| 139261 | December 9 | Death | 1941 – Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Russian author, poet, and philosopher (b. 1865) |
| 139262 | December 9 | Death | 1943 – Georges Dufrénoy, French painter (b. 1870) |
| 139263 | December 9 | Death | 1944 – Laird Cregar, American actor (b. 1913) |
| 139264 | December 9 | Death | 1945 – Yun Chi-ho, South Korean activist and politician (b. 1864) |
| 139265 | December 9 | Death | 1952 – Abe Manley, American businessman (b. 1885) |
| 139266 | December 9 | Death | 1963 – Daniel O. Fagunwa, Nigerian author and educator (b. 1903) |
| 139267 | December 9 | Death | 1963 – Perry Miller, American historian, author, and academic (b. 1905) |
| 139268 | December 9 | Death | 1964 – Edith Sitwell, English poet and critic (b. 1887) |
| 139269 | December 9 | Death | 1965 – Branch Rickey, American baseball player and manager (b. 1884) |
| 139270 | December 9 | Death | 1967 – Charles Léon Hammes, Luxembourgian lawyer and judge, 3rd President of the European Court of Justice (b. 1898) |
| 139271 | December 9 | Death | 1968 – Enoch L. Johnson, American mob boss (b. 1883) |
| 139272 | December 9 | Death | 1970 – Artem Mikoyan, Armenian-Russian engineer and businessman, co-founded the Mikoyan Company (b. 1905) |
| 139273 | December 9 | Death | 1970 – Feroz Khan Noon, Pakistani politician, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893) |
| 139274 | December 9 | Death | 1971 – Ralph Bunche, American political scientist, academic, and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904) |
| 139275 | December 9 | Death | 1971 – Sergey Konenkov, Russian sculptor (b. 1874) |
| 139276 | December 9 | Death | 1972 – Louella Parsons, American journalist and screenwriter (b. 1881) |
| 139277 | December 9 | Death | 1975 – William A. Wellman, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1896) |
| 139278 | December 9 | Death | 1979 – Fulton J. Sheen, American archbishop (b. 1895) |
| 139279 | December 9 | Death | 1982 – Leon Jaworski, American lawyer (b. 1905) |
| 139280 | December 9 | Death | 1984 – Razzle, English drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960) |
| 139281 | December 9 | Death | 1991 – Bernice Abbott, American photographer (b. 1898) |
| 139282 | December 9 | Death | 1992 – Vincent Gardenia, Italian-American actor and singer (b. 1922) |
| 139283 | December 9 | Death | 1993 – Danny Blanchflower, Irish footballer and manager (b. 1926) |
| 139284 | December 9 | Death | 1994 – Garnett Silk, Jamaican singer (b. 1966) |
| 139285 | December 9 | Death | 1995 – Toni Cade Bambara, American author and academic (b. 1939) |
| 139286 | December 9 | Death | 1995 – Douglas Corrigan, American pilot (b. 1907) |
| 139287 | December 9 | Death | 1996 – Patty Donahue, American singer-songwriter (The Waitresses) (b. 1956) |
| 139288 | December 9 | Death | 1996 – Mary Leakey, English archaeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913) |
| 139289 | December 9 | Death | 1996 – Alain Poher, French politician, President of France (b. 1909) |
| 139290 | December 9 | Death | 1996 – Diana Morgan, Welsh playwright and screenwriter (b. 1908) |