December 1

• 800 – A council is convened in the Vatican, at which Charlemagne is to judge the accusations against Pope Leo III.{{cite book |last=Riché |first=Pierre |title=The Carolingians: a family who forged Europe |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |location=Philadelphia |year=1993 |isbn=9780812213423 |page=121}}
• 1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris alongside his father-in-law King Charles VI of France.{{cite book |author=Jesse D. Hurlbut |title=Ceremonial Entries in Burgundy: Philip the Good and Charles the Bold (1419-1477) |publisher=Indiana University |year=1990 |page=315}}
• 1577 – Courtiers Christopher Hatton and Thomas Heneage are knighted by Queen Elizabeth I of England.{{cite book |last=Foss |first=Edward |title=Biographia juridica : a biographical dictionary of the judges of England from the conquest to the present time, 1066-1870 |publisher=Lawbook Exchange |location=Union, N.J |year=1999 |isbn=9781886363861 |page=331}}{{cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12921 |title=Heneage, Sir Thomas (b. in or before 1532, d. 1595) |last=Hicks |first=Michael |date=January 2008 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/12921 |access-date=23 January 2011}}

• 1640 – End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 59 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.
• 1662 – Diarist John Evelyn records skating on the frozen lake in St James's Park, London, watched by Charles II and Queen Catherine.{{cite magazine |last=Humphreys |first=Julian |title=Milestones |editor-last=Attar |editor-first=Rob |magazine=BBC History magazine |date=December 2012 |publisher=BBC |location=Northampton |pages=10–11}}
• 1768 – The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya in Norway.
• 1821 – José Núñez de Cáceres wins the independence of the Dominican Republic from Spain and names the new territory the Republic of Spanish Haiti.{{cite book |first1=Silvio |last1=Torres-Saillant |first2=Ramona |last2=Hernández |title=The Dominican Americans |location=Westport |publisher=Greenwood Press |year=1998 |page=11 |isbn=978-0-31329-839-4}}
• 1822 – Pedro I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
• 1824 – United States presidential election: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.{{cite web |title=1824 Electoral College Results |url=https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/1824 |publisher=National Archives and Records Administration |website=archives.gov |date=5 November 2019 |access-date=November 30, 2024}}
• 1828 – Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
• 1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
• 1862 – American Civil War: In his second State of the Union Address, President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.{{cite web |title=Second Annual Message |url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/second-annual-message-9 |author=Lincoln, Abraham |publisher=The American Presidency Project |website=presidency.ucsb.edu |access-date=November 30, 2024}}
• 1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
• 1878 – President Rutherford B. Hayes gets the first telephone installed in the White House.[https://books.google.com/books?id=wwUvsDqrWj4C&dq=First+Telephone+Installed+in+the+White+House+by+President+Rutherford+B.+Hayes+december+1+1878&pg=PA214 First Whitehouse telephone is installed][http://books.rediff.com/book/ISBN 1430305010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206091755/http://books.rediff.com/book/ISBN 1430305010 |date=2021-12-06 }}
• 1900 – Nicaragua sells canal rights to U.S. for $5 million. The canal agreement fails in March 1901. Great Britain rejects amended treaty{{cite book |first=Jacques |last=Legrand |title=Chronicle of the 20th Century |publisher=Ecam Publication |year=1987 |page=22 |isbn=0-942191-01-3}}

• 1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.[http://blogs.lanacion.com.ar/historia-argentina/historia/el-primer-subte/ El primer subte] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419212655/http://blogs.lanacion.com.ar/historia-argentina/historia/el-primer-subte/ |date=2015-04-19 }} – La Nación, 22 December 2010.
• 1913 – Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
• 1918 – Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28) and thus concluding the Great Union.
• 1918 – Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
• 1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
• 1919 – Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament (MP) to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
• 1924 – The National Hockey League's first United States–based franchise, the Boston Bruins, plays their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.{{cite web |url=https://www.nhl.com/news/nhl-hockey-came-to-the-u-s-on-dec-1-1924/c-395417 |title=NHL hockey came to the U.S. on Dec. 1, 1924 |author= |date=December 1, 2008 |website=nhl.com |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=December 4, 2016 |quote=The National Hockey League celebrates another historic anniversary...remembering the first NHL game played in the United States, as the Boston Bruins hosted the Montreal Maroons, both expansion teams, at the Boston Arena on Dec. 1, 1924.}}
• 1924 – A Soviet-backed communist 1924 Estonian coup d'état attempt fails in Estonia.{{Cite web |last=ERR |first=ERR News |date=2024-12-01 |title=History: The 1924 December coup attempt in Estonia |url=https://news.err.ee/1609534957/history-the-1924-december-coup-attempt-in-estonia |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=ERR |language=en}}
• 1934 – Sergei Kirov is assassinated, paving way for the repressive Great Purge, and Vinnytsia massacre by General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin.[https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/knight-kirov.html Who Killed Kirov? The Kremlin's Greatest Mystery]
• 1939 – World War II: A day after the beginning of the Winter War in Finland, the Cajander III Cabinet resigns and is replaced by the Ryti I Cabinet, while the Finnish Parliament move from Helsinki to Kauhajoki to escape the Soviet airstrikes.{{Cite web |date=December 2, 2006 |title=Eduskunnan viettää muistojuhlaa Kauhajoella 2.–3.12.2006 |trans-title=The Parliament will celebrate a commemorative party at Kauhajoki on December 2–3, 2006 |url=http://web.eduskunta.fi/Resource.phx/pubman/templates/1.htx?id=559 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130429163320/http://web.eduskunta.fi/Resource.phx/pubman/templates/1.htx?id=559 |archive-date=April 29, 2013 |access-date=November 30, 2021 |publisher=Eduskunta |language=fi}}
• 1939 – The Soviet Union establishes the Finnish Democratic Republic puppet state in Terijoki.{{cite book |title=Terijoen hallitus |last=Jussila |first=Osmo |year=1985 |location=Porvoo, Helsinki |publisher=WSOY |isbn=951-0-12686-1 |language=fi}}
• 1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives his tacit approval to the decision of the imperial council to initiate war against the United States.{{cite journal |journal=Chinese Historians: The Journal of the Chinese Historians in the United States, Inc. |title=none |publisher=Chinese Historians in the United States, Incorporated |year=1992 |volume=5–6 |page=49}}
• 1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
• 1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
• 1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
• 1958 – The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.{{cite book |last=Kalck |first=Pierre |title=Historical dictionary of the Central African Republic |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham, Md |year=2005 |isbn=9780810849136 |page=198}}
• 1958 – The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
• 1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
• 1960 – Patrice Lumumba is arrested by Mobutu Sese Seko's men on the banks of the Sankuru River, for inciting the army to rebellion.[https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2011/jan/17/patrice-lumumba-50th-anniversary-assassination][https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/congolese-activistpatrice-lumumba-briefly-arrested][https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt21pxknd Patrice Lumumba is Captured in the Congo]
• 1963 – Nagaland, became the 16th state of India.[https://nagaland.gov.in/pages/nagaland-profile Nagaland]
• 1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
• 1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
• 1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
• 1971 – Purge of Croatian Spring leaders starts in Yugoslavia at the meeting of the League of Communists at the Karađorđevo estate.{{cite book |last=Ramet |first=Sabrina P. |author-link=Sabrina P. Ramet |title=The Three Yugoslavias: State-building and Legitimation, 1918–2005 |year=2006 |publisher=Indiana University Press |location=Bloomington |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FTw3lEqi2-oC |isbn=978-0-253-34656-8 |page=257}}
• 1973 – Papua New Guinea gains self-government from Australia.
• 1974 – TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
• 1974 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
• 1981 – Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
• 1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
• 1988 – World AIDS Day is proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.{{cite web |title=Day Without Art at Thirty |url=https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2019/12/02/a-day-without-art-at-thirty/ |website=Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum |access-date=1 December 2020 |date=2 December 2019}}
• 1988 – Benazir Bhutto, is named as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first female leader to lead a Muslim nation.{{cite web |title=Bhutto Named Prime Minister of Pakistan : First Woman to Head a Muslim Nation to Take Oath Today in Transition to Democratic Rule |date=1988-12-02 |website=Los Angeles Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201231614/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-12-02-mn-942-story.html |archive-date=2022-12-01 |url-status=live |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-12-02-mn-942-story.html}}
• 1989 – Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
• 1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
• 1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet beneath the seabed.{{cite web |title=1990: Tunnel links UK and Europe |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/1/newsid_2516000/2516473.stm |website=BBC News |access-date=1 December 2020 |date=1 December 1990}}
• 1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
• 1997 – In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacks the CPI (ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
• 1997 – Fourteen-year-old Michael Carneal opens fire at a group of students in Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky, killing three and injuring five.{{Cite news |url=http://www.wkyt.com/content/news/Remembering-a-deadly-Kentucky-high-school-shooting-20-years-later-461092173.html |title=Remembering a deadly Kentucky high school shooting 20 years later |last=Philpott |first=Amber |access-date=2018-06-04 |language=en}}
• 2000 – Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/01/opinion/a-historic-transition-in-mexico.html |title=A Historic Transition in Mexico |work=The New York Times |date=December 1, 2000 |access-date=May 27, 2015 |location=New York |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150527125603/http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/01/opinion/a-historic-transition-in-mexico.html |archive-date=2015-05-27}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-12-03-0012030496-story.html |title=MEXICO HAS PEACEFUL TRANSFER OF POWER |location=Illinois |work=The Chicago Tribune |access-date=July 2, 2019 |date=December 3, 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190702135305/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2000-12-03-0012030496-story.html |archive-date=2019-07-02}}
• 2001 – The United Russia political party was founded.{{Cite web |url=http://transport.kaketoustroeno.ru/a_transport%26gosudarstvennaya-duma%266.htm |language=ru |title=Государственная дума :: Фракции |trans-title=State Duma :: Factions |access-date=2020-01-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307074011/http://transport.kaketoustroeno.ru/a_transport%26gosudarstvennaya-duma%266.htm |archive-date=2016-03-07}}
• 2005 – As a result of the merger of the Perm Oblast and the Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug, a new subject of the Russian Federation, the Perm Krai, was created.{{cite web |url=https://rg.ru/2004/03/26/perm-dok.html |title=Федеральный закон об образовании Пермского края |trans-title=Federal Law on Formation of the Perm Territory |publisher=Rossiyskaya Gazeta |language=ru |access-date=2020-01-28 |archive-date=2020-09-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928165157/https://rg.ru/2004/03/26/perm-dok.html}}
• 2006 – The law on same-sex marriage comes into force in South Africa, legalizing same-sex marriage for the first time on the African continent.{{cite web |url=https://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/gay-marriage-around-the-world/ |title=Same-Sex Marriage Around the World |date=17 May 2019 |publisher=Pew Research Center |access-date=23 May 2019 |archive-date=30 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630034000/http://www.pewforum.org/2015/06/26/gay-marriage-around-the-world-2013/ |url-status=live}}
• 2009 – The Treaty of Lisbon entered into force in the European Union.[http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:2008:115:TOC eur-lex.europa.eu: " Official Journal of the European Union], {{ISSN|1725-2423}} C 115 Volume 51, 9 May 2008, retrieved 1 June 2014
• 2011 – The Alma-Ata Metro was opened.{{cite news |url=http://www.zakon.kz/site_main_news/4460872-v-almaty-otkrylsja-metropoliten.html |script-title=ru:В Алматы открылся Метрополитен |website=zakon.kz |language=ru |trans-title=Opening of the Almaty Metro |date=1 December 2011 |access-date=2013-11-01}}{{cite journal |url=http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/urban/single-view/view/phase-2-funded-as-almaty-metro-opens.html |title=Almaty metro opens and Phase 2 funded |journal=Railway Gazette International |date=2 December 2011 |access-date=2015-04-20 |archive-date=2016-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409042455/http://www.railwaygazette.com/news/urban/single-view/view/phase-2-funded-as-almaty-metro-opens.html |url-status=dead}}
• 2018 – The Oulu Police informed the public about the first offence of the much larger child sexual exploitation in Oulu, Finland.{{cite news |last1=Petri Turunen |title=Uutta tietoa lapseen kohdistuneista seksuaalirikoksista Oulussa: 7 miestä tunsivat toisensa |trans-title=New Information on Sexual Crimes against a Child in Oulu: 7 men knew each other |url=https://www.is.fi/oulun-seutu/art-2000005918251.html |accessdate=31 January 2019 |work=Ilta-Sanomat |date=1 December 2018 |quote=On Saturday afternoon, the police released a bulletin, the contents of which shocked many Finns. |language=fi}}.
• 2019 – Arsenal Women 11–1 Bristol City Women breaks the record for most goals scored in a FA Women's Super League match, with Vivianne Miedema involved in ten of the eleven Arsenal goals.{{cite news |last1=Wrack |first1=Suzanne |title=Vivianne Miedema: Arsenal's six-goal headline stealer who hates limelight |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/dec/04/vivianne-miedema-arsenal-six-goals-netherlands-forward |access-date=1 December 2020 |work=The Guardian |date=4 December 2019}}
• 2019 – The outbreak of coronavirus infection began in Wuhan.{{Cite journal |last=Cohen |first=Jon |date=January 2020 |title=Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/wuhan-seafood-market-may-not-be-source-novel-virus-spreading-globally |journal=Science |doi=10.1126/science.abb0611 |s2cid=214574620|url-access=subscription }}
• 2020 – The Arecibo Telescope collapsed.{{cite news |date=1 December 2020 |title=Giant Arecibo radio telescope collapses in Puerto Rico |work=The Guardian |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/01/arecibo-radio-telescope-collapses-puerto-rico |access-date=1 December 2020 |issn=0261-3077}}{{cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Chen |last2=Horby |first2=Peter W. |last3=Hayden |first3=Frederick G. |last4=Gao |first4=George F. |date=February 2020 |title=A novel coronavirus outbreak of global health concern |journal=Lancet |volume=395 |issue=10223 |pages=470–473 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30185-9 |pmc=7135038 |pmid=31986257 |doi-access=free}}

• 624 – Hasan ibn Ali, the second Shia Imam (died 670){{cite book |last=Shabbar |first=S.M.R. |year=1997 |title=Story of the Holy Ka'aba |url=http://www.al-islam.org/story-of-the-holy-kaaba-and-its-people-shabbar/second-imam-al-hasan |publisher=Muhammadi Trust of Great Britain |access-date=30 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030105818/http://www.al-islam.org/story-of-the-holy-kaaba-and-its-people-shabbar/second-imam-al-hasan |archive-date=30 October 2013 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}[http://www.al-islam.org/masoom/bios/2ndimam.html Shaykh Mufid. Kitab Al Irshad. p.279-289] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081227032908/http://www.al-islam.org/masoom/bios/2ndimam.html |date=27 December 2008 }}.
• 1081 – Louis VI, French king (died 1137)
• 1083 – Anna Komnene, Byzantine physician and scholar (died 1153){{cite book |first=Lynda |last=Garland |author-link=Lynda Garland |title=Byzantine Women: Varieties of Experience 800-1200 |location=London |publisher=Routledge |year=2016 |page=125 |isbn=978-1-13825-951-5}}
• 1415 – Jan Długosz, Polish historian (died 1480){{cite book |first=Norman |last=Davies |title=God's Playground: A History of Poland in Two Volumes |volume=1 |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon |year=1982 |page=5 |isbn=978-0-19821-943-9}}
• 1438 – Peter II, Duke of Bourbon, son of Charles I (died 1503)
• 1443 – Magdalena of France, French princess (died 1495)
• 1521 – Takeda Shingen, Japanese daimyō (died 1573)
• 1525 – Tadeáš Hájek, Czech physician and astronomer (died 1600)
• 1530 – Bernardino Realino, Italian Jesuit (died 1616)
• 1561 – Sophie Hedwig of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Duchess consort of Pomerania-Wolgast (died 1631)
• 1580 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer and historian (died 1637)

• 1690 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (died 1764)
• 1709 – Franz Xaver Richter, Czech composer, violinist, and conductor (died 1789)
• 1716 – Étienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (died 1791)
• 1743 – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist and academic (died 1817)
• 1761 – Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (died 1850){{cite book |first=George F. |last=Nafziger |title=Historical Dictionary of the Napoleonic Era |location=New York |publisher=Scarecrow |year=2002 |page=281 |isbn=978-0-81084-092-8}}
• 1792 – Nikolai Lobachevsky, Russian mathematician and geometer (died 1856)
• 1800 – Mihály Vörösmarty, Hungarian poet (died 1855)
• 1805 – 9th Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader (died 1815)
• 1844 – Alexandra of Denmark (died 1925){{cite web |title=Queen Alexandra, wife of Edward VII |url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/queen-alexandra-wife-of-edward-vii |website=Westminster Abbey |access-date=7 October 2022 |language=en}}
• 1846 – Ledi Sayadaw, Burmese monk and philosopher (died 1923)
• 1847 – Julia A. Moore, American poet (died 1920)
• 1855 – John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (died 1943)
• 1869 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish painter and critic (died 1923)
• 1871 – Archie MacLaren, English cricketer (died 1944)
• 1883 – Henry Cadbury, American historian, scholar, and academic (died 1974)
• 1884 – Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, German painter and etcher (died 1976)
• 1886 – Rex Stout, American detective novelist (died 1975)
• 1886 – Zhu De, Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice Chairman of the People's Republic of China (died 1976)
• 1894 – Afrânio Pompílio Gastos do Amaral, Brazilian herpetologist (died 1982)
• 1895 – Henry Williamson, English farmer, soldier, and author (died 1977)
• 1896 – Georgy Zhukov, Russian general and politician, 2nd Minister of Defence for the Soviet Union (died 1974)
• 1898 – Stuart Garson, Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Premier of Manitoba (died 1977)
• 1898 – Cyril Ritchard, Australian-American actor and singer (died 1977)
• 1900 – Karna Maria Birmingham, Australian artist, illustrator and print maker (died 1987)

• 1901 – Ilona Fehér, Hungarian-Israeli violinist and educator (died 1988){{Cite web |last=CHANNEL |first=THE VIOLIN |date=2020-12-01 |title=ON THIS DAY | Violin Pedagogue Ilona Fehér Was Born On This Day in 1901 |url=https://mobile.theviolinchannel.com/violin-pedagogue-ilona-feher-born-on-this-day-1901/ |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=World's Leading Classical Music Platform |language=en-US}}
• 1903 – Nikolai Voznesensky, Soviet economic planner, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (died 1950)
• 1905 – Alex Wilson, Canadian sprinter and coach (died 1994)
• 1910 – Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer (died 2004){{Cite news |date=3 December 2004 |title=Dame Alicia Markova Ballerina of steely muscle and evangelical, unsnobbish zeal |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dame-alicia-markova-674993.html |access-date=3 December 2024 |work=Independent}}
• 1911 – Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (died 1984){{cite web |title=Walter Alston |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/walter-alston-110193 |publisher=Major League Baseball |access-date=30 November 2023}}
• 1911 – Calvin Griffith, Canadian-American businessman (died 1999)
• 1912 – Billy Raimondi, American baseball player (died 2010){{cite web |last1=McGreehan |first1=Mike |first2=William |last2=Love |url=https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2010/11/04/oakland-oaks-legend-billy-raimondi-dies-at-97/ |title=Oakland Oaks legend Billy Raimondi dies at 97 |work=East Bay Times |date=November 4, 2010 |accessdate=December 30, 2021}}
• 1912 – Minoru Yamasaki, American architect, designed the World Trade Center (died 1986)
• 1913 – Mary Martin, American actress and singer (died 1990){{cite web |title=Famous birthdays for Dec. 1: Riz Ahmed, Sarah Silverman |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2022/12/01/Famous-birthdays-for-Dec-1-Riz-Ahmed-Sarah-Silverman/1701669769863/ |publisher=UPI |access-date=30 November 2023 |date=1 December 2022}}
• 1916 – Wan Li, Chinese educator and politician, 4th Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (died 2015)
• 1917 – Thomas Hayward, American tenor and actor (died 1995)
• 1917 – Marty Marion, American baseball player and manager (died 2011){{cite web |last1=Goldstein |first1=Richard |title=Marty Marion, Cardinals' Slick-Fielding Shortstop, Dies at 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/sports/baseball/17marion.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=30 November 2023 |date=16 March 2011}}
• 1920 – Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami, Japanese priest, 1st Bishop of Naha (died 2014)
• 1921 – Vernon McGarity, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (died 2013)
• 1922 – Vsevolod Bobrov, Russian ice hockey player, footballer, and manager (died 1979)
• 1923 – Dick Shawn, American actor (died 1987)
• 1923 – Stansfield Turner, American admiral and academic, 12th Director of Central Intelligence (died 2018)
• 1924 – Masao Horiba, Japanese businessman, founded Horiba (died 2015)
• 1925 – Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)
• 1926 – Mother Antonia, American-Mexican nun and activist (died 2013){{Cite web |date=2013-10-23 |title=Mother Antonia Brenner |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10399707/Mother-Antonia-Brenner.html |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}
• 1926 – Allyn Ann McLerie, Canadian-American actress, singer, and dancer (died 2018){{Cite web |title=Allyn Ann McLerie |url=https://masterworksbroadway.com/artist/allyn-ann-mclerie/ |access-date=2024-11-30 |website=The Official Masterworks Broadway Site |language=en-US}}
• 1926 – Keith Michell, Australian actor (died 2015)
• 1926 – Robert Symonds, American actor (died 2007)
• 1926 – Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, Scottish businessman (died 2010)
• 1927 – Micheline Bernardini, French dancer and model
• 1928 – Emily McLaughlin, American actress (died 1991)
• 1928 – Malachi Throne, American actor (died 2013)
• 1929 – David Doyle, American actor (died 1997)
• 1930 – Marie Bashir, Australian psychiatrist, academic, and politician, 37th Governor of New South Wales
• 1930 – Joachim Hoffmann, German historian and author (died 2002)
• 1931 – Jimmy Lyons, American saxophonist (died 1986)
• 1931 – Jim Nesbitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2007)
• 1931 – George Maxwell Richards, Trinidadian politician, 4th President of Trinidad and Tobago (died 2018)
• 1933 – Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (died 2006)
• 1933 – Violette Verdy, French ballerina (died 2016)
• 1934 – Billy Paul, American soul singer (died 2016)
• 1935 – Sola Sierra, Chilean human rights activist (died 1999){{cite web |title=Sola Sierra |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/jul/07/guardianobituaries |website=The Guardian |date=7 July 1999 |access-date=26 January 2020 |last1=Caistor |first1=Nick }}
• 1936 – Igor Rodionov, Russian general and politician, 3rd Russian Minister of Defence (died 2014)
• 1937 – Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American soprano and actress (died 2005)
• 1937 – Gordon Crosse, English composer and academic (died 2021)
• 1937 – Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Latvian psychologist and politician, President of Latvia{{cite web |title=Vaira Vike-Freiberga |url=https://www.britannica.com/explore/100women/profiles/vaira-vike-freiberga |website=Britannica Presents 100 Women Trailblazers |access-date=28 July 2021 |language=en |date=25 February 2020}}
• 1938 – Sandy Nelson, American rock and roll drummer (died 2022)
• 1939 – Lee Trevino, American golfer and sportscaster
• 1940 – Mike Denness, Scottish cricketer and referee (died 2013){{cite web |title=Obituary: Mike Denness OBE, cricketer |url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-mike-denness-obe-cricketer-1578561 |website=scotsman.com |date=20 April 2013 |access-date=27 October 2021 |language=en}}
• 1940 – Jerry Lawson, American electronic engineer and inventor (died 2011)
• 1940 – Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (died 2005)
• 1940 – Tasso Wild, German footballer
• 1942 – Mohamed Kamel Amr, Egyptian politician, Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs
• 1942 – John Crowley, American author and academic
• 1942 – Ross Edwards, Australian cricketer
• 1943 – Kenny Moore, American runner and journalist (died 2022)
• 1944 – Eric Bloom, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1944 – John Densmore, American drummer and songwriter
• 1944 – Michael Hagee, American general
• 1944 – Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan author and poet
• 1945 – Ásta B. Þorsteinsdóttir, Icelandic politician{{cite web |title=Þingmenn: Alþingismannatal - Æviágrip þingmanna frá 1845 - Ásta B. Þorsteinsdóttir |url=https://www.althingi.is/altext/cv/is/?nfaerslunr=666 |publisher=Althing |access-date=11 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015044941/https://www.althingi.is/altext/cv/is/?nfaerslunr=666 |archive-date=15 October 2023 |location=Reykjavík, Iceland |language=is}}
• 1945 – Lyle Bien, American vice admiral in the United States Navy{{cite web |title=Legacy Lyle Bien |url=https://sdexcellence.org/Lyle_Bien_1997 |website=South Dakota Hall of Fame |access-date=June 17, 2024}}
• 1945 – Bette Midler, American singer-songwriter, actress and producer{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Mike |title=Today's famous birthdays list for December 1, 2022 includes celebrities Zoe Kravitz, Janelle Monae |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2022/12/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-december-1-2022-includes-celebrities-zoe-kravitz-janelle-monae.html |website=The Plain Dealer |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=30 November 2023 |date=1 December 2022}}
• 1946 – Jonathan Katz, American comedian and actor
• 1946 – Kemal Kurspahić, Bosnian journalist and author (died 2021)
• 1946 – Gilbert O'Sullivan, Irish singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1947 – Alain Bashung, French singer-songwriter and actor (died 2009)
• 1947 – Bob Fulton, English-Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster (died 2021)
• 1948 – George Foster, American baseball player and radio host
• 1948 – Sarfraz Nawaz, Pakistani cricketer and politician
• 1948 – John Roskelley, American mountaineer and author
• 1948 – Neil Warnock, English footballer and manager
• 1948 – N. T. Wright, English bishop and scholar
• 1948 – Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, Nigerian civil servant and politician, Governor of Kaduna State (died 2012)
• 1949 – Jan Brett, American author and illustrator
• 1949 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist (died 1993)
• 1949 – Sebastián Piñera, Chilean businessman and politician, 35th President of Chile (died 2024)
• 1950 – Manju Bansal, Indian biologist and academic
• 1950 – Ross Hannaford, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2016)
• 1950 – Richard Keith, American actor and drummer
• 1950 – Gary Panter, American illustrator and painter
• 1950 – Filippos Petsalnikos, Greek lawyer and politician, Greek Minister of Justice (died 2020)
• 1951 – Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov, Bulgarian cosmonaut{{cite book |last1=Burgess |first1=Colin |title=Interkosmos: The Eastern Bloc's Early Space Program |date=2016 |publisher=Springer Praxis Books |location=Cham |isbn=9783319241630 |page=239}}
• 1951 – Obba Babatundé, American actor, director, and producer
• 1951 – Doug Mulray, Australian radio and television host (died 2023)
• 1951 – Jaco Pastorius, American bass player, songwriter, and producer (died 1987)
• 1951 – Nozipho Schroeder, South African lawn bowler{{cite web |title=Lawn Bowls | Athlete Profile: Nozipho SCHROEDER - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games |url=https://results.gc2018.com/en/lawn-bowls/athlete-profile-n6013657-nozipho-schroeder.htm |website=results.gc2018.com |access-date=13 December 2020 |archive-date=17 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417025303/https://results.gc2018.com/en/lawn-bowls/athlete-profile-n6013657-nozipho-schroeder.htm |url-status=dead }}
• 1951 – Treat Williams, American actor (died 2023)
• 1952 – Stephen Poliakoff, English director, producer, and playwright
• 1954 – Alan Dedicoat, English journalist
• 1954 – Judith Hackitt, English chemist and engineer
• 1954 – François Van der Elst, Belgian footballer (died 2017)
• 1955 – Veikko Aaltonen, Finnish actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1955 – Verónica Forqué, Spanish actress (died 2021)
• 1955 – Udit Narayan, Indian playback singer
• 1955 – Pat Spillane, Irish footballer and sportscaster
• 1955 – Karen Tumulty, American journalist
• 1956 – Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (died 2022){{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/10/arts/music/julee-cruise-dead.html |title=Julee Cruise, Vocalist of 'Twin Peaks' Fame, Dies at 65 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 10, 2022 |accessdate=June 10, 2022 |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |url-access=limited}}
• 1957 – Chris Poland, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1957 – Deep Roy, Kenyan-British actor
• 1957 – Vesta Williams, American singer-songwriter and actress (died 2011)
• 1958 – Javier Aguirre, Mexican footballer and manager
• 1958 – Candace Bushnell, American journalist and author
• 1958 – Alberto Cova, Italian runner
• 1958 – Gary Peters, American politician
• 1958 – Charlene Tilton, American actress and singer
• 1959 – Billy Childish, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and painter
• 1959 – Wally Lewis, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
• 1960 – Carol Alt, American model and actress
• 1960 – Shirin M. Rai, Indian-English political scientist and academic
• 1960 – Jane Turner, Australian actress and producer
• 1961 – Safra Catz, Israeli-American businesswoman and boss of Oracle{{Cite web |last=Webster |first=Sophie |date=2021-07-05 |title=Getting to Know Safra A. Catz: Oracle CEO, Newest Board Member of The Walt Disney, and Things We Did Not Know |url=https://www.techtimes.com/articles/262414/20210705/getting-know-safra-catz-oracle-ceo-newest-board-member-walt.htm |access-date=2024-12-01 |website=Tech Times |language=en-US}}
• 1961 – Raymond E. Goldstein, American biophysicist and academic
• 1961 – Jeremy Northam, English actor
• 1962 – Sylvie Daigle, Canadian speed skater
• 1962 – Pamela McGee, American basketball player and coach
• 1963 – Marco Greco, Brazilian race car driver
• 1963 – Nathalie Lambert, Canadian speed skater
• 1963 – Arjuna Ranatunga, Sri Lankan cricketer and politician
• 1964 – Salvatore Schillaci, Italian footballer (died 2024){{Cite web |title=Italy World Cup hero Salvatore 'Toto' Schillaci dies, aged 59 |url=https://news.sky.com/story/italy-world-cup-hero-salvatore-toto-schillaci-dies-aged-59-13217240 |access-date=2024-09-18 |website=Sky News |language=en}}
• 1964 – Jo Walton, Welsh-Canadian author and poet
• 1965 – Henry Honiball, South African rugby player
• 1965 – Magnifico, Slovenian singer
• 1966 – Andrew Adamson, New Zealand director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1966 – Katherine LaNasa, American actress, ballet dancer, and choreographer
• 1966 – Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player and coach
• 1967 – Nestor Carbonell, American actor
• 1967 – Reggie Sanders, American baseball player
• 1968 – Justin Chadwick, English actor and director
• 1968 – Sarah Fitzgerald, Australian squash player
• 1968 – Anders Holmertz, Swedish swimmer
• 1969 – Richard Carrier, American author and blogger
• 1970 – Golden Brooks, American actress
• 1970 – Jonathan Coulton, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1970 – Kirk Rueter, American baseball player
• 1970 – Sarah Silverman, American comedian, actress, and singer
• 1970 – Tisha Waller, American high jumper and educator
• 1971 – Christian Pescatori, Italian race car driver
• 1971 – Mika Pohjola, Finnish-American pianist and composer
• 1971 – John Schlimm, American author and educator
• 1972 – Stanton Barrett, American race car driver and stuntman
• 1972 – Bart Millard, American singer-songwriter
• 1973 – Steve Gibb, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 – Costinha, Portuguese footballer and manager
• 1975 – Matt Fraction, American author
• 1975 – Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, American keyboard player and producer (died 2014)
• 1975 – Thomas Schie, Norwegian racing driver and sportscaster
• 1975 – Farah Shah, Pakistani actress and host
• 1975 – Sophia Skou, Danish swimmer
• 1976 – Tomasz Adamek, Polish boxer
• 1976 – Laura Ling, American journalist and author
• 1976 – Dean O'Gorman, New Zealand actor, artist, and photographer
• 1976 – Matthew Shepard, American hate crime victim (died 1998)
• 1976 – Evangelos Sklavos, Greek basketball player
• 1977 – Brad Delson, American guitarist and producer
• 1977 – Sophie Guillemin, French actress
• 1977 – Lee McKenzie, Scottish journalist
• 1977 – Nate Torrence, American actor and comedian
• 1978 – Mat Kearney, American musician{{Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/mat-kearney-mn0000862343/biography |title=Mat Kearney Biography, Songs, & Albums |website=AllMusic}}
• 1979 – Stephanie Brown Trafton, American discus thrower
• 1979 – Ryan Malone, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Richard James, Jamaican sprinter{{cite web |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/jamaica/richard-james-14202067 |title=Richard JAMES |website=worldathletics.org}}
• 1980 – Iftikhar Anjum, Pakistani cricketer
• 1980 – Mohammad Kaif, Indian cricketer and politician
• 1980 – Mubarak Hassan Shami, Kenyan-Qatari runner
• 1980 – Gianna Terzi, Greek singer
• 1981 – Park Hyo-shin, South Korean singer-songwriter and actor
• 1981 – Luke McPharlin, Australian footballer
• 1981 – I Made Wirawan, Indonesian footballer
• 1982 – Riz Ahmed, English actor and rapper
• 1982 – Christos Kalantzis, Greek footballer
• 1982 – Christos Melissis, Greek footballer
• 1984 – Charles Michael Davis, American actor
• 1984 – Yolandi Visser, South African rapper and actress
• 1985 – Philip DeFranco, American media host and YouTube personality{{cite web | url=https://www.instagram.com/phillydefranco/p/DDCfz-HpfeV/?img_index=1 | title=Instagram }}
• 1985 – Ilfenesh Hadera, American actress
• 1985 – Janelle Monáe, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1985 – Emiliano Viviano, Italian footballer
• 1986 – DeSean Jackson, American football player
• 1987 – Simon Dawkins, English footballer
• 1987 – Tabarie Henry, Virgin Islander sprinter
• 1987 – Vance Joy, Australian singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Brett Williams, English footballer
• 1988 – Tyler Joseph, American musician and singer
• 1988 – Zoë Kravitz, American actress, singer, and model
• 1988 – Dan Mavraides, Greek-American basketball player
• 1988 – Michael Raffl, Austrian ice hockey player{{cite web |title=Michael Raffl |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/michael-raffl-8477290 |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=30 November 2023}}
• 1989 – Sotelúm, Mexican trumpet player, composer, and producer
• 1990 – Tomáš Tatar, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1991 – Rakeem Christmas, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Rakeem Christmas |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/1626176/career |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=30 November 2023}}
• 1991 – Hilda Melander, Swedish tennis player{{Cite web |title=Billie Jean King Cup Player Profile: Hilda Melander |url=https://www.billiejeankingcup.com/en/players/player.aspx?id=800265384 |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=billiejeankingcup.com |archive-date=2022-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021133159/https://www.billiejeankingcup.com/en/players/player.aspx?id=800265384 |url-status=dead }}
• 1991 – Sun Yang, Chinese swimmer
• 1992 – Masahudu Alhassan, Ghanaian footballer
• 1992 – Javier Báez, Puerto Rican baseball player{{cite web |title=Javier Baez | MiLB |url=http://m.milb.com/milb/player/595879 |website=m.milb.com |access-date=1 December 2020}}
• 1992 – Linos Chrysikopoulos, Greek basketball player
• 1992 – Gary Payton II, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Gary Payton II |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1627780/gary-payton-ii |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=30 November 2023}}
• 1992 – Marco van Ginkel, Dutch footballer
• 1993 – Reena Pärnat, Estonian archer
• 1993 – Beau Webster, Australian cricketer[https://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/381329.html CricInfo]
• 1994 – Seedy Njie, English footballer
• 1995 – Agnė Čepelytė, Lithuanian tennis player{{Cite web |title=Billie Jean King Cup Player Profile: Agnė Čepelytė |url=https://www.billiejeankingcup.com/en/players/player.aspx?id=800329166 |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=billiejeankingcup.com |archive-date=2022-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021133023/https://www.billiejeankingcup.com/en/players/player.aspx?id=800329166 |url-status=dead }}
• 1995 – Jenna Fife, Scottish footballer{{cite web |title=Jenna Fife | Scotland | Scottish FA |url=https://www.scottishfa.co.uk/players/?pid=152472&lid=2 |website=scottishfa.co.uk |access-date=28 April 2020}}
• 1995 – James Wilson, English footballer
• 1997 – Sada Williams, Barbadian sprinter{{cite web |title=Sada WILLIAMS | Profile |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/barbados/sada-williams-14592846 |website=worldathletics.org |access-date=18 October 2020}}
• 1997 – Jung Chae-yeon, South Korean actress and singer{{cite web|title=정채연, 25번째 생일에 케이크 선물 엄청 받았네.."많은 사랑 받은 하루"|url=https://m.news.nate.com/view/20211202n03213|work=헤럴드POP|date=2 December 2021|access-date=16 March 2025|language=ko}}
• 1999 – Nico Schlotterbeck, German footballer{{Cite web |title=Nico Schlotterbeck | SC Freiburg | Player Profile | Bundesliga |url=https://www.bundesliga.com/en/bundesliga/player/nico-schlotterbeck |access-date=2022-05-31 |website=bundesliga.com - the official Bundesliga website |language=en}}
• 2001 – Carole Monnet, French tennis player{{Cite web |title=Wimbledon Player Profile: Carole Monnet |url=https://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/players/overview/wta325991.html |access-date=2022-10-21 |website=wimbledon.com}}

• 217 – Yehudah HaNasi, 'Nasi', Rabbi and editor of the Mishnah (born 135)
• 660 – Eligius, Frankish bishop and saint (born 588)
• 948 – Gao Conghui, Chinese governor and prince (born 891)
• 969 – Fujiwara no Morotada, Japanese statesman (born 920)
• 1018 – Thietmar of Merseburg, German bishop (born 975)
• 1135 – Henry I, king of England (born 1068)
• 1241 – Isabella of England, Holy Roman Empress (born 1214)
• 1255 – Muhammad III of Alamut, Nizari Ismaili Imam{{cite book |last1=Daftary |first1=Farhad |title=The Isma'ilis: Their History and Doctrines |date=1992 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-42974-0 |page=422 |language=en}}
• 1335 – Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (born 1305)
• 1374 – Magnus Eriksson, king of Sweden (born 1316)
• 1433 – Go-Komatsu, emperor of Japan (born 1377)
• 1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (born 1378)
• 1521 – Leo X, pope of the Catholic Church (born 1475){{cite web |title=Leo X | pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-X |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=1 December 2020 |language=en}}
• 1530 – Margaret of Austria, duchess of Savoy (born 1480)
• 1580 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (born 1509)
• 1581 – Alexander Briant, English Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (born 1556)
• 1581 – Edmund Campion, English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint (born 1540)
• 1581 – Ralph Sherwin, English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint (born 1550)

• 1633 – Isabella Clara Eugenia, infanta of Spain (born 1566)
• 1640 – Miguel de Vasconcelos, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (born 1590)
• 1660 – Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist and historian (born 1592)
• 1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (born 1665)
• 1750 – Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (born 1671)
• 1755 – Maurice Greene, English organist and composer (born 1696)
• 1767 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, Scottish politician (born 1710)
• 1825 – Alexander I, emperor and autocrat of Russia (born 1777)
• 1865 – Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss pastor, poet, and educator (born 1796)
• 1866 – George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor (born 1790)
• 1867 – Charles Gray Round, English lawyer and politician (born 1797)
• 1884 – William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (born 1809)

• 1913 – Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and author (born 1864)
• 1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (born 1840)
• 1916 – Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (born 1858)
• 1923 – Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (born 1836){{cite book |first=Lia |last=Van Gemert |title=Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875: A Bilingual Anthology |location=Amsterdam |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |year=2011 |page=559 |isbn=978-9-08964-129-8}}
• 1928 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (born 1888)
• 1933 – Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (born 1865)
• 1934 – Sergey Kirov, Russian engineer and politician (born 1886)
• 1935 – Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (born 1879)
• 1942 – Leon Wachholz, Polish scientist and medical examiner (born 1867){{cite web |url=http://krakowianie1939-56.mhk.pl/pl/archiwum,1,wachholz,3663.chtm |title=Archiwum ofiar terroru nazistowskiego i komunistycznego w Krakowie 1939 - 1956 |language=pl |trans-title=Archive of victims of Nazi and communist terror in Krakow 1939 - 1956 |access-date=Dec 9, 2020}}
• 1943 – Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and educator (born 1862)
• 1944 – Charlie Kerins, Irish Republican executed by hanging (born 1918){{cite web |url=https://republicansinnfein.org/2013/12/21/1215/ |title=Charlie Kerins commemorated in Tralee |author= |date=20 December 2013 |website=Irish Republican Information Service |publisher= |access-date=19 May 2023 |quote=}}
• 1947 – Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and mountaineer (born 1875)
• 1947 – G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and theorist (born 1877)
• 1950 – Ernest John Moeran, English pianist and composer (born 1894)
• 1954 – Fred Rose, American pianist, composer, and publisher (born 1898)
• 1958 – Elizabeth Peratrovich, American civil rights activist (born 1911){{cite web |last1=Weingroff |first1=Richard F. |title=Who Is Elizabeth Peratrovich? The Story Behind the Country's First Anti-Discrimination Law |url=https://highways.dot.gov/highway-history/general-highway-history/who-elizabeth-peratrovich-story-behind-countrys-first-anti |website=Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) |publisher=U.S. Federal Highway Administration |access-date=30 December 2020}}
• 1964 – J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (born 1892)
• 1964 – Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek runner (born 1877)
• 1968 – Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer, composer, and conductor (born 1887)
• 1968 – Darío Moreno, Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (born 1921)
• 1973 – David Ben-Gurion, Israeli politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (born 1886)
• 1975 – Nellie Fox, American baseball player and coach (born 1927)
• 1975 – Ernesto Maserati, Italian race car driver and engineer (born 1898)
• 1975 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist (born 1906)
• 1981 – Russ Manning, American author and illustrator (born 1929)
• 1984 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter and photographer (born 1911)
• 1986 – Frank McCarthy, American general and film producer (born 1912)
• 1987 – James Baldwin, American novelist, poet, and critic (born 1924)
• 1987 – Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (born 1918)
• 1988 – J. Vernon McGee, American pastor and theologian (born 1904)
• 1989 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer (born 1931)
• 1990 – Carla Lehmann, Canadian-English actress (born 1917)
• 1991 – Pat O'Callaghan, Irish athlete (born 1906){{cite web |title=Patrick O'Callaghan |url=https://www.olympic.org/patrick-o-callaghan |publisher=International Olympic Committee |access-date=5 March 2020}}
• 1991 – George Stigler, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)
• 1993 – Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (born 1959)
• 1995 – Hopper Levett, English cricketer (born 1908)
• 1995 – Colin Tapley, New Zealand-English actor (born 1907)
• 1995 – Maxwell R. Thurman, American general (born 1931)
• 1996 – Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (born 1928)
• 1997 – Michel Bélanger, Canadian banker and businessman (born 1929)
• 1997 – Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist (born 1908)
• 1997 – Endicott Peabody, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (born 1920)
• 1998 – Janet Lewis, American poet and novelist (born 1899){{cite news |author1=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |author-link1=Robert McG. Thomas Jr. |title=Janet Lewis, 99, Poet of Spirit and Keeper of the Hearth, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/12/05/arts/janet-lewis-99-poet-of-spirit-and-keeper-of-the-hearth-dies.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=15 April 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=5 December 1998 |page=C 16}}{{cite news |title=Obituary: Janet Lewis |author=Davis, Dick |newspaper=The Independent |date=December 15, 1998 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-janet-lewis-1191516.html |accessdate=July 11, 2010}}
• 2001 – Ellis R. Dungan, American director and producer (born 1909)
• 2002 – Edward L. Beach Jr., American captain and author (born 1918)
• 2002 – Dave McNally, American baseball player (born 1942)
• 2003 – Clark Kerr, American economist and academic (born 1911)
• 2003 – Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (born 1928)
• 2004 – Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (born 1911){{cite web |title=Bernhard, prince of the Netherlands, prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld | prince of the Netherlands |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bernhard-prince-of-the-Netherlands-prince-of-Lippe-Biesterfeld |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=1 December 2020 |language=en}}
• 2004 – Bill Brown, Scottish footballer (born 1931)
• 2004 – Norman Newell, English record producer and lyricist (born 1919){{Cite news |last=Leigh |first=Spencer |author-link=Spencer Leigh (radio presenter) |date=7 December 2004 |title=Norman Newell |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/norman-newell-23509.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250508091950/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/norman-newell-23509.html |archive-date=2025-05-08 |access-date=2025-06-02 |work=The Independent |language=en-GB}}
• 2005 – Gust Avrakotos, American CIA officer (born 1938)
• 2005 – Mary Hayley Bell, English actress and playwright (born 1911)
• 2005 – Freeman V. Horner, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1922)
• 2006 – Claude Jade, French actress (born 1948)
• 2006 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian (born 1937)
• 2007 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player and footballer (born 1929)
• 2007 – Anton Rodgers, British actor (born 1933){{cite web |title=Anton Rodgers | Television industry |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/dec/04/guardianobituaries.television |website=The Guardian |date=4 December 2007 |access-date=1 December 2020 |last1=Barker |first1=Dennis }}
• 2007 – Ivo Rojnica, Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent (born 1915){{cite book |last=Brozović |first=Dalibor |year=1999 |title=Hrvatska enciklopedija |volume=1 |language=Croatian |publisher=Leksikografski zavod "Miroslav Krleža" |location=Zagreb, Croatia |isbn=978-9-53603-629-5 |page=400}}
• 2008 – Paul Benedict, American actor (born 1938)
• 2008 – Joseph B. Wirthlin, American businessman and religious leader (born 1917)
• 2010 – Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1914)
• 2010 – Hillard Elkins, American actor and producer (born 1929)
• 2011 – Christa Wolf, German author and critic (born 1929)
• 2012 – Jovan Belcher, American football player (born 1987)
• 2012 – Arthur Chaskalson, South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of South Africa (born 1931)
• 2012 – Rick Majerus, American basketball player and coach (born 1948)
• 2012 – Ed Price, American soldier, pilot, and politician (born 1918)
• 2013 – Richard Coughlan, English drummer (born 1947)
• 2013 – Stirling Colgate, American physicist and academic (born 1925)
• 2013 – Edward Heffron, American soldier (born 1923)
• 2013 – Martin Sharp, Australian cartoonist and songwriter (born 1942)
• 2014 – Mario Abramovich, Argentinian violinist and composer (born 1926)
• 2014 – Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic (born 1938)
• 2014 – Rocky Wood, New Zealand-Australian author (born 1959)
• 2015 – Rob Blokzijl, Dutch physicist and computer scientist (born 1943)
• 2015 – Joseph Engelberger, American physicist and engineer (born 1925)
• 2015 – John F. Kurtzke, American neurologist and academic (born 1926)
• 2015 – Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (born 1930)
• 2015 – Trevor Obst, Australian footballer and coach (born 1940)
• 2018 – Vivian Lynn, New Zealand artist (born 1931){{cite web |title=Vivian Lynn |url=https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/agent/1412 |website=collections.tepapa.govt.nz |access-date=7 August 2020}}
• 2018 – Ken Berry, American actor, dancer, and singer (born 1933){{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ken-berry-dead-f-troop-mamas-family-star-was-85-999739 |title=Ken Berry, Star of 'F Troop' and 'Mama's Family,' Dies at 85 |last=Barnes |first=Mike |date=December 1, 2018 |website=The Hollywood Reporter}}
• 2019 – Paula Tilbrook, English actress (born 1930){{cite web |title=Obituary: Paula Tilbrook |url=https://www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries-archive/obituaries/paula-tilbrook |website=The Stage |access-date=15 July 2020 |language=En}}
• 2020 – Arnie Robinson, American athlete (born 1948){{Cite web |url=https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/sports-columnists/story/2020-12-01/arnie-robinson-olympics-long-jump-gold-montreal-died-san-diego-aztecs-mesa-college |title=Column: Arnie Robinson dies at 72; Olympic long jump gold medalist, San Diego mainstay |date=December 1, 2020 |website=San Diego Union-Tribune}}{{cite Sports-Reference |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417174749/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/arnie-robinson-1.html |title=Arnie Robinson |archive-date=2020-04-17 |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ro/arnie-robinson-1.html |url-status=dead}}
• 2022 – Gaylord Perry, American baseball player and coach (born 1938){{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gaylord-perry-died-baseball-hall-famer-pitcher-dead-age-84/ |title=Gaylord Perry, two-time Cy Young winner and master of the spitball, dies at 84 |website=CBSNews.com |date=December 2022}}
• 2023 – Sandra Day O'Connor, first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1981–2006) (born 1930){{cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sandra-day-oconnor-former-supreme-court-justice-dead-93 |title=Sandra Day O'Connor, former Supreme Court Justice, dead at 93 |website=FoxNews.com |date=December 2023}}
• 2024 – Terry Griffiths, Welsh snooker player and coach (born 1947){{Cite news |date=December 2, 2024 |title=Terry Griffiths: Former world snooker champion dies after lengthy battle with dementia |url=https://www.skysports.com/more-sports/snooker/news/12040/13265097/terry-griffiths-former-world-snooker-champion-dies-after-lengthy-battle-with-dementia |access-date=December 2, 2024 |work=Sky Sports}}
• 2024 – Ian Redpath, Australian cricketer and coach (born 1941){{cite web |title=Tributes as Australian Cricket Hall of Famer Ian Redpath passes away, aged 83 |website=foxsports.com.au |date=1 December 2024 |url=https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/australia/tributes-as-australian-cricket-hall-of-famer-ian-redpath-passes-away-aged-83/news-story/44be6336ec49583e3f5bf976126132a9 |access-date=1 December 2024}}

• Battle of the Sinop Day (Russia)
• Christian feast day:
• Alexander Briant
• Ansanus
• Blessed Bruna Pellesi
• Castritian
• Charles de Foucauld
• Edmund Campion
• Eligius
• Evasius
• Grwst
• Nahum
• Nicholas Ferrar (Episcopal Church)
• Ralph Sherwin
• Ursicinus of Brescia
• December 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Damrong Rajanubhab Day (Thailand)
• First President Day (Kazakhstan)
• Freedom and Democracy Day (Chad)
• Great Union Day, celebrates the union of Transylvania with Romania in 1918 (Romania)
• Military Abolition Day (Costa Rica)
• National Day (Myanmar)
• Republic Day (Central African Republic)
• Restoration of Independence Day (Portugal)
• Rosa Parks Day (Ohio and Oregon, United States)
• Self-governance Day or Fullveldisdagurinn (Iceland)
• Teachers' Day (Panama)
• World AIDS Day, and its related observances:
• Day Without Art

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