| 146641 | December 29 | Death | 1926 – Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian author and poet (b. 1875) |
| 146642 | December 29 | Death | 1929 – Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (b. 1846) |
| 146643 | December 29 | Death | 1934 – Alma Tell, American actress (b. 1898) |
| 146644 | December 29 | Death | 1937 – Don Marquis, American journalist, author, and playwright (b. 1878) |
| 146645 | December 29 | Death | 1941 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician and scholar (b. 1873) |
| 146646 | December 29 | Death | 1949 – Tyler Dennett, American historian and author (b. 1883) |
| 146647 | December 29 | Death | 1952 – Fletcher Henderson, American pianist, composer, and bandleader (b. 1897) |
| 146648 | December 29 | Death | 1953 – Violet MacMillan, American actress (b. 1887) |
| 146649 | December 29 | Death | 1959 – Robin Milford, English composer (b. 1903) |
| 146650 | December 29 | Death | 1960 – Eden Phillpotts, English author and poet (b. 1862) |
| 146651 | December 29 | Death | 1967 – Paul Whiteman, American violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1890) |
| 146652 | December 29 | Death | 1968 – Austin Farrer, English theologian and philosopher (b. 1904) |
| 146653 | December 29 | Death | 1970 – Marie Menken, American director and painter (b. 1909) |
| 146654 | December 29 | Death | 1972 – Joseph Cornell, American artist (b. 1903) |
| 146655 | December 29 | Death | 1972 – Chrysostomos Papasarantopoulos, Greek priest and missionary (b. 1903) |
| 146656 | December 29 | Death | 1976 – Ivo Van Damme, Belgian runner (b. 1954) |
| 146657 | December 29 | Death | 1980 – Tim Hardin, American singer-songwriter (b. 1941) |
| 146658 | December 29 | Death | 1980 – Nadezhda Mandelstam, Russian author and educator (b. 1899) |
| 146659 | December 29 | Death | 1981 – Miroslav Krleža, Croatian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1893) |
| 146660 | December 29 | Death | 1984 – Indus Arthur, American actress and singer (b. 1941) |
| 146661 | December 29 | Death | 1986 – Harold Macmillan, English captain and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894) |
| 146662 | December 29 | Death | 1986 – Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian director and screenwriter (b. 1932) |
| 146663 | December 29 | Death | 1988 – Mike Beuttler, Egyptian race car driver (b. 1940) |
| 146664 | December 29 | Death | 1989 – Süreyya Ağaoğlu, Azerbaijani-Turkish lawyer and jurist (b. 1903) |
| 146665 | December 29 | Death | 1993 – Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Armenian actor (b. 1930) |
| 146666 | December 29 | Death | 1995 – Lita Grey, American actress (b. 1908) |
| 146667 | December 29 | Death | 1996 – Mireille Hartuch, French singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1906) |
| 146668 | December 29 | Death | 1998 – Jean-Claude Forest, French author and illustrator (b. 1930) |
| 146669 | December 29 | Death | 1999 – Leon Radzinowicz, Polish-English criminologist and academic (b. 1906) |
| 146670 | December 29 | Death | 2000 – Adele Stimmel Chase, American artist (b. 1917) |