7 December Deaths

Published : 07 Dec 2017, 11:13

Jagoroniya Desk

December 7 is the 341st day of the year (342nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

Deaths

43 BC – Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician (b. 106 BC)
283 – Eutychian, pope of the Catholic Church
881 – Anspert, archbishop of Milan
983 – Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 955)
1254 – Innocent IV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1195)
1279 – Bolesław V, High Duke of Poland (b. 1226)
1295 – Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, English officer (b. 1243)
1383 – Wenceslaus I, duke of Luxembourg (b. 1337)
1498 – Alexander Hegius von Heek, German poet (b. 1433)
1562 – Adrian Willaert, Dutch-Italian composer and educator (b. 1490)
1649 – Charles Garnier, French missionary and saint (b. 1606)
1672 – Richard Bellingham, English-American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1592)
1683 – Algernon Sidney, English philosopher and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1623)
1723 – Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect, designed the Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk and Karlova Koruna Chateau (b. 1677)
1725 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French actor and playwright (b. 1661)
1772 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish monk, scholar, and author (b. 1695)
1775 – Charles Saunders, English admiral and politician (b. 1715)
1793 – Joseph Bara, French soldier and drummer (b. 1779)
1803 – Küçük Hüseyin Pasha, Turkish admiral and politician (b. 1757)
1815 – Michel Ney, German-French general (b. 1769)
1817 – William Bligh, English admiral and politician, 4th Governor of New South Wales (b. 1745)
1842 – Thomas Hamilton, Scottish philosopher and author (b. 1789)
1874 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German theologian, scholar, and academic (b. 1815)
1879 – Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic scholar and politician, 1st Speaker of the Parliament of Iceland (b. 1811)
1894 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, French businessman and diplomat, co-developed the Suez Canal (b. 1805)
1899 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
1902 – Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (b. 1840)
1906 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
1913 – Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (b. 1828)
1917 – Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1826)
1941 – Attack on Pearl Harbor:
Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain (b. 1887)
Frederick Curtice Davis, American sailor (b. 1915)
Julius Ellsberry, American sailor (b. 1921)
John C. England, American sailor (b. 1920)
Edwin J. Hill, American sailor (b. 1894)
Ralph Hollis, American sailor (b. 1906)
Herbert C. Jones, American sailor (b. 1918)
Isaac C. Kidd, American admiral (b. 1884)
Robert Lawrence Leopold, American sailor (b. 1916)
Herbert Hugo Menges, American sailor (b. 1917)
Thomas James Reeves, American sailor (b. 1895)
Aloysius Schmitt, American priest and sailor (b. 1909)
Robert R. Scott, American sailor (b. 1915)
Peter Tomich, American sailor (b. 1893)
Robert Uhlmann, American sailor (b. 1919)
Franklin Van Valkenburgh, American captain (b. 1888)
Eldon P. Wyman, American sailor (b. 1917)
1947 – Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866)
1947 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1949 – Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (b. 1877)
1956 – Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1887)
1956 – Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1889)
1960 – Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1882)
1962 – Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer (b. 1895)
1969 – Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player and manager (b. 1897)
1969 – Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1903)
1970 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, sculptor, and author (b. 1883)
1975 – Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (b. 1897)
1975 – Hardie Albright, American actor (b. 1903)
1976 – Paul Bragg, American nutritionist (b. 1895)
1977 – Paul Gibb, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1913)
1977 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906)
1977 – Georges Grignard, French race car driver (b. 1905)
1978 – Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (b. 1886)
1979 – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900)
1984 – LeeRoy Yarbrough, American race car driver (b. 1938)
1985 – J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)
1985 – Robert Graves, English poet, novelist, critic (b. 1895)
1985 – Potter Stewart, American soldier and jurist (b. 1915)
1989 – Haystacks Calhoun, American wrestler and actor (b. 1934)
1990 – Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
1990 – Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904)
1992 – Richard J. Hughes, American politician, 45th Governor of New Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (b. 1909)
1993 – Abidin Dino, Turkish-French painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
1993 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
1995 – Kathleen Harrison, English actress (b. 1892)
1997 – Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1942)
1998 – John Addison, English-American composer and conductor (b. 1920)
1998 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
2003 – Carl F. H. Henry American journalist and theologian (b. 1913)
2003 – Azie Taylor Morton, American educator and politician, 36th Treasurer of the United States (b. 1933)
2004 – Frederick Fennell, American conductor and educator (b. 1914)
2004 – Jerry Scoggins, American singer and guitarist (b. 1913)
2004 – Jay Van Andel, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Amway (b. 1924)
2005 – Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
2006 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American academic and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1926)
2008 – Herbert Hutner, American banker and lawyer (b. 1908)
2010 – Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer and author (b. 1949)
2011 – Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915)
2012 – Roelof Kruisinga, Dutch physician and politician, Dutch Minister of Defence (b. 1922)
2012 – Ralph Parr, American colonel and pilot (b. 1924)
2012 – Marty Reisman, American table tennis player and author (b. 1930)
2012 – Saul Steinberg, American businessman and financier (b. 1939)
2013 – Édouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
2013 – Chick Willis, American singer and guitarist (b. 1934)
2014 – Mark Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1954)
2015 – Jesse C. Deen, American soldier and politician (b. 1922)
2015 – Gerhard Lenski, American sociologist and academic (b. 1924)
2015 – Hyron Spinrad, American astronomer and academic (b. 1934)
2015 – Peter Westbury, English race car driver (b. 1938)
2016 – Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani musician (b. 1964)

Source: wikipedia

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