| 145630 | December 26 | Death | 2001 – Nigel Hawthorne, English actor and producer (b. 1929) |
| 145631 | December 26 | Death | 2002 – Herb Ritts, American photographer and director (b. 1952) |
| 145632 | December 26 | Death | 2002 – Armand Zildjian, American businessman, founded the Avedis Zildjian Company (b. 1921) |
| 145633 | December 26 | Death | 2004 – Troy Broadbridge, Australian footballer (b. 1980) |
| 145634 | December 26 | Death | 2004 – Jonathan Drummond-Webb, South African surgeon and academic (b. 1959) |
| 145635 | December 26 | Death | 2004 – Poom Jensen, American son of Ubolratana Rajakanya (b. 1983) |
| 145636 | December 26 | Death | 2004 – Sigurd Køhn, Norwegian saxophonist and composer (b. 1959) |
| 145637 | December 26 | Death | 2004 – Angus Ogilvy, English businessman (b. 1928) |
| 145638 | December 26 | Death | 2004 – Aki Sirkesalo, Finnish singer-songwriter (b. 1962) |
| 145639 | December 26 | Death | 2004 – Mieszko Talarczyk, Polish-Swedish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Nasum and Genocide Superstars) (b. 1974) |
| 145640 | December 26 | Death | 2004 – Reggie White, American football player (b. 1961) |
| 145641 | December 26 | Death | 2005 – Muriel Costa-Greenspon, American soprano (b. 1937) |
| 145642 | December 26 | Death | 2005 – Ted Ditchburn, English footballer and manager (b. 1921) |
| 145643 | December 26 | Death | 2005 – Kerry Packer, Australian publisher and businessman (b. 1937) |
| 145644 | December 26 | Death | 2005 – Viacheslav Platonov, Russian volleyball player and coach (b. 1939) |
| 145645 | December 26 | Death | 2005 – Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (b. 1948) |
| 145646 | December 26 | Death | 2005 – Erich Topp, German commander (b. 1914) |
| 145647 | December 26 | Death | 2006 – Gerald Ford, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th President of the United States (b. 1913) |
| 145648 | December 26 | Death | 2006 – Ivar Formo, Norwegian skier and engineer (b. 1951) |
| 145649 | December 26 | Death | 2006 – Munir Niazi, Indian-Pakistani poet (b. 1928) |
| 145650 | December 26 | Death | 2007 – Joe Dolan, Irish singer (b. 1943) |
| 145621 | December 26 | Death | 1990 – Gene Callahan, American art director and production designer (b. 1923) |
| 145622 | December 26 | Death | 1992 – Nikita Magaloff, Georgian-Russian pianist (b. 1912) |
| 145623 | December 26 | Death | 1994 – Parveen Shakir, Pakistani civil servant and poet (b. 1952) |
| 145624 | December 26 | Death | 1996 – Kostas Palios, Greek actor (b. 1926) |
| 145625 | December 26 | Death | 1997 – Cahit Arf, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1910) |
| 145626 | December 26 | Death | 1997 – Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek economist and philosopher (b. 1922) |
| 145627 | December 26 | Death | 1999 – Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter and producer (The Impressions) (b. 1942) |
| 145628 | December 26 | Death | 1999 – Shankar Dayal Sharma, Indian academic and politician, 9th President of India (b. 1918) |
| 145629 | December 26 | Death | 2000 – Jason Robards, American actor and singer (b. 1922) |