December 1 - Deaths

Deaths

• 1135 – Henry I of England
• 1241 – Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214)
• 1377 – King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)
• 1433 – Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
• 1455 – Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (b. 1378)
• 1521 – Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
• 1530 – Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (b. 1480)
• 1580 – Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
• 1581 – Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (b. 1540)
• 1581 – Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (b. 1550)
• 1581 – Alexander Briant, English Jesuit and martyr (b. 1556)
• 1602 – Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese warlord (b. 1582)
• 1633 – Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b. 1566)
• 1640 – Miguel de Vasconcelos, last Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Portugal, during the Iberian Union (b. c. 1590)
• 1660 – Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1592)
• 1707 – Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (b. 1674)
• 1709 – Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644)
• 1723 – Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress (b. 1667)
• 1729 – Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665)
• 1750 – Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
• 1755 – Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)
• 1767 – Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710)
• 1825 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
• 1830 – Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
• 1865 – Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (b. 1796)
• 1866 – George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (b. 1790)
• 1884 – William Swainson, British attorney and Attorney General of New Zealand (b. 1809)
• 1914 – Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)
• 1916 – Charles de Foucauld, French religious figure (b. 1858)
• 1917 – John January, American soccer player (b. 1882)
• 1923 – Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1836)
• 1928 – José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
• 1934 – Sergey Kirov, Russian revolutionary (b. 1886)
• 1943 – Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (b. 1862)
• 1947 – Aleister Crowley, English occultist (b. 1875)
• 1947 – G. H. Hardy, English mathematician (b. 1877)
• 1950 – E. J. Moeran, English composer (b. 1894)
• 1954 – Fred Rose, American songwriter and music publishing executive (b. 1897)
• 1964 – J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. 1892)
• 1964 – Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek athlete, the first man to win a marathon race (b. 1877)
• 1968 – Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer (b. 1887)
• 1968 – Darío Moreno, Turkish-Jewish singer (b. 1921)
• 1969 – Magic Sam, American blues guitarist and singer (b. 1937)
• 1973 – David Ben-Gurion, Israeli statesman (b. 1886)
• 1975 – Nellie Fox, American baseball player (b. 1927)
• 1975 – Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American daughter of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt (b. 1906)
• 1984 – Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Lee Dorsey, American R&B singer (b. 1924)
• 1986 – Frank McCarthy, American producer (b. 1912)
• 1987 – James Baldwin, American writer (b. 1924)
• 1987 – Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager (b. 1918)
• 1989 – Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1931)
• 1991 – George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1911)
• 1993 – Ray Gillen, American rock singer (Badlands, Black Sabbath) (b. 1959)
• 1995 – Maxwell R. Thurman, United States Army general (b. 1931)
• 1995 – Colin Tapley, British actor (b. 1907)
• 1995 – Hopper Levett, English cricketer (b. 1908)
• 1996 – Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)
• 1997 – Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (b. 1908)
• 1997 – Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker (b. 1929)
• 1997 – Endicott Peabody, American politician (b. 1920)
• 1998 – Freddie Young, British cinematographer (b. 1902)
• 2001 – Ellis R Dungan, American-born Indian film director (b. 1909)
• 2002 – Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)
• 2003 – Clark Kerr, American academic (b. 1911)
• 2003 – Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (b. 1928)
• 2004 – Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Gust Avrakotos, American intelligence case officer (b. 1938)
• 2005 – Mary Hayley Bell, English dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Freeman V. Horner, United States Army officer (b. 1922)
• 2006 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
• 2006 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Anton Rodgers, British actor (b. 1933)
• 2008 – Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934)
• 2008 – Joseph B. Wirthlin, American religious figure (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Gustavo Adolfo Palma, Guatemalan singer (b. 1920)
• 2010 – Hillard Elkins, American theatre and film producer (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer (b. 1914)
• 2011 – Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929)