December 8 Events 395 - Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope . 757 - Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion . 877 - Louis the Stammerer is crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom at Compiègne . 1432 - The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana, launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War . 1504 - Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah penned his Oran fatwa , arguing for the relaxation of Islamic law requirements for the forcibly converted Muslims in Spain . 1660 - A woman appears on an English public stage for the first time , in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello . 1813 - Premiere of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony . 1851 - Conservative Santiago-based government troops defeat rebels at the Battle of Loncomilla , signaling the end of the 1851 Chilean Revolution . 1854 - In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus , Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception , which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin . 1864 - Pope Pius IX promulgates the encyclical Quanta cura and its appendix, the Syllabus of Errors , outlining the authority of the Catholic Church and condemning various liberal ideas. 1907 - King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne . 1912 - Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out. 1914 - World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. 1922 - Northern Ireland ceases to be part of the Irish Free State . 1927 - The Brookings Institution , one of the United States' oldest think tanks, is founded through the merger of three organizations that had been created by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings. 1941 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan . 1941 - World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement , Malaya , Thailand , Hong Kong , the Philippines , and the Dutch East Indies . 1943 - World War II: The German 117th Jäger Division destroys the monastery of Mega Spilaio in Greece and executes 22 monks and visitors as part of reprisals that culminated a few days later with the Massacre of Kalavryta . 1953 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world. 1955 - The Flag of Europe is adopted by Council of Europe . 1962 - Workers at four New York City newspapers go on strike for 114 days. 1963 - Pan Am Flight 214 , a Boeing 707 , is struck by lightning and crashes near Elkton, Maryland , killing all 81 people on board. 1966 - The Greek ship sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea , killing over 200. 1969 - Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history. 1971 - Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Navy launches an attack on West Pakistan's port city of Karachi . 1972 - United Airlines Flight 553 , a Boeing 737 , crashes after aborting its landing attempt at Chicago Midway International Airport , killing 45. This is the first-ever loss of a Boeing 737. 1974 - A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece . 1980 - Former Beatle John Lennon is murdered in front of The Dakota in New York City. 1985 - The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation , the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union in South Asia is established. 1987 - Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House . 1987 - An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel–Gaza Strip border , which has been cited as one of the events which sparked the First Intifada . 1988 - A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid , Germany, killing 5 people and injuring 50 others. 1990 - Galileo flies past Earth . 1991 - The leaders of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine sign an agreement dissolving the Soviet Union and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States . 1992 - Galileo flies past Earth. 1998 - Eighty-one people are killed by armed groups in Algeria . 2004 - The Cusco Declaration is signed in Cusco , Peru , establishing the South American Community of Nations . 2009 - Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq , kill 127 people and injure 448 others. 2010 - With the second launch of the Falcon 9 and the first launch of the Dragon , SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft . 2010 - The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km. 2013 - Riots break out in Singapore after a fatal accident in Little India . 2013 - Metallica performs a show in Antarctica , making them the first band to perform on all 7 continents.Births 65 BC - Horace , Roman poet 1021 - Wang Anshi , Chinese economist and chancellor 1412 - Astorre II Manfredi , Italian lord 1418 - Queen Jeonghui , Queen consort of Korea 1424 - Anselm Adornes , Belgian merchant, politician and diplomat 1538 - Miklós Istvánffy , Hungarian politician 1542 - Mary, Queen of Scots , daughter of James V of Scotland and Mary of Guise , at Linlithgow Palace 1558 - François de La Rochefoucauld , Catholic cardinal 1678 - Antonio de Benavides , colonial governor of Florida 1678 - Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole , English politician and diplomat, British Ambassador to France 1699 - Maria Josepha of Austria 1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1724 - Claude Balbastre , French organist and composer 1730 - Jan Ingenhousz , Dutch physician, physiologist, and botanist 1731 - František Xaver Dušek , Czech pianist and composer 1756 - Archduke Maximilian Francis of Austria 1765 - Eli Whitney , American engineer, invented the cotton gin 1795 - Peter Andreas Hansen , Danish astronomer and mathematician 1807 - Friedrich Traugott Kützing , German pharmacist, botanist and phycologist 1813 - August Belmont , Prussian-American financier and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the Netherlands 1815 - Adolph Menzel , German painter and illustrator 1817 - Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs , Danish lawyer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Denmark 1818 - Charles III, Prince of Monaco 1822 - Jakov Ignjatović , Hungarian-Serbian author 1832 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , Norwegian-French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate 1860 - Amanda McKittrick Ros , Irish author and poet 1861 - William C. Durant, American businessman, founded General Motors and Chevrolet 1861 - Aristide Maillol , French sculptor and painter 1861 - Georges Méliès , French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1862 - Georges Feydeau , French playwright 1863 - Charles Lincoln Edwards , American zoologist 1864 - Camille Claudel , French illustrator and sculptor 1865 - Rüdiger von der Goltz , German general 1865 - Jacques Hadamard , French mathematician and academic 1865 - Jean Sibelius , Finnish violinist and composer 1874 - Ernst Moro , Austrian physician and pediatrician 1875 - Frederik Buch , Danish actor and screenwriter 1877 - Paul Ladmirault , French pianist, violinist, and composer 1880 - Johannes Aavik , Estonian linguist and philologist 1881 - Albert Gleizes , French painter 1884 - Francis Balfour , English colonel and politician 1886 - Diego Rivera , Mexican painter and educator 1890 - Bohuslav Martinů , Czech-American pianist and composer 1892 - Marcus Lee Hansen , American historian, author, and academic 1894 - E. C. Segar, American cartoonist, created Popeye 1894 - James Thurber , American humorist and cartoonist 1899 - Arthur Leslie , English-Welsh actor and playwright 1899 - John Qualen , Canadian-American actor 1900 - Sun Li-jen , Chinese general and politician 1900 - Ants Oras , Estonian-American author and academic 1902 - Wifredo Lam , Cuban-French painter 1903 - Zelma Watson George , Black American opera singer 1908 - Concha Piquer , Spanish singer and actress 1908 - John A. Volpe, American soldier and politician, 61st Governor of Massachusetts 1911 - Lee J. Cobb, American actor 1911 - Nikos Gatsos , Greek poet and songwriter 1913 - Delmore Schwartz , American poet and short story writer 1914 - Floyd Tillman , American country music singer-songwriter and guitarist 1914 - Ernie Toshack , Australian cricketer 1915 - Ernest Lehman , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1916 - Richard Fleischer , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1917 - Ian Johnson , Australian cricketer and administrator 1919 - Peter Tali Coleman , Samoan-American lawyer and politician, 43rd Governor of American Samoa 1919 - Julia Bowman , American mathematician and theorist 1919 - Kateryna Yushchenko , Ukrainian computer scientist and academic 1920 - McDonald Bailey , Trinidadian-English sprinter and rugby player 1922 - Lucian Freud , German-English painter and illustrator 1922 - Jean Ritchie , American singer-songwriter 1923 - Dewey Martin , American actor 1923 - Rudolph Pariser , Chinese-American soldier and chemist 1924 - Lionel Gilbert , Australian historian, author, and academic 1925 - Sammy Davis, Jr., American actor, singer, and dancer 1925 - Nasir Kazmi , Pakistani Urdu poet 1925 - Carmen Martín Gaite , Spanish author and poet 1925 - Jimmy Smith , American organist 1927 - Vladimir Shatalov , Kazakhstani general, pilot, and astronaut 1927 - Niklas Luhmann , German thinker and social theorist 1928 - Bill Hewitt , Canadian journalist and sportscaster 1928 - Ulric Neisser , German-American psychologist, neuroscientist, and academic 1930 - Julian Critchley , English journalist and politician 1930 - Maximilian Schell , Austrian-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1931 - Bob Arum , American boxing promoter, founded Top Rank 1933 - Flip Wilson , American actor and comedian 1935 - Dharmendra , Indian actor, producer, and politician 1935 - Tatiana Zatulovskaya , Russian-Israeli chess player 1936 - David Carradine , American actor, director, and producer 1936 - Michael Hobson , American publisher 1936 - Peter Parfitt , English cricketer 1937 - James MacArthur , American actor 1937 - Arne Næss, Jr., German-Norwegian mountaineer and businessman 1939 - Red Berenson , Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1939 - Jerry Butler , American singer-songwriter and producer 1939 - James Galway , Irish flute player 1939 - Felipe Gozon , Filipino lawyer and businessman 1939 - Dariush Mehrjui , Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter 1939 - Soko Richardson , American drummer 1940 - Brant Alyea , American baseball player 1941 - Ed Brinkman , American baseball player and coach 1941 - Bob Brown , American football player 1941 - Duke Cunningham , American commander and politician 1941 - Bobby Elliott , English drummer 1941 - Geoff Hurst , English footballer and manager 1943 - Larry Martin , American paleontologist and ornithologist 1943 - Jim Morrison , American singer-songwriter and poet 1943 - James Tate , American poet 1943 - Bodo Tümmler , German runner 1943 - Mary Woronov , American actress, director, and screenwriter 1944 - George Baker , Dutch singer-songwriter 1944 - Bertie Higgins , American singer-songwriter 1944 - Ted Irvine , Canadian ice hockey player 1944 - Vince MacLean , Canadian educator and politician 1945 - John Banville , Irish novelist and screenwriter 1946 - John Rubinstein , American actor, director, and composer 1946 - Chava Alberstein , Polish-Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist 1947 - Gregg Allman , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1947 - Gérard Blanc , French singer, guitarist, and actor 1947 - Thomas Cech , American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1947 - Kati-Claudia Fofonoff , Finnish author and poet 1947 - Margaret Geller , American astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic 1948 - Luis Caffarelli , Argentinian-American mathematician and academic 1948 - John Waters , English-Australian actor, singer-songwriter, and guitarist 1949 - Mary Gordon , American author, critic, and academic 1949 - Nancy Meyers , American director, producer, and screenwriter 1949 - Robert Sternberg , American psychologist and academic 1950 - Rick Baker , American actor and makeup artist 1950 - Tim Foli , American baseball player, coach, and manager 1950 - Dan Hartman , American singer-songwriter and producer 1951 - Bill Bryson , American essayist, travel and science writer 1951 - Richard Desmond , English publisher and businessman, founded Northern & Shell 1951 - Jan Eggum , Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1952 - Khaw Boon Wan , Malayan-Singaporean politician, Singaporean Minister of Health 1952 - Steve Atkinson , English-Hong Kong cricketer 1953 - Kim Basinger , American actress 1953 - Roy Firestone , American sportscaster and journalist 1953 - Norman Finkelstein , American author, academic, and activist 1953 - Sam Kinison , American comedian 1953 - Władysław Kozakiewicz , Lithuanian-Polish pole vaulter and coach 1953 - Steve Yates , English footballer 1954 - Harold Hongju Koh , American lawyer, academic, and politician 1954 - Frits Pirard , Dutch cyclist 1955 - Milenko Zablaćanski , Serbian actor, director, and screenwriter 1956 - Warren Cuccurullo , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1956 - Andrius Kubilius , Lithuanian academic and politician, 9th Prime Minister of Lithuania 1956 - Slick , American wrestler and manager 1957 - Mike Buchanan , British men's rights advocate 1957 - James Cama , American martial artist and educator 1957 - Phil Collen , English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1958 - Rob Byrnes , American author and blogger 1958 - Rob Curling , Malayan-English journalist 1958 - Michel Ferté , French race car driver 1958 - Bob Greene , American physiologist and author 1958 - Mirosław Okoński , Polish footballer 1959 - Stephen Jefferies , South African cricketer and coach 1959 - Mark Steyn , Canadian-American author and critic 1960 - Aaron Allston , American game designer and author 1960 - Lim Guan Eng , Malaysian accountant and politician, 4th Chief Minister of the State of Penang and incumbent Minister of Finance . 1960 - Bill McKibben , American author and environmentalist 1961 - Ann Coulter , American lawyer, journalist, and author 1961 - Conceição Lima , São Toméan poet 1961 - Mikey Robins , Australian comedian and television host 1962 - Steve Elkington , Australian-American golfer 1962 - Marty Friedman , American-Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and television host 1962 - Nikos Karageorgiou , Greek footballer and manager 1962 - Berry van Aerle , Dutch footballer 1963 - Greg Howe , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer 1963 - Toshiaki Kawada , Japanese wrestler 1963 - Ricky Walford , Australian rugby league player 1964 - James Blundell , Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1964 - Teri Hatcher , American actress 1964 - Chigusa Nagayo , Japanese wrestler 1964 - Óscar Ramírez , Costa Rican footballer and coach 1965 - David Harewood , English actor 1965 - Theo Maassen , Dutch actor, producer, and screenwriter 1966 - Bushwick Bill , Jamaican-American rapper Geto Boys 1966 - Les Ferdinand , English footballer and coach 1966 - Tyler Mane , Canadian wrestler and actor 1966 - Sinéad O'Connor , Irish singer-songwriter 1967 - Jeff George , American football player 1967 - Andy Kapp , German curler 1967 - Kotono Mitsuishi , Japanese voice actress and singer 1967 - Darren Sheridan , English footballer and manager 1967 - Junkie XL , Dutch songwriter, movie score composer and electronic artist 1968 - Mike Mussina , American baseball player and coach 1968 - Doriano Romboni , Italian motorcycle racer 1969 - Kristin Lauter , American mathematician and cryptographer 1971 - Abdullah Ercan , Turkish footballer and manager 1972 - Indrek Allmann , Estonian architect 1972 - Janae Marie Kroczaleski , American powerlifter 1972 - Édson Ribeiro , Brazilian sprinter 1973 - Corey Taylor , American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor 1974 - Cristian Castro , Mexican singer 1974 - Tony Simmons , American football player and coach 1974 - Nick Zinner , American guitarist, songwriter, and producer 1975 - Kevin Harvick , American race car driver 1976 - Brettina , Bahamian-American singer-songwriter and actress 1976 - Reed Johnson , American baseball player 1976 - Dominic Monaghan , German-born English actor 1976 - Zoe Konstantopoulou , Greek lawyer and politician 1977 - Ryan Newman , American race car driver 1977 - Aleksandra Olsza , Polish tennis player 1977 - Anita Weyermann , Swiss runner and journalist 1978 - John Oster , English-Welsh footballer 1978 - Frédéric Piquionne , French footballer 1978 - Anwar Siraj , Ethiopian footballer 1978 - Ian Somerhalder , American actor 1978 - Vernon Wells , American baseball player 1979 - Daniel Fitzhenry , Australian rugby player 1979 - Johan Forssell , Swedish lawyer and politician 1979 - Raymond Lam , Chinese actor and singer 1979 - Ingrid Michaelson , American singer-songwriter and pianist 1979 - Christian Wilhelmsson , Swedish footballer 1980 - Yuliya Krevsun , Ukrainian runner 1981 - Jeremy Accardo , American baseball player 1981 - Simon Finnigan , English rugby league player 1981 - Philip Rivers , American football player 1982 - Alfredo Aceves , American baseball player 1982 - Serena Ryder , American singer-songwriter 1982 - Chrisette Michele , American singer-songwriter 1982 - Nicki Minaj , Trinidadian-American rapper and actress 1983 - Neel Jani , Swiss race car driver 1983 - Valéry Mézague , Cameroonian footballer 1984 - Emma Green Tregaro , Swedish high jumper 1984 - Greg Halford , English footballer 1984 - Sam Hunt , American singer-songwriter 1985 - Meagan Duhamel , Canadian figure skater 1985 - Dwight Howard , American basketball player 1985 - Oleksiy Pecherov , Ukrainian basketball player 1986 - Enzo Amore , American wrestler and rapper 1986 - Amir Khan , English boxer 1986 - Sam Tagataese , New Zealand-Samoan rugby league player 1986 - Kate Voegele , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actress 1989 - Drew Doughty , Canadian ice hockey player 1989 - Jesse Sene-Lefao , New Zealand rugby league player 1992 - Yui Yokoyama - Japanese idol, model, and actress 1993 - Janari Jõesaar , Estonian basketball player 1993 - Jordan Obita , English footballer 1993 - AnnaSophia Robb , American actress 1993 - Cara Mund , Miss America 2018 1994 - Conseslus Kipruto , Kenyan runner 1994 - Raheem Sterling , English footballerDeaths 855 - Drogo of Metz , illegitimate son of Charlemagne 899 - Arnulf of Carinthia 964 - Zhou the Elder , Chinese queen consort 1186 - Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen 1292 - John Peckham , Archbishop of Canterbury 1365 - Nicholas II, Duke of Opava 1431 - Hedwig Jagiellon , Polish and Lithuanian princess 1550 - Gian Giorgio Trissino , Italian humanist, poet, dramatist and diplomat 1626 - John Davies , English poet, lawyer, and politician 1632 - Philippe van Lansberge , Dutch astronomer and mathematician 1638 - Ivan Gundulić , Croatian poet 1643 - John Pym , English politician 1649 - Noël Chabanel , French missionary and saint 1680 - Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquess of Dorchester , English lawyer and politician 1691 - Richard Baxter , English minister, poet, and hymn-writer 1695 - Barthélemy d'Herbelot , French orientalist and academic 1709 - Thomas Corneille , French playwright and philologist 1722 - Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine 1744 - Marie Anne de Mailly , French mistress of Louis XV of France 1745 - Étienne Fourmont , French orientalist and academic 1746 - Charles Radclyffe , English courtier and soldier 1756 - William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington , English politician and diplomat, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 1768 - Jean Denis Attiret , French painter and missionary 1779 - Nathan Alcock , English physician 1815 - Mary Bosanquet Fletcher , Methodist preacher and philanthropist 1830 - Benjamin Constant , Swiss-French philosopher and author 1856 - Theobald Mathew , Irish social reformer and temperance movement leader 1859 - Thomas De Quincey , English journalist and author 1864 - George Boole , English mathematician and philosopher 1869 - Narcisa de Jesús , Ecuadorian saint 1885 - William Henry Vanderbilt , American businessman and philanthropist 1886 - Isaac Lea , American conchologist, geologist, and publisher 1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev , Russian mathematician and theorist 1903 - Herbert Spencer , English biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and philosopher 1907 - Oscar II of Sweden 1913 - Camille Jenatzy , Belgian race car driver 1914 - Melchior Anderegg , Swiss mountain guide 1914 - Maximilian von Spee , Danish-German admiral 1917 - Mendele Mocher Sforim , Russian author 1918 - Josip Štadler , Croatian archbishop 1919 - J. Alden Weir, American painter 1929 – José Vicente Concha , Colombian politician and 8th President of Colombia 1932 - Gertrude Jekyll , British horticulturist and writer 1937 - Hans Molisch , Czech-Austrian botanist and academic 1938 - Friedrich Glauser , Swiss author 1940 - George Lloyd , English-Canadian bishop and theologian 1942 - Albert Kahn , American architect, Fisher Building , Packard Automotive Plant , Ford River Rouge Complex 1952 - Charles Lightoller , English sailor 1954 - Claude Cahun , French artist, photographer, and writer 1954 - Gladys George , American actress 1954 - Joseph B. Keenan, American lawyer and politician 1958 - Tris Speaker , American baseball player and manager 1963 - Sarit Thanarat , Thai field marshal and politician, 11th Prime Minister of Thailand 1966 - Ward Morehouse , American playwright, author, and critic 1971 - Ernst Krenkel , Russian geographer and explorer 1971 - Eleni Ourani , Greek poet and critic 1975 - Gary Thain , New Zealand bass player 1978 - Golda Meir , Ukrainian-Israeli educator and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Israel 1980 - John Lennon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1982 - Bram Behr , Surinamese journalist and politician 1982 - André Kamperveen , Surinamese footballer and manager 1982 - Marty Robbins , American singer-songwriter and race car driver 1982 - Haim Laskov , Israel Defense Forces fifth Chief of Staff 1983 - Keith Holyoake , New Zealand farmer and politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand 1983 - Slim Pickens , American actor 1984 - Luther Adler , American actor 1984 - Robert Jay Mathews , American militant leader, founded The Order 1984 - Razzle , English drummer 1984 - Semih Sancar , Turkish general 1991 - Buck Clayton , American trumpet player and composer 1992 - William Shawn , American journalist 1993 - Yevgeny Minayev , Russian weightlifter 1994 - Antônio Carlos Jobim , Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist 1996 - Howard Rollins , American actor 1996 - Kashiwado Tsuyoshi , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 47th Yokozuna 1997 - Bob Bell , American clown and actor 1999 - Péter Kuczka , Hungarian poet and author 2001 - Mirza Delibašić , Bosnian basketball player and coach 2001 - Betty Holberton , American computer scientist and programmer 2003 - Rubén González , Cuban pianist 2004 - Dimebag Darrell , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 2005 - Rose Heilbron , British barrister and judge 2006 - Martha Tilton , American singer 2006 - José Uribe , Dominican baseball player 2007 - Gerardo García Pimentel , Mexican journalist 2008 - Oliver Postgate , English voice actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 2008 - Robert Prosky , American actor 2009 - Luis Días , Dominican singer-songwriter and guitarist 2012 - Jerry Brown , American football player 2012 - John Gowans , Scottish-English 16th General of The Salvation Army 2012 - Johnny Lira , American boxer 2013 - John Cornforth , Australian-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 2013 - Sándor Szokolay , Hungarian composer and academic 2013 - Richard S. Williamson, American lawyer and diplomat 2014 - Tom Gosnell , Canadian lawyer and politician 2014 - Russ Kemmerer , American baseball player and coach 2014 - Knut Nystedt , Norwegian organist and composer 2015 - Mattiwilda Dobbs , American soprano and actress 2015 - Alan Hodgkinson , English footballer and coach 2015 - Douglas Tompkins , American businessman, co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings 2015 - John Trudell , American author, poet, and actor 2015 - Elsie Tu , English-Hong Kong educator and politician 2016 - John Glenn , American astronaut and senator, first American to go into orbit 2018 - David Weatherall , English physician, geneticist, and academic 2019 - René Auberjonois , American actor 2019 - Juice Wrld , American rapper, singer and songwriter 2019 - Caroll Spinney , American puppeteer and actorHolidays and observances Battle Day Bodhi Day CARICOM–Cuba Day Christian feast day: *Budoc of Dol *Clement of Ohrid, and its related observances: **Student's Day *Eucharius *Feast of the Immaculate Conception, and its related observances: **Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, lesser commemoration **Festa da Conceição da Praia, celebrating Yemanjá , Queen of the Ocean in Umbanda **Festival of Lights **Mother's Day **Lady of Camarin Day *Patapios of Thebes *Pope Eutychian *Richard Baxter *Romaric * December 8 Constitution Day Constitution Day Day of Finnish Music Earliest day on which National Tree Planting Day can fall, while December 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in December. Hari-Kuyō National Youth Day
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