Deaths 401 - 427 of 427
- Dec 15 Arnold Moss, American actor (Loves of Carmen, Kim, Quebec, Viva Zapata), dies at 79
- Dec 15 Edward Underdown, British actor (Beat the Devil, Thunderball), dies at 81
- Dec 16 Aileen Pringle, actress (Age of Consent, Convicted, Night Parade), dies
- Dec 16 Lee Van Cleef, American actor (Good, Bad & Ugly), dies at 64
- Dec 16 Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentine racing driver (b. 1913)
- Dec 16 Silvana Mangano, Italian actress (Death in Venice, Barabbas), dies at 59
- Dec 19 Dorothea "Stella" Gibbons, English journalist and author (Cold Comfort Farm), dies at 87
- Dec 20 Audrey Christie, American actress (Splendor in the Grass, Fair Exchange), dies at 77
- Dec 20 Kurt Böhme, German bass, dies at 81
- Dec 21 Ján Cikker, Slovak composer, dies at 78
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
Dec 22 Irish-French writer (Molloy, Nobel 1969), dies at 83
Billy Martin (1928-1989)
Dec 25 American baseball 2nd baseman (MLB All Star 1956; World Series 1951, 52, 53, 56; NY Yankees) and manager (World Series 1977 NY Yankees), killed in a car accident at 61
- Dec 25 Elena Ceausescu, wife of Romania's Communist dictator Nicolae, executed at 73
- Dec 25 Georgy Mushel, Uzbek pianist and composer, dies at 80
- Dec 25 Jean-Etienne Marie, French composer of microtonal music and electroacoustics, dies at 72
Nicolae Ceausescu (1918-1989)
Dec 25 Communist dictator of Romania (1967-89), executed at 71
- Dec 25 Ton Regtien, Dutch student leader, dies at 51
Doug Harvey (1924-1989)
Dec 26 Canadian ice hockey defenseman ('100 Greatest NHL Players), dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 65
- Dec 26 Lennox R. F. Berkeley, British composer and pedagogue (Castaway), dies at 86
- Dec 26 Peggy Thorpe-Bates, actress (Alcatraz Island), dies
- Dec 28 Hermann Oberth, German physicist (founded modern astronautics), dies at 95
- Dec 30 Etienne Leroux, Afrikaans author (Een vir Azazel), dies at 67
- Dec 30 Lenore Lemmon, girlfriend of "Superman" George Reeves (b. 1923)
- Dec 30 Madoline Thomas, actress (Girl in the Canal), dies