December 7 - Deaths

Deaths

• 43 BC – Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC)
• 283 – Pope Eutychian
• 983 – Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 955)
• 1254 – Pope Innocent IV
• 1279 – King Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)
• 1295 – Gilbert de Clare, 6th Earl of Hertford, English nobleman and soldier (b. 1243)
• 1498 – Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist (b. 1433)
• 1562 – Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer
• 1649 – Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606)
• 1672 – Richard Bellingham, English colonial magistrate (b. 1592)
• 1683 – John Oldham, English poet (b. 1653)
• 1683 – Algernon Sydney, English politician (b. 1623)
• 1723 – Jan Santini Aichel, Bohemian architect (b. 1677)
• 1725 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661)
• 1775 – Charles Saunders, British admiral
• 1793 – Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)
• 1815 – Michel Ney, French marshall (b. 1769)
• 1817 – William Bligh, British admiral and HMS Bounty figure (b. 1745)
• 1842 – Thomas Hamilton, Scottish writer (b. 1789)
• 1874 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (b. 1815)
• 1879 – Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic independence movement figure (b. 1811)
• 1894 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur (Suez Canal) (b. 1805)
• 1899 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter (b. 1857)
• 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 religious figure (b. 1828)
• 1917 – Léon Minkus, German-born Czech composer and violinist (b. 1826)
• 1938 – Anna Marie Hahn, German-born American serial killer (b. 1906)
• 1941 – Among the 2,400 dead from the attack on Pearl Harbor
  • Mervyn S. Bennion, American US Navy Captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1887)
  • Herbert C. Jones, American US Navy Ensign, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1918)
  • Isaac C. Kidd, American US Navy Rear Admiral, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1884)
  • Thomas J. Reeves, American US Navy radioman, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1895)
  • Franklin Van Valkenburgh, American US Navy Captain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1888)
• 1946 – Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (b. 1871)
• 1947 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American university president, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
• 1947 – Tristan Bernard, French playwright and novelist (b. 1866)
• 1949 – Rex Beach, American novelist, playwright and water polo player (b. 1877)
• 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 musician (b. 1958)
• 1981 – Ava Helen Pauling, American human rights activist (b. 1903)
• 1982 – Will Lee, American actor (b. 1908)
• 1983 – Fanny Cano, Mexican actress (b. 1944)
• 1984 – Charles Ray Hatcher, American serial killer (b. 1929)
• 1984 – Lee Roy Yarbrough, American race car driver (b. 1938)
• 1985 – Robert Graves, British author (b. 1895)
• 1985 – J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and photojournalist (b. 1906)
• 1985 – Potter Stewart, American jurist (b. 1915)
• 1989 – William Calhoun, American professional wrestler (b. 1934)
• 1990 – Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1990 – Jean Duceppe, French-Canadian actor (b. 1923)
• 1990 – Jean Paul Lemieux, French-Canadian artist (b. 1904)
• 1993 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian politician (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 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)
• 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 – Jay Van Andel, American entrepreneur (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Lucy d'Abreu, Scottish supercentenarian (b. 1892)
• 2005 – Rigoberto Alpizar, Costa Rica-born American airline passenger (b. 1961)
• 2006 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American diplomat (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Jay McShann, American musician (b. 1910)
• 2008 – Marky Cielo, Filipino-Igorot dancer and actor (b. 1988)
• 2008 – Herbert Hutner, American banker and attorney (b. 1908)
• 2009 – Mark Ritts, American actor (b. 1946)
• 2010 – Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer and wife of John Edwards (b. 1949)
• 2010 – Gus Mercurio, American-born Australian actor (b. 1928)
• 2011 – Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915)