Deaths on 29 December
2000s
Aaron Brown (journalist)
2024
American journalist (1948–2024)
Jimmy Carter
2024
President of the United States from 1977 to 1981
Linda Lavin
2024
American actress and singer (1937–2024)
Tomiko Itooka
2024
Japanese supercentenarian (1908–2024)
Gil de Ferran
2023
Brazilian racecar driver and team owner (1967–2023)
Pelé
2022
Brazilian footballer (1940–2022)
Edgar Savisaar
2022
Estonian politician (1950–2022)
Vivienne Westwood
2022
British fashion designer (1941–2022)
Peter Klatzow
2021
South African composer (1945–2021)
Pierre Cardin
2020
Italian-French fashion designer (1922–2020)
Joe Louis Clark
2020
American educator (1938–2020)
Alexi Laiho
2020
Finnish musician (1979–2020)
Alasdair Gray
2019
Scottish writer and artist (1934–2019)
Neil Innes
2019
English writer, comedian, and musician (1944–2019)
Brian Garfield
2018
American writer (1939–2018)
Rosenda Monteros
2018
Mexican actress (1935–2018)
Peggy Cummins
2017
British actress (1925–2017)
John C. Portman Jr.
2017
American architect (1924–2017)
Keion Carpenter
2016
American football player (1977–2016)
LaVell Edwards
2016
American football player and coach (1930–2016)
Om Prakash Malhotra
2015
Indian Army general (1922–2015)
Pavel Srníček
2015
Czech footballer (1968–2015)
Kim Yang-gon
2015
North Korean politician (1942–2015)
Syed Hamid
2014
Indian educationist and diplomat (1920–2014)
Hari Harilela
2014
Businessman, hotelier and philanthropist
Odd Iversen
2014
Norwegian footballer (1945–2014)
Johnny Remulla
2014
Filipino politician (1933–2014)
C. T. Hsia
2013
Chinese literary critic (1921–2013)
Paul Comstive
2013
English footballer (1961–2013)
Benjamin Curtis (musician)
2013
American guitarist
Connie Dierking
2013
American basketball player
Wojciech Kilar
2013
Polish composer (1932–2013)
Besik Kudukhov
2013
Russian freestyle wrestler
Jagadish Mohanty
2013
Indian writer
Mike O'Connor (journalist)
2013
Mike Auldridge
2012
American bluegrass musician (1938–2012)
Tony Greig
2012
South African born English cricketer (1946–2012)
Roland Griffiths-Marsh
2012
Australian soldier and author
Edward Meneeley
2012
American painter
Ben Overton
2012
American judge
William Rees-Mogg
2012
British journalist (1928–2012)
Salvador Reyes (footballer, born 1936)
2012
Mexican footballer (1936–2012)
Paulo Rocha (film director)
2012
Portuguese film director
Bruce Stark
2012
American cartoonist
Ignacy Tokarczuk
2012
Polish prelate
Constance Bartlett Hieatt
2011
American scholar of medieval cooking, language, and literature
Avi Cohen
2010
Israeli footballer (1956–2010)
Bill Erwin
2010
American actor (1914–2010)
Janina Bauman
2009
Polish journalist and writer
David Levine
2009
American caricaturist (1926–2009)
Steve Williams (wrestler)
2009
American professional and amateur wrestler, football player and author (1960–2009)
Freddie Hubbard
2008
American jazz trumpeter (1938–2008)
Victor H. Krulak
2008
United States Marine Corps general
Phil O'Donnell (footballer)
2007
Scottish footballer (1972–2007)
Phil Dusenberry
2007
Kevin Greening
2007
British radio presenter (1962–2007)
Gerda Boyesen
2005
Norwegian psychologist
Cyril Philips
2005
British historian (1912–2005)
Basil William Robinson
2005
British art scholar and author
Julius Axelrod
2004
American biochemist (1912–2004)
Ken Burkhart
2004
American baseball player (1916–2004)
Peter Davison (poet)
2004
American poet (1928–2004)
Liddy Holloway
2004
New Zealand actress and TV scriptwriter
Earl Hindman
2003
American actor (1942–2003)
Dinsdale Landen
2003
English actor (1932–2003)
Bob Monkhouse
2003
English comedian, writer and actor (1928–2003)
Lloyd Barbee
2002
American politician (1925–2002)
Ralph Clanton
2002
American actor (1914–2002)
Asahina Takashi
2001
Japanese orchestral conductor
Cássia Eller
2001
Brazilian singer (1962–2001)
György Kepes
2001
Hungarian-American artist (1906–2001)
1900s
Leon Radzinowicz
1999
Ralph Siu
1998
Don Taylor (American filmmaker)
1998
American actor and director (1920–1998)
Pennar Davies
1996
Mireille Hartuch
1996
French singer, composer and actress
Peggy Herbison
1996
British politician (1907–1996)
Lita Grey
1995
American actress (1908–1995)
Hans Henkemans
1995
Dutch musician and psychiatrist
Frank Thring
1994
Australian character actor (1926–1994)
Frunzik Mkrtchyan
1993
Soviet Armenian actor
Vivienne Segal
1992
American actress and singer (1897–1992)
Süreyya Ağaoğlu
1989
Turkish-Azerbaijani writer, jurist, and the first female lawyer (1903-1989)
Mike Beuttler
1988
British racing driver (1940–1988)
Ieuan Maddock
1988
Welsh scientist and nuclear researcher
Jun Ishikawa
1987
Japanese author, translator and literary critic
Wilbert E. Moore
1987
Harold Macmillan
1986
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963
Andrei Tarkovsky
1986
Soviet filmmaker (1932–1986)
Indus Arthur
1984
American actress
P. H. Polk
1984
American photographer (1898–1984)
Leo Robin
1984
American songwriter
Philip Handler
1981
American biochemist and nutritionist (1917–1981)
Miroslav Krleža
1981
Croatian writer (1893–1981)
Tim Hardin
1980
American singer-songwriter (1941–1980)
Nadezhda Mandelstam
1980
Russian educator and writer (1899–1980)
Irvin F. Westheimer
1980
American businessman and philanthropist
F. Edward Hébert
1979
American journalist and politician (1901–1979)
Richard Tecwyn Williams
1979
Welsh biochemist (1909–1979)
Ivo Van Damme
1976
Belgian middle-distance runner
Euell Gibbons
1975
American writer, outdoorsman, and health food advocate
Joseph Cornell
1972
American artist and filmmaker (1903–1972)
Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos
1972
Greek Eastern Orthodox missionary
John Marshall Harlan II
1971
US Supreme Court justice from 1955 to 1971
William King Gregory
1970
American zoologist (1876–1970)
Marie Menken
1970
American filmmaker (1909–1970)
Austin Farrer
1968
English Anglican priest and scholar (1904–1968)
Paul Whiteman
1967
American jazz musician and popular bandleader (1890–1967)
Frank Nugent
1965
Screenwriter, film critic
Kōsaku Yamada
1965
Japanese musical artist (1886–1965)
Eden Phillpotts
1960
English author, poet and dramatist (1862–1960)
Robin Milford
1959
English composer (1903–1959)
Doris Humphrey
1958
American dancer and choreographer
Miles Vandahurst Lynk
1956
American physician and author
William Merriam Burton
1954
American chemist
Fletcher Henderson
1952
American jazz pianist and bandleader (1897–1952)
Beryl Rubinstein
1952
American pianist and composer (1898 - 1952)
Tyler Dennett
1949
American historian
Harry Farjeon
1948
British composer (1878–1948)
Mirko Breyer
1946
Camillo Schumann
1946
German composer and organist
Beulah Dark Cloud
1945
American actress
Hasan Israilov
1944
Chechen guerilla leader (1910–1944)
Art Young
1943
American cartoonist and writer (1866–1943)
Louis Eilshemius
1941
American painter
Tullio Levi-Civita
1941
Italian mathematician (1873–1941)
Stephen Birch
1940
American businessman (1873–1950)
Kelly Miller (scholar)
1939
American mathematician (1863–1939)
Madeleine Pelletier
1939
French physician, psychiatrist, feminist, socialist, editor (1874–1939)
Don Marquis
1937
American writer
Alma Tell
1937
American actress (1898–1837)
Willem Siebenhaar
1936
Wilhelm Maybach
1929
German engine designer and industrialist (1846–1929)
Edward Christopher Williams
1929
American novelist
Rainer Maria Rilke
1926
Austrian poet and writer (1875–1926)
Félix Vallotton
1925
Swiss painter and printmaker (1865–1925)
Carl Spitteler
1924
Swiss writer (1845–1924)
Hermann Paul
1921
German philologist (1846–1921)
William Osler
1919
Canadian physician and co-founder of Johns Hopkins Hospital (1849–1919)
Abby Leach
1918
American educator and professor of Greek and Latin
Tom Shevlin
1915
American college football player and businessman (1883–1915)
Rosamund Marriott Watson
1911
English poet and writer (1860–1911)
Samuel Butcher (classicist)
1910
Anglo-Irish writer and scholar (1850–1910)
Reginald Doherty
1910
British tennis player
Charles Yerkes
1905
American financier (1837–1905)
John Henry Leech
1900
English entomologist
1800s
Ilia Solomonovich Abelman
1898
Russian astronomer (1866–1898)
William James Linton
1897
English-American wood-engraver, painter and political reformer (1812–1897)
Jacob ben Moses Bachrach
1896
Christina Rossetti
1894
English poet (1830–1894)
Leopold Kronecker
1891
German mathematician (1823–1891)
Spotted Elk
1890
Native American leader (1826 - 1890)
Octave Feuillet
1890
French novelist and dramatist (1821–1890)
Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann
1887
Estonian linguist and botanist (1805–1887)
Søren Christian Sommerfelt (botanist)
1838
Thomas Robert Malthus
1834
British political economist (1766–1834)
Jacques-Louis David
1825
French painter (1748–1825)
Sarah Baartman
1815
Khoikhoi woman (c. 1789–1815)
Diogo de Carvalho e Sampayo
1807
Portuguese nobleman, diplomat and scientist
Before 1800
Johann Heinrich Rolle
1785
German composer (1716-1785)
Johan Herman Wessel
1785
Danish-Norwegian poet, satirist and playwright
Ernst Johann von Biron
1772
Duke of Courland (r. 1737–1740; 1763–1769)
Joseph Saurin
1737
French mathematician
Brook Taylor
1731
English mathematician
Maria Margaretha Kirch
1720
German astronomer (1670–1720)
Thomas Sydenham
1689
English physician (1624–1689)
Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant
1661
French poet (1594–1661)
John Albert Vasa
1634
Polish Catholic cardinal
Stephen Bocskai
1606
Prince of Transylvania
Sebastian Castellio
1563
French theologian (1515–1563)
Bhuvanaikabahu VII
1550
King of Kotte
Elizabeth of Poland, Queen of Hungary
1380
Queen consort of Hungary
Emperor Zhangzong of Jin
1208
Emperor of Jin from 1189 to 1208
Thomas Becket
1170
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170
Empress Genmei
721
Empress of Japan from 707 to 715