Calderón sends the Mexican military to combat the drug cartels and put down the violence in the state of Michoacán, initiating the Mexican Drug War. December 24 – Ethiopia admits its troops have intervened in Somalia. December 29 – UK settles its Anglo-American loan, post-WWII loan debt. December 30 – Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, was executed by hanging. Undated Palestinian National Interest Committee is founded. Births April 26 - Kamila Valieva, Russian figure skater April 29 – Xochitl Gomez, American actress June 25 – Mckenna Grace, American actress September 6 – Prince Hisahito of Akishino, Japanese prince October 5 – Jacob Tremblay, Canadian actor Deaths January January 1 – Haji Zakaria bin Muhammad Amin, Indonesian ulama (b. 1913) January 2 – Lidia Wysocka, Polish actress (b. 1916) January 3 – Bill Skate, 5th Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea (b. 1953) January 4 Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1943) Milton Himmelfarb, American essayist (b. 1918) Nel van Vliet, Dutch swimmer (b. 1926) January 6 – Lou Rawls, American singer, songwriter, actor, voice actor and record producer (b. 1933) January 7 – Heinrich Harrer, Austrian mountaineer, explorer and author (b. 1912) January 8 – Prince George, William of Hanover, German aristocrat (b. 1915) January 11 – Eric Namesnik, American Olympic swimmer (born 1970) January 14 – Shelley Winters, American actress (b. 1920) January 15 – Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, 13th Emir of Kuwait (b. 1926) January 19 Anthony Franciosa, American actor (b. 1928) Wilson Pickett, American singer (b. 1941) January 21 – Ibrahim Rugova, Kosovar writer, scholar and political leader (b. 1944) January 23 Savino Guglielmetti, Italian gymnast (b. 1911) January 24 – Chris Penn, American actor (b. 1965) January 25 – Sudharmono, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1927) January 27 – Johannes Rau, 8th President of Germany (b. 1931) January 29 – Nam June Paik, South Korean-born American artist (b. 1932) January 30 – Coretta Scott King, American civil rights activist (b. 1927) February February 2 – Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, prime minister of Bangladesh (b. 1928) February 3 – Lou Jones, American Olympic runner (b. 1937) February 4 – Betty Friedan, American feminist, activist, and writer (b. 1921) February 6 – George Millay, American businessman and founder of SeaWorld, (b. 1929) February 8 – Larry Black, American track and field medalist (b. 1951) February 9 – Ibolya Csák, Hungarian athlete (b.