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===1901–present=== *[[1919]] – [[John Alcock (RAF officer)|John Alcock]], English captain and pilot (b. 1892) *[[1922]] – [[Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet]], German-English banker and businessman (b. 1851) *[[1925]] – [[Hamo Thornycroft]], English sculptor and academic (b. 1850)<ref>{{cite web |title=Sir Hamo Thornycroft {{!}} British sculptor |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hamo-Thornycroft |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=27 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1932]] – [[Eduard Bernstein]], German theorist and politician (b. 1850) *[[1936]] – [[Andrija Mohorovičić]], Croatian meteorologist and seismologist (b. 1857) *[[1939]] – [[Ernest Lawson]], Canadian-American painter (b. 1873) *[[1961]] – [[Leo Reisman]], American violinist and bandleader (b. 1897) *[[1969]] – [[Charles Dvorak]], American pole vaulter and coach (b. 1878) *[[1971]] – [[Bobby Jones (golfer)|Bobby Jones]], American golfer and lawyer (b. 1902) * 1971 – [[Diana Lynn]], American actress (b. 1926) *[[1972]] – [[Neilia Hunter Biden]], first wife of [[Joe Biden]] (b. 1942)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/19/archives/bidens-wife-child-killed-in-car-crash.html|title=Biden's Wife, Child Killed in Car Crash|website=The New York Times|date=December 19, 1972|access-date=21 March 2023}}</ref> *[[1973]] – [[Allamah Rasheed Turabi]], Indian-Pakistani religious leader and philosopher (b. 1908) *[[1974]] – [[Harry Hooper]], American baseball player, coach, and manager (b. 1887) *[[1975]] – [[Theodosius Dobzhansky]], Ukrainian geneticist and biologist (b. 1900) *[[1977]] – [[Michio Nishizawa]], Japanese baseball player and manager (b. 1921) * 1977 – [[Louis Untermeyer]] American poet, anthologist, critic (b. 1885) *[[1980]] – [[Dobriša Cesarić]], Croatian poet and translator (b. 1902) * 1980 – [[Alexei Kosygin]], Russian soldier and politician, 8th [[Premier of the Soviet Union]] (b. 1904) *[[1982]] – [[Hans-Ulrich Rudel]], German colonel and pilot (b. 1916) *[[1985]] – [[Xuân Diệu]], Vietnamese poet and author (b. 1916) *[[1987]] – [[Conny Plank]], German keyboard player and producer (b. 1940) *[[1988]] – [[Niyazi Berkes]], Turkish Cypriot-English sociologist and academic (b. 1908) *[[1990]] – [[Anne Revere]], American actress (b. 1903) * 1990 – [[Paul Tortelier]], French cellist and composer (b. 1914) * 1990 – [[Joseph Zubin]], Lithuanian-American psychologist and academic (b. 1900) *[[1991]] – [[George Abecassis]], English race car driver (b. 1913) *[[1992]] – [[Mark Goodson]], American game show producer, created ''[[Family Feud]]'' and ''[[The Price Is Right (U.S. game show)|The Price Is Right]]'' (b. 1915) *[[1993]] – [[Helm Glöckler]], German race car driver (b. 1909) * 1993 – [[Sam Wanamaker]], American-English actor, director, and producer (b. 1919) *[[1994]] – [[Roger Apéry]], Greek-French mathematician and academic (b. 1916) * 1994 – [[Lilia Skala]], Austrian-American actress (b. 1896) *[[1995]] – [[Brian Brockless]], English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1926) * 1995 – [[Ross Thomas (author)|Ross Thomas]], American author (b. 1926) * 1995 – [[Konrad Zuse]], German engineer, designed the [[Z3 (computer)|Z3 computer]] (b. 1910) *[[1996]] – [[Yulii Borisovich Khariton]], Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904) * 1996 – [[Irving Caesar]], American composer (b. 1895) *[[1997]] – [[Chris Farley]], American comedian and actor (b. 1964) *[[1998]] – [[Lev Dyomin]], Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1926) *[[1999]] – [[Robert Bresson]], French director and screenwriter (b. 1901) *[[2000]] – [[Stan Fox]], American race car driver (b. 1952) * 2000 – [[Randolph Apperson Hearst]], American businessman (b. 1915) * 2000 – [[Kirsty MacColl]], British singer-songwriter (b. 1959) *[[2001]] – [[Gilbert Bécaud]], French singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (b. 1927) * 2001 – [[Dimitris Dragatakis]], Greek violinist and composer (b. 1914) * 2001 – [[Marcel Mule]], French saxophonist and educator (b. 1901) *[[2002]] – [[Necip Hablemitoğlu]], Turkish historian and academic (b. 1954) * 2002 – [[Ray Hnatyshyn]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th [[Governor General of Canada]] (b. 1934) * 2002 – [[Wayne Owens]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1937) * 2002 – [[Lucy Grealy]], Irish-American author (b. 1963) *[[2004]] – [[Anthony Sampson]], English journalist and author (b. 1926) *[[2005]] – [[Alan Voorhees]], American engineer and urban planner (b. 1922) *[[2006]] – [[Joseph Barbera]], American animator, director, and producer, co-founded [[Hanna-Barbera]] (b. 1911) * 2006 – [[Ruth Bernhard]], German-American photographer (b. 1905) * 2006 – [[Shaukat Siddiqui]], Pakistani author and activist (b. 1923) *[[2007]] – [[Hans Billian]], Polish-German actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1918) * 2007 – [[Gerald Le Dain]], Canadian lawyer and judge (b. 1924) * 2007 – [[William Strauss]], American author and playwright (b. 1947) * 2007 – [[Alan Wagner]], American businessman and critic (b. 1931) *[[2008]] – [[Majel Barrett]], American actress and producer (b. 1932) * 2008 – [[Mark Felt]], American [[FBI]] agent and informant (b. 1913) *[[2010]] – [[Phil Cavarretta]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1916) * 2010 – [[Jacqueline de Romilly]], French philologist, author, and scholar (b. 1913) * 2010 – [[Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa]], Italian economist and politician, [[List of Italian Ministers of Economy and Finances|Italian Minister of Economy and Finances]] (b. 1940) * 2010 – [[James Pickles]], English judge and journalist (b. 1925) *[[2011]] – [[Václav Havel]], Czech poet, playwright, and politician, 1st [[President of the Czech Republic]] (b. 1936) *[[2012]] – [[Frank Macchiarola]], American lawyer and academic (b. 1941) * 2012 – [[Mustafa Ould Salek]], Mauritanian colonel and politician, [[President of Mauritania]] (b. 1936) * 2012 – [[Jim Whalen]], American football player (b. 1943) * 2012 – [[Anatoliy Zayaev]], Ukrainian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1931) *[[2013]] – [[Ken Hutcherson]], American football player (b. 1952) * 2013 – [[Graham Mackay (businessman)|Graham Mackay]], South African-English businessman (b. 1949) *[[2014]] – [[Donald J. Albosta]], American soldier and politician (b. 1925) * 2014 – [[Gideon Ben-Yisrael]], Israeli soldier and politician (b. 1923) * 2014 – [[Larry Henley]], American singer-songwriter (b. 1937) * 2014 – [[Virna Lisi]], Italian actress (b. 1936) * 2014 – [[Mandy Rice-Davies]], English model and actress (b. 1944)<ref>{{cite news |date=19 December 2014 |title=BBC News - Profumo affair's Mandy Rice-Davies dies at the age of 70 |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30547066}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=19 December 2014 |title=Profumo affair's Mandy Rice-Davies dies aged 70 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11303060/Profumo-affair-Mandy-Rice-Davies-dies-aged-70.html}}</ref> * 2014 – [[Robert Simpson (meteorologist)|Robert Simpson]], American meteorologist and author (b. 1912) *[[2015]] – [[Luc Brewaeys]], Belgian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1959) * 2015 – [[Helge Solum Larsen]], Norwegian businessman and politician (b. 1969) *[[2016]] – [[Zsa Zsa Gabor]], Hungarian-American actress and socialite (b. 1917) *[[2017]] – [[Kim Jong-hyun]], South Korean singer (b. 1990)<ref>{{cite book |author=Mark Russell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=etDZAwAAQBAJ |title=K-Pop Now!: The Korean Music Revolution |date=April 29, 2014 |publisher=Tuttle Publishing |isbn=978-1-4629-1411-1 |page=67 |access-date=October 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527064350/https://books.google.com/books?id=etDZAwAAQBAJ |archive-date=May 27, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=December 18, 2017 |title=Shinee singer Jonghyun: K-pop boy band superstar dies |work=[[BBC News]] |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42393242 |url-status=live |access-date=December 18, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171218131950/http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42393242 |archive-date=December 18, 2017}}</ref> *[[2020]] – [[Jerry Relph]], American politician and member of the [[Minnesota Senate]] (b. 1944)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lopez |first1=Ricardo |title=GOP State Sen. Jerry Relph, author of COVID-19 response bill, dies from coronavirus |url=https://minnesotareformer.com/2020/12/18/gop-state-sen-jerry-relph-author-of-covid-19-response-bill-dies-from-coronavirus/ |date=December 18, 2020 |work=[[Minnesota Reformer]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201219032144/https://minnesotareformer.com/2020/12/18/gop-state-sen-jerry-relph-author-of-covid-19-response-bill-dies-from-coronavirus/ |archive-date=December 19, 2020 |url-status=live |access-date=December 19, 2020}}</ref> *[[2021]] – [[Sayaka Kanda]], Japanese actress and singer (b. 1986)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://usdaynews.com/celebrities/celebrity-death/sayaka-kanda-death-cause/ |title=Voice Actress From Frozen Sayaka Kanda's Cause of Sudden Death |website=US day News |date=18 December 2021 |access-date= December 20, 2021}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Slim Dunlap]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1951)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Willman |first=Chris |date=December 18, 2024 |title=Slim Dunlap, Guitarist for the Replacements, Dies at 73 |url=https://variety.com/2024/music/news/slim-dunlap-dead-replacements-guitarist-1236254615/ |access-date=December 20, 2024 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |language=en-US}}</ref> *2024 – [[John Marsden (writer)|John Marsden]], Australian writer (b. 1950)<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 18, 2024 |title=John Marsden (1950-2024) |url=https://locusmag.com/2024/12/john-marsden-1950-2024/ |access-date=December 22, 2024 |website=[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]}}</ref> <!--Do not add people without Wikipedia articles to this list. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence.-->
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