| 138421 | December 7 | Birth | 2003 – Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange |
| 138422 | December 7 | Death | 43 BC – Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician (b. 106 BC) |
| 138423 | December 7 | Death | 283 – Pope Eutychian |
| 138424 | December 7 | Death | 983 – Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 955) |
| 138425 | December 7 | Death | 1254 – Pope Innocent IV (b. 1195) |
| 138426 | December 7 | Death | 1279 – Bolesław V the Chaste, Polish husband of Kinga of Poland (b. 1226) |
| 138427 | December 7 | Death | 1295 – Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, English soldier (b. 1243) |
| 138428 | December 7 | Death | 1498 – Alexander Hegius von Heek, German poet (b. 1433) |
| 138429 | December 7 | Death | 1562 – Adrian Willaert, Dutch-Italian composer and educator (b. 1490) |
| 138430 | December 7 | Death | 1649 – Charles Garnier, French missionary and saint (b. 1606) |
| 138431 | December 7 | Death | 1672 – Richard Bellingham, English-American lawyer and politician, 8th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1592) |
| 138432 | December 7 | Death | 1683 – Algernon Sidney, English philosopher and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1623) |
| 138433 | December 7 | Death | 1723 – Jan Santini Aichel, Czech architect, designed the Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk and Karlova Koruna Chateau (b. 1677) |
| 138434 | December 7 | Death | 1725 – Florent Carton Dancourt, French actor and playwright (b. 1661) |
| 138435 | December 7 | Death | 1772 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish monk, scholar, and author (b. 1695) |
| 138436 | December 7 | Death | 1775 – Charles Saunders, English admiral and politician (b. 1715) |
| 138437 | December 7 | Death | 1793 – Joseph Bara, French soldier and drummer (b. 1779) |
| 138438 | December 7 | Death | 1815 – Michel Ney, German-French general (b. 1769) |
| 138439 | December 7 | Death | 1817 – William Bligh, English admiral and politician, 4th Governor of New South Wales (b. 1745) |
| 138440 | December 7 | Death | 1842 – Thomas Hamilton, Scottish philosopher and author (b. 1789) |
| 138441 | December 7 | Death | 1874 – Constantin von Tischendorf, German academic and scholar (b. 1815) |
| 138442 | December 7 | Death | 1879 – Jón Sigurðsson, Icelandic scholar and politician, 1st Speaker of the Parliament of Iceland (b. 1811) |
| 138443 | December 7 | Death | 1894 – Ferdinand de Lesseps, French businessman and diplomat, co-developed the Suez Canal (b. 1805) |
| 138444 | December 7 | Death | 1899 – Juan Luna, Filipino painter and sculptor (b. 1857) |
| 138445 | December 7 | Death | 1902 – Thomas Nast, German-American cartoonist (b. 1840) |
| 138446 | December 7 | Death | 1906 – Élie Ducommun, Swiss journalist and educator, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1833) |
| 138447 | December 7 | Death | 1913 – Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian cardinal (b. 1828) |
| 138448 | December 7 | Death | 1917 – Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (b. 1826) |
| 138449 | December 7 | Death | 1938 – Anna Marie Hahn, German-American murderer (b. 1906) |
| 138450 | December 7 | Death | 1941 – Attack on Pearl Harbor:Mervyn S. Bennion, American captain (b. 1887)Herbert C. Jones, American soldier (b. 1918)Isaac C. Kidd, American admiral (b. 1884)Thomas James Reeves, American soldier (b. 1895)Franklin Van Valkenburgh, American captain (b. 1 |