| 142951 | December 19 | Birth | 1993 – Isiah Koech, Kenyan runner |
| 142952 | December 19 | Birth | 1994 – M'Baye Niang, French footballer |
| 142953 | December 19 | Death | 211 – Publius Septimius Geta, Roman emperor (b. 189) |
| 142954 | December 19 | Death | 1111 – Al-Ghazali, Iranian jurist, philosopher, and mystic (b. 1058) |
| 142955 | December 19 | Death | 1123 – Saint Berardo, Italian bishop |
| 142956 | December 19 | Death | 1327 – Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1260) |
| 142957 | December 19 | Death | 1370 – Pope Urban V (b. 1310) |
| 142958 | December 19 | Death | 1737 – James Louis Sobieski, Polish son of John III Sobieski (b. 1667) |
| 142959 | December 19 | Death | 1741 – Vitus Bering, Danish-Russian hydrographer and explorer (b. 1681) |
| 142960 | December 19 | Death | 1745 – Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (b. 1684) |
| 142961 | December 19 | Death | 1749 – Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (b. 1672) |
| 142962 | December 19 | Death | 1751 – Louise of Great Britain (b. 1724) |
| 142963 | December 19 | Death | 1807 – Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, German-French author and playwright (b. 1723) |
| 142964 | December 19 | Death | 1813 – James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded McGill University (b. 1744) |
| 142965 | December 19 | Death | 1819 – Thomas Fremantle, English admiral and politician (b. 1765) |
| 142966 | December 19 | Death | 1848 – Emily Brontë, English author and poet (b. 1818) |
| 142967 | December 19 | Death | 1878 – Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (b. 1825) |
| 142968 | December 19 | Death | 1899 – Henry Ware Lawton, American general (b. 1843) |
| 142969 | December 19 | Death | 1915 – Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (b. 1864) |
| 142970 | December 19 | Death | 1916 – Thibaw Min, Burmese king (b. 1859) |
| 142971 | December 19 | Death | 1927 – Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian activist (b. 1900) |
| 142972 | December 19 | Death | 1927 – Ram Prasad Bismil, Indian poet and activist (b. 1897) |
| 142973 | December 19 | Death | 1927 – Roshan Singh, Indian activist (b. 1892) |
| 142974 | December 19 | Death | 1932 – Yun Bong-gil, South Korean activist (b. 1908) |
| 142975 | December 19 | Death | 1933 – George Jackson Churchward, English engineer (b. 1857) |
| 142976 | December 19 | Death | 1938 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (b. 1873) |
| 142977 | December 19 | Death | 1939 – Hans Langsdorff, German captain (b. 1894) |
| 142978 | December 19 | Death | 1944 – Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874) |
| 142979 | December 19 | Death | 1944 – Rudolph Karstadt, German businessman (b. 1856) |
| 142980 | December 19 | Death | 1946 – Paul Langevin, French physicist and academic (b. 1872) |