December 31
December 31 is the 365th day of the Gregorian Calendar ( 366th in leap years), and is the last day of the year.
- 3.1 Before the 19th century
- 3.2 19th century
- 3.3 20th century
- 3.4 21st century
Events
Politics and World Affairs
Economy
- 2004: In Lithuania, the first block of the Ignalina nuclear power plant is shut down 21 years after his arranged by the Moscow Politburo into operation. The European Union contributes the major part of the decommissioning costs.
- 2009: The Lithuanian Ignalina nuclear power plant is finally shut down.
Science and Technology
- 2004: Taipei 101, the tallest office building by July 2007 the world will be officially opened in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan.
Culture
Religion
Disasters
Minor accidents are listed in the sub- items of disaster.
Nature and Environment
Sports
- Every year takes place the final game at the Spengler Cup ice hockey tournament in Davos that day.
Entries of Athletics world records are located under the respective discipline under Athletics.
Born
Before the 19th century
19th century
20th century
1901-1950
1951-2000
Died
Before the 19th century
- 0045 BC: The Quintus Fabius Maximus, the Roman politician
- 0192: Commodus, Roman Emperor
- 0335: Sylvester I, pope
- 1194: Leopold V, Duke of Austria and Styria from the House of Babenberg
- 1377: Guillaume de Marcossey, Bishop of Geneva
- 1384: John Wycliffe, English philosopher, theologian and church reformer
- 1386: Joan of Bavaria, first wife of the Roman king Wenceslas
- 1426: Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, English Lord Chancellor
- 1460: Edmund, Earl of Rutland, English nobleman
- 1460: Richard Neville, English nobleman, 5th Earl of Salisbury
- 1462: Heinrich Rubenow, Greifswald Mayor
- 1483: Gilles Joye, Belgian theologian and poet, singer and composer
- 1509: Wilhelm Westphal, Bishop of Lübeck
- 1510: Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Emperor Maximilian I.
- 1524: Johannes Widmann, a German professor of medicine, Duke's personal physician
- 1563: Charles I de Cossé, comte de Brissac, French general and diplomat, Marshal of France
- 1574: Liitke name, German theologian and Franciscan friar
- 1583: Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian
- 1598: Heinrich Rantzau, Danish governor of the royal share of Schleswig -Holstein
- 1610: Ludolph van Ceulen, Dutch mathematician
- 1619: Simon Sten, German educator and anthropologist, philologist, historian and literary scholar
- 1647: Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Neapolitan composer
- 1650: Dorgon, pioneer of Manchu rule over China
- 1679: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physicist and astronomer
- 1688: Joachim Henniges of meetings field of Brandenburg, General
- 1710: Johann Daniel Arcularius, German logician and theologian
- 1719: John Flamsteed, British astronomer
- 1726: Peter Kolb, German teacher and ethnologist
- 1742: Charles III. Philip, Duke of Palatinate -Neuburg, Jülich and Berg
- 1783: Gualtherus van Doeveren, Dutch physicians
- 1784: Christoph Reinhard tempest, German Reformed theologian
- 1793: Armand -Louis de Gontaut, duc de Biron, French general
- 1799: Louis Jean -Marie Daubenton, French naturalist
19th century
20th century
21st Century
- 2001: Matthias Fuchs, German actor
- 2001: Eileen Heckart, American actress
- 2002: Kazimierz Dejmek, Polish theater director
- 2003: John Prchlik, U.S. American football player
- 2003: Sieglinde Wagner, German contralto
- 2004: Gerard Debreu, French economist and Nobel Prize winner
- 2004: Karl Otto rooms, judge at the German Federal Social Court
- 2005: Sanora Babb, American writer and journalist
- 2005: Raban of Canstein, German general of the Bundeswehr
- 2005: Fee Malten, German actress
- 2005: Phillip Whitehead, British politician
- 2006: Yaacov Hodorov, Israeli football player
- 2006: Liese Prokop, Austrian athlete and politician
- 2007: Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect and designer
- 2010: Heinz Schimmelpfennig, German actor and director
- 2012: Moisès Broggi, Spanish physician and pacifist
- 2012: Susana Dalmas, Uruguayan politician
- 2012: Günter Rössler, German Photographer
- 2013: James Avery, American actor
- 2013: Irina Korshunov, German writer
- 2013: Bruno Moravetz, German sports reporter
Holidays and observances
- Religious observances John Wycliffe, English theologian and reformer (Protestant, Anglican)
- St. Catherine Labouré, French nun ( Catholic)
- St. Sylvester I, Bishop ( Catholic)
- Name Days Mela, Melanie, New Year's Eve
- Customs New Year's Eve
More entries contains the list of commemorative and action days.
- Day
- Day in December