| 147031 | December 30 | Death | 1971 – Melba Rae, American actress (b. 1922) |
| 147032 | December 30 | Death | 1971 – Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (b. 1919) |
| 147033 | December 30 | Death | 1979 – Richard Rodgers, American playwright and composer (b. 1902) |
| 147034 | December 30 | Death | 1981 – Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (b. 1959) |
| 147035 | December 30 | Death | 1982 – Alberto Vargas, Peruvian-American painter and illustrator (b. 1896) |
| 147036 | December 30 | Death | 1983 – Sevim Burak, Turkish author and playwright (b. 1931) |
| 147037 | December 30 | Death | 1983 – Violette Cordery, English racing driver (b. 1900) |
| 147038 | December 30 | Death | 1984 – Massa, Ghanaian-American gorilla (b. 1930) |
| 147039 | December 30 | Death | 1986 – Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (b. 1905) |
| 147040 | December 30 | Death | 1988 – Yuli Daniel, Russian author and poet (b. 1925) |
| 147041 | December 30 | Death | 1989 – Leonore Lemmon, American girlfriend of George Reeves (b. 1923) |
| 147042 | December 30 | Death | 1990 – Raghuvir Sahay, Indian author, poet, and critic (b. 1929) |
| 147043 | December 30 | Death | 1993 – Mack David, American songwriter (b. 1912) |
| 147044 | December 30 | Death | 1993 – Irving Paul Lazar, American talent agent (b. 1907) |
| 147045 | December 30 | Death | 1993 – Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian-French physicist and academic (b. 1907) |
| 147046 | December 30 | Death | 1993 – İhsan Sabri Çağlayangil, Turkish politician, 20th Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1908) |
| 147047 | December 30 | Death | 1994 – Dmitri Ivanenko, Ukrainian-Russian physicist and academic (b. 1904) |
| 147048 | December 30 | Death | 1994 – Maureen Starkey Tigrett, English-American hairdresser (b. 1946) |
| 147049 | December 30 | Death | 1995 – Ralph Flanagan, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1914) |
| 147050 | December 30 | Death | 1995 – Doris Grau, American actress (b. 1924) |
| 147051 | December 30 | Death | 1996 – Lew Ayres, American actor and singer (b. 1908) |
| 147052 | December 30 | Death | 1996 – Jack Nance, American actor (b. 1943) |
| 147053 | December 30 | Death | 1997 – Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese author and illustrator (b. 1926) |
| 147054 | December 30 | Death | 1998 – Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) (b. 1934) |
| 147055 | December 30 | Death | 1998 – Sam Muchnick, American wrestling promoter, co-founded the National Wrestling Alliance (b. 1905) |
| 147056 | December 30 | Death | 1998 – George Webb, English actor (b. 1911) |
| 147057 | December 30 | Death | 1999 – Sarah Knauss, American super-centenarian (b. 1880) |
| 147058 | December 30 | Death | 1999 – Fritz Leonhardt, German engineer, co-designed the Cologne Rodenkirchen Bridge and Fernsehturm Stuttgart (b. 1909) |
| 147059 | December 30 | Death | 2000 – Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1909) |
| 147060 | December 30 | Death | 2002 – Mary Brian, American actress (b. 1906) |