- Dec 5 Norman Lear, American Peabody and Emmy Award-winning TV writer and producer (All in The Family; One Day at a Time; The Jeffersons; Maude), and film director (Cold Turkey), dies at 101 [1] [2]
- Dec 6 Jack Hogan [Richard Roland Benson Jr], American actor ("Combat", Adam 12", "Sierra"), dies at 94
- Dec 6 Marisa Pavan, Italian actress (Solomon & Sheba; The Rose Tattoo), dies at 91
- Dec 8 Ryan O'Neal, American actor (Love Story; Paper Moon; What's Up, Doc?), dies at 82 [1]
- Dec 10 Michael Blakemore, Australian Tony Award-winning theater director (Copenhagen; Kiss Me Kate), actor, and screenwriter, dies at 95
- Dec 11 Andre Braugher, American Emmy Award-winning actor (Homicide: Life on the Street; Brooklyn Nine-Nine), dies of lung cancer at 61 [1]
- Dec 11 Osamu Kido, Japanese wrestler (NJPW/UWF), dies at 73
- Dec 20 Torben Ulrich, Danish tennis player, musician, writer, filmmaker, and father of Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, dies at 95
Robert Solow (1924-2023)
Dec 21 American economist who developed the Solow–Swan model of economic growth (Nobel Prize, 1987), dies at 99
- Dec 23 (Myron) "Mike" Nussbaum, American stage and screen character actor (David Mamet works), and director, dies at 99
- Dec 24 David Leland, English BAFTA, Emmy, and Grammy Award-winning stage and screen director, playwright, and screenwriter (Wish You Were Here; The Borgias; Band of Brothers; Concert for George), dies at 82 [1]
- Dec 26 Tommy Smothers, American comedian and folk singer (The Smothers Brothers Show; Serial), dies of lung cancer at 86 [1]
- Dec 27 Lee Sun-kyun. South Korean actor (Parasite, Pasta; Paju), dies of apparent suicide at 48
- Dec 29 Maurice Hines, American tap-dancer, choreographer, actor, and theater director, dies at 80 [1]
- Dec 30 Tom Wilkinson, English stage and screen BAFTA and Emmy Award-winning actor (The Full Monty; John Adams; Michael Clayton), dies at 75 [1]
- Dec 31 Ana Ofelia Murguía, Mexican actress (Mamá Coco-Coco; La Reina de la Noche), dies at 90
- Dec 31 Shecky Greene [Fred Sheldon Greenfield], American stand-up comedian and actor (Love Machine; Combat), dies at 97 [1]
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