Did you know
James Baldwin's 1965 debate with William Buckley is regarded as one of the most influential debates on race in the United States.
Notable Deaths on December 1
1987 — James Baldwin
American novelist, poet, and critic (born 1924)
December 1 has 118 recorded notable deaths across history, from 217 to 2024. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
118 source records
217 – 2024
Today in history
Major events on December 1
See what else happened on this day in history.
- 1989 Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state. Source
- 1862 American Civil War: In his second State of the Union Address, President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation. Source
- 1834 Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. Source
- 2000 Vicente Fox Quesada is inaugurated as the president of Mexico, marking the first peaceful transfer of executive federal power to an opposing political party following a free and democratic election in Mexico's history. Source
Did you know
Henry I, also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135.
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Nominated by President Ronald Reagan, O'Connor was the first woman to serve as a U.
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Gaylord Jackson Perry was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for eight teams from 1962 to 1983, becoming one of the most durable and successful pitchers in history.
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Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States Navy (USN) officer and historian whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century.
More major people who died on December 1
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
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Henry I
king of England (born 1068)
Henry I, also known as Henry Beauclerc, was King of England from 1100 to his death in 1135. He was the fourth son of William the Conqueror and was educated in Latin and the liberal arts.
2023
Sandra Day O'Connor
first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1981–2006) (born 1930)
Sandra Day O'Connor was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006.
2022
Gaylord Perry
American baseball player and coach (born 1938)
Gaylord Jackson Perry was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for eight teams from 1962 to 1983, becoming one of the most durable and successful pitchers in history.
1914
Alfred Thayer Mahan
American captain and historian (born 1840)
Alfred Thayer Mahan was a United States Navy (USN) officer and historian whom John Keegan called "the most important American strategist of the nineteenth century." His 1890 book The Influence of Sea Power upon History,…
1964
J. B. S. Haldane
English-Indian geneticist and biologist (born 1892)
John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-born scientist who later moved to India and acquired Indian citizenship.
1916
Charles de Foucauld
French priest and martyr (born 1858)
Charles de Foucauld, born as Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld de Pontbriand, in religion Charles of Jesus, was a French monk, Catholic priest and hermit who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara in Algeria.
2006
Claude Jade
French actress (born 1948)
Claude Marcelle Jorré, better known as Claude Jade, was a French actress. She starred as Christine in François Truffaut's three films Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970) and Love on the Run (1979).
2002
Dave McNally
American baseball player (born 1942)
David Arthur McNally was an American professional baseball player.
1997
Endicott Peabody
American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (born 1920)
Endicott Howard Peabody was an American politician from Massachusetts. A Democrat, he served a single two-year term as the 62nd governor of Massachusetts, from 1963 to 1965.
1255
Muhammad III of Alamut
Nizari Ismaili Imam
ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad III, more commonly known as ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn, son of Jalāl al-Dīn Ḥasan III, was the 26th Nizāri Isma'ilism Imām. He ruled the Nizari Ismaili state from 1221 to 1255.
2007
Ken McGregor
Australian tennis player and footballer (born 1929)
Kenneth Bruce McGregor was an Australian tennis player from Adelaide who won the Men's Singles title at the Australian Championships in 1952.
2008
Joseph B. Wirthlin
American businessman and religious leader (born 1917)
Joseph Bitner Wirthlin was an American businessman, religious leader and member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1987
Punch Imlach
Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (born 1918)
George "Punch" Imlach was a Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager best known for his association with the Toronto Maple Leafs, whom he was with from 1958 to 1969, and again from 1979 to 1981, and the Buffalo…
1455
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Italian goldsmith and sculptor (born 1378)
Lorenzo Ghiberti was an Italian Renaissance sculptor from Florence, a key figure in the Early Renaissance, best known as the creator of two sets of bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, the later one called by…
1944
Charlie Kerins
Irish Republican executed by hanging (born 1918)
Charlie Kerins was a physical force Irish Republican, and Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army (IRA). Kerins was one of six IRA men who were executed by the Irish State between September 1940 and December 1944.
2001
Ellis R. Dungan
American director and producer (born 1909)
Ellis Roderick Dungan was an American film director, who was well known for working in Indian films, predominantly in Tamil cinema, from 1936 to 1950.
2013
Edward Heffron
American soldier (born 1923)
Edward James "Babe" Heffron was a private with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army during World War II.
1975
Nellie Fox
American baseball player and coach (born 1927)
Jacob Nelson Fox was an American professional baseball player. Fox was one of the best second basemen of all time, and the third-most difficult hitter to strike out in Major League Baseball (MLB) history.
1581
Edmund Campion
English Roman Catholic priest, martyr, and saint (born 1540)
Edmund Campion, SJ was an English Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters.