| 147451 | December 31 | Death | 2000 – Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (b. 1966) |
| 147452 | December 31 | Death | 2001 – Eileen Heckart, American actress (b. 1919) |
| 147453 | December 31 | Death | 2002 – Kevin MacMichael, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Cutting Crew) (b. 1951) |
| 147454 | December 31 | Death | 2003 – Arthur R. von Hippel German-American physicist and author (b. 1898) |
| 147455 | December 31 | Death | 2004 – Gérard Debreu, French economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1921) |
| 147456 | December 31 | Death | 2005 – Enrico Di Giuseppe, American tenor (b. 1932) |
| 147457 | December 31 | Death | 2005 – Phillip Whitehead, English screenwriter, producer, and politician (b. 1937) |
| 147458 | December 31 | Death | 2006 – Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist, author, and academic (b. 1922) |
| 147459 | December 31 | Death | 2006 – George Sisler, Jr., American businessman (b. 1917) |
| 147460 | December 31 | Death | 2007 – Roy Amara, American scientific researcher (b. 1925) |
| 147461 | December 31 | Death | 2007 – Tommy Dickson, Irish footballer (b. 1929) |
| 147462 | December 31 | Death | 2007 – Michael Goldberg, American painter and educator (b. 1924) |
| 147463 | December 31 | Death | 2007 – Bill Idelson, American actor, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1919) |
| 147464 | December 31 | Death | 2007 – Kathryn Ish, American actress (b. 1936) |
| 147465 | December 31 | Death | 2007 – Milton L. Klein, Canadian lawyer and politician (b. 1910) |
| 147466 | December 31 | Death | 2007 – Markku Peltola, Finnish actor and singer (b. 1956) |
| 147467 | December 31 | Death | 2007 – Ettore Sottsass, Austrian-Italian architect and designer (b. 1917) |
| 147468 | December 31 | Death | 2008 – Donald E. Westlake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1933) |
| 147469 | December 31 | Death | 2008 – Barry Nelson, American actor (b. 1918) |
| 147470 | December 31 | Death | 2009 – Erica Boyer, American porn actress, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1956) |
| 147471 | December 31 | Death | 2009 – Cahal Daly, Irish cardinal and philosopher (b. 1917) |
| 147472 | December 31 | Death | 2009 – Justin Keating, Irish surgeon, journalist, and politician, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (b. 1930) |
| 147473 | December 31 | Death | 2010 – Raymond Impanis, Belgian cyclist (b. 1925) |
| 147474 | December 31 | Death | 2010 – Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1927) |
| 147475 | December 31 | Death | 2012 – Peter Ebert, English director and producer (b. 1918) |
| 147476 | December 31 | Death | 2012 – Tarak Mekki, Tunisian businessman and politician (b. 1958) |
| 147477 | December 31 | Death | 2012 – Jovette Marchessault, Canadian author and playwright (b. 1938) |
| 147478 | December 31 | Death | 2012 – James B. Reuter, American-Filipino priest and journalist (b. 1916) |
| 147479 | December 31 | Death | 2012 – Günter Rössler, German photographer and journalist (b. 1926) |
| 147480 | December 31 | Death | 2013 – Antonio Allocca, Italian actor (b. 1937) |