Deaths on 18 December
2000s
Jim Hunt
2025
American politician (1937–2025)
Osman Hadi
2025
Bangladeshi politician and activist (1993–2025)
Slim Dunlap
2024
American guitarist and singer-songwriter (1951–2024)
John Marsden (writer)
2024
Australian writer and educator (1950–2024)
Sayaka Kanda
2021
Japanese actress (1986–2021)
Jerry Relph
2020
American politician (1944–2020)
Jonghyun
2017
South Korean singer-songwriter (1990–2017)
Zsa Zsa Gabor
2016
Hungarian-American socialite and actress (1917–2016)
Luc Brewaeys
2015
Belgian musician
Helge Solum Larsen
2015
Norwegian politician (1969–2015)
Donald J. Albosta
2014
American politician (1925–2014)
Gideon Ben-Yisrael
2014
Israeli politician (1923–2014)
Larry Henley
2014
American musician (1937–2014)
Virna Lisi
2014
Italian actress (1936–2014)
Mandy Rice-Davies
2014
Welsh model (1944–2014)
Robert Simpson (meteorologist)
2014
Meteorologist
Ken Hutcherson
2013
American football player and Christian pastor (1952–2013)
Graham Mackay (businessman)
2013
South African businessman
Frank Macchiarola
2012
American academic (1941–2012)
Mustafa Ould Salek
2012
Mauritanian politician (1936–2012)
Jim Whalen
2012
American football player (1943–2012)
Anatoliy Zayayev
2012
Václav Havel
2011
Last president of Czechoslovakia and first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)
Phil Cavarretta
2010
American baseball player and manager (1916–2010)
Jacqueline de Romilly
2010
French philologist, classical scholar and writer (1913–2010)
Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
2010
Italian banker and economist (1940–2010)
James Pickles
2010
English barrister and circuit judge
Majel Barrett
2008
American actress (1932–2008)
Mark Felt
2008
Deputy FBI Director (1913–2008)
Hans Billian
2007
German film director (1918–2007)
Gerald Le Dain
2007
Former judge of the Supreme Court of Canada
William Strauss
2007
American author, playwright, theater director and lecturer
Alan Wagner
2007
American journalist
Joseph Barbera
2006
American animator and cartoonist (1911–2006)
Ruth Bernhard
2006
German-born American photographer (1905–2006)
Shaukat Siddiqui
2006
Pakistani writer
Alan Voorhees
2005
American engineer
Anthony Sampson
2004
British writer and journalist
Necip Hablemitoğlu
2002
Turkish historian
Ray Hnatyshyn
2002
Governor General of Canada from 1990 to 1995
Wayne Owens
2002
American politician (1937–2002)
Lucy Grealy
2002
American poet
Gilbert Bécaud
2001
French singer, composer, pianist and actor (1927–2001)
Dimitris Dragatakis
2001
Marcel Mule
2001
French classical saxophonist
Stan Fox
2000
American racing driver (1952–2000)
Randolph Apperson Hearst
2000
American businessman (1915–2000)
Kirsty MacColl
2000
British singer and songwriter (1959–2000)
1900s
Robert Bresson
1999
French filmmaker (1901–1999)
Lev Dyomin
1998
Soviet cosmonaut (1926–1998)
Chris Farley
1997
American comedian and actor (1964–1997)
Yulii Khariton
1996
Russian physicist and scientist
Irving Caesar
1996
American composer and lyricist (1895–1996)
Brian Brockless
1995
English composer, organist and conductor
Ross Thomas (author)
1995
American writer (1926–1995)
Konrad Zuse
1995
German computer scientist and engineer (1910–1995)
Roger Apéry
1994
French mathematician (1916–1994)
Lilia Skala
1994
American actress (1896–1994)
Helm Glöckler
1993
German racing driver (1909–1993)
Sam Wanamaker
1993
American actor and director (1919–1993)
Mark Goodson
1992
American TV producer (1915–1992)
George Abecassis
1991
British racing driver (1913–1991)
Anne Revere
1990
American actress (1903–1990)
Paul Tortelier
1990
French cellist and composer
Joseph Zubin
1990
American physician
Niyazi Berkes
1988
Turkish Cypriot academic and sociologist (1908–1988)
Conny Plank
1987
German record producer and musician
Xuân Diệu
1985
Vietnamese poet, journalist, and literary critic
Hans-Ulrich Rudel
1982
German military officer (1916-1982)
Dobriša Cesarić
1980
Croatian poet and translator
Alexei Kosygin
1980
Soviet politician (1904–1980)
Michio Nishizawa
1977
Japanese baseball player (1921–1977)
Louis Untermeyer
1977
American poet (1885–1977)
Theodosius Dobzhansky
1975
Russian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist (1900–1975)
Harry Hooper
1974
American baseball player (1887–1974)
Rasheed Turabi
1973
Pakistani religious scholar and philosopher (1908–1973)
Neilia Hunter Biden
1972
First wife of President Joe Biden (1942–1972)
Bobby Jones (golfer)
1971
American amateur golfer (1902–1971)
Diana Lynn
1971
American actress (1926–1971)
Charles Dvorak
1969
American track and field athlete
Leo Reisman
1961
American violinist and bandleader (1897–1961)
Ernest Lawson
1939
Canadian-American painter (1873–1939)
Andrija Mohorovičić
1936
Croatian seismologist and geophysicist
Eduard Bernstein
1932
German politician and theorist (1850–1932)
Hamo Thornycroft
1925
English sculptor (1850–1925)
Sir Carl Meyer, 1st Baronet
1922
British banker and mining magnate
John Alcock (RAF officer)
1919
British aviator (1892–1919)
1800s
Richard Owen
1892
English biologist and palaeontologist (1804–1892)
Michel Chasles
1880
French mathematician (1793–1880)
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
1869
American composer and pianist (1829–1869)
José Justo Corro
1864
President of Mexico from 1836 to 1837
Bernard Bolzano
1848
Bohemian polymath (1781–1848)
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch
1843
British Army officer and politician (1748–1843)
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
1829
French naturalist (1744–1829)
Johann Gottfried Herder
1803
German philosopher, theologian, poet (1744–1803)
Before 1800
Jean-Étienne Montucla
1799
French mathematician and historian (1725–1799)
Soame Jenyns
1787
English writer (1704–1787)
Antonio Stradivari
1737
Italian luthier (1644–1737)
Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff
1692
German statesman and scholar
William Brabazon, 1st Earl of Meath
1651
Anglo-Irish peer
Nur Jahan
1645
Padshah Begum of the Mughal Empire
Anna of Saxony
1577
German noblewoman (1544–1577)
Alfonso II of Naples
1495
King of Naples from 1494 to 1495
Pierre Cauchon
1442
15th-century Catholic bishop of Beauvais, France
Magnus Ladulås
1290
King of Sweden from 1275 to 1290
Hildebert
1133
Name list
Edith of Wessex
1075
Queen of England from 1045 to 1066
Yaonian Yanmujin
933
10th-century empress dowager of the Liao dynasty
Lady Wu (Qian Liu's wife)
919