Deaths 401 - 430 of 430
- Dec 3 Bob Howard [Joyner], American swing jazz singer and pianist (Sing it Again), dies at 80
- Dec 4 Reuben Nakian, American sculptor, dies at 89
- Dec 5 Carmol Taylor, country songwriter, dies at 53 of cancer
- Dec 5 Sir Edward Youde, Governor of Hong Kong (b. 1924)
- Dec 6 Malik Oussekine, Algerian/French student, killed by police at 22
- Dec 10 Kate Wolf [Allen], American folk singer-songwriter ("Love Still Remains"; "Across the Great Divide"), dies of leukemia at 44
- Dec 10 Susan Cabot, American actress (Sorority Girl, Carnival Rock), is killed by her son following a psychotic episode at 59
- Dec 11 Paul Keenan, American actor (Summer Fantasy), dies of AIDS at 30
- Dec 13 Heather Angel, British-American actress (Night in Montmartre; The Informer; The Last of the Mohicans; Lifeboat), dies of cancer at 77
- Dec 15 Serge Lifar, Russian-French dancer, choreographer (Paris Opera Ballet), dies at 81
- Dec 16 Marcel Quinet, Belgian pianist and composer (Vague et Sillon), dies at 71
- Dec 17 Ron Kass, record co pres (MGM), dies at 52 of cancer
- Dec 18 Mamo Clark, American actress (One Million BC; Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island), and author, dies at 72
- Dec 19 V. C. Andrews, American author (Flowers in the Attic), dies of breast cancer at 63
- Dec 20 Joe DeSa, American baseball player (b. 1959)
- Dec 21 Willy Coppens, Belgian WW I fighter ace, dies at 94
- Dec 22 Celius Dougherty, American pianist and composer, dies at 84
- Dec 24 Gardner Fox, American sci-fi author (Atom; Hawkman; Zatanna), dies at 75
- Dec 26 Elsa Lanchester, actress (Bride of Frankenstein), dies at 84
- Dec 26 Leslie Dwyer, English actor (Hi-de-Hi!), dies at 80
- Dec 27 Lars-Erik Larsson, Swedish composer (God in Disguise (Förklädd gud, Op. 24); Linden), and pedagogue (Stockholm Conservatory; Uppsala University), dies of complications from diabetes at 78
- Dec 27 Louis van Lint, Belgian painter (post-war abstraction), dies at 77
- Dec 28 John D. MacDonald, American novelist (Deep Blue Goodbye), dies at 70
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986)
Dec 29 Soviet filmmaker and director (Andrei Rublev: Mirror; Stalker), dies at 54
Harold Macmillan (1894-1986)
Dec 29 British Conservative politician and Prime Minister (1957-63), dies at 92
- Dec 29 John Antill, Australian composer (Corroboree; New Guinea Patrol), dies at 82
- Dec 30 Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905)
- Dec 30 Jiri Jaroch, Czech composer, dies at 66
- Dec 31 Lester Trimble, American composer, music critic and educator, dies at 63
- Dec 31 Lloyd Haynes, American actor (Room 222- "Pete Dixon"), and screenwriter, dies of lung cancer at 52 [1]
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