| 147391 | December 31 | Death | 1535 – William Skeffington, English-Irish politician, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1465) |
| 147392 | December 31 | Death | 1568 – Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese daimyo (b. 1493) |
| 147393 | December 31 | Death | 1575 – Pierino Belli, Italian commander and jurist (b. 1502) |
| 147394 | December 31 | Death | 1583 – Thomas Erastus, Swiss physician and theologian (b. 1524) |
| 147395 | December 31 | Death | 1610 – Ludolph van Ceulen, German-Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1540) |
| 147396 | December 31 | Death | 1650 – Dorgon, Chinese emperor (b. 1612) |
| 147397 | December 31 | Death | 1655 – Janusz Radziwiłł, Polish–Lithuanian politician (b. 1612) |
| 147398 | December 31 | Death | 1673 – Oliver St John, English judge and politician, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (b. 1598) |
| 147399 | December 31 | Death | 1679 – Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (b. 1608) |
| 147400 | December 31 | Death | 1691 – Robert Boyle, Irish chemist and physicist (b. 1627) |
| 147401 | December 31 | Death | 1691 – Dudley North, English merchant and economist (b. 1641) |
| 147402 | December 31 | Death | 1705 – Catherine of Braganza (b. 1638) |
| 147403 | December 31 | Death | 1719 – John Flamsteed, English astronomer (b. 1646) |
| 147404 | December 31 | Death | 1742 – Charles III Philip, Elector Palatine (b. 1661) |
| 147405 | December 31 | Death | 1799 – Jean-François Marmontel, French historian and author (b. 1723) |
| 147406 | December 31 | Death | 1872 – Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author and playwright (b. 1834) |
| 147407 | December 31 | Death | 1876 – Catherine Labouré, French nun and saint (b. 1806) |
| 147408 | December 31 | Death | 1877 – Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter (b. 1819) |
| 147409 | December 31 | Death | 1888 – Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi and scholar (b. 1808) |
| 147410 | December 31 | Death | 1889 – Ion Creangă, Romanian author and educator (b. 1837) |
| 147411 | December 31 | Death | 1890 – Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier (b. 1826) |
| 147412 | December 31 | Death | 1891 – Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Nigerian bishop and linguist (b. 1809) |
| 147413 | December 31 | Death | 1894 – Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician and academic (b. 1856) |
| 147414 | December 31 | Death | 1909 – Spencer Trask, American financier and philanthropist (b. 1844) |
| 147415 | December 31 | Death | 1910 – Archibald Hoxsey, American pilot (b. 1884) |
| 147416 | December 31 | Death | 1910 – John Moisant, American pilot and engineer (b. 1868) |
| 147417 | December 31 | Death | 1921 – Boies Penrose, American lawyer and politician (b. 1860) |
| 147418 | December 31 | Death | 1936 – Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1864) |
| 147419 | December 31 | Death | 1948 – Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver (b. 1885) |
| 147420 | December 31 | Death | 1949 – Raimond Valgre, Estonian pianist and composer (b. 1913) |