Deaths 401 - 438 of 438
- Dec 3 Scatman John, American singer (b. 1942)
- Dec 3 John Archer [Ralph Bowman], American actor (Destination: Moon, White Heat, Blue Hawaii), dies of lung cancer at 84
- Dec 3 Horst Mahseli, Polish soccer striker (9 caps; Legia Warsaw), dies at 65
- Dec 4 Sylvester Clarke, West Indian cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 42 wickets), dies from a heart attack at 44
- Dec 4 Rose Elizabeth Bird, California Supreme Court Justice (1977-87), dies at 63
- Dec 5 Robert Parris, American composer (Book of Imaginary Beings), dies at 75
- Dec 8 Péter Kuczka, Hungarian writer (b. 1923)
- Dec 10 Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor (Fiddler on the Roof, Thomas en Senior op het spoor van Brute Berend), dies at 86
- Dec 10 Rick Danko, Canadian bassist and singer (The Band - Stagefright), dies of heart failure at 55
- Dec 10 Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947)
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Dec 10 Franjo Tuđman, Croatian politician and President of Croatia (1990-1999), dies of stomach cancer at 77
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- Dec 12 Paul Cadmus, American artist (b. 1904)
- Dec 12 Joseph Heller, American author (Catch-22), dies at 76
- Dec 12 Joe Benner, American pistol shooter and coach (Olympic gold 1952; World C'ship gold 1949, 52, 54), dies at 82
- Dec 13 Allen Breed, American inventor of the first automotive airbag sensor, dies of a heart attack while suffering from lung cancer, at 72
- Dec 17 Grover Washington Jr., American jazz saxophonist (Mr Magic), dies at 56
- Dec 17 Rex Allen, American actor and singer-songwriter known as the "the Arizona Cowboy" (Dr Baxter-Frontier Doctor), dies at 78
- Dec 18 Robert Bresson, French film director (A Man Escaped, Balthazar, at Random), dies at 98
- Dec 18 Robert Dougall, English TV host and broadcaster, dies at 86
- Dec 19 Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor, dies at 85
- Dec 19 Hemchandra Tukaram "Bal" Dani, Indian cricketer (Test Ind v Pak, 1-19, ct 1, DNB), dies at 66
- Dec 20 [Clarence] Hank Snow, Canadian country singer (I'm Moving On, I Went to Your Wedding), dies of heart failure at 85
- Dec 20 Riccardo Freda, Italian film director and screenwriter (Theodora, Slave Empress), dies at 90
- Dec 21 John Arnatt, British actor (A Challenge for Robin Hood, Circumstantial Evidence), dies at 82
- Dec 23 Marcel Landowski, French composer (Un enfant appelle), dies at 84
- Dec 24 João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo, President of Brazil (b. 1918)
- Dec 24 Bill Bowerman, American track and field coach
- Dec 24 Maurice Couve de Murville, French politician, Prime minister of France (b. 1907)
- Dec 24 Zeke Carey, American R&B singer (Go, Johnny, Go!, Rock Rock Rock!) dies at 66
- Dec 25 Peter Jeffrey, British character actor (Dr Phibes Rides Again, Twinsanity), dies at 70
- Dec 26 Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and soul musician (Freddie's Dead, Superfly), dies from complications of type 2 diabetes at 57
- Dec 26 Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian politician, ninth President of India (1992-97), dies at 81
- Dec 27 Bernard Chacksfield, British Air Vice-Marshal, dies at 86
- Dec 28 Clayton Moore, American actor (The Lone Ranger), dies at 85
- Dec 29 Leon Radzinowicz, British criminologist (b. 1906)
- Dec 30 Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer, dies at 90
- Dec 30 Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person (b. 1880)
- Dec 31 Elliot Richardson, American politician (b. 1920)