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December 7, 43 BC

Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia on orders of Marcus Antonius.

December 7, 574

Byzantine Emperor Justin II, suffering recurring seizures of insanity, adopts his general Tiberius and proclaims him as Caesar.

December 7, 927

The Sajid emir of Adharbayjan, Yusuf ibn Abi'l-Saj is defeated and captured by the Qarmatians near Kufa.

December 7, 1703

The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, makes landfall. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.

December 7, 1724

Tumult of Thorn: Religious unrest is followed by the execution of nine Protestant citizens and the mayor of Thorn (Toruń) by Polish authorities.

December 7, 1732

The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England.

December 7, 1776

Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arranges to enter the American military as a major general.

December 7, 1787

Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution.

December 7, 1837

The Battle of Montgomery's Tavern, the only battle of the Upper Canada Rebellion, takes place in Toronto, where the rebels are quickly defeated.

December 7, 1842

First concert of the New York Philharmonic, founded by Ureli Corelli Hill.

December 7, 1904

Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMS Spiteful and HMS Peterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.

December 7, 1917

World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.

December 7, 1922

The Parliament of Northern Ireland votes to remain a part of the United Kingdom and not unify with Southern Ireland.

December 7, 1930

W1XAV in Boston, Massachusetts telecasts video from the CBS radio orchestra program, The Fox Trappers. The telecast also includes the first television advertisement in the United States, for I.J. Fox Furriers, which also sponsored the radio show.

December 7, 1932

German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.

December 7, 1936

Australian cricketer Jack Fingleton becomes the first player to score centuries in four consecutive Test innings.

December 7, 1941

World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)

December 7, 1942

World War II: British commandos conduct Operation Frankton, a raid on shipping in Bordeaux harbour.

December 7, 1944

An earthquake along the coast of Wakayama Prefecture in Japan causes a tsunami which kills 1,223 people.

December 7, 1946

A fire at the Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia kills 119 people, the deadliest hotel fire in U.S. history.

December 7, 1949

Chinese Civil War: The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan.

December 7, 1962

Prince Rainier III of Monaco revises the principality's constitution, devolving some of his power to advisory and legislative councils.

December 7, 1963

Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

December 7, 1965

Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.

December 7, 1971

The Battle of Sylhet is fought between the Pakistani military and the Mukti Bahini.

December 7, 1971

Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.

December 7, 1972

Apollo 17, the last Apollo Moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.

December 7, 1982

In Texas, Charles Brooks, Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States.

December 7, 1982

The Senior Road Tower collapses in less than 17 seconds. Five workers on the tower are killed and three workers on a building nearby are injured.

December 7, 1983

An Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 collides with an Aviaco DC-9 in dense fog while the two airliners are taxiing down the runway at Madrid-Barajas Airport, killing 93 people.

December 7, 1987

Pacific Southwest Airlines Flight 1771, a British Aerospace 146-200A, crashes near Paso Robles, California, killing all 43 on board, after a disgruntled passenger shoots his ex-boss traveling on the flight, then shoots both pilots and steers the plane into the ground.

December 7, 1988

The 6.8 Ms  Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000-50,000 and injuring 31,000-130,000.

December 7, 1993

Long Island Rail Road shooting: Passenger Colin Ferguson murders six people and injures 19 others on the LIRR in Nassau County, New York.

December 7, 1995

The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.

December 7, 1995

Khabarovsk United Air Group Flight 3949 crashes into the Bo-Dzhausa Mountain, killing 98.

December 7, 1995

An Air Saint Martin (now Air Caraïbes) Beechcraft 1900 crashes near the Haitian commune of Belle Anse, killing 20.

December 7, 2003

The Conservative Party of Canada is officially registered, following the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.

December 7, 2005

Rigoberto Alpizar, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 924 who allegedly claimed to have a bomb, is shot and killed by a team of U.S. federal air marshals at Miami International Airport.

December 7, 2015

The JAXA probe Akatsuki successfully enters orbit around Venus five years after the first attempt.

December 7, 2016

Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661, a domestic passenger flight from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by ATR-42-500 crashes near Havelian, killing all 47 on board.


  • Born on December 7, 521 Columba, Irish missionary, monk, and saint (d. 597)
    • Born on December 7, 903 Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, Persian astronomer and author (d. 986)
      • Born on December 7, 967 Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr, Persian Sufi poet (d. 1049)
        • Born on December 7, 1302 Azzone Visconti, Italian nobleman (d. 1339)
          • Born on December 7, 1532 Louis I, German nobleman and politician (d. 1605)
            • Born on December 7, 1545 Henry Stuart, English-Scottish husband of Mary, Queen of Scots (d. 1567)
              • Born on December 7, 1561 Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese daimyō (d. 1625)
                • Born on December 7, 1595 Injo of Joseon, Korean king (d. 1649)
                  • Born on December 7, 1598 Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor and painter (d. 1680)
                    • Born on December 7, 1643 Giovanni Battista Falda, Italian architect and engraver (d. 1678)
                      • Born on December 7, 1637 Bernardo Pasquini, Italian organist and composer (d. 1710)
                        • Born on December 7, 1764 Claude Victor-Perrin, French general and politician (d. 1841)
                          • Born on December 7, 1784 Allan Cunningham, Scottish author and poet (d. 1842)
                            • Born on December 7, 1791 Ferenc Novák, Hungarian-Slovene priest and poet (d. 1836)
                              • Born on December 7, 1792 Abraham Jacob van der Aa, Dutch author and academic (d. 1857)
                                • Born on December 7, 1801 Johann Nestroy, Austrian actor and playwright (d. 1862)
                                  • Born on December 7, 1810 Josef Hyrtl, Hungarian-Austrian anatomist and biologist (d. 1894)
                                    • Born on December 7, 1810 Theodor Schwann, German physiologist and biologist (d. 1882)
                                      • Born on December 7, 1823 Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (d. 1891)
                                        • Born on December 7, 1838 Thomas Bent, Australian businessman and politician, 22nd Premier of Victoria (d. 1909)
                                          • Born on December 7, 1860 Joseph Cook, English-born Australian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1947)
                                            • Born on December 7, 1861 Henri Mathias Berthelot, French general during World War I (d. 1931)
                                              • Born on December 7, 1862 Paul Adam, French author (d. 1920)
                                                • Born on December 7, 1863 Felix Calonder, Swiss soldier and politician, 36th President of the Swiss Confederation (d. 1952)
                                                  • Born on December 7, 1863 Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and conductor (d. 1945)
                                                    • Born on December 7, 1863 Richard Warren Sears, American businessman, co-founded Sears (d. 1914)
                                                      • Born on December 7, 1869 Frank Laver, Australian cricketer (d. 1919)
                                                        • Born on December 7, 1873 Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (d. 1947)
                                                          • Born on December 7, 1878 Akiko Yosano, Japanese author, poet, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer (d. 1942)
                                                            • Born on December 7, 1879 Rudolf Friml, Czech-American pianist, composer, and academic (d. 1972)
                                                              • Born on December 7, 1884 John Carpenter, American sprinter (d. 1933)
                                                                • Born on December 7, 1885 Mason Phelps, American golfer (d. 1945)
                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1885 Peter Sturholdt, American boxer and painter (d. 1919)
                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1887 Ernst Toch, Austrian-American composer and songwriter (d. 1964)
                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1888 Joyce Cary, Irish novelist (d. 1957)
                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1888 Hamilton Fish III, American captain and politician (d. 1991)
                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1892 Stuart Davis, American painter and academic (d. 1964)
                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1893 Fay Bainter, American actress (d. 1968)
                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1893 Hermann Balck, German general (d. 1982)
                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1894 Freddie Adkins, English author and illustrator (d. 1986)
                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1900 Kateryna Vasylivna Bilokur, Ukrainian folk artist (d. 1961)
                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1902 Hilda Taba, Estonian architect, author, and educator (d. 1967)
                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1903 Danilo Blanuša, Croatian mathematician, physicist, and academic (d. 1987)
                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1904 Clarence Nash, American voice actor and singer (d. 1985)
                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1905 Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-American astronomer and academic (d. 1973)
                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1906 Erika Fuchs, German translator (d. 2005)
                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1907 Fred Rose, Polish-Canadian politician and spy (d. 1983)
                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1909 Nikola Vaptsarov, Bulgarian poet and author (d. 1942)
                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1910 Duncan McNaughton, Canadian high jumper and geologist (d. 1998)
                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1910 Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter, trumpet player, and actor (d. 1978)
                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1912 Daniel Jones, Welsh captain and composer (d. 1993)
                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1913 Kersti Merilaas, Estonian author and poet (d. 1986)
                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1915 Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (d. 1978)
                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1915 Eli Wallach, American actor (d. 2014)
                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1920 Tatamkhulu Afrika, South African poet and author (d. 2002)
                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1920 Fiorenzo Magni, Italian cyclist (d. 2012)
                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1920 Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and pilot (d. 1944)
                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1921 Pramukh Swami Maharaj, Indian guru and scholar (d. 2016)
                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1923 Intizar Hussain, Indian-Pakistani author and scholar (d. 2016)
                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1923 Ted Knight, American actor and comedian (d. 1986)
                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1924 John Love, Zimbabwean race car driver (d. 2005)
                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1924 Mary Ellen Estill. American mathematician (d. 2013)
                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1924 Mário Soares, Portuguese historian, lawyer, and politician, 17th President of Portugal (d. 2017)
                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1924 Bent Fabric, Danish pianist and composer (d. 2020)
                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1925 Hermano da Silva Ramos, French-Brazilian race car driver
                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1926 William John McNaughton, American bishop (d. 2020)
                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1927 Jack S. Blanton, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2013)
                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1927 Helen Watts, Welsh opera singer (d. 2009)
                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1928 Noam Chomsky, American linguist and philosopher
                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1928 Mickey Thompson, American race car driver (d. 1988)
                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1930 Christopher Nicole, Guyanese-English author
                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1930 Hal Smith, American baseball player (d. 2020)
                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1931 Allan B. Calhamer, American game designer, created Diplomacy (d. 2013)
                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1931 Bobby Osborne, American bluegrass singer and musician (d. 2023)
                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1932 Ellen Burstyn, American actress
                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1932 Oktay Ekşi, Turkish journalist and politician
                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1932 Rosemary Rogers, American journalist and author (d. 2019)
                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1932 J. B. Sumarlin, Indonesian economist and politician, 17th Indonesian Minister of Finance (d. 2020)
                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1932 Bobby Whitton, Australian rugby league player (d. 2008)
                                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1933 Krsto Papić, Croatian director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
                                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1935 Armando Manzanero, Mexican musician, singer and composer (d. 2020)
                                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1937 Thad Cochran, American lawyer and politician (d. 2019)
                                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1937 Stan Boardman, English comedian
                                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1940 Gerry Cheevers, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
                                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1941 Melba Pattillo Beals, American journalist and activist
                                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1942 Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)
                                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1942 Reginald F. Lewis, American Business Tycoon and Philanthropist (d. 1993)
                                                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1942 Alex Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2015)
                                                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1942 Peter Tomarken, American game show host and producer (d. 2006)
                                                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1943 Susan Isaacs, American author and screenwriter
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1943 Nick Katz, American mathematician and academic
                                                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1943 Bernard C. Parks, American police officer and politician
                                                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1943 John Bennett Ramsey, American businessman and pilot
                                                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1944 Daniel Chorzempa, American organist and composer
                                                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1944 Miroslav Macek, Czech dentist and politician
                                                                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1947 Johnny Bench, American baseball player and sportscaster
                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1947 Anne Fine, English author
                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1947 James Keach, American actor, producer, and director
                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1947 Garry Unger, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1948 Gary Morris, American country singer-songwriter and actor
                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1948 Tony Thomas, American screenwriter and producer
                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1949 James Rivière, Italian sculptor and jeweler
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1949 Tom Waits, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1950 Ron Hynes, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1952 Susan Collins, American politician, senior senator of Maine
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1952 Eckhard Märzke, German footballer and manager
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1954 Mary Fallin, American businesswoman and politician, 27th Governor of Oklahoma
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1955 John Watkins, Australian educator and politician, 14th Deputy Premier of New South Wales
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1956 Larry Bird, American basketball player and coach
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1956 Chuy Bravo, Mexican-American comedian and actor (d. 2019)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1956 Anna Soubry, British politician
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1957 Geoff Lawson, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1957 Tom Winsor, English lawyer and civil servant
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1957 Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, Nigerian career-diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly (2019)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1958 Tim Butler, English bass player and songwriter
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1958 Rick Rude, American wrestler and sportscaster (d. 1999)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1959 Saleem Yousuf, Pakistani cricketer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1960 Craig Scanlon, English guitarist and songwriter
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1962 Alain Blondel, French decathlete
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1962 Jeffrey Donaldson, Northern Irish politician
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1962 Imad Mughniyah, Lebanese activist (d. 2008)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1963 Theo Snelders, Dutch footballer and coach
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1963 Katsuya Terada, Japanese illustrator
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1963 Barbara Weathers, American R&B/soul singer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1964 Hugo Blick, English filmmaker
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1964 Patrick Fabian, American actor
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1964 Peter Laviolette, American ice hockey player and coach
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1965 Deborah Bassett, Australian rower
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1965 Colin Hendry, Scottish footballer and manager
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1965 Jeffrey Wright, American actor
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1966 C. Thomas Howell, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1966 Shinichi Ito, Japanese motorcycle racer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1966 Kazue Itoh, Japanese actress
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1966 Andres Kasekamp, Canadian-Estonian historian and academic
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1966 Louise Post, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1967 Mark Geyer, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1967 Tino Martinez, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1967 Nina Turner, American politician
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1971 Vladimir Akopian, Azerbaijani-Armenian chess player
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1972 Hermann Maier, Austrian skier
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1972 Tammy Lynn Sytch, American wrestler and manager
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1973 İbrahim Kutluay, Turkish basketball player
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1973 Hack Meyers, American wrestler and trainer (d. 2015)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1973 Terrell Owens, American football player and actor
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1973 Fabien Pelous, French rugby player and coach
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1973 Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1974 Nicole Appleton, Canadian singer and actress
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1974 Manuel Martínez Gutiérrez, Spanish shot putter and actor
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1975 Jamie Clapham, English footballer and coach
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1976 Alan Faneca, American football player
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1976 Ivan Franceschini, Italian footballer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1976 Georges Laraque, Canadian ice hockey player and politician
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1976 Derek Ramsay, Filipino-British actor, model and television personality
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1976 Sunny Sweeney, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1976 Benoît Tréluyer, French race car driver
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1977 Eric Chavez, American baseball player and sportscaster
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1977 Luke Donald, English golfer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1977 Dominic Howard, English drummer and producer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1978 Shiri Appleby, American actress, director, and producer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1978 Suzannah Lipscomb, English historian, academic and television presenter
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1979 Sara Bareilles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actress
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1979 Lampros Choutos, Greek-Italian footballer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1979 Ayako Fujitani, Japanese actress and screenwriter
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1980 Dan Bilzerian, American poker player and internet celebrity
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1980 John Terry, English footballer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1983 Mike Mucitelli, American mixed martial artist
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1984 Aaron Gray, American basketball player
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1984 Robert Kubica, Polish race car driver
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1984 Milan Michálek, Czech ice hockey player
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1984 Luca Rigoni, Italian footballer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1985 Jon Moxley, American wrestler
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1986 Billy Horschel, American golfer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1986 Nita Strauss, American guitarist
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1987 Aaron Carter, American singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer, and actor (d. 2022)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1988 Nathan Adrian, American swimmer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1988 Angelina Gabueva, Russian tennis player
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1988 Emily Browning, Australian actress and singer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1989 Kyle Hendricks, American baseball player
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1989 Alessandro Marchi, Italian footballer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1989 Nicholas Hoult, English actor
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1990 David Goffin, Belgian tennis player
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1990 Aleksandr Menkov, Russian long jumper
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1990 Yasiel Puig, Cuban baseball player
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Born on December 7, 1990 Urszula Radwańska, Polish tennis player
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Born on December 7, 1991 Eugenio Pisani, Italian race car driver
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Born on December 7, 1993 Rahama Sadau, Nigerian actress
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Born on December 7, 1994 Pete Alonso, American baseball player
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Born on December 7, 1994 Yuzuru Hanyu, Japanese figure skater
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Born on December 7, 1997 Abi Harrison, Scottish footballer
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Born on December 7, 1997 Tommy Nelson, American actor
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Born on December 7, 1998 Tony Yike Yang, Canadian pianist

  • Died on December 7, 43 BC Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician (b. 106 BC)
    • Died on December 7, 283 Eutychian, pope of the Catholic Church
      • Died on December 7, 881 Anspert, archbishop of Milan
        • Died on December 7, 983 Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 955)
          • Died on December 7, 1254 Innocent IV, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1195)
            • Died on December 7, 1279 Bolesław V, High Duke of Poland (b. 1226)
              • Died on December 7, 1295 Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, English officer (b. 1243)
                • Died on December 7, 1383 Wenceslaus I, duke of Luxembourg (b. 1337)
                  • Died on December 7, 1498 Alexander Hegius von Heek, German poet (b. 1433)
                    • Died on December 7, 1562 Adrian Willaert, Dutch-Italian composer and educator (b. 1490)
                      • Died on December 7, 1649 Charles Garnier, French missionary and saint (b. 1606)
                        • Died on December 7, 1672 Richard Bellingham, English-American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1592)
                          • Died on December 7, 1680 Peter Lely, Dutch-English painter (b. 1618)
                            • Died on December 7, 1683 Algernon Sidney, English philosopher and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1623)
                              • Died on December 7, 1723 Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect, designed the Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk and Karlova Koruna Chateau (b. 1677)
                                • Died on December 7, 1725 Florent Carton Dancourt, French actor and playwright (b. 1661)
                                  • Died on December 7, 1772 Martín Sarmiento, Spanish monk, scholar, and author (b. 1695)
                                    • Died on December 7, 1775 Charles Saunders, English admiral and politician (b. 1715)
                                      • Died on December 7, 1793 Joseph Bara, French soldier and drummer (b. 1779)
                                        • Died on December 7, 1803 Küçük Hüseyin Pasha, Turkish admiral and politician (b. 1757)
                                          • Died on December 7, 1815 Michel Ney, German-French general (b. 1769)
                                            • Died on December 7, 1817 William Bligh, English admiral and politician, 4th Governor of New South Wales (b. 1745)
                                              • Died on December 7, 1837 Robert Nicoll, Scottish poet (b.1814)
                                                • Died on December 7, 1842 Thomas Hamilton, Scottish philosopher and author (b. 1789)
                                                  • Died on December 7, 1874 Constantin von Tischendorf, German theologian, scholar, and academic (b. 1815)
                                                    • Died on December 7, 1879 Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic scholar and politician, 1st Speaker of the Parliament of Iceland (b. 1811)
                                                      • Died on December 7, 1891 Arthur Blyth, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of South Australia (b. 1823)
                                                        • Died on December 7, 1894 Ferdinand de Lesseps, French businessman and diplomat, co-developed the Suez Canal (b. 1805)
                                                          • Died on December 7, 1899 Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1857)
                                                            • Died on December 7, 1902 Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (b. 1840)
                                                              • Died on December 7, 1906 Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833)
                                                                • Died on December 7, 1913 Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (b. 1828)
                                                                  • Died on December 7, 1917 Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1826)
                                                                    • Died on December 7, 1918 Frank Wilson, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1859)
                                                                      • Died on December 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor: Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain (b. 1887) Frederick Curtice Davis, American sailor (b. 1915) Julius Ellsberry, American sailor (b. 1921) John C. England, American sailor (b. 1920) Edwin J. Hill, American sailor (b. 1894) Ralph Hollis, American sailor (b. 1906) Herbert C. Jones, American sailor (b. 1918) Isaac C. Kidd, American admiral (b. 1884) Robert Lawrence Leopold, American sailor (b. 1916) Herbert Hugo Menges, American sailor (b. 1917) Thomas James Reeves, American sailor (b. 1895) Aloysius Schmitt, American priest and sailor (b. 1909) Robert R. Scott, American sailor (b. 1915) Peter Tomich, American sailor (b. 1893) Robert Uhlmann, American sailor (b. 1919) Franklin Van Valkenburgh, American captain (b. 1888) Eldon P. Wyman, American sailor (b. 1917)
                                                                        • Died on December 7, Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain (b. 1887)
                                                                          • Died on December 7, Frederick Curtice Davis, American sailor (b. 1915)
                                                                            • Died on December 7, Julius Ellsberry, American sailor (b. 1921)
                                                                              • Died on December 7, John C. England, American sailor (b. 1920)
                                                                                • Died on December 7, Edwin J. Hill, American sailor (b. 1894)
                                                                                  • Died on December 7, Ralph Hollis, American sailor (b. 1906)
                                                                                    • Died on December 7, Herbert C. Jones, American sailor (b. 1918)
                                                                                      • Died on December 7, Isaac C. Kidd, American admiral (b. 1884)
                                                                                        • Died on December 7, Robert Lawrence Leopold, American sailor (b. 1916)
                                                                                          • Died on December 7, Herbert Hugo Menges, American sailor (b. 1917)
                                                                                            • Died on December 7, Thomas James Reeves, American sailor (b. 1895)
                                                                                              • Died on December 7, Aloysius Schmitt, American priest and sailor (b. 1909)
                                                                                                • Died on December 7, Robert R. Scott, American sailor (b. 1915)
                                                                                                  • Died on December 7, Peter Tomich, American sailor (b. 1893)
                                                                                                    • Died on December 7, Robert Uhlmann, American sailor (b. 1919)
                                                                                                      • Died on December 7, Franklin Van Valkenburgh, American captain (b. 1888)
                                                                                                        • Died on December 7, Eldon P. Wyman, American sailor (b. 1917)
                                                                                                          • Died on December 7, 1947 Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866)
                                                                                                            • Died on December 7, 1947 Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
                                                                                                              • Died on December 7, 1949 Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (b. 1877)
                                                                                                                • Died on December 7, 1956 Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1887)
                                                                                                                  • Died on December 7, 1956 Reşat Nuri Güntekin, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1889)
                                                                                                                    • Died on December 7, 1960 Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1882)
                                                                                                                      • Died on December 7, 1962 Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer (b. 1895)
                                                                                                                        • Died on December 7, 1969 Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player and manager (b. 1897)
                                                                                                                          • Died on December 7, 1969 Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1903)
                                                                                                                            • Died on December 7, 1970 Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, sculptor, and author (b. 1883)
                                                                                                                              • Died on December 7, 1975 Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (b. 1897)
                                                                                                                                • Died on December 7, 1975 Hardie Albright, American actor (b. 1903)
                                                                                                                                  • Died on December 7, 1976 Paul Bragg, American nutritionist (b. 1895)
                                                                                                                                    • Died on December 7, 1977 Paul Gibb, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1913)
                                                                                                                                      • Died on December 7, 1977 Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906)
                                                                                                                                        • Died on December 7, 1977 Georges Grignard, French race car driver (b. 1905)
                                                                                                                                          • Died on December 7, 1978 Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (b. 1886)
                                                                                                                                            • Died on December 7, 1979 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, English-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900)
                                                                                                                                              • Died on December 7, 1980 Darby Crash, American punk rock vocalist and songwriter (b. 1958)
                                                                                                                                                • Died on December 7, 1984 LeeRoy Yarbrough, American race car driver (b. 1938)
                                                                                                                                                  • Died on December 7, 1985 J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906)
                                                                                                                                                    • Died on December 7, 1985 Robert Graves, English poet, novelist, critic (b. 1895)
                                                                                                                                                      • Died on December 7, 1985 Potter Stewart, American soldier and jurist (b. 1915)
                                                                                                                                                        • Died on December 7, 1989 Haystacks Calhoun, American wrestler and actor (b. 1934)
                                                                                                                                                          • Died on December 7, 1989 Hans Hartung, French-German painter (b. 1904)
                                                                                                                                                            • Died on December 7, 1990 Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)
                                                                                                                                                              • Died on December 7, 1990 Jean Paul Lemieux, Canadian painter and educator (b. 1904)
                                                                                                                                                                • Died on December 7, 1992 Richard J. Hughes, American politician, 45th Governor of New Jersey, and Chief Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court (b. 1909)
                                                                                                                                                                  • Died on December 7, 1993 Abidin Dino, Turkish-French painter and illustrator (b. 1913)
                                                                                                                                                                    • Died on December 7, 1993 Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Ivoirian physician and politician, 1st President of Ivory Coast (b. 1905)
                                                                                                                                                                      • Died on December 7, 1995 Kathleen Harrison, English actress (b. 1892)
                                                                                                                                                                        • Died on December 7, 1997 Billy Bremner, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1942)
                                                                                                                                                                          • Died on December 7, 1998 John Addison, English-American composer and conductor (b. 1920)
                                                                                                                                                                            • Died on December 7, 1998 Martin Rodbell, American biochemist and endocrinologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
                                                                                                                                                                              • Died on December 7, 2003 Carl F. H. Henry American journalist and theologian (b. 1913)
                                                                                                                                                                                • Died on December 7, 2003 Azie Taylor Morton, American educator and politician, 36th Treasurer of the United States (b. 1933)
                                                                                                                                                                                  • Died on December 7, 2004 Frederick Fennell, American conductor and educator (b. 1914)
                                                                                                                                                                                    • Died on December 7, 2004 Jerry Scoggins, American singer and guitarist (b. 1913)
                                                                                                                                                                                      • Died on December 7, 2004 Jay Van Andel, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Amway (b. 1924)
                                                                                                                                                                                        • Died on December 7, 2005 Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931)
                                                                                                                                                                                          • Died on December 7, 2006 Jeane Kirkpatrick, American academic and diplomat, 16th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b. 1926)
                                                                                                                                                                                            • Died on December 7, 2008 Herbert Hutner, American banker and lawyer (b. 1908)
                                                                                                                                                                                              • Died on December 7, 2010 Elizabeth Edwards, American lawyer and author (b. 1949)
                                                                                                                                                                                                • Died on December 7, 2010 Kari Tapio, Finnish singer (b. 1945)
                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Died on December 7, 2011 Harry Morgan, American actor (b. 1915)
                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Died on December 7, 2012 Roelof Kruisinga, Dutch physician and politician, Dutch Minister of Defence (b. 1922)
                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Died on December 7, 2012 Ralph Parr, American colonel and pilot (b. 1924)
                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Died on December 7, 2012 Marty Reisman, American table tennis player and author (b. 1930)
                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Died on December 7, 2012 Saul Steinberg, American businessman and financier (b. 1939)
                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Died on December 7, 2013 Édouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928)
                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Died on December 7, 2013 Chick Willis, American singer and guitarist (b. 1934)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Died on December 7, 2014 Mark Lewis, American author and educator (b. 1954)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Died on December 7, 2015 Gerhard Lenski, American sociologist and academic (b. 1924)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Died on December 7, 2015 Hyron Spinrad, American astronomer and academic (b. 1934)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      • Died on December 7, 2015 Peter Westbury, English race car driver (b. 1938)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                        • Died on December 7, 2016 Junaid Jamshed, Pakistani recording artist, television personality, fashion designer, occasional actor, singer-songwriter and preacher. (b. 1964)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                          • Died on December 7, 2015 &ndadh; Shirley Stelfox, English actress ,(b. 1941)[28]
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            • Died on December 7, 2016 Greg Lake, English musician (b. 1947)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                              • Died on December 7, 2017 Steve Reevis, Native American actor (b. 1962)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                • Died on December 7, 2019 Ron Saunders, English football player and manager (b. 1932)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  • Died on December 7, 2020 Dick Allen, American baseball player and tenor (b. 1942)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    • Died on December 7, 2020 Chuck Yeager, American aviator (b. 1923)

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