Deaths on 14 December
2000s
Rob Reiner
2025
American filmmaker and actor (1947–2025)
Isak Andic
2024
Turkish-Spanish billionaire businessman (1953–2024)
Tomáš Janovic
2023
Slovak writer (1937–2023)
Jean Franco
2022
British-born American academic and literary critic (1924–2022)
Gérard Houllier
2020
French footballer and manager (1947–2020)
Chuy Bravo
2019
Mexican-American entertainer and actor (1956–2019)
Yu Kwang-chung
2017
Taiwanese poet (1928–2017)
Paulo Evaristo Arns
2016
Brazilian cardinal (1921–2016)
Bernard Fox (actor)
2016
Welsh actor (1927–2016)
Terry Backer
2015
American politician
Glen Sonmor
2015
Canadian ice hockey player, coach (1929–2015)
Vadym Tyshchenko
2015
Soviet-Ukrainian footballer and coach (1963–2015)
Lillian Vernon (businesswoman)
2015
American businesswoman and philanthropist
Theo Colborn
2014
American biologist (1927–2014)
Irene Dalis
2014
American opera singer (1925–2014)
Louis Alphonse Koyagialo
2014
Congolese politician
Bess Myerson
2014
American actress and politician (1924–2014)
Fuzzy Thurston
2014
American football player (1933–2014)
Janet Dailey
2013
American writer
C. N. Karunakaran
2013
Indian painter and illustrator
Dennis Lindley
2013
British statistician (1923–2013)
Peter O'Toole
2013
British actor (1932–2013)
George Rodrigue
2013
American painter
John Graham (British Army officer, born 1923)
2012
British Army officer (1923–2012)
Edward Jones (North Carolina politician)
2012
American politician from North Carolina
Victoria Leigh Soto
2012
American teacher and murder victim (1985–2012)
Joe Simon
2011
American comic book creator (1913–2011)
Billie Jo Spears
2011
American country music singer (1938–2011)
Timothy Davlin
2010
American mayor
Neva Patterson
2010
American actress (1920–2010)
Dale Roberts (footballer, born 1986)
2010
English footballer
Alan A'Court
2009
English footballer (1934–2009)
Anton Balasingham
2006
Sri Lankan journalist
Ahmet Ertegun
2006
Turkish-American businessman (1923–2006)
Mike Evans (actor)
2006
American actor (1949–2006)
Rod Kanehl
2004
American baseball player (1934-2004)
Fernando Poe Jr.
2004
Filipino actor, film director, and politician (1939–2004)
Jeanne Crain
2003
American actress (1925–2003)
Blas Ople
2003
President of the Senate of the Philippines from 1999 to 2000
Frank Sheeran
2003
American mobster and labor union official (1920–2003)
W. G. Sebald
2001
German writer and academic (1944–2001)
1900s
Norman Fell
1998
American actor (1924–1998)
A. Leon Higginbotham Jr.
1998
American judge (1928–1998)
Annette Strauss
1998
American politician from Texas
Stubby Kaye
1997
American actor, comedian, vaudevillian and singer (1918–1997)
Emily Cheney Neville
1997
American writer
Kurt Winter
1997
Canadian musician (1946–1997)
Gaston Miron
1996
Canadian writer (1928–1996)
G. C. Edmondson
1995
American novelist
Orval Faubus
1994
Governor of Arkansas 1955–1967 (1910–1994)
Jeff Alm
1993
American football player (1968–1993)
Myrna Loy
1993
American actress (1905–1993)
Robert Eddison
1991
English actor (1908–1991)
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
1990
Swiss author and dramatist (1921–1990)
Paula Nenette Pepin
1990
French composer, pianist and lyricist
Jock Mahoney
1989
American actor (1919–1989)
Andrei Sakharov
1989
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
Jean Schramme
1988
Belgian mercenary
Catherine Doherty
1985
Religious order founder; Servant of God (1896–1985)
Roger Maris
1985
American baseball player (1934–1985)
Vicente Aleixandre
1984
Spanish poet (1898–1984)
Elston Howard
1980
American baseball player and coach (1929–1980)
Salvador de Madariaga
1978
Spanish diplomat, writer and historian (1886–1978)
Arthur Treacher
1975
English actor (1894–1975)
Walter Lippmann
1974
American journalist (1889–1974)
Mufazzal Haider Chaudhury
1971
Bangladeshi writer (1926–1971)
Munier Choudhury
1971
Bangladeshi playwriter
Shahidullah Kaiser
1971
Bangladeshi novelist and writer
Franz Schlegelberger
1970
German politician (1876–1970)
William Bendix
1964
American actor (1906–1964)
Dinah Washington
1963
American singer, songwriter, pianist (1924–1963)
Juho Kusti Paasikivi
1956
President of Finland from 1946 to 1956
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
1953
American novelist (1896–1953)
Stanley Baldwin
1947
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1923–1924; 1924–1929; 1935–1937)
Edward Higgins
1947
General of The Salvation Army
Lupe Vélez
1944
Mexican actress (1908–1944)
John Harvey Kellogg
1943
American physician (1852–1943)
Anton Korošec
1940
Yugoslav politician (1872–1940)
Fabián de la Rosa
1937
Filipino painter (1869–1937)
Stanley G. Weinbaum
1935
American writer (1902–1935)
Henry Jackson (Royal Navy officer)
1929
Royal Navy Admiral of the Fleet (1855–1929)
Julian Sochocki
1927
Polish-Russian mathematician (1842–1927)
George Gipp
1920
American football player (1895–1920)
Phil Waller (rugby union)
1917
British Lions & Wales international rugby union player
Eva Gouel
1915
Second girlfriend of Pablo Picasso
Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis
1912
British soldier and explorer (1887–1912)
1800s
Princess Alice of the United Kingdom
1878
Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine from 1877 to 1878
Louis Agassiz
1873
Swiss-American naturalist (1807–1873)
Johan Georg Forchhammer
1865
Danish geologist (1794–1865)
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
1861
Consort of Queen Victoria from 1840 to 1861
George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen
1860
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 to 1855
Ben Crack-O
1842
Liberian tribal king
Jean-Olivier Chénier
1838
Canadian physician (born 1806)
Martin Baum
1831
American politician
Before 1800
George Washington
1799
U.S. Founding Father, president from 1789 to 1797
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
1788
German composer (1714–1788)
Charles III of Spain
1788
King of Spain from 1759 to 1788
Giovanni Battista Cipriani
1785
Italian painter and engraver in England (1727–1785)
Charles Rollin
1741
French historian and educator (1661–1741)
Thomas Tanner (bishop)
1735
English bishop (1674–1735)
Thomas Tenison
1715
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1695 to 1715
Pierre Dupuy (scholar)
1651
French scholar (1582–1651)
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham
1624
English politician and naval commander (1536–1624)
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon
1595
English noble (1535–1595)
John of the Cross
1591
Spanish Catholic priest and Christian mystic (1542–1591)
James V
1542
King of Scotland from 1513 to 1542
Frederick of Saxony (Teutonic Knight)
1510
Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights
Sten Sture the Elder
1503
Regent of Sweden (r. 1470–1497; 1501–1503)
Niccolò Perotti
1480
Italian humanist
Guarino da Verona
1460
Italian classical scholar and Renaissance humanist (1374–1460)
John Oldcastle
1417
English Lollard leader (died 1417)
Cangrande II della Scala
1359
Lord of Verona from 1351 to 1359
Rinchinbal Khan
1332
Emperor of Yuan - Mongol Empire in 1332
Margaret of Brabant
1311
Queen of Germany from 1308 to 1311
Al-Ashraf Khalil
1293
Sultan of Egypt and Syria (r. 1290–1293)
Agnes of Poitou
1077
Holy Roman Empress from 1046 to 1056
Pope Adrian II
872
Head of the Catholic Church from 867 to 872
Aldfrith of Northumbria
704
7th and 8th-century King of Northumbria
John III of the Sedre
648
43rd Patriarch of Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (631 - 648)
Xue Rengao
618
7th-century Chinese general and briefly the final Emperor of Qin (618)