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December 19  is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar .  12 days remain until the end of the year.  
      1154  – Henry II of England  is crowned at Westminster Abbey .[1]    1187  – Pope Clement III  is elected.[2]    1490  – Anne, Duchess of Brittany , is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor  by proxy .   1562  – The Battle of Dreux  takes place during the French Wars of Religion .[3]    1606  – The ships Susan Constant  , Godspeed  , and Discovery   depart England carrying settlers who founded, at Jamestown, Virginia , the first of the thirteen colonies  that became the United States.   1675  – The Great Swamp Fight , a pivotal battle in King Philip's War , gives the English settlers a bitterly won victory.[4]    1776  – Thomas Paine  publishes one of a series of pamphlets in The Pennsylvania Journal   entitled "The American Crisis ".   1777  – American Revolutionary War : George Washington 's Continental Army  goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania .   1796  – French Revolutionary Wars : Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson  and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle  off the coast of Murcia .[5]    1828  – Nullification crisis : Vice President of the United States  John C. Calhoun  pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest  , protesting the Tariff of 1828 .   1900  – Hopetoun Blunder : The first Governor-General of Australia  John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun , appoints Sir William Lyne  premier of the new state of New South Wales , but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.[6]    1907  – Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster  in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania .   1912  – William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship  General Slocum   which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft  after 3  1 ⁄2   years in Sing Sing  prison.   1920  – King Constantine I  is restored as King of the Hellenes  after the death of his son Alexander of Greece  and a plebiscite .   1924  – The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost  is sold in London, England.   1924   – German serial killer Fritz Haarmann  is sentenced to death for a series of murders.   1927  – Three Indian revolutionaries, Ram Prasad Bismil , Roshan Singh  and Ashfaqulla Khan , are executed by the British Raj  for participation in the Kakori conspiracy .   1929  – The Indian National Congress  promulgates the Purna Swaraj  (the Declaration of the Independence of India).   1932  – BBC World Service  begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service.   1941  – World War II: Adolf Hitler  appoints himself as head of the Oberkommando des Heeres  .   1941   – World War II: Limpet mines  placed by Italian  divers heavily damage HMS Valiant   and HMS Queen Elizabeth   in Alexandria harbour .   1945  – John Amery , British Fascist , is executed at the age of 33 by the British Government for treason.   1946  – Start of the First Indochina War .   1956  – Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams  is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.   1961  – India annexes  Daman and Diu , part of Portuguese India .   1967  – Harold Holt , the Prime Minister of Australia , is officially presumed dead .   1972  – Apollo program : The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17 , crewed by Eugene Cernan , Ronald Evans , and Harrison Schmitt , returns to Earth .   1974  – Nelson Rockefeller  is sworn in as Vice President of the United States  under President Gerald Ford  under the provisions of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution .   1981  – Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat  goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas.   1983  – The original FIFA World Cup  trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy , is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation  in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil.   1984  – The Sino-British Joint Declaration , stating that China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing, China by Deng Xiaoping  and Margaret Thatcher .   1986  – Mikhail Gorbachev , leader of the Soviet Union , releases Andrei Sakharov  and his wife from exile  in Gorky .   1995  – The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi  Native American tribe.   1997  – SilkAir Flight 185  crashes into the Musi River , near Palembang  in Indonesia , killing 104.   1998  – President Bill Clinton  is impeached  by the United States House of Representatives , becoming the second President of the United States to be impeached .   2000  – The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist  attack a Nationalist Movement Party  office in Istanbul , Turkey , killing one person and injuring three.   2001  – A record high barometric pressure  of 1085.6 hPa  (32.06 inHg ) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl , Mongolia .   2001   – Argentine economic crisis : December riots : Riots erupt in Buenos Aires , Argentina .   2012  – Park Geun-hye  is elected  the first female president of South Korea .   2013  – Spacecraft Gaia   is launched by European Space Agency .   2016  – Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov  is assassinated  while at an art exhibition in Ankara . The assassin, Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş, is shot and killed by a Turkish guard.   2016   – A vehicular attack  in Berlin, Germany, kills and injures multiple people at a Christmas market .      1343  – William I, Margrave of Meissen  (d. 1407)   1498  – Andreas Osiander , German Protestant theologian (d. 1552)   1554  – Philip William, Prince of Orange  (d. 1618)   1587  – Dorothea Sophia, Abbess of Quedlinburg  (d. 1645)   1683  – Philip V of Spain  (d. 1746)   1699  – William Bowyer , English printer (d. 1777)   1714  – John Winthrop , American astronomer and educator (d. 1779)   1778  – Marie Thérèse of France  (d. 1851)   1796  – Manuel Bretón de los Herreros , Spanish poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1873)   1797  – Antoine Louis Dugès , French obstetrician and naturalist (d. 1838)   1817  – James J. Archer , American lawyer and general (d. 1864)   1820  – Mary Livermore , American journalist and activist (d. 1905)   1825  – George Frederick Bristow , American violinist and composer (d. 1898)   1831  – Bernice Pauahi Bishop , American philanthropist (d. 1884)   1849  – Henry Clay Frick , American businessman and financier (d. 1919)   1852  – Albert Abraham Michelson , Prussian-American physicist, chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize  laureate (d. 1931)   1853  – Charles Fitzpatrick , Canadian lawyer and politician, 12th Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec  (d. 1942)   1861  – Italo Svevo , Italian author and playwright (d. 1928)   1863  – Wallace Bryant , American archer (d. 1953)   1865  – Minnie Maddern Fiske , American actress and playwright (d. 1932)   1873  – Alphonse Kirchhoffer , French fencer (d. 1913)   1875  – Mileva Marić , Serbian physicist (d. 1948)   1875   – Carter G. Woodson , American historian and author, founded Black History Month  (d. 1950)   1875   – Grace Marie Bareis , American mathematician (d. 1962)   1876  – Bernard Friedberg , Austrian-Israeli scholar and author (d. 1961)   1884  – Antonín Zápotocký , Czech politician, President  of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic  (d. 1957)   1888  – Fritz Reiner , Hungarian-American conductor (d. 1963)   1891  – Edward Bernard Raczyński , Polish politician and diplomat, 4th President-in-exile of Poland  (d. 1993)   1894  – Ford Frick , American journalist and businessman (d. 1978)   1895  – Ingeborg Refling Hagen , Norwegian author and educator (d. 1989)   1899  – Martin Luther King Sr. , American pastor, missionary, and activist (d. 1984)   1901  – Rudolf Hell , German engineer, invented the Hellschreiber  (d. 2002)   1901   – Oliver La Farge , American anthropologist and author (d. 1963)   1901   – Fritz Mauruschat , German footballer and manager (d. 1974)   1902  – Ralph Richardson , English actor (d. 1983)   1903  – George Davis Snell , American geneticist and immunologist, Nobel Prize  laureate (d. 1996)   1905  – Irving Kahn , American businessman (d. 2015)   1905   – Giovanni Lurani , Italian race car driver, engineer, and journalist (d. 1995)   1906  – Leonid Brezhnev , Ukrainian-Russian marshal, engineer, and politician, 4th Head of State of the Soviet Union  (d. 1982)   1907  – Jimmy McLarnin , Irish-American boxer, actor, and golfer (d. 2004)   1909  – W. A. Criswell , American pastor and author (d. 2002)   1910  – Jean Genet , French novelist, playwright, and poet (d. 1986)   1914  – Mel Shaw , American animator and screenwriter (d. 2012)   1915  – Édith Piaf , French singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1963)   1915   – Claudia Testoni , Italian hurdler, sprinter, and long jumper (d. 1998)   1916  – Roy Ward Baker , English director and producer (d. 2010)   1916   – Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann , German political scientist, journalist, and academic (d. 2010)   1918  – Professor Longhair , American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1980)   1918   – Lee Rich , American producer and production manager (d. 2012)   1920  – Little Jimmy Dickens , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2015)   1920   – David Susskind , American talk show host and producer (d. 1987)   1922  – Eamonn Andrews , Irish radio and television host (d. 1987)   1923  – Robert V. Bruce , American historian and author (d. 2008)   1923   – Gordon Jackson , Scottish-English actor and singer (d. 1990)   1924  – Carlo Chiti , Italian engineer (d. 1994)   1924   – Doug Harvey , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1989)   1924   – Gary Morton , American comedian and producer (d. 1999)   1924   – Edmund Purdom , British-Italian actor (d. 2009)   1924   – Michel Tournier , French journalist and author (d. 2016)   1924   – Cicely Tyson , American actress   1925  – Tankred Dorst , German author and playwright (d. 2017)   1925   – William Schutz , American psychologist and academic (d. 2002)   1925   – Robert B. Sherman , American songwriter and screenwriter (d. 2012)   1926  – Bobby Layne , American football player and coach (d. 1986)   1926   – Fikret Otyam , Turkish painter and journalist (d. 2015)   1927  – James Booth , English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005)   1928  – Eve Bunting , Irish-American author and academic   1928   – Nathan Oliveira , American painter and sculptor (d. 2010)   1929  – Bob Brookmeyer , American trombonist, pianist, and composer (d. 2011)   1929   – David Douglas, 12th Marquess of Queensberry , Scottish potter   1929   – Gregory Carroll , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2013)   1929   – Howard Sackler , American playwright and screenwriter (d. 1982)   1930  – Wally Olins , English businessman and academic (d. 2014)   1930   – Knut Helle , Norwegian historian and professor (d. 2015)   1931  –  Ginger Stanley , American model, actress and stunt woman[7]    1932  – Salvador Elizondo , Mexican author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 2006)   1932 – Lola Hendricks , African American civil rights activist (d. 2013)[8]    1932   – Wayne Tippit , American actor (d. 2009)   1933  – Kevan Gosper , Australian runner and politician   1933   – Christopher Smout , Scottish historian and academic   1934  – Al Kaline , American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2020)   1934   – Pratibha Patil , Indian lawyer and politician, 12th President of India    1934   – Casper R. Taylor, Jr. , American lawyer and politician   1935  – Bobby Timmons , American pianist and composer (d. 1974)   1935   – Joanne Weaver , American baseball player (d. 2000)   1935   – Tony Taylor , Cuban baseball player (d. 2020)[9]    1940  – Phil Ochs , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1976)   1941  – Lee Myung-bak , South Korean businessman and politician, 10th President of South Korea    1941   – Maurice White , American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2016)   1942  – Cornell Dupree , American guitarist (d. 2011)   1942   – "Mean Gene" Okerlund , American sports announcer (d. 2019)   1943  – Ross M. Lence , American political scientist and academic (d. 2006)   1943   – James L. Jones , American general and politician, 22nd United States National Security Advisor    1944  – William Christie , American-French harpsichord  player and conductor   1944   – Mitchell Feigenbaum , American physicist and mathematician (d. 2019)   1944   – Martin Hume Johnson , English physiologist and academic   1944   – Richard Leakey , Kenyan paleontologist and politician   1944   – Alvin Lee , English singer-songwriter and guitarist  (d. 2013)   1944   – Tim Reid , American actor and director   1944   – Steve Tyrell , American singer-songwriter and producer   1944   – Zal Yanovsky , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2002)   1945  – Elaine Joyce , American actress, singer, and dancer   1945   – John McEuen , American singer-songwriter and guitarist   1946  – Rosemary Conley , English businesswoman, author, and broadcaster   1946   – Robert Urich , American actor and producer (d. 2002)   1947  – Jimmy Bain , Scottish bass player and songwriter (d. 2016)   1948  – Ken Brown , Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster   1949  – Orna Berry , Israeli computer scientist and businesswoman   1949   – Claudia Kolb , American swimmer   1949   – Sebastian , Danish singer-songwriter and guitarist   1950  – Eleanor J. Hill , American lawyer and diplomat   1951  – Mohammad Reza Aref , Iranian engineer and politician, 2nd Vice President of Iran    1951   – Alan Rouse , English mountaineer and author (d. 1986)   1952  – Walter Murphy , American pianist and composer   1954  – Jeff Allam , English race car driver   1954   – Tim Parks , English author and translator   1955  – Lincoln Hall , Australian mountaineer and author (d. 2012)   1955   – Rob Portman , American lawyer and politician   1956  – Phil Harris , American captain and fisherman (d. 2010)   1956   – Tom Lawless , American baseball player and manager   1956   – Shane McEntee , Irish farmer and politician, Minister of State for Food, Horticulture and Food Safety  (d. 2012)   1957  – Cyril Collard , French actor, director, and composer (d. 1993)   1957   – Kevin McHale , American basketball player, coach, and manager   1958  – Steven Isserlis , English cellist and author   1958   – Limahl , English pop singer   1959  – Iván Vallejo , Ecuadorian mountaineer   1959   – Lisa Wilkinson , Australian television host and journalist   1960  – Derrick Jensen , American author and activist   1960   – Michelangelo Signorile , American journalist and author   1961  – Eric Allin Cornell , American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize  laureate   1961   – Matthew Waterhouse , English actor and author   1961   – Reggie White , American football player and wrestler (d. 2004)   1962  – Gary Fleder , American director, producer, and screenwriter   1963  – Jennifer Beals , American model and actress   1963   – Til Schweiger , German actor, director, and producer   1964  – Béatrice Dalle , French actress   1964   – Lorie Kane , Canadian golfer   1964   – Arvydas Sabonis , Lithuanian basketball player   1965  – Chito Martínez , Belizean-American baseball player   1966  – Chuckii Booker , American singer-songwriter and producer   1966   – Rajesh Chauhan , Indian cricketer   1966   – Alberto Tomba , Italian skier   1966   – Eric Weinrich , American ice hockey player and coach   1967  – Criss Angel , American magician   1967   – Charles Austin , American high jumper   1968  – Kristina Keneally , American-Australian politician, 42nd Premier of New South Wales    1968   – Ken Marino , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter   1969  – Michael Bates , American sprinter and football player   1969   – Tom Gugliotta , American basketball player   1969   – Richard Hammond , English journalist and producer   1969   – Nayan Mongia , Indian cricketer   1969   – Aziza Mustafa Zadeh , Azerbaijani composer, pianist, and singer   1970  – Tyson Beckford , American model and actor   1971  – Karen Pickering , English swimmer   1972  – Alyssa Milano , American actress and television personality   1973  – Michalis Grigoriou , Greek footballer and coach   1973   – Erick Wainaina , Kenyan runner   1973   – Zulfiya Zabirova , Russian cyclist   1974  – Eduard Ivakdalam , Indonesian footballer   1974   – Joe Jurevicius , American football player   1974   – Felipe Lopez , Dominican-American basketball player   1974   – Jake Plummer , American football player and sportscaster   1974   – Ricky Ponting , Australian cricketer and sportscaster   1975  – Makis Belevonis , Greek footballer   1975   – Brandon Sanderson , American author and academic   1975   – Jeremy Soule , Canadian composer   1975   – Olivier Tébily , Ivorian-French footballer   1975   – Dean Treister , Australian rugby league player   1977  – Jorge Garbajosa , Spanish basketball player   1977   – LaTasha Jenkins , American sprinter   1977   – Irina Voronina , Russian model   1978  – Patrick Casey , American actor, producer, and screenwriter   1979  – Kevin Devine , American singer-songwriter and guitarist   1979   – Rafael Soriano , Dominican baseball player   1980  – Jake Gyllenhaal , American actor and producer[10]    1980   – Marla Sokoloff , American actress and musician   1981  – Grégory Dufer , Belgian footballer   1982  – Mo Williams , American basketball player   1983  – Nektarios Alexandrou , Cypriot footballer   1983   – Casey Crescenzo , American singer-songwriter and guitarist   1983   – Bridget Phillipson , English politician   1983   – Laura Pomeroy , Canadian swimmer   1983   – Matt Stajan , Canadian ice hockey player   1984  – Ian Kennedy , American baseball player   1985  – Gary Cahill , English footballer   1985   – Andrea Baldini , Italian fencer   1985   – Neil Kilkenny , English-Australian footballer   1985   – Sally Kipyego , Kenyan runner   1985   – Dan Logan , English bass player   1985   – Lady Sovereign , English rapper   1986  – Calvin Andrew , English footballer   1986   – Ryan Babel , Dutch footballer   1986   – Ingrid Burley , American rapper and songwriter   1986   – Lazaros Christodoulopoulos , Greek footballer   1986   – Zuzana Hejnová , Czech hurdler   1986   – Miguel Lopes , Portuguese footballer   1987  – Cédric Baseya , French-Congolese footballer   1987   – Karim Benzema , French footballer   1987   – Ronan Farrow , American activist, journalist, and lawyer   1988  – Alexis Sánchez , Chilean footballer   1988   – Peter Winn , English footballer   1988   – Casey Burgess , Australian television personality   1989  – Yong Jun-hyung , South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper and producer   1989   – Michał Masłowski , Polish footballer   1989   – Kousei Miura , Japanese jockey   1989   – Hamza Riazuddin , English cricketer   1990  – Torrey Craig , American basketball player[11]    1990  – Greg Bretz , American snowboarder   1991  – Declan Galbraith , English singer-songwriter   1991   – Sumire Uesaka , Japanese voice actress and singer   1992  – Iker Muniain , Spanish footballer   1992   – Raphael Spiegel , Swiss footballer   1993  – Isiah Koech , Kenyan runner   1993  – Young K , South Korean singer-songwriter   1994  – M'Baye Niang , French footballer   1994   – Maudy Ayunda , Indonesian actress and singer-songwriter   1996  – Franck Kessié , Ivorian footballer     401  – Pope Anastasius I    966  – Sancho I , king of León    1091  – Adelaide of Susa , margravine of Turin   1111  – Al-Ghazali , Iranian jurist, philosopher, and mystic (b. 1058)   1123  – Saint Berardo , Italian bishop and saint   1327  – Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy  (b. 1260)   1370  – Pope Urban V  (b. 1310)   1442  – Elizabeth of Luxembourg  (b. 1409)   1385  – Bernabò Visconti , Lord of Milan  (b. 1319)   1558  – Cornelius Grapheus , Flemish writer (b. 1482)   1637  – Christina of Lorraine , Grand Duchess consort of Tuscany (b. 1565)   1741  – Vitus Bering , Danish-Russian hydrographer and explorer (b. 1681)   1745  – Jean-Baptiste van Loo , French painter (b. 1684)   1749  – Francesco Antonio Bonporti , Italian priest and composer (b. 1672)   1807  – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm , German-French author and playwright (b. 1723)   1813  – James McGill , Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University  (b. 1744)   1819  – Thomas Fremantle , English admiral and politician (b. 1765)   1848  – Emily Brontë , English novelist and poet (b. 1818)   1851  – Joseph Mallord William Turner , English painter (b. 1775)   1878  – Bayard Taylor , American author and poet (b. 1825)   1899  – Henry Ware Lawton , American general (b. 1843)   1915  – Alois Alzheimer , German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (b. 1864)   1916  – Thibaw Min , Burmese king (b. 1859)   1927  – Ashfaqulla Khan , Indian activist (b. 1900)   1927   – Ram Prasad Bismil , Indian poet and activist (b. 1897)   1932  – Yun Bong-gil , South Korean activist (b. 1908)   1933  – George Jackson Churchward , English engineer and businessman (b. 1857)   1938  – Stephen Warfield Gambrill , American lawyer and politician (b. 1873)   1944  – Abbas II of Egypt  (b. 1874)   1944   – Rudolph Karstadt , German businessman (b. 1856)   1946  – Paul Langevin , French physicist and academic (b. 1872)   1953  – Robert Andrews Millikan , American physicist and eugenicist, Nobel Prize  laureate (b. 1868)   1968  – Norman Thomas , American minister and politician (b. 1884)   1972  – Ahmet Emin Yalman , Turkish journalist, author, and academic (b. 1888)   1976  – Giuseppe Caselli , Italian painter (b. 1893)   1982  – Dwight Macdonald , American philosopher, author, and critic (b. 1906)   1984  – Joy Ridderhof , American missionary (b. 1903)   1986  – V. C. Andrews , American author (b. 1923)   1986   – Werner Dankwort , Russian-German colonel and diplomat (b. 1895)   1987  – August Mälk , Estonian author, playwright, and politician (b. 1900)   1988  – Robert Bernstein , American author and playwright (b. 1919)   1989  – Stella Gibbons , English journalist, author, and poet (b. 1902)   1989   – Kirill Mazurov , Belarusian Soviet  politician (b. 1914)   1991  – Joe Cole , American roadie and author (b. 1961)   1993  – Michael Clarke , American drummer (b. 1946)   1996  – Marcello Mastroianni , Italian-French actor and singer (b. 1924)   1997  – Sara Northrup Hollister , American occultist (b. 1924)   1997   – Masaru Ibuka , Japanese businessman, co-founded Sony  (b. 1908)[12]    1997   – Jimmy Rogers , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1924)   1998  – Mel Fisher , American treasure hunter (b. 1922)   1999  – Desmond Llewelyn , Welsh soldier and actor (b. 1914)   2000  – Rob Buck , American guitarist and songwriter (b. 1958)   2000   – Milt Hinton , American bassist and photographer (b. 1910)   2000   – John Lindsay , American lawyer and politician, 103rd Mayor of New York City  (b. 1921)   2002  – Will Hoy , English race car driver (b. 1952)   2002   – Arthur Rowley , English footballer and manager (b. 1926)   2002   – George Weller , American author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1907)   2003  – Peter Carter-Ruck , English lawyer, founded Carter-Ruck  (b. 1914)   2003   – Hope Lange , American actress (b. 1933)   2004  – Herbert C. Brown , English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize  laureate (b. 1912)   2004   – Renata Tebaldi , Italian soprano and actress (b. 1922)   2005  – Vincent Gigante , American mobster (b. 1927)   2008  – James Bevel , American minister and activist (b. 1936)   2008   – Carol Chomsky , American linguist and educator (b. 1930)   2008   – Michael Connell , American political consultant (b. 1963)   2008   – Dock Ellis , American baseball player and coach (b. 1945)   2009  – Kim Peek , American megasavant  (b. 1951)[13]    2010  – Anthony Howard , English journalist and author (b. 1934)   2012  – Robert Bork , American lawyer, judge, and scholar, United States Attorney General  (b. 1927)   2012   – Amnon Lipkin-Shahak , Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation Minister of Israel  (b. 1944)   2012   – Larry Morris , American football player (b. 1933)   2012   – Peter Struck , German lawyer and politician, 13th German Federal Minister of Defence  (b. 1943)   2013  – Winton Dean , English musicologist and author (b. 1916)   2013   – Al Goldstein , American publisher and pornographer (b. 1936)   2013   – Ned Vizzini , American author and screenwriter (b. 1981)   2014  – S. Balasubramanian , Indian journalist and director (b. 1936)   2014   – Philip Bradbourn , English lawyer and politician (b. 1951)   2014   – Arthur Gardner , American actor and producer (b. 1910)   2014   – Igor Rodionov , Russian general and politician, 3rd Russian Minister of Defence  (b. 1936)   2014   – Dick Thornton , American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1939)   2014   – Roberta Leigh  (Rita Shulman Lewin), British writer, artist and TV producer (b. 1926).   2015  – Jimmy Hill , English footballer, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1928)   2015   – Greville Janner , Baron Janner of Braunstone, Welsh-English lawyer and politician (b. 1928)   2015   – Karin Söder , Swedish educator and politician, 33rd Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs  (b. 1928)   2016  – Andrei Karlov , Russian diplomat, Ambassador to Turkey (b. 1954)   Holidays and observances [ edit ]      References [ edit ]      External links [ edit ]                          		  	   
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