- Dec 2 Gail Fisher, American Emmy Award-winning actress (Mannix - "Peggy"), dies of kidney failure at 65
- Dec 3 Hoyt Curtin, American composer (Hanna-Barbera cartoon theme songs), dies at 78
- Dec 6 Werner Klemperer, German-American Emmy Award-winning stage and screen actor (Judgment at Nuremberg; Hogan's Heroes - "Col. Klink"), dies of cancer at 80
- Dec 10 Marie Windsor [Emily Marie Bertelson], American actress (The Bounty Hunter, Double Deal), dies of congestive heart failure at 80
- Dec 11 David Lewis, American actor (Edward Quartermaine-General Hospital), dies at 84
- Dec 12 George Montgomery, American actor (b. 1916)
- Dec 17 Gérard Blain, French director and actor (The Friends, Hatari), dies at 70
- Dec 21 Antón Larrauri, Spanish classical and film score composer (Oración al cosmos), dies at 68
- Dec 23 Billy Barty [William John Bertanzetti,], American actor (Under the Rainbow, Foul Play), dies of heart failure at 76
- Dec 23 Noor Jehan [Allah Rakhi Wasai], Pakistani singer and actress (Mela; Chann Way), dies at 74
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