew are killed by a 200-strong posse, following a botched bank robbery, in Clinton, Indiana . 1937 - Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay ; neither is ever seen again. 1938 - Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother . 1941 - World War II: Japanese forces occupy Miri , Sarawak . 1942 - The Holocaust: Schutzstaffel chief Heinrich Himmler orders that Roma candidates for extermination be deported to Auschwitz . 1944 - World War II: The Battle of the Bulge begins with the surprise offensive of three German armies through the Ardennes forest. 1947 - William Shockley , John Bardeen and Walter Brattain build the first practical point-contact transistor . 1950 - Korean War: In response to China's Second Phase Offensive , U.S. President Harry S. Truman declares a limited state of emergency. 1960 - A United Airlines Douglas DC-8 and a TWA Lockheed Super Constellation collide over Staten Island, New York and crash, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft and six more on the ground . 1965 - Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966 . 1968 - Second Vatican Council: Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain . 1971 - Bangladesh Liberation War and Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: The ceasefire of the Pakistan Army brings an end to both conflicts. This is commemorated annually as Victory Day in Bangladesh, and as Vijay Diwas in India. 1971 - The United Kingdom recognizes Bahrain's independence, which is commemorated annually as Bahrain's National Day . 1978 - Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression . 1979 - Libya joins four other OPEC nations in raising crude oil prices , which has an immediate, dramatic effect on the United States. 1985 - Paul Castellano and Thomas Bilotti are shot dead on the orders of John Gotti , who assumes leadership of New York's Gambino crime family . 1989 - Romanian Revolution: Protests break out in Timișoara , Romania , in response to an attempt by the government to evict dissident Hungarian pastor László Tőkés . 1989 - U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody , Jr. 1991 - Kazakhstan declares independence from the Soviet Union . 2013 - A bus falls from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital Manila killing at least 18 people with 20 injured. 2014 - Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan militants attacked an Army Public School in Peshawar , Pakistan , killing 150 people, 132 of them schoolchildren.Births 1364 - Emperor Manuel III of Trebizond 1485 - Catherine of Aragon , Spanish princess, later queen consort of England 1534 - Hans Bol , Flemish artist 1582 - Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey 1584 - John Selden , English jurist and scholar 1585 - Livia della Rovere , Italian noble 1605 - Jerome Weston, 2nd Earl of Portland , English diplomat 1614 - Eberhard III, Duke of Württemberg 1630 - Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort , British botanist 1714 - George Whitefield , English Anglican priest 1716 - Louis Jules Mancini Mazarini , French poet and diplomat 1717 - Elizabeth Carter , English poet and scholar 1730 - Diego Silang , Filipino revolutionary leader 1742 - Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher , German field marshal 1770 - Ludwig van Beethoven , composer 1775 - Jane Austen , English novelist 1775 - François-Adrien Boieldieu , French pianist and composer 1776 - Johann Wilhelm Ritter , German chemist, physicist, and philosopher 1778 - John Ordronaux , French-American soldier 1787 - Mary Russell Mitford , English author and playwright 1790 - Leopold I of Belgium 1804 - Viktor Bunyakovsky , Russian mathematician and academic 1812 - Stuart Donaldson , English-Australian politician, 1st Premier of New South Wales 1834 - Léon Walras , French-Swiss economist and theorist 1836 - Ernst von Bergmann , Latvian-German surgeon and academic 1861 - Antonio de La Gándara , French painter and illustrator 1863 - George Santayana , Spanish philosopher, novelist, and poet 1865 - Olavo Bilac , Brazilian journalist and poet 1866 - Wassily Kandinsky , Russian-French painter and theorist 1867 - Amy Carmichael , Irish missionary and humanitarian 1869 - Hristo Tatarchev , Bulgarian physician and activist, co-founded the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization 1869 - Bertha Lamme Feicht , American electrical engineer 1872 - Anton Denikin , Russian general 1882 - Jack Hobbs , English cricketer and journalist 1882 - Zoltán Kodály , Hungarian composer, conductor, and musicologist 1882 - Walther Meissner , German physicist and engineer 1883 - Károly Kós , Hungarian-Romanian architect, ethnologist, and politician 1883 - Max Linder , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1884 - John Gunn , Australian politician, 29th Premier of South Australia 1884 - Seibo Kitamura , Japanese sculptor 1888 - Alexander I of Yugoslavia 1888 - Alphonse Juin , Algerian-French general 1889 - Kim Chwa-chin , South Korean guerrilla leader 1895 - Marie Hall Ets , American author and illustrator 1896 - Anna Anderson , an imposter who claimed to be Grand Duchess Anastasia of Russia 1899 - Noël Coward , English actor, playwright, and composer 1900 - Lucille Lortel , American actress and producer 1900 - V. S. Pritchett, British writer and literary critic 1901 - Margaret Mead , American anthropologist and author 1902 - Rafael Alberti , Spanish poet and playwright 1903 - Hardie Albright , American actor 1903 - Harold Whitlock , English race walker and coach 1905 - Piet Hein , Danish mathematician, author, and poet 1907 - Barbara Kent , Canadian-born American film actress 1908 - Remedios Varo , Spanish-Mexican surrealist painter & anarchist 1910 - Freddie Brown , Peruvian-English cricketer and sportscaster 1913 - George Ignatieff , Russian-Canadian scholar and diplomat, 8th Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations 1914 - O. Winston Link, American photographer 1916 - Ruth Johnson Colvin , American author and educator, founded ProLiteracy Worldwide 1917 - Nabi Bux Khan Baloch , Pakistani author and scholar 1917 - Pete T. Cenarrusa, American soldier, pilot, and politician, Secretary of State of Idaho 1917 - Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction writer 1920 - Frederick Rotimi Williams , Nigerian lawyer and politician 1921 - Eulalio González , Mexican singer-songwriter, director, producer, and screenwriter 1922 - Cy Leslie , American record producer, founded Pickwick Records 1923 - Menahem Pressler , German-American pianist 1923 - Ernst Florian Winter , Austrian-American historian and political scientist 1924 - Nicolas Sidjakov , Latvian-American illustrator 1926 - James McCracken , American tenor and actor 1926 - A. N. R. Robinson, Trinidadian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Trinidad and Tobago 1926 - Jeffrey Stone , American actor and screenwriter 1927 - Peter Dickinson , Rhodesian-English author and poet 1927 - Randall Garrett , American author and poet 1928 - Terry Carter , American actor, director, and producer 1928 - Philip K. Dick, American philosopher and author 1929 - Nicholas Courtney , Egyptian-English actor 1930 - Bill Brittain , American author 1930 - Sam Most , American flute player and saxophonist 1930 - Bill Young , American sergeant and politician 1932 - Quentin Blake , English author and illustrator 1932 - Grace Alele-Williams , Nigerian mathematician and academic 1932 - Lin Zhao , Chinese dissident and Christian executed during the Cultural Revolution 1936 - Morris Dees , American lawyer and activist, co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center 1937 - Joyce Bulifant , American actress 1937 - Edward Ruscha , American painter and photographer 1938 - Frank Deford , American journalist and author 1938 - Liv Ullmann , Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter 1939 - Philip Langridge , English tenor 1939 - Gordon Miller , English high jumper 1941 - Lesley Stahl , American journalist and actress 1941 - Roger Neil Wheeler , English general 1942 - Donald Carcieri , American educator and politician, 73rd Governor of Rhode Island 1943 - Steven Bochco , American television writer and producer 1944 - Jeff Kanew , American director and screenwriter 1944 - Don Meyer , American basketball player and coach 1945 - Patti Deutsch , American actress and comedian 1945 - Tony Hicks , English singer and guitarist 1946 - Benny Andersson , Swedish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer 1946 - Charles Dennis , Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1946 - Trevor Pinnock , English harpsichord player and conductor 1946 - Tom Stern , American cinematographer 1947 - Ben Cross , English actor 1947 - Vincent Matthews , American sprinter 1947 - Martyn Poliakoff , English chemist and academic 1949 - Billy Gibbons , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1949 - Heather Hallett , English lawyer and judge 1950 - Claudia Cohen , American journalist 1950 - Roy Schuiten , Dutch cyclist and manager 1951 - Sally Emerson , English author and poet 1951 - Mike Flanagan , American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster 1951 - Robben Ford , American guitarist and songwriter 1951 - Mark Heard , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1951 - Aykut Barka , Turkish scientist 1952 - Joel Garner , Barbadian cricketer and manager 1952 - Francesco Graziani , Italian footballer and manager 1953 - Rebecca Forstadt , American voice actress and screenwriter 1955 - Xander Berkeley , American actor and producer 1955 - Carol Browner , American lawyer and environmentalist, 8th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency 1955 - Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este 1955 - Chiharu Matsuyama , Japanese singer-songwriter 1956 - Lizzy Mercier Descloux , French musician, singer-songwriter, composer, actress, writer and painter 1957 - Antonio Vega , Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1958 - Bart Oates , American football player and lawyer 1959 - H. D. Kumaraswamy, Indian social worker and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Karnataka 1959 - Alexander Lebedev , Russian businessman and politician 1959 - Steve Mattsson , American author and illustrator 1960 - Pat Van Den Hauwe , Belgian footballer and manager 1961 - André Andersen , Russian-Danish keyboard player, songwriter, and producer 1961 - Shane Black , American actor, director, and screenwriter 1961 - Bill Hicks , American comedian and musician 1961 - LaChanze , American actress, singer, and dancer 1961 - Jon Tenney , American actor and director 1962 - Maruschka Detmers , Dutch-French actress 1962 - William Perry , American football player and wrestler 1963 - Benjamin Bratt , American actor and producer 1963 - Cathy Johnston-Forbes , American golfer 1963 - James Mangold , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1964 - Heike Drechsler , German sprinter and long jumper 1964 - John Kirwan , New Zealand rugby player and coach 1964 - Georgie Parker , Australian actress 1964 - Billy Ripken , American baseball player and sportscaster 1964 - Todd Glass , American comedian 1965 - Chris Jones , American baseball player and manager 1965 - Melanie Sloan , American lawyer and activist 1966 - Paul McGinley , Irish golfer 1966 - Clifford Robinson , American basketball player 1966 - Dennis Wise , English footballer and manager 1967 - Donovan Bailey , Canadian sprinter and sportscaster 1967 - Indrek Kaseorg , Estonian decathlete 1967 - Miranda Otto , Australian actress 1968 - Wendy Doolan , Australian golfer 1968 - Lalah Hathaway , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer 1968 - Greg Kovacs , Canadian bodybuilder 1969 - Simon Grayson , English footballer and manager 1969 - Adam Riess , American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic Nobel Prize laureate 1969 - Michelle Smith , Irish swimmer 1969 - Dmitri Tymoczko , American composer and theorist 1969 - Craig White , English cricketer and coach 1969 - Kent Hehr , Canadian politician 1970 - Valerie Chow , Canadian-Hong Kong actress and publicist 1971 - Seyhan Kurt , French-Turkish poet and sociologist 1971 - Michael McCary , American R&B singer 1972 - Charles Gipson , American baseball player 1972 - Paul Leyden , Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1972 - Travis Morrison , American singer-songwriter 1973 - Themba Mnguni , South African footballer 1973 - Scott Storch , American songwriter and producer, founded Storch Music Company 1975 - Valentin Bădoi , Romanian footballer and manager 1975 - Kaba Diawara , French-Guinean footballer 1975 - Benjamin Kowalewicz , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1975 - Paul Maynard , English politician 1976 - Jen Golbeck , American computer scientist and academic 1977 - Éric Bélanger , Canadian ice hockey player 1977 - Sylvain Distin , French footballer 1978 - John Morris , Canadian curler and firefighter 1978 - Gunter Van Handenhoven , Belgian footballer and manager 1979 - Luke Harper , American wrestler 1979 - Trevor Immelman , South African golfer 1979 - Daniel Narcisse , French handball player 1979 - Mihai Trăistariu , Romanian singer-songwriter 1979 - Jessie Ward , American wrestler and producer 1980 - Danish Kaneria , Pakistani cricketer 1981 - Krysten Ritter , American actress, musician, and model 1981 - Gareth Williams , Scottish footballer 1982 - Antrel Rolle , American football player 1982 - Anna Sedokova , Ukrainian singer, actress and television presenter 1982 - Stanislav Šesták , Slovak footballer 1983 - Kelenna Azubuike , American basketball player 1983 - Frankie Ballard , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1984 - Theo James , English actor 1985 - Stanislav Manolev , Bulgarian footballer 1985 - James Nash , English race car driver 1986 - Alcides Escobar , Venezuelan baseball player 1986 - Zoltán Kovács , Hungarian footballer 1986 - Pärt Uusberg , Estonian actor, composer, and conductor. 1987 - Mame Biram Diouf , Senegalese footballer 1987 - Beau Dowler , Australian footballer 1987 - Hallee Hirsh , American actress 1988 - Mats Hummels , German footballer 1988 - Anna Popplewell , English actress 1989 - Mirei Kiritani , Japanese model, actress, and journalist 1991 - Craig Goodwin , Australian footballer 1992 - Ulrikke Eikeri , Norwegian tennis player 1992 - Anamul Haque , Bangladeshi cricketer 1992 - Moe Miura , Japanese model, actress, and singer 1992 - Pietro Perdichizzi , Belgian footballer 1992 - Tom Rogic , Australian footballer 1994 - Elliot Lee , English footballer 1994 - Nicola Murru , Italian footballer 1994 - José Rodríguez Martínez , Spanish footballer 1996 - Joel Adams, Australian pop/soul singer-songwriter 1997 - Zara Larsson , Swedish singer and songwriter 1998 - Mira Antonitsch , Austrian tennis playerDeaths 604 - Houzhu , emperor of the Chen dynasty 705 - Wu Zetian , Empress of the Zhou dynasty 714 - Pepin of Herstal, Frankish statesman 867 - Eberhard of Friuli , Frankish duke 874 - Ado , archbishop of Vienne 882 - John VIII , pope of the Catholic Church 902 - Wei Yifan , chancellor of the Tang dynasty 999 - Adelaide of Italy , Holy Roman Empress 1153 - Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester , Norman nobleman 1263 - Haakon IV , king of Norway 1316 - Öljaitü , Mongolian ruler 1325 - Charles , French nobleman 1378 - Secondotto , marquess of Montferrat 1379 - John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel , English general and politician, Lord Marshall of England 1470 - John II , duke of Lorraine 1474 - Ali Qushji , Uzbek astronomer, mathematician, and physicist 1515 - Afonso de Albuquerque , Portuguese admiral and politician, 3rd Viceroy of Portuguese India 1558 - Thomas Cheney , English diplomat and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1583 - Ivan Fyodorov , Russian printer 1594 - Allison Balfour , Scottish witch 1598 - Yi Sun-sin , Korean general 1669 - Nathaniel Fiennes , English soldier and politician 1687 - William Petty , English economist and philosopher 1751 - Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau 1774 - François Quesnay , French economist, physician, and philosopher 1783 - Johann Adolph Hasse , German composer and educator 1783 - Sir William James, 1st Baronet , Welsh-English commander and politician 1805 - Saverio Cassar , Gozitan priest and rebel leader 1809 - Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy , French chemist and entomologist 1859 - Wilhelm Grimm , German anthropologist and author 1892 - Henry Yesler , American businessman and politician, 7th Mayor of Seattle 1897 - Alphonse Daudet , French author, poet, and playwright 1898 - Pavel Tretyakov , Russian businessman and art collector 1908 - American Horse , American tribal leader and educator 1917 - Frank Gotch , American wrestler 1921 - Camille Saint-Saëns , French pianist, composer, and conductor 1922 - Gabriel Narutowicz, Lithuanian–Polish engineer and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Poland 1928 - Elinor Wylie , American poet and author 1935 - Thelma Todd , American actress and comedian 1936 - Frank Eugene , American-German photographer and educator 1940 - Eugène Dubois , Dutch paleoanthropologist 1940 - Billy Hamilton , American baseball player and manager 1943 - George Bambridge , English diplomat 1944 - Betsie ten Boom , Dutch Holocaust victim 1945 - Giovanni Agnelli , Italian businessman, founded Fiat 1945 - Fumimaro Konoe , Japanese lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Japan 1949 - Sidney Olcott , Canadian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1952 - Robert Henry Best , American journalist 1956 - Nina Hamnett , Welsh painter and author 1961 - Hans Rebane , Estonian journalist and politician, 8th Minister of Foreign Affairs 1965 - W. Somerset Maugham, British playwright, novelist, and short story writer 1968 - Futabayama Sadaji , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 35th Yokozuna 1968 - Muhammad Suheimat , Jordanian general and politician 1969 - Alphonse Castex , French rugby union player 1969 - Soe Hok Gie , Indonesian activist and academic 1970 - Oscar Lewis , American anthropologist of Latin America 1974 - Kostas Varnalis , Greek poet and playwright 1976 - Réal Caouette , Canadian journalist and politician 1977 - Risto Jarva , Finnish director, producer, and screenwriter 1980 - Colonel Sanders , American businessman, founded KFC 1980 - Hellmuth Walter , German-American engineer 1982 - Colin Chapman , English engineer and businessman, founded Lotus Cars 1983 - Debs Garms , American baseball player 1984 - Karl Deichgräber , German philologist and academic 1985 - Thomas Bilotti, American mobster 1985 - Paul Castellano, American mobster 1989 - Oscar Alfredo Gálvez , Argentinian race car driver 1989 - Silvana Mangano , Italian actress 1989 - Aileen Pringle , American actress 1989 - Lee Van Cleef , American actor 1991 - Eszter Tamási , Hungarian actress and journalist 1993 - Moses Gunn , American actor 1993 - Kakuei Tanaka , Japanese soldier and politician, 64th Prime Minister of Japan 1996 - Quentin Bell , English historian and author 1997 - Lillian Disney , American illustrator and philanthropist 1998 - William Gaddis , American author and academic 2001 - Stuart Adamson , English-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist 2001 - Stefan Heym , German-American soldier and author 2003 - Robert Stanfield , Canadian economist, lawyer, and politician, 17th Premier of Nova Scotia 2003 - Gary Stewart , American singer-songwriter 2004 - Ted Abernathy , American baseball player 2004 - Deyda Hydara , Gambian journalist, co-founded The Point 2004 - Agnes Martin , American painter and educator 2005 - Kenneth Bulmer , English author 2005 - Ed Hansen , American director and screenwriter 2005 - John Spencer , American actor 2006 - Don Jardine , Canadian wrestler and trainer 2006 - Taliep Petersen , South African singer-songwriter and director 2006 - Pnina Salzman , Israeli pianist and educator 2006 - Stanford J. Shaw, American historian and academic 2007 - Dan Fogelberg , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 2009 - Roy E. Disney, American businessman 2009 - Yegor Gaidar , Russian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Russia 2009 - Manto Tshabalala-Msimang , South African physician and politician, 22nd South African Minister of Health 2010 - Melvin E. Biddle, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient 2010 - Ayinde Barrister , Nigerian fuji musician 2011 - Robert Easton , American actor and screenwriter 2011 - Nicol Williamson , Scottish actor 2012 - Elwood V. Jensen, American biologist and academic 2012 - Jake Adam York , American poet and academic 2013 - James Flint , English commander 2013 - Ray Price , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 2013 - Marta Russell , American journalist, author, and activist 2014 - Martin Brasier , English paleontologist, biologist, and academic 2014 - Tim Cochran , American mathematician and academic 2015 - Peter Dickinson, Rhodesian-English author and poet 2015 - Lizmark , Mexican wrestler 2015 - George Earl Ortman , American painter and sculptor 2017 - Keely Smith , American singer and actressHolidays and observances Christian feast day: *Adelaide of Italy *Haggai *Ralph Adams Cram, Richard Upjohn and John La Farge *December 16 Day of Reconciliation, formerly celebrated as Day of the Vow by the Afrikaners National Day, celebrates the withdrawal of United Kingdom from Bahrain , making Bahrain an independent emirate in 1971. National Sports Day The beginning of the nine-day celebration beginning December 16 and ending December 24, celebrating the trials which Mary and Joseph endured before finding a place to stay where Jesus could be born : *The first day of Las Posadas *The first day of the Simbang Gabi novena of masses Republic Day, celebrates the independence of Kazakhstan from the Soviet Union in 1991 . Victory Day Victory Day
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