4 December
Notable Births
Jackson Holliday
b. 2003
American baseball player (born 2003)
Kim Do-ah
b. 2003
South Korean singer and actress (born 2003)
Kim Do-yeon (singer)
b. 1999
South Korean singer and actress (born 1999)
Kang Mi-na
b. 1999
South Korean actress (born 1999)
Diogo Jota
b. 1996
Portuguese footballer (1996–2025)
Sebastián Vegas
b. 1996
Chilean footballer (born 1996)
Gabriel Lundberg
b. 1994
Danish basketball player (born 1994)
Peta Hiku
b. 1992
New Zealand international rugby league footballer
Jean-Claude Iranzi
b. 1992
Rwandan footballer (born 1990)
Jin (singer)
b. 1992
South Korean singer (born 1992)
Joe Musgrove
b. 1992
American baseball player (born 1992)
Blake Snell
b. 1992
American baseball pitcher (born 1992)
Duje Dukan
b. 1991
Croatian-American basketball player (born 1991)
André Roberson
b. 1991
American basketball player (born 1991)
Max Holloway
b. 1991
American mixed martial artist (born 1991)
Reality Winner
b. 1991
American intelligence translator (born 1991)
Lukman Haruna
b. 1990
Nigerian footballer
Blake Leary
b. 1990
Australian rugby league footballer
Yeng Constantino
b. 1988
Filipino singer (born 1988)
Alex Delvecchio
b. 1931
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1931–2025)
Notable Deaths
Princess Birgitta of Sweden
d. 2024
Swedish princess (1937–2024)
Bob McGrath
d. 2022
American actor and singer (1932–2022)
Patrick Tambay
d. 2022
French racing driver (1949–2022)
Shashi Kapoor
d. 2017
Indian actor and producer (1938–2017)
Patricia Robins
d. 2016
British author of short stories and novels (1921-2016)
Bill Bennett
d. 2015
Canadian politician (1932–2015)
Robert Loggia
d. 2015
American actor (1930–2015)
Yossi Sarid
d. 2015
Israeli politician (1940–2015)
Claudia Emerson
d. 2014
American academic, writer and poet
V. R. Krishna Iyer
d. 2014
Indian judge (1915–2014)
Jeremy Thorpe
d. 2014
British politician (1929–2014)
Joana Raspall i Juanola
d. 2013
Catalan writer and librarian
Jack Brooks (American politician)
d. 2012
American politician (1922–2012)
Miguel Calero
d. 2012
Colombian footballer (1971-2012)
Sonia Pierre
d. 2011
Human rights advocate from the Dominican Republic
Sócrates
d. 2011
Brazilian footballer (1954–2011)
Hubert Sumlin
d. 2011
American blues guitarist and singer (1931–2011)
King Curtis Iaukea
d. 2010
American professional wrestler (1937–2010)
Liam Clancy
d. 2009
Irish folk singer (1935–2009)
Pimp C
d. 2007
American rapper (1973–2007)
On This Day in History
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2025
Yasser Abu Shabab is assassinated near Rafah, Gaza Strip.
Killing of Yasser Abu Shabab
2024
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is shot and killed in Manhattan, New York City near the entrance of the New York Hilton Midtown.
UnitedHealth Group
2021
Semeru on the Indonesian island of Java erupts, killing at least 68 people.
Semeru
2017
The Thomas Fire starts near Santa Paula in California. It eventually became the largest wildfire in modern California history to date after burning 1,140 square kilometers (440 sq mi) in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.
Thomas Fire
2015
A firebomb is thrown into a restaurant in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, killing 17 people.
2015 Cairo restaurant fire
2014
Islamic insurgents kill three state police at a traffic circle before taking an empty school and a "press house" in Grozny. Ten state forces die with 28 injured in gun battles ending with ten insurgents killed.
Caucasus Emirate
2006
Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana.
Jena Six
2005
Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the government to allow universal and equal suffrage.
December 2005 protest for democracy in Hong Kong
1998
The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched.
Unity (ISS module)
1992
Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
Somali Civil War
1991
Terry A. Anderson is released after seven years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut; he is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon.
Terry A. Anderson
1991
Pan American World Airways ceases its operations after 64 years.
Pan Am
1986
The MV Amazon Venture oil tanker begins leaking oil while at the port of Savannah in the United States, resulting in an oil spill of approximately 500,000 US gallons (1,900,000 L).
Port of Savannah
1984
Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Army soldiers kill 107–150 civilians in Mannar.
Sri Lankan civil war
1983
US Navy aircraft from USS John F. Kennedy and USS Independence attack Syrian missile sites in Lebanon in response to an F-14 being fired on by an SA-7. One A-6 Intruder and A-7 Corsair are shot down. One American pilot is killed, one is rescued, and one is captured.
United States Navy
1982
The China adopts its current constitution.
China
1981
South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).
Ciskei
1979
The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
Kingston upon Hull
1978
Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco's first female mayor.
Assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk
1977
Jean-Bédel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic, crowns himself Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire.
Jean-Bédel Bokassa