| 147061 | December 30 | Death | 2002 – Eleanor J. Gibson, American psychologist and academic (b. 1910) |
| 147062 | December 30 | Death | 2002 – Mary Wesley, English author (b. 1912) |
| 147063 | December 30 | Death | 2003 – David Bale, South African–American businessman and activist (b. 1941) |
| 147064 | December 30 | Death | 2003 – John Gregory Dunne, American author and screenwriter (b. 1932) |
| 147065 | December 30 | Death | 2003 – Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (b. 1963) |
| 147066 | December 30 | Death | 2004 – Rıza Maksut İşman, Turkish runner (b. 1915) |
| 147067 | December 30 | Death | 2004 – Artie Shaw, American clarinet player, composer, and bandleader (b. 1910) |
| 147068 | December 30 | Death | 2005 – Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer and coach (b. 1940) |
| 147069 | December 30 | Death | 2005 – Rona Jaffe, American-English author (b. 1932) |
| 147070 | December 30 | Death | 2006 – Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq (b. 1937) |
| 147071 | December 30 | Death | 2006 – Terry Peck, Falkland Islander police officer and spy (b. 1938) |
| 147072 | December 30 | Death | 2006 – Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1948) |
| 147073 | December 30 | Death | 2009 – Vishnuvardhan, Indian actor (b. 1950) |
| 147074 | December 30 | Death | 2009 – Rowland S. Howard, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Birthday Party and These Immortal Souls) (b. 1959) |
| 147075 | December 30 | Death | 2009 – Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian journalist and politician, 4th President of Indonesia (b. 1940) |
| 147076 | December 30 | Death | 2010 – Bobby Farrell, Aruban-Dutch singer and dancer (Boney M.) (b. 1949) |
| 147077 | December 30 | Death | 2011 – Ronald Searle, English-French cartoonist (b. 1920) |
| 147078 | December 30 | Death | 2012 – Philip Coppens, Belgian-American journalist and author (b. 1971) |
| 147079 | December 30 | Death | 2012 – Beate Sirota Gordon, Austrian-American director and producer (b. 1923) |
| 147080 | December 30 | Death | 2012 – Rita Levi-Montalcini, Italian neurologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1909) |
| 147081 | December 30 | Death | 2012 – Gloria Pall, American model and actress (b. 1927) |
| 147082 | December 30 | Death | 2012 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (b. 1928) |
| 147083 | December 30 | Death | 2013 – Martin Berkofsky, American pianist (b. 1943) |
| 147084 | December 30 | Death | 2013 – Kinnaird R. McKee, American admiral (b. 1929) |
| 147085 | December 30 | Death | 2013 – José María Maguregui, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1934) |
| 147086 | December 30 | Death | 2013 – Eiichi Ohtaki, Japanese singer-songwriter and producer (Happy End) (b. 1948) |
| 147087 | December 30 | Death | 2013 – Johnny Orr, American basketball player and coach (b. 1927) |
| 147088 | December 30 | Death | 2013 – Jan Steyn, South African judge (b. 1928) |
| 147089 | December 30 | Death | 2014 – Terry Becker, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1921) |
| 147090 | December 30 | Death | 2014 – Yolande Donlan, American-English actress (b. 1920) |