December 3 in history

203 sourced entries recorded on December 3, from 311 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

856Another earthquake strikes the Abbasid Caliphate (modern-day Tunisia), also killing an estimated 45,000 people.source
915John X crowns the Italian sovereign Berengar I as the Holy Roman Emperor in Rome. Berengar returns to northern Italy, where Friuli is threatened by the Hungarians.source
1310Prague, capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, is captured and King Henry of Bohemia is deposed by his brother, John of Luxemburg, who will later be known as "John the Blind".source
1314The state funeral and burial of King Philip IV takes place at the Basilica of Saint-Denis near Paris.source
1318The Parliament of Scotland meets at Scone and votes to designate Robert Stewart, grandson of King Robert the Bruce as the heir presumptive. Robert Stewart is the son of Robert the Bruce's late daughter Marjorie Bruce and of Walter Stewart. On the birth of David as Robert the Bruce's son in 1324, Robert Stewart will become second in line for the throne, eventually becoming King Robert II in 1371.source
1326Queen Isabella and Crown Prince Edward, claiming to act on behalf of King Edward II, issue a new writ postponing the opening of the English Parliament from December 14 to January 7. The new parliament will approve the replacement of King Edward II by the Crown Prince as "Keeper of the Realm".source
13323 December Thomas de Burgh acting as deputy justiciersource
1339England formally allied with County of Flanders. In the following months, they launched several small scale attacks on French forces in Picardy.source
1368Joanna of Bourbon, Queen consort of France as wife of King Charles V, gives birth to his first child, the Dauphin Charles of Valois. The Dauphin will become King Charles VI in 1380 upon the death of his father.source
1388Upon reaching the age of 20, Charles VI of France takes complete control of the government, ending the regency of his uncle, Philip the Bold.source
1390King Richard II of England gives royal assent to numerous laws passed as the English Parliament adjourns after a three-week session, having passed numerous laws, including the Pardon of Offences Act (requiring the specification of the offense for which the person is being pardoned by the King) and the Enforcement of the Statute of Provisors Act providing forfeiture of the office for certain violations.source
1391The Parliament ends its session after passing numerous acts, and King Richard gives royal assent to multiple acts, including the Forcible Entry Act 1391 and the Admiralty Jurisdiction Act 1391.source
1441King Henry VI summons the members of the English Parliament to assemble at Westminster on January 25.source
1489Austria and France agree to make a treaty to end the hostilities between the two nations. The Peace of Frankfurt is formally signed on July 22, 1490.source
1533Ivan IV succeeds his father Vasili III as Grand Prince of Muscovy at the age of three; he will rule in Russia until his death in 1584.source
1541The Holy Roman Emperor Charles V is finally able to return to Spain, arriving at Cartagenasource
1549The papal conclave to decide on a successor to Pope Paul III, goes into session in the Apostolic Palace in Rome with 51 cardinal electors.Participants at the papal conclave agree to elect the next Pope by secret ballot.source
1564Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of all the Russias, sends his government a letter of abdication, ostensibly because of embezzlement and treason by the aristocracy and the clergy. Ivan leaves Moscow and moves to the city of Alexandrovskaya Sloboda, taking with him the relics of the palace and most of his royal court, until being persuaded to return in February on the promise that he will have absolute power.source
1567Norrköping is burnt.source
1573The French Duke of Anjou, recently elected as King Henry of Poland, departs from Metz with an entourage of 1,200 people, arriving at Kraków on February 18.source
1628The attempt by the Mataram Sultanate to drive the Dutch East India Company from the western part of the island of Java fails after 103 days.source
1630(28 Rabi II 1040 AH) Abd Allah ibn Hasan is selected as the new Emir of Mecca after the death from tuberculosis of Mas'ud ibn Idris.source
1664The English warships HMS Nonsuch and HMS Phoenix are wrecked in a storm at Gibraltar.source
1678the Test Act provides that members of both the House of Lords and House of Commons must swear an anti-Catholic oath before taking office.source
1679French explorers René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (commonly called "La Salle") and Henri de Tonti set off from their fort near Niagara Falls in North America on the first European expedition to explore the upper Mississippi River.source
1681Another ship in the Flota de Terra Firma, Nuestra Señora de la Soledad, sinks in the Chagres River with the loss of its 280 crew.source
1685King Charles XI of Sweden issues an order banning Jews from settling in Sweden, particularly in the capital at Stockholm "on account of the danger of the eventual influence of the Jewish religion on the pure evangelical faith."source
1694The Parliament of England passes the Triennial Act 1694, requiring general elections every three years.source
1694Parliament passes the Meeting of Parliament Act (Triennial Act) requiring general elections every three years and an annual meeting.source
1699Baron Jacob Hop is appointed as the treasurer-general of The Hague.source
1743Ecuadorian scientist Pedro Vicente Maldonado departs from Brazil in order to purchase the most state-of-the-art equipment for the French Geodesic Missionsource
1750What is described later as "The first documented presentation of a musical in New York" takes place one block east of Broadway, at the Nassau Street Theatre, when a resident company of actors stages The Beggar's Opera.source
1751Battle of Arnee in India (Second Carnatic War): A British East India Company–led force under Robert Clive defeats and routs a much larger Franco-Indian army, under the command of Raza Sahib, at Arni.source
1751Battle of Arnee in India (Second Carnatic War): A British East India Company-led force under Robert Clive defeats and routs a much larger Franco-Indian army under the command of Raza Sahib at Arni.source
1751Battle of Arnee: Robert Clive defeats a Franco-Indian force.source
1771The cause of action in Sommersett's Case, which eventually leads to the end of slavery in Great Britain, begins when escaped slave James Somerset is found imprisoned on the ship Ann and Mary.source
1781first known building society established, in Birmingham.source
1787James Rumsey demonstrates his water-jet propelled boat on the Potomac River.source
1792George Washington is re-elected president of the United States.source
1797George Bass sets out from Sydney in a whaleboat with six oarsmen to explore south along the coast. He discovers the Kiama Blowhole (6 December) and the Shoalhaven River (7 December), he also visits Jervis Bay, and named Twofold Bay on 19 December, Wilson's Promontory (2 January 1798) and Western Port (5 January). He returns to Sydney two months later, having greatly increased the settlers' knowledge of the geography of Australia.source
1800The 1800 United States presidential election: The Electoral College casts votes for president and Vice President that result in a tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, requiring a contingent election which will select Jefferson as president.source
1800War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden – The French army defeats Habsburg and Bavarian troops.source
1800The brig Lady Nelson and Lt. James Grant arrive in Southern Australia; Grant names Cape Northumberland, Cape Banks, Mount Schanck and Mount Gambier.source
1804Thomas Jefferson defeats Charles C. Pinckney in the United States presidential election.source
1804Thomas Jefferson defeats Charles C. Pinckney in the U.S. presidential election.source
1810November 29–December 3 – Invasion of Isle de France: British forces force the French to surrender Isle de France (Mauritius).source
1818Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state.source
1818Illinois is admitted as the 21st U.S. state (see History of Illinois).source
1820James Monroe is re-elected, virtually unopposed, in the 1820 United States presidential election. One elector, William Plumer of New Hampshire, casts his vote for John Quincy Adams in order to protest the administration of Monroe and Daniel Tompkins while also establishing Adams as a contender for the election in 1824.source
18241824 United States presidential election: None of the four candidates for U.S. president— Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay or William H. Crawford— gain a majority of the electoral votes, although Jackson has a plurality of 40.5% of the popular vote. John C. Calhoun wins a majority of the electoral votes for Vice President. The election for President is carried out by the U.S. House of Representatives on February 9, 1825, pursuant to the Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, with each of the 24 states having a vote, of which Adams receives 13 votes for the minimum majority necessary .source
1825Van Diemen's Land becomes fully independent from New South Wales. The Legislative Council of Tasmania is established and George Arthur, former Lieutenant-Governor, is promoted as its first Governor.source
18281828 United States presidential election: Andrew Jackson is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent John Quincy Adams in a landslide.source
1828U.S. presidential election: Challenger Andrew Jackson beats incumbent John Quincy Adams and is elected President of the United States.source
18321832 United States presidential election: Andrew Jackson is re-elected president.source
1834The Zollverein institutes the first regular census in Germany. The population is 23,478,120.source
1834The Zollverein institutes the first regular census in Germany. The population is 23,478,120.source
1835Limerick-owned barque Francis Spaight is badly damaged homebound from Newfoundland and the surviving crew resort to cannibalism at sea to escape starvation before being rescued.source
1849The Abgeordnetenhaus, lower house of the parliament of the Kingdom of Bavaria, passes a bill granting German Jews the same legal rights as German Christians. The measure draws a strong reaction from Christians across Bavaria, who sign petitions urging the upper house to prevent the equal rights measure from becoming law.source
1849German missionaries Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann become the first Europeans to see Mount Kenya.source
1854The Eureka Stockade Miners' Rebellion breaks out in Ballarat, Victoria (Australia).source
1872Assyriologist George Smith presents the first translation of the Epic of Gilgamesh, to a meeting of the Society of Biblical Archaeology in London.source
1877the original Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute is burned down.source
1891A sudden deterioration is noted in the health of Pedro II.source
1899Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent, suspends Adolf Daens as a diocesan priest due to his political activism for the Christene Volkspartij.source
1900Population Census: There were 2,239,881 inhabitants in Norway.source
1901The Immigration Restriction Act 1901 is passed by the new Parliament of Australia as the basis of a White Australia policy.source
1901U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the United States House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".source
1904Charles Dillon Perrine discovers Jupiter's largest irregular satellite, later called Himalia, at California's Lick Observatory.source
1905Foreign Minister Tittoni resigns over his proposal to reduce the duty on Spanish wine in connection with an Italo-Spanish commercial treaty that created turmoil among the rural classes.source
1909the SS Ellan Vannin sinks in Liverpool Bay resulting in the loss of all 15 passengers and 21 crew.source
1910Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.source
1910The first Nationalist Congress is held in Florence after which the Italian Nationalist Association (Associazione Nazionalista Italiana, ANI) is founded under the influence of Italian nationalists such as Enrico Corradini and Giovanni Papini. Upon its formation, the ANI supported the repatriation of Austrian held Italian-populated lands to Kingdom of Italy and was willing to endorse war with Austria-Hungary to do so.source
1912Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League, but not Greece) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire at Çatalca, temporarily halting the First Balkan War after 2 months. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)source
1917After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic (the bridge partially collapsed on August 29, 1907 and September 11, 1916).source
1920Following more than a month of the Turkish–Armenian War, the Turkish-dictated Treaty of Alexandropol is concluded.source
1920Five crew members from the Rhoscolyn lifeboat are lost off Llanddwyn, Anglesey.source
1926English detective story writer Agatha Christie disappears from her home in Surrey; on December 14 she is found under her husband's mistress's surname at a Harrogate hotel.source
1926Nine miners die in an explosion in the Dobson coal mine near Brunnersource
1928In Rio de Janeiro, a seaplane sent to greet Alberto Santos-Dumont crashes, killing all on board. The pilot had tried to avoid another plane which came too close.source
1928Disaster of the Dornier J 'Santos Dumont'.source
1932Hindenburg names Kurt von Schleicher as German chancellor after he ousts Papen. Papen is deeply angry about how his former friend Schleicher has brought him down and decides that he will do anything to get back into power.source
1935Felinfoel Brewery in Llanelli becomes the first in the UK to sell beer in cans.source
1945Oranges went on sale in Ireland for the first time since the end of World War II.source
1947The Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Marlon Brando in his first great role, opens at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on Broadway in New York City; Jessica Tandy also stars as Blanche Du Bois.source
1951Lebanese University is founded in Lebanon.source
1954A German court dismisses charges against Werner Naumann, head of the Neo-Nazi Naumann Circle.source
1954Väinö Linna's war novel The Unknown Soldier (Tuntematon sotilas) is published.source
1956The 1956 Bush Terminal explosion occurs in Brooklyn, United States.source
1963The Warren Commission begins its investigation into the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.source
1964The Danish football club Brøndby IF is founded as a merger between the two local clubs Brøndbyøster Idrætsforening and Brøndbyvester Idrætsforening. The club wins the national championship Danish Superliga 10 times, and the Danish Cups six times, after joining the Danish top-flight football league in 1981.source
1964Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest about 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover of and massive sit-in at the Sproul Hall administration building. The sit-in most directly protested the U.C. Regents' decision to punish student activists for what many thought had been justified civil disobedience earlier in the conflict.source
1967Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.source
1967Professor Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital.source
1969End of Korean DMZ Conflictsource
1969End of Korean DMZ Conflictsource
1969Air France Flight 212, a Boeing 707 registered as F-BHSZ, crashed shortly after takeoff from Venezuela killing all 62 occupants on board. The cause of the accident is not yet known since the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) did not publish an investigation report. It will not be released until 2029, sixty years after the accident.source
1970Burgos Trial: In Burgos, Spain, the trial of 16 Basque terrorism suspects begins.source
1970October Crisis: In Montreal, kidnapped British trade commissioner James Cross is released by the Front de libération du Québec terrorist group after being held hostage for 60 days. Police negotiate his release and in return the Government of Canada grants 5 terrorists from the FLQ's Chenier Cell their request for safe passage to Cuba.source
1971The Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 begins with Operation Chengiz Khan as Pakistan launches preemptive attacks on nine Indian airbases. The next day India launches a massive invasion of East Pakistan.source
1971Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 breaks out. Bangladesh Air Force destroys Pakistani oil depots.source
1971Start of Indo-Pakistani war of 1971.source
1971The establishment of China Steel in Taipei.source
1971December 3–4 – The Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi (former USS Diablo) sinks mysteriously near the Indian coast while laying mines.source
1973Pioneer program: Pioneer 10 sends back the first close-up images of Jupiter.source
1976Patrick Hillery is sworn in after being elected unopposed as the 6th President of Ireland.source
1979Ministers from France, Germany, and Luxembourg meet in Bonn. Germany and Luxembourg protest against France's plans to allow the construction of a nuclear power plant at Cattenom, but in vain.source
1979Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.source
1979The United States dollar exchange rate with the Deutsche Mark falls to 1.7079 DM, the all-time low so far; this record is not broken until November 5, 1987.source
1982Camille Ney resigns from the government due to poor health.source
19831983 Republic of China legislative election.source
1984Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 8,000 people outright and injures over half a million (with more later dying from their injuries the death toll reaches 23,000+) in the worst industrial disaster in history.source
1989Cold War: Malta Summit – Concluding a 2-day meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end. Gorbachev implies criticism of the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.source
1990Mary Robinson begins her term as President of Ireland, becoming the first female to hold this office.source
19901990 Wayne County Airport runway collision: At Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Northwest Airlines Flight 1482 (a McDonnell Douglas DC-9) collides with Northwest Airlines Flight 299 (a Boeing 727) on the runway, killing 8 passengers and 4 crew members.source
1992UN Security Council Resolution 794 is unanimously passed, approving a coalition of United Nations peacekeepers led by the United States to form UNITAF, tasked with ensuring that humanitarian aid gets distributed and establishing peace in Somalia.source
1994Taiwan holds its first full local elections: James Soong is elected as the first and only directly elected Governor of Taiwan; Chen Shui-bian becomes the first direct elected Mayor of Taipei; Wu Den-yih becomes the first directly elected Mayor of Kaohsiung.source
1994Sony releases the PlayStation video game system in Japan; it will sell over 100 million units worldwide by the time it is discontinued in 2006.source
1995Former President Chun Doo-hwan was arrested on charges of leading bloody suppression in Coup d'état of December Twelfth, Gwangju Democratic Uprising.source
1995Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 crashes, killing 71 people.source
1995Strikes paralyze France's public sector.source
1996In Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the local Department for Promoting the Good and Suppressing the Bad issued a directive prohibiting taxi drivers from giving rides to women wearing chadors.source
1996Ehsanullah Ehsan, the chairman of the Taliban's Central Bank, declared most Afghani notes in circulation to be worthless and cancelled the contract with the Russian firm that had been printing the currency since 1992. Ehsan accused the firm of sending new shipments of Afghani notes to ousted president Burhanuddin Rabbani in northern Takhar Province.source
1996A fire, considered the largest in Lipa, Batangas, hits an entire purok, caused by an explosion in a public market and resulting to massive damages.source
1997In Ottawa (Canada) representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel land mines. However, the United States, the People's Republic of China, Russia, South Korea and 32 other nations do not ratify the treaty.source
1999After rowing for 81 days and 5,486 kilometers (2,962 nautical miles), Tori Murden becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by rowboat alone, when she reaches Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.source
1999NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander, moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.source
2001The Segway, a self-balancing personal transporter invented by Dean Kamen, is unveiled after months of public speculation and media hype on the ABC News morning program Good Morning America.source
2002The government of Burundi signs a ceasefire with the CNDD-FDD rebel group to end the Burundian Civil War. It holds until February 2003.source
2004November 29–December 3 – Typhoon Nanmadol kills 775 people in the Philippines.source
2010November 29–December 10 – The 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Cancún, Mexico. Formally referred to as the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), it serves too as the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6).source
2012Mykola Azarov's government is dismissed;source
2012November 25–December 9 – Typhoon Bopha, known as "Pablo" in the Philippines, kills at least 1,067 with around 838 people missing. The typhoon causes considerable damage in the island of Mindanao.source
2014The Japanese space agency, JAXA, launches uncrewed spaceprobe Hayabusa2 from the Tanegashima Space Center on a six-year round-trip mission to Ryugu to collect rock samples.source
2017President Nicolás Maduro announces the creation of a new cryptocurrency the petro.source
2018December 1–8 – France experiences its worst civil unrest since the protests of 1968 due to the yellow vests movement. Protests in Paris morph into riots, with hundreds of people injured and thousands arrested; over 100 cars are burned, the Arc de Triomphe is vandalized and numerous other tourist sites are closed, both in the capital and elsewhere in the country.source
2018NASA reports the arrival of the OSIRIS-REx probe at Bennu, the agency's first sample-return mission to an asteroid.source
2019December 2–13 – The 2019 United Nations Climate Change Conference takes place in Madrid, Spain, after Chilean President Sebastián Piñera announced in October that his country could not host the conference due to political unrest in the country.source
2024South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declares martial law during a late-night address broadcast live on YTN television, accusing the country's main opposition Democratic Party of sympathizing with North Korea and engaging in anti-state activities.source
2025Nine Filipino sailors held captive by the Houthis in Yemen following the group's attack on the cargo vessel Eternity C in July arrive in Muscat after being turned over to Omani authorities.source

Births

1160Conrad of Querfurt, German bishop (died 1202)source
1211Francesco Lippi, Italian nobleman (died 1291)source
1368King Charles VI of France (died 1422)source
1368Charles VI of France (died 1422).source
1447Bayezid II, Ottoman Sultan (died 1512)source
1483Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German theologian and Protestant reformer (died 1565)source
1513Lorenzo Strozzi, Italian Catholic cardinal (died 1571)source
1571Lakshmi Kumara Thathachariar, Indian saint (died 1643)source
1590Daniel Seghers, Flemish Jesuit brother and painter (died 1661)source
1684Ludvig Holberg, Norwegian historian and writer (died 1754)source
16843 December (Julian calendar) – Ludvig Holberg, philosopher, historian, essayist and playwright (died 1754).source
1753Samuel Crompton, English inventor (died 1827)source
1755Gilbert Stuart, American painter from Rhode Island (died 1828)source
1766Barbara Fritchie, U.S. patriot in the Civil War (died 1862)source
1774Giuseppe Federico Palombini, military general (died 1850)source
1795Rowland Hill, English teacher, inventor and social reformer (died 1879)source
1800France Prešeren, Slovenian romantic poet (died 1849)source
1826George B. McClellan, American general, politician (died 1885)source
1842Ellen Swallow Richards, American chemist (died 1911)source
1857Joseph Conrad, Polish-British novelist (died 1924)source
1877Richard Pearse, New Zealand airplane pioneer (died 1953)source
1883Anton Webern, Austrian composer (died 1945)source
1948Ozzy Osbourne, British heavy metal singer (Black Sabbath) (died 2025)source
1948Abdul Hamid, actor and puppeteer (died 2022)source
1953Batjargalyn Batbayar, politiciansource
1960Julianne Moore, American actress and children's authorsource

Deaths

311Diocletian, Roman emperor (born 244)source
649Birinus, French-born Bishop of Dorchester in Wessex (born c.600)source
860Abbo, bishop of Auxerresource
937Siegfried, Frankish noblemansource
978Abraham, Coptic pope of Alexandriasource
992Lothar II, German noblemansource
1038Emma of Lesum, German noblewomansource
1099Osmund, Norman lord chancellor of England and bishop of Salisbury, canonized (born 1065)source
1122Berthold III, duke of Zähringensource
1125Berengar II, German noblemansource
1154Pope Anastasius IV dies after a 17-month pontificate. He is succeeded by Adrian IV (the only English pope in history) as the 169th pope of the Catholic Church.source
1154Anastasius IV, pope of the Catholic Churchsource
1181Galgano Guidotti, Italian nobleman (born 1148)source
1202Conrad of Querfurt, German bishopsource
1265Odofredus, Italian juristsource
1322Maud Chaworth, English noblewoman (born 1282)source
1532Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Duke of Zweibrücken from 1514 to 1532 (born 1502)source
1533Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy (born 1479)source
1552Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary and saint (born 1506)source
1592Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (born 1545)source
1610Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese soldier (born 1548)source
1662William Dugard, English printer (born 1606)source
1668William Cecil, 2nd Earl of Salisbury, English earl (born 1591)source
1678Edward Colman, English Catholic courtier under Charles II (born 1636)source
1719Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (born 1644), paintersource
1745Eyjólfur Jónsson, chronicler and priest at Vellir in Svarfaðardalur.source
1752Henri-Guillaume Hamal, Walloon musician and composer (born 1685)source
1789Claude Joseph Vernet, French painter (born 1714)source
1815John Carroll, first American Roman Catholic Archbishop (born 1735)source
1823Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer, pioneer archaeologist of Egypt (born 1778)source
1839Frederick VI, King of Denmark, ex-King of Norway (born 1768)source
1839Frederick VI, king of Denmark (and Iceland) dies and is succeeded by his half-first cousin Christian VIII.source
1894Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (born 1850)source
1902Robert Lawson, New Zealand architect (born 1833)source
1910Mary Baker Eddy, American religious leader, founder of Christian Science (born 1821)source
1939Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, second youngest daughter of Queen Victoria (born 1848)source
1960John Laycock, lawyer and founder of the Singapore Progressive Party (born 1887).source
1979The Who concert disaster: Eleven fans are killed during a crowd crush for unreserved seats before The Who rock concert at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati.source