Deaths on 30 December
2000s
Khaleda Zia
2025
Prime Minister of Bangladesh (1991–1996; 2001–2006)
Bryan Ansell
2023
British role-playing/wargame designer (1955–2023)
Tom Wilkinson
2023
English actor (1948–2023)
Aki Yashiro
2023
Musical artist
Barbara Walters
2022
American journalist (1929–2022)
Dawn Wells
2020
American actress (1938–2020)
Erica Garner
2017
American activist (1990–2017)
Doug Atkins
2015
American football player (1930–2015)
Howard Davis Jr.
2015
American boxer
Mangesh Padgaonkar
2015
Indian poet
Howard Pawley
2015
Premier of Manitoba from 1981 to 1988
Terry Becker
2014
American actor, director, and producer (1921–2014)
Jim Galloway
2014
Scottish jazz clarinet and saxophone player
Luise Rainer
2014
German-born actress (1910–2014)
Kinnaird R. McKee
2013
United States admiral
José María Maguregui
2013
Spanish footballer and coach
Eiichi Ohtaki
2013
Japanese musician, singer-songwriter, and record producer (1948–2013)
Johnny Orr (basketball, born 1927)
2013
American basketball player and coach (1927–2013)
Paul Sally
2013
American mathematician
Philip Coppens (author)
2012
Belgian writer
Beate Sirota Gordon
2012
Austrian and American activist (1923–2012)
Rita Levi-Montalcini
2012
Italian neurologist (1909–2012)
Carl Woese
2012
American microbiologist (1928–2012)
Dennis Ferguson
2012
Australian sex offender
Ronald Searle
2011
English artist and cartoonist (1920–2011)
Bobby Farrell
2010
Aruban dancer and singer (1949–2010)
Rowland S. Howard
2009
Australian musician and songwriter (1959–2009)
Abdurrahman Wahid
2009
President of Indonesia from 1999 to 2001
Saddam Hussein
2006
President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003
Terry Peck
2006
Falkland Islands soldier and police officer (1938–2006)
Michel Plasse
2006
Canadian ice hockey player (1948–2006)
Eddie Barlow
2005
South African cricketer (1940–2005)
Rona Jaffe
2005
American novelist (1931–2005)
Artie Shaw
2004
American clarinetist and bandleader (1910–2004)
John Gregory Dunne
2003
American writer (1932–2003)
Mary Brian
2002
American actress (1906–2002)
Eleanor J. Gibson
2002
American psychologist and academic (1910–2002)
Mary Wesley
2002
English writer (1912–2002)
Julius J. Epstein
2000
American screenwriter (1909���2000)
1900s
Joff Ellen
1999
Australian entertainer, actor and comedian
Fritz Leonhardt
1999
German engineer (1909–1999)
Des Renford
1999
Australian swimmer
Sarah Knauss
1999
American supercentenarian (1880–1999)
Sam Muchnick
1998
American professional wrestling promoter (1905-1998)
Shinichi Hoshi
1997
Japanese artist and writer (1926–1997)
Lew Ayres
1996
American actor (1908–1996)
Ralph Flanagan
1995
American bandleader and composer (1914–1995)
Doris Grau
1995
American actress (1924-1995)
Dmitri Ivanenko
1994
Ukrainian physicist (1904–1994)
İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil
1993
Turkish politician (1908–1993)
Irving Paul Lazar
1993
American lawyer (1907–1993)
Giuseppe Occhialini
1993
Italian experimental physicist (1907–1993
Romeo Muller
1992
American dramatist (1928–92)
Raghuvir Sahay
1990
Indian writer (1929–1990)
Yuli Daniel
1988
Soviet Russian writer, translator and dissident
Isamu Noguchi
1988
American artist and landscape architect (1904–1988)
Era Bell Thompson
1986
American journalist
Violette Cordery
1983
British racing driver
Alberto Vargas
1982
Peruvian-American painter (1896–1982)
Richard Rodgers
1979
American composer (1902–1979)
Jo Cals
1971
Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1965 to 1966
Vikram Sarabhai
1971
Indian physicist and astronomer
Sonny Liston
1970
American boxer (c. 1930–1970)
Trygve Lie
1968
UN Secretary-General from 1946 to 1952
Vincent Massey
1967
Governor General of Canada from 1952 to 1959
Rex Ingamells
1955
Australian poet
Archduke Eugen of Austria
1954
Archduke of Austria and a Prince of Hungary and Bohemia
Han van Meegeren
1947
Dutch painter and art forger (1889–1947)
Alfred North Whitehead
1947
English mathematician and philosopher (1861–1947)
Song Jin-woo (journalist)
1945
Korean independence activist (1899–1945)
Romain Rolland
1944
French author (1866–1944)
El Lissitzky
1941
Soviet Avantgarde artist (1890–1941)
C. Harold Wills
1940
American engineer and businessman (1878–1940)
Hans Niels Andersen
1937
Danish shipping magnate, businessman and diplomat
Jean Collas
1928
French rugby union player
Grigori Rasputin
1916
Russian mystic (1869–1916)
Thomas-Alfred Bernier
1908
Canadian politician
Josephine Butler
1906
English feminist and social reformer (1828–1906)
1800s
José Rizal
1896
Filipino nationalist, writer and polymath (1861–1896)
Martha Darley Mutrie
1885
British painter (1824–1885)
Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo
1879
Brazilian poet, playwright and painter (1806–1879)
Francis Lewis
1803
Founding Father (1713–1802)
Before 1800
Francesco Zuccarelli
1788
Italian painter (1702–1788)
Maximilian III Joseph
1777
Elector of Bavaria from 1745 to 1777
Nicholas, Count of Taaffe
1769
Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria
1662
Archduke of Further Austria
Jan Baptist van Helmont
1644
Chemist and physician (1580–1644)
Giovanni Baglione
1643
Italian painter and art historian (1566–1643)
John Francis Regis
1640
French Jesuit priest and Roman Catholic saint
Job of Manyava
1621
Ukrainian Orthodox saint (1550–1621)
Heinrich Bünting
1606
German pastor and cartographer (1545–1606)
Pope Innocent IX
1591
Head of the Catholic Church in 1591
Giovanni Battista Giraldi
1573
Italian novelist and poet
Galeazzo Alessi
1572
Italian architect
Jakob Fugger
1525
German merchant, mining entrepreneur and banker (1459–1525)
Edmund, Earl of Rutland
1460
English nobleman
Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York
1460
English nobleman (1411–1460)
Louis III, Elector Palatine
1436
Elector Palatine from 1410 to 1436
Bonne of Berry
1435
Countess of Savoy
Bernard Gui
1331
French Roman Catholic bishop (1260s–1331)
Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine
1115
Duke of Lorraine
Wang Shenzhi
925
Prince of Min from 909 to 925
Tian Jun
903
Chinese military general, politician and warlord
Egwin of Evesham
717
8th-century Benedictine bishop and saint
Pope Felix I
274
Head of the Catholic Church from 269 to 274