| 139651 | December 10 | Death | 1982 – Freeman Gosden, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1899) |
| 139652 | December 10 | Death | 1986 – Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927) |
| 139653 | December 10 | Death | 1986 – Kate Wolf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1942) |
| 139654 | December 10 | Death | 1987 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-American violinist and educator (b. 1901) |
| 139655 | December 10 | Death | 1988 – Richard S. Castellano, American actor (b. 1933) |
| 139656 | December 10 | Death | 1988 – Johnny Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1911) |
| 139657 | December 10 | Death | 1990 – Armand Hammer, American businessman, founded Occidental Petroleum (b. 1898) |
| 139658 | December 10 | Death | 1991 – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American painter (b. 1901) |
| 139659 | December 10 | Death | 1991 – Headman Shabalala, South African singer (Ladysmith Black Mambazo) (b. 1945) |
| 139660 | December 10 | Death | 1992 – Dan Maskell, English tennis player and sportscaster (b. 1908) |
| 139661 | December 10 | Death | 1993 – Alice Tully, American soprano (b. 1902) |
| 139662 | December 10 | Death | 1994 – Keith Joseph, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Education (b. 1918) |
| 139663 | December 10 | Death | 1994 – Alex Wilson, Canadian-American sprinter (b. 1905) |
| 139664 | December 10 | Death | 1995 – Darren Robinson, American rapper (The Fat Boys) (b. 1967) |
| 139665 | December 10 | Death | 1996 – Faron Young, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1932) |
| 139666 | December 10 | Death | 1999 – Rick Danko, Canadian singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (The Band) (b. 1942) |
| 139667 | December 10 | Death | 1999 – Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor and singer (b. 1913) |
| 139668 | December 10 | Death | 1999 – Shirley Hemphill, American actress (b. 1947) |
| 139669 | December 10 | Death | 1999 – Franjo Tuđman, Croatian general, historian, and politician, 1st President of Croatia (b. 1922) |
| 139670 | December 10 | Death | 2000 – Marie Windsor, American actress (b. 1919) |
| 139671 | December 10 | Death | 2001 – Ashok Kumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer (b. 1911) |
| 139672 | December 10 | Death | 2002 – Andres Küng, Swedish journalist and politician (b. 1945) |
| 139673 | December 10 | Death | 2002 – Ian MacNaughton, Scottish actor, director, and producer (b. 1925) |
| 139674 | December 10 | Death | 2003 – Sean McClory, Irish-American actor and director (b. 1924) |
| 139675 | December 10 | Death | 2004 – Gary Webb, American journalist and author (b. 1955) |
| 139676 | December 10 | Death | 2005 – Eugene McCarthy, America poet, academic, and politician (b. 1916) |
| 139677 | December 10 | Death | 2005 – Richard Pryor, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1940) |
| 139678 | December 10 | Death | 2006 – Olivia Coolidge, English-American author and educator (b. 1908) |
| 139679 | December 10 | Death | 2006 – Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general and politician, 30th President of Chile (b. 1915) |
| 139680 | December 10 | Death | 2007 – Ashleigh Aston Moore, American-Canadian actress (b. 1981) |