History Deaths on December 01

Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist and historian (b. 1592)

#Pierre_d'Hozier

Dave McNally, American baseball player (b. 1942)

#Dave_McNally

Virginie Loveling, Belgian author and poet (b. 1836)

#Virginie_Loveling

Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss pastor, poet, and educator (b. 1796)

#Abraham_Emanuel_Fröhlich

John F. Kurtzke, American neurologist and academic (b. 1926)

#John_F._Kurtzke

Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Greek epidemiologist, oncologist, and academic (b. 1938)

#Dimitrios_Trichopoulos

Maxwell R. Thurman, American general (b. 1931)

#Maxwell_R._Thurman

Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (b. 1911)

#Prince_Bernhard_of_Lippe-Biesterfeld

Juhan Liiv, Estonian poet and author (b. 1864)

#Juhan_Liiv

Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (b. 1378)

#Lorenzo_Ghiberti

Yehudah HaNasi, 'Nasi', Rabbi and editor of the Mishnah (b. 135)

#Judah_ha-Nasi

James Baldwin, American novelist, poet, and critic (b. 1924)

#James_Baldwin

David Ben-Gurion, Israeli politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)

#David_Ben-Gurion

Martin Sharp, Australian cartoonist and songwriter (b. 1942)

#Martin_Sharp

Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (b. 1918)

#Punch_Imlach

J. B. S. Haldane, English-Indian geneticist and biologist (b. 1892)

#J._B._S._Haldane

Pekka Halonen, Finnish painter (b. 1865)

#Pekka_Halonen

Charles de Foucauld, French priest and martyr (b. 1858)

#Charles_de_Foucauld

Stirling Colgate, American physicist and academic (b. 1925)

#Stirling_Colgate

Isabella Clara Eugenia, infanta of Spain (b. 1566)

#Isabella_Clara_Eugenia

Bernhard Schmidt, Estonian-German optician, invented the Schmidt camera (b. 1879)

#Bernhard_Schmidt

Ernesto Maserati, Italian race car driver and engineer (b. 1898)

#Ernesto_Maserati

Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)

#Giovanni_Morone

José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian-American lawyer and poet (b. 1888)

#José_Eustasio_Rivera

Ed Price, American soldier, pilot, and politician (b. 1918)

#Ed_Price_(Florida_politician)

George Everest, Welsh geographer and surveyor (b. 1790)

#George_Everest

Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan, Mongol ruler of the Ilkhanate (b. 1305)

#Abu_Sa'id_Bahadur_Khan

Charilaos Vasilakos, Greek runner (b. 1877)

#Charilaos_Vasilakos

Mario Abramovich, Argentinian violinist and composer (b. 1926)

#Mario_Abramovich

Eligius, Frankish bishop and saint (b. 588)

#Saint_Eligius

Richard Coughlan, English drummer (b. 1947)

#Richard_Coughlan

Charles Gray Round, English lawyer and politician (b. 1797)

#Charles_Gray_Round

Eugenio Monti, Italian bobsledder (b. 1928)

#Eugenio_Monti

Alexander Briant, English Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (b. 1556)

#Alexander_Briant

G. H. Hardy, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1877)

#G._H._Hardy

Mitchell Cole, English footballer (b. 1985)

#Mitchell_Cole

Isabella of England, Holy Roman Empress (b. 1214)

#Isabella_of_England

Jovan Belcher, American football player (b. 1987)

#Jovan_Belcher

Darío Moreno, Turkish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1921)

#Darío_Moreno

Alexander I, emperor and autocrat of Russia (b. 1777)

#Alexander_I_of_Russia

Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player and footballer (b. 1929)

#Ken_McGregor

Hopper Levett, English cricketer (b. 1908)

#Hopper_Levett

Rick Majerus, American basketball player and coach (b. 1948)

#Rick_Majerus

Ellis R. Dungan, American director and producer (b. 1909)

#Ellis_R._Dungan

Edward L. Beach Jr., American captain and author (b. 1918)

#Edward_L._Beach_Jr.

Edmund Campion, English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint (b. 1540)

#Edmund_Campion

Stéphane Grappelli, French violinist (b. 1908)

#Stéphane_Grappelli

Nellie Fox, American baseball player and coach (b. 1927)

#Nellie_Fox

Endicott Peabody, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1920)

#Endicott_Peabody

Alvin Ailey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1931)

#Alvin_Ailey

Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938)

#Paul_Benedict

Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai historian and educator (b. 1862)

#Damrong_Rajanubhab

Jim Loscutoff, American basketball player (b. 1930)

#Jim_Loscutoff

Adriaan Blaauw, Dutch astronomer and academic (b. 1914)

#Adriaan_Blaauw

Margaret of Austria, duchess of Savoy (b. 1480)

#Margaret_of_Austria,_Duchess_of_Savoy

Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, Scottish politician (b. 1710)

#Henry_Erskine,_10th_Earl_of_Buchan

Anna Roosevelt Halsted, American journalist (b. 1906)

#Anna_Roosevelt_Halsted

Go-Komatsu, emperor of Japan (b. 1377)

#Emperor_Go-Komatsu

Maurice Greene, English organist and composer (b. 1696)

#Maurice_Greene_(composer)

Leo X, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1475)

#Pope_Leo_X

Rob Blokzijl, Dutch physicist and computer scientist (b. 1943)

#Rob_Blokzijl

Magnus Ericson, king of Sweden (b. 1316)

#Magnus_IV_of_Sweden

Henry I, king of England (b. 1068)

#Henry_I_of_England

Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)

#Johann_Gabriel_Doppelmayr

Aleister Crowley, English magician, poet, and mountaineer (b. 1875)

#Aleister_Crowley

Christa Wolf, German author and critic (b. 1929)

#Christa_Wolf

Nicolae Bretan, Romanian opera singer, composer, and conductor (b. 1887)

#Nicolae_Bretan

Edward Heffron, American soldier (b. 1923)

#Edward_Heffron

Alfred Thayer Mahan, American captain and historian (b. 1840)

#Alfred_Thayer_Mahan

Thietmar of Merseburg, German bishop (b. 975)

#Thietmar_of_Merseburg

Miguel de Vasconcelos, Portuguese politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1590)

#Miguel_de_Vasconcelos

Ralph Sherwin, English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint (b. 1550)

#Ralph_Sherwin

Colin Tapley, New Zealand-English actor (b. 1907)

#Colin_Tapley

Vivian Lynn, New Zealand artist (b. 1931)

Trevor Obst, Australian footballer and coach (b. 1940)

Joseph Engelberger, American physicist and engineer (b. 1925)

Rocky Wood, New Zealand-Australian author (b. 1959)

Arthur Chaskalson, South African lawyer and judge, 18th Chief Justice of South Africa (b. 1931)

Hillard Elkins, American actor and producer (b. 1929)

Joseph B. Wirthlin, American businessman and religious leader (b. 1917)

Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and historian (b. 1937)

Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)

Freeman V. Horner, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1922)

Mary Hayley Bell, English actress and playwright (b. 1911)

Gust Avrakotos, American CIA officer (b. 1938)

Bill Brown, Scottish-Canadian footballer (b. 1931)

Clark Kerr, American economist and academic (b. 1911)

Michel Bélanger, Canadian banker and businessman (b. 1929)

Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (b. 1928)

Ray Gillen, American singer-songwriter (b. 1959)

George Stigler, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)

Carla Lehmann, Canadian-English actress (b. 1917)

J. Vernon McGee, American pastor and theologian (b. 1904)

Frank McCarthy, American general and film producer (b. 1912)

Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter and photographer (b. 1911)

Russ Manning, American author and illustrator (b. 1929)

Fred Rose, American pianist, composer, and publisher (b. 1898)

Ernest John Moeran, English pianist and composer (b. 1894)

Sergey Kirov, Russian engineer and politician (b. 1886)

William Swainson, English-New Zealand lawyer and politician, Attorney-General of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)

Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1665)

Fujiwara no Morotada, Japanese statesman (b. 920)

Gao Conghui, Chinese governor and prince (b. 891)