| 138121 | December 6 | Death | 1983 – Gul Khan Nasir, Pakistani poet, historian, and politician (b. 1914) |
| 138122 | December 6 | Death | 1985 – Burr Tillstrom, American puppeteer (b. 1917) |
| 138123 | December 6 | Death | 1985 – Burleigh Grimes, American baseball player and manager (b. 1893) |
| 138124 | December 6 | Death | 1988 – Roy Orbison, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Traveling Wilburys) (b. 1936) |
| 138125 | December 6 | Death | 1989 – Frances Bavier, American actress (b. 1902) |
| 138126 | December 6 | Death | 1989 – Sammy Fain, American pianist and composer (b. 1902) |
| 138127 | December 6 | Death | 1989 – John Payne, American actor, singer, and producer (b. 1912) |
| 138128 | December 6 | Death | 1990 – Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Greek singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1948) |
| 138129 | December 6 | Death | 1990 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysian lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Malaysia (b. 1903) |
| 138130 | December 6 | Death | 1991 – Mimi Smith, English nurse (b. 1906) |
| 138131 | December 6 | Death | 1991 – Richard Stone, English economist and statistician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1913) |
| 138132 | December 6 | Death | 1993 – Don Ameche, American actor and singer (b. 1908) |
| 138133 | December 6 | Death | 1994 – Heinz Baas, German footballer and manager (b. 1922) |
| 138134 | December 6 | Death | 1996 – Pete Rozelle, American businessman (b. 1926) |
| 138135 | December 6 | Death | 1997 – Willy den Ouden, Dutch swimmer (b. 1918) |
| 138136 | December 6 | Death | 1998 – César Baldaccini, French sculptor (b. 1921) |
| 138137 | December 6 | Death | 2000 – Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (b. 1920) |
| 138138 | December 6 | Death | 2000 – Aziz Mian, Pakistani singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1942) |
| 138139 | December 6 | Death | 2001 – Peter Blake, New Zealand sailor and environmentalist (b. 1948) |
| 138140 | December 6 | Death | 2001 – Charles McClendon, American football player and coach (b. 1923) |
| 138141 | December 6 | Death | 2002 – Philip Berrigan, American priest and activist (b. 1923) |
| 138142 | December 6 | Death | 2003 – Hans Hotter, German opera singer (b. 1909) |
| 138143 | December 6 | Death | 2003 – Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Guatemalan general and politician, President of Guatemala (b. 1918) |
| 138144 | December 6 | Death | 2003 – Jerry Tuite, American wrestler (b. 1966) |
| 138145 | December 6 | Death | 2004 – Raymond Goethals, Belgian footballer and manager (b. 1921) |
| 138146 | December 6 | Death | 2005 – Charly Gaul, Luxembourger cyclist (b. 1932) |
| 138147 | December 6 | Death | 2005 – Devan Nair, Malaysian-Singaporean politician, 3rd President of Singapore (b. 1923) |
| 138148 | December 6 | Death | 2005 – Danny Williams, South African singer (b. 1942) |
| 138149 | December 6 | Death | 2005 – William P. Yarborough, American general (b. 1912) |
| 138150 | December 6 | Death | 2006 – John Feeney, New Zealand director and producer (b. 1922) |