December 7
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Art and culture
Births
- 1598 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian artist (d. 1680)
- 1910 - Louis Prima, American musician (d. 1978)
- 1928 - Noam Chomsky, American linguist and political writer
- 1932 - Ellen Burstyn, American actress
- 1949 - Tom Waits, American singer, composer, and actor
Deaths
- 43 BC - Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC)
- 1902 - Thomas Nast, German-born American cartoonist (b. 1840)
- 1906 - Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)
- 1913 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman and last surviving cardinal of Pius IX (b. 1828)
- 1917 - Léon Minkus, German/Czech Composer and violinist (b. March 23, 1826)
- 1941 - Casualties of the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 - Mervyn S. Bennion, United States Navy Captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1887)
- 1941 - Herbert C. Jones, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1918)
- 1941 - Isaac C. Kidd, United States Navy Rear Admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1884)
- 1941 - Thomas J. Reeves, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1895)
- 1941 - Franklin Van Valkenburgh, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1888)
- 1947 - Nicholas M. Butler, American university president, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
- 1947 - Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (b. 1866)
- 1956 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (b. 1887)
- 1960 - Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist (b. 1895)
- 1969 - Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (b. 1897)
- 1969 - Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1903)
- 1970 - Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (b. 1883)
- 1975 - Thornton Wilder, American playwright (b. 1897)
- 1977 - Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born American engineer (b. 1906)
- 1978 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b. 1886)
- 1980 - Darby Crash, American punk-rock lengend (b. 1958)
- 1983 - Fanny Cano, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
- 1984 - Lee Roy Yarbrough, American race car (Nascar) driver (b. 1938)
- 1985 - Robert Graves, British author (b. 1895)
- 1985 - Potter Stewart, US Supreme Court Justice (b. 1915)
- 1989 - William Calhoun, professional wrestler (b. 1934)
- 1990 - Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
- 1990 - Jean Duceppe, Quebec stage, television and film actor (b. 1923)
- 1990 - Jean Paul Lemieux, Quebec painter (b. 1904)
- 1993 - Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1905)
- 1993 - Wolfgang Paul, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)
- 1994 - J.C. Tremblay, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1939)
- 1997 - Billy Bremner, Scottish former footballer (b. 1942)
- 1998 - Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1925)
- 1998 - John Addison, British composer (b. 1920)
- 2000 - Vladimir Gotovac, Croatian poet and politician (b. 1930)
- 2001 - Charles McClendon, LSU Tigers head football coach (b. 1923)
- 2003 - Carl F. H. Henry American theologian and publisher (b. 1913)
- 2003 - Azie Taylor Morton, Treasurer of the United States (b. 1936)
- 2004 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (b. 1914)
- 2004 - Jerry Scoggins, American singer (b. 1913)
- 2004 - Dimebag Darrell, Lead Guitarist For Pantera. (b. 1966)
- 2004 - Jay Van Andel, co-founder and former chairman of Amway (b. 1924)
- 2005 - Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
- 2005 - Lucy d'Abreu, was the oldest living person in the United Kingdom from April 2004 until her death (b. 1892)
- 2005 - Rigoberto Alpizar, airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming he had placed a bomb aboard (b. 1961)
- 2005 - James Bastien, American classical pianist, composer, teacher, and author of a series of piano instruction books (b. 1934)
- 2006 - Jeane Kirkpatrick, American ambassador (b. 1926)
- 2006 - Jay McShann, American musician (b. ca. 1910)
Births
Deaths
Gordon Rattray Taylor
Reinaldo Arenas
Potter Stewart
Pornography by region
Wanda Landowska
Camilo Mori
Thomas Nast
Thornton Wilder
Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Nacht und Nebel
Patti D'Arbanville
Louis Prima
Ellen Burstyn
Johan Huizinga
Robert Graves
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