December 26 is the 360th day of the year (361st in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are five days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
1135 – Coronation of King Stephen of England .
1481 – Battle of Westbroek : Holland defeats troops of Utrecht .
1776 – American Revolutionary War : In the Battle of Trenton , the Continental Army attacks and successfully defeats a garrison of Hessian mercenaries .
1790 – Louis XVI of France gives his public assent to Civil Constitution of the Clergy during the French Revolution .
1793 – Second Battle of Wissembourg : France defeat Austria.
1793 – The wedding of Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Prussia and Frederica of Mecklenburg-Strelitz takes place.
1799 – Four thousand people attend George Washington 's funeral where Henry Lee III declares him as "first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
1805 – Austria and France sign the Treaty of Pressburg .
1806 – Battles of Pultusk and Golymin : Russian forces hold French forces under Napoleon .
1811 – A theater fire in Richmond, Virginia kills the Governor of Virginia George William Smith and the president of the First National Bank of Virginia Abraham B. Venable .
1825 – Advocates of liberalism in Russia rise up against Czar Nicholas I and are put down in the Decembrist revolt in Saint Petersburg .
1846 – Trapped in snow in the Sierra Nevadas and without food, members of the Donner Party resort to cannibalism .
1860 – The first ever inter-club association football match takes place between Hallam F.C. and Sheffield F.C. at the Sandygate Road ground in Sheffield , England, United Kingdom.
1861 – American Civil War : The Trent Affair : Confederate diplomatic envoys James M. Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and United Kingdom.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou begins.
1862 – Four nuns serving as volunteer nurses on board USS Red Rover are the first female nurses on a U.S. Navy hospital ship.
1862 – The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota , 38 Native Americans died.
1870 – The 12.8-km long Fréjus Rail Tunnel through the Alps is completed.
1871 – Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis . It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years.
1883 – The Harbour Grace Affray between Irish Catholics and Protestant Orangemen causes five deaths in Newfoundland .
1898 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium .
1900 – A relief crew arrives at the lighthouse on the Flannan Isles of Scotland, UK, only to find the previous crew has disappeared without a trace.
1919 – Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee , allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.
1925 – Turkey adopts the Gregorian calendar .
1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
1943 – World War II : German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces .
1944 – World War II: George S. Patton 's Third Army breaks the encirclement of surrounded U.S. forces at Bastogne , Belgium.
1948 – Cardinal József Mindszenty is arrested in Hungary and accused of treason and conspiracy.
1963 – The Beatles ' "I Want to Hold Your Hand " and "I Saw Her Standing There " are released in the United States, marking the beginning of Beatlemania on an international level.
1966 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga , the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach .
1972 – Vietnam War : As part of Operation Linebacker II , 120 American B-52 Stratofortress bombers attacked Hanoi , including 78 launched from Andersen Air Force Base in Guam , the largest single combat launch in Strategic Air Command history.
1976 – The Communist Party of Nepal (Marxist–Leninist) is founded.
1982 – Time 's Man of the Year is for the first time a non-human, the personal computer .
1991 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union .
1994 – Four Armed Islamic Group hijackers seize control of Air France Flight 8969 . When the plane lands at Marseille , a French Gendarmerie assault team boards the aircraft and kills the hijackers.
1996 – Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey is found beaten and strangled in the basement of her family's home in Boulder, Colorado .
1996 – Start of the largest strike in South Korean history .
1997 – The Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat explodes, creating a small tsunami offshore.
1998 – Iraq announces its intention to fire upon U.S. and British warplanes that patrol the northern and southern no-fly zones .
1999 – The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
2003 – A magnitude 6.6 earthquake devastates southeast Iranian city of Bam , killing tens of thousands and destroying the citadel of Arg-é Bam .
2004 – A 9.3 magnitude earthquake creates a tsunami causing devastation in Sri Lanka , India , Indonesia , Thailand , Malaysia , the Maldives and many other areas around the rim of the Indian Ocean, killing over 230,000.
2004 – Orange Revolution : The final run-off election in Ukraine is held under heavy international scrutiny.
2006 – An oil pipeline in Lagos , Nigeria explodes , killing at least 260.
2009 – China opens the world's longest high-speed rail route , which links Beijing and Guangzhou .
Births
1194 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1250)
1532 – Wilhelm Xylander , German scholar and academic (d. 1576)
1536 – Yi I , Korean philosopher and scholar (d. 1584)
1581 – Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach (d. 1643)
1646 – Robert Bolling , English-American merchant and planter (d. 1709)
1687 – Johann Georg Pisendel , German violinist and composer (d. 1755)
1716 – Jean François de Saint-Lambert , French soldier and philosopher (d. 1803)
1716 – Thomas Gray , English poet and scholar (d. 1771)
1723 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm , German-French author and playwright (d. 1807)
1737 – Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (d. 1815)
1751 – Clemens Maria Hofbauer , Austrian priest, missionary, and saint (d. 1820)
1771 – Julie Clary , French wife of Joseph Bonaparte (d. 1845)
1780 – Mary Somerville , Scottish mathematician, astronomer, and author (d. 1872)
1785 – Étienne Constantin de Gerlache , Belgian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 1871)
1782 – Philaret Drozdov , Russian metropolitan (d. 1867)
1791 – Charles Babbage , English mathematician and engineer, invented the Difference engine (d. 1871)
1803 – Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald , Estonian physician and author (d. 1882)
1819 – E. D. E. N. Southworth , American author and educator (d. 1899)
1820 – Dion Boucicault , Irish actor and playwright (d. 1890)
1837 – Morgan Bulkeley , American soldier and politician, 54th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1922)
1837 – George Dewey , American admiral (d. 1917)
1852 – Johannes François Snelleman , Dutch zoologist, orientalist, and ethnographer (d. 1938)
1853 – René Bazin , French author and academic (d. 1932)
1859 – William Stephens , American lawyer and politician, 24th Governor of California (d. 1944)
1863 – Charles Pathé , French record producer, co-founded Pathé Records (d. 1957)
1864 – Yun Chi-ho , Korean activist and politician (d. 1945)
1867 – Phan Bội Châu , Vietnamese activist (d. 1940)
1869 – Mathieu Cordang , Dutch cyclist (d. 1942)
1872 – Norman Angell , English journalist, academic, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)
1873 – Thomas Wass , English cricketer (d. 1953)
1874 – Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah , Bangladeshi theologist and academic (d. 1965)
1883 – Maurice Utrillo , French painter (d. 1955)
1887 – Arthur Percival , English general (d. 1966)
1888 – Marius Canard , French orientalist and historian (d. 1982)
1890 – Percy Hodge , English runner (d. 1967)
1890 – Uncle Charlie Osborne , American fiddler (d. 1992)
1891 – Henry Miller , American author and painter (d. 1980)
1892 – Don Barclay , American actor and singer (d. 1975)
1893 – Mao Zedong , Chinese revolutionist and politician, Chairman of the Communist Party of China (d. 1976)
1894 – Jean Toomer , American author and poet (d. 1967)
1899 – Udham Singh , Indian martyr and activist (d. 1940)
1901 – Elmar Muuk , Estonian linguist and author (d. 1941)
1902 – Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan , Russian painter and sculptor (d. 1980)
1903 – Elisha Cook, Jr. , American actor and singer (d. 1995)
1904 – Alejo Carpentier , Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (d. 1980)
1905 – William Loeb III , American publisher (d. 1981)
1906 – Imperio Argentina , Argentinian actress and singer (d. 2003)
1907 – Albert Gore, Sr. , American lawyer and politician (d. 1998)
1908 – Ralph Hill , American runner (d. 1994)
1909 – Matt Gordy , American pole vaulter (d. 1989)
1912 – Arsenio Lacson , Filipino journalist and politician, Mayor of Manila (d. 1962)
1912 – Henk de Looper , Dutch field hockey player (d. 2006)
1913 – Frank Swift , English footballer and journalist (d. 1958)
1914 – Annemarie Wendl , German actress (d. 2006)
1914 – Richard Widmark , American actor and producer (d. 2008)
1918 – Olga Lopes-Seale , Guyanese-Barbadian singer and radio host (d. 2011)
1918 – Georgios Rallis , Greek lieutenant and politician, 173rd Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2006)
1921 – John Severin , American illustrator (d. 2012)
1921 – Steve Allen , American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 2000)
1922 – Richard Mayes , English actor (d. 2006)
1923 – Richard Artschwager , American painter, illustrator, and sculptor (d. 2013)
1924 – Frank Broyles , American football player, coach, and sportscaster
1926 – Earle Brown , American composer (d. 2002)
1926 – Gina Pellón , Cuban-French painter and poet (d. 2014)
1927 – Denis Gifford , English journalist and historian (d. 2000)
1927 – Alan King , American actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
1927 – Stu Miller , American baseball player (d. 2015)
1927 – Denis Quilley , English actor (d. 2003)
1929 – Régine Zylberberg , Belgian-French singer and actress
1930 – Jean Ferrat , French singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
1930 – Harry Gamble , American football player, coach, and manager (d. 2014)
1930 – Donald Moffat , English-American actor
1933 – Ugly Dave Gray , English-Australian actor and singer
1933 – Olavi Salsola , Finnish runner (d. 1995)
1933 – Caroll Spinney , American puppeteer and voice actor
1935 – Abdul "Duke" Fakir , American singer (Four Tops )
1935 – Norm Ullman , Canadian ice hockey player
1936 – Peep Jänes , Estonian architect
1936 – Trevor Taylor , English race car driver (d. 2010)
1937 – John Horton Conway , English-American mathematician and academic
1937 – Jay Heimowitz , American poker player
1938 – Bahram Beyzai , Iranian director, producer, and screenwriter
1938 – Robert Hamerton-Kelly , South African-American pastor, scholar, and author (d. 2013)
1938 – Alamgir Kabir , Bangladeshi director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1989)
1939 – Fred Schepisi , Australian director and screenwriter
1939 – Phil Spector , American singer-songwriter and producer (The Teddy Bears )
1940 – Edward C. Prescott , American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1940 – Ray Sadecki , American baseball player (d. 2014)
1941 – Daniel Schmid , Swiss actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1941 – Şener Şen , Turkish actor
1942 – Vinicio Cerezo , Guatemalan politician, 28th President of Guatemala
1942 – Catherine Coulter , American author
1942 – Gray Davis , American captain, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of California
1942 – Rob de Nijs , Dutch singer and actor
1942 – Dan Massey , American activist and author (d. 2013)
1944 – Jane Lapotaire , English actress and singer
1945 – John Walsh , American television host, producer, and activist, created America's Most Wanted
1946 – Alan Frumin , American lawyer and politician
1946 – Tiit Rosenberg , Estonian historian and academic
1946 – Rini Wagtmans , Dutch cyclist
1947 – James T. Conway , American general
1947 – Jean Echenoz , French author
1947 – Carlton Fisk , American baseball player
1947 – Josef Janíček , Czech singer-songwriter, guitarist, and keyboard player (The Plastic People of the Universe )
1947 – Richard Levis McCormick , American historian and academic
1948 – Candy Crowley , American journalist
1949 – Mikhail Boyarsky , Russian actor and singer
1949 – Bob Hartman , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Petra )
1949 – José Ramos-Horta , East Timorese lawyer and politician, 2nd President of East Timor , Nobel Prize laureate
1950 – Raja Pervaiz Ashraf , Pakistani businessman and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Pakistan
1951 – C. J. Henderson , American author and critic (d. 2014)
1951 – John Scofield , American guitarist and composer (Trio Beyond )
1951 – Richard Skinner , English radio and television host
1953 – Leonel Fernández , Dominican lawyer and politician, 51st President of the Dominican Republic
1953 – Toomas Hendrik Ilves , Swedish-Estonian journalist and politician, 4th President of Estonia
1953 – Makis Katsavakis , Greek footballer and manager
1953 – Henning Schmitz , German drummer (Kraftwerk )
1954 – Peter Hillary , New Zealand mountaineer and philanthropist
1954 – Tony Rosato , Italian-Canadian actor and screenwriter
1954 – Ozzie Smith , American baseball player and sportscaster
1954 – Steve Steen , English actor and screenwriter
1955 – Evan Bayh , American lawyer and politician, 46th Governor of Indiana
1956 – David Sedaris , American comedian, author, and radio host
1957 – Dermot Murnaghan , English journalist and game show host
1957 – Mike South , American porn actor and director
1958 – Mieko Harada , Japanese actress, singer, and producer
1958 – Adrian Newey , English aerodynamicist and engineer
1959 – Wang Lijun , Chinese police officer and politician
1959 – Kōji Morimoto , Japanese animator and director
1959 – Hans Nielsen , Danish motorcycle racer
1960 – Keith Martin Ball , American mathematician and academic
1960 – Ruud Kaiser , Dutch footballer and manager
1960 – Temuera Morrison , New Zealand actor
1960 – Jim Toomey , American cartoonist
1961 – Andrew Lock , Australian mountaineer
1961 – John Lynch , Irish actor
1962 – Mark Starr , English-American wrestler (d. 2013)
1963 – Lars Ulrich , Danish-American drummer, songwriter, and producer (Metallica )
1963 – Bill Wennington , Canadian basketball player and sportscaster
1964 – Elizabeth Kostova , American author
1966 – Jay Farrar , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Uncle Tupelo , Son Volt , and Gob Iron )
1966 – Tim Legler , American basketball player and sportscaster
1966 – Sandra Taylor , American model and actress
1966 – Jay Yuenger , American guitarist and producer (White Zombie )
1968 – Tricia Leigh Fisher , American actress and singer
1968 – Dennis Knight , American wrestler and chef
1969 – Isaac Viciosa , Spanish runner
1970 – Krissada Sukosol Clapp , Thai actor and singer
1970 – James Mercer , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Shins and Broken Bells )
1971 – Jared Leto , American singer-songwriter, producer, actor and director (Thirty Seconds to Mars )
1971 – Mika Nurmela , Finnish footballer
1971 – Jonathan M. Parisen , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1971 – Tatiana Sorokko , Russian-American model and journalist
1972 – Esteban Fuertes , Argentinian footballer
1972 – Shane Meadows , English actor, director, and producer
1972 – Robert Muchamore , English author
1973 – Paulo Frederico Benevenute , Brazilian footballer
1973 – Zach Blair , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hagfish , Gwar , Rise Against , and Only Crime )
1973 – Gianluca Faliva , Italian rugby player
1973 – Reichen Lehmkuhl , American model and actor
1973 – Nobuhiko Matsunaka , Japanese baseball player
1973 – Steve Prescott , English rugby player (d. 2013)
1974 – Tiffany Brissette , American actress
1974 – Josie Ho , Hong Kong singer and actress
1974 – Joshua John Miller , American actor
1975 – Chris Calaguio , Filipino basketball player
1975 – Marcelo Ríos , Chilean tennis player
1975 – María Vasco , Spanish race walker
1976 – Lea De Mae , Czech porn actress and model (d. 2004)
1976 – Simon Goodwin , Australian footballer and coach
1976 – Nadia Litz , Canadian actress and director
1977 – Fatih Akyel , Turkish footballer
1977 – Sofia Bekatorou , Greek sailor
1977 – Adrienn Hegedűs , Hungarian tennis player
1978 – Karel Rüütli , Estonian politician
1978 – Kaoru Sugayama , Japanese volleyball player
1979 – Fabián Carini , Uruguayan footballer
1979 – Chris Daughtry , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Daughtry )
1979 – Dimitry Vassiliev , Russian ski jumper
1979 – Craig Wing , Australian rugby player
1980 – Todd Dunivant , American soccer player
1981 – Pablo Canavosio , Argentinian-Italian rugby player
1982 – Kenneth Darby , American football player
1982 – Shun Oguri , Japanese actor
1982 – Roxanne Pallett , English actress and singer
1982 – Aksel Lund Svindal , Norwegian skier
1984 – Ahmed Barusso , Ghanaian footballer
1984 – Leonardo Ghiraldini , Italian rugby player
1984 – Alex Schwazer , Italian race walker
1985 – Beth Behrs , American actress
1985 – Yu Shirota , Japanese-Spanish actor and singer (D-Boys )
1986 – Hugo Lloris , French footballer
1986 – Kit Harington , English actor
1986 – Selen Soyder , Turkish model and actress, Miss Turkey 2007
1987 – Adam Walker , English flute player
1989 – Yohan Blake , Jamaican sprinter
1989 – Jennica Garcia , Filipino actress
1989 – Lecabela Quaresma , São Toméan runner
1989 – Ben Schumann , Australian actor
1990 – Andy Biersack , American singer-songwriter (Black Veil Brides )
1990 – Denis Cheryshev , Russian footballer
1990 – Aaron Ramsey , Welsh footballer
1990 – James Wolpert , American singer
1991 – Eden Sher American actress
1992 – Kätlin Aas , Estonian model
1992 – Cecilia Costa Melgar , Chilean tennis player
1994 – Samantha Boscarino , American actress and singer
1994 – Souleymane Coulibaly , Ivorian footballer
1995 – Zach Mills , American actor
2000 – Samuel Sevian , American chess player
Deaths
268 – Pope Dionysius
831 – Euthymius of Sardis , Byzantine monk and bishop (b. 754)
1350 – Jean de Marigny , French archbishop
1458 – Arthur III, Duke of Brittany (b. 1393)
1476 – Galeazzo Maria Sforza , Italian husband of Bona of Savoy (b. 1444)
1530 – Babur , Mongolian emperor (b. 1483)
1574 – Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine (b. 1524)
1731 – Antoine Houdar de la Motte , French author (b. 1672)
1771 – Claude Adrien Helvétius , French philosopher and activist (b. 1715)
1780 – John Fothergill , English physician and botanist (b. 1712)
1784 – Seth Warner , American colonel (b. 1743)
1786 – Gasparo Gozzi , Italian playwright and critic (b. 1713)
1869 – Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille , French physician and physiologist (b. 1797)
1890 – Heinrich Schliemann , German-Italian archaeologist and author (b. 1822)
1909 – Frederic Remington , American painter and illustrator (b. 1861)
1923 – Dietrich Eckart , German journalist and politician (b. 1868)
1925 – Jan Letzel , Czech architect, designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial (b. 1880)
1929 – Albert Giraud , Belgian poet (b. 1860)
1931 – Melvil Dewey , American librarian and educator, created the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851)
1933 – Anatoly Lunacharsky , Russian journalist and politician (b. 1875)
1933 – Henry Watson Fowler , English lexicographer and educator (b. 1858)
1933 – Eduard Vilde , Estonian author and diplomat (b. 1865)
1959 – Jack Tresadern , English footballer and manager (b. 1890)
1960 – Tetsuro Watsuji , Japanese historian and philosopher (b. 1889)
1963 – Gorgeous George , American wrestler (b. 1915)
1966 – Ina Boudier-Bakker , Dutch author (b. 1875)
1966 – Herbert Otto Gille , German SS officer (b. 1897)
1966 – Guillermo Stábile , Argentinian footballer and manager (b. 1905)
1970 – Lillian Board , South African-English runner (b. 1948)
1972 – Harry S. Truman , American colonel and politician, 33rd President of the United States (b. 1884)
1973 – Harold B. Lee , American religious leader, 11th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899)
1974 – Farid al-Atrash , Syrian-Egyptian singer-songwriter, oud player, and actor (b. 1915)
1974 – Jack Benny , American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1894)
1974 – Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton , Scottish admiral (b. 1890)
1975 – K. Saraswathi Amma , Indian feminist writer (b. 1919)
1975 – Karl Tarvas , Estonian architect (b. 1885)
1976 – Yashpal , Indian author (b. 1903)
1977 – Howard Hawks , American director and screenwriter (b. 1896)
1980 – Tony Smith , American sculptor and educator (b. 1912)
1981 – Savitri , Indian actress, director, and producer (b. 1937)
1981 – Amber Reeves , New Zealand-English author and scholar (b. 1887)
1981 – Suat Hayri Ürgüplü , Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1903)
1983 – Violet Carson , English actress and singer (b. 1898)
1984 – Sheila Andrews , American singer (b. 1953)
1985 – Margarete Schön , German actress (b. 1895)
1986 – Elsa Lanchester , English-American actress and singer (b. 1902)
1988 – Glenn McCarthy , American businessman, founded the Shamrock Hotel (b. 1907)
1988 – Pablo Sorozábal , German-Spanish composer and conductor (b. 1897)
1989 – Doug Harvey , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1924)
1990 – Gene Callahan , American art director and production designer (b. 1923)
1992 – Nikita Magaloff , Georgian-Russian pianist (b. 1912)
1994 – Parveen Shakir , Pakistani civil servant and poet (b. 1952)
1996 – Kostas Palios , Greek actor (b. 1926)
1997 – Cahit Arf , Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1910)
1997 – Cornelius Castoriadis , Greek economist and philosopher (b. 1922)
1999 – Curtis Mayfield , American singer-songwriter and producer (The Impressions ) (b. 1942)
1999 – Shankar Dayal Sharma , Indian academic and politician, 9th President of India (b. 1918)
2000 – Jason Robards , American actor and singer (b. 1922)
2001 – Nigel Hawthorne , English actor and producer (b. 1929)
2002 – Herb Ritts , American photographer and director (b. 1952)
2002 – Armand Zildjian , American businessman, founded the Avedis Zildjian Company (b. 1921)
2004 – Troy Broadbridge , Australian footballer (b. 1980)
2004 – Jonathan Drummond-Webb , South African surgeon and academic (b. 1959)
2004 – Poom Jensen , American son of Ubolratana Rajakanya (b. 1983)
2004 – Sigurd Køhn , Norwegian saxophonist and composer (b. 1959)
2004 – Angus Ogilvy , English businessman (b. 1928)
2004 – Aki Sirkesalo , Finnish singer-songwriter (b. 1962)
2004 – Mieszko Talarczyk , Polish-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Nasum and Genocide Superstars ) (b. 1974)
2004 – Reggie White , American football player (b. 1961)
2005 – Muriel Costa-Greenspon , American soprano (b. 1937)
2005 – Ted Ditchburn , English footballer and manager (b. 1921)
2005 – Kerry Packer , Australian publisher and businessman (b. 1937)
2005 – Viacheslav Platonov , Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1939)
2005 – Vincent Schiavelli , American actor (b. 1948)
2005 – Erich Topp , German commander (b. 1914)
2006 – Gerald Ford , American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
2006 – Ivar Formo , Norwegian skier and engineer (b. 1951)
2006 – Munir Niazi , Indian-Pakistani poet (b. 1928)
2007 – Joe Dolan , Irish singer (b. 1943)
2007 – Stu Nahan , American sportscaster (b. 1926)
2008 – Gösta Krantz , Swedish actor (b. 1925)
2009 – Felix Wurman , American cellist and composer (b. 1958)
2010 – Edward Bhengu , South African activist (b. 1934)
2010 – Teena Marie , American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1956)
2011 – Houston Antwine , American football player (b. 1939)
2011 – Pedro Armendáriz, Jr. , Mexican-American actor and producer (b. 1940)
2011 – Sarekoppa Bangarappa , Indian politician, 15th Chief Minister of Karnataka (b. 1932)
2011 – Joe Bodolai , American screenwriter and producer (b. 1948)
2011 – Fred Fono , Solomon politician (b. 1962)
2011 – Sam Rivers , American flute player and composer (b. 1923)
2011 – James Rizzi , American painter and illustrator (b. 1950)
2011 – Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff , American born Georgian aristocrat and NYC highway commissioner (b. 1930)
2012 – Gerry Anderson , English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
2012 – Fontella Bass , American singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
2012 – Gerald McDermott , American author and illustrator (b. 1941)
2012 – Ibrahim Tannous , Lebanese general (b. 1929)
2012 – Rebecca Tarbotton , Canadian-American activist (b. 1973)
2013 – Malena Alvarado , Venezuelan actress (b. 1954)
2013 – Paul Blair , American baseball player and coach (b. 1944)
2013 – Davide Lufrano Chaves , Italian-English guitarist (Alejandro Toledo and the Magic Tombolinos ) (b. 1983)
2013 – Marta Eggerth , Hungarian-American actress and singer (b. 1912)
2013 – Dr. Tangalanga , Argentinian comedian and actor (b. 1916)
2014 – Stanisław Barańczak , Polish-American poet, critic, and scholar (b. 1946)
2014 – James B. Edwards , American dentist, soldier, and politician, 3rd United States Secretary of Energy (b. 1927)
2014 – Geoff Pullar , English cricketer (b. 1935)
2014 – Rhodes Reason , American actor (b. 1930)
2014 – Leo Tindemans , Belgian politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1922)
Holidays and observances
Boxing Day , except when December 26 is a Sunday. If it is a Sunday, Boxing Day is transferred to December 27 by Royal Proclamation. (Commonwealth of Nations ), and its related observances:
Christian feast day :
Independence and Unity Day (Slovenia )
Mauro Hamza Day (Houston, Texas )
Mummer's Day (Padstow , Cornwall )
St. Stephen's Day (public holiday in Alsace , Austria, Catalonia , Croatia , the Czech Republic, Germany, Hong Kong, Italy, Ireland , Luxembourg , Poland, Slovakia and Switzerland), and its related observances:
The first day of Kwanzaa , celebrated until January 1 (United States)
The first day of Junkanoo street parade, the second day is on the New Year's Day (The Bahamas )
The first of Twelve Holy Days (Esoteric Christianity )
The second day of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
Wren Day (Ireland and the Isle of Man )
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