| 138451 | December 7 | Death | 1946 – Sada Yacco, Japanese actress and dancer (b. 1871) |
| 138452 | December 7 | Death | 1947 – Tristan Bernard, French author and playwright (b. 1866) |
| 138453 | December 7 | Death | 1947 – Nicholas Murray Butler, American philosopher and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862) |
| 138454 | December 7 | Death | 1949 – Rex Beach, American author, playwright, and water polo player (b. 1877) |
| 138455 | December 7 | Death | 1956 – Huntley Gordon, Canadian-American actor (b. 1887) |
| 138456 | December 7 | Death | 1960 – Clara Haskil, Swiss pianist (b. 1895) |
| 138457 | December 7 | Death | 1960 – Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral (b. 1882) |
| 138458 | December 7 | Death | 1962 – Kirsten Flagstad, Norwegian opera singer (b. 1895) |
| 138459 | December 7 | Death | 1969 – Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player and manager (b. 1897) |
| 138460 | December 7 | Death | 1969 – Eric Portman, English actor (b. 1903) |
| 138461 | December 7 | Death | 1970 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist, sculptor, and author (b. 1883) |
| 138462 | December 7 | Death | 1975 – Thornton Wilder, American author and playwright (b. 1897) |
| 138463 | December 7 | Death | 1977 – Paul Gibb, English cricketer (b. 1913) |
| 138464 | December 7 | Death | 1977 – Peter Carl Goldmark, Hungarian-American engineer (b. 1906) |
| 138465 | December 7 | Death | 1977 – Georges Grignard, French racing driver (b. 1905) |
| 138466 | December 7 | Death | 1978 – Alexander Wetmore, American ornithologist and paleontologist (b. 1886) |
| 138467 | December 7 | Death | 1979 – Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, British-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1900) |
| 138468 | December 7 | Death | 1980 – Darby Crash, American singer-songwriter (Germs and Darby Crash Band) (b. 1958) |
| 138469 | December 7 | Death | 1981 – Ava Helen Pauling, American activist (b. 1903) |
| 138470 | December 7 | Death | 1982 – Will Lee, American actor (b. 1908) |
| 138471 | December 7 | Death | 1983 – Fanny Cano, Mexican actress and producer (b. 1944) |
| 138472 | December 7 | Death | 1984 – Charles Ray Hatcher, American serial killer (b. 1929) |
| 138473 | December 7 | Death | 1984 – LeeRoy Yarbrough, American race car driver (b. 1938) |
| 138474 | December 7 | Death | 1985 – J. R. Eyerman, American photographer and journalist (b. 1906) |
| 138475 | December 7 | Death | 1985 – Robert Graves, English author and poet (b. 1895) |
| 138476 | December 7 | Death | 1985 – Potter Stewart, American soldier and jurist (b. 1915) |
| 138477 | December 7 | Death | 1989 – Haystacks Calhoun, American wrestler and actor (b. 1934) |
| 138478 | December 7 | Death | 1990 – Joan Bennett, American actress and singer (b. 1910) |
| 138479 | December 7 | Death | 1990 – Dee Clark, American singer (b. 1938) |
| 138480 | December 7 | Death | 1990 – Jean Duceppe, Canadian actor (b. 1923) |