George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died at his Houston home on November 30, 2018, after a struggle with vascular Parkinson's disease. Since Gerald Ford's death in late 2006, he was the first US president to pass away in over a decade. At the time of his death, Bush was the longest-serving US president in history, having lived for 94 years and 171 days. President Donald Trump proclaimed a national day of mourning shortly after Bush's death was announced. The state burial of George H. W. Bush took place over four days from December 3 to 6, 2018, and was the formal funerary ceremonies of the United States government.

Lucy Liu is an American actress, producer, and artist who has worked in both television and cinema. She was born on December 2, 1968. She has two SAG Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, and a Seoul International Drama Award to her belt. She's also up for a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.

Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (January 1, 1949 – December 2, 1993) was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist who founded and led the Medelln Cartel. Escobar, dubbed "The King of Cocaine," is the wealthiest criminal in history, with an estimated net worth of US$30 billion at the time of his death—equivalent to $64 billion in 2021—during the 1980s and early 1990s, when his drug cartel monopolised the cocaine trade into the United States.

Jonathan Swift, born on November 30, 1667, was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican priest who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin, earning him the moniker "Dean Swift." Swift is well known for writings such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument Against the Abolition of Christianity (1712), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1728). (1729). He is recognised by the Encyclopaedia Britannica as the English language's best prose satirist, although his poetry is less widely known.

Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American actress and producer who was born on November 30, 1985. She earned her breakout role as Bridget Hennessy on the ABC comedy 8 Simple Rules (2002–2005) after a string of supporting film and television performances in the late 1990s. Cuoco later voiced Brandy Harrington on Brandy & Mr. Whiskers (2004–2006) and played Billie Jenkins in the final season of Charmed (2005–2006). She went on to play Penny on the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2007–2019), for which she received a Satellite Award, a Critics' Choice Award, and two People's Choice Awards.

Giovanni "Gianni" Versace was an Italian fashion designer and businessman who was born on December 2, 1946. Versace, a worldwide luxury fashion brand that manufactures accessories, perfumes, make-up, home furnishings, and clothing, was founded by him. He was the world's most famous Italian fashion designer, as well as a costume designer for theatre and movies. He was one of the first designers to mix fashion with music, being a friend of Eric Clapton, Princess Diana, Naomi Campbell, Kate Moss, Madonna, Elton John, Tupac Shakur, and many other celebrities.

The Medelln Cartel was founded and led by Pablo Emilio Escobar, a Colombian drug lord and narco-terrorist. Escobar, dubbed "The King of Cocaine," is the wealthiest criminal in history, with a net worth of US$30 billion at the time of his death—equivalent to $64 billion in 2021—during the 1980s and early 1990s, when his drug cartel monopolised the cocaine trade into the United States. On December 2, 1993, he was shot dead.

Priyanka Chopra, a Bollywood actress, and Nick Jonas, a singer, were married on December 1, 2018. Their three-day wedding included both Christian and Hindu wedding rites, culminating in a ceremony at a legitimate palace in Jodhpur. The wedding was overseen by Nick's father, and Priyanka donned a Ralph Lauren gown with a 75-foot veil and long sleeves. The couple had thrown a puja, Mehendi ceremony, and Sangeet the day before, which included a dancing battle between the two families!

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was an American author, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. On November 30th, 1835, he was born. He was hailed as the "best humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner referred to him as "the father of American literature." His works include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), which is sometimes referred to as "The Great American Novel."

Winston Churchill, born on November 30, 1874, was a British leader who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during World War II, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was most remembered for his wartime leadership as Prime Minister, but he was also a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of Britain's longest-serving politicians. With the exception of two years between 1922 and 1924, he served as a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 until 1964, representing a total of five seats. He was a Conservative Party member for the majority of his career, despite being an economic liberal and imperialist.

Paul William Walker IV was an American actor who lived from September 12, 1973 to November 30, 2013. He is most recognised for his part in the Fast & Furious franchise as Brian O'Conner. Walker, 40, and Roger Rodas, 38, drove away from an event for Walker's charity, Reach Out Worldwide, for victims of Typhoon Haiyan on November 30, 2013, in Rodas' 2005 Porsche Carrera GT. The automobile drove into a concrete light post and two trees in a 45 mph (72 km/h) speed zone on Hercules Street in Valencia, a district of Santa Clarita, California, and caught fire. Rodas died from several injuries, while Walker died from a combination of injuries and burns. 

Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as the country's 11th and 13th prime ministers, from 1988 to 1990 and 1993 to 1996, respectively. She was the first woman to lead a democratic administration in a country with a Muslim majority. She headed or co-chaired the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007. She was an ideological liberal and a secularist. On December 2, 1988, she was sworn in as Pakistan's Prime Minister. Bhutto was the first female Prime Minister of a Muslim-majority country and Pakistan's second democratically elected Prime Minister.

On 2 December 1898, Indra Lal Roy was born. He was born in Calcutta, where his father was a barrister and Director of Public Prosecutions, as the second son of Piera Lal Roy and Lolita Roy. In World War I, he was the only Indian ace pilot. He earned 10 aerial victories in just over 170 hours of flying time while serving in the Royal Flying Corps and its successor, the Royal Air Force, making him the first Indian flying ace.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was the first woman to be selected as the sixth Governor of Maharashtra and the eighth President of the United Nations General Assembly. Her brother Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, her niece Indira Gandhi, the first female Prime Minister of India, and her grand-nephew Rajiv Gandhi, the sixth Prime Minister of India, all came from a notable political family. Mrs. Pandit died on December 1, 1990, in Dehra Dun, a Himalayan foothills town where she had lived for the previous 20 years.

Nagaland, a picturesque north-eastern highland state, was established on December 1, 1963. Over the course of 150 years, a convoluted (and at times contentious) set of events resulted in Nagaland becoming the 16th state of the Indian union. In 1816, much of what is now Nagaland and Assam fell under Burmese control. After ten years, the British East India Company took over Assam and gradually expanded its grip over the Naga Hills. Because the Nagas, as Nagaland's tribes are generally known, had little written history, information of them before to the British era is limited.

King Camp Gillette was an American businessman who lived from January 5, 1855 to July 9, 1932.  He created a popular version of the safety razor. Before Gillette's creation, there were other versions. The tiny, affordable, disposable stamped steel blade was Gillette's breakthrough. Gillette is incorrectly credited with developing the "razor and blades" business strategy, in which razors are marketed inexpensively in order to boost the demand for blades. Gillette Safety Razor Company, on the other hand, embraced the business strategy of its rivals.

Ip Man, also known as Yip Man died on 2nd December 1972. He was a Chinese martial artist who was a grandmaster of the Wing Chun martial art. He taught a number of students who went on to become martial arts experts in their own right, the most well-known of whom being Bruce Lee.

Britney Jean Spears is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer who was born on December 2, 1981. She is known as the "Princess of Music" because she is credited with encouraging the resurrection of adolescent pop in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Spears is regarded as a pop legend, having sold more than 100 million albums worldwide, including more than 70 million in the United States alone, making her one of the best-selling music artists in the world.

Jackie Chan is a Hong Kong actor, director, martial artist, and stuntman who is noted for his comedic acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and inventive stunts, which he usually executes himself. Chan has been acting since the 1960s and has been in over 150 films. He is one of the most well-known action movie stars ever. Chan married Joan Lin, a Taiwanese actress, on December 1, 1982. Jaycee Chan, a singer and actor, was born the same year.

Napoleon I was the French Emperor from 1804 through 1814, and again in 1815. During the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon controlled European and global events for more than a decade while leading France against a succession of alliances. He won the great majority of these wars and conflicts, establishing a massive empire that dominated over continental Europe until its eventual collapse in 1815. His conflicts and campaigns are studied in military colleges all throughout the world, making him one of history's greatest commanders. He is still one of the most well-known and divisive political personalities in history.

Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer, developed the fictitious character Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887, established Holmes as the template for the contemporary clever detective. As the world's first and only "consulting detective," he tracked down criminals in Victorian and Edwardian London, the south of England, and continental Europe. Although Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin and Émile Gaboriau's Monsieur Lecoq foreshadowed the fictional detective, Holmes had a distinctive impression on the popular imagination and has been the most lasting figure of the detective novel.

Jagdish Chandra Bose was a world-renowned Indian scientist. He was the first to demonstrate that plants and metals, like humans, had feelings. Jagdish Chandra Bose was born in Mymensingh on November 30, 1858. (now in Bangladesh). Bhagabanchandra Bose, his father, was a Deputy Magistrate. Jagadish Chandra Bose had his early schooling in a Bengal medium country school. Jagadish Chandra Bose was moved to Calcutta in 1869 to study English and was educated at St. Xavier's School and College. He was an outstanding student. In 1879, he received his B.A. in physical sciences.

The United Arab Emirates, also known as the UAE or the Emirates, is a nation in the eastern section of the Arabian Peninsula that is situated on the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf coasts, respectively. Seven emirates make up the United Arab Emirates, which was established as a federation on December 2, 1971.