December 31
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[edit] Holidays
[edit] Births
- 1959 - Val Kilmer
- 1991 - Sam Andrews
[edit] Deaths
- 192 - Commodus, Roman Emperor (b. 161)
- 1164 - Margrave Ottokar III of Styria
- 1194 - Leopold V of Austria (killed at a tournament) (b. 1157)
- 1384 - John Wyclif, English theologian (b. 1328)
- 1510 - Bianca Maria Sforza, daughter of Duke Galeazzo Maria Sforza of Milan and wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1568 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyo (b. 1493)
- 1877 - Gustave Courbet, French painter (b. 1819)
- 1888 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, rabbi (b. 1808)
- 1936 - Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer, philosopher
- 1948 - Malcolm Campbell, Grand Prix race car driver (b. 1885)
- 1969 - George Lewis, jazz musician (b. 1900)
- 1972 - Roberto Clemente, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1934)
- 1980 - Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer (b. 1911)
- 1980 - Raoul Walsh, film director
- 1985 - Rick Nelson, singer (b. 1940)
- 1990 - Vasili Lazarev, cosmonaut (b. 1928)
- 1993 - Zviad Gamsakhurdia, scientist and writer, first President of the Republic of Georgia (b. 1939)
- 1993 - Brandon Teena, murder victim (b. 1972)
- 1997 - Floyd Cramer, musician
- 1997 - Michael Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, killed in a skiing accident on Aspen Mountain in Colorado.
- 1999 - Sarah Knauss, dies at the age of 119 years - at death, the world's oldest person alive. (b. 1880).
- 1999 - Elliot Richardson, U.S. politician (b. 1920)
- 2000 - Alan Cranston, U.S. politician
- 2000 - José Greco, Spanish Flamenco dancer
- 2003 - Arthur R. von Hippel German-born American scientist and professor at MIT
[edit] Events
- 1963 - The Central African Federation officially breaks apart, and eventually becomes Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
- 1991 - The Soviet Union officially comes to an end.
