2006
2006
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| Gregorian calendar | 2006 MMVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2759 |
| Armenian calendar | 1455 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6756 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 162–163 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1927–1928 |
| Bengali calendar | 1413 |
| Berber calendar | 2956 |
| British Regnal year | 54 Eliz. 2 – 55 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2550 |
| Burmese calendar | 1368 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7514–7515 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4702 or 4642 — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4703 or 4643 |
| Coptic calendar | 1722–1723 |
| Discordian calendar | 3172 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1998–1999 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5766–5767 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2062–2063 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1927–1928 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5106–5107 |
| Holocene calendar | 12006 |
| Igbo calendar | 1006–1007 |
| Iranian calendar | 1384–1385 |
| Islamic calendar | 1426–1427 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 18 (平成１８年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1938–1939 |
| Juche calendar | 95 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4339 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 95 民國95年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 538 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2549 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 2132 or 1751 or 979 — to — 阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 2133 or 1752 or 980 |
| Unix time | 1136073600 – 1167609599 |
2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2006th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 6th year of the 3rd millennium, the 6th year of the 21st century, and the 7th year of the 2000s decade.
2006 was designated as:
International Year of Deserts and Desertification[1]
International Asperger's Year
| Millennium: | 3rd millennium |
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| 2006 by topic: | |
| Arts | |
| Architecture – Comics – Film – Home video – Literature (Poetry) – Music (Country, Rock, Metal, UK) – Radio – Photo – Television – Video gaming | |
| Politics | |
| Elections – International leaders – Sovereign states Sovereign state leaders – Territorial governors | |
| Science and technology | |
| Archaeology – Aviation – Birding/Ornithology – Palaeontology – Rail transport – Spaceflight | |
| Sports | |
| Badminton – Baseball – Basketball – Volleyball | |
| By place | |
| Afghanistan – Albania – Algeria – Angola – Antarctica – Argentina – Armenia – Australia – Austria – Azerbaijan – Bangladesh – The Bahamas – Barbados – Belgium – Benin – Bhutan – Bosnia and Herzegovina – Brazil – Bulgaria – Burkina Faso – Burundi – Cambodia – Cameroon – Canada – Cape Verde – Central African Republic – Chad – Chile – China – Colombia – Costa Rica – Croatia – Cuba – Cyprus – Czechia – Denmark – Ecuador – Egypt – El Salvador – Estonia – Ethiopia – European Union – Finland – France – Gabon – Georgia – Germany – Ghana – Greece – Guatemala – Hong Kong – Hungary – Iceland – India – Indonesia – Iraq – Iran – Ireland – Israel – Italy – Ivory Coast – Japan – Kazakhstan – Kenya – Kuwait – Laos – Latvia - Lebanon – Libya – Lithuania – Luxembourg – Macau – Madagascar – Malawi – Malaysia – Mali – Mexico – Moldova – Montenegro – Morocco – Mozambique – Myanmar – Nepal – Netherlands – New Zealand – Niger – Nigeria – North Korea – Norway – Oman – Pakistan – Palestine – Peru – Philippines – Poland – Portugal – Romania – Russia – Rwanda – Saudi Arabia – Senegal – Serbia – Singapore – Slovakia – Slovenia – Somalia – South Africa – South Korea – South Sudan – Spain – Sri Lanka – Sudan – Sweden – Switzerland – Syria – Taiwan – Tanzania – Thailand – Tunisia – Turkey – Uganda – Ukraine – United Arab Emirates – United Kingdom – United States – Uruguay – Uzbekistan – Venezuela – Vietnam – Yemen – Zambia – Zimbabwe | |
| Other topics | |
| Religious leaders | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Works and introductions categories | |
| Works – Introductions Works entering the public domain | |
| Gregorian calendar | 2006 MMVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2759 |
| Armenian calendar | 1455 ԹՎ ՌՆԾԵ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6756 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 162–163 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1927–1928 |
| Bengali calendar | 1413 |
| Berber calendar | 2956 |
| British Regnal year | 54 Eliz. 2 – 55 Eliz. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2550 |
| Burmese calendar | 1368 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7514–7515 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙酉年 (Wood Rooster) 4702 or 4642 — to — 丙戌年 (Fire Dog) 4703 or 4643 |
| Coptic calendar | 1722–1723 |
| Discordian calendar | 3172 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1998–1999 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5766–5767 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2062–2063 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1927–1928 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5106–5107 |
| Holocene calendar | 12006 |
| Igbo calendar | 1006–1007 |
| Iranian calendar | 1384–1385 |
| Islamic calendar | 1426–1427 |
| Japanese calendar | Heisei 18 (平成１８年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1938–1939 |
| Juche calendar | 95 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4339 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 95 民國95年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 538 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2549 |
| Tibetan calendar | 阴木鸡年 (female Wood-Rooster) 2132 or 1751 or 979 — to — 阳火狗年 (male Fire-Dog) 2133 or 1752 or 980 |
| Unix time | 1136073600 – 1167609599 |
Events
January
January 1 – Russia cuts the shipment of natural gas to Ukraine over a price dispute.[2]
January 12 – A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 pilgrims.[3][4]
January 15 – NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet.[5]
January 19 – NASA launches the first space mission to Pluto as a rocket hurls the New Horizons spacecraft on a nine-year journey.[6]
January 25 – The Walt Disney Company buys Pixar Animation Studios from Lucasfilm Ltd. for $7.4 billion and now Pixar is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Pictures.
February
February 3 – Egyptian passenger ferry, MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98, sinks in the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia, killing over 1,000 people.[7]
February 10–26 – The 2006 Winter Olympics are held in Turin, Italy.[8]
February 17 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines killing an estimated 1,126 people.[9]
March
March 9 – NASA's Cassini–Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.[10]
March 10 – NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters orbit around Mars.[11][12]
March 15 – The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the United Nations Human Rights Council.[13]
March 28 – A scramjet jet engine, HyShot III, designed to fly at seven times the speed of sound, is successfully tested at Woomera, South Australia.[14][15]
April
April 11 The European Space Agency's Venus Express spaceprobe enters Venus' orbit.[16] President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad confirms that Iran has successfully produced a few grams of low-grade enriched uranium.[17][18]
April 20 – Iran announces a deal with Russia, involving a joint uranium enrichment firm on Russian soil;[19] nine days later Iran announces that it will not move all activity to Russia, thus leading to a de facto termination of the deal.
May
June
June 3 – Montenegro declares independence after a May 21 referendum. Two days later, the republic of Serbia and Montenegro formed in 2003 collapses, leaving Serbia as the successor country.[23][24]
June 9 – July 9 – The 2006 FIFA World Cup takes place in Germany;[25] which is won by Italy.[26]
June 28 Israel launches an offensive in the Gaza Strip in response to rocketfire by Hamas into Israeli territory.[27] The United States Armed Forces withdraws its forces in Iceland, thereby disbanding the Iceland Defense Force.[28]
July
July 1 – The Qinghai–Tibet railway launches a trial operation, making Tibet the last province-level entity of China to have a conventional railway.[29]
July 6 – The Nathu La pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.[30]
July 11 – A series of seven bomb blasts hits the city of Mumbai, India, killing more than 200 people.[31]
July 12 – Israeli troops invade Lebanon in response to Hezbollah kidnapping two Israeli soldiers and killing three others. Hezbollah declares open war against Israel two days later.[32]
August
August 22 – Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 crashes near the Russian border in Ukraine, killing all 170 people on board.[33]
August 24 – The International Astronomical Union defines 'planet' at its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of dwarf planet more than 70 years after its discovery.[34]
September
September 19 – The Royal Thai Army overthrows the government of Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in a coup d'état.[35]
September 29 – Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 collides with a business jet over the Amazon rainforest, killing all 154 on board the former.[36]
October
October 6 – Fredrik Reinfeldt replaces Göran Persson as Prime Minister of Sweden.
October 9 – North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test.[37]
October 13 – South Korean Ban Ki-moon is elected as the new Secretary-General of the United Nations, succeeding Kofi Annan.[38]
November
November 2 – No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock becomes the most expensive painting after it is sold privately for $140 million.[39]
November 5 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging by the Iraqi Special Tribunal. He is later executed by hanging for crimes against humanity on December 30.[40]
November 12 – The breakaway state of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.[41]
November 23 – A series of car bombs and mortar attacks in Sadr City, Baghdad, kills at least 215 people and injure 257 other people.[42]
December
December 5 – The military seizes power in Fiji, in a coup d'état led by Commodore Frank Bainimarama.[43]
December 11 – Felipe Calderón sends the Mexican military to combat the drug cartels and put down the violence in the state of Michoacán, initiating the Mexican Drug War.[44]
December 24 – Ethiopia admits its troops have intervened in Somalia.[45]
December 26 – An oil pipeline explodes in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, killing at least 200 people.[46]
December 29 – UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt.
Births
January 27 – Kim Su-an, South Korean actress
March 12 – Lee Re, South Korean child actress
June 23 Lee Chae-mi, South Korean actress CX Navarro, Filipino child actor
June 25 – Mckenna Grace, American actress
July 25 – Konomi Watanabe, Japanese actress
September 6 – Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince
October 5 – Jacob Tremblay, Canadian actor
November 16 – Mason Ramsey, American singer
Deaths
January
January 3 – Bill Skate, 5th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1953)
January 4 Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet (b. 1912) Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1943)
January 6 – Lou Rawls, African-American singer, songwriter and actor (b. 1933)
January 7 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer, explorer and author (b. 1912)
January 9 – W. Cleon Skousen, American conservative author and professor (b. 1913)
January 14 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920)
January 15 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, 13th Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926)
January 19 Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928) Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941)
January 21 – Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovar writer, scholar and political leader (b. 1944)
January 24 – Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965)
January 25 – Sudharmono, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1927)
January 26 – Khan Abdul Wali Khan, Pakistani politician (b. 1917)
January 27 – Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931)
January 29 – Nam June Paik, South Korean-born American artist (b. 1932)
January 30 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist (b. 1927)
January 31 – Paul Regina, American actor (b. 1956)
February
February 3 – Al Lewis, American actor (b. 1923)
February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist, and writer (b. 1921)
February 8 – Akira Ifukube, Japanese classical music/film composer (b. 1914)
February 10 – J Dilla, American music producer (b. 1974)
February 12 – Peter Benchley, American writer (b. 1940)
February 13 Andreas Katsulas, American actor (b. 1946) P. F. Strawson, English philosopher (b. 1919)
February 15 – Sun Yun-suan, 10th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1913)
February 18 – Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa, 5th Prime Minister of Sudan (b. 1919)
February 21 – Mirko Marjanović, 63rd Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1937)
February 22 – Said Mohamed Djohar, 2-Time President of the Comoros (b. 1919)
February 23 Giuseppe Amici, ex-Captain Regent of San Marino (b. 1939) Telmo Zarra, Spanish footballer (b. 1921)
February 24 Don Knotts, American actor and comedian (b. 1924) Dennis Weaver, American actor (b. 1924)
February 25 – Darren McGavin, American actor (b. 1922)
February 28 – Owen Chamberlain, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1920)
March
March 1 Harry Browne, American writer and politician (b. 1933) Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
March 6 – Dana Reeve, American actress (b. 1961)
March 7 – Gordon Parks, American photographer (b. 1912)
March 9 – John Profumo, British politician (b. 1915)
March 11 – Slobodan Milošević, 3rd President of Serbia (b. 1941)
March 13 Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944) Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
March 14 – Lennart Meri, 2nd President of Estonia (b. 1929)
March 15 – Georgios Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
March 23 – Desmond Doss, American combat medic (b. 1919)
March 25 Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944) Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916) Buck Owens, American, singer, bandleader, and TV host (b. 1929)
March 27 – Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
March 28 – Caspar Weinberger, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
April
April 5 – Gene Pitney, American singer (b. 1941)
April 8 – Gerard Reve, Dutch author (b. 1923)
April 11 – Proof, American rapper (D12) (b. 1973)
April 12 – Rajkumar, Indian actor and singer (b. 1929)
April 21 – Telê Santana, Brazilian footballer and coach (b. 1931)
April 23 – Alida Valli, Italian actress (b. 1921)
April 24 – Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
April 25 – Jane Jacobs, American-born Canadian writer and activist (b. 1916)
April 29 – John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist (b. 1908)
May
May 3 – Karel Appel, Dutch painter (b. 1921)
May 6 – Shigeru Kayano, Japanese activist (b. 1926)
May 11 – Floyd Patterson, American boxer (b. 1935)
May 12 – Hussein Maziq, Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1918)
May 13 – Jaroslav Pelikan, American historian (b. 1923)
May 14 – Robert Bruce Merrifield, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921)
May 21 – Billy Walker, American country musician (b. 1929)
May 22 – Lee Jong-wook, Korean Director-General of the World Health Organisation (b. 1945)
May 23 – Lloyd Bentsen, American politician (b. 1921)
May 24 – Eric Bedser, English cricketer (b. 1918)
May 25 – Desmond Dekker, Jamaican singer and songwriter (b. 1941)
May 26 – Édouard Michelin, French businessman (b. 1963)
May 27 – Paul Gleason, American actor (b. 1939)
May 30 – Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
May 31 – Raymond Davis Jr., American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
June
June 1 – Rocío Jurado, Spanish singer (b. 1946)
June 6 – Billy Preston, American artist and musician (b. 1946)
June 7 – Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian militant (b. 1966)
June 8 – Robert Donner, American actor (b. 1931)
June 12 – György Ligeti, Hungarian composer (b. 1923)
June 13 – Charles Haughey, 7th Taoisearch of Ireland (b. 1925)
June 17 – Bussunda, Brazilian comedian (b. 1962)
June 23 – Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
July
July 1 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, 53rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
July 5 Gert Fredriksson, Swedish kayaker (b. 1919) Kenneth Lay, American businessman (b. 1942)
July 7 Syd Barrett, English singer, songwriter, and guitarist (b. 1946) Elias Hrawi, 9th President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
July 8 – June Allyson, American actress (b. 1917)
July 10 – Shamil Basayev, Chechen rebel (b. 1965)
July 13 – Red Buttons, American actor and comedian (b. 1919)
July 17 – Mickey Spillane, American writer (b. 1918)
July 19 – Jack Warden, American actor (b. 1920)
July 20 – Ted Grant, British politician (b. 1913)
July 21 Mako, Japanese-American actor and singer (b. 1933) J. Madison Wright Morris, American actress (b. 1984) Ta Mok, Cambodian military leader (b. 1926)
July 28 – David Gemmell, British author (b. 1948)
July 30 – Murray Bookchin, American libertarian socialist (b. 1921)
August
August 3 Arthur Lee, American musician (b. 1945) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German-born soprano (b. 1915)
August 9 – James Van Allen, American physicist (b. 1914)
August 13 – Tony Jay, English-American actor and voice artist (b. 1933)
August 15 Te Atairangikaahu, Maori queen (b. 1931) Faas Wilkes, former Dutch football player (b. 1923)
August 16 – Alfredo Stroessner, 42nd President of Paraguay (b. 1912)
August 19 – Óscar Míguez, Uruguayan football player (b. 1927)
August 20 – Joe Rosenthal, American photographer (b. 1911)
August 21 Bismillah Khan, Indian musician (b. 1916) S. Yizhar, Israeli writer (b. 1916)
August 23 – Maynard Ferguson, Canadian musician and bandleader (b. 1928)
August 25 – Noor Hassanali, 2nd President of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1918)
August 26 – Rainer Barzel, German politician (b. 1924)
August 27 – Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Indian filmmaker (b. 1922)
August 30 Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (b. 1916) Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian Nobel writer (b. 1911)
September
September 1 – György Faludy, Hungarian poet (b. 1910)
September 2 – Bob Mathias, American athlete (b. 1930)
September 4 Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942) Steve Irwin, Australian environmentalist and television personality (b. 1962)
September 7 – Robert Earl Jones, American actor and boxer (b. 1910)
September 10 Daniel Wayne Smith, American actor (b. 1986) Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, 4th King of Tonga (b. 1918)
September 11 Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930) Joachim Fest, German historian and journalist (b. 1926)
September 14 – Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian-born actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
September 15 – Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist (b. 1929)
September 16 – Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
September 17 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
September 22 – Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
September 23 – Malcolm Arnold, English composer (b. 1921)
September 26 Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912) Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American propagandist for Japan in World War II (b. 1916)
October
October 4 – Tom Bell, English actor (b. 1933)
October 6 – Buck O'Neil, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
October 7 – Anna Politkovskaya, American-born Russian journalist (b. 1958)
October 9 – Paul Hunter, British snooker player (b. 1978)
October 11 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (b. 1972)
October 16 – Valentín Paniagua, President of Peru (b. 1936)
October 20 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (b. 1910)
October 22 – Choi Kyu-hah, 4th President of South Korea (b. 1919)
October 27 – Ghulam Ishaq Khan, Pakistani civil servant and 7th President of Pakistan (b. 1915)
October 28 Red Auerbach, American basketball coach and official (b. 1917) Trevor Berbick, Jamaican boxer (b. 1955)
October 30 – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist (b. 1926)
October 31 – P. W. Botha, former State President of South Africa (b. 1916)
November
November 1 Adrienne Shelly, American actress and director (b. 1966) William Styron, American writer (b. 1925)
November 3 – Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
November 5 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician, poet, writer and journalist, Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1925)
November 8 – Basil Poledouris, American composer (b. 1945)
November 9 – Ed Bradley, American journalist (b. 1941)
November 10 – Jack Palance, American actor (b. 1919)
November 15 – Ana Carolina Reston, Brazilian fashion model (b. 1985)
November 16 – Milton Friedman, American Nobel economist (b. 1912)
November 17 Ruth Brown, American singer (b. 1928) Ferenc Puskás, Hungarian footballer (b. 1927)
November 20 – Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925)
November 21 Pierre Amine Gemayel, Lebanese politician (b. 1972) Hassan Gouled Aptidon, 1st President of Djibouti (b. 1916)
November 22 – Asima Chatterjee, Indian chemist (b. 1917)
November 23 Alexander Litvinenko, Russian-born spy (b. 1962) Philippe Noiret, French actor (b. 1930) Anita O'Day, American singer (b. 1919)
November 25 – Valentín Elizalde, Mexican singer (b. 1979)
December
December 1 – Claude Jade, French actress (b. 1948)
December 5 – David Bronstein, Soviet Union chess grandmaster (b. 1924)
December 6 – Han Ahmedow, 1st Prime Minister of Turkmenistan (b. 1936)
December 7 – Jeane Kirkpatrick, American political theorist and U.N. ambassador (b. 1926)
December 9 – Georgia Gibbs, American singer (b. 1919)
December 10 – Augusto Pinochet, 31st President of Chile (b. 1915)
December 12 Paul Arizin, American basketball player (b. 1928) Peter Boyle, American actor (b. 1935) Ellis Rubin, American attorney and author (b. 1925)
December 13 Lamar Hunt, American businessman (b. 1932) Charles Peter McColough, Canadian businessman (b. 1922)
December 14 Ahmet Ertegün, Turkish record executive (b. 1923) Mike Evans, American actor (b. 1949)
December 15 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss race car driver (b. 1939)
December 16 – Marjorie F. Lambert, American archaeologist, anthropologist (b. 1908)
December 18 Abdul Amir al-Jamri, Bahraini writer, and poet (b. 1938) Joseph Barbera, American animator (b. 1911)
December 21 – Saparmurat Niyazov, 1st President of Turkmenistan (b. 1940)
December 22 – Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer (b. 1919)
December 25 – James Brown, American singer (b. 1933)
December 26 – Gerald Ford, American politician, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913)
December 28 – Mandy Mitchell-Innes, English cricketer (b. 1914)
December 30 – Saddam Hussein, 5th President of Iraq (b. 1937)
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry – Roger D. Kornberg.
Economics – Edmund Phelps.
Literature – Orhan Pamuk.
Peace – Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank.
Physics – John C. Mather, and George F. Smoot.
Physiology or Medicine – Andrew Z. Fire, and Craig C. Mello.
New English words and terms
agender
bucket list
crowdfunding
crowdsourcing
Eris
hypermiling
mumblecore
sizzle reel
ski cross[47]