| 144031 | December 22 | Death | 1902 – Richard von Krafft-Ebing, German-Austrian psychiatrist and author (b. 1840) |
| 144032 | December 22 | Death | 1917 – Frances Xavier Cabrini, Italian-American nun and saint (b. 1850) |
| 144033 | December 22 | Death | 1918 – Aristeidis Moraitinis, Greek lieutenant and pilot (b. 1891) |
| 144034 | December 22 | Death | 1919 – Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (b. 1864) |
| 144035 | December 22 | Death | 1925 – Amelie Beese, German pilot and engineer (b. 1886) |
| 144036 | December 22 | Death | 1926 – Mina Arndt, New Zealander painter (b. 1885) |
| 144037 | December 22 | Death | 1939 – Ma Rainey, American singer (b. 1886) |
| 144038 | December 22 | Death | 1940 – Nathanael West, American author and screenwriter (b. 1903) |
| 144039 | December 22 | Death | 1941 – Karel Hašler, Czech actor, director, composer, and screenwriter (b. 1879) |
| 144040 | December 22 | Death | 1942 – Franz Boas, German-American anthropologist and linguist (b. 1858) |
| 144041 | December 22 | Death | 1943 – Beatrix Potter, English author and illustrator (b. 1866) |
| 144042 | December 22 | Death | 1944 – Harry Langdon, American actor, singer, director, and screenwriter (b. 1884) |
| 144043 | December 22 | Death | 1944 – Eleni Papadaki, Greek actress and singer (b. 1903) |
| 144044 | December 22 | Death | 1950 – Frederick Freake, English polo player (b. 1876) |
| 144045 | December 22 | Death | 1955 – Jules De Bisschop, Belgian rower (b. 1879) |
| 144046 | December 22 | Death | 1957 – Frank George Woollard, English engineer (b. 1883) |
| 144047 | December 22 | Death | 1959 – Gilda Gray, Polish-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1901) |
| 144048 | December 22 | Death | 1960 – Ninian Comper, Scottish-English architect (b. 1864) |
| 144049 | December 22 | Death | 1963 – Giovanni Giorgio Trissino, Italian horse rider (b. 1877) |
| 144050 | December 22 | Death | 1965 – Richard Dimbleby, English journalist (b. 1913) |
| 144051 | December 22 | Death | 1968 – Raymond Gram Swing, American journalist (b. 1887) |
| 144052 | December 22 | Death | 1971 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch journalist and author (b. 1913) |
| 144053 | December 22 | Death | 1974 – Sterling North, American author (b. 1906) |
| 144054 | December 22 | Death | 1979 – Darryl F. Zanuck, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1902) |
| 144055 | December 22 | Death | 1985 – D. Boon, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Minutemen and The Reactionaries) (b. 1958) |
| 144056 | December 22 | Death | 1986 – Mary Burchell, English author and activist (b. 1904) |
| 144057 | December 22 | Death | 1987 – Luca Prodan, Italian-Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sumo) (b. 1953) |
| 144058 | December 22 | Death | 1988 – Chico Mendes, Brazilian union leader and activist (b. 1944) |
| 144059 | December 22 | Death | 1989 – Samuel Beckett, Irish author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) |
| 144060 | December 22 | Death | 1989 – Nicolae Ceaușescu, President of Romania from 1967 to 1989. |