Deaths on 26 December
2000s
Pate Mustajärvi
2025
Finnish rock singer (1956–2025)
Richard Parsons (businessman)
2024
American business executive (1948–2024)
Manmohan Singh
2024
Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014
Lukas Enembe
2023
Indonesian politician (1967–2023)
Tom Smothers
2023
American comedian, actor, composer and musician (1937–2023)
Giacomo Capuzzi
2021
Catholic bishop (1929–2021)
Paul B. Kidd
2021
Australian author, journalist, and radio show host (1945–2021)
Karolos Papoulias
2021
President of Greece from 2005 to 2015
Desmond Tutu
2021
South African bishop and anti-apartheid activist (1931–2021)
Nell Hall Williams
2021
American textile artist (1933–2021)
E. O. Wilson
2021
American biologist, naturalist, and writer (1929–2021)
Brodie Lee
2020
American professional wrestler (1979–2020)
Irv Weinstein
2017
Buffalo television news journalist
Ricky Harris
2016
American actor (1962–2016)
George S. Irving
2016
American actor (1922–2016)
Sidney Mintz
2015
American anthropologist
Jim O'Toole
2015
American baseball player (1937–2015)
Stanisław Barańczak
2014
Polish poet, literary critic, scholar, editor, translator and lecturer (1946 – 2014)
James B. Edwards
2014
American politician (1927–2014)
Leo Tindemans
2014
Belgian politician (1922–2014)
Paul Blair (baseball)
2013
American baseball player and coach (1944–2013)
Marta Eggerth
2013
Hungary-born American actress and singer (1912–2013)
Gerry Anderson
2012
English producer and director (1929–2012)
Gerald McDermott
2012
American film director, children's writer and illustrator
Ibrahim Tannous
2012
Former commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces
Houston Antwine
2011
American football player (1939–2011)
Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
2011
Mexican film actor (1940–2011)
Sarekoppa Bangarappa
2011
Indian politician (1933–2011)
Joe Bodolai
2011
American producer
James Rizzi
2011
American painter
Salvador Jorge Blanco
2010
President of the Dominican Republic from 1982 to 1986
Edward Bhengu
2010
South African activist (1934–2010)
Teena Marie
2010
American soul and R&B singer (1956–2010)
Felix Wurman
2009
American cellist and composer
Gerald Ford
2006
President of the United States from 1974 to 1977
Ivar Formo
2006
Norwegian orienteer (1951–2006)
Munir Niazi
2006
Pakistani poet (1923–2006)
Muriel Costa-Greenspon
2005
American mezzo-soprano
Ted Ditchburn
2005
English footballer (1921–2005)
Kerry Packer
2005
Australian publishing, media and gaming tycoon (1937–2005)
Viacheslav Platonov
2005
Russian volleyball player and coach
Vincent Schiavelli
2005
American actor (1948–2005)
Erich Topp
2005
German WW2 U-Boat commander (1914–2005)
Jonathan Drummond-Webb
2004
South African surgeon
Angus Ogilvy
2004
British businessman (1928–2004)
Reggie White
2004
American football player (1961–2004)
Virginia Coffey
2003
American social reformer and activist (1904–2003)
Herb Ritts
2002
American photographer
Armand Zildjian
2002
American musical instrument maker (1921–2002)
Nigel Hawthorne
2001
English actor (1929–2001)
Jason Robards
2000
American actor (1922–2000)
1900s
Curtis Mayfield
1999
American singer-songwriter (1942–1999)
Shankar Dayal Sharma
1999
President of India from 1992 to 1997
Ram Swarup
1998
Indian historian (1920–1998)
Cahit Arf
1997
Turkish mathematician (1910–1997)
Cornelius Castoriadis
1997
Greek-French philosopher (1922–1997)
Sylva Koscina
1994
Italian actress and model (1933–1994)
Gene Callahan
1990
American art director (1923–1990)
Doug Harvey (ice hockey)
1989
Canadian ice hockey player and coach
Glenn McCarthy
1988
American oil tycoon (1907–1988)
Pablo Sorozábal
1988
Spanish composer
Dorothy Bliss
1987
Invertebrate zoologist (1916–1987)
Elsa Lanchester
1986
British-American actress (1902–1986)
Hans Liska
1983
German painter
Amber Reeves
1981
British novelist and teacher
Suat Hayri Ürgüplü
1981
11th Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey from February 1965 to October 1965
Savitri (actress)
1981
Indian actress and filmmaker (1934–1981)
Tony Smith (sculptor)
1980
American artist (1912–1980)
Richard Chase
1980
American serial killer and cannibal (1950–1980)
Howard Hawks
1977
American film director (1896–1977)
Farid al-Atrash
1974
Syrian-Egyptian singer, composer and musician (1910–1974)
Jack Benny
1974
American comedic entertainer (1894–1974)
Frederick Dalrymple-Hamilton
1974
Royal Navy Admiral (1890–1974)
Harold B. Lee
1973
11th president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Harry S. Truman
1972
President of the United States from 1945 to 1953
Lillian Board
1970
British runner (1948–1970)
Weegee
1968
American photographer and photojournalist (1899–1968)
Ina Boudier-Bakker
1966
Dutch writer
Herbert Gille
1966
German Waffen-SS commander, SS-Obergruppenführer (1897–1966)
Guillermo Stábile
1966
Argentine footballer (1905–1966)
Gorgeous George
1963
American professional wrestler (1915–1963)
Tetsurō Watsuji
1960
Japanese historian and philosopher (1889–1960)
Jack Tresadern
1959
English footballer (1890–1959)
Mary Ann Bevan
1933
Side show performer, nurse
Anatoly Lunacharsky
1933
Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman and writer (1875–1933)
H. W. Fowler
1933
British usage writer and lexicographer (1858–1933)
Melvil Dewey
1931
Inventor of the Dewey Decimal system
Albert Giraud
1929
Belgian poet
Jan Letzel
1925
Czech architect
Dietrich Eckart
1923
19/20th-century German poet, playwright, journalist, and far-right political activist
Frederic Remington
1909
American painter and sculptor (1861–1909)
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
1902
American writer
1800s
Heinrich Schliemann
1890
German businessman and archaeologist (1822–1890)
Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille
1869
French physicist and physiologist (1797–1869)
Francis Caulfeild, 2nd Earl of Charlemont
1863
Irish peer and politician
Before 1800
Gasparo Gozzi
1786
Italian literary critic (1713–1786)
Seth Warner
1784
18th-century Continental Army officer
John Fothergill (physician)
1780
English physician and plant collector
Claude Adrien Helvétius
1771
French philosopher (1715–1771)
Antoine Houdar de la Motte
1731
French author (1672–1731)
Henri II, Prince of Condé
1646
Prince of Condé (1588–1646)
Charles, Cardinal of Lorraine
1574
French cardinal (1524–1574)
Babur
1530
Mughal emperor from 1526 to 1530
Galeazzo Maria Sforza
1476
Fifth Duke of Milan (1444–1476)
Arthur III, Duke of Brittany
1458
Duke of Brittany from 1457 to 1458
Niccolò III d'Este
1441
Marquis of Ferrara (1383–1441)
Michele Steno
1413
Doge of Venice from 1400 to 1413
Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent
1360
English nobleman and military commander
John, 3rd Earl of Kent
1352
English nobleman (1330–1352)
Jean de Marigny
1350
French Bishop (d. 1350)
Philip II, Latin Emperor
1331
Titular Latin Emperor from 1313 to 1331
Valdemar, King of Sweden
1302
King of Sweden from 1250 to 1275
Reginald Fitz Jocelin
1191
English bishop, Archbishop of Canterbury-elect (died in 1191)
Gao Qiong
1006
Masrur al-Balkhi
893
9th-century Abbasid general
Empress Dowager Zheng
865
Tang Chinese empress dowager
Euthymius of Sardis
831
Pope Zosimus
418
Head of the Catholic Church from 417 to 418
Pope Dionysius
268
Head of the Catholic Church from 259 to 268