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December 7 is the 341st day (342nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 24 days remaining.
Events
Births
- 521 - Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)
- 1598 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, artist (d. 1680)
- 1637 - Bernardo Pasquini, composer (d. 1710)
- 1670 - John Aislabie, director of the South Sea Company (d. 1742)
- 1761 - Marie Tussaud, museum proprietress and waxwork modeller (d. 1850)
- 1784 - Allan Cunningham, Scottish poet (d. 1842)
- 1801 - Johann Nestroy, dramatist and actor (d. 1862)
- 1847 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer, best remembered for his work with Gilbert & Sullivan (d. 1912)
- 1860 - Sir Joseph Cook, sixth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
- 1863 - Pietro Mascagni, composer (d. 1945)
- 1863 - Richard Sears, department store founder (d. 1914)
- 1873 - Willa Cather, novelist (d. 1947)
- 1879 - Rudolf Friml, American composer (d. 1972)
- 1887 - Ernst Toch, composer (d. 1964)
- 1888 - Joyce Cary, author (d. 1957)
- 1888 - Hamilton Fish, American politician (d. 1991)
- 1903 - Danilo Blanusa, Croatian mathematician (d. 1987)
- 1904 - Konstantin Sokolsky, Russian singer
- 1905 - Gerard Kuiper, astronomer (d. 1973)
- 1910 - Louis Prima, musician (d. 1978)
- 1912 - Daniel Jones, composer
- 1915 - Eli Wallach, actor
- 1924 - Mário Soares, President of Portugal 1986-96
- 1927 - Helen Watts, Welsh contralto
- 1928 - Noam Chomsky, linguist, political writer
- 1932 - Ellen Burstyn, actress
- 1934 - Gordon Parks Jr., director (d. 1979)
- 1942 - Harry Chapin, musician (d. 1981)
- 1942 - Peter Tomarken, game show host
- 1944 - Daniel Chorzempa, organist
- 1945 - Marion Rung, Finnish singer
- 1947 - Johnny Bench, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1948 - Gary Morris, singer, actor
- 1949 - Tom Waits, singer, composer, actor
- 1956 - Larry Bird, Basketball Hall of Famer
- 1966 - C. Thomas Howell, actor
- 1971 - Chasey Lain, erotic actress
- 1973 - Terrell Owens, American football star
- 1987 - Aaron Carter, singer
- 1988 - Emily Browning, Australian actress
- 2003 - Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands
Deaths
- 43 BC - Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC)
- 283 - St. Eutychian, Pope
- 1254 - Pope Innocent IV
- 1683 - John Oldham, English poet
- 1815 - Michel Ney, a marshal of the French army, executed by firing squad
- 1817 - William Bligh, British naval officer
- 1894 - Ferdinand Marie, French diplomat and engineer
- 1902 - Thomas Nast, cartoonist
- 1956 - Huntley Gordon, pioneer Hollywood actor
- 1970 - Rube Goldberg, cartoonist
- 1975 - Thornton Wilder, playwright
- 1985 - Potter Stewart, retired United States Supreme Court justice
- 1985 - Robert Graves, author
- 1990 - Joan Bennett, actress
- 1993 - Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Côte d'Ivoire political leader
- 2003 - Carl F. H. Henry American Evangelical theologian, founder of Christianity Today magazine (90 years)
- 2003 - Azie Taylor Morton, former Treasurer of the United States
- 2003 - Raúl Vale, Venezuelan-Mexican entertainer
- 2004 - Jerry Scoggins, country singer, sang "The Ballad Of Jed Clampett," theme song for The Beverly Hillbillies. (b. 1913)
Holidays and observances
December 6 - December 8 - November 7 - January 7 -- listing of all days
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