December 19

December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 12 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 211 – Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome, is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet his brother Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he arrives, the Praetorian Guard murders him and he dies in the arms of his mother, Julia Domna.
• 324 – Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor.
• 1154 – Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey.
• 1490 – Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy.
• 1562 – The Battle of Dreux takes place during the French Wars of Religion.
• 1606 – The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States.
• 1776 – Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal entitled "The American Crisis".
• 1777 – American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
• 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia.
• 1828 – Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828.
• 1900 – Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
• 1907 – 239 coal miners die in a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
• 1912 – William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison.
• 1916 – World War I: Battle of Verdun – On the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position.
• 1920 – King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander of Greece and a plebiscite.
• 1924 – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England, United Kingdom.
• 1927 – Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil, Roshan Singh and Ashfaqulla Khan were executed by the British Empire.
• 1932 – BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.
• 1941 – World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-chief of the German Army.
• 1941 – World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers sink the HMS Valiant and HMS Queen Elizabeth in Alexandria harbour.
• 1946 – Start of the First Indochina War.
• 1956 – Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
• 1961 – India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
• 1964 – The South Vietnamese military junta of Nguyen Khanh dissolve the High National Council and arrest some of the members.
• 1967 – Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.
• 1972 – Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth.
• 1974 – Nelson Rockefeller is sworn in as Vice President of the United States under President Gerald Ford under the provisions of the twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
• 1975 – John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1979 – Geoffrey Boycott became the first Cricketer to be stranded at 99 not out against Australia at Perth.
• 1981 – Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.
• 1983 – The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 1984 – The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher.
• 1986 – Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky.
• 1995 – The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indian tribe.
• 1997 – SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104.
• 1998 – President Bill Clinton is impeached by the United States House of Representatives, becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached.
• 2000 – The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, Turkey, killing one person and injuring three.
• 2001 – A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.
• 2001 – Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots – Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 2010 – Sachin Tendulkar scores a record-breaking 50th Century in Test Cricket against South Africa at the SuperSport Park in Centurion, Gauteng.
• 2010 – Rahul Dravid crosses the 12000 runs milestone in Test Cricket against South Africa at the SuperSport Park in Centurion, Gauteng.
• 2012 – Park Geun-hye becomes the first female president of South Korea.

Births

• 1554 – Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618)
• 1587 – Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1645)
• 1683 – Philip V of Spain (d. 1746)
• 1699 – William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777)
• 1714 – John Winthrop, American astronomer and educator (d. 1779)
• 1778 – Marie Thérèse of France (d. 1851)
• 1784 – Marcus Morton, American politician, 16th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1864)
• 1796 – Manuel Bretón de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (d. 1873)
• 1817 – James J. Archer, American lawyer and general (d. 1864)
• 1820 – Mary Livermore, American journalist and activist (d. 1905)
• 1825 – George Frederick Bristow, American composer (d. 1898)
• 1831 – Bernice Pauahi Bishop, American philanthropist (d. 1884)
• 1849 – Henry Clay Frick, American businessman (d. 1919)
• 1850 – Friedrich Lüthi, Swiss target shooter (d. 1913)
• 1852 – Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931)
• 1853 – Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec (d. 1942)
• 1861 – Italo Svevo, Italian author (d. 1928)
• 1863 – Wallace Bryant, American archer (d. 1953)
• 1865 – Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (d. 1932)
• 1873 – Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer (d. 1913)
• 1875 – Carter G. Woodson, American historian and author, founded Black History Month (d. 1950)
• 1876 – Bernard Friedberg, Austrian Hebraist (d. 1961)
• 1881 – John Fraser, Canadian soccer player (d. 1959)
• 1888 – Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-American conductor (d. 1963)
• 1891 – Juhan Kallaste, Estonian clergyman, actor and centenarian (d. 1999)
• 1894 – Ford Frick, American journalist and businessman (d. 1978)
• 1895 – Ingeborg Refling Hagen, Norwegian author and educator (d. 1989)
• 1899 – Martin Luther King, Sr., American pastor, missionary, and activist (d. 1984)
• 1901 – Rudolf Hell, German inventor, invented the Hellschreiber (d. 2002)
• 1901 – Oliver La Farge, American writer and anthropologist (d. 1963)
• 1901 – Fritz Mauruschat, German footballer (d. 1974)
• 1902 – Ralph Richardson, English actor (d. 1983)
• 1903 – George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
• 1905 – Irving Kahn, American businessman
• 1905 – Count "Johnnie" Lurani, Italian automobile engineer, racing car driver and journalist (d. 1995)
• 1906 – Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet politician (d. 1982)
• 1907 – Jimmy McLarnin, Irish boxer (d. 2004)
• 1909 – W. A. Criswell, American pastor and author (d. 2002)
• 1910 – Jean Genet, French author, poet, and playwright (d. 1986)
• 1914 – Mel Shaw, American animator and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1915 – Édith Piaf, French singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1963)
• 1916 – Roy Ward Baker, English director (d. 2010)
• 1916 – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist (d. 2010)
• 1918 – Professor Longhair, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1980)
• 1920 – Little Jimmy Dickens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1920 – David Susskind, American talk show host and producer (d. 1987)
• 1922 – Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and television host (d. 1987)
• 1923 – Robert V. Bruce, American historian and author (d. 2008)
• 1923 – Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (d. 1990)
• 1924 – Carlo Chiti, Italian engineer (d. 1994)
• 1924 – Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1989)
• 1924 – Gary Morton, American comedian, actor, and producer (d. 1999)
• 1924 – Edmund Purdom, English actor (d. 2009)
• 1925 – Tankred Dorst, German playwright
• 1925 – William Schutz, American psychologist (d. 2002)
• 1925 – Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1926 – Bobby Layne, American football player (d. 1986)
• 1926 – Herb Stempel, American game show contestant
• 1927 – James Booth, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)
• 1928 – Eve Bunting, Irish author
• 1928 – Nathan Oliveira, American painter and sculptor (d. 2010)
• 1929 – Bob Brookmeyer, American trombonist, pianist, and composer (d. 2011)
• 1929 – David Douglas, Scottish aristocrat and ceramic designer
• 1929 – Gregory Carroll, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Orioles and The Four Buddies) (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Howard Sackler, American screenwriter (d. 1982)
• 1930 – Wally Olins, British commercial branding consultant.
• 1932 – Salvador Elizondo, Mexican author (d. 2006)
• 1933 – Kevan Gosper, Australian runner
• 1933 – Christopher Smout, Scottish academic and historian
• 1933 – Cicely Tyson, American actress
• 1934 – Rudi Carrell, Dutch actor and singer (d. 2006)
• 1934 – Al Kaline, American baseball player
• 1934 – Casper R. Taylor, Jr., American politician
• 1934 – Pratibha Patil, Indian politician, 12th President of India
• 1935 – Barbara Bostock, American actress
• 1935 – Bobby Timmons, American pianist and composer (d. 1974)
• 1935 – Joanne Weaver, American baseball player (d. 2000)
• 1936 – Marian McKnight, American model, Miss America 1957
• 1940 – Phil Ochs, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)
• 1941 – Lee Myung-bak, South Korean politician, 10th President of South Korea
• 1941 – Maurice White, American singer-songwriter and producer (Earth, Wind & Fire)
• 1942 – Rufus, French actor
• 1942 – Cornell Dupree, American guitarist
• 1942 – Dennis E. Fitch, American pilot (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Ross M. Lence, American political scientist and academic (d. 2006)
• 1943 – James L. Jones, American general, 22nd United States National Security Advisor
• 1943 – Sam Kelly, English actor
• 1944 – William Christie, American-French harpsichordist and conductor (Les Arts Florissants)
• 1944 – Mitchell Feigenbaum, American physicist
• 1944 – Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist and politician
• 1944 – Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Ten Years After) (d. 2013)
• 1944 – Tim Reid, American actor and director
• 1944 – Zal Yanovsky, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful) (d. 2002)
• 1945 – Elaine Joyce, American actress
• 1945 – John McEuen, American guitarist (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
• 1946 – Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman, author, and broadcaster
• 1946 – Robert Urich, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1947 – Jimmy Bain, Scottish bass player (Rainbow and Wild Horses)
• 1947 – Charlie Van Dyke, American actor and radio host
• 1948 – Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1949 – Sebastian, Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1949 – Nancy Kyes, American actress
• 1950 – Eleanor J. Hill, American lawyer and diplomat
• 1951 – Mohammad Reza Aref, Iranian politician, 2nd Vice President of Iran
• 1951 – Alan Rouse, English mountaineer (d. 1986)
• 1952 – Walter Murphy, American pianist and composer
• 1954 – Jeff Allam, English race car driver
• 1954 – Tim Parks, English novelist
• 1955 – Lincoln Hall, Australian mountaineer and author (d. 2012)
• 1955 – Rob Portman, American politician
• 1956 – Tom Lawless, American baseball player
• 1956 – Shane McEntee, Irish politician (d. 2012)
• 1957 – Cyril Collard, French actor, director, and composer (d. 1993)
• 1957 – John Gulager, American actor, cinematographer, and director
• 1957 – Kevin McHale, American basketball player
• 1958 – Limahl, English singer and keyboard player (Kajagoogoo and Brooks)
• 1958 – Steven Isserlis, English cellist
• 1959 – Ivan Vallejo, Ecuadorian mountaineer
• 1960 – Derrick Jensen, American author and activist
• 1960 – Mike Lookinland, American actor
• 1960 – Michelangelo Signorile, American journalist
• 1961 – Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1961 – Matthew Waterhouse, English actor
• 1961 – Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004)
• 1962 – Gary Fleder, American director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1962 – Jill Talley, American actress
• 1963 – Jennifer Beals, American actress
• 1963 – Til Schweiger, German actor
• 1964 – Béatrice Dalle, French actress
• 1964 – Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1965 – Chito Martínez, Belizean baseball player
• 1965 – Jessica Steen, Canadian actress
• 1966 – Chuckii Booker, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1966 – Rajesh Chauhan, Indian cricketer
• 1966 – Robert MacNaughton, American actor
• 1966 – Alberto Tomba, Italian skier
• 1966 – Eric Weinrich, American ice hockey player
• 1967 – Criss Angel, American magician
• 1967 – Frankie Lam, Hong Kong actor
• 1968 – Ken Marino, American actor and comedian
• 1969 – Tom Gugliotta, American basketball player
• 1969 – Richard Hammond, English journalist and television host
• 1969 – Nayan Mongia, Indian cricketer
• 1969 – Kristy Swanson, American actress
• 1970 – Tyson Beckford, American model and actor
• 1971 – Liz Cho, American journalist
• 1971 – Amy Locane, American actress
• 1971 – Karen Pickering, English swimmer
• 1972 – Rosa Blasi, American actress
• 1972 – Alyssa Milano, American actress and singer
• 1972 – Warren Sapp, American football player
• 1973 – Michalis Grigoriou, Greek footballer and coach
• 1973 – Takashi Sorimachi, Japanese actor
• 1973 – Zulfiya Zabirova, Russian cyclist
• 1974 – Mikko Paananen, Finnish bass player (HIM)
• 1974 – Eduard Ivakdalam, Indonesian soccer players
• 1974 – Joe Jurevicius, American football player
• 1974 – Felipe Lopez, Dominican basketball player
• 1974 – Jake Plummer, American football player
• 1974 – Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer
• 1975 – Makis Belevonis, Greek footballer
• 1975 – Russell Branyan, American baseball player
• 1975 – Brandon Sanderson, American author
• 1975 – Jon Smith, English journalist and author
• 1975 – Olivier Tébily, Ivorian footballer
• 1975 – Michiel van den Bos, Dutch composer
• 1977 – Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player
• 1978 – Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor
• 1979 – Kevin Devine, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bad Books)
• 1979 – Paola Rey, Colombian actress
• 1979 – Rafael Soriano, Dominican Republic baseball player
• 1980 – Iman Ali, Pakistani model and actress
• 1980 – Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor
• 1980 – Chris Haslam, Canadian skateboarder
• 1980 – Marla Sokoloff, American actress
• 1982 – Tero Pitkämäki, Finnish javelin thrower
• 1982 – Mo Williams, American basketball player
• 1983 – Nektarios Alexandrou, Cypriot footballer
• 1983 – Casey Crescenzo, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Dear Hunter and The Receiving End of Sirens)
• 1983 – Bridget Phillipson, English politician
• 1983 – Laura Pomeroy, Canadian swimmer
• 1983 – Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Ian Kennedy, American baseball player
• 1985 – Gary Cahill, English footballer
• 1985 – Neil Kilkenny, English-Australian footballer
• 1985 – Dan Logan, English bass player (The Kooks, Cat the Dog, and The Ordinary Boys)
• 1985 – Lady Sovereign, English rapper
• 1986 – Ryan Babel, Dutch footballer
• 1986 – Lazaros Christodoulopoulos, Greek footballer
• 1986 – Miguel Lopes, Portuguese footballer
• 1987 – Cédric Baseya, French-Congolese footballer
• 1987 – Karim Benzema, French footballer
• 1988 – Paulina Gretzky, American singer and model
• 1988 – Alexis Sánchez, Chilean footballer
• 1988 – Peter Winn, English footballer
• 1989 – Valdimar Bergstað, Icelandic horse rider
• 1989 – Hamza Riazuddin, English cricketer
• 1990 – Greg Bretz, American snowboarder
• 1991 – Jorge Blanco, Mexican actor and singer
• 1991 – Declan Galbraith, English singer
• 1991 – Sumire Uesaka, Japanese voice actress and singer
• 1992 – Iker Muniain, Spanish footballer
• 1992 – Raphael Spiegel, Swiss footballer
• 1994 – M'Baye Niang, French footballer

Deaths

• 211 – Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (b. 189)
• 1111 – Al-Ghazali, Islamic philosopher (b. 1058)
• 1123 – Saint Berardo, Patron Saint of Teramo
• 1327 – Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1260)
• 1370 – Pope Urban V (b. 1310)
• 1737 – James Louis Sobieski, Polish son of John III Sobieski (b. 1667)
• 1741 – Vitus Bering, Danish-Russian navy officer and explorer (b. 1681)
• 1745 – Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684)
• 1749 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)
• 1751 – Louise of Great Britain (b. 1724)
• 1807 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author (b. 1723)
• 1813 – James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (b. 1744)
• 1814 – Joseph Bramah, English inventor and locksmith, invented the Hydraulic press (b. 1748)
• 1819 – Thomas Fremantle, English navy officer and politician (b. 1765)
• 1848 – Emily Brontë, English author (b. 1818)
• 1878 – Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825)
• 1899 – Henry Ware Lawton, American Civil War general (b. 1843)
• 1915 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (b. 1864)
• 1916 – Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859)
• 1927 – Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1900)
• 1927 – Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1897)
• 1927 – Roshan Singh, Indian freedom fighter (b. 1892)
• 1932 – Yoon Bong-Gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908)
• 1933 – George Jackson Churchward, English engineer (b. 1857)
• 1938 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American politician (b. 1873)
• 1939 – Hans Langsdorff, German navy officer (b. 1894)
• 1944 – Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874)
• 1944 – Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (b. 1856)
• 1946 – Paul Langevin, French physicist (b. 1872)
• 1953 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868)
• 1962 – Warren Brittingham, American soccer player (b. 1886)
• 1968 – Norman Thomas, American minister (b. 1884)
• 1970 – Mihkel Müller, Estonian wrestler (b. 1887)
• 1982 – Dwight Macdonald, American philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1906)
• 1984 – Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (b. 1903)
• 1986 – V. C. Andrews, American author (b. 1923)
• 1986 – Werner Dankwort, German diplomat (b. 1895)
• 1987 – August Mälk, Estonian writer and politician (b. 1900)
• 1988 – Robert Bernstein, American author and playwright (b. 1919)
• 1989 – Stella Gibbons, English author (b. 1902)
• 1991 – Joe Cole, American roadie and author (b. 1961)
• 1993 – Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Firefall) (b. 1946)
• 1996 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (b. 1924)
• 1997 – Masaru Ibuka, Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Jimmy Rogers, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1924)
• 1998 – Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (b. 1922)
• 1998 – Antonio Ordóñez, Spanish bullfighter (b. 1932)
• 1999 – Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (b. 1914)
• 2000 – Rob Buck, American guitarist and songwriter (10,000 Maniacs) (b. 1958)
• 2000 – Milt Hinton, American bassist (b. 1910)
• 2000 – David Dewayne Johnson, American murderer (b. 1963)
• 2000 – John Lindsay, American lawyer and politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Pops Staples, American singer and guitarist (The Staple Singers) (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Arkie Whiteley, Australian actress (b. 1964)
• 2002 – Will Hoy, English race car driver (b. 1952)
• 2002 – Arthur Rowley, English footballer (b. 1926)
• 2002 – George Weller, American author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1907)
• 2003 – Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer, founded Carter-Ruck (b. 1914)
• 2003 – Hope Lange, American actress (b. 1933)
• 2003 – Les Tremayne, English-American actor (b. 1913)
• 2004 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
• 2004 – Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Keith Duckworth, English engineer (b. 1933)
• 2005 – Vincent Gigante, American mobster (b. 1927)
• 2008 – James Bevel, American minister and activist (b. 1936)
• 2008 – Carol Chomsky, American linguist and educator (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Michael Connell, American political consultant (b. 1963)
• 2008 – Kenny Cox, American pianist (b. 1940)
• 2008 – Dock Ellis, American baseball player (b. 1945)
• 2009 – Giridharilal Kedia, Indian businessman (b. 1936)
• 2009 – Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Iranian theologian, scholar, and activist (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Kim Peek, American megasavant (b. 1951)
• 2010 – Anthony Howard, English journalist (b. 1934)
• 2010 – Trudy Pitts, American pianist and singer (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Inez Andrews, American singer (The Caravans) (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Lawrie Barratt, English businessman, founded Barratt Developments (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Robert Bork, American judge and scholar (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Paul Crauchet, French actor (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Colin Davis, English race car driver (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Pecker Dunne, Irish singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Georges Jobé, Belgian motocross rider (b. 1961)
• 2012 – Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military officer and politician (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Larry Morris, American football player (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Keiji Nakazawa, Japanese writer and illustrator (b. 1939)
• 2012 – George O'Donnell, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Peter Struck, German politician (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Al Goldstein, American publisher and pornographer (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Ned Vizzini, American author (b. 1981)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • O Radix
  • Pope Anastasius I
  • Lillian Trasher (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • December 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Liberation day (Goa)
• Opalia (Roman Empire)

External links

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