Deaths on 19 December
2000s
Michael Leunig
2024
Australian cartoonist (1945–2024)
Wincey Willis
2024
British broadcaster (1948–2024)
Sally Ann Howes
2021
British actress and singer (1930–2021)
Johnny Isakson
2021
American politician (1944–2021)
Rosalind Knight
2020
English actress (1933–2020)
Andrei Karlov
2016
Russian diplomat (1954–2016)
Jimmy Hill
2015
English association football personality (1928–2015)
Greville Janner
2015
British politician and barrister (1928–2015)
Karin Söder
2015
Swedish politician (1928–2015)
S. S. Balan
2014
Indian journalist, filmmaker, and analyst (1935–2014)
Philip Bradbourn
2014
British politician (1951–2014)
Arthur Gardner (producer)
2014
American actor and film producer
Igor Rodionov
2014
Soviet and Russian general and politician
Dick Thornton (Canadian football)
2014
American football player
Roberta Leigh
2014
British novelist and television writer (1926–2014)
Winton Dean
2013
English musicologist
Al Goldstein
2013
American pornographer (1936–2013)
Ned Vizzini
2013
American writer
Robert Bork
2012
American lawyer and judge (1927–2012)
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak
2012
Israeli chief of staff, politician (1944–2012)
Larry Morris
2012
American football player (1933–2012)
Peter Struck (politician)
2012
German politician
Anthony Howard (journalist)
2010
British journalist, broadcaster and writer
Kim Peek
2009
American savant (1951–2009)
James Bevel
2008
1960s civil rights movement strategist (1936–2008)
Carol Chomsky
2008
American linguist and education specialist (1930–2008)
Michael Connell
2008
American political consultant
Dock Ellis
2008
American baseball player (1945–2008)
Vincent Gigante
2005
American boxer and mobster (1928–2005)
Herbert C. Brown
2004
American chemist (1912–2004)
Renata Tebaldi
2004
Italian opera singer (1922–2004)
Peter Carter-Ruck
2003
English solicitor (1914–2003)
Hope Lange
2003
American actress (1933–2003)
Will Hoy
2002
British racing driver (1952–2002)
Arthur Rowley
2002
English football player and cricketer
George Weller
2002
American novelist, playwright, and journalist (1907–2002)
Rob Buck
2000
American musician (1958–2000)
Milt Hinton
2000
American double bassist and photographer (1910–2000)
John Lindsay
2000
American politician (1921–2000)
1900s
Desmond Llewelyn
1999
Welsh actor (1914–1999)
Mel Fisher
1998
American treasure hunter
Sara Northrup Hollister
1997
American occultist (1924–1997)
Masaru Ibuka
1997
Japanese businessman (1908–1997)
Jimmy Rogers
1997
American Chicago blues musician (1924–1997)
Marcello Mastroianni
1996
Italian actor (1924–1996)
Michael Clarke (musician)
1993
American rock drummer (1946–1993)
Stella Gibbons
1989
20th-century British writer
Kirill Mazurov
1989
Soviet Belarusian resistance leader and politician (1914–1989)
Robert Bernstein (comics)
1988
American writer (1919–1988)
Win Maw Oo
1988
Martyred student
August Mälk
1987
Estonian writer and politician
V. C. Andrews
1986
American novelist (1923–1986)
Werner Dankwort
1986
German diplomat (1895–1986)
Joy Ridderhof
1984
American Missionary to the Unreached
Dwight Macdonald
1982
American writer (1906–1982)
Giuseppe Caselli
1976
Italian painter (1893–1976)
Ahmet Emin Yalman
1972
Turkish journalist, author and professor (1888–1972)
Norman Thomas
1968
American Presbyterian minister and socialist politician (1884–1968)
Robert Millikan
1953
American experimental physicist (1868–1953)
Paul Langevin
1946
French physicist (1872–1946)
Abbas II of Egypt
1944
Khedive of Egypt and Sudan from 1892 to 1914
Rudolph Karstadt
1944
German entrepreneur
Kyösti Kallio
1940
Finnish politician (1873–1940)
Stephen Warfield Gambrill
1938
American politician
George Jackson Churchward
1933
English railway engineer (1857–1933)
Yun Bong-gil
1932
Korean independence activist (1908–1932)
Ashfaqulla Khan
1927
Indian revolutionary (1900–1927)
Ram Prasad Bismil
1927
Indian revolutionary, poet & writer (1897–1927)
Thibaw Min
1916
King of Burma from 1878 to 1885
Alois Alzheimer
1915
German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (1864–1915)
1800s
Henry Ware Lawton
1899
United States Army general (1843–1899)
Bayard Taylor
1878
American poet, novelist and travel writer (1825–1878)
J. M. W. Turner
1851
English painter (1775–1851)
Emily Brontë
1848
English writer and novelist (1818–1848)
Thomas Fremantle (Royal Navy officer)
1819
Royal Navy officer (1765–1819)
James McGill
1813
Scottish-born businessman, politician and philanthropist (1744–1813)
Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm
1807
German journalist, art critic, and diplomat (1723–1807)
Before 1800
Francesco Antonio Bonporti
1749
Italian composer (1672–1749)
Jean-Baptiste van Loo
1745
French painter (1684–1745)
Vitus Bering
1741
Danish-born Russian explorer (1681–1741)
Christina of Lorraine
1637
Grand Duchess of Tuscany from 1589 to 1609
Cornelius Grapheus
1558
Elizabeth of Luxembourg
1442
Queen of Germany from 1438 to 1439
Bernabò Visconti
1385
Medieval Italian statesman (1323–1385)
Pope Urban V
1370
Head of the Catholic Church from 1362 to 1370
Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy
1327
Duchess consort of Burgundy
Saint Berardo
1123
Al-Ghazali
1111
Sunni Muslim polymath (c. 1058–1111)
Adelaide of Susa
1091
Marchioness of Turin from 1034 to 1091
Sancho I of León
966
King of León (956–958, 960–966)
Pope Anastasius I
401
Head of the Catholic Church from 399 to 401