| 143371 | December 20 | Death | 2002 – Bernard King, Australian actor and chef (b. 1934) |
| 143372 | December 20 | Death | 2005 – M. Moorthy, Malaysian soldier and mountaineer |
| 143373 | December 20 | Death | 2006 – Anne Rogers Clark, American dog breeder and trainer (b. 1929) |
| 143374 | December 20 | Death | 2006 – Piergiorgio Welby, Italian poet and activist (b. 1945) |
| 143375 | December 20 | Death | 2006 – Shi Yuejun, Chinese spree killer (b. 1970) |
| 143376 | December 20 | Death | 2007 – Savaş Dinçel, Turkish actor (b. 1942) |
| 143377 | December 20 | Death | 2008 – Adrian Mitchell, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1932) |
| 143378 | December 20 | Death | 2009 – Mairoon Ali, Trinidadian actress (b. 1954) |
| 143379 | December 20 | Death | 2009 – Brittany Murphy, American actress and singer (b. 1977) |
| 143380 | December 20 | Death | 2009 – Arnold Stang, American actor and singer (b. 1918) |
| 143381 | December 20 | Death | 2010 – Brian Hanrahan, English journalist (b. 1949) |
| 143382 | December 20 | Death | 2010 – Steve Landesberg, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1936) |
| 143383 | December 20 | Death | 2010 – James Robert Mann, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b. 1920) |
| 143384 | December 20 | Death | 2010 – K. P. Ratnam, Sri Lankan academic and politician (b. 1914) |
| 143385 | December 20 | Death | 2011 – Barry Reckord, Jamaican playwright (b. 1926) |
| 143386 | December 20 | Death | 2012 – Stan Charlton, English footballer and manager (b. 1929) |
| 143387 | December 20 | Death | 2012 – Robert Juniper, Australian painter and sculptor (b. 1929) |
| 143388 | December 20 | Death | 2012 – Eagle Keys, American-Canadian football player and coach (b. 1923) |
| 143389 | December 20 | Death | 2012 – Jimmy McCracklin, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1921) |
| 143390 | December 20 | Death | 2012 – Victor Merzhanov, Russian pianist and educator (b. 1919) |
| 143391 | December 20 | Death | 2013 – Pyotr Bolotnikov, Russian runner (b. 1930) |
| 143392 | December 20 | Death | 2013 – Lord Infamous, American rapper (Three 6 Mafia) (b. 1973) |
| 143393 | December 20 | Death | 2013 – Nelly Omar, Argentinian actress and singer (b. 1911) |
| 143394 | December 20 | Death | 2013 – Masafumi Ōura, Japanese volleyball player and coach (b. 1969) |
| 143395 | December 20 | Death | 2013 – Reginaldo Rossi, Brazilian singer-songwriter (b. 1944) |
| 143396 | December 20 | Death | 2013 – Vivian St. John, American wrestler (b. 1950) |
| 143397 | December 20 | Death | 2014 – Per-Ingvar Brånemark, Swedish surgeon and academic (b. 1929) |
| 143398 | December 20 | Death | 2014 – John Freeman, English lawyer, politician, and diplomat, British Ambassador to the United States (b. 1915) |
| 143399 | December 20 | Death | 2014 – Ranulph Glanville, English architect and academic (b. 1946) |
| 143400 | December 20 | Death | 2014 – Bob Lanier, American lawyer, banker, and politician, 58th Mayor of Houston (b. 1925) |