Famous People Who Died In December

• Bernard Herrmann

  Composer

  New York, United States of America

• James Baldwin

  Novelist

  New York, United States of America

• Alvin Ailey

  Choreographer

  Texas, United States of America

• George Joseph Stigler

  Economist

  Washington, United States of America

• J.B.S. Haldane

  Scientist

  England, United Kingdom

• Desi Arnaz

  Actor

  Cuba

• Jay Gould

  Developer

  New York, United States of America

• Heydar Aliyev

  Politician

  Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan

• Gerardus Mercator

  Cartographer

  Flanders, Belgium

• Gwendolyn Brooks

  Poet

  Kansas, United States of America

• Robert Louis Stevenson

  Author

  Scotland, United Kingdom

• Madeline Kahn

  Actress

  Massachusetts, United States of America

• Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Painter

  Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

• Omar Khayyam

  Poet

  Iran

• Benjamin Britten

  Composer

  England, United Kingdom

• Thomas Hobbes

  Academic

  Wiltshire, United Kingdom

• Charles Robert Richet

  Physiologist

  France

• Phillis Wheatley

  Poet

  Senegal

• Benjamin Holt

  Entrepreneur

  New Hampshire, United States of America

• Claude Monet

  Painter

  Île-de-France, France

• Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual Leader

  West Bengal, India

• Jefferson Davis

  Politician

  Kentucky, United States of America

• Baltasar Gracian

  Writer

  Zaragoza, Spain

• Sir Richard Stone

  Economist

  United Kingdom

• Barbara Orbison

  Entrepreneur

  North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Rube Goldberg

  Cartoonist

  California, United States of America

• Cicero

  Philosopher

  Frosinone, Italy

• Blaže Koneski

  Poet

  Petagonia, Macedonia

• Martin Rodbell

  Biochemist

  Maryland, United States of America

• Gladys George

  Actress

  Maine, United States of America

• John Lennon

  Singer

  Merseyside, United Kingdom

• George Boole

  Mathematician

  United Kingdom

• Thomas De Quincey

  Essayist

  England, United Kingdom

• Fulton J. Sheen

  Archbishop

  Illinois, United States of America

• Anthony van Dyck

  Painter

  Antwerp, Belgium

• Branch Rickey

  Sportsman

  Ohio, United States of America

• Mary Leakey

  Paleoanthropologist

  England, United Kingdom

• Otis Redding

  Singer

  Georgia, United States of America

• Luigi Pirandello

  Author

  Italy

• Augusto Pinochet

  Military Leader

  Valparaíso, Chile

• Karl Barth

  Theologian

  Switzerland

• Bettie Page

  Model

  Tennessee, United States of America

• Mainza Chona

  Politician

  Southern Province, Zambia

• M. S. Subbulakshmi

  Singer

  Tamilnadu, India

• Sam Cooke

  Singer

  Mississippi, United States of America

• Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

  Physician

  New York, United States of America

• Albrecht von Haller

  Anatomist

  Switzerland

• Robert Browning

  Poet

  London, United Kingdom

• Anne Baxter

  Actress

  Indiana, United States of America

• Maimonides

  Philosopher

  Andalusia, Spain

• Wassily Kandinsky

  Painter

  Russia

• Alan Thicke

  Actor

  Ontario, Canada

• Grandma Moses

  Painter

  New York, United States of America

• John of the Cross

  Priest

  Spain

• George Washington

  Politician

  Virginia, United States of America

• Peter Seamus O'Toole

  Actor

  Province of Connacht, Republic of Ireland

• Albert, Prince Consort

  Royalty

  Bavaria, Germany

• Johannes Vermeer

  Painter

  South Holland, Netherlands

• Anatole Litvak

  Director

  Ukraine

• Glenn Miller

  Composer

  Iowa, United States of America

• Fats Waller

  Musician

  New York, united states of America

• Colonel Sanders

  Entrepreneur

  Indiana, United States of America

• Paul Castellano

  Gangster

  New York, United States of America

• Camille Saint-Saens

  Composer

  Île-de-France, France

• Alphonse Daudet

  Novelist

  Occitanie, France

• Simon Bolivar

  Military Leader

  Venezuela

• Jennifer Jones

  Actress

  Oklahoma, United States of America

• Harold Holt

  Politician

  New South Wales, Australia

• Victor Francis Hess

  Physicist

  Styria, Austria

• Louis Moreau Gottschalk

  Composer

  Louisiana, United States of America

• Bobby Jones

  Sportsman

  Georgia, United States of America

• Gilbert Becaud

  Singer

  ?Provence-Alpes-Cote dAzur, France

• Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Actress

  Hungary

• Herbert C. Brown

  Chemist

  United Kingdom

• Emily Bronte

  Novelist

  West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

• Marcello Mastroianni

  Actor

  Frosinone, Italy

• Robert Andrews Millikan

  Physicist

  Illinois, United States of America

• Adrian Mitchell

  Poet

  England, United Kingdom

• Leopold Sedar Senghor

  Politician

  Thiès Region, Senegal

• Alan Lloyd Hodgkin

  Biophysicist

  England, United Kingdom

• Carl Sagan

  Astrophysicist

  New York, United States of America

• Edwin G. Krebs

  Biochemist

  Iowa, United States of America

• Frank B. Kellogg

  Lawyer

  New York, United States of America

• James Parkinson

  Surgeon

  England, United Kingdom

• Stella Adler

  Actress

  New York, United States of America

• Joe Cocker

  Singer

  United Kingdom

• Joe Strummer

  Guitarist

  Anatolia, Turkey

• Beatrix Potter

  Conservationist

  England, United Kingdom

• George Eliot

  Author

  England, United Kingdom

• Anthony Fokker

  Aviator

  East Java, Indonesia

• Michael Kidd

  Choreographer

  New York, United States of America

• George Roy Hill

  Film Director

  Minnesota, United States of America

• Alfred G. Gilman

  Pharmacologist

  Connecticut, United States of America

• Johns Hopkins

  Entrepreneur

  Maryland, United States of America

• William M. Branham

  Christianity

  Kentucky, United States of America

• Harold Pinter

  Actor

  London, United Kingdom

• Jack Klugman

  Actor

  Philadelphia, United States of America

• JonBenet Ramsey

  Beauty Queen

  Georgia, United States of America

• Birgit Nilsson

  Singer

  Sweden

• Anatoli Boukreev

  Mountaineer

  Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia

• James Brown

  Actor

  South Carolina, United States of America

• Jack Benny

  Actor

  Illinois, United States of America

• Gerald Ford

  Politician

  Nebraska, United States of America

• Howard Hawks

  Director

  Indiana, United States of America

• Salvador Jorge Blanco

  Politician

  Santiago, Dominican Republic

• Alan Bates

  Actor

  Derbyshire, United Kingdom

• Stephen Austin

  Military Leader

  Virginia, United States of America

• Gustave Eiffel

  Architect

  Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

• Benazir Bhutto

  Politician

  Sindh, Pakistan

• Debbie Reynolds

  Actress

  Texas, United States of America

• Allan Dwan

  Director

  Ontario, Canada

• Paul Hindemith

  Composer

  Hesse, Germany

• Eugenio Espejo

  Writer

  Pichincha, Ecuador

• Julius Axelrod

  Biochemist

  New York, United States of America

• Rainer Maria Rilke

  Author

  Czech Republic

• William Osler

  Physician

  Ontario, Canada

• Thomas Robert Malthus

  Scholar

  England, United Kingdom

• Alfred North Whitehead

  Journalist

  Kent, United Kingdom

• Luise Rainer

  Actress

  North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

• Saddam Hussein

  Criminal

  Iraq

• James Paget

  Surgeon

  England, United Kingdom

• Miguel De Unamuno

  Author

  Spain

• Natalie Cole

  Singer

  California, United States of America

• George M. Dallas

  Politician

  Pennsylvania, United States of America

• Jafar Jabbarly

  Playwright

  Azerbaijan