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| December 2nd, 2006 (December 02 2006) | Death | Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (born in 1947) | |
| December 2nd, 2005 (December 02 2005) | Event | Van Tuong Nguyen is executed in Singapore for drug trafficking. | |
| December 2nd, 2005 (December 02 2005) | Death | Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (born in 1919) | |
| December 2nd, 2005 (December 02 2005) | Death | Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug smuggler (hanged) (born in 1980) | |
| December 2nd, 2005 (December 02 2005) | Death | Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (executed) (born in 1948) | |
| December 2nd, 2004 (December 02 2004) | Death | Mona Van Duyn, American poet (born in 1921) | |
| December 2nd, 2004 (December 02 2004) | Death | Alicia Markova, British ballerina (born in 1910) | |
| December 2nd, 2003 (December 02 2003) | Death | Alan Davidson, British author (born in 1924) | |
| December 2nd, 2002 (December 02 2002) | Death | Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (born in 1926) | Philo Quotes |
| December 2nd, 2002 (December 02 2002) | Death | Arno Peters, German historian (born in 1916) | |
| December 2nd, 2001 (December 02 2001) | Event | Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. | |
| December 2nd, 1999 (December 02 1999) | Event | The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive. | Devo Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1997 (December 02 1997) | Death | Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (born in 1930) | |
| December 2nd, 1997 (December 02 1997) | Death | Michael Hedges, American guitarist known for originality (born in 1953) | |
| December 2nd, 1995 (December 02 1995) | Death | Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (born in 1913) | |
| December 2nd, 1995 (December 02 1995) | Death | Roxie Roker, American actress/news personality (born in 1929) | |
| December 2nd, 1993 (December 02 1993) | Event | Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellin. | |
| December 2nd, 1993 (December 02 1993) | Event | Space Shuttle program: STS-NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. | |
| December 2nd, 1993 (December 02 1993) | Death | Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug dealer (born in 1949) | |
| December 2nd, 1990 (December 02 1990) | Event | A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932. | |
| December 2nd, 1990 (December 02 1990) | Death | Aaron Copland, American composer (born in 1900) | Aaron Copland Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1990 (December 02 1990) | Death | Robert Cummings, American film and television actor (born in 1908) | |
| December 2nd, 1989 (December 02 1989) | Birth | Cassie Steele, Canadian actress | |
| December 2nd, 1988 (December 02 1988) | Event | Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state. | |
| December 2nd, 1988 (December 02 1988) | Birth | Alfred Enoch, British Actor | |
| December 2nd, 1988 (December 02 1988) | Birth | Soniya Mehra, Indian Actress | |
| December 2nd, 1988 (December 02 1988) | Death | Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) | |
| December 2nd, 1987 (December 02 1987) | Birth | Teairra Mari, American R&B singer | |
| December 2nd, 1987 (December 02 1987) | Death | Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1906) | |
| December 2nd, 1987 (December 02 1987) | Death | Yakov Borisovich Zel dovich, Russian physicist (born in 1914) | |
| December 2nd, 1986 (December 02 1986) | Birth | Claudiu Keseru, Romanian football player (FC Nantes Atlantique) | |
| December 2nd, 1986 (December 02 1986) | Death | Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer (born in 1917) | |
| December 2nd, 1986 (December 02 1986) | Death | John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (born in 1912) | |
| December 2nd, 1985 (December 02 1985) | Birth | Dorell Wright, American basketball player | |
| December 2nd, 1985 (December 02 1985) | Death | Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (born in 1914) | |
| December 2nd, 1985 (December 02 1985) | Death | Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic (born in 1922) | Philip Larkin Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1984 (December 02 1984) | Birth | Peter Mate, Hungarian footballer (Reading F.C.) | |
| December 2nd, 1983 (December 02 1983) | Birth | Bibiana Candelas, Mexican volleyball player | |
| December 2nd, 1983 (December 02 1983) | Birth | Chris Burke (footballer), Scottish footballer plays for Rangers F.C. | |
| December 2nd, 1983 (December 02 1983) | Birth | Aaron Rodgers, American football player for Green Bay Packers | |
| December 2nd, 1983 (December 02 1983) | Death | Fifi d Orsay, Canadian actress (born in 1904) | |
| December 2nd, 1982 (December 02 1982) | Birth | Matt Ware, American football player | |
| December 2nd, 1982 (December 02 1982) | Birth | Michelle Banzer, model/beauty queen | |
| December 2nd, 1982 (December 02 1982) | Birth | Pizon, American rapper/producer | |
| December 2nd, 1982 (December 02 1982) | Birth | Hristos Karipidis, Greek footballer | |
| December 2nd, 1982 (December 02 1982) | Death | Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor (born in 1933) | Marty Feldman Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1981 (December 02 1981) | Birth | Isabella Soprano, American pornographic actress | |
| December 2nd, 1981 (December 02 1981) | Birth | Danijel Pranjic, Croatian football player plays for SC Heerenveen | |
| December 2nd, 1981 (December 02 1981) | Birth | Britney Spears, American singer | Britney Spears Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1980 (December 02 1980) | Event | Four U.S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador. | |
| December 2nd, 1980 (December 02 1980) | Death | Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born in 1905) | Muhammad Ali Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1980 (December 02 1980) | Death | Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (born in 1914) | Romain Gary Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1979 (December 02 1979) | Birth | Yvonne Catterfeld, German singer and actress | |
| December 2nd, 1979 (December 02 1979) | Birth | Michael McIndoe, Scottish professional footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers) | |
| December 2nd, 1978 (December 02 1978) | Birth | Nelly Furtado, Canadian singer and songwriter | |
| December 2nd, 1978 (December 02 1978) | Birth | Chris Wolstenholme, British bassist (Muse) | |
| December 2nd, 1978 (December 02 1978) | Birth | David Rivas, Spanish Footballer plays for Real Betis | |
| December 2nd, 1978 (December 02 1978) | Birth | Jason Collins, American basketball player for New Jersey Nets | |
| December 2nd, 1978 (December 02 1978) | Birth | Jarron Collins, American basketball player for Utah Jazz | |
| December 2nd, 1978 (December 02 1978) | Birth | Peter Moylan, Australian Major League Baseball Pitcher for the Atlanta Braves | |
| December 2nd, 1977 (December 02 1977) | Birth | Siyabonga Nomvethe, South African footballer plays for Aalborg BK | |
| December 2nd, 1976 (December 02 1976) | Event | Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba replacing Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1976 (December 02 1976) | Birth | Eddy Garabito, professional baseball player | |
| December 2nd, 1976 (December 02 1976) | Death | Danny Murtaugh, baseball player and manager (born in 1917) | |
| December 2nd, 1975 (December 02 1975) | Event | Pathet Lao seizes power in Laos, and establishes the Lao People s Democratic Republic. | |
| December 2nd, 1974 (December 02 1974) | Death | Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (born in 1897) | |
| December 2nd, 1973 (December 02 1973) | Birth | Graham Kavanagh, Irish footballer | |
| December 2nd, 1973 (December 02 1973) | Birth | Monica Seles, Yugoslavian-born tennis player | |
| December 2nd, 1973 (December 02 1973) | Birth | Jan Ullrich, German cyclist | |
| December 2nd, 1972 (December 02 1972) | Event | Gough Whitlam becomes the first Australian Labor Party Prime Minister of Australia for 23 years. | |
| December 2nd, 1972 (December 02 1972) | Birth | Sergei Zholtok, Latvian ice hockey player (died in 2004) | |
| December 2nd, 1971 (December 02 1971) | Event | Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm Al Quwain form the United Arab Emirates. | |
| December 2nd, 1971 (December 02 1971) | Birth | Wilson Jermaine Heredia, American actor | |
| December 2nd, 1971 (December 02 1971) | Birth | Francesco Toldo, Italian Football Player (Inter Milan) | |
| December 2nd, 1970 (December 02 1970) | Event | The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations. | |
| December 2nd, 1970 (December 02 1970) | Birth | Treach, American rapper (Naughty by Nature) | |
| December 2nd, 1969 (December 02 1969) | Death | Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Russian politician (born in 1881) | Kliment Voroshilov Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1968 (December 02 1968) | Birth | Lucy Liu, American actress | |
| December 2nd, 1968 (December 02 1968) | Birth | Nate Mendel, American bassist (Foo Fighters) | |
| December 2nd, 1968 (December 02 1968) | Birth | Rena Sofer, American actress | |
| December 2nd, 1968 (December 02 1968) | Birth | Chris Wedge, American animator | |
| December 2nd, 1968 (December 02 1968) | Birth | Darryl Kile, baseball player (died in 2002) | |
| December 2nd, 1968 (December 02 1968) | Death | Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson), Estonian painter (born in 1902) | |
| December 2nd, 1966 (December 02 1966) | Birth | Jinsei Shinzaki, Japanese professional wrestler | |
| December 2nd, 1963 (December 02 1963) | Birth | Ann Patchett, American novelist | |
| December 2nd, 1963 (December 02 1963) | Birth | Ron Sutter, National Hockey League player | |
| December 2nd, 1963 (December 02 1963) | Death | Thomas J. Hicks, British-born runner (born in 1875) | |
| December 2nd, 1963 (December 02 1963) | Death | Sabu Dastagir, Indian-born American actor (born in 1924) | |
| December 2nd, 1962 (December 02 1962) | Event | Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of US President John F. Kennedy, US Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to not make an optimistic public comment on the war s progress. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1962 (December 02 1962) | Birth | Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, titular Bulgarian royal family | |
| December 2nd, 1961 (December 02 1961) | Event | In a nationally-broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist-Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1960 (December 02 1960) | Birth | Nicholas Dingley alias Razzle, British Drummer (Hanoi Rocks) | |
| December 2nd, 1960 (December 02 1960) | Birth | Rick Savage, British bassist (Def Leppard) | |
| December 2nd, 1958 (December 02 1958) | Birth | Uladzimir Parfianovich, Belarusian canoer | |
| December 2nd, 1958 (December 02 1958) | Birth | Eric L. Harry, American novelist | |
| December 2nd, 1958 (December 02 1958) | Birth | George Saunders, American writer | |
| December 2nd, 1957 (December 02 1957) | Birth | Dagfinn Hoybraten, Norwegian politician | |
| December 2nd, 1957 (December 02 1957) | Death | Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (born in 1902) | |
| December 2nd, 1956 (December 02 1956) | Event | The Granma yacht reaches the shores of Cuba s Oriente province and Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution. | Fidel Castro Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1954 (December 02 1954) | Event | Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." | Joseph McCarthy Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1954 (December 02 1954) | Event | The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and the Republic of China, is signed in Washington, DC. | |
| December 2nd, 1954 (December 02 1954) | Birth | Dan Butler, American actor | |
| December 2nd, 1954 (December 02 1954) | Birth | Stone Phillips, American television journalist | |
| December 2nd, 1952 (December 02 1952) | Birth | Carol Shea-Porter, American Congresswoman | |
| December 2nd, 1951 (December 02 1951) | Birth | Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher | |
| December 2nd, 1950 (December 02 1950) | Birth | Bob Kevoian, American radio personality | |
| December 2nd, 1950 (December 02 1950) | Death | Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (born in 1917) | |
| December 2nd, 1948 (December 02 1948) | Birth | T. Coraghessan Boyle, American writer | |
| December 2nd, 1947 (December 02 1947) | Event | Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the approval of the 1947 UN Partition Plan. | |
| December 2nd, 1947 (December 02 1947) | Birth | Isaac Bitton, French rock band drummer (Les Variations) | |
| December 2nd, 1947 (December 02 1947) | Birth | Ivan Atanassov Petrov, Bulgarian neurologist | |
| December 2nd, 1947 (December 02 1947) | Birth | Tommy Jenkins, English football player | |
| December 2nd, 1946 (December 02 1946) | Event | British Government invites four Indian leaders, Nehru, Baldev Singh, Jinnah and Liaquat Ali Khan to obtain the participation of all parties in the Constituent Assembly. | |
| December 2nd, 1946 (December 02 1946) | Birth | Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (died in 1997) | |
| December 2nd, 1945 (December 02 1945) | Birth | Penelope Spheeris, American film director | |
| December 2nd, 1944 (December 02 1944) | Birth | Ibrahim Rugova, first President of Kosovo (died in 2006) | |
| December 2nd, 1944 (December 02 1944) | Birth | Botho Strau?, German author | |
| December 2nd, 1944 (December 02 1944) | Birth | Dionysis Savvopoulos, Greek musician and songwriter | |
| December 2nd, 1944 (December 02 1944) | Birth | Inger Davidson, Swedish politician | |
| December 2nd, 1944 (December 02 1944) | Death | Josef Lhevinne, Russian pianist (born in 1874) | |
| December 2nd, 1944 (December 02 1944) | Death | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer (born in 1876) | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1943 (December 02 1943) | Event | A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks an American ship with a mustard gas stockpile. Numerous fatalities (though the exact death toll is unresolved as the bombing raid itself caused hundreds of deaths too). | |
| December 2nd, 1943 (December 02 1943) | Birth | Wayne Allard, American politician | |
| December 2nd, 1943 (December 02 1943) | Death | Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian author and journalist (born in 1902) | |
| December 2nd, 1942 (December 02 1942) | Event | Manhattan Project: A team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. | Enrico Fermi Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1939 (December 02 1939) | Event | New York City s La Guardia Airport opens. | |
| December 2nd, 1939 (December 02 1939) | Birth | Yael Dayan, Israeli writer and politician | |
| December 2nd, 1939 (December 02 1939) | Birth | Harry Reid, American politician | Harry Reid Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1939 (December 02 1939) | Birth | Francis Fox, Canadian politician, member of the Senate | |
| December 2nd, 1936 (December 02 1936) | Death | John Ringling, American circus owner (born in 1866) | |
| December 2nd, 1935 (December 02 1935) | Birth | David Hackett Fischer, American historian | |
| December 2nd, 1934 (December 02 1934) | Birth | Andre Rodgers, baseball player (died in 2004) | |
| December 2nd, 1933 (December 02 1933) | Birth | Michael Larrabee, American athlete (died in 2003) | |
| December 2nd, 1933 (December 02 1933) | Birth | K. Veeramani, Indian anti-caste activist | |
| December 2nd, 1931 (December 02 1931) | Birth | Edwin Meese, American lawyer, U.S. attorney general and presidential advisor | |
| December 2nd, 1931 (December 02 1931) | Birth | Nigel Calder, British science writer | |
| December 2nd, 1931 (December 02 1931) | Birth | Hatsumi Masaaki, Founder and head of the Bujinkan Dojo organization | |
| December 2nd, 1931 (December 02 1931) | Birth | Wynton Kelly, American jazz pianist (died in 1971) | |
| December 2nd, 1931 (December 02 1931) | Death | Vincent d Indy, French composer (born in 1851) | |
| December 2nd, 1930 (December 02 1930) | Event | Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before the United States Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy. | Herbert Hoover Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1930 (December 02 1930) | Birth | Gary Becker, American economist, recipient of the Bank of Sweden Prize | |
| December 2nd, 1930 (December 02 1930) | Birth | David Piper, British race car driver | |
| December 2nd, 1927 (December 02 1927) | Event | Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile. | |
| December 2nd, 1925 (December 02 1925) | Birth | Julie Harris, American actress | |
| December 2nd, 1924 (December 02 1924) | Birth | Alexander M. Haig, Jr., American soldier and politician | Alexander Haig Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1924 (December 02 1924) | Birth | Vilgot Sjoman, Swedish writer and film director (died in 2006) | |
| December 2nd, 1924 (December 02 1924) | Death | Kazimieras Buga, Lithuanian philologist (born in 1879) | Philo Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1923 (December 02 1923) | Birth | Maria Callas, Greek soprano (died in 1977) | |
| December 2nd, 1920 (December 02 1920) | Event | Following more than a month of Turkish-Armenian War, the Turkish dictated peace treaty is concluded -Treaty of Alexandropol | |
| December 2nd, 1918 (December 02 1918) | Death | Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (born in 1868) | |
| December 2nd, 1917 (December 02 1917) | Birth | Sylvia Syms, American jazz singer (died in 1992) | |
| December 2nd, 1914 (December 02 1914) | Birth | Adolph Green, American composer (died in 2002) | |
| December 2nd, 1914 (December 02 1914) | Birth | Ray Walston, American actor (died in 2001) | |
| December 2nd, 1910 (December 02 1910) | Birth | Russell Lynes, American art historian, photographer, author and managing editor of Harper s Magazine (died in 1991) | |
| December 2nd, 1908 (December 02 1908) | Event | Child Emperor Pu Yi ascends the Chinese throne at the age of two | |
| December 2nd, 1906 (December 02 1906) | Birth | Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-born recording engineer (died in 1977) | |
| December 2nd, 1902 (December 02 1902) | Birth | Howard Koch, American screenwriter (died in 1995) | |
| December 2nd, 1901 (December 02 1901) | Birth | Raimundo Orsi, Argentine-born footballer (died in 1986) | |
| December 2nd, 1899 (December 02 1899) | Event | Philippine-American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought. | |
| December 2nd, 1899 (December 02 1899) | Birth | John Barbirolli, British conductor (died in 1970) | |
| December 2nd, 1899 (December 02 1899) | Birth | John Cobb, British racing driver (died in 1952) | |
| December 2nd, 1899 (December 02 1899) | Birth | Ray Morehart, American baseball player (died in 1989) | |
| December 2nd, 1899 (December 02 1899) | Death | Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (killed at Battle of Tirad Pass) (born in 1875) | |
| December 2nd, 1898 (December 02 1898) | Birth | Indra Lal Roy, Indian pilot (died in 1918) | |
| December 2nd, 1897 (December 02 1897) | Birth | Hovhannes Bagramyan, Marshall of the Soviet Union (died in 1982) | Hovhannes Bagramyan Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1895 (December 02 1895) | Birth | Harriet Cohen, British pianist (died in 1967) | |
| December 2nd, 1894 (December 02 1894) | Birth | Warren William, American Broadway and film actor (died in 1948) | |
| December 2nd, 1892 (December 02 1892) | Birth | Leo Ornstein, Russian-born composer and pianist (died in 2002) | |
| December 2nd, 1892 (December 02 1892) | Death | Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (born in 1836) | |
| December 2nd, 1891 (December 02 1891) | Birth | Otto Dix, German painter and graphic artist (died in 1969),Charles H. Wesley, author writer and Brother of Alpha Phi Alpha Inc. | |
| December 2nd, 1886 (December 02 1886) | Birth | Harry Burleigh, American composer (died in 1949) | |
| December 2nd, 1885 (December 02 1885) | Birth | George Richards Minot, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize (died in 1950) | |
| December 2nd, 1867 (December 02 1867) | Event | In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States. | Charles Dickens Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1863 (December 02 1863) | Birth | Charles Ringling, American circus owner (died in 1926) | |
| December 2nd, 1860 (December 02 1860) | Death | Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (born in 1796) | Alfred Bunn Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1859 (December 02 1859) | Event | Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper s Ferry. | |
| December 2nd, 1859 (December 02 1859) | Birth | Georges Seurat, French painter (died in 1891) | |
| December 2nd, 1859 (December 02 1859) | Death | John Brown, American abolitionist (hanged) (born in 1800) | |
| December 2nd, 1852 (December 02 1852) | Event | Napoleon III becomes Emperor of the French. | |
| December 2nd, 1851 (December 02 1851) | Event | Newly-elected French President Charles Louis Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic. | |
| December 2nd, 1849 (December 02 1849) | Death | Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of William IV of the United Kingdom (born in 1792) | William King Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1848 (December 02 1848) | Event | Franz Josef I becomes Emperor of Austria. | |
| December 2nd, 1846 (December 02 1846) | Birth | Pierre Marie Rene Ernest Waldeck-Rousseau, French statesman (died in 1904) | |
| December 2nd, 1845 (December 02 1845) | Event | Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West. | James K. Polk Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1844 (December 02 1844) | Death | Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (born in 1768) | |
| December 2nd, 1825 (December 02 1825) | Birth | Emperor Pedro II of Brazil (died in 1891) | |
| December 2nd, 1823 (December 02 1823) | Event | Monroe Doctrine: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts. | James Monroe Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1817 (December 02 1817) | Birth | Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (died in 1895) | |
| December 2nd, 1814 (December 02 1814) | Death | Marquis de Sade, French writer (born in 1740) | |
| December 2nd, 1811 (December 02 1811) | Birth | Jean-Charles Chapais, French Canadian politician, Father of the Canadian Confederation (died in 1885) | |
| December 2nd, 1805 (December 02 1805) | Event | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of AusterlitzFrench troops under Napoleon defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force. | |
| December 2nd, 1804 (December 02 1804) | Event | At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years. | Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1774 (December 02 1774) | Death | Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist (born in 1720) | |
| December 2nd, 1760 (December 02 1760) | Birth | John Breckinridge, American politician (died in 1806) | |
| December 2nd, 1755 (December 02 1755) | Event | The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire. | |
| December 2nd, 1754 (December 02 1754) | Birth | William Cooper, American judge (died in 1809) | |
| December 2nd, 1748 (December 02 1748) | Death | Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (born in 1662) | |
| December 2nd, 1747 (December 02 1747) | Death | Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (born in 1695) | |
| December 2nd, 1738 (December 02 1738) | Birth | Richard Montgomery, Irish-born soldier (died in 1775) | |
| December 2nd, 1726 (December 02 1726) | Death | Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (born in 1665) | |
| December 2nd, 1719 (December 02 1719) | Death | Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (born in 1634) | |
| December 2nd, 1710 (December 02 1710) | Birth | Bertinazzi, Italian actor and writer (died in 1783) | |
| December 2nd, 1703 (December 02 1703) | Birth | Ferdinand Konscak, Croatian explorer (died in 1759) | |
| December 2nd, 1694 (December 02 1694) | Birth | William Shirley, Colonial Governor of Massachusetts (died in 1771) | |
| December 2nd, 1694 (December 02 1694) | Death | Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (born in 1622) | |
| December 2nd, 1665 (December 02 1665) | Death | Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (born in 1588) | |
| December 2nd, 1615 (December 02 1615) | Death | Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, French general | |
| December 2nd, 1578 (December 02 1578) | Birth | Agostino Agazzari, Italian composer and music theorist (died in 1640) | |
| December 2nd, 1552 (December 02 1552) | Death | Francis Xavier, Spanish Catholic missionary (born in 1506) | |
| December 2nd, 1547 (December 02 1547) | Death | Hernan Cortes, Spanish explorer and conqueror (born in 1485) | |
| December 2nd, 1515 (December 02 1515) | Death | Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, Spanish general and statesman (born in 1453) | |
| December 2nd, 1469 (December 02 1469) | Death | Piero di Cosimo de Medici, ruler of Florence (born in 1416) | |
| December 2nd, 1463 (December 02 1463) | Death | Archduke Albert VI of Austria (born in 1418) | |
| December 2nd, 1409 (December 02 1409) | Event | The University of Leipzig opens. | |
| December 2nd, 1381 (December 02 1381) | Death | John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic | |
| December 2nd, 1348 (December 02 1348) | Death | Emperor Hanazono of Japan (born in 1297) | |
