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.
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* 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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