What happened on December 1 ?

1135 - Henry I of England

1241 - Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214)

1377 - King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)

1433 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)

1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (b. 1378)

1521 - Pope Leo X (b. 1475)

1530 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (b. 1480)

1580 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)

1581 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (martyred) (b. 1540)

1581 - Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (b. 1550)

1602 - Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1582)

1633 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b. 1566)

1660 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1592)

1707 - Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (b. 1674)

1709 - Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644)

1723 - Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress

1729 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665)

1750 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)

1755 - Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)

1767 - Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710)

1825 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)

1830 - Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)

1928 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)

1934 - Sergei Kirov, Russian revolutionary (b. 1886)

1943 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (b. 1862)

1947 - Aleister Crowley, English occultist (b. 1875)

1950 - E. J. Moeran, English composer (b. 1894)

1964 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. 1892)

1973 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)

1975 - Nellie Fox, baseball player (b. 1927)

1975 - Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (b. 1906)

1985 - Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1931)

1987 - James Baldwin, American writer (b. 1924)

1991 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1911)

1997 - Audree Wilson, mother of three founding members of The Beach Boys (b. 1917)

1997 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (b. 1908)

2003 - Clark Kerr, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (b. 1911)

2004 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)