Deaths on 11 December
2000s
David Bonderman
2024
American billionaire businessman (1942–2024)
Khalil Haqqani
2024
Afghan politician (1966–2024)
Purushottam Upadhyay
2024
Indian musician, singer and composer (1934–2024)
Andre Braugher
2023
American actor (1962–2023)
Anne Rice
2021
American author (1941–2021)
James Flynn (academic)
2020
New Zealand intelligence researcher (1934–2020)
Keith Chegwin
2017
English TV presenter, actor & musician (1957–2017)
Abish Kekilbayev
2015
Kazakh politician and writer (1939–2015)
H. Arnold Steinberg
2015
Canadian businessman (1933–2015)
Hema Upadhyay
2015
Indian visual artist (1972–2015)
John "Hot Rod" Williams
2015
American basketball player (1962–2015)
Ken Woolley
2015
Sydney based Australian architect
Hans Wallat
2014
German conductor
Nadir Afonso
2013
Portuguese geometric abstractionist painter (1920–2013)
Barbara Branden
2013
Canadian writer (1929–2013)
Javier Jáuregui (boxer)
2013
Mexican boxer (1973–2013)
Sheikh Mussa Shariefi
2013
Galina Vishnevskaya
2012
Russian soprano
Mendel Weinbach
2012
Ravi Shankar
2012
Indian musician and sitar player (1920–2012)
John Patrick Foley
2011
American Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal
Dick Hoerner
2010
American football player (1922–2010)
Bettie Page
2008
American pin-up model (1923–2008)
José Luis Cuciuffo
2004
Argentine footballer
Arthur Lydiard
2004
New Zealand runner and athletics coach
Ahmadou Kourouma
2003
Ivorian novelist (1927–2003)
Mainza Chona
2001
Zambian politician and diplomat
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah
2000
Pakistani diplomat (1915–2000)
David Lewis (American actor)
2000
American actor (1916–2000)
1900s
André Lichnerowicz
1998
French mathematical physicist (1915–1998)
Lynn Strait
1998
American singer (1968–1998)
Eddie Chapman
1997
Double agent for Britain during WW2
Simon Jeffes
1997
British musician and composer (1949–1997)
Willie Rushton
1996
English cartoonist and comedian (1937–1996)
Greg Bahnsen
1995
American theologian and philosopher (1948–1995)
Philip Phillips (archaeologist)
1994
American archaeologist (1900–1994)
Robert Q. Lewis
1991
American actor and broadcaster (1921–1991)
Artur Lundkvist
1991
Swedish writer (1906–1991)
Louise Dahl-Wolfe
1989
American photographer (1895–1989)
G. A. Kulkarni
1987
Indian writer (1923–1987)
Oskar Seidlin
1984
German-American academic (1911 – 1984)
George Waggner
1984
American actor
Neil Ritchie
1983
British Army officer (1897–1983)
James J. Gibson
1979
American psychologist (1904–1979)
Vincent du Vigneaud
1978
American biochemist and Nobel laureate (1901–1978)
Paul O'Dea
1978
American baseball player (1920–1978)
Lee Wiley
1975
American jazz singer (1908–1975)
Nihal Atsız
1975
Turkish ultranationalist writer, novelist, and poet (1905–1975)
Richard and Maurice McDonald
1971
American fast food company founders
Richard Sagrits
1968
Estonian painter
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
1968
Publisher of The New York Times from 1935 to 1961
Augusta Fox Bronner
1966
American psychologist (1881–1966)
Sam Cooke
1964
American singer and songwriter (1931–1964)
Percy Kilbride
1964
American character actor
Jim Bottomley
1959
American baseball player and manager (1900–1959)
Musidora
1957
French actress
Sedat Simavi
1953
Turkish journalist (1896–1953)
Mustafa Muğlalı
1951
Turkish general
Hijri Dede
1951
Leslie Comrie
1950
New Zealand astronomer
Charles Fabry
1945
French physicist (1867–1945)
John Gillespie Magee Jr.
1941
Royal Canadian Air Force officer and poet
Émile Picard
1941
French mathematician (1856–1941)
Christian Lous Lange
1938
Norwegian diplomat and Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1869–1938)
Jaan Anvelt
1937
Estonian communist (1884–1937)
Hugh Thackeray Turner
1937
English architect (1853–1937)
Myron Grimshaw
1936
American baseball player (1875-1936)
Juho Kekkonen (forester)
1928
Finnish forester and tenant farmer (1873–1928)
Olive Schreiner
1920
South African author and activist (1855–1920)
Ivan Cankar
1918
Slovene writer and political activist (1876–1918)
Carl von In der Maur
1913
Governor of Liechtenstein during 1884–1892 and 1897–1913
Ludwig Mond
1909
British chemist and businessman (1839–1909)
Fitzhugh Townsend
1906
American fencer
1800s
William Milligan
1892
Scottish theologian
Oliver Winchester
1880
American businessman and politician
Kamehameha V
1872
King of Hawaii from 1863 to 1872
Emperor Kōkaku
1840
Emperor of Japan from 1779 to 1817
Maria Leopoldina of Austria
1826
Empress of Brazil (1822–1826) and Queen of Portugal (1826)
Before 1800
Richard Brocklesby
1797
Edmund Curll
1747
British publisher and bookseller (c. 1675–1747)
John Strype
1737
English clergyman, historian and biographer (1643–1737)
Ranuccio II Farnese
1694
Duke of Parma and Piacenza from 1646 to 1694
Louis, Grand Condé
1686
French military leader (1621–1686)
Adam Elsheimer
1610
German painter
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
1582
Spanish military leader and diplomat (1507–1582)
Pietro Accolti
1532
Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and judge of the Roman Rota
Henry IV of Castile
1474
King of Castile and León from 1454 to 1474
Llywelyn ap Gruffudd
1282
Prince of Gwynedd from 1255 to 1282
Michael VIII Palaiologos
1282
Byzantine emperor (1261–1282), founder of the Palaiologos dynasty
Ögedei Khan
1241
Khan of the Mongol Empire from 1229 to 1241
Averroes
1198
Andalusian Muslim polymath (1126–1198)
Al-Afdal Shahanshah
1121
Fatimid Vizier from 1094 to 1121
Nikephoros II Phokas
969
Byzantine emperor from 963 to 969
Al-Fath ibn Khaqan
861
9th-century Abbasid official
Pope Damasus I
384
Bishop of Rome from 366 to 384