Today is Friday, Dec. 9, the 344th day of 2016. There are 22 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Kirk Douglas is 100. Actor-writer Buck Henry is 86. Actress Judi Dench is 82. Actor Beau Bridges is 75. Football Hall-of-Famer Dick Butkus is 74. Former Senate majority leader Thomas Daschle, Democrat of South Dakota, is 69. Golf Hall of Famer Tom Kite is 67. Singer Joan Armatrading is 66. Actor John Malkovich is 63. Singer Donny Osmond is 59. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, is 50. Singer-songwriter Jakob Dylan is 47. Actress Reiko Aylesworth is 44. Actor Kevin Daniels is 40. Actor/writer/director Mark Duplass is 40. Rock musician Eric Zamora (Save Ferris) is 40. Actor Jesse Metcalfe is 38. Actor Simon Helberg is 36.

In 1912, Thomas O’Neill was born in Cambridge. “Tip’’ O’Neill would serve as House speaker from 1977 to 1987.

In 1965, ‘‘A Charlie Brown Christmas,’’ the first animated TV special featuring characters from the ‘‘Peanuts’’ comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, was first broadcast on CBS.

In 1987, the first Palestinian intefadeh, or uprising, began as riots broke out in Gaza and spread to the West Bank, triggering a strong Israeli response.

In 1992, Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separation. (The couple’s divorce became final Aug. 28, 1996.)

In 2011, a jury in New Haven condemned Joshua Komisarjevsky to death for killing a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror in their suburban Cheshire home.