What happened on December 7 ?

43 BC - Cicero, Roman politician and author (b. 106 BC)

283 - Pope Eutychian

1254 - Pope Innocent IV

1279 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (b. 1226)

1295 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (b. 1243)

1498 - Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist

1562 - Adrian Willaert, Flemish composer

1649 - Charles Garnier, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1606)

1672 - Richard Bellingham, English-born Massachusetts colonial magistrate (b. 1592)

1683 - John Oldham, English poet (smallpox) (b. 1653)

1683 - Algernon Sydney, English politician (b. 1623)

1723 - Jan Santini Aichel, Bohemian architect (b. 1677)

1725 - Florent Carton Dancourt, French dramatist and actor (b. 1661)

1775 - Charles Saunders, British admiral

1793 - Joseph Bara, French revolutionary (b. 1780)

1815 - Michel Ney, French marshall (executed) (b. 1769)

1817 - William Bligh, British naval officer (b. 1745)

1874 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (b. 1815)

1902 - Thomas Nast, German cartoonist (b. 1840)

1906 - ÿlie Ducommun, Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1833)

1941 - Isaac C. Kidd, American rear admiral (b. 1884)

1947 - Nicholas M. Butler, American university president, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)

1956 - Huntley Gordon, Canadian actor (b. 1887)

1960 - Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist (b. 1895)

1970 - Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (b. 1883)

1975 - Thornton Wilder, American playwright (b. 1897)

1978 - Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist (b. 1886)

1980 - Darby Crash, American punk-rock lengend (b. 1958)

1985 - Robert Graves, British author (b. 1895)

1985 - Potter Stewart, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1915)

1990 - Joan Bennett, American actress (b. 1910)

1993 - Félix Houphouët-Boigny, President of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1905)

1993 - Wolfgang Pauli, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913)

1998 - Martin Rodbell, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1925)

2001 - Charles McClendon, LSU head football coach (b. 1923)

2003 - Carl F. H. Henry American theologian and publisher (b. 1913)

2003 - Azie Taylor Morton, Treasurer of the United States (b. 1936)

2003 - Raúl Vale, Venezuelan entertainer (b. 1944)

2004 - Frederick Fennell, American conductor (b. 1914)

2004 - Jerry Scoggins, American singer (b. 1913)

2005 - Bud Carson, American football player and coach (b. 1931)