December 10 is the 344th day of the year (345th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 21 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
1041 – The son of Empress Zoe of Byzantium succeeds to the throne of the Eastern Roman Empire as Michael V.
1508 – The League of Cambrai is formed by Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France, Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and Ferdinand II of Aragon as an alliance against Venice.
1510 – Portuguese conquest of Goa: Portuguese naval forces under the command of Afonso de Albuquerque, and local mercenaries working for privateer Timoji, seize Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate, resulting in 451 years of Portuguese colonial rule.
1520 – Martin Luther burns his copy of the papal bull Exsurge Domine outside Wittenberg's Elster Gate.
1541 – Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are executed for having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII.
1665 – The Royal Netherlands Marine Corps is founded by Michiel de Ruyter
1684 – Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
1799 – France adopts the metre as its official unit of length.
1817 – Mississippi becomes the 20th U.S. state.
1861 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America accept a rival state government's pronouncement that declares Kentucky to be the 13th state of the Confederacy.
1861 – Forces led by Nguyễn Trung Trực, an anti-colonial guerrilla leader in southern Vietnam, sink the French lorcha L'Esperance.
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – Major General William Tecumseh Sherman's Union Army troops reach the outer Confederate defenses of Savannah, Georgia.
1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1869 – The Kappa Sigma Fraternity is founded at the University of Virginia.
1884 – Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
1896 – Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi premieres in Paris. A riot breaks out at the end of the performance.
1898 – Spanish–American War: The Treaty of Paris is signed, officially ending the conflict.
1899 – Delta Sigma Phi fraternity is founded at the City College of New York.
1901 – The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.
1909 – Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
1927 – The phrase "Grand Ole Opry" is used for the first time on-air.
1932 – Thailand becomes a constitutional monarchy.
1936 – Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
1941 – World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near Malaya.
1941 – World War II: Battle of the Philippines – Imperial Japanese forces under the command of General Masaharu Homma land on Luzon.
1948 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
1949 – Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
1955 – Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on American television.
1963 – Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah.
1965 – The Grateful Dead's first concert performance under this new name.
1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
1976 – The United Nations General Assembly adopts the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques.
1978 – Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1979 – Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
1983 – Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raúl Alfonsín.
1989 – Mongolian Revolution: At the country's first open pro-democracy public demonstration, Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj announces the establishment of the Mongolian Democratic Union.
1993 – The last shift leaves Wearmouth Colliery in Sunderland. The closure of the 156-year-old pit marks the end of the old County Durham coalfield, which had been in operation since the Middle Ages.
1994 – Rwandan Genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.
Births
1452 – Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1531)
1588 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (d. 1637)
1713 – Johann Nicolaus Mempel, German cantor and organist (d. 1747)
1751 – George Shaw, English botanist and zoologist (d. 1813)
1787 – Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, American educator, founded the American School for the Deaf (d. 1851)
1804 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician and academic (d. 1851)
1805 – Joseph Škoda, Czech physician, dermatologist, and academic (d. 1881)
1815 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1852)
1821 – Nikolay Nekrasov, Russian poet and critic (d. 1877)
1822 – César Franck, Belgian organist and composer (d. 1890)
1824 – George MacDonald, Scottish minister, author, and poet (d. 1905)
1827 – Eugene O'Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1913)
1830 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886)
1851 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, created the Dewey Decimal System (d. 1931)
1861 – Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick (d. 1938)
1866 – Louis Bolk, Dutch anatomist and biologist (d. 1930)
1870 – Mary Bonaparte, French daughter of Napoléon Charles Bonaparte, 5th Prince of Canino (d. 1947)
1870 – Adolf Loos, Austrian architect, designed Villa Müller (d. 1933)
1870 – Pierre Louÿs, Belgian-French author and poet (d. 1925)
1878 – C. Rajagopalachari, Indian lawyer and politician, 45th Governor-General of India (d. 1972)
1880 – Fred Immler, German actor (d. 1965)
1880 – Charles King, American jumper (d. 1958)
1882 – Otto Neurath, Austrian sociologist and philosopher (d. 1945)
1882 – Shigenori Tōgō, Japanese politician, 37th Minister for Foreign Affairs (d. 1950)
1882 – Louis Wilkins, American pole vaulter (d. 1950)
1885 – Marios Varvoglis, Greek composer and conductor (d. 1967)
1886 – Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, 17th Governor General of Canada (d. 1969)
1886 – Annie Bos, Dutch actress (d. 1975)
1886 – Victor McLaglen, English-American boxer and actor (d. 1959)
1889 – Ray Collins, American actor (d. 1965)
1891 – Arlie Mucks, American athlete (d. 1967)
1891 – Nelly Sachs, German-Swedish poet and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
1896 – Torsten Bergström, Swedish actor and director (d. 1948)
1903 – Una Merkel, American actress and singer (d. 1986)
1905 – Valter Palm, Estonian-American boxer (d. 1994)
1906 – Jules Ladoumègue, French middle-distance runner (d. 1973)
1907 – Rumer Godden, English author and poet (d. 1998)
1907 – Lucien Laurent, French footballer and coach (d. 2005)
1908 – Olivier Messiaen, French composer and ornithologist (d. 1992)
1909 – Hermes Pan, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1990)
1911 – Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974)
1912 – Philip Hart, American lawyer and politician, 49th Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (d. 1976)
1913 – Morton Gould, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1996)
1913 – Pannonica de Koenigswarter, English-American composer (d. 1988)
1913 – Harry Locke, English actor (d. 1987)
1914 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (d. 1996)
1916 – Walt Arfons, American race car driver (d. 2013)
1916 – Rafael Ruiz, Spanish field hockey player (d. 2006)
1917 – Yahya Petra of Kelantan (d. 1979)
1918 – Anne Gwynne, American actress and singer (d. 2003)
1918 – Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1995)
1919 – Alexander Courage, American composer and conductor (d. 2008)
1920 – Clarice Lispector, Ukrainian-Brazilian journalist and author (d. 1977)
1920 – Reginald Rose, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2002)
1920 – Thanassis Skordalos, Greek musician (d. 1998)
1922 – Lucía Hiriart, Chilean wife of Augusto Pinochet, 30th First Lady of Chile
1922 – Agnes Nixon, American actress, director, and screenwriter
1923 – Harold Gould, American actor (d. 2010)
1923 – Clorindo Testa, Italian-Argentinian architect, designed the National Library of the Argentine Republic and Marriott Plaza Hotel (d. 2013)
1924 – Michael Manley, Jamaican pilot and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (d. 1997)
1925 – Jean Byron, American actress (d. 2006)
1925 – Carolyn Kizer, American poet and academic (d. 2014)
1927 – Danny Matt, German-Israeli general (d. 2013)
1928 – Dan Blocker, American actor (d. 1972)
1928 – John Colicos, Canadian actor (d. 2000)
1928 – Jeremy Morse, English banker and academic
1928 – Barbara Nichols, American actress and singer (d. 1976)
1930 – Wayne D. Anderson, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013)
1930 – Michael Jopling, Baron Jopling, English politician
1931 – Peter Baker, English-South African footballer
1933 – Philip R. Craig, American author (d. 2007)
1933 – Larry Morris, American football player (d. 2012)
1933 – Mako Iwamatsu, Japanese-American actor and singer (d. 2006)
1933 – Angus Stirling, English historian
1934 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
1935 – Terry Allcock, English footballer and cricketer
1936 – Howard Smith, American journalist, director, and producer (d. 2014)
1937 – Scott Baker, English judge
1937 – Raphael Maklouf, Israeli-English sculptor
1938 – Yuri Temirkanov, Russian viola player and conductor
1939 – Dick Bavetta, American basketball player and referee
1939 – Barry Cunliffe, English archaeologist and academic
1940 – Anne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen, English union leader and author
1941 – Fionnula Flanagan, Irish actress
1941 – Tommy Kirk, American actor and singer
1941 – Tommy Rettig, American actor and engineer (d. 1996)
1941 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1985)
1941 – Peter Sarstedt, Indian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1941 – Chad Stuart, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chad & Jeremy)
1941 – Ken Campbell, English writer, actor, director and comedian (d. 2008)
1942 – Ann Gloag, Scottish nurse and businesswoman
1944 – John Birt, Baron Birt, English businessman
1944 – Steve Renko, American baseball player
1945 – Mukhtar Altynbayev, Kazakhstani general and politician, 3rd Defence Minister of Kazakhstan
1945 – George Amon Webster, American singer and pianist (Cathedral Quartet) (d. 2013)
1946 – Thomas Lux, American poet and academic
1947 – Rasul Guliyev, Azerbaijani politician, 22nd Speaker of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan
1947 – Douglas Kenney, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1980)
1947 – Howard Newby, English sociologist and academic
1947 – Rainer Seifert, German field hockey player
1948 – Dušan Bajević, Bosnian-Greek footballer and manager
1948 – Jessica Cleaves, American singer (The Friends of Distinction and Earth, Wind & Fire) (d. 2014)
1948 – Jasuben Shilpi, Indian sculptor (d. 2013)
1948 – Muhammad Zaidan, Syrian-Palestinian terrorist, founded the Palestine Liberation Front (d. 2004)
1950 – John Boozman, American football player, lawyer, and politician
1950 – Nicky Henderson, English horse trainer
1951 – Ellen Nikolaysen, Norwegian singer and actress
1952 – Clive Anderson, English lawyer and television host
1952 – Susan Dey, American actress and producer
1952 – Greg Mortimer, Australian mountaineer
1952 – Paul Varul, Estonian lawyer and politician, 6th Estonian Minister of Justice
1953 – Chris Bury, American journalist
1954 – Eudine Barriteau, Barbadian economist
1954 – Price Cobb, American race car driver
1954 – Jack Hues, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Wang Chung)
1954 – Enn Sellik, Estonian runner
1954 – Gavin Smith, American businessman (d. 2012)
1956 – Rod Blagojevich, American lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Illinois
1956 – Roberto Cassinelli, Italian lawyer and politician
1956 – Jacquelyn Mitchard, American journalist and author
1956 – Jan van Dijk, Dutch footballer and manager
1957 – Michael Clarke Duncan, American actor (d. 2012)
1957 – Paul Hardcastle, English composer and producer
1957 – Prem Rawat, Indian-American guru
1958 – Pepsi Demacque, English singer (Pepsi & Shirlie)
1958 – Cornelia Funke, German-American author
1958 – Kathryn Stott, English pianist and academic
1958 – John J. York, American actor
1959 – Mark Aguirre, American basketball player and coach
1959 – Udi Aloni, American-Israeli director and author
1959 – Kevin Ash, English journalist and author (d. 2013)
1959 – Wolf Hoffmann, German guitarist (Accept)
1960 – Kenneth Branagh, Irish actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter
1960 – Michael Schoeffling, American actor
1961 – Mark McKoy, Canadian hurdler
1961 – Nia Peeples, American singer and actress
1961 – Oded Schramm, Israel-American mathematician and academic (d. 2008)
1962 – John de Wolf, Dutch footballer and manager
1963 – Jahangir Khan, Pakistani squash player
1964 – Stef Blok, Dutch banker and politician
1964 – Bobby Flay, American chef and author
1964 – George Newbern, American actor
1965 – Greg Giraldo, American lawyer, comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2010)
1965 – J Mascis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dinosaur Jr., Witch, Deep Wound, and Upsidedown Cross)
1965 – Stephanie Morgenstern, Swiss-Canadian actress, producer, and screenwriter
1966 – Rein Ahas, Estonian geographer
1966 – Mel Rojas, Dominican baseball player
1969 – Stephen Billington, English actor
1969 – Rob Blake, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
1970 – Kevin Sharp, American singer (d. 2014)
1970 – Bryant Stith, American basketball player and coach
1971 – Bill Baroni, American lawyer and politician
1971 – Brian Nichols, American spree killer
1971 – Carla Sacramento, Portuguese middle-distance runner
1972 – Donavon Frankenreiter, American surfer, singer-songwriter, and guitarist
1972 – Puff Johnson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1972 – Brian Molko, Belgian-Luxembourger singer-songwriter and guitarist (Placebo)
1973 – Arden Myrin, American comedian and actress
1973 – Gabriela Spanic, Venezuelan actress and singer
1974 – Meg White, American drummer (The White Stripes)
1975 – Steve Bradley, American wrestler (d. 2008)
1975 – Josip Skoko, Australian footballer
1975 – Kristel Verbeke, Belgian singer and actress (K3)
1976 – Shane Byrne, English motorcycle racer
1977 – Mr. Águila, Mexican wrestler
1977 – Emmanuelle Chriqui, Canadian actress
1978 – Anna Jesień, Polish hurdler
1978 – Summer Phoenix, American actress
1979 – Matt Bentley, American wrestler
1980 – Massari, Lebanese-Canadian singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1980 – Sarah Chang, American violinist
1981 – Taufik Batisah, Singaporean singer
1981 – Ryan Pini, Papua New Guinean swimmer
1981 – Fábio Rochemback, Brazilian footballer
1982 – Shilpa Anand, South African-Indian model and actress
1982 – Claudia Hoffmann, German sprinter
1983 – Patrick Flueger, American actor
1983 – Lewis Buxton, English footballer
1983 – Habib Mohamed, Ghanaian footballer
1983 – Xavier Samuel, Australian actor
1983 – Katrin Siska, Estonian singer (Vanilla Ninja)
1984 – JTG, American wrestler
1984 – Mark Applegarth, English rugby player
1985 – Charlie Adam, Scottish footballer
1985 – Scarlett Bowman, English actress
1985 – Matt Forté, American football player
1985 – T. J. Hensick, American ice hockey player
1985 – Trésor Mputu, Congolese footballer
1985 – Raven-Symoné, American actress, singer, and dancer
1985 – Lê Công Vinh, Vietnamese footballer
1986 – Matthew Bates, English footballer
1986 – Kahlil Bell, American football player
1987 – Gonzalo Higuaín, French-Argentinian footballer
1988 – Wilfried Bony, Ivorian footballer
1988 – Neven Subotić, Serbian footballer
1988 – Mitchell Donald, Dutch footballer
1989 – Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, French politician
1989 – Tom Sexton, Australian-Irish rugby player
1989 – Ng Chee Yang, Singaporean singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1990 – Kazenga LuaLua, Congolese-English footballer
1990 – Terrell Sinkfield, American football player
1990 – Shoya Tomizawa, Japanese motorcycle racer (d. 2010)
1991 – Dion Waiters, American basketball player
1991 – Eric Reid, American football player
1993 – Rachel Trachtenburg, American singer and actress (Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players and Supercute!)
1994 – Matti Klinga, Finnish footballer
Deaths
949 – Herman I, Duke of Swabia
1041 – Michael IV the Paphlagonian, Byzantine emperor (b. 1010)
1198 – Averroes, Spanish astronomer, physicist, and philosopher (b. 1126)
1508 – René II, Duke of Lorraine (b. 1451)
1541 – Thomas Culpeper, English courtier (b. 1514)
1541 – Francis Dereham, English courtier
1618 – Giulio Caccini, Italian composer and educator (b. 1551)
1626 – Edmund Gunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1581)
1665 – Tarquinio Merula, Italian organist, violinist, and composer (b. 1594)
1736 – António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese military leader (b. 1663)
1831 – Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (b. 1770)
1850 – Józef Bem, Polish general (b. 1794)
1850 – François Sulpice Beudant, French mineralogist and geologist (b. 1787)
1865 – Leopold I of Belgium (b. 1790)
1867 – Sakamoto Ryōma, Japanese samurai and politician (b. 1836)
1896 – Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize (b. 1833)
1909 – Red Cloud, American tribal chief (b. 1822)
1911 – Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist and explorer (b. 1817)
1914 – Robert Williams, American archer (b. 1841)
1917 – Mackenzie Bowell, English-Canadian politician, 5th Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1823)
1920 – Horace Elgin Dodge, American businessman, co-founded Dodge (b. 1868)
1922 – Clement Lindley Wragge, English meteorologist (b. 1852)
1926 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1845)
1928 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and painter (b. 1868)
1936 – Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857)
1936 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867)
1939 – John Grieb, American gymnast (b. 1879)
1941 – Erich Jacoby, Estonian-Polish architect (b. 1885)
1941 – Colin Kelly, American captain and pilot (b. 1915)
1944 – John Brunt, English captain Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1922)
1945 – Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (b. 1913)
1946 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1887)
1946 – Damon Runyon, American journalist and author (b. 1884)
1948 – Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (b. 1896)
1951 – Algernon Blackwood, English author (b. 1869)
1953 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar and translator (b. 1872)
1956 – David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet (b. 1891)
1957 – Napoleon Zervas, Greek general and resistance leader (b. 1891)
1958 – Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder, rancher, and philanthropist (b. 1864)
1967 – Ronnie Caldwell, American keyboard player (The Bar-Kays) (b. 1948)
1967 – Phalon Jones, American saxophonist (The Bar-Kays) (b. 1949)
1967 – Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1941)
1968 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (b. 1886)
1968 – George Forrest, Irish politician (b. 1921)
1968 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915)
1972 – Mark Van Doren, American poet, critic, and academic (b. 1894)
1973 – Wolf V. Vishniac, German-American microbiologist (b. 1922)
1977 – Adolph Rupp, American basketball player and coach (b. 1901)
1978 – Ed Wood, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924)
1979 – Ann Dvorak, American actress and singer (b. 1912)
1982 – Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899)
1986 – Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927)
1986 – Kate Wolf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942)
1987 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-American violinist and educator (b. 1901)
1988 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933)
1988 – Johnny Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1911)
1990 – Armand Hammer, American businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum (b. 1898)
1991 – Greta Kempton, American painter (b. 1901)
1991 – Headman Shabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (b. 1945)
1992 – Dan Maskell, English tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1908)
1993 – Alice Tully, American soprano (b. 1902)
1994 – Keith Joseph, English lawyer and politician (b. 1918)
1994 – Alex Wilson, Canadian-American sprinter (b. 1905)
1995 – Darren Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (b. 1967)
1996 – Faron Young, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1932)
1999 – Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Band) (b. 1942)
1999 – Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1913)
1999 – Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
1999 – Franjo Tuđman, Croatian general, historian, and politician, 1st President of Croatia (b. 1922)
2000 – Marie Windsor, American actress (b. 1919)
2001 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer (b. 1911)
2002 – Andres Küng, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1945)
2002 – Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, producer and director (b. 1925)
2003 – Sean McClory, Irish actor (b. 1924)
2004 – Gary Webb, American journalist and author (b. 1955)
2005 – Eugene McCarthy, America poet, academic, and politician (b. 1916)
2005 – Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1940)
2006 – Olivia Coolidge, English-American author (b. 1908)
2006 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general, de facto head of state of Chile from 1973 to 1990 (b. 1915)
2007 – Ashleigh Aston Moore, Canadian actress (b. 1981)
2007 – Aqsa Parvez, Pakistani-Canadian murder victim (b. 1991)
2008 – Didith Reyes, Filipino actress and singer (b. 1948)
2009 – Vladimir Teplyakov, Russian soldier and physicist (b. 1925)
2010 – John Fenn, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917)
2010 – J. Michael Hagopian, Armenian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1913)
2010 – MacKenzie Miller, American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1921)
2012 – Iajuddin Ahmed, Bangladeshi academic and politician, 13th President of Bangladesh (b. 1931)
2012 – Vladimir Bakulin, Kazakhstani wrestler (b. 1939)
2012 – Cliff Brown, American football player (b. 1952)
2012 – Antonio Cubillo, Spanish lawyer and politician (b. 1930)
2012 – Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano (b. 1919)
2012 – Johnny Lira, American boxer (b. 1951)
2012 – Ciarán Maher, Irish footballer (b. 1962)
2012 – Bob Munden, American target shooter (b. 1942)
2012 – Paul Rauch, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1934)
2012 – Tommy Roberts, English fashion designer (b. 1942)
2012 – John Small, American football player (b. 1946)
2013 – Mary Allitt, Australian cricketer (b. 1925)
2013 – Maurice Benoit, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (b. 1932)
2013 – The Child of Lov, Belgian-Dutch singer (b. 1987)
2013 – Alan Coleman, English-Australian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2013 – Jim Hall, American guitarist and composer (b. 1930)
2013 – Don Lund, American baseball player and coach (b. 1923)
2013 – Pete Naton, American baseball player (b. 1931)
2013 – Rossana Podestà, Libyan-Italian actress (b. 1934)
2013 – Srikanta Wadiyar, Indian politician (b. 1946)
Holidays and observances
Alfred Nobel Day or Nobeldagen (Sweden)
Christian feast day:
Eulalia of Mérida
Karl Barth (Episcopal Church (USA))
Thomas Merton (Episcopal Church (USA))
Translation of the Holy House of Loreto
December 10 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Thailand)
Human Rights Day (International)
International Animal Rights Day (International).
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