| 138511 | December 7 | Death | 2012 – Marty Reisman, American table tennis player and author (b. 1930) |
| 138512 | December 7 | Death | 2012 – Saul Steinberg, American businessman (b. 1939) |
| 138513 | December 7 | Death | 2013 – Józef Kowalski, Ukrainian-Polish captain (b. 1900) |
| 138514 | December 7 | Death | 2013 – Jacob Matlala, South African boxer (b. 1962) |
| 138515 | December 7 | Death | 2013 – Édouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928) |
| 138516 | December 7 | Death | 2013 – Allen Rosenberg, American rower and coach (b. 1931) |
| 138517 | December 7 | Death | 2013 – Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, Indian actor and singer (b. 1954) |
| 138518 | December 7 | Death | 2013 – Chick Willis, American singer and guitarist (b. 1934) |
| 138519 | December 7 | Death | 2014 – Mango, Italian singer-songwriter (b. 1954) |
| 138520 | December 7 | Death | 2014 – Brian Roy Goble, Canadian singer-songwriter (Subhumans and The Skulls) (b. 1957) |
| 138521 | December 7 | Death | 2014 – Khalil Ullah Khan, Bangladeshi actor (b. 1934) |
| 138522 | December 7 | Death | 2014 – Mark Lewis, American author, actor, and educator (b. 1954) |
| 138523 | December 7 | Death | 2014 – Ken Weatherwax, American actor (b. 1955) |
| 138524 | December 7 | Holiday and observance | Armed Forces Flag Day (India) |
| 138525 | December 7 | Holiday and observance | Christian feast day:Aemilianus (Greek Church)AmbroseDecember 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) |
| 138526 | December 7 | Holiday and observance | Eve of the Immaculate Conception-related observances:Day of the Little Candles, begins after sunset (Colombia)Quema del Diablo, begins after sunset. (Guatemala) |
| 138527 | December 7 | Holiday and observance | International Civil Aviation Day (International) |
| 138528 | December 7 | Holiday and observance | National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (United States) |
| 138529 | December 7 | Holiday and observance | Spitak Remembrance Day (Armenia) |
| 138530 | December 7 | Holiday and observance | Student Day (Iran) |
| 138531 | December 8 | Event | 395 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope. |
| 138532 | December 8 | Event | 757 – Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion. |
| 138533 | December 8 | Event | 1432 – The first battle between the forces of Švitrigaila and Sigismund Kęstutaitis is fought near the town of Oszmiana (Ashmyany), launching the most active phase of the Lithuanian Civil War. |
| 138534 | December 8 | Event | 1560 – The city of Guarulhos is founded. |
| 138535 | December 8 | Event | 1596 – Luis de Carabajal the younger, one of the first Jewish authors in the Americas, died in an auto-da-fé during the Spanish Inquisition in Mexico City. |
| 138536 | December 8 | Event | 1660 – A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play Othello. |
| 138537 | December 8 | Event | 1813 – Premier of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. |
| 138538 | December 8 | Event | 1854 – In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogmatic definition of Immaculate Conception, which holds that the Virgin Mary was conceived free of original sin. |
| 138539 | December 8 | Event | 1907 – King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne. |
| 138540 | December 8 | Event | 1912 – Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out. |