| 145231 | December 25 | Death | 1977 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor and director (b. 1889) |
| 145232 | December 25 | Death | 1979 – Joan Blondell, American actress and singer (b. 1906) |
| 145233 | December 25 | Death | 1979 – Jordi Bonet, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1932) |
| 145234 | December 25 | Death | 1983 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter and sculptor (b. 1893) |
| 145235 | December 25 | Death | 1988 – Shōhei Ōoka, Japanese author and critic (b. 1909) |
| 145236 | December 25 | Death | 1988 – Edward Pelham-Clinton, 10th Duke of Newcastle, English lepidopterist (b. 1920) |
| 145237 | December 25 | Death | 1989 – Benny Binion, American poker player and businessman (b. 1904) |
| 145238 | December 25 | Death | 1989 – Elena Ceaușescu, Romanian politician, First Lady of Romania (b. 1916) |
| 145239 | December 25 | Death | 1989 – Nicolae Ceaușescu, Romanian general and politician, 1st President of Romania (b. 1918) |
| 145240 | December 25 | Death | 1989 – Betty Garde, American actress (b. 1905) |
| 145241 | December 25 | Death | 1989 – Frederick F. Houser, American judge and politician, 34th Lieutenant Governor of California (b. 1905) |
| 145242 | December 25 | Death | 1989 – Billy Martin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1928) |
| 145243 | December 25 | Death | 1989 – Florică Murariu, Romanian rugby player and soldier (b. 1955) |
| 145244 | December 25 | Death | 1989 – Robert Pirosh, American director and screenwriter (b. 1910) |
| 145245 | December 25 | Death | 1989 – Wally Ris, American swimmer (b. 1924) |
| 145246 | December 25 | Death | 1991 – Orane Demazis, French actress |
| 145247 | December 25 | Death | 1992 – Monica Dickens, English-American nurse and author (b. 1915) |
| 145248 | December 25 | Death | 1993 – Pierre Victor Auger, French physicist and academic (b. 1899) |
| 145249 | December 25 | Death | 1994 – Zail Singh, Indian politician, 7th President of India (b. 1916) |
| 145250 | December 25 | Death | 1995 – Emmanuel Levinas, Lithuanian-French philosopher and academic (b. 1906) |
| 145251 | December 25 | Death | 1995 – Dean Martin, American singer and actor (b. 1917) |
| 145252 | December 25 | Death | 1996 – Bill Hewitt, Canadian sportscaster (b. 1928) |
| 145253 | December 25 | Death | 1997 – Anatoli Boukreev, Kazakh mountaineer and explorer (b. 1958) |
| 145254 | December 25 | Death | 1997 – Denver Pyle, American actor, singer, and director (b. 1920) |
| 145255 | December 25 | Death | 1998 – Bryan MacLean, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Love) (b. 1946) |
| 145256 | December 25 | Death | 1998 – John Pulman, English snooker player and sportscaster (b. 1926) |
| 145257 | December 25 | Death | 1999 – Peter Jeffrey, English actor (b. 1929) |
| 145258 | December 25 | Death | 2000 – Neil Hawke, Australian cricketer and footballer (b. 1939) |
| 145259 | December 25 | Death | 2000 – Willard Van Orman Quine, American philosopher and academic (b. 1908) |
| 145260 | December 25 | Death | 2001 – Alfred A. Tomatis, French otolaryngologist and academic (b. 1920) |