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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== *[[AD 72]] – [[Thomas the Apostle]], Roman martyr and saint (b. 1 AD) * [[882]] – [[Hincmar]], French archbishop and historian (b. 806) * [[956]] – [[Sun Sheng (Southern Tang)|Sun Sheng]], Chinese chancellor * [[975]] – [[Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah|Al-Mu'izz]], Fatimid caliph (b. 932) *[[1001]] – [[Hugh of Tuscany]], Italian margrave (b. 950) *[[1215]] – [[Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-Walid]], ''[[Da'i al-Mutlaq|Dāʿī al-Muṭlaq]]'' of [[Tayyibi Isma'ilism]] (b. c. 1128)<ref>{{EI3 | last = Poonawala | first = Ismail K. | title = ʿAlī b. al-Walīd | year = 2009 | doi = 10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_22932}}</ref> *[[1308]] – [[Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse]] (b. 1244) *[[1338]] – [[Thomas Hemenhale]], bishop of Worcester *[[1362]] – [[Constantine III, King of Armenia|Constantine III]], king of Armenia (b. 1313) *[[1375]] – [[Giovanni Boccaccio]], Italian author and poet (b. 1313) *[[1504]] – [[Berthold von Henneberg]], German archbishop (b. 1442) *[[1536]] – [[John Seymour (1474–1536)|John Seymour]], English courtier (b. 1474) *[[1549]] – [[Marguerite de Navarre]], queen of [[Henry II of Navarre]] (b. 1492) *[[1581]] – [[Jean de la Cassière]], 51st Grandmaster of the [[Knights Hospitaller]] (b. 1502) *[[1597]] – [[Peter Canisius]], Dutch priest and saint (b. 1521) ===1601–1900=== *[[1608]] – [[William Davison (diplomat)|William Davison]], secretary to Queen [[Elizabeth I of England]] (b. c. 1541) *[[1610]] – [[Catherine Vasa]], Swedish princess (b. 1539) *[[1701]] – [[Sir Hugh Paterson, 1st Baronet|Sir Hugh Paterson]], Baronet of Bannockburn (b. 1659) *[[1807]] – [[John Newton]], English soldier and minister (b. 1725) *[[1824]] – [[James Parkinson]], English physician and paleontologist (b. 1755) *[[1869]] – [[Friedrich Ernst Scheller]], German jurist and politician (b. 1791) *[[1873]] – [[Francis Garnier]], French admiral and explorer (b. 1839) *[[1889]] – [[Friedrich August von Quenstedt]], German geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1809) ===1901–present=== *[[1920]] – [[Mohammed Abdullah Hassan]], leader of the [[Dervish state|Dervish movement]] (b. 1856) *[[1929]] – [[I. L. Patterson]], American politician, 18th [[Governor of Oregon]] (b. 1859) *[[1933]] – [[Knud Rasmussen]], Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879) *[[1935]] – [[Ted Birnie]], English footballer and manager (b. 1878) * 1935 – [[Kurt Tucholsky]], German-Swedish journalist and author (b. 1890) *[[1937]] – [[Violette Neatley Anderson]], American judge (b. 1882)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ssMBzqrUpjwC&pg=PA11|title=Notable Black American Women|last1=Smith|first1=Jessie Carney|last2=Phelps|first2=Shirelle|date=1996|publisher=VNR AG|isbn=978-0-8103-9177-2|page=11}}</ref> * 1937 – [[Ted Healy]], American comedian and actor (b. 1896) * 1937 – [[Frank B. Kellogg]], American lawyer and politician, 45th [[United States Secretary of State]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1856) *[[1940]] – [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], American novelist and short story writer (b. 1896) *[[1945]] – [[George S. Patton]], American general (b. 1885) *[[1948]] – [[Władysław Witwicki]], Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist (b. 1878)<ref>{{cite book |last=Nowicki |first=Andrzej |author-link=Andrzej Nowicki (philosopher) |title=Witwicki | publisher=Wiedza Powszechna |location=Warszawa |year=1982 |language=pl |page=120 |isbn=83-214-0301-8}}</ref> *[[1952]] – [[Kenneth Edwards (golfer)|Kenneth Edwards]], American golfer (b. 1886) *[[1953]] – [[Kaarlo Koskelo]], Finnish-American wrestler and businessman (b. 1888) *[[1957]] – [[Eric Coates]], English viola player and composer (b. 1886) *[[1958]] – [[H.B. Warner]], English actor (b. 1875) * 1958 – [[Lion Feuchtwanger]], German-American author and playwright (b. 1884) *[[1959]] – [[Rosanjin]], Japanese calligrapher, engraver, and painter (b. 1883) *[[1963]] – [[Jack Hobbs]], English cricketer and journalist (b. 1882) *[[1964]] – [[Carl Van Vechten]], American author and photographer (b. 1880)<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Vogel|first=Shane|title=Van Vechten, Carl (1880–1964) |entry=Van Vechten, Carl (1880–1964)|encyclopedia=[[Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism]]]|date=2016|doi=10.4324/9781135000356-REM130-1|isbn=9781135000356}}</ref> *[[1965]] – [[Claude Champagne]], Canadian violinist, pianist, and composer (b. 1891) *[[1968]] – [[Vittorio Pozzo]], Italian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1886) *[[1974]] – [[Richard Long (actor)|Richard Long]], American actor and director (b. 1927) *[[1982]] – [[Abu Al-Asar Hafeez Jullundhri]], Pakistani poet and composer (b. 1900) *[[1983]] – [[Paul de Man]], Belgian-born philosopher, literary critic and theorist (b. 1919) *[[1988]] – [[Nikolaas Tinbergen]], Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1907) *[[1992]] – [[Stella Adler]], American actress and educator (b. 1901)<ref>{{cite web |title=Stella Adler {{!}} American actress {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stella-Adler |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=10 February 2023 |language=en}}</ref> * 1992 – [[Albert King]], American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1924) * 1992 – [[Nathan Milstein]], Russian-American violinist and composer (b. 1903) *[[1998]] – [[Ernst-Günther Schenck]], German colonel and physician (b. 1904) *[[2004]] – [[Autar Singh Paintal]], Indian physiologist and neurologist (b. 1925) *[[2006]] – [[Saparmurat Niyazov]], Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st [[President of Turkmenistan]] (b. 1940) *[[2009]] – [[Edwin G. Krebs]], American biochemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1918) * 2009 – [[Christos Lambrakis]], Greek journalist and businessman (b. 1934) *[[2010]] – [[Enzo Bearzot]], Italian footballer and manager (b. 1927) *[[2013]] – [[Edgar Bronfman Sr.]], Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1929) * 2013 – [[John Eisenhower]], American historian, general, and diplomat, 45th [[United States Ambassador to Belgium]] (b. 1922) *[[2014]] – [[Udo Jürgens]], Austrian-Swiss singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1934) * 2014 – [[Sitor Situmorang]], Indonesian poet and author (b. 1923) * 2014 – [[Billie Whitelaw]], English actress (b. 1932)<ref>{{cite news|last=Coveney|first=Michael |title=Billie Whitelaw obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/dec/22/billie-whitelaw|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=24 June 2020 |date=22 December 2014}}</ref> *[[2017]] – [[Bruce McCandless II]], US astronaut who conducted the first untethered spacewalk (b. 1937) *[[2019]] – [[Andrew Clennel Palmer]], British engineer (b. 1938)<ref>{{ cite journal | last = King | first = Roger Anthony | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2022.0015 | date = 27 July 2022 | title = Andrew Clennel Palmer. 26 May 1938 – 21 December 2019 | journal = [[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume = 73 | pages = 379–393 | s2cid = 251071307 | doi-access = free }}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Michelle Botes]], South African actress (b. 1962)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Engelbrecht |first=Leandra |date=December 21, 2024 |title=Celebrated actor and Isidingo villain Michelle Botes has died |url=https://www.news24.com/life/arts-and-entertainment/celebrities/celebrated-actor-and-isidingo-villain-michelle-botes-63-has-died-20241221 |access-date=January 5, 2025 |website=[[News24 (website)|News24]] |language=en-US}}</ref> *2024 – [[Art Evans (actor)|Art Evans]], American actor (b. 1942)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Minton |first=Matt |date=December 22, 2024 |title=Art Evans, 'Die Hard 2' and 'A Soldier's Story' Actor, Dies at 82 |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/news/art-evans-dead-a-soldiers-story-die-hard-2-1236257536/ |access-date=December 27, 2024 |website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |language=en-US}}</ref> <!--Please do not add non-notable people, fictional characters or 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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