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===1901–present=== *[[1915]] – [[Upendrakishore Ray]], Indian painter and composer (b. 1863) *[[1916]] – [[Arthur Morgan (Queensland politician)|Arthur Morgan]], Australian politician, 16th [[Premier of Queensland]] (b. 1856) *[[1917]] – [[Lucien Petit-Breton]], French-Argentinian cyclist (b. 1882) *[[1919]] – [[Philip Fysh]], English-Australian politician, 12th [[Premier of Tasmania]] (b. 1835)<ref>{{cite book |title=The Australian Encyclopaedia: Ferns to Ley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rtEiAAAAMAAJ |year=1977 |publisher=Grolier Society of Australia |isbn=978-0-9596604-0-1 |page=130}}</ref> *[[1920]] – [[Linton Hope]], English sailor and architect (b. 1863) *[[1921]] – [[Julius Richard Petri]], German microbiologist (b. 1852)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/10090954/Julius-Richard-Petri-inventor-of-the-Petri-dish-celebrated-in-Google-Doodle.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/google-doodle/10090954/Julius-Richard-Petri-inventor-of-the-Petri-dish-celebrated-in-Google-Doodle.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Julius Richard Petri, inventor of the Petri dish, celebrated in Google Doodle |date=31 May 2013 |website=The Telegraph |access-date=12 November 2019}}{{cbignore}}</ref> *[[1925]] – [[João Ferreira Sardo]], the founder of [[Gafanha da Nazaré]], also known as Prior Sardo (b. 1873).<ref name="Monografia da Gafanha, Gráfica Ilhavense">{{cite book |last=Rezende |first=João Vieira |title=Monografia da Gafanha |publisher=Gráfica Ilhavense |year=1936 |location=Ílhavo |language=pt}}</ref> *[[1927]] – [[Frederick Semple]], American golfer and tennis player (b. 1872)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Olympedia – Fred Semple |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/2789 |access-date=2022-10-22 |website=www.olympedia.org}}</ref> *[[1929]] – [[Émile Loubet]], French lawyer and politician, 8th [[President of France]] (b. 1838) *[[1935]] – [[Martin O'Meara]], Irish-Australian sergeant, [[Victoria Cross]] recipient (b. 1882) *[[1937]] – [[Erich Ludendorff]], German general (b. 1865) *[[1938]] – [[Annie Armstrong]], American missionary (b. 1850) * 1938 – [[Lida Howell]], American archer (b. 1859) *[[1939]] – [[Hans Langsdorff]], German captain (b. 1894) *[[1941]] – [[Igor Severyanin]], Russian-Estonian poet and author (b. 1887) *[[1950]] – [[Enrico Mizzi]], Maltese lawyer and politician, 6th [[Prime Minister of Malta]] (b. 1885) *[[1954]] – [[James Hilton (novelist)|James Hilton]], English-American author and screenwriter (b. 1900) *[[1956]] – [[Ramón Carrillo]], Argentinian neurologist and physician (b. 1906) *[[1959]] – [[Juhan Simm]], Estonian composer and conductor (b. 1885) *[[1961]] – [[Moss Hart]], American director and playwright (b. 1904) * 1961 – [[Earle Page]], Australian soldier and politician, 11th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. 1880) *[[1968]] – [[John Steinbeck]], American novelist and short story writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1902) *[[1971]] – [[Roy O. Disney]], American banker and businessman, co-founded [[The Walt Disney Company]] (b. 1893) *[[1972]] – [[Adolfo Orsi]], Italian businessman (b. 1888) *[[1973]] – [[Luis Carrero Blanco]], Spanish admiral and politician, 69th [[President of the Government of Spain]] (b. 1904; assassinated)<ref>{{cite book |title=Operation Ogro: The Execution of Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco |author=Julen Agirre, translated by Barbara Probst Solomon |publisher=Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Company |isbn=0-8129-0552-0 |year=1975 |url=https://archive.org/details/operationogroexe00fore}}</ref> * 1973 – [[Bobby Darin]], American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1936)<ref>{{cite book |author=Brock Helander |title=The Rock Who's who |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TLszAQAAIAAJ |year=1996 |publisher=Schirmer Books |isbn=978-0-02-871031-0 |pages=156–158}}</ref> *[[1974]] – [[Rajani Palme Dutt]], English journalist and politician (b. 1896) * 1974 – [[André Jolivet]], French composer and conductor (b. 1905) *[[1976]] – [[Richard J. Daley]], American lawyer and politician, 48th [[Mayor of Chicago]] (b. 1902) *[[1976]] – [[Soetardjo Kartohadikusumo]], Indonesian politician, 1st Governor of West Java (b. 1890)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Setyaningrum |first1=Puspasari |title=Biografi Sutardjo Kartohadikusumo, Gubernur Pertama Jawa Barat |url=https://bandung.kompas.com/read/2022/11/02/224147478/biografi-sutardjo-kartohadikusumo-gubernur-pertama-jawa-barat?page=all |website=bandung.kompas.com |date=2 November 2022 |publisher=Kompas |access-date=20 December 2023}}</ref> *[[1981]] – [[Dimitris Rontiris]], Greek actor and director (b. 1899) *[[1982]] – [[Arthur Rubinstein]], Polish-American pianist and composer (b. 1887) *[[1984]] – [[Stanley Milgram]], American psychologist and academic (b. 1933) * 1984 – [[Dmitry Ustinov]], [[Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union|Minister of Defence of the Soviet Union (1976–84)]] (b. 1908)<ref>''New York Times'', December 22, 1994, pg. A1</ref> *[[1986]] – [[Joe DeSa]], American baseball player (b. 1959) *[[1991]] – [[Simone Beck]], French chef and author (b. 1904)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/21/nyregion/simone-beck-a-cook-dies-at-87-co-wrote-book-with-julia-child.html |title=Simone Beck, a Cook, Dies at 87; Co-Wrote Book With Julia Child |date=21 December 1996 |website=New York Times |access-date=18 March 2019}}</ref> * 1991 – [[Samuel Rabin (artist)|Sam Rabin]], English wrestler, singer, and sculptor (b. 1903) * 1991 – [[Albert Van Vlierberghe]], Belgian cyclist (b. 1942) *[[1993]] – [[W. Edwards Deming]], American statistician, author, and academic (b. 1900) * 1993 – [[Nazife Güran]], Turkish composer and educator (b. 1921) *[[1994]] – [[Dean Rusk]], American lawyer, and politician, 54th [[United States Secretary of State]] (b. 1909) *[[1995]] – [[Madge Sinclair]], Jamaican-American actress (b. 1938) *[[1996]] – [[Carl Sagan]], American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (b. 1934)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/21/us/carl-sagan-an-astronomer-who-excelled-at-popularizing-science-is-dead-at-62.html |title=Carl Sagan, an Astronomer Who Excelled at Popularizing Science, Is Dead at 62 |date=21 December 1996 |website=New York Times |access-date=18 March 2019}}</ref> *[[1997]] – [[Denise Levertov]], English-American poet and translator (b. 1923) * 1997 – [[Dick Spooner]], English cricketer (b. 1919) * 1997 – [[Dawn Steel]], American film producer (b. 1946) *[[1998]] – [[Alan Lloyd Hodgkin]], English physiologist and biophysicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1916) *[[1999]] – [[Riccardo Freda]], Egyptian-Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1909) * 1999 – [[Hank Snow]], Canadian-American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914) *[[2001]] – [[Léopold Sédar Senghor]], Senegalese poet and politician, 1st [[President of Senegal]] (b. 1906) *[[2005]] – [[Raoul Bott]], Hungarian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923) *[[2006]] – [[Anne Rogers Clark]], American dog breeder and trainer (b. 1929) *[[2008]] – [[Adrian Mitchell]], English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932) * 2008 – [[Robert Mulligan]], American director and producer (b. 1925)<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/movies/23mulligan.html |title=The New York Times |access-date=26 February 2015 |first=Margalit |last=Fox |date=23 December 2008}}</ref> * 2008 – [[Igor Troubetzkoy]], Russian aristocrat and racing driver (b. 1912) *[[2009]] – [[Brittany Murphy]], American actress and singer (b. 1977) * 2009 – [[Arnold Stang]], American actor (b. 1918) *[[2010]] – [[K. P. Ratnam]], Sri Lankan academic and politician (b. 1914) *[[2011]] – [[Barry Reckord]], Jamaican playwright and screenwriter (b. 1926) *[[2012]] – [[Stan Charlton]], English footballer and manager (b. 1929) * 2012 – [[Robert Juniper]], Australian painter and sculptor (b. 1929) * 2012 – [[Victor Merzhanov]], Russian pianist and educator (b. 1919) *[[2013]] – [[Pyotr Bolotnikov]], Russian runner (b. 1930) *[[2014]] – [[Per-Ingvar Brånemark]], Swedish surgeon and academic (b. 1929) * 2014 – [[John Freeman (British politician)|John Freeman]], English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, [[List of Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to the United States|British Ambassador to the United States]] (b. 1915) *[[2020]] – [[Fanny Waterman]], British pianist (b. 1920)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Millington |first=Barry |date=2020-12-21 |title=Dame Fanny Waterman obituary |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/dec/21/dame-fanny-waterman-obituary |access-date=2020-12-24 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> * 2020 – [[Ezra Vogel]], American sociologist (b. 1930)<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/ezra-vogel-dead/2020/12/21/fc66a080-43a0-11eb-a277-49a6d1f9dff1_story.html Ezra Vogel, Harvard scholar who bridged U.S. and East Asia, dies at 90] The Washington Post. December 22, 2020. Retrieved January 22, 2021.</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Franco Harris]], American football player (b. 1950)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Graves |first1=Will |title=Steelers Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris dies at 72 |url=https://apnews.com/article/pittsburgh-steelers-nfl-college-football-sports-efc7c3e417ad04594ae32a3fbc0a693a |website=AP |date=21 December 2022 |access-date=December 21, 2022}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Casey Chaos]], American singer (b. 1965)<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 26, 2024 |title=Casey Chaos: Official Cause Of Death Revealed |url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/casey-chaos-official-cause-of-death-revealed |access-date=December 27, 2024 |website=[[Blabbermouth.net]] |language=en}}</ref> *2024 – [[George Eastham]], English footballer (b. 1936)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Glanville |first=Brian |date=December 23, 2024 |title=George Eastham obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/dec/23/george-eastham-obituary |access-date=December 27, 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> *2024 – [[Rickey Henderson]], American baseball player (b. 1958)<ref>{{cite news |last=Passan |first=Jeff |date=December 21, 2024 |title=Rickey Henderson, 'greatest of all time,' dies at 65 |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/43090305/rickey-henderson-greatest-all-dies-65 |access-date=December 21, 2024 |work=[[ESPN]]}}</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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