Deaths in History on December 1

Leo X

1521 Leo X, [Giovanni de' Medici], Italian Pope (1513-21), dies at 45

1530 Margaretha of Austria, governess of the Netherlands, dies at 51
1580 Edmund Campion, English jesuit, hanged at 42
1580 Giovanni Morone, Italian theologian/diplomat/cardinal, dies at 71
1581 Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (b. 1550)
1581 Alexander Briant, English saint (b. around 1556)
1602 Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1582)

1633 Isabella Clara Eugenia, Sovereign of the Netherlands (1598-1621), dies at 67
1635 Melchior Teschner, composer, dies at 51
1660 Pierre d'Hozier, French genealogist, dies at 68
1700 Willem ten Rhijne, Dutch physician in Batavia, dies at about 53
1709 Abraham a Sancta Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court preacher and friar, dies at 65
1729 Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer and mathematician, dies at 64
1736 Simon van Slingelandt, Dutch grand pensionary (1727-36), dies at 72
1750 Doppelmayr, mathematician
1767 Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason
1797 Oliver Wolcott, US judge, signed US Declaration of Independence, dies at 71
1825 Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777). Reigned from 1801
1842 Philip Spencer, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged
1865 Constant van Crombrugghe, Flemish monastery founder, dies at 76
1865 Abraham Emanuel Fröhlich, Swiss poet (b. 1796)
1866 George Everest, Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest, dies at 76
1884 William Swainson (lawyer), second, and last, Attorney-General (New Zealand) of the Crown Colony of New Zealand (b. 1809)
1887 Albertus J Duymaer van Twist, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies, dies at 78
1892 Joseph Lippens, Belgian lieutenant in Congo, murdered
1892 Lucius E. Polk, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 59
1914 Alfred Thayer Mahan, American naval officer (Influence of Sea Power), dies at 74
1916 Charles E Vicomte de Foucauld, French explorer, dies at 58
1923 Virginie Loveling, Belgian writer and poet (b. 1836)
1928 José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
1934 Sergei M Kirov, Josef Stalin's collaborator, assassinated in Leningrad
1935 Bernard Schmidt, inventor (Schmidt camera), dies

1943 Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince, son of King Mongkut and brother of King Chulalongkorn and historian, dies at 81
1947 Aleister Crowley, British occultist, founded the religion of Thelema, dies at 72
1947 G. H. Hardy, English mathematician (Hardy–Weinberg principle, A Mathematician's Apology), dies at 70
1952 Victor E Orlando, Italian premier (1917-19), dies at 92
1964 J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. 1892)
1971 Arthur B Springarn, US NAACP chairman (1940-65), dies at 93
1972 Antonio Segni, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1955-57, 59-60, 62-64), dies at 81

David Ben-Gurion

1973 David Ben-Gurion, founding father of Israel, dies in Tel Aviv at 87

1974 Lajos Zilahy, Hungarian/American author (Angry Angel), dies at 83
1974 Stephen Gill Spottswood, US bishop/chairman (NAACP), dies at 77
1975 Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (b. 1906)
1977 Paul Hardy, Belgian designer (Italian Country, dies at 69
1977 Teun Struycken [Antoon Arnold Marie Struycken], Dutch Minister of Justice (1950-51) and Governor of the Netherlands Antilles (1951-56), dies at 70
1983 Mirsky, mathematician, dies
1984 Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (b. 1911)
1987 Donn Fulton Eisele, Col USAF/astronaut, dies of a heart attack at 57
1987 James Arthur Baldwin, writer (Another Country), dies at 63
1990 Jan H de Groot, Dutch co-founder (Vrij Nederland), dies

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

1990 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Indian diplomat and politician, dies at 90

1991 George Joseph Stigler, US economist (Nobel 1982), dies at 80
1996 Barbak Karmal, politician, dies at 67
1997 Denis Gerald Barrington, artist, dies at 67
1997 Michel Bélanger, French Canadian businessman and banker (b. 1929)
1997 Endicott Peabody, 62nd Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1920)
2003 Clark Kerr, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (b. 1911)
2004 Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)
2005 Gust Avrakotos, American intelligence case officer (b. 1938)
2006 Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist (McGill University) (b. 1937)
2007 Sally L. Smith, American educator and founder (Lab School of Washington), dies at 78
2008 Joseph B Wirthlin, American businessmen, religious leader, member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church), dies at 91
2010 Hillard Elkins, American theatre and film producer (b. 1929)
2011 Christa Wolf, German writer (b. 1929)
2016 Ousmane Sow, Senegalese sculptor, dies at 81