- Dec 4 Margaret Whitton, American actress (Good & Evil, Major League), dies of cancer at 67
- Dec 5 Jayaram Jayalalitha, Indian actress and politician, chief minister of Tamil Nadu, dies of a heart attack at 68
- Dec 6 Peter Vaughan, British actor (Porridge, Game of Thrones), dies at 93
- Dec 8 Joseph Mascolo, American actor (Days of Our Lives), dies at 87
- Dec 13 Alan Thicke, Canadian actor (Growing Pains), host (Thicke of the Night), and theme song composer (Diff'rent Strokes; The Facts of Life), dies of an aortic dissection at 69
- Dec 18 China Machado, Chinese-born model, 1st non-Caucasian super model, dies at 86
Zsa Zsa Gabor (1917-2016)
Dec 18 Hungarian-born American actress (Queen of Outer Space), dies at 99
- Dec 20 Michèle Morgan, French actress (Passage to Marseille), dies at 96
- Dec 24 Liz Smith [Betty Gleadle] British BAFTA Award-winning character actress (A Private Function; 2point4 Children -"Belle" and "Bette"), dies at 95
- Dec 26 George S. Irving [Shelasky], American broadway singer and actor (Dumplings), dies at 94
Carrie Fisher (1956-2016)
Dec 27 American actress (Princess Leia in Star Wars, When Harry Met Sally...) and writer (Postcards from the Edge), dies at 60 four days after suffering a heart attack on a flight from London to Los Angeles
Debbie Reynolds (1932-2016)
Dec 28 American actress and singer (Singin' In The Rain -"Kathy Selden"; The Unsinkable Molly Brown), dies of a stroke at 84 one day after her daughter Carrie Fisher passed away
- Dec 31 William Christopher, American comedian and actor (M*A*S*H & AfterMASH - "Father Mulcahy"), dies at 84
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