| 136621 | December 2 | Death | 1980 – Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Indian-Pakistani politician, 4th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1905) |
| 136622 | December 2 | Death | 1980 – Roza Eskenazi, Turkish-Greek singer (Smyrna Trio) (b. 1890) |
| 136623 | December 2 | Death | 1980 – Romain Gary, Lithuanian-French author, director, and screenwriter (b. 1914) |
| 136624 | December 2 | Death | 1981 – Wallace Harrison, American architect, co-founded Harrison & Abramovitz (b. 1895) |
| 136625 | December 2 | Death | 1982 – Marty Feldman, English actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1933) |
| 136626 | December 2 | Death | 1982 – Giovanni Ferrari, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1907) |
| 136627 | December 2 | Death | 1983 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian-American actress and singer (b. 1904) |
| 136628 | December 2 | Death | 1985 – Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (b. 1914) |
| 136629 | December 2 | Death | 1985 – Philip Larkin, English author and poet (b. 1922) |
| 136630 | December 2 | Death | 1986 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor, singer, and producer, co-founded Desilu Productions (b. 1917) |
| 136631 | December 2 | Death | 1986 – John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist and academic (b. 1912) |
| 136632 | December 2 | Death | 1987 – Luis Federico Leloir, French-Argentinian physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) |
| 136633 | December 2 | Death | 1987 – Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Belarusian physicist, astronomer, and cosmologist (b. 1914) |
| 136634 | December 2 | Death | 1988 – Karl-Heinz Bürger, German SS officer (b. 1904) |
| 136635 | December 2 | Death | 1988 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer-songwriter (Quartetto Cetra) (b. 1922) |
| 136636 | December 2 | Death | 1990 – Aaron Copland, American composer and conductor (b. 1900) |
| 136637 | December 2 | Death | 1990 – Robert Cummings, American actor, singer, director, and producer (b. 1908) |
| 136638 | December 2 | Death | 1992 – Michael Gothard, English actor (b. 1939) |
| 136639 | December 2 | Death | 1993 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (b. 1949) |
| 136640 | December 2 | Death | 1995 – Robertson Davies, Canadian author, playwright, and critic (b. 1913) |
| 136641 | December 2 | Death | 1995 – Roxie Roker, American actress (b. 1929) |
| 136642 | December 2 | Death | 1995 – Mária Telkes, Hungarian–American biophysicist and chemist (b. 1900) |
| 136643 | December 2 | Death | 1997 – Shirley Crabtree, English wrestler (b. 1930) |
| 136644 | December 2 | Death | 1997 – Michael Hedges, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1953) |
| 136645 | December 2 | Death | 2000 – Gail Fisher, American actress (b. 1935) |
| 136646 | December 2 | Death | 2002 – Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (b. 1926) |
| 136647 | December 2 | Death | 2002 – Arno Peters, German cartographer and historian (b. 1916) |
| 136648 | December 2 | Death | 2003 – Alan Davidson, Irish soldier, historian, and author (b. 1924) |
| 136649 | December 2 | Death | 2004 – Alicia Markova, English ballerina and choreographer (b. 1910) |
| 136650 | December 2 | Death | 2004 – Leonid Telyatnikov, Kazakh-Ukrainian firefighter (b. 1951) |