Today
Monday December 7 2026
- Day of the year
- 341/ 365
- Week
- 502,026
- Days left
- 2493%
- Moon
- 2%Waning crescent
Today is Monday, December 7, 2026. It is day 341 of 2026, a year of 365 days: 24 remain, and 93% of the year has gone. Under ISO 8601 this date falls in week 50.
What's celebrated on this date
No United Nations international day falls on this date.
Coming up
- December 9International Anti-Corruption Day
- December 10Human Rights Day
- December 11International Mountain Day
Saints and name days
Saints whose feast falls on this date, most widely known first.
- AmbroseRoman theologian and Bishop of Milan (c. 340–397)
- Sabinus of SpoletoLate 3rd-century bishop and Christian martyr
- BurgundofaraFrankish Abbess
- Saint María Josepha RosselloItalian Roman Catholic nun (1811–1880)
- Patriarch George of AntiochPatriarch of Antioch
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Astronomy
New York
- Sunrise
- 07:07
- Sunset
- 16:28
- Length of day
- 9h 22m−1 min vs yesterday
- Solar noon
- 11:48
Times shown for America/New_York
Season
Autumn
began on September 22, 2026
Next season
Winter — 14 days, December 21, 2026 (December solstice)
Public holidays — United States
Not a public holiday in the United States.
Next public holiday : Christmas Day — December 25, 2026
National holidays only. Regions, provinces and Länder add their own.
Moon
Waning crescent
Illumination : 2%
Moon age : 28.4 days
- Next full moon
- December 24, 2026
- Next new moon
- December 9, 2026
Astrology
Today's zodiac sign
Sagittarius
until December 22, 2026 — Capricorn
Zodiac dates are an astrological convention, not the Sun's actual position among the constellations. The astronomy above is measured; this is not.
On this day in history
-43
Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia on orders of Marcus Antonius. Wikipedia
1732
The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England. Wikipedia
1941
World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.) Wikipedia
1949
Chinese Civil War: The Government of the Republic of China moves from Nanjing to Taipei, Taiwan. Wikipedia
1965
Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously revoke mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054. Wikipedia
1972
Apollo 17, the last Apollo Moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth. Wikipedia
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1982
In Texas, Charles Brooks Jr., becomes the first person to be executed by lethal injection in the United States. Wikipedia
1988
The 6.8 Ms Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000. Wikipedia
1995
The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34. Wikipedia
2016
Pakistan International Airlines Flight 661, a domestic passenger flight from Chitral to Islamabad, operated by an ATR-42-500 crashes near Havelian, killing all 47 on board. Wikipedia
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
Births and deaths
Born on this day December 7
- 1598Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Italian sculptor and painter (died 1680)
- 1637Bernardo Pasquini, Italian organist and composer (died 1710)
- 1823Leopold Kronecker, Polish-German mathematician and academic (died 1891)
- 1863Pietro Mascagni, Italian composer and conductor (died 1945)
- 1915Eli Wallach, American actor (died 2014)
- 1924Mário Soares, Portuguese historian, lawyer, and politician, 17th President of Portugal (died 2017)
- 1973Damien Rice, Irish singer-songwriter, musician and record producerturns 53 years
- 1980John Terry, English footballerturns 46 years
Died on this day December 7
- 983Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 955)aged 28 years
- 1894Ferdinand de Lesseps, French businessman and diplomat, co-developed the Suez Canal (born 1805)aged 89 years
- 1962Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer (born 1895)aged 67 years
- 1975Thornton Wilder, American novelist and playwright (born 1897)aged 78 years
- 1990Joan Bennett, American actress (born 1910)aged 80 years
- 2013Édouard Molinaro, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)aged 85 years
- 2016Greg Lake, English musician (born 1947)aged 69 years
- 2020Chuck Yeager, American aviator (born 1923)aged 97 years
Sources : Wikipedia (en) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26
The day in words
In New York the sun rises at 07:07 and sets at 16:28, giving 9h 22m of daylight — 1 minute less than yesterday. It has been autumn since September 22, 2026; winter opens in 14 days, on December 21, 2026 (December solstice).
The moon is a waning crescent, 2% illuminated. The next full moon falls on December 24, 2026 and the next new moon on December 9, 2026.
The saints' calendar attaches December 7 to Ambrose, Sabinus of Spoleto and Burgundofara.
No United Nations international day falls on December 7. The next one on the calendar is International Anti-Corruption Day, on December 9.
It is not a public holiday in the United States.
On this day in history: Marcus Tullius Cicero is assassinated in Formia on orders of Marcus Antonius (-43); The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England (1732). English Wikipedia records 10 events for this date.
Gian Lorenzo Bernini was born on December 7, 1598; Otto II died on December 7, 983.
18 days remain until Christmas and 25 until New Year's Day.
In astrology — kept separate from the measured astronomy above, deliberately — December 7 falls under the sign of Sagittarius.
Calendar
By the numbers
- 93%
- of the year elapsed
- 18
- until Christmas
- 25
- until New Year
- 449
- until the next 29 February
2026 — Common year (365 days)
Work with dates
Sources
Every block on this page names where its data comes from. Nothing here is generated when the source is silent.
- United Nations — International Days— What's celebrated today
- Wikidata (P841)— Saints and name days · CC0 1.0
- Wikipedia (en)— On this day in history · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Data imported on 2026-08-26