December 9

December 9 is the 343rd (thirty forty-second) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 344th in leap years. There are 22 days left to end the year.

Events

• 536: In Italy, the Byzantine General Belisario enters Rome although the pact with the Ostrogods makes him leave the city, returning to the capital of his former empire.
• 1165: King Malcolm IV dies in Jedburgh after a 12-year reign and is succeeded by his brother William I (the Lion) as king of Scotland (up to 1214).
• 1688: In the battle of Reading, William of Orange rises victorious over James II, king of England, in the context of the glorious revolution.
• 1348: the battle of Mislata takes place in Spain.
• 1531: in the Cerro del Tepeyac (near Mexico City), the indigenous Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin affirms that the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared to him.
• 1703: the last day of the Great Storm of 1703 is recorded – the most violent recorded in the History of Northern Europe. It began on December 5 (“November 24” according to the Julian calendar in force on those dates in Europe), covering an area of 500 km in width, which included Wales, Central and South England, the North Sea, the Netherlands and North Germany. Tornadoes were reported. British journalist and writer Daniel Defoe (author of Robinson Crusoe) wrote that it was "the most terrible storm the world has seen." Many ships of the Dutch and British war fleets sank, with hundreds of drowned. In many places, cyclonic pairs were produced. The floods generated drowned an undetermined number of people (between 8,000 and 5,000).
• 1759: he arrives in Madrid, from Naples, Carlos III, to take over the throne of Spain.
• 1774: in Melilla, Spain, Mohámmed ben Abdallah, sultan of Morocco, places the Spanish city, which cannot conquer.
• 1811: In Tunja, Colombia, the Republic of Tunja is proclaimed and the first constitution of Colombia is promulgated.
• 1824: In Peru the Battle of Ayacucho is waged, the last major confrontation between the realists and the patriots. The independence of South America is assured.
• 1828: In Argentina, the unitary army (in command of Juan Lavalle) defeats the federal army of gauchos and Indians (in command of Manuel Dorrego) in the battle of Navarro. Lavalle will shoot the prisoner Dorrego (constitutional governor of Buenos Aires) to usurp his post.
• 1835: The Republic of Texas captures the village of San Antonio.
• 1851: In Montreal, Canada, the first YMCA association is established.
• 1852: In Spain, the equivalence of traditional weights and measures with the Decimal Metric System is published by Real Orden.
• 1856: the city of Bushehr (Iran) surrenders to the British forces.
• 1872: In the United States, P. B. S. Pinchback became interim governor of the state of Louisiana for 35 days (he is the first person of African descent to get it).
• 1873: near the village of Paraná (Province of Entre Ríos)—in the framework of the last Argentine civil war—the unitary army of President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento perpetrates the Don Gonzalo massacre against the gauchos of the leader Ricardo López Jordan. It is the first time that machine guns and guns with explosive bullets are used in Argentina.
• 1879: In Spain, Antonio Cánovas del Castillo is appointed president of the government.
• 1892: In Newcastle upon Tyne, the Newcastle United Football Club is founded.
• 1897: In Paris, activist Marguerite Durand founded the first feminist journal, The Fronde.
• 1905: The Law on the Separation of the Church and the State is adopted in France.
• 1907: The first edition of the Detroit Motor Show, the most important of the continent, is held in Detroit.
• 1917: In Palestine, Edmund Allenby captures Jerusalem.
• 1922: In Poland, Gabriel Narutowicz is proclaimed prime minister.
• 1924: In the state Amazonas (Venezuela) the engineer Santiago Aguerre founded Puerto Ayacucho, the capital of the state.
• 1931: the Constitution of the Second Republic is approved in Spain.
• 1937: In the Chinese city of Nanking—in the framework of the Second Sino-Japanese War—Japanese imperial troops under the command of Lieutenant-General Prince Yasuhiko Asaka launch an assault on the city (Nankin Battle). The victorious Japanese troops then surrender to an orgy of rape and murder known as the Nanking massacre.
• 1940: near Sidi Barrani (Egypt)—in the framework of World War II— British and Indian troops under the command of Major General Richard O'Connor attack the Italian forces (Operation Compass).
• 1941: In the framework of the Second World War, China, Korea, Cuba, the Philippines and Guatemala declare war on Germany and Japan.
• 1948: Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide is adopted at UN headquarters (United Nations Organization) in New York.
• 1950: In the United States, spy Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in prison for passing information to Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs on the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union.
• 1953: In the United States—in the framework of the hunting of Macedonian witches—the General Electric company announces that communist workers will be dismissed.
• 1957: in the S3i area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 12:00 (local time) United States detonates on the surface its Coulomb-C atomic bomb of 0.5 kiloton. It is the 120th bomb of 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1961: Tanganica is independent of the United Kingdom.
• 1966: in Bangkok (Thailand) the V Asian Games begin.
• 1966: The album is published in London A Quick One British band The Who.
• 1968: In San Francisco, the mouse was officially presented.
• 1970: Javier Pérez de Anda Adrián L. Pereda López founded the Radiorama Group.
• 1978: In Bangkok, Thailand, the 8th Asian Games begin.
• 1982: in Spain the See of Gibraltar is opened.
• 1983: in a well 244 meters underground, in the U3Ls area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 8:00 (local time) United States detonates its 1,5 kiloton Muggins atomic bomb. It is the 1005 bomb of 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1983: it is held in the city of Villa Carlos Paz in Argentina, the First Meeting of Information Professionals of that country.
• 1985: in Argentina the Judgment of the Boards is handed down, condemning Jorge Rafael Videla and Emilio Eduardo Massera to life imprisonment, Roberto Eduardo Viola to 17 years in prison, Armando Lambruschini to 8 years in prison and Orlando Ramón Agosti to 4 years in prison.
• 1987: First day of clashes following the death of four Palestinians from Gaza, run over by an Israeli truck the day before. It is the first Palestinian Intifada or popular uprising.
• 1988: an earthquake struck the Republic of Armenia. The earthquake causes more than 50 000 dead according to the first estimates.
• 1988: Spain approves the implementation of the international track width in the high-speed lines and the production of a technical report to replace the width of the Spanish railway before 2010.
• 1988: in the U8n area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:15 (local time) United States detonates its Kawich Blue-4 atomic bomb (with less than 20 kilotons on the surface) and Kawich White-3 (3 kilotons, in a well at 384 m depth). It is the bombs n. 1087 and 1088 of the 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1990: In Colombia, elections are held for the National Constituent Assembly, which is called to shape the Constitution of Colombia.
• 1990: in Poland, Lech Wałęsa becomes president.
• 1990: In Tokyo, the AC Milan of Italy is dedicated champion of the Intercontinental Cup by winning the Olympic Club of Paraguay for 3 to 0.
• 1991: The Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
• 1996: in Bangkok, the Asian Olympic Council announces the official hymn of the sporting organization. The work is a group of sounds of the cultures of the Asian continent to represent their cooperation and unity.
• 1997: Kyoto Protocol enters into force in Kyoto
• 2003: In Moscow Red Square, a bomb kills six people.
• 2006: In a rehabilitation centre within a Moscow hospital, a fire kills 45 people.
• 2007: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela sign the foundational agreement of the Banco del Sur.
• 2012: In Iturbide, Mexico, the Learjet Accident occurs in which American singer Jenni Rivera died.
• 2018: The Club Atlético River Plate beats its classic rival Boca Juniors at the end of the Copa Libertadores de América held at the Santiago Bernabéu stadium in Madrid, Spain, crowning champion of America for the fourth time in its history.
• 2021: Log4j vulnerability is made public through a tuit, affecting Java systems such as Cloudflare, iCloud, Minecraft (Java Edition), Steam, Tencent QQ or Twitter.
• 2021: In Chiapas, Mexico recorded the blast of a tractocamion that was circulating on the Chiapa de Corzo-Tuxtla Gutierrez road (part of the Pan American Highway) which transported 160 people who sought to arrive in the United States, 55 people died and 105 more injured.

Births

• 1508: Regnier Gemma Frisius, mathematician and Dutch astronomer (f. 1555).
• 1571: Adriaan Metius, a Dutch geómetra and astronomer (f. 1635).
• 1579: Martin de Porres, religious and holy Peruvian dominic (f. 1639).
• 1594: Gustavo II Adolfo, Swedish king (f. 1632).
• 1608: John Milton, British writer (f. 1674).
• 1610: Baldassare Ferri, Italian singer (f. 1680).
• 1667: William Whiston, British mathematician (f. 1752).
• 1717: Johann Joachim Winckelmann, archaeologist and German historian (f. 1768).
• 1724: Mary Amalia of Saxony, German aristocrat (f. 1742).
• 1742: Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish chemical (f. 1786).
• 1745: Maddalena Laura Sirmen, violinist and Italian composer. (f. 1818).
• 1748: Claude Louis Berthollet, a French chemical (f. 1822).
• 1748: Vicente González Moreno, a Spanish military officer (f. 1839).
• 1751: María Luisa de Parma, queen consorte de España, esposa de Carlos IV (f. 1819).
• 1771: Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga, religious, architect, stanciero, naturalist and botanist Uruguayan (f. 1848).
• 1805: Tomás Villalba, politician and Uruguayan president (f. 1886).
• 1808: Alvaro Dávila and Adorno, aristocrat Spaniard (f. 1858).
• 1809: Ambrosio López Pinzón, artesano and politician Colombian (f. 1897).
• 1829: Julio Vizcarrondo, Spanish politician and Puerto Rican (f. 1889).
• 1837: Émile Waldteufel, French composer (f. 1915).
• 1842: Piotr Kropotkin, geographer, philosopher and Russian anarchist (f. 1921).
• 1845: Joel Chandler Harris, American journalist and writer (f. 1908).
• 1850: Emma Abbott, American soprano (f. 1891).
• 1863: John Burnet, British classic philologist (f. 1928).
• 1868: Fritz Haber, a German chemistry chemistry award in 1918 (f. 1934).
• 1870: Francisco S. Carvajal, Mexican politician (f. 1932).
• 1876: Berton Churchill, a Canadian actor (f. 1940).
• 1879: Erwin Popper, an Austrian pediatrician, one of three discoverers of the polyo virus (f. 1955).
• 1881: Eduardo López Bustamante, jurist and Venezuelan journalist (f. 1939)
• 1882: Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (f. 1949).
• 1886: Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (f. 1956).
• 1889: Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish athlete (f. 1966).
• 1891: Maksim Bahdanovič, a Belarusian poet (f. 1917).
• 1893: Alfonso Cortés, a Nicaraguan poet (f. 1969).
• 1895: Dolores Ibárruri (Passionary), a Spanish communist leader (f. 1989).
• 1895: Conchita Supervía, mezzosoprano española (f. 1936).
• 1895: Roberto Garza Sada, entrepreneur, industrial and philanthropist (f. 1979).
• 1897: Hermione Gingold, British actress (f. 1987).
• 1899: Jean de Brunhoff, French author (f. 1937).
• 1900: Joseph Needham, British biochemical (f. 1995).
• 1901: Carol Dempster, American actress (f. 1991).
• 1901: Ödön von Horváth, a Hungarian-Austrian writer (f. 1938).
• 1902: Margaret Hamilton, American actress (f. 1985).
• 1905: Dalton Trumbo, American filmmaker (f. 1976).
• 1905: Emilio Carranza, Mexican aviator (f. 1928).
• 1906: Grace Murray Hopper, American math (f. 1992).
• 1907: Fernando María Castiella, a Spanish politician and diplomat (f. 1976).
• 1909: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American filmmaker (f. 2000).
• 1911: Broderick Crawford, American actor (f. 1986).
• 1911: Carlos Sentís, Spanish journalist (f. 2011).
• 1914: Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira (f. 1933), a Spanish feminist.
• 1915: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-British opera singer (f. 2006).
• 1916: Kirk Douglas, American actor (f. 2020).
• 1917: Leo James Rainwater, U.S. physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1975 (f. 1986).
• 1918: Jerome Beatty Jr., American writer (f. 2002).
• 1918: Alejandra Boero, Argentine actress (f. 2006).
• 1919: William Lipscomb, American chemical, nobel chemistry award in 1976 (f. 2011).
• 1920: Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, economist and Italian president (f. 2016).
• 1921: Sandro Mariátegui, Peruvian lawyer and politician (f. 2013).
• 1922: Redd Foxx, American comedian (f. 1991).
• 1924: Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher and poet (f. 2014).
• 1926: Pompín Iglesias, was a Colombian-Mexican comedian actor. (f. 2007).
• 1926: Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spanish Killer (f. 1996).
• 1926: Henry Way Kendall, American physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 (f. 1999).
• 1927: Germán Bidart Campos, lawyer, professor and Argentine jurist, recognized for his many works of law (f. 2004).
• 1927: Pierre Henry, French composer (f. 2017).
• 1928: Dick Van Patten, American actor (f. 2015).
• 1929: John Cassavetes, American filmmaker (f. 1989).
• 1929: Bob Hawke, Australian politician, Prime Minister between 1983 and 1991 (f. 2019).
• 1929: Ignacio Araujo, Spanish architect.
• 1930: Buck Henry, actor, screenwriter and American director (f. 2020).
• 1930: Arnold Belkin, Mexican artist (f. 1992).
• 1930: Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian writer (f. 2010).
• 1931: Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor (f. 2010).
• 1934: Judi Dench, British actress.
• 1934: Óscar Mejía Víctores, politician and militar guatemalteco, de facto president between 1983 and 1986 (f. 2016).
• 1934: Junior Wells, American musician (f. 1998).
• 1937: Fanny Mandelbaum, an Argentine journalist.
• 1941: Beau Bridges, American actor.
• 1941: Christine Delphy, a French feminist sociologist and theorist.
• 1941: César Mascetti, Argentine journalist.
• 1942: Daisy Granados, Cuban actress.
• 1946: Sonia Gandhi, Indian politics.
• 1946: Hermann Gunnarsson, Icelandic footballer and basketball player.
• 1947: Tom Daschle, American politician.
• 1948: Gioconda Belli, Nicaraguan poet and novelist.
• 1948: Dennis Dunaway, American musician.
• 1948: Lukas (Luis Carlos Mejía Mora), Colombian rock singer.
• 1949: Jairo Varela, Colombian salsa singer, founder of the Niche Group (f. 2012).
• 1953: Guillermo García González, a Cuban chessman, a national champion (f. 1990).
• 1953: John Malkovich, American actor and filmmaker.
• 1954: Henk ten Cate, Dutch soccer player and coach.
• 1954: Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg politician.
• 1954: Mary Fallin, U.S. Policy, Governor of Oklahoma.
• 1955: Miquel Pairolí, Spanish writer and journalist (f. 2011).
• 1956: Oscar Garré, Argentine soccer player.
• 1956: Ernesto Sanz, Argentine politician.
• 1956: Jean-Pierre Thiollet, French author.
• 1957: Emmanuel Carrère, French writer, director and writer.
• 1957: José Luis Gil, Spanish actor.
• 1958: Rikk Agnew, American guitarist, of the Christian Death band.
• 1958: Ethel Koffman, Argentinean singer and teacher.
• 1958: Nick Seymour, Australian musician, Crowded House band.
• 1960: Juan Samuel, Dominican baseball player.
• 1961: Aníbal Litvin, journalist, writer and Argentine humorist.
• 1961: David Anthony Higgins, American actor.
• 1962: Felicity Huffman, American actress.
• 1962: Juan Atkins, American technical musician.
• 1963: Masako Owada, Japanese princess.
• 1963: Zurab Shvania, Georgian Prime Minister (f. 2005).
• 1964: Paul Landers, German guitarist, of the Rammstein band.
• 1966: Kirsten Gillibrand, American politician.
• 1966: David Torres, Spanish writer.
• 1966: Toby Huss, American actor.
• 1967: Joshua Bell, American violinist.
• 1967: Ernesto Jerez, Dominican sports presenter and commentator.
• 1967: Óscar Barberán, actor and director of Spanish bedding.
• 1968: Kurt Angle, American professional fighter.
• 1968: Brian Bell, American guitarist, Weezer band.
• 1968: Pedro García Aguado, waterpolista and Spanish television presenter.
• 1969: Jakob Dylan, American vocalist, of the band The Wallflowers.
• 1969: Bixente Lizarazu, French footballer.
• 1970: Djalminha (Djalma Feitosa Dias), Brazilian footballer.
• 1971: Víctor Hugo Aristizábal is a Colombian ex-futbolist who played as a front.
• 1972: Reiko Aylesworth, American actress.
• 1972: Fabrice Santoro, French tennis player.
• 1972: Tré Cool, American rock musician and drummer, from the Green Day band.
• 1974: Nacho Vegas, Spanish musician and poet.
• 1975: Patricio Pron, Argentine writer.
• 1976: Dante Spinetta, Argentine singer.
• 1977: Imogen Heap, British singer.
• 1977: Ana Pastor, Spanish journalist.
• 1978: Gastón Gaudio, Argentine tennis player.
• 1978: Jesse Metcalfe, American actor.
• 1978: Guillermo Pfening, Argentine actor.
• 1979: Olivia Lufkin, Japanese singer and composer.
• 1980: Santiago Silva, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1980: Simon Helberg, American actor.
• 1981: Patricio Arellano, singer, composer and Argentine actor.
• 1981: Mardy Fish, American tennis player.
• 1981: Nani Jiménez, Spanish actress and model.
• 1983: Dariusz Dudka, Polish footballer.
• 1985: Ricardo Quevedo, a comedian and actor of Colombian cinema.
• 1987: Alejandra Oraa, a Venezuelan journalist.
• 1988: Kwadwo Asamoah, Ghanaian footballer.
• 1990: LaFee, German singer.
• 1991: Choi Minho, singer, actor, model and South Korean dancer.
• 1991: PnB Rock, rapper and American singer (f. 2022)
• 1994: Andrea Olaya, free fighter, Colombian actress and painter.
• 1992: Maksim Kóval, Ukrainian footballer.
• 1995: McKayla Maroney, American gymnast.
• 1995: Jessica Bohórquez, Colombian television presenter.
• 1996: Joan Lluís Pons, Spanish swimmer.
• 1996: Wong Kahei, best known as ViVi, singer, model and dancer Hongkonesa member of the K-Pop LOONA group
• 1996: Leah Lewis, American actress.
• 2003: Shin Yu-Na, Korean singer of the K-Pop ITZY group
• 2004: Jang Ye Eun, better known as J, South Korean singer of the K-Pop StayC group
• 2005: Nishimura Riki, better known as Ni-Ki, South Korean singer of the K-Pop Enhypen group

Deaths

• 1165: King Malcolm IV of Scotland (n. 1141).
• 1437: Segismund of Luxembourg, German emperor between 1410 and 1437 (n. 1368).
• 1544: Teófilo Folengo, Italian poet (n. 1491).
• 1565: Pius IV, Italian potato between 1559 and 1565 (n. 1499).
• 1568: Fernando Valdés Salas, politician and Spanish ecclesiastical (n. 1483).
• 1625: Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (n. 1547).
• 1641: Anton van Dyck, a Belgian painter (n. 1599).
• 1666: Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Italian Baroque painter (n. 1591).
• 1669: Clemente IX, Italian potato (n. 1600).
• 1674: Edward Hyde, a British state man and historian (n. 1609).
• 1706: Peter II, Portuguese king (n. 1648).
• 1715: Benedetto Gennari el Joven, Italian painter (n. 1633).
• 1718: Vincenzo Maria Coronelli, cartographer and Italian encyclopedist (n. 1650).
• 1793: Yolande de Polastron, French aristocrat (n. 1749).
• 1798: Johann Reinhold Forster, Polish naturalist of German origin (n. 1729).
• 1830: Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, Danish botanist and anatomist (n. 1757).
• 1838: Rene-Pierre Choudieu, a French revolutionary politician (n. 1761).
• 1851: Ramón Freire, politician, military, supreme director and Chilean president (n. 1787).
• 1854: Almeida Garrett, poet, playwright and Portuguese politician (n. 1799).
• 1858: Robert Baldwin, Canadian politician (n. 1804).
• 1887: Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese military (n.?).
• 1902: Ramona Andreu, a Spanish printer (n. 1842).
• 1916: Natsume Sōseki, a Japanese novelist (n. 1867).
• 1925: Pablo Iglesias, a Spanish politician who founded the PSOE and the UGT (n. 1850).
• 1933: Roberto Novoa Santos, a Spanish doctor (n. 1885).
• 1936: Juan de la Cierva, Spanish engineer (n. 1895).
• 1937: Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and engineer, nobel prize of physics in 1912 (n. 1869).
• 1942: Oskari Mantere, Finnish pedagogue and politician (n. 1874).
• 1959: Luis Astrana Marín, a Spanish writer (n. 1889).
• 1964: Edith Sitwell, British poet and critique (n. 1887).
• 1969: Leonardo Cilaurren, Spanish footballer (n. 1912).
• 1971: Ralph Bunche, U.S. diplomat, Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 (n. 1904).
• 1972: William Dieterle, a filmmaker and an American actor, of German origin (n. 1893).
• 1975: William A. Wellman, American filmmaker (n. 1896).
• 1976: Fernando María Castiella, Spanish politician and diplomat (n. 1907).
• 1977: Clarice Lispector, Brazilian writer (n. 1920).
• 1980: Maneco Galeano, Paraguayan musician (n. 1945).
• 1984: Nicholas Razzle Dingley, British bassist, of the Hanoi Rocks band (n. 1960).
• 1992: Franco Franchi, an Italian actor (n. 1928).
• 1992: Vincent Gardenia, American actor (n. 1922).
• 1992: Luisito Rey, Spanish singer (n. 1945).
• 1994: Max Bill, Swiss painter (n. 1908).
• 1995: Douglas Corrigan, American aviator (n. 1907).
• 1996: Mary Leakey, British paleoanthropologist (n. 1913).
• 1996: Alain Poher, a French politician (n. 1909).
• 1998: Archie Moore, American boxer (n. 1916).
• 1999: Alma Bressán, Argentine screenwriter (n. 1928).
• 1999: Alvaro Tarcicio, actor of Mexican theatre and folding (n. 1934).
• 2002: Mary Hansen, Australian musician, Stereolab band (n. 1966).
• 2003: Raúl Savoy, Argentine footballer (n. 1940).
• 2004: Lea De Mae, Czech porn model and actress (n. 1976).
• 2004: Paul Edwards, Austrian-American philosopher (n. 1923).
• 2005: Robert Sheckley, American writer (n. 1928).
• 2005: Enrique Rubio, Spanish journalist (n. 1920).
• 2006: Lauren Postigo, Spanish musical critic (n. 1928).
• 2008: Alicia Aller, Argentine actress (n. 1940).
• 2008: Juan Jesús León, Spanish writer (n. 1946).
• 2009: Rodrigo Carazo, politician and president of Costa Rica (n. 1926).
• 2009: Liana Lombard (Lía Cyngiser), an Argentine actress (n. 1932).
• 2010: Fausto Sarli, Italian fashion designer (n. 1927).
• 2010: James Moody, saxophoneist and American jazz singer (n. 1925).
• 2012: Jenni Rivera, singer, songwriter, actress, businessman and Mexican American producer (n. 1969).
• 2012: Patrick Moore, astronomer and British television presenter (n. 1923).
• 2013: Eleanor Parker, American actress (n. 1922).
• 2014: Joan Garces Queralt, Spanish musician (n. 1914).
• 2014: Angel Jalili, Mexican program musician Family with Chabelo (n. 1929).
• 2015: Alberto Podesta, singer of Argentine tangos (n. 1924).
• 2015: Carlo Furno, Italian cardinal (n. 1921).
• 2015: Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian cardinal (n. 1936).
• 2019: Marie Fredriksson, Swedish singer, voice of Duo Roxette (n. 1958).
• 2020: Paolo Rossi, Italian footballer (n. 1956).
• 2021: Carmen Salinas, actress, comedian, politics and Mexican theatrical entrepreneur (n. 1939).
• 2021: Lina Wertmüller, Italian film director and screenwriter (n. 1928).

Celebrations

• International day of secularism and freedom of conscience. Agreed by the Spanish entity Europa Laica, in 1910, to coincide with the approval of the French law of separation from the State of religions in 1905 and the day that the Spanish non-confessional Constitution of the Second Republic was proclaimed in 1931.
• International Day against Corruption
• International Day for the Commemoration and Dignification of Victims of the Crime of Genocide and for the Prevention of Genocide
• International Day of Dignity of Working Girls, Children and Adolescents
• Peruvian Army Day
• Tanzania Independence Day
• The Orthodox Churches celebrate the feast of the Conception of Theotokos, which commemorates the conception of the Virgin Mary, by her parents Joaquín and Ana, one day after the Catholic feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Anglican party of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Maryboth on December 8.
• World Computer Day.

Catholic saints list

• San Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1548).
• Saint Leocadia of Toledo, virgin and martyr (303).
• St Siro de Pavia, bishop (s. IV).
• Saint Gorgonia of Nazianzo (c. 370).
• San Cipriano de Geneouillac, abad (s. VI).
• beato Liborio Wagner, priest and martyr (1631).
• Saint Peter Fourier, priest (1640).
• Blessed Bernard Mary of Jesus Silvestrelli, priest (1911).
• beato José Ferrer Esteve, priest and martyr (1936).
• Blessed Ricardo de los Ríos Fabregat, Julián Rodríguez Sánchez and José Giménez López, priests and martyrs (1936).