| 137041 | December 3 | Death | 2012 – Janet Shaw, Australian cyclist and author (b. 1966) |
| 137042 | December 3 | Death | 2012 – Jeroen Willems, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1962) |
| 137043 | December 3 | Death | 2013 – Paul Aussaresses, French general (b. 1918) |
| 137044 | December 3 | Death | 2013 – Ronald Hunter, American actor (b. 1943) |
| 137045 | December 3 | Death | 2013 – Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed, Egyptian air marshal (b. 1952) |
| 137046 | December 3 | Death | 2013 – Ahmed Fouad Negm, Egyptian poet (b. 1929) |
| 137047 | December 3 | Death | 2013 – Sefi Rivlin, Israeli actor (b. 1947) |
| 137048 | December 3 | Death | 2014 – Herman Badillo, Puerto Rican-American lawyer and politician (b. 1929) |
| 137049 | December 3 | Death | 2014 – Jacques Barrot, French politician, French European Commissioner (b. 1937) |
| 137050 | December 3 | Death | 2014 – Nathaniel Branden, Canadian–American psychotherapist and author (b. 1930) |
| 137051 | December 3 | Death | 2014 – Ian McLagan, English-American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (Small Faces, Faces, and The New Barbarians) (b. 1945) |
| 137052 | December 3 | Death | 2014 – James Stewart, Canadian mathematician and academic (b. 1941) |
| 137053 | December 3 | Holiday and observance | Advocate's Day (India) |
| 137054 | December 3 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:BirinusFrancis XavierDecember 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
| 137055 | December 3 | Holiday and observance | Doctors' Day (Cuba) |
| 137056 | December 3 | Holiday and observance | International Day of People with Disability (International) |
| 137057 | December 4 | Event | 771 – Austrasian king Carloman I dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne king of the now complete Frankish Kingdom. |
| 137058 | December 4 | Event | 1110 – The Kingdom of Jerusalem captures Sidon. |
| 137059 | December 4 | Event | 1259 – Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English |
| 137060 | December 4 | Event | 1563 – The final session of the Council of Trent is held. (It had opened on December 13, 1545.) |
| 137061 | December 4 | Event | 1619 – Thirty-eight colonists arrive at Berkeley Hundred, Virginia. The group's charter proclaims that the day "be yearly and perpetually kept holy as a day of thanksgiving to Almighty God." |
| 137062 | December 4 | Event | 1674 – Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek. (The mission would later grow into the city of Chicago.) |
| 137063 | December 4 | Event | 1676 – Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt. |
| 137064 | December 4 | Event | 1745 – Charles Edward Stuart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the Second Jacobite Rising. |
| 137065 | December 4 | Event | 1783 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, U.S. General George Washington bids farewell to his officers. |
| 137066 | December 4 | Event | 1786 – Mission Santa Barbara is dedicated (on the feast day of Saint Barbara). |
| 137067 | December 4 | Event | 1791 – The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published. |
| 137068 | December 4 | Event | 1829 – In the face of fierce local opposition, British Governor-General Lord William Bentinck issues a regulation declaring that anyone who abets suttee in Bengal is guilty of culpable homicide. |
| 137069 | December 4 | Event | 1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroy |
| 137070 | December 4 | Event | 1867 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange). |