| 139981 | December 11 | Death | 1950 – Leslie Comrie, New Zealand astronomer and author (b. 1893) |
| 139982 | December 11 | Death | 1953 – Sedat Simavi, Turkish journalist and director (b. 1896) |
| 139983 | December 11 | Death | 1957 – Musidora, French actress, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889) |
| 139984 | December 11 | Death | 1959 – Jim Bottomley, American baseball player and manager (b. 1900) |
| 139985 | December 11 | Death | 1964 – Sam Cooke, American singer-songwriter (The Highway Q.C.'s and The Soul Stirrers) (b. 1931) |
| 139986 | December 11 | Death | 1964 – Percy Kilbride, American actor and singer (b. 1888) |
| 139987 | December 11 | Death | 1968 – Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter and author (b. 1910) |
| 139988 | December 11 | Death | 1968 – Arthur Hays Sulzberger, American publisher (b. 1891) |
| 139989 | December 11 | Death | 1971 – Maurice McDonald, American businessman, co-founded McDonald's (b. 1902) |
| 139990 | December 11 | Death | 1975 – Lee Wiley, American singer (b. 1908) |
| 139991 | December 11 | Death | 1978 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) |
| 139992 | December 11 | Death | 1978 – Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and manager (b. 1920) |
| 139993 | December 11 | Death | 1979 – James J. Gibson, American psychologist and author (b. 1904) |
| 139994 | December 11 | Death | 1983 – Neil Ritchie, Guyanese-English general (b. 1897) |
| 139995 | December 11 | Death | 1984 – Oskar Seidlin, German-American author, poet, and scholar (b. 1911) |
| 139996 | December 11 | Death | 1987 – G. A. Kulkarni, Indian author and academic (b. 1923) |
| 139997 | December 11 | Death | 1987 – Adile Naşit, Turkish actress (b. 1930) |
| 139998 | December 11 | Death | 1989 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895) |
| 139999 | December 11 | Death | 1991 – Robert Q. Lewis, American actor and game show host (b. 1921) |
| 140000 | December 11 | Death | 1991 – Artur Lundkvist, Swedish author and critic (b. 1906) |
| 140001 | December 11 | Death | 1991 – Pat Walshe, American actor (b. 1900) |
| 140002 | December 11 | Death | 1992 – Michael Robbins, English actor (b. 1930) |
| 140003 | December 11 | Death | 1993 – Elvira Popescu, Romanian-French actress and director (b. 1894) |
| 140004 | December 11 | Death | 1994 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist and scholar (b. 1900) |
| 140005 | December 11 | Death | 1995 – Arthur Mullard, English actor and singer (b. 1910) |
| 140006 | December 11 | Death | 1996 – Willie Rushton, English cartoonist, author, and publisher, co-founded Private Eye (b. 1937) |
| 140007 | December 11 | Death | 1997 – Eddie Chapman, English spy (b. 1914) |
| 140008 | December 11 | Death | 1997 – Simon Jeffes, English guitarist and composer (Penguin Cafe Orchestra) (b. 1949) |
| 140009 | December 11 | Death | 1998 – André Lichnerowicz, French physicist and mathematician (b. 1915) |
| 140010 | December 11 | Death | 1998 – Lynn Strait, American singer-songwriter (Snot) (b. 1968) |