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December 24 is the 358th day of the year (359th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are seven days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 640 – Pope John IV is elected.
- 759 – Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu departs for Chengdu, where he is hosted by fellow poet Pei Di.
- 1144 – The capital of the crusader County of Edessa falls to Imad ad-Din Zengi, the atabeg of Mosul and Aleppo.
- 1294 – Pope Boniface VIII is elected Pope, replacing St. Celestine V, who had resigned.
- 1777 – Kiritimati, also called Christmas Island, is discovered by James Cook.
- 1814 – The Treaty of Ghent is signed ending the War of 1812.
- 1818 – The first performance of "Silent Night" takes place in the church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.
- 1826 – The Eggnog Riot at the United States Military Academy begins that night, wrapping up the following morning.
- 1851 – Library of Congress burns.
- 1865 – The Ku Klux Klan is formed.
- 1871 – Aida opens in Cairo, Egypt.
- 1906 – Radio: Reginald Fessenden transmits the first radio broadcast; consisting of a poetry reading, a violin solo, and a speech.
- 1911 – Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
- 1913 – The Italian Hall disaster ("1913 Massacre") in Calumet, Michigan, results in the death of 73 Christmas party goers held by striking mine workers, including 59 children.
- 1914 – World War I: The "Christmas truce" begins.
- 1924 – Albania becomes a republic.
- 1929 – Assassination attempt on Argentine President Hipólito Yrigoyen.
- 1939 – World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
- 1941 – World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
- 1942 – World War II: French monarchist, Fernand Bonnier de La Chapelle, assassinates Vichy French Admiral François Darlan in Algiers, Algeria.
- 1943 – World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Normandy Invasion.
- 1951 – Libya becomes independent from Italy. Idris I is proclaimed King of Libya.
- 1953 – Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.
- 1955 – NORAD Tracks Santa for the first time in what will become an annual Christmas Eve tradition.
- 1964 – Vietnam War: Viet Cong operatives bomb the Brinks Hotel in Saigon, South Vietnam to demonstrate they can strike an American installation in the heavily guarded capital.
- 1966 – A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
- 1968 – Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed 10 lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures that became the famous Christmas Eve Broadcast, one of the most watched programs in history.
- 1969 – Charles Manson is allowed to defend himself at the Tate-LaBianca murder trial.
- 1972 – Japan Airlines Flight 472, operated Douglas DC-8-53 landed at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India.
- 1973 – District of Columbia Home Rule Act is passed, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to elect their own local government.
- 1974 – Cyclone Tracy devastates Darwin, Australia.
- 1979 – The first European Ariane rocket is launched.
- 1980 – Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".
- 1994 – Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked on the ground at Houari Boumedienne Airport, Algiers, Algeria. Over the course of 3 days 3 passengers are killed, as are all 4 terrorists.
- 1997 – The Sid El-Antri massacre (or Sidi Lamri) in Algeria kills 50-100 people.
- 2000 – The Texas Seven hold up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is murdered during the robbery.
- 2003 – The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50 kg of explosives at 3:55 p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.
- 2005 – Chad–Sudan relations: Chad declares a state of war against Sudan following a December 18 attack on Adré, which left about 100 people dead.
- 2008 – Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel group, begins a series of attacks on Democratic Republic of the Congo, massacring more than 400.
Births
- 3 BC – Galba, Roman emperor (d. 69)
- 1166 – John, King of England (d. 1216)
- 1389 – John VI, Duke of Brittany (d. 1442)
- 1475 – Thomas Murner, German poet (d. 1537)
- 1508 – Pietro Carnesecchi, Italian humanist (d. 1567)
- 1588 – Constance of Austria, Queen consort of Poland (d. 1631)
- 1609 – Philip Warwick, English politician (d. 1683)
- 1625 – Johann Rudolph Ahle, German composer, organist, and theorist (d. 1673)
- 1635 – Mariana of Austria, Queen consort of Spain (d. 1696)
- 1679 – Domenico Sarro, Italian composer (d. 1744)
- 1698 – William Warburton, English bishop (d. 1779)
- 1724 – Johann Conrad Ammann, Swiss physician (d. 1811)
- 1726 – Johann Hartmann, Danish composer (d. 1793)
- 1745 – Benjamin Rush, American physician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1813)
- 1754 – George Crabbe, English poet, surgeon, and clergyman (d. 1832)
- 1761 – Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (d. 1831)
- 1761 – Selim III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1808)
- 1784 – Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna of Russia (d. 1803)
- 1798 – Adam Mickiewicz, Polish poet (d. 1855)
- 1809 – Kit Carson, American soldier (d. 1868)
- 1810 – Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (d. 1873)
- 1812 – Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (d. 1894)
- 1818 – James Prescott Joule, English physicist and brewer, (d. 1889)
- 1822 – Matthew Arnold, English poet and critic (d. 1888)
- 1827 – Alexander von Oettingen, Baltic German theologian and statistician (d. 1905)
- 1837 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria (d. 1898)
- 1837 – Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt (d. 1930)
- 1843 – Lydia Koidula, Estonian poet (d. 1886)
- 1845 – George I of Greece, King of the Hellenes (d. 1913)
- 1867 – Suzuki Kantarō, Japanese politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
- 1868 – Emanuel Lasker, German chess player (d. 1941)
- 1869 – Henriette Roland Holst, Dutch poet and socialist (d. 1952)
- 1872 – Adam Gunn, American decathlete (d. 1935)
- 1872 – Frederick Semple, American golfer and tennis player (d. 1927)
- 1875 – Émile Wegelin, French rower (d. 1962)
- 1877 – Sigrid Schauman, Finnish painter (d. 1979)
- 1879 – Otto Fickeisen, German rower (d. 1963)
- 1879 – Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Queen consort of Denmark (d. 1952)
- 1879 – Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet (d. 1941)
- 1880 – Johnny Gruelle, American author and illustrator (d. 1939)
- 1880 – Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya, Indian Political leader(d.1959)
- 1881 – Charles Wakefield Cadman, American composer (d. 1946)
- 1881 – Juan Ramón Jiménez, Spanish poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
- 1882 – Hans Rebane, Estonian politician, diplomat and journalist (d. 1961)
- 1886 – Michael Curtiz, Hungarian-American director (d. 1962)
- 1887 – Louis Jouvet, French actor and producer (d. 1951)
- 1891 – Feodor Rojankovsky, Russian émigré illustrator (d. 1970)
- 1893 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress (d. 1961)
- 1893 – Harry Warren, American composer and songwriter (d. 1981)
- 1894 – Georges Guynemer, French pilot (d. 1917)
- 1894 – Jack Thayer, American survivor of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic (d. 1945)
- 1895 – E. Roland Harriman, American financier (d. 1978)
- 1895 – Noel Streatfeild, English author (d. 1986)
- 1896 – Jens Oliver Lisberg, Faroese designer of the Flag of the Faroe Islands (d. 1920)
- 1897 – Koto Okubo, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2013)
- 1898 – Baby Dodds, American drummer (d. 1959)
- 1898 – Héctor Scarone, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1967)
- 1900 – Joey Smallwood, Canadian politician, 1st Premier of Newfoundland (d. 1991)
- 1903 – Ernst Krenkel, Soviet Arctic explorer and radio operator (d. 1971)
- 1903 – Ava Helen Pauling, American activist (d. 1981)
- 1904 – Joseph M. Juran, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2008)
- 1905 – Howard Hughes, American engineer and director (d. 1976)
- 1906 – Frank DiPaolo, American politician (d. 2013)
- 1906 – Franz Waxman, German composer (d. 1967)
- 1907 – I. F. Stone, American journalist and author (d. 1989)
- 1910 – Fritz Leiber, American author (d. 1992)
- 1910 – Max Miedinger, Swiss typeface designer, created Helvetica (d. 1980)
- 1914 – Ralph Marterie, Italian-American trumpet player and bandleader (d. 1978)
- 1914 – Herbert Reinecker, German writer (d. 2007)
- 1919 – Qateel Shifai, Pakistani poet (d. 2001)
- 1920 – Franco Lucentini, Italian author and screenwriter (d. 2002)
- 1920 – Yevgeniya Rudneva, Russian navigator (d. 1944)
- 1922 – Ava Gardner, American actress (d. 1990)
- 1923 – Michael DiBiase, American wrestler (d. 1969)
- 1923 – George Patton IV, American general (d. 2004)
- 1924 – Lee Dorsey, American singer (d. 1986)
- 1924 – Mohammed Rafi, Indian actor and singer (d. 1980)
- 1924 – Norman Rossington, English actor (d. 1999)
- 1925 – Roy Hollis, English footballer (d. 1998)
- 1926 – Paul Buissonneau, French-Canadian director
- 1927 – Mary Higgins Clark, American author
- 1928 – Lev Vlassenko, Russian pianist (d. 1996)
- 1929 – Philip Ziegler, English biographer and historian
- 1930 – Robert Joffrey, American dancer and choreographer (d. 1988)
- 1931 – Ray Bryant, American pianist and composer (d. 2011)
- 1931 – Mauricio Kagel, Argentine composer (d. 2008)
- 1934 – John Critchinson, English jazz pianist
- 1934 – Stjepan Mesić, Croatian politician, 2nd President of Croatia
- 1936 – Ivan Lawrence, English barrister
- 1937 – Félix Miélli Venerando, Brazilian footballer (d. 2012)
- 1937 – John Taylor, Northern Irish politician
- 1938 – Bobby Henrich, American baseball player
- 1938 – Valentim Loureiro, Portuguese army officer and politician
- 1940 – Janet Carroll, American actress and singer (d. 2012)
- 1941 – John Levene, English actor
- 1942 – Jonathan Borofsky, American sculptor
- 1942 – Doan Viet Hoat, Vietnamese journalist
- 1943 – Tarja Halonen, Finnish lawyer and politician, 11th President of Finland
- 1943 – Suzy Menkes, English fashion journalist
- 1944 – Barry Elliott, English comedian and actor. Chuckle Brothers
- 1944 – Mike Curb, American composer and politician, 42nd Lieutenant Governor of California
- 1944 – Oswald Gracias, Indian archbishop
- 1944 – Daniel Johnson, Jr., Canadian politician, 25th Premier of Quebec
- 1945 – Lemmy, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor (Motörhead, Hawkwind, The Head Cat, and The Rockin' Vickers)
- 1945 – Nicholas Meyer, American author
- 1945 – Steve Smith, Canadian comedian and actor
- 1946 – Jan Akkerman, Dutch guitarist (Focus and Brainbox)
- 1946 – Brenda Howard, American activist (d. 2005)
- 1946 – Jeff Sessions, American politician
- 1947 – Kevin Sheedy, Australian footballer and coach
- 1948 – Frank Oliver, New Zealand rugby player
- 1949 – Warwick Brown, Australian race car driver
- 1949 – Randy Neugebauer, American politician
- 1950 – Dana Gioia, American poet
- 1951 – John D'Acquisto, American baseball player
- 1951 – Nick Kent, British rock critic
- 1952 – Christopher Buckley, American author
- 1953 – Timothy Carhart, American actor
- 1953 – François Loos, French politician
- 1954 – Yves Debay, Belgian journalist (d. 2013)
- 1954 – Helen Jones, English politician
- 1954 – José María Figueres, Costa Rican politician, President of Costa Rica
- 1955 – Grand L. Bush, American actor
- 1955 – Scott Fischer, American mountaineer (d. 1996)
- 1955 – Clarence Gilyard, American actor
- 1957 – Hamid Karzai, Afghan politician, 12th President of Afghanistan
- 1957 – Diane Tell, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1958 – Lyse Doucet, Canadian TV journalist
- 1958 – Munetaka Higuchi, Japanese drummer and producer (Loudness, Sly, and Lazy) (d. 2008)
- 1958 – Paul Pressey, American basketball player
- 1958 – Gene Sperling, American economist and lawyer
- 1959 – Chris Blackhurst, English journalist
- 1959 – Keith Deller, English darts player
- 1959 – Anil Kapoor, Indian actor
- 1960 – Glenn McQueen, Canadian-American animator (d. 2002)
- 1960 – Carol Vorderman, English television host
- 1961 – Ilham Aliyev, Azerbaijani politician, 4th President of Azerbaijan
- 1961 – Jay Wright, American basketball player and coach
- 1962 – Kate Spade, American fashion designer
- 1962 – Darren Wharton, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Thin Lizzy and Dare)
- 1963 – Caroline Aherne, English comedian and actress
- 1963 – Jay Bilas, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1963 – Timo Jutila, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1963 – Mary Ramsey, American singer-songwriter and violinist (10,000 Maniacs and John & Mary)
- 1963 – Neil Turbin, American thrash metal vocalist
- 1964 – Mark Valley, American actor
- 1965 – Millard Powers, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (Counting Crows, The Semantics, and Majosha)
- 1966 – Diedrich Bader, American actor
- 1967 – Mikhail Shchennikov, Russian race walker
- 1967 – Pernilla Wahlgren, Swedish singer and actress
- 1968 – Doyle Bramhall II, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Arc Angels)
- 1968 – Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress (d. 2008)
- 1968 – Marleen Renders, Belgian runner
- 1969 – Ed Miliband, British politician
- 1969 – Mark Millar, Scottish author
- 1969 – Sean Michael, South African actor and singer
- 1969 – Michael Zucchet, American politician
- 1969 – Brad Anderson, American wrestler
- 1970 – Adam Haslett, American author
- 1970 – Larissa Netšeporuk, Ukrainian-Estonian heptathlete
- 1970 – Amaury Nolasco, Puerto Rican-American actor
- 1970 – Will Oldham, American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1971 – Oro, Mexican wrestler (d. 1993)
- 1971 – Giorgos Alkaios, Greek singer
- 1971 – Christopher Daniels, American wrestler
- 1971 – Sascha Fischer, German rugby player
- 1971 – Ricky Martin, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter and actor
- 1972 – Álvaro Mesén, Costa Rican footballer
- 1972 – Klaus Schnellenkamp, German-Chilean author
- 1973 – Stephenie Meyer, American author and film producer
- 1973 – Eddie Pope, American soccer player
- 1973 – Ali Salem Tamek, Moroccan activist
- 1974 – Thure Lindhardt, Danish actor
- 1974 – Marcelo Salas, Chilean footballer
- 1974 – Ryan Seacrest, American radio and television host
- 1976 – Yuri, South Korean singer (Girl Friends)
- 1978 – Yıldıray Baştürk, Turkish footballer
- 1978 – Warren Tredrea, Australian footballer
- 1979 – Chris Hero, American wrestler
- 1980 – Stephen Appiah, Ghanaian footballer
- 1980 – Maarja-Liis Ilus, Estonian singer
- 1980 – Tomas Kalnoky, Czech-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Streetlight Manifesto, Catch 22, and Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution)
- 1980 – Jaanus Uudmäe, Estonian triple and long jumper
- 1981 – Dima Bilan, Russian singer-songwriter and actor
- 1981 – Shane Tuck, Australian footballer
- 1982 – Masaki Aiba, Japanese singer and actor (Arashi)
- 1982 – Robert Coppola Schwartzman, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (Rooney)
- 1985 – Alexey Dmitriev, German ice hockey player
- 1985 – David Ragan, American race car driver
- 1986 – Tim Elliott, American mixed martial artist
- 1986 – Kyrylo Fesenko, Ukrainian basketball player
- 1986 – Riyo Mori, Japanese model, Miss Universe 2007
- 1986 – Satomi Ishihara, Japanese actress
- 1987 – Jane Summersett, American ice dancer
- 1988 – Stefanos Athanasiadis, Greek footballer
- 1988 – Simon Zenke, Nigerian footballer
- 1991 – Lara Michel, Swiss tennis player
- 1991 – Wasim Tareen, Pakistani footballer
- 1991 – Louis Tomlinson, English singer (One Direction)
- 1992 – Melissa Suffield, English actress
- 1995 – Anett Kontaveit, Estonian tennis player
- 2000 – Ethan Bortnick, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor
Deaths
- 427 – Archbishop Sisinnius I of Constantinople
- 1257 – John I, Count of Hainaut (b. 1218)
- 1453 – John Dunstaple, English composer (b. 1390)
- 1524 – Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (b. 1469)
- 1635 – Hester Jonas, German midwife (b. 1570)
- 1660 – Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1631)
- 1707 – Noël Coypel, French painter (b. 1628)
- 1813 – Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740)
- 1863 – William Makepeace Thackeray, English author (b. 1811)
- 1865 – Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter (b. 1793)
- 1868 – Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (b. 1802)
- 1872 – William John Macquorn Rankine, Scottish physician and engineer (b. 1820)
- 1873 – Johns Hopkins, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1795)
- 1889 – Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate, Dutch poet and clergyman (b. 1819)
- 1898 – Charbel Makhluf, Lebanese monk and priest (b. 1828)
- 1914 – John Muir, Scottish-American author (b. 1838)
- 1920 – Stephen Mosher Wood, American politician (b. 1832)
- 1926 – Wesley Coe, American shot putter (b. 1879)
- 1935 – Alban Berg, Austrian composer (b. 1885)
- 1938 – Bruno Taut, German architect (b. 1880)
- 1941 – Siegfried Alkan, German composer (b. 1858)
- 1942 – François Darlan, French navy officer and politician, 122nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1881)
- 1947 – Charles Gondouin, French rugby player (b. 1875)
- 1957 – Norma Talmadge, American actress (b. 1893)
- 1961 – Robert Hillyer, American poet (b. 1895)
- 1962 – Eveline Adelheid von Maydell, German silhouette artist (b. 1890)
- 1965 – William M. Branham, Christian minister (b. 1906)
- 1965 – John Black, English chairman of Standard-Triumph (b. 1895)
- 1967 – Burt Baskin, American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (b. 1913)
- 1969 – Alfred B. Skar, Norwegian politician (b. 1896)
- 1969 – Seabury Quinn, American author (b. 1889)
- 1971 – Maria Koepcke, German-Peruvian ornithologist (b. 1924)
- 1972 – Gisela Richter, English historian (b. 1882)
- 1972 – Melville Ruick, American actor (b. 1898)
- 1973 – Fritz Gause, German historian (b. 1893)
- 1975 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer (b. 1911)
- 1976 – Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza (b. 1907)
- 1977 – Samael Aun Weor, Colombian author (b. 1917)
- 1980 – Karl Dönitz, German admiral (b. 1891)
- 1980 – Siggie Nordstrom, American actress and singer (Nordstrom Sisters) (b. 1893)
- 1982 – Louis Aragon, French author and poet (b. 1897)
- 1984 – Peter Lawford, British actor (b. 1923)
- 1985 – Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith, American lawyer (b. 1904)
- 1985 – Camille Tourville, Canadian-American wrestler and manager (b. 1927)
- 1986 – Gardner Fox, American author (b. 1911)
- 1987 – Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1919)
- 1987 – Betty Noyes, American singer and actress (b. 1912)
- 1987 – M. G. Ramachandran, Indian actor, producer, and politician (b. 1917)
- 1988 – Jainendra Kumar, Indian Hindi Writer(b.1905)
- 1990 – Thorbjørn Egner, Norwegian author (b. 1922)
- 1991 – Virginia Sorensen, American author (b. 1912)
- 1992 – Peyo, Belgian cartoonist (b. 1928)
- 1992 – Bobby LaKind, American singer-songwriter and conga player (b. 1945)
- 1993 – Norman Vincent Peale, American minister and author (b. 1898)
- 1994 – John Boswell, American historian (b. 1947)
- 1994 – Rossano Brazzi, Italian actor (b. 1916)
- 1997 – James Komack, American television producer (b. 1930)
- 1997 – Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (b. 1920)
- 1997 – Pierre Péladeau, Canadian businessman, founded Quebecor (b. 1925)
- 1998 – Syl Apps, Canadian ice hockey player and pole vaulter (b. 1915)
- 1999 – Bill Bowerman, American sports coach and businessman, co-founded Nike, Inc. (b. 1911)
- 1999 – Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1907)
- 1999 – João Figueiredo, Brazilian military leader and politician, 30th President of Brazil (b. 1918)
- 2000 – John Cooper, English businessman, co-founded the Cooper Car Company (b. 1923)
- 2000 – Nick Massi, American singer and bass player (The Four Seasons) (b. 1935)
- 2002 – Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (b. 1920)
- 2002 – Jake Thackray, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1938)
- 2004 – Johnny Oates, American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1946)
- 2005 – Michael Vale, American actor (b. 1922)
- 2006 – Braguinha, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1907)
- 2006 – Kenneth Sivertsen, Norwegian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1961)
- 2006 – Frank Stanton, American businessman (b. 1908)
- 2007 – Nicholas Pumfrey, English judge (b. 1951)
- 2007 – Akbar Radi, Iranian playwright (b. 1939)
- 2007 – George Warrington, American railroad executive (d. 1952)
- 2008 – Harold Pinter, English scriptwriter, director, and actor, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)
- 2009 – Marcus Bakker, Dutch politician (b. 1923)
- 2009 – Rafael Caldera, Venezuelan lawyer and politician, 65th President of Venezuela (b. 1916)
- 2009 – George Michael, American sportscaster (b. 1939)
- 2009 – Gero von Wilpert, German literary scientist and author (b. 1933)
- 2010 – Elisabeth Beresford, French-English author (b. 1926)
- 2010 – Frans de Munck, Dutch footballer (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Orestes Quércia, Brazilian politician, 28th Governor of São Paulo State (b. 1938)
- 2010 – Eino Tamberg, Estonian composer (b. 1930)
- 2011 – Johannes Heesters, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1903)
- 2012 – Richard Rodney Bennett, English composer (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Ray Collins, American singer (The Mothers of Invention) (b. 1936)
- 2012 – Brad Corbett, American businessman (b. 1937)
- 2012 – Charles Durning, American actor (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Jack Klugman, American actor (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Xavier Mabille, Belgian historian (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Dennis O'Driscoll, Irish poet (b. 1954)
- 2012 – Capital Steez, American rapper (b. 1993)
Holidays and observances
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