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==Deaths== ===Pre-1600=== *[[AD 69]] – [[Vitellius]], Roman emperor (b. 15) * [[731]] – [[Yuan Qianyao]], official of the [[History of China|Chinese]] [[Tang dynasty]] *[[1012]] – [[Baha' al-Dawla]], [[Buyid]] amir of [[Iraq]] *[[1060]] – [[Cynesige]], Archbishop of York *[[1100]] – [[Bretislav II|Bretislav II of Bohemia]] (b. 1060) *[[1115]] – [[Olaf Magnusson of Norway|Olaf Magnusson]], King of Norway (b. 1099) *[[1419]] – [[Antipope John XXIII]] *[[1530]] – [[Willibald Pirckheimer]], German lawyer and author (b. 1470) *[[1554]] – [[Alessandro Bonvicino]], Italian painter (b. 1498) *[[1572]] – [[François Clouet]], French miniaturist (b. c. 1510) ===1601–1900=== *[[1603]] – [[Mehmed III]], Ottoman sultan (b. 1566) *[[1641]] – [[Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully]], 2nd [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. 1560) *[[1646]] – [[Petro Mohyla]], Ruthenian metropolitan and saint (b. 1596) *[[1660]] – [[André Tacquet]], Flemish priest and mathematician (b. 1612) *[[1666]] – [[Guercino]], Italian painter (b. 1591) *[[1681]] – [[Richard Alleine]], English minister and author (b. 1611) *[[1767]] – [[John Newbery]], English publisher (b. 1713)<ref>Maxted, Ian. "John Newbery". ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography''. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 January 2010.</ref> *[[1788]] – [[Percivall Pott]], English physician and surgeon (b. 1714) *[[1806]] – [[William Vernon]], English-American merchant (b. 1719) *[[1828]] – [[William Hyde Wollaston]], English chemist and physicist (b. 1766) *[[1853]] – [[Manuel María Lombardini]], Mexican general and politician. President (1853) (b. 1802) *[[1867]] – [[Jean-Victor Poncelet]], French mathematician and engineer (b. 1788) *[[1870]] – [[Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer]], Spanish journalist, poet, and playwright (b. 1836) *[[1880]] – [[George Eliot]], English novelist and poet (b. 1819)<ref>{{cite book|author=Josephine McDonagh|title=George Eliot|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E0ZvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA95|year=1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-7463-0799-1|pages=95}}</ref> *[[1884]] – [[John Chisum]], American cattle baron (b. 1824)<ref>{{cite web |title=Texas State Historical Society: Chisum, John Simpson (1824–1884) |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/chisum-john-simpsom |website=www.tshaonline.org |access-date=11 May 2024}}https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/chisum-john-simpson</ref> *[[1891]] – [[Paul de Lagarde]], German biblical scholar and orientalist (b. 1827) *[[1899]] – [[Dwight L. Moody]], American evangelist and publisher, founded [[Moody Publishers]] (b. 1837) ===1901–present=== *[[1902]] – [[Richard von Krafft-Ebing]], German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840) *[[1915]] – [[Rose Talbot Bullard]], American medical doctor and professor (b. 1864) *[[1917]] – [[Frances Xavier Cabrini]], Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850) *[[1918]] – [[Aristeidis Moraitinis (aviator)|Aristeidis Moraitinis]], Greek lieutenant and pilot (b. 1891) *[[1919]] – [[Hermann Weingärtner]], German gymnast (b. 1864) *[[1924]] – [[Karl Denke]], German serial killer and cannibal (b. 1860)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Karl Denke born 1866 |url=https://www.denke.org/karldenkeg.htm |access-date=28 August 2023 |website=www.denke.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lutteroth |first=Johanna |date=8 April 2014 |title=Der Menschenfresser von Münsterberg |url=https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/kannibale-von-muensterberg-karl-denke-a-959424.html |access-date=20 November 2022 |website=[[Der Spiegel]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fuhrer |first=Armin |date=3 September 2017 |title="Papa Denke" - der beliebte Nachbar war ein Serienkiller und Kannibale |url=https://www.focus.de/wissen/mensch/historische-serienmoerder-teil-3-karl-denke-papa-denke-der-beliebte-nachbar-war-ein-serienkiller-und-kannibale_id_7541690.html |access-date=20 November 2022 |website=[[Focus (German magazine)|Focus]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Voss |first=Jens |date=15 June 2022 |title="Papa Denke": Der Menschenfresser von Münsterberg |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.de/geschichte-und-kultur/2022/06/papa-denke-der-menschenfresser-von-muensterberg |access-date=20 November 2022 |website=[[National Geographic Deutschland]]}}</ref> *[[1925]] – [[Amelie Beese]], German pilot and engineer (b. 1886) *[[1939]] – [[Ma Rainey]], American singer (b. 1886)<ref>{{cite web |title=Ma Rainey {{!}} Biography, Songs, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ma-Rainey |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=24 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1940]] – [[Nathanael West]], American author and screenwriter (b. 1903) *[[1941]] – [[Karel Hašler]], Czech actor, director, composer, and screenwriter (b. 1879) *[[1942]] – [[Franz Boas]], German-American anthropologist and linguist (b. 1858) *[[1943]] – [[Beatrix Potter]], English children's book writer and illustrator (b. 1866)<ref>{{cite web |title=Beatrix Potter {{!}} British author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Beatrix-Potter |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=24 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref> *[[1944]] – [[Harry Langdon]], American actor, comedian, and vaudevillian (b. 1884) *[[1950]] – [[Frederick Freake]], English polo player (b. 1876) *[[1957]] – [[Frank George Woollard]], English engineer (b. 1883) *[[1959]] – [[Gilda Gray]], Polish-American actress and dancer (b. 1901) *[[1960]] – [[Ninian Comper]], Scottish-English architect (b. 1864) *[[1962]] – [[Ross McLarty]], Australian politician, 17th [[Premier of Western Australia]] (b. 1891) *[[1965]] – [[Richard Dimbleby]], English journalist (b. 1913) *[[1968]] – [[Raymond Gram Swing]], American journalist (b. 1887) *[[1969]] – [[Enrique Peñaranda]], 45th [[President of Bolivia]] (b. 1892) *[[1971]] – [[Godfried Bomans]], Dutch journalist and author (b. 1913) *[[1974]] – [[Sterling North]], American author and critic (b. 1906) *[[1979]] – [[Darryl F. Zanuck]], American director and producer (b. 1902) *[[1985]] – [[D. Boon]], American singer and musician (b. 1958) *[[1986]] – [[Mary Burchell]], English author and activist (b. 1904) * 1986 – [[David Penhaligon]], Cornish Liberal Politician (b. 1944), [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for [[Truro (UK Parliament constituency)|Truro]] (1974–1986) *[[1987]] – [[Luca Prodan]], Italian-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953) *[[1988]] – [[Chico Mendes]], Brazilian trade union leader and activist (b. 1944) *[[1989]] – [[Samuel Beckett]], Irish author, poet, and playwright, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1906) *[[1992]] – [[Harry Bluestone]], English violinist and composer (b. 1907) * 1992 – [[Frederick William Franz]], American religious leader (b. 1893) *[[1993]] – [[Don DeFore]], American actor (b. 1913) *[[1995]] – [[Butterfly McQueen]], American actress and dancer (b. 1911) * 1995 – [[James Meade]], English economist and academic, [[Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1907) *[[1996]] – [[Jack Hamm]], American cartoonist and television host (b. 1916) *[[1997]] – [[Sebastian Arcos Bergnes]], Cuban-American dentist and activist (b. 1931) *[[2001]] – [[Ovidiu Iacov]], Romanian footballer (b. 1981) * 2001 – [[Walter Newton Read]], American lawyer and second chairman of the [[New Jersey Casino Control Commission]] (b. 1918) *[[2002]] – [[Desmond Hoyte]], Guyanese lawyer, politician and [[President of Guyana]] (b. 1929)<ref>{{cite web |title=Desmond Hoyte {{!}} president of Guyana |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hugh-Desmond-Hoyte |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=27 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref> * 2002 – [[Joe Strummer]], English singer-songwriter (b. 1952) *[[2004]] – [[Doug Ault]], American baseball player and manager (b. 1950)<ref>{{cite web |title=Doug Ault {{!}} Society for American Baseball Research |url=https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/9e0451ed |website=sabr.org |access-date=31 January 2020}}</ref> *[[2006]] – [[Elena Mukhina]], Russian gymnast (b. 1960) * 2006 – [[Galina Ustvolskaya]], Russian composer (b. 1919) *[[2007]] – [[Charles Court]], Australian politician, 21st [[Premier of Western Australia]] (b. 1911) * 2007 – [[Adrian Cristobal]], Filipino journalist and playwright (b. 1932)<ref>{{cite web| title =Columnist Adrian Cristobal passes away |url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storyPage.aspx?storyId=103224|archive-url=https://archive.today/20070709212017/http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storyPage.aspx?storyId=103224|url-status =dead|archive-date =2007-07-09| access-date = 2007-12-23}}</ref> *[[2009]] – [[Luis Francisco Cuéllar]], Colombian rancher and politician (b. 1940) * 2009 – [[Albert Scanlon]], English footballer (b. 1935) *[[2010]] – [[Fred Foy]], American soldier and announcer (b. 1921)<ref>{{cite news|last=Tucker|first=Ken|title=Fred Foy, 'Lone Ranger' announcer, has died at age 89|url=http://watching-tv.ew.com/2010/12/22/fred-foy-lone-ranger-died/?hpt=T2|access-date=8 September 2020|newspaper=Entertainment Weekly|date=22 December 2010}}</ref> *[[2012]] – [[Chuck Cherundolo]], American football player and coach (b. 1916) * 2012 – [[Ryan Freel]], American baseball player (b. 1976) * 2012 – [[Cliff Osmond]], American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1937) * 2012 – [[Lim Keng Yaik]], Malaysian physician and politician (b. 1939) *[[2013]] – [[Diomedes Díaz]], Colombian singer-songwriter (b. 1956) * 2013 – [[Hans Hækkerup]], Danish lawyer and politician (b. 1945) * 2013 – [[Oscar Peer]], Swiss author, playwright, and philologist (b. 1928) *[[2014]] – [[John Robert Beyster]], American physicist and academic (b. 1924) * 2014 – [[Christine Cavanaugh]], American actress (b. 1963) * 2014 – [[Joe Cocker]], English singer-songwriter (b. 1944)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/dec/22/joe-cocker-dies-grammy-winning-sheffield-singer|title=Joe Cocker, Grammy-winning singer, dies at age of 70|date=22 December 2014|author=Hannah Ellis-Petersen|website=The Guardian|access-date=8 September 2020}}</ref> * 2014 – [[Bernard Stone]], American lawyer and politician (b. 1927) *[[2015]] – [[Peter Lundblad]], Swedish singer-songwriter (b. 1950) * 2015 – [[Freda Meissner-Blau]], Australian activist and politician (b. 1927)<ref>{{cite web |title=Freda Meissner-Blau wird mit Promenade am Wiener Donaukanal geehrt - derStandard.at |url=https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000068632413/freda-meissner-blau-wird-mitpromenade-am-wiener-donaukanal-geehrt |website=DER STANDARD |access-date=12 October 2020 |language=de-AT}}</ref> *[[2016]] – [[Chad Robinson]], Australian rugby league player (b. 1980) *[[2017]] – [[Gonzalo Morales Sáurez]], Costa Rican painter (b. 1945) *[[2018]] – [[Paddy Ashdown]], British politician (b. 1941)<ref>{{cite news |title=Ex-Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown dies aged 77 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46662546 |work=[[BBC]] |date=23 December 2018 |access-date=23 December 2022}}</ref> * 2018 – [[Simcha Rotem]], last survivor of the [[Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]] (b. 1924) * 2018 – [[Herman Sikumbang]], Indonesian guitarist (b. 1982); casualty during [[2018 Sunda Strait tsunami]] *[[2019]] – [[Ram Dass]], American spiritual teacher and author (b. 1931)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/23/us/baba-ram-dass-death-trnd/index.html|title=Baba Ram Dass, psychedelic pioneer and New Age guru, is dead at 88|author=Scottie Andrew|website=[[CNN.com]]|date=December 22, 2019|access-date=December 28, 2019}}</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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