Deaths on 10 December
2000s
Rocky Colavito
2024
American baseball player (1933–2024)
Michael Cole (actor)
2024
American actor (1940–2024)
The Amazing Kreskin
2024
American mentalist (1935–2024)
S. M. Krishna
2024
Indian politician (1932–2024)
Julian Carroll
2023
American politician (1931–2023)
Michael Nesmith
2021
American musician, songwriter, and actor (1942–2021)
Tommy Lister Jr.
2020
American actor and wrestler (1958–2020)
Joseph Safra
2020
Lebanese-Brazilian banker (1938–2020)
Carol Sutton (actress)
2020
American actress (1944–2020)
Barbara Windsor
2020
English actress (1937–2020)
Philip McKeon
2019
American actor (1964–2019)
Gershon Kingsley
2019
German-American composer and musician (1922–2019)
Emily Mason (painter)
2019
American painter and printmaker (1932–2019)
Bruce Brown (director)
2017
American filmmaker (1937–2017)
Max Clifford
2017
English publicist and convicted sex offender (1943–2017)
Angry Grandpa
2017
American YouTube personality (1950–2017)
Curtis W. Harris
2017
American politician
Ron Bouchard
2015
American racing driver
Denis Héroux
2015
Canadian film director and producer (1940–2015)
Arnold Peralta
2015
Honduran footballer (1989-2015)
Dolph Schayes
2015
American basketball player and coach (1928–2015)
Ralph Giordano
2014
German writer and publicist (1923–2014)
Robert B. Oakley
2014
American diplomat (1931–2014)
Bob Solinger
2014
Canadian ice hockey player
Judy Baar Topinka
2014
American politician (1944–2014)
Gerard Vianen
2014
Dutch cyclist
Alan Coleman
2013
Jim Hall (musician)
2013
American jazz guitarist, composer (1930–2013)
Don Lund
2013
American baseball player (1923–2013)
Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar
2013
Indian politician and Maharaja of Mysore (1953–2013)
Iajuddin Ahmed
2012
President of Bangladesh from 2002 to 2009
Antonio Cubillo
2012
Spanish militant Independentist
Tommy Roberts (designer)
2012
English fashion designer (1942–2012)
John B. Fenn
2010
American chemistry professor
J. Michael Hagopian
2010
American film director (1913–2010)
MacKenzie Miller
2010
American racehorse trainer
Vladimir Teplyakov
2009
Vitali Hakko
2007
Turkish businessman
Olivia Coolidge
2006
British American historical writer
Augusto Pinochet
2006
President of Chile from 1973 to 1990
Mary Jackson (actress)
2005
American actress (1910–2005)
Eugene McCarthy
2005
American politician (1916–2005)
Richard Pryor
2005
American comedian and actor (1940–2005)
Gary Webb
2004
American investigative journalist (1955–2004)
Sean McClory
2003
Irish actor (1924–2003)
Andres Küng
2002
Estonian-Swedish journalist, politician
Ian MacNaughton
2002
Scottish actor and director (1925–2002)
Ashok Kumar
2001
Indian actor (1911–2001)
Marie Windsor
2000
American actress (1919–2000)
1900s
Rick Danko
1999
Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician (1943–1999)
Franjo Tuđman
1999
President of Croatia from 1990 to 1999
Woodrow Borah
1999
American historian (1912–1999)
Faron Young
1996
American country singer (1932–1996)
Darren Robinson (rapper)
1995
American rapper and beatboxer (1967–1995)
Keith Joseph
1994
British Conservative politician (1918–1994)
Alex Wilson (Canadian sprinter)
1994
Canadian sprinter
Alice Tully
1993
American opera singer
Dan Maskell
1992
British tennis player and broadcaster
Greta Kempton
1991
Austrian-American painter
Armand Hammer
1990
American businessman (1898–1990)
Richard S. Castellano
1988
American actor (1933-1988)
Johnny Lawrence (cricketer)
1988
English cricketer (1911–1988)
Dorothy de Rothschild
1988
English activist
Jascha Heifetz
1987
Russian-American violinist (1901–1987)
Freeman Gosden
1982
American radio comedian and actor (1899–1982)
Ann Dvorak
1979
American actress (1911–1979)
Ed Wood
1978
American filmmaker, actor and author (1924–1978)
Adolph Rupp
1977
American college basketball coach (1901–1977)
Toshinari Shōji
1974
Japanese officer, war criminal 1890-1974
Wolf V. Vishniac
1973
American microbiologist (1922–1973)
Mark Van Doren
1972
American poet (1894–1972)
Chen Qiyou
1970
Chinese revolutionary and politician
Karl Barth
1968
Protestant theologian (1886–1968)
George Forrest (Northern Ireland politician)
1968
Northern Irish unionist politician
Thomas Merton
1968
American Trappist monk (1915–1968)
Otis Redding
1967
American singer and songwriter (1941–1967)
K. M. Panikkar
1963
Indian author and diplomat (1895-1963)
Adolfo Camarillo
1958
American businessman
Napoleon Zervas
1957
Hellenic Army officer (1891-1957)
David Shimoni
1956
Israeli poet, writer, and translator
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
1953
Indian-British barrister (1872-1953)
Algernon Blackwood
1951
English journalist and author (1869–1951)
Na Hyesŏk
1948
Korean feminist (1896–1948)
Walter Johnson
1946
American baseball player and manager (1887–1946)
Damon Runyon
1946
American writer (1880–1946)
Theodor Dannecker
1945
SS Officer and Holocaust perpetrator (1913–1945)
John Brunt
1944
Recipient of the Victoria Cross (born 1922)
Colin Kelly
1941
United States Army Air Corps officer and pilot (1915–1941)
John Grieb
1939
American gymnast (1879–1939)
Bobby Abel
1936
English cricketer
Luigi Pirandello
1936
Sicilian dramatist, novelist, poet, short story writer (1867–1936)
Joseph Carruthers
1932
Australian politician (1857–1932)
Harry Crosby
1929
American writer (1898–1929)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
1928
Scottish designer and artist (1868–1928)
Nikola Pašić
1926
Serbian politician (1845–1926)
Clement Lindley Wragge
1922
English meteorologist (1852–1922)
Horace Elgin Dodge
1920
American businessman (1868–1920)
Mackenzie Bowell
1917
Prime Minister of Canada from 1894 to 1896
Joseph Dalton Hooker
1911
British botanist and explorer (1817–1911)
Red Cloud
1909
Leader of the Oglala Lakota (1822–1909)
1800s
Alfred Nobel
1896
Swedish chemist and inventor (1833–1896)
Sakamoto Ryōma
1867
Japanese samurai and politician (1836–1867)
Leopold I of Belgium
1865
King of the Belgians from 1831 to 1865
Józef Bem
1850
Polish statesman (1794–1850)
François Sulpice Beudant
1850
French mineralogist and geologist (1787–1850)
Thomas Johann Seebeck
1831
German physicist (1770–1831)
Before 1800
Jacob Frank
1791
Polish-Jewish religious leader (1726–1790)
António Manoel de Vilhena
1736
Portuguese nobleman; 66th ruler of Hospitaller Malta (r. 1722–36)
Tarquinio Merula
1665
Italian composer
Edmund Gunter
1626
English clergyman, mathematician, geometer and astronomer
Giulio Caccini
1618
Italian composer (1551–1618)
Caspar Schwenckfeld
1561
16th century German theologian
Thomas Culpeper
1541
English courtier
Francis Dereham
1541
English courtier
René II, Duke of Lorraine
1508
Duke of Lorraine from 1473 to 1508
Paolo Uccello
1475
Italian painter and mathematician (1397–1475)
Ignatius Behnam Hadloyo
1454
91st Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (1445–1454)
Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria
1310
Duke of Lower Bavaria
Fakhr al-Mulk Ridwan
1113
Seljuk ruler of Aleppo (1095–1113)
Nikephoros III Botaneiates
1081
Byzantine Emperor from 1078 to 1081
Michael IV the Paphlagonian
1041
Byzantine emperor from 1034 to 1041
Volkmar
990
Name list
Herman I, Duke of Swabia
949
Duke of Swabia
Sancho I of Pamplona
925
King of Pamplona from 905 to 925