Deaths in December 2014

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2014. For notable deaths before the current month, please see "Previous months".

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, cause of death, reference (must be added) are added.


December 2014

 December 1 - Sita Murt, 68, Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman, cancer.
 December 1 - Mario Abramovich, 88, Argentine violinist and composer.
 December 1 - Alberto Breccia Guzzo, 68, Uruguayan politician and lawyer.
December 1 - Roberto Sagastume Pinto, 70, Guatemalan politician, Mayor of Esquipulas (1996–2000), Governor of Chiquimula (2001–2003), traffic collision.
 December 2 - Don L. Anderson, 81, American geophysicist, cancer.
 December 2 - Bobby Keys, 70, American saxophonist (The Rolling Stones), cirrhosis.
 December 2 - Jean Béliveau, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).
 December 2 - Don Laws, 85, American figure skater and coach, heart failure.
 December 3 - James Stewart, 73, Canadian mathematician and violinist,  multiple myeloma.
 December 3 - Giulio Questi, 90, Italian director and screenwriter (Django Kill, La morte ha fatto l'uovo).
 December 3 - Walter Reyno, 79, Uruguayan actor and director, respiratory failure.
 December 3 - Herman Badillo, 85, Puerto Rican-born American politician, member of the U.S. House from New York's 22nd (1971–1973) and 21st (1973–1977) districts, congestive heart failure.
 December 3 - Jacques Barrot, 77, French politician, European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security (2008–2010).
 December 3 - Ian McLagan, 69, English keyboardist (Small Faces), stroke.
 December 3 - Luc Oursel, 55, French businessman, CEO of Areva (2011–2014).
 December 3 - Sjefke Janssen, 95, Dutch racing cyclist.
 December 4 - Lynne Kosky, 56, Australian politician, MLA for Altona (1996–2010), breast cancer.
 December 4 - Claudia Emerson, 57, American poet, cancer.
 December 4 - V. R. Krishna Iyer, 100, Indian judge, member of the Supreme Court, renal and heart failure.
 December 4 - Jeremy Thorpe, 85, British politician, Leader of the Liberal Party (1967–1976), MP for North Devon (1959–1979), central figure in the Thorpe affair, Parkinson's disease.
 December 5 - Queen Fabiola of Belgium, 86, Spanish-born Belgian royal, queen consort (1960–1993).
 December 5 - Manuel De Sica, 65, Italian composer, heart attack.
 December 5 - Jackie Healy-Rae, 83, Irish politician, Teachta Dála (TD) for Kerry South (1997–2011).
 December 5 - Silvio Zavala, 105, Mexican historian and diplomat, Ambassador to France (1966–1975).
 December 6 - Luke Somers, 33, British-born American photojournalist and al-Qaeda hostage, shot. (death announced on this date)
 December 6 - Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah, 39, Saudi Arabian soldier (member of al-Qaeda), shot.
 December 6 - Fred Hawkins, 91, American golf player. 
 December 6 - Ralph H. Baer, 92, American video game pioneer, inventor and engineer, developed the Magnavox Odyssey, recipient of the National Medal of Technology (2006).
 December 7 - Khalil Ullah Khan, 80, Bangladeshi movie actor, heart disease.
 December 7 - Mango, 60, Italian singer-songwriter and musician, heart attack.
 December 7 - Ken Weatherwax, 59, American actor (The Addams Family), heart attack.
 December 7 - Mark Lewis, 60, American storyteller, actor and teacher, surgical complications.
 December 8 - Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, 87, Indian carnatic vocalist, lung cancer.
 December 8 - Russ Kemmerer, 84, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox).
 December 8 - Knut Nystedt, 99, Norwegian orchestral and choral composer.
 December 9 - Jorge María Mejía, 91, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, cardinal, Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives (1998–2003), Librarian of the Vatican Library (1998–2003).
 December 9 - Jože Toporišič, 88, Slovenian linguist. 
 December 9 - Mary Ann Mobley, 75, American actress (Diff'rent Strokes) and television personality, 1959 Miss America, breast cancer.
 December 9 - Jane Freilicher, 90, American representational painter.
 December 9 - Karl Otto Pöhl, 85, German economist, President of the Bundesbank (1980–1991).
 December 10 - Ralph Giordano, 91, German writer and publicist, complications from a fall.
 December 10 - Judy Baar Topinka, 70, American politician, Illinois Treasurer (1995–2007) and Comptroller (since 2011), complications from a stroke.
 December 10 - Robert B. Oakley, 83, American diplomat, Ambasssador to Zaire (1979–1982), Somalia (1982–1984) and Pakistan (1988–1991), Parkinson's disease.
 December 10 - Robert Wolfe, 93, American historian, archivist and World War II veteran, natural causes.
 December 10 - Bob Solinger, 88, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs).
 December 11 - Tom Adams, 76, English actor (The Great Escape, Doctor Who), cancer.
 December 11 - Giorgio Ardisson, 83, Italian actor (The Long Hair of Death, Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell).
 December 12 - Ivor Grattan-Guinness, 73, English historian of mathematics and logic.
 December 12 - John Persen, 73, Norwegian composer.
 December 12 - Norman Bridwell, 86, American author and cartoonist (Clifford the Big Red Dog).
 December 12 - John Baxter, 78, Scottish footballer (Hibernian).
 December 13 - Ernst Albrecht, 84, German politician, Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (1976–1990), Alzheimer's disease. (death announced on this date)
 December 13 - Bill Bonds, 80s, American television news anchor (WXYZ Detroit), heart attack.
 December 13 - Joan Barril, 62, Spanish writer and journalist, pneumonia.
 December 13 - Andreas Schockenhoff, 57, German politician, MP (since 1990). (death announced on this date)
 December 14 - Louis Alphonse Koyagialo, 67, Congolese politician, Acting Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2012).
 December 14 - Angalifu, 44, Sudanese-born American rhinoceros, one of two remaining male northern white rhinoceros.
 December 14 - Theo Colborn, 87, American environmentalist and academic.
 December 15 - Chakri, 40, Indian movie composer and singer, heart attack.
 December 15 - Mustapha Maarof, 79, Malaysian actor (Hang Tuah, 1957: Hati Malaya, Chermin), respiratory failure.
 December 16 - Man Haron Monis, 50, Iranian self-styled Muslim cleric and hostage taker, shot.
 December 16 - Tim Cochran, 59, American mathematician.
 December 16 - Martin Brasier, 67, English palaeobiologist and astrobiologist, traffic collision.
 December 16 - Phillip Archuleta, 65, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (since 2013), pneumonia.
 December 17 - Dieter Grau, 101, German-American rocket scientist.
 December 17 - Ivan Vekić, 76, Croatian politician.
 December 17 - Richard C. Hottelet, 97, American broadcast journalist (Murrow's Boys).
 December 17 - Oleh Lysheha, 65, Ukrainian poet, playwright and translator.
 December 18 - Virna Lisi, 78, Italian actress (How to Murder Your Wife, La Reine Margot).
 December 18 - Donald J. Albosta, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House from Michigan's 10th district (1979–1985).
 December 18 - Ingvar Kjellson, 91, Swedish actor (Heja Roland!), pneumonia.
 December 18 - Mandy Rice-Davies, 70, British model, figure in the Profumo affair, cancer.
 December 18 - Gideon Ben-Yisrael, 92, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset for Mapai and Rafi.
 December 18 - Larry Smith, 63, American record producer (Run–D.M.C., King of Rock).
 December 18 - Robert Simpson, 102, American meteorologist, co-developer of the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale.
 December 19 - Philip Bradbourn, 63, British politician, MEP for West Midlands (since 1999), bowel cancer.
 December 19 - Arthur Gardner, 104, American movie and television producer (The Rifleman) and actor (All Quiet on the Western Front).  
 December 19 - Igor Rodionov, 78, Russian general and politician.
 December 20 - John Freeman, 99, British politician, MP for Watford (1945–1955), journalist, broadcaster (Face to Face), diplomat (British Ambassador to the United States 1969–1971). 
 December 20 - Per-Ingvar Brånemark, 85, Swedish orthopedic surgeon, heart attack.
 December 20 - Bob Lanier, 89, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Houston, Texas (1992–1998), natural causes.
 December 21 - Udo Jürgens, 80, Austrian composer and singer ("Reach for the Stars").
 December 21 - Alan Williams, 84, British politician, MP for Swansea West (1964–2010), Father of the House (2005–2010), stroke.
 December 21 - Åke Johansson, 86, Swedish football player.
 December 21 - Morteza Ahmadi, 90, Iranian actor.
 December 21 - Jane Bown, 89, British photographer (The Observer).
 December 21 - Frank Truitt, 89, American basketball coach (LSU, Kent State).
 December 21 - Sitor Situmorang, 91, Indonesian poet and writer.
 December 21 - Billie Whitelaw, 82, English actress (The Omen, The Krays, Hot Fuzz).
 December 21 - Horacio Ferrer, 81, Uruguayan poet, broadcaster and tango lyricist, heart failure.
 December 22 - Joe Cocker, 70, British singer ("With a Little Help from My Friends", "You Are So Beautiful", "Up Where We Belong"), lung cancer.
 December 22 - Abd El Aziz Muhammad Hegazi, 91, Egyptian politician, Prime Minister (1974–1975).
 December 22 - Bernard Stone, 87, American politician, Chicago Alderman (1973–2011), complications from a fall.
 December 22 - Joseph Sargent, 89, American movie director (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, MacArthur, Nightmares), heart disease.
 December 22 - Fritz Sdunek, 67, German professional boxing trainer (trained world champions Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, Felix Sturm) 
 December 22 - Christine Cavanaugh, 51, American voice actress (Rugrats, Dexter's Laboratory, Darkwing Duck, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters), leukemia.
 December 23 - João Nílson Zunino, 68, Brazilian executive, President of Avaí FC (2002–2013).
 December 23 - K. Balachander, 84, Indian director and producer, complications from urinary tract infection.
 December 23 - Jeremy Lloyd, 84, British screenwriter (Are You Being Served?, 'Allo 'Allo!), pneumonia.
 December 23 - Jacques Chancel, 86, French journalist and writer.
 December 23 - Edward Greenspan, 70, Canadian lawyer, heart failure.
 December 24 - Buddy DeFranco, 91, American jazz clarinet player.
 December 24 - Herbert Harris, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House from Virginia's 8th district (1975–1981).
 December 24 - Krzysztof Krauze, 61, Polish movie director (The Debt, Plac Zbawiciela), prostate cancer.
 December 25 - Gleb Yakunin, 80, Russian priest and Soviet dissident, long-illness.
 December 25 - Alberta Adams, 97, American blues singer, long-illness.
 December 25 - David Ryall, 79, English actor (The Village, Harry Potter, The Elephant Man).
 December 25 - N. L. Balakrishnan, 72, Indian actor and photographer.
 December 26 - Stanisław Barańczak, 68, Polish poet and academic.
 December 26 - James B. Edwards, 87, American politician, Governor of South Carolina (1975–1979), United States Secretary of Energy (1981–1982), complications from a stroke.
 December 26 - Leo Tindemans, 92, Belgian politician, Prime Minister of Belgium (1974-1978), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1981-1989).
 December 26 - Roberto Delmastro, 69, Chilean politician, MP for Valdivia (1998–2010), lung cancer.
 December 27 - Tomaž Šalamun, 73, Slovenian poet.
 December 27 - Karel Poma, 94, Belgian politician and minister of state, MP (1965–1985), Mayor of Wilrijk (1953–1958).
 December 28 - Leopoldo Federico, 87, Argentine tango musician.
 December 28 - Frankie Randall, 76, American singer and actor, lung cancer.
 December 28 - Merrill Womach, 87, American gospel singer.
 December 28 - Vahan Hovhannisyan, 58, Armenian politician.
 December 29 - Odd Iversen, 69, Norwegian footballer (Rosenborg, national team).
 December 29 - Hardo Aasmäe, 63, Estonian geographer, entrepreneur, and politician.
 December 30 - Antonio Brack Egg, 74, Peruvian ecologist and politician, Minister of Environment (2008–2011).
 December 30 - Luise Rainer, 104, German-born American actress (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth), pneumonia.
 December 30 - Marian Jurczyk, 79, Polish politician and Solidarity trade union activist, Mayor of Szczecin (1998–2000; 2002–2006).
 December 30 - Walter Roque, 77, Uruguayan-born Venezuelan football player (Uruguay national team) and coach (Venezuela national team).
 December 31 - Edward Herrmann, 71, American actor (Gilmore Girls, Annie, Reds), brain cancer.
 December 31 - Arthur Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, 99, British aristocrat and Army officer.

Previous months
Deaths in January 2014
Deaths in February 2014
Deaths in March 2014 
Deaths in April 2014
Deaths in May 2014
Deaths in June 2014
Deaths in July 2014
Deaths in August 2014
Deaths in September 2014
Deaths in October 2014
Deaths in November 2014

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