1907 – Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (public baths), dies at 58
1984 – Judith Raskin, American soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro), dies at 56
1995 – Robert Francis Vere Heuston, professor of law, dies at 72
1996 – Olga Maria Nicolis di Robilant, patron of the arts, dies at 96
1997 – Bruce Woodcock, English boxer, European Heavyweight Champion, dies at 76
1998 – Ernst Gunther Schenck, German doctor who joined the Sturmabteilung in 1933 {b. 1904)
1999 – John Arnatt, British actor (A Challenge for Robin Hood, Circumstantial Evidence), dies at 82
2004 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist, dies at 79
2012 – Lee Dorman, American rock bassist (Iron Butterfly; Captain Beyond), dies at 70
2014 – Sonia d’Artois, British Canadian WWII resistance agent, dies at 90
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 20th December 2021
1073 – Domingo, Spanish monastery founder/abbot/saint, dies
1768 – Carlo Innocenzo Fragoni, Italian poet, dies at 76
1876 – Hannah Omish, at 12 is youngest ever hanged in US
1937 – Erich Ludendorff, German general during World War I, dies of liver cancer at 72
1954 – James Hilton, English author (Lost Horizon), dies at 54
1989 – Audrey Christie, American actress (Splendor in the Grass, Fair Exchange), dies at 77
1996 – Carl Sagan, American scientist, astronomer, author, (Contact), dies at 62
1997 – Denise Levertov, American poet and essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin), dies at 74
2009 – Arnold Stang, American comedian and actor (Broadside, Milton Berle, Top Cat), dies at 91
2019 – Yuri Pshenichnikov, Soviet soccer goalkeeper and coach (19 caps; FC Pakhtakor Tashkent, CSKA Moscow), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 19th December 2021
1810 – Johann Heinrich Egli, composer, dies at 68
1991 – Paul Maxwell, Canadian actor (Aliens, City of Fear, Freedom to Die), dies at 70
1996 – Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (8½, La Dolce Vita; Dark Eyes, The Pizza Triangle), dies of pancreatic cancer at 72
2000 – Roebuck “Pops” Staples, American gospel singer (The Staple Singers), dies at 85
2010 – Anthony Howard, English Journalist (b. 1934)
2012 – Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military leader, dies from cancer at 68
2015 – Douglas Dick, American actor and psychologist (Rope, Waterfront), dies at 95
2017 – Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, American professional baseball player at 1st female pitcher to play in the Negro Leagues, dies from heart complications at 82
2019 – Shahdon Winchester, Trinidadian soccer winger (27 caps; Murciélagos), dies in a traffic collision at 27
2020 – Rosalind Knight, British stage and screen actress (Friday Night Dinner – “Horrible Grandma”), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 18th December 2021
1133 – Hildebert, French writer and bishop
1831 – Willem Bilderdijk, Dutch poet and literature (My Relief), dies at 75
1869 – Louis Moreau Gottschalk, American pianist and composer, dies at 40
1915 – Louise Blanchard Bethune, 1st American female professional architect (Buffalo Meter Company Building), dies at 59
1936 – Andrija Mohorovičić, Austro-Hungarian-born Yugoslav seismologist (b. 1857)
1968 – Sir John Layton Jarvis, English thoroughbred race horse trainer (9 x British Classic Races; 3 x British flat racing Champion Trainer), dies at 80
1982 – Bernard Malivoire, French cox pair (Olympic gold 1952), dies at 44
1991 – June Storey, Canadian-born American actress (South of the Border), dies of cancer at 73
1994 – Peter Hebblethwaite, English editor-in-chief (The Month), dies at 64
1998 – Lev Demin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
Famous Deaths for 17th December 2021
1830 – Simón Bolívar, South American revolutionary and president (Colombia), dies at 47 in Santa Marta, Colombia
1892 – George Brayton, American engineer who developed the Brayton Cycle combustion engine, dies at 62
1925 – A N “Monkey” Hornby, cricketer (England capt at Oval 1882), dies
1927 – Hubert Harrison, West Indian-American writer and freedom fighter, dies at 44
1944 – Pieter A. Roodenburgh, student and resistance fighter, dies at 26
1973 – Charles Greeley Abbot, American astronomer (Solar Constant), dies at 101
1975 – Frank Sully, American actor (Along Came Jones, Phantom Thief, Inside the Law), dies at 67
1994 – Jan Wiegel, director and producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64
2018 – Galt MacDermot, Canadian musician and composer (Hair), dies at 89
2019 – Karin Balzer, German athlete (Olympic gold 80m hurdles 1964; bronze 100m hurdles 1972), dies at 81
Famous Deaths for 16th December 2021
999 – Saint Adelaide, Holy Roman Empress, wife of Emperor Otto I and regent to Otto II, dies at about 68
1783 – Johann Adolf Hasse, Dutch operatic composer (Sesostrate), dies at 84
1897 – Alphonse Daudet, French writer (Tartarin sur les Alpes), dies at 57
1956 – Nina Hamnett, Welsh artist and writer, dies at 66
1960 – Anna Luther, silent screen actress (Sinners in Silk), dies at 63
1982 – Colin Chapman, English engineer and automobile manufacturer, founder of Lotus Cars, dies at 54
1990 – Douglas Campbell, American aviator and World War I flying ace, dies at 94
2005 – John Spencer, American actor (b. 1946)
2010 – Mary Jane Odell, American politician and journalist, Iowa Secretary of State, dies at 87
2015 – Aafje Heynis, Dutch singer (contralto), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 15th December 2021
1822 – Ferenc Verseghy, Hungarian poet and composer, dies at 65
1831 – Paulus Roelof Cantz’laar, Dutch naval officer and colonial governor, dies at 60
1880 – Carlo Boncompagni di Mombello, Italian minister of Justice, dies at 76
1896 – John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologian and church historian, dies at 67
1939 – Tom McKibbin, Australian cricketer (5 Tests for Aust 1895-1898, 17 wkts), dies at 69
1971 – Paul Pierre Lévy, French mathematician (b. 1886)
1978 – Chill Wills, American actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), dies at 75
2010 – Eugene Victor Wolfenstein, American political scientist (b. 1940)
2013 – Harold Camping, American evangelist and founder of Family Radio, dies at 92
2014 – Ray Steadman-Allen, British choral and brass band composer, dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 14th December 2021
1788 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74
1906 – Jean Abraham Chrétien Oudemans, Dutch geographer and astronomer, dies at 78
1965 – Hermann Sandby, Danish cellist and composer, dies at 84
1979 – Nirode Ranjan Chowdhury, Indian cricketer (2 Tests for India, avg 205), dies at 56
1989 – Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist and dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68
1989 – Jock Mahoney [Jacques Joseph O’Mahoney], American actor and stuntman (Dallas, Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury), dies of a stroke at 70
1991 – Robert Eddison, British actor (Uncle Silas), dies at 83
1997 – Kurt Winter, Canadian musician (The Guess Who), dies of kidney failure at 51
2016 – Karel Husa, Czech-American Pulitzer prize winning composer (Trojan Women), dies at 95
2020 – Eric Freeman, Australian cricket fast bowler (11 Tests, 34 wickets, 2 x 50s; South Australia), dies from a heart attack at 76
Famous Deaths for 13th December 2021
1404 – Albert I, Duke of Bavaria and third son of Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor, dies at 74
1862 – Conrad Feger Jackson, US Union brigadier general, dies in Battle of Fredericksburg at 49
1908 – Augustus Le Plongeon, French-American photographer and antiquitarian, dies at 83
1911 – Reggie Duff, Australian cricket batsman (23 Tests; 104 on debut), dies of alcoholism at 33
1980 – Harm van Riel, Dutch Liberal Party politician, dies at 73
1981 – Pigmeat [Dewey] Markham, American comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In), dies at 75
1992 – Bernard Drukker, Dutch pianist/orchestra leader (duivelswiel), dies
1993 – Charles JB Jonckheere, Flemish poet/writer: Ogentroost, dies at 87
2010 – Stuart “Woolly” Wolstenholme, British keyboardist and vocalist (Barclay James Harvest), commits suicide at 63
2019 – Richard G Hatcher, American attorney and politician (Mayor of Gary, Indiana, 1968-88), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 12th December 2021
1212 – Geoffrey, Archbishop of York and illegitimate son of King Henry II of England, dies at about 60
1817 – Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I of Ethiopia, (b. about 1751)
1821 – Phoebe Hessel, English woman who disguised herself as a man to serve in the British Army, probably to be with her lover, Samuel Golding, dies at 108
1938 – James McNeill, Irish politician, 2nd Governor-General of the Irish Free State, dies at 69
1951 – Mildred Bailey, American jazz singer (b. 1907)
1988 – John Canning, NY Post managing editor, dies at 56
1991 – Eleanor Boardman, actor (Crowd), dies in at 93
1993 – Mary Jarred, British mezzo-soprano and contralto singer (The Rake’s Progress), dies at 94
1999 – Joe Benner, American pistol shooter and coach (Olympic gold 1952; World C’ship gold 1949, 52, 54), dies at 82
2007 – Ike Turner, American musician (“Rocket 88”; Ike and Tina Turner – “A Fool in Love”; “Proud Mary”), dies of cocaine overdose at 76