Deaths on 24 December
2000s
Hudson Meek
2024
American actor (2008–2024)
Richard Perry
2024
American record producer (1942–2024)
Cheri Barry
2023
American politician (died 2023)
Richard Bowes
2023
American writer (1944–2023)
Troy Dargan
2023
Cook Islands international rugby league footballer (1997–2023)
Martha Érika Alonso
2018
Mexican politician (1973–2018)
Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas
2018
Mexican politician (1968–2018)
Jerry Kindall
2017
American baseball player (1935–2017)
Heather Menzies
2017
Canadian actress (1949–2017)
Rick Parfitt
2016
British rock musician (1948–2016)
Liz Smith (actress)
2016
English actress (1921–2016)
Richard Adams
2016
English writer (1920–2016)
Ben Xi
2016
Chinese singer
Turid Birkeland
2015
Norwegian politician (1962–2015)
Letty Jimenez Magsanoc
2015
Filipina journalist and editor
Adriana Olguín
2015
Chilean lawyer and politician
Buddy DeFranco
2014
American jazz clarinetist (1923–2014)
Edward Greenspan
2014
Canadian lawyer and author
Herbert Harris
2014
American politician (1926–2014)
Krzysztof Krauze
2014
Polish film director (1953–2014)
Frédéric Back
2013
Canadian animator
Ian Barbour
2013
American academic (1923–2013)
John M. Goldman
2013
British physician (1938–2013)
Allan McKeown
2013
British television and stage producer (1946–2013)
Richard Rodney Bennett
2012
English composer and pianist (1936–2012)
Charles Durning
2012
American actor (1923–2012)
Jack Klugman
2012
American actor (1922–2012)
Dennis O'Driscoll
2012
Irish poet, essayist, critic and editor (1954–2012)
Johannes Heesters
2011
Dutch actor, singer and entertainer (1903–2011)
Elisabeth Beresford
2010
English children's author (1926–2010)
Frans de Munck
2010
Dutch footballer (1922–2010)
Orestes Quércia
2010
Brazilian politician (1938–2010)
Eino Tamberg
2010
Estonian composer (1930–2010)
Marcus Bakker
2009
Dutch politician (1923–2009)
Rafael Caldera
2009
President of Venezuela (1969–1974; 1994–1999)
George Michael (sportscaster)
2009
American broadcaster (1939–2009)
Gero von Wilpert
2009
German writer
Ralph Harris (journalist)
2008
British journalist
Harold Pinter
2008
British playwright (1930–2008)
Nicholas Pumfrey
2007
British barrister and judge (1951–2007)
George Warrington
2007
American businessman
Braguinha (composer)
2006
Brazilian songwriter
Kenneth Sivertsen (musician)
2006
Norwegian musician, composer, poet, and comedian
Frank Stanton (executive)
2006
American broadcasting executive (1908–2006)
Johnny Oates
2004
American baseball player, coach and manager (1946–2004)
Kjell Aukrust
2002
Norwegian writer and illustrator
Jake Thackray
2002
English singer-songwriter, poet and journalist
John Cooper (car maker)
2000
British auto racer and company founder (1923–2000)
1900s
Bill Bowerman
1999
American track and field coach and Nike co-founder (1911–1999)
Maurice Couve de Murville
1999
Prime Minister of France from 1968 to 1969
João Figueiredo
1999
President of Brazil from 1979 to 1985
William C. Schneider
1999
American aerospace engineer
Syl Apps
1998
Canadian ice hockey player and politician (1915–1998)
James Komack
1997
American television producer, director, screenwriter, and actor (1924–1997)
Toshiro Mifune
1997
Japanese actor (1920–1997)
Pierre Péladeau
1997
Canadian businessman (1925–1997)
John Boswell
1994
American historian (1947–1994)
Rossano Brazzi
1994
Italian actor and director (1916–1994)
Norman Vincent Peale
1993
American minister, author, and positive thinking proponent
Bobby LaKind
1992
American drummer
James Mathews (rugby league)
1992
Australian rugby league footballer
Peyo
1992
Belgian comics cartoonist and scriptwriter (1928–1992)
Virginia Sorensen
1991
American novelist
Thorbjørn Egner
1990
Norwegian artist and writer (1912–1990)
Jainendra Kumar
1988
Indian writer
Joop den Uyl
1987
Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1973 to 1977
M. G. Ramachandran
1987
Indian actor and former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (1917–1987)
Gardner Fox
1986
American comics writer (1911–1986)
Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith
1985
Descendant of Abraham Lincoln (1904–1985)
Tarzan Tyler
1985
Canadian professional wrestler and manager (1927–1985)
Peter Lawford
1984
British actor (1923–1984)
Louis Aragon
1982
French poet (1897–1982)
Karl Dönitz
1980
German grand admiral (1891–1980)
Samael Aun Weor
1977
Colombian gnostic writer
Bernard Herrmann
1975
American composer (1911–1975)
Fritz Gause
1973
German historian, archivist, and curator
Gisela Richter
1972
British-American art historian and archaeologist (1882–1972)
Maria Koepcke
1971
20th-century German and Peruvian ornithologist
Stanisław Błeszyński
1969
Polish entomologist (1927–1969)
Cortelia Clark
1969
American blues singer and guitarist
Olivia FitzRoy
1969
British author of children's books
Alfred B. Skar
1969
Norwegian newspaper editor, writer, trade unionist and politician
Burt Baskin
1967
American businessman (1913–1967)
John Black (businessman)
1965
William M. Branham
1965
American Christian minister (1909–1965)
Claudia Jones
1964
Trinidad-born journalist and activist (1915–1964)
Wilhelm Ackermann
1962
German mathematician (1896–1962)
Eveline Adelheid von Maydell
1962
German artist
Robert Hillyer
1961
American poet (1895–1961)
Norma Talmadge
1957
American actress (1894–1957)
Charles Gondouin
1947
French rugby union player (1875–1947)
Josephine Sabel
1945
American singer and comedian (1866–1945)
François Darlan
1942
French admiral (1881–1942)
Siegfried Alkan
1941
German composer (1858–1941)
Bruno Taut
1938
German architect, urban planner and author (1880-1938)
Alban Berg
1935
Austrian composer (1885–1935)
Carlo Fornasini
1931
Italian scientist and politician
Flying Hawk
1931
Oglala Lakota warrior, historian, educator & philosopher (1854–1931)
Wesley Coe
1926
American shot putter
Dinny Lacey
1923
Irish Revolutionary (1889–1923)
Stephen Mosher Wood
1920
American politician
John Muir
1914
Scottish-American naturalist (1838–1914)
James Corrigan (businessman)
1908
American mining, shipping, and steel executive
1800s
Charbel Makhlouf
1898
19th-century Lebanese Maronite monk and saint (1828–1898)
B. T. Finniss
1893
Australian politician (1807–1893)
Jan Jakob Lodewijk ten Kate
1889
Dutch divine, prose writer and poet (1819–1889)
Anna Bochkoltz-Falconi
1879
German operatic soprano, voice teacher and composer (1815–1879)
Johns Hopkins
1873
American businessman and philanthropist (1795–1873)
W. J. M. Rankine
1872
Scottish mechanical engineer (1820–1872)
Adolphe d'Archiac
1868
French geologist and paleontologist
José Mariano Salas
1867
President of Mexico in 1846, in 1859
Charles Lock Eastlake
1865
British painter (1793–1865)
William Makepeace Thackeray
1863
English novelist and illustrator (1811–1863)
Friedrich Bernhard Westphal
1844
German painter (1803–1844)
Empress Go-Sakuramachi
1813
Empress of Japan from 1762 to 1771
Before 1800
Noël Coypel
1707
French painter (1628–1707)
Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange
1660
British princess (1631–1660)
Hester Jonas
1635
German midwife and cunning woman (c. 1570 – 1635)
Andreas Karlstadt
1541
German theologian (1486–1541)
Vasco da Gama
1524
Portuguese explorer (c. 1460s – 1524)
John Cantius
1473
Polish priest, scholastic philosopher, physicist and theologian
Đurađ Branković
1456
Despot of Serbia from 1427 to 1456
John Dunstaple
1453
English composer (c. 1390–1453)
Walter Bower
1449
15th-century Scottish canon and chronicler
Henry V, Count of Luxembourg
1281
Count of Luxembourg (1216–1281)
Hōjō Tokiyori
1263
Shikken of the Kamakura shogunate (1227–1263)
John I, Count of Hainaut
1257
Count of Hainaut from 1246 to 1257
Roger III of Sicily
1193
King of Sicily, 1192–1193
Shi Hongzhao
950
Wang Zhang
950
Later Han official
Yang Bin
950
Prince of Hongnong chancellor of the Later Han
Hedwig of Babenberg
903
Duchess consort of Saxony
Sisinnius I of Constantinople
427
Archbishop of Constantinople from 426 to 427
AD 36
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