| 137011 | December 3 | Death | 1993 – Lewis Thomas, American physician, etymologist, and academic (b. 1913) |
| 137012 | December 3 | Death | 1994 – Michael Dacher, German mountaineer (b. 1933) |
| 137013 | December 3 | Death | 1994 – Elizabeth Glaser, American activist (b. 1947) |
| 137014 | December 3 | Death | 1995 – Jimmy Jewel, English actor and singer (b. 1909) |
| 137015 | December 3 | Death | 1995 – Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (b. 1946) |
| 137016 | December 3 | Death | 1996 – Georges Duby, French historian and author (b. 1919) |
| 137017 | December 3 | Death | 1998 – Pierre Hétu, Canadian pianist and conductor (b. 1936) |
| 137018 | December 3 | Death | 1999 – Scatman John, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1942) |
| 137019 | December 3 | Death | 1999 – Madeline Kahn, American actress and singer (b. 1942) |
| 137020 | December 3 | Death | 1999 – Horst Mahseli, Polish footballer (b. 1934) |
| 137021 | December 3 | Death | 1999 – Jarl Wahlström, Finnish 12th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1918) |
| 137022 | December 3 | Death | 2000 – Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet and academic (b. 1917) |
| 137023 | December 3 | Death | 2000 – Hoyt Curtin, American composer and producer (b. 1922) |
| 137024 | December 3 | Death | 2002 – Adrienne Adams, American illustrator (b. 1906) |
| 137025 | December 3 | Death | 2002 – Glenn Quinn, Irish-American actor (b. 1970) |
| 137026 | December 3 | Death | 2003 – David Hemmings, English actor, director, and producer (b. 1941) |
| 137027 | December 3 | Death | 2004 – Shiing-Shen Chern, Chinese-American mathematician and academic (b. 1911) |
| 137028 | December 3 | Death | 2005 – Frederick Ashworth, American admiral (b. 1912) |
| 137029 | December 3 | Death | 2005 – Herb Moford, American baseball player (b. 1928) |
| 137030 | December 3 | Death | 2006 – Logan Whitehurst, American drummer (The Velvet Teen) (b. 1977) |
| 137031 | December 3 | Death | 2007 – James Kemsley, Australian cartoonist and actor (b. 1948) |
| 137032 | December 3 | Death | 2008 – Robert Zajonc, Polish-American psychologist and author (b. 1923) |
| 137033 | December 3 | Death | 2009 – Leila Lopes, Brazilian actress and journalist (b. 1959) |
| 137034 | December 3 | Death | 2009 – Richard Todd, Irish-English soldier and actor (b. 1919) |
| 137035 | December 3 | Death | 2010 – Abdumalik Bahori, Azerbaijani poet and author (b. 1927) |
| 137036 | December 3 | Death | 2011 – Dev Anand, Indian actor, director, and producer (b. 1923) |
| 137037 | December 3 | Death | 2012 – Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil, Iraqi-Lebanese archbishop (b. 1938) |
| 137038 | December 3 | Death | 2012 – Kuntal Chandra, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984) |
| 137039 | December 3 | Death | 2012 – Fyodor Khitruk, Russian animator, director, and screenwriter (b. 1917) |
| 137040 | December 3 | Death | 2012 – Diego Mendieta, Paraguayan footballer (b. 1980) |