December 1
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- 1135 - Henry I of England
- 1241 - Isabella of England, wife of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1214)
- 1377 - King Magnus II of Sweden (b. 1316)
- 1433 - Emperor Go-Komatsu of Japan (b. 1377)
- 1455 - Lorenzo Ghiberti, Italian artist and metal smith (b. 1378)
- 1521 - Pope Leo X (b. 1475)
- 1530 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (b. 1480)
- 1580 - Giovanni Morone, Italian cardinal (b. 1509)
- 1581 - Edmund Campion, English Jesuit (martyred) (b. 1540)
- 1581 - Ralph Sherwin, English Catholic saint (b. 1550)
- 1602 - Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1582)
- 1633 - Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain (b. 1566)
- 1660 - Pierre d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1592)
- 1707 - Jeremiah Clarke, English composer (b. 1674)
- 1709 - Abraham a Sancta Clara, Austrian preacher (b. 1644)
- 1723 - Susanna Centlivre, English dramatist and actress
- 1729 - Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer (b. 1665)
- 1750 - Johan Gabriel Doppelmayr, German mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1671)
- 1755 - Maurice Greene, English composer (b. 1696)
- 1767 - Henry Erskine, 10th Earl of Buchan, British Freemason (b. 1710)
- 1825 - Tsar Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
- 1830 - Pope Pius VIII (b. 1761)
- 1928 - José Eustasio Rivera, Colombian writer (b. 1888)
- 1934 - Sergei Kirov, Russian revolutionary (b. 1886)
- 1943 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (b. 1862)
- 1947 - Aleister Crowley, English occultist (b. 1875)
- 1950 - E. J. Moeran, English composer (b. 1894)
- 1964 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (b. 1892)
- 1973 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1886)
- 1975 - Nellie Fox, baseball player (b. 1927)
- 1975 - Anna E. Roosevelt, American radio personality (b. 1906)
- 1985 - Alvin Ailey, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1931)
- 1987 - James Baldwin, American writer (b. 1924)
- 1991 - George Joseph Stigler, American economist, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (b. 1911)
- 1997 - Stéphane Grappelli, French jazz violinist (b. 1908)
- 2003 - Clark Kerr, first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (b. 1911)
- 2004 - Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (b. 1911)