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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== <!-- Please don't Wikify years that have already been linked --> * [[779]] – [[Saint Sturm|Sturm]], [[abbot]] of [[Fulda monastery|Fulda]] * [[908]] – [[al-Abbas ibn al-Hasan al-Jarjara'i]], Abbasid vizier * 908 – [[Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz]], Abbasid prince and poet, anti-caliph for one day * [[942]] – [[William I Longsword|William I]], duke of [[Duchy of Normandy|Normandy]] *[[1187]] – [[Pope Gregory VIII]] (b. 1100) *[[1195]] – [[Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut]] (b. 1150) *[[1273]] – [[Rumi]], Persian jurist, theologian, and poet (b. 1207) *[[1316]] – [[Juan Fernández (bishop of León)|Juan Fernández]], bishop-elect of León<ref name=POD>{{citation |author=Pablo Ordás Díaz |year=2018 |title=El episcopado de don García Miguel de Ayerbe y el conflictivo período de las tutorías de Alfonso XI para la catedral de León (1318–1332) |journal=En la España Medieval |volume=41 |pages=257–275, at 258 |doi=10.5209/ELEM.60011|doi-access=free |hdl=10347/19923 |hdl-access=free }}.</ref> *[[1419]] – [[William Gascoigne]], Chief Justice of England *[[1471]] – [[Infanta Isabel, Duchess of Burgundy]] (b. 1397) *[[1559]] – [[Irene di Spilimbergo]], Italian Renaissance poet and painter (b. 1538)<ref>Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (Biographical Dictionary of Italians), Edited by Treccani, Vol. 93, 2018.</ref> *[[1562]] – [[Eleonora di Toledo]], Grand Duchess of Tuscany (b. 1522) ===1601–1900=== *[[1663]] – [[Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba]] (b. 1583) *[[1721]] – [[Richard Lumley, 1st Earl of Scarbrough]], English soldier and politician, [[Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster]] (b. 1640) *[[1830]] – [[Simón Bolívar]], Venezuelan general and politician, second [[President of Venezuela]] (b. 1783) *[[1833]] – [[Kaspar Hauser]], German [[feral child]] (b. 1812?) *[[1847]] – [[Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma]] (b. 1791) *[[1857]] – [[Francis Beaufort]], Irish hydrographer and officer in the Royal Navy (b. 1774) *[[1891]] – [[José María Iglesias]], Mexican politician and interim President (1876–1877) (b. 1823)<ref>{{Cite book |last=Zárate |first=Julio |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fVRCAQAAMAAJ&q=Jos%25C3%25A9+Mar%25C3%25ADa+Iglesias+(diciembre+or+noviembre)+1891&pg=PA292 |title=Compendio de historia general de Mexico ... |year=1907 |page=292 |language=es}}</ref> ===1901–present=== *[[1904]] – [[William Shiels]], Irish-Australian politician, 16th [[Premier of Victoria]] (b. 1848) *[[1907]] – [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin]], Irish-Scottish physicist and engineer (b. 1824) *[[1909]] – [[Leopold II of Belgium]] (b. 1835) *[[1917]] – [[Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]], English physician and activist (b. 1836) *[[1927]] – [[Rajendra Lahiri]], Indian activist (b. 1892) *[[1928]] – [[Frank Rinehart]], American photographer (b. 1861) *[[1929]] – [[Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa]], Portuguese general and politician, tenth [[President of Portugal]] (b. 1863) *[[1930]] – [[Peter Warlock]], Welsh composer and critic (b. 1894) *[[1932]] – [[Charles Winckler]], Danish discus thrower, shot putter, and [[tug of war]] competitor (b. 1867) *[[1933]] – [[13th Dalai Lama]] (b. 1876) *[[1935]] – [[Lizette Woodworth Reese]], American poet (b. 1856)<ref>{{cite web |title=Lizette Woodworth Reese | American poet |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Lizette-Woodworth-Reese |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=April 4, 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1940]] – [[Alicia Boole Stott]], Anglo-Irish mathematician and academic (b. 1860) *[[1942]] – [[Allen Bathurst, Lord Apsley]], English lieutenant and politician (b. 1895) *[[1947]] – [[Christos Tsigiridis]], Greek engineer (b. 1877) *[[1956]] – [[Eddie Acuff]], American actor (b. 1903) *[[1957]] – [[Dorothy L. Sayers]], English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893) *[[1962]] – [[Thomas Mitchell (actor)|Thomas Mitchell]], American actor (b. 1892) *[[1964]] – [[Victor Francis Hess]], Austrian-American physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1883) *[[1967]] – [[Harold Holt]], Australian lawyer and politician, 17th [[Prime Minister of Australia]] (b. 1908) *[[1970]] – [[Oliver Waterman Larkin]], American historian, author, and educator (b. 1896) *[[1978]] – [[Don Ellis]], American trumpet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1934) *[[1981]] – [[Antiochos Evangelatos]], Greek composer and conductor (b. 1903) *[[1982]] – [[Homer S. Ferguson]], American lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1889) *[[1986]] – [[Guillermo Cano Isaza]], Colombian journalist (b. 1925) *[[1987]] – [[Bernardus Johannes Alfrink]], Dutch cardinal (b. 1900) * 1987 – [[Linda Wong (pornographic actress)|Linda Wong]], American porn actress (b. 1951) * 1987 – [[Marguerite Yourcenar]], Belgian-American author and poet (b. 1903) *[[1992]] – [[Günther Anders]], German journalist and philosopher (b. 1902) * 1992 – [[Dana Andrews]], American actor (b. 1909) *[[1999]] – [[Rex Allen]], American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1920) * 1999 – [[Grover Washington Jr.]], American singer-songwriter and saxophonist (b. 1943) * 1999 – [[C. Vann Woodward]], American historian and academic (b. 1908) *[[2002]] – [[K. W. Devanayagam]], Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, tenth [[Minister of Justice (Sri Lanka)|Sri Lankan Minister of Justice]] (b. 1910) *[[2003]] – [[Otto Graham]], American football player and coach (b. 1921) *[[2004]] – [[Tom Wesselmann]], American painter and sculptor (b. 1931) *[[2005]] – [[Jack Anderson (columnist)|Jack Anderson]], American journalist and author (b. 1922) * 2005 – [[Marc Favreau]], Canadian actor and poet (b. 1929) * 2005 – [[Haljand Udam]], Estonian orientalist and academic (b. 1936) *[[2006]] – [[Larry Sherry]], American baseball player and coach (b. 1935) *[[2008]] – [[Sammy Baugh]], American football player and coach (b. 1914) * 2008 – [[Freddy Breck]], German singer-songwriter, producer, and journalist (b. 1942) * 2008 – [[Dave Smith (pitcher, born 1955)|Dave Smith]], American baseball player and coach (b. 1955) * 2008 – [[Gregoire (chimpanzee)|Gregoire]], Congolese [[chimpanzee]], oldest recorded (b. 1942)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/23/gregoire-oldest-chimp.html |title=Africa's Oldest Chimp, a Conservation Icon, Dies |first=Jennifer |last=Viegas |date=December 23, 2008 |website=[[Discovery Channel]] |access-date=September 20, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081224073912/http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/12/23/gregoire-oldest-chimp.html |archive-date=December 24, 2008}}</ref> *[[2009]] – [[Chris Henry (wide receiver)|Chris Henry]], American football player (b. 1983) * 2009 – [[Jennifer Jones]], American actress (b. 1919) * 2009 – [[Alaina Reed Hall]], American actress (b. 1946) *[[2010]] – [[Captain Beefheart]], American singer-songwriter (b. 1941) * 2010 – [[Walt Dropo]], American basketball and baseball player (b. 1923) * 2010 – [[Ralph Coates]], English footballer (b. 1946) *[[2011]] – [[Eva Ekvall]], Venezuelan journalist and author, [[Miss Venezuela 2000]] (b. 1983) * 2011 – [[Kim Jong-il]], North Korean commander and politician, second [[List of leaders of North Korea|Supreme Leader of North Korea]] (b. 1941) *[[2012]] – [[Richard Adams (activist)|Richard Adams]], Filipino-American activist (b. 1947) * 2012 – [[James Gower]], American priest and activist, co-founded the [[College of the Atlantic]] (b. 1922) * 2012 – [[Daniel Inouye]], American captain and politician (b. 1924) * 2012 – [[Laurier LaPierre]], Canadian historian, journalist, and politician (b. 1929) * 2012 – [[Frank Pastore]], American baseball player and radio host (b. 1957) *[[2013]] – [[Fred Bruemmer]], Latvian-Canadian photographer (b. 1929) * 2013 – [[Ricardo María Carles Gordó]], Spanish cardinal (b. 1926) * 2013 – [[Richard Heffner]], American historian and television host (b. 1925) * 2013 – [[Tetsurō Kashibuchi]], Japanese drummer, songwriter, and producer (b. 1950) * 2013 – [[Janet Rowley]], American geneticist and biologist (b. 1925) * 2013 – [[Conny van Rietschoten]], Dutch sailor (b. 1926) *[[2014]] – [[Dieter Grau]], German-American scientist and engineer (b. 1913) * 2014 – [[Richard C. Hottelet]], American journalist (b. 1917) * 2014 – [[Oleh Lysheha]], Ukrainian poet and playwright (b. 1949) * 2014 – [[Lowell Steward]], American captain (b. 1919) * 2014 – [[Ivan Vekić (politician)|Ivan Vekić]], Croatian colonel, lawyer, and politician, [[Ministry of the Interior (Croatia)|Croatian Minister of the Interior]] (b. 1938) *[[2015]] – [[Hal Brown]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1924) * 2015 – [[Osamu Hayaishi]], American-Japanese biochemist and academic (b. 1920) * 2015 – [[Michael Wyschogrod]], German-American philosopher and theologian (b. 1928) *[[2016]] – [[Benjamin A. Gilman]], American soldier and politician (b. 1922) * 2016 – [[Henry Heimlich]], American doctor (b. 1920) * 2016 – [[Gordon Hunt (director)|Gordon Hunt]], American voice director (b. 1929) *[[2020]] – [[Jeremy Bulloch]], English actor (b. 1945)<ref>{{Cite web|date=December 20, 2020|title=Jeremy Bulloch obituary|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/20/jeremy-bulloch-obituary|access-date=December 24, 2020|website=the Guardian|language=en}}</ref> * 2020 – [[Allen Dines]], American politician (b. 1921)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2021/02/08/allen-dines-dead-obit-colorado/|title=Former Colorado House speaker who donated land to Staunton State Park dies at 99|first=Saja|last=Hindi|work=[[The Denver Post]]|date=February 8, 2021|access-date=February 8, 2021}}</ref> * [[2023]] – [[Ronaldo Valdez]], Filipino actor (b. 1947)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://manilastandard.net/showbitz/celebrity-profiles/314399929/veteran-actor-ronaldo-valdez-died-at-76.html|title=Veteran actor Ronaldo Valdez dies at 76|first=Nickie|last=Wang|date=December 17, 2023|website=[[Manila Standard]]}}</ref> * 2023 – [[James McCaffrey (actor)|James McCaffrey]], American actor (b. 1958)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Cain |first=Sian |date=December 18, 2023 |title=James McCaffrey, voice of Max Payne and Alan Wake games, dies at 65 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/19/james-mccaffrey-dies-65-cause-of-death-myeloma-blood-cancer-max-payne-alan-wake |access-date=January 18, 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> * [[2024]] – [[Igor Kirillov (general)|Igor Kirillov]], Russian general (b. 1970)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kakissis |first=Joanna |date=December 17, 2024 |title=An explosion kills the head of Russia's nuclear defense forces in Moscow |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/12/17/g-s1-38555/moscow-bombing-russia-general-moscow |access-date=December 18, 2024 |work=[[NPR]]}}</ref> * 2024 – [[Marisa Paredes]], Spanish film actress (b. 1946)<ref>{{Cite news |last=Williams |first=Alex |date=December 20, 2024 |title=Marisa Paredes, Acclaimed Diva of Spanish Cinema, Is Dead at 78 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/movies/marisa-paredes-dead.html |access-date=December 20, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> <!--Please do not add non-notable people, fictional characters, or people without Wikipedia articles to this list. No red links, please. Do not link multiple occurrences of the same year, just link the first occurrence. If there are multiple people in the same birth year, put them in alphabetical order. Do not trust "this year in history" websites for accurate date information.-->
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