| 139621 | December 10 | Death | 1922 – Clement Lindley Wragge, English meteorologist and author (b. 1852) |
| 139622 | December 10 | Death | 1926 – Nikola Pašić, Serbian politician, 46th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1845) |
| 139623 | December 10 | Death | 1928 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect and painter (b. 1868) |
| 139624 | December 10 | Death | 1936 – Bobby Abel, English cricketer (b. 1857) |
| 139625 | December 10 | Death | 1936 – Luigi Pirandello, Italian author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) |
| 139626 | December 10 | Death | 1939 – John Grieb, American gymnast (b. 1879) |
| 139627 | December 10 | Death | 1941 – Erich Jacoby, Estonian-Polish architect (b. 1885) |
| 139628 | December 10 | Death | 1941 – Colin Kelly, American captain and pilot (b. 1915) |
| 139629 | December 10 | Death | 1944 – John Brunt, English captain, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1922) |
| 139630 | December 10 | Death | 1945 – Theodor Dannecker, German SS officer (b. 1913) |
| 139631 | December 10 | Death | 1946 – Walter Johnson, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster (b. 1887) |
| 139632 | December 10 | Death | 1946 – Damon Runyon, American journalist and author (b. 1884) |
| 139633 | December 10 | Death | 1948 – Na Hye-sok, South Korean journalist, poet, and painter (b. 1896) |
| 139634 | December 10 | Death | 1951 – Algernon Blackwood, English author (b. 1869) |
| 139635 | December 10 | Death | 1953 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-English scholar and translator (b. 1872) |
| 139636 | December 10 | Death | 1956 – David Shimoni, Russian-Israeli poet and translator (b. 1891) |
| 139637 | December 10 | Death | 1957 – Napoleon Zervas, Greek general (b. 1891) |
| 139638 | December 10 | Death | 1958 – Adolfo Camarillo, American horse breeder, rancher, and philanthropist (b. 1864) |
| 139639 | December 10 | Death | 1964 – George Sutcliffe, Australian public servant (b. 1895) |
| 139640 | December 10 | Death | 1967 – Ronnie Caldwell, American keyboard player (The Bar-Kays) (b. 1948) |
| 139641 | December 10 | Death | 1967 – Phalon Jones, American saxophonist (The Bar-Kays) (b. 1949) |
| 139642 | December 10 | Death | 1967 – Otis Redding, American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1941) |
| 139643 | December 10 | Death | 1968 – Karl Barth, Swiss theologian and author (b. 1886) |
| 139644 | December 10 | Death | 1968 – George Forrest, Northern Irish politician (b. 1921) |
| 139645 | December 10 | Death | 1968 – Thomas Merton, American monk and author (b. 1915) |
| 139646 | December 10 | Death | 1972 – Mark Van Doren, American poet, critic, and academic (b. 1894) |
| 139647 | December 10 | Death | 1973 – Wolf V. Vishniac, German-American microbiologist and academic (b. 1922) |
| 139648 | December 10 | Death | 1977 – Adolph Rupp, American basketball player and coach (b. 1901) |
| 139649 | December 10 | Death | 1978 – Ed Wood, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1924) |
| 139650 | December 10 | Death | 1979 – Ann Dvorak, American actress and singer (b. 1912) |