| 147001 | December 30 | Death | 1591 – Pope Innocent IX (b. 1519) |
| 147002 | December 30 | Death | 1621 – Job of Manyava, Ukrainian monk and saint (b. 1550) |
| 147003 | December 30 | Death | 1640 – John Francis Regis, French priest and saint (b. 1597) |
| 147004 | December 30 | Death | 1644 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist, physiologist, and physician (b. 1577) |
| 147005 | December 30 | Death | 1662 – Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria (b. 1628) |
| 147006 | December 30 | Death | 1768 – Ruth Blay, American criminal (b. 1737) |
| 147007 | December 30 | Death | 1769 – Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Irish-Austrian soldier and courtier (b. 1685) |
| 147008 | December 30 | Death | 1777 – Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1727) |
| 147009 | December 30 | Death | 1788 – Francesco Zuccarelli, Italian painter (b. 1702) |
| 147010 | December 30 | Death | 1803 – Francis Lewis, Welsh-American merchant and politician (b. 1713) |
| 147011 | December 30 | Death | 1867 – Sarah Booth, English actress (b. 1793) |
| 147012 | December 30 | Death | 1879 – Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre, Baron of Santo Ângelo, Brazilian poet and painter (b. 1806) |
| 147013 | December 30 | Death | 1896 – José Rizal, Filipino ophthalmologist, journalist, and author (b. 1861) |
| 147014 | December 30 | Death | 1908 – Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1844) |
| 147015 | December 30 | Death | 1916 – Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic (b. 1869) |
| 147016 | December 30 | Death | 1928 – Jean Collas, French rugby player and tug of war competitor (b. 1874) |
| 147017 | December 30 | Death | 1937 – Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founded the East Asiatic Company (b. 1852) |
| 147018 | December 30 | Death | 1940 – Childe Wills, American engineer (b. 1878) |
| 147019 | December 30 | Death | 1941 – El Lissitzky, Russian photographer and architect (b. 1890) |
| 147020 | December 30 | Death | 1944 – Romain Rolland, French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866) |
| 147021 | December 30 | Death | 1945 – Song Jin-woo, South Korean journalist and politician (b. 1889) |
| 147022 | December 30 | Death | 1947 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter (b. 1889) |
| 147023 | December 30 | Death | 1947 – Alfred North Whitehead, English-American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1861) |
| 147024 | December 30 | Death | 1954 – Archduke Eugen of Austria (b. 1863) |
| 147025 | December 30 | Death | 1955 – Rex Ingamells, Australian poet and author (b. 1913) |
| 147026 | December 30 | Death | 1967 – Vincent Massey, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor General of Canada (b. 1887) |
| 147027 | December 30 | Death | 1968 – Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, 1st Secretary-General of the United Nations (b. 1896) |
| 147028 | December 30 | Death | 1970 – Angelos Evert, Greek police officer (b. 1894) |
| 147029 | December 30 | Death | 1970 – Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. 1932) |
| 147030 | December 30 | Death | 1971 – Jo Cals, Dutch lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1914) |