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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 19th of December 0211 | EVENT | Publius Septimius Geta, co-emperor of Rome, is lured to come without his bodyguards to meet his brother Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla), to discuss a possible reconciliation. When he arrives the Praetorian Guard murders him and he dies in the arms of his mother Julia Domna. |
| 19th of December 0324 | EVENT | Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. |
| 19th of December 1154 | EVENT | Henry II of England is crowned at Westminster Abbey. |
| 19th of December 1490 | EVENT | Anne, Duchess of Brittany, is married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor by proxy. |
| 19th of December 1606 | EVENT | The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery depart England carrying settlers who found, at Jamestown, Virginia, the first of the thirteen colonies that became the United States. |
| 19th of December 1776 | EVENT | Thomas Paine publishes one of a series of pamphlets in the Pennsylvania Journal titled The American Crisis. |
| 19th of December 1777 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: George Washington's Continental Army goes into winter quarters at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. |
| 19th of December 1796 | EVENT | French Revolutionary Wars: Two British frigates under Commodore Horatio Nelson and two Spanish frigates under Commodore Don Jacobo Stuart engage in battle off the coast of Murcia. |
| 19th of December 1828 | EVENT | Nullification Crisis: Vice President of the United States John C. Calhoun pens the South Carolina Exposition and Protest, protesting the Tariff of 1828. |
| 19th of December 1900 | EVENT | Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appointed Sir William Lyne as premier of the new state New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign. |
| 19th of December 1907 | EVENT | A group of 239 coal miners die during a mine explosion in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania. |
| 19th of December 1912 | EVENT | William H. Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over 1,000 people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison. |
| 19th of December 1916 | EVENT | World War I: Battle of Verdun : On the Western Front, the French Army successfully holds off the German Army and drives it back to its starting position. |
| 19th of December 1920 | EVENT | King Constantine I is restored as King of the Hellenes after the death of his son Alexander I of Greece and a plebiscite. |
| 19th of December 1924 | EVENT | The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England. |
| 19th of December 1932 | EVENT | BBC World Service begins broadcasting as the BBC Empire Service |
| 19th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Adolf Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army. |
| 19th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: Limpet mines placed by Italian divers sink the HMS Valiant (1914) and HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913) in Alexandria harbour. |
| 19th of December 1946 | EVENT | Start of the First Indochina War. |
| 19th of December 1956 | EVENT | Irish-born physician John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges. |
| 19th of December 1961 | EVENT | India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India. |
| 19th of December 1963 | EVENT | Zanzibar gains independence from the United Kingdom as a constitutional monarchy, under Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah. |
| 19th of December 1964 | EVENT | The South Vietnamese military junta of Nguyen Khanh dissolved the High National Council and arrested some of the members. |
| 19th of December 1967 | EVENT | Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead. |
| 19th of December 1972 | EVENT | Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ron Evans and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth. |
| 19th of December 1975 | EVENT | John Paul Stevens is appointed a justice of The United States Supreme Court. |
| 19th of December 1981 | EVENT | Sixteen lives are lost when the Penlee lifeboat goes to the aid of the stricken coaster Union Star in heavy seas. |
| 19th of December 1983 | EVENT | The original FIFA World Cup trophy, the Jules Rimet Trophy, is stolen from the headquarters of the Brazilian Football Confederation in Rio de Janeiro. |
| 19th of December 1984 | EVENT | The Sino-British Joint Declaration, stating that the People's Republic of China would resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong and the United Kingdom would restore Hong Kong to China with effect from July 1, 1997 is signed in Beijing by Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher. |
| 19th of December 1986 | EVENT | Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from internal exile in Gorky. |
| 19th of December 1995 | EVENT | The United States Government restores federal recognition to the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indian tribe. |
| 19th of December 1997 | EVENT | SilkAir Flight 185 crashes into the Musi River, near Palembang in Indonesia, killing 104. |
| 19th of December 1998 | EVENT | Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives forwards articles I and III of impeachment against President Bill Clinton to the Senate. |
| 19th of December 2000 | EVENT | The Leninist Guerrilla Units wing of the Communist Labour Party of Turkey/Leninist attack a Nationalist Movement Party office in Istanbul, killing one person and injuring three. |
| 19th of December 2001 | EVENT | A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khovsgol Province, Mongolia. |
| 19th of December 2001 | EVENT | Argentine economic crisis: December 2001 riots : Riots erupt in Buenos Aires. |
| 19th of December 1554 | BIRTHDAY | Philip William, Prince of Orange (d. 1618) |
| 19th of December 1587 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothea Sophia, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg (d. 1645) |
| 19th of December 1683 | BIRTHDAY | Philip V of Spain (d. 1746) |
| 19th of December 1699 | BIRTHDAY | William Bowyer, English printer (d. 1777) |
| 19th of December 1714 | BIRTHDAY | John Winthrop, American astronomer (d. 1779) |
| 19th of December 1778 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Marie-Therese-Charlotte, daughter of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI (d. 1851) |
| 19th of December 1784 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Morton, 16th and 18th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1864) |
| 19th of December 1796 | BIRTHDAY | Breton de los Herreros, Spanish playwright (d. 1873) |
| 19th of December 1813 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d. 1885) |
| 19th of December 1817 | BIRTHDAY | James J. Archer, Confederate general (d. 1864) |
| 19th of December 1820 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Livermore, American journalist and women's rights advocate (d. 1905) |
| 19th of December 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Bernice Pauahi Bishop, Hawaiian philanthropist (d. 1884) |
| 19th of December 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Albert Abraham Michelson, Prussian-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1931) |
| 19th of December 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Fitzpatrick, Canadian politician, lieutenant-governor of Quebec (d. 1942) |
| 19th of December 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Italo Svevo, Italian author (d. 1928) |
| 19th of December 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Minnie Maddern Fiske, American actress (d. 1932) |
| 19th of December 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Carter Woodson, American historian and author, founder of Black History Month (d. 1950) |
| 19th of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Reiner, Hungarian-born American conductor (d. 1963) |
| 19th of December 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Ford Frick, American baseball commissioner (d. 1978) |
| 19th of December 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Werner Dankwort, German diplomat (d. 1986) |
| 19th of December 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Ingeborg Refling Hagen, Norwegian author and teacher (d. 1989) |
| 19th of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Luther King, Sr., American Baptist minister and father of Civil Rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr. (d. 1984) |
| 19th of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Hell, German inventor (d. 2002) |
| 19th of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Fritz Mauruschat, German footballer (d. 1974) |
| 19th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Ralph Richardson, English actor (d. 1983) |
| 19th of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | George Davis Snell, American geneticist, Nobel laureate (d. 1996) |
| 19th of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Kahn, American financial analyst and investor |
| 19th of December 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union (d. 1982) |
| 19th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy McLarnin, former Welterweight Champion (d. 2004) |
| 19th of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (d. 2002) |
| 19th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Genet, French writer (d. 1986) |
| 19th of December 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Edith Piaf, French singer and actress (d. 1963) |
| 19th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, German political scientist (d. 2010) |
| 19th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Ward Baker, English film director (d. 2010) |
| 19th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Professor Longhair, American blues musician (d. 1980) |
| 19th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | David Susskind, American TV talk show host (d. 1987) |
| 19th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Little Jimmy Dickens, American country singer |
| 19th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Eamonn Andrews, Irish-born television presenter (d. 1987) |
| 19th of December 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Jackson, Scottish actor (d. 1990) |
| 19th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Chiti, Italian race car engineer (d. 1994) |
| 19th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund Purdom, English actor (d. 2009) |
| 19th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Morton, American comic; widower of Lucille Ball (d. 1999) |
| 19th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Harvey, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1989) |
| 19th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | William Schutz, American psychologist (d. 2002) |
| 19th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter |
| 19th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Tankred Dorst, German dramatist |
| 19th of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Layne, American football player (d. 1986) |
| 19th of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Herb Stempel, American game show contestant |
| 19th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | James Booth, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2005) |
| 19th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Oliveira, American artist (d. 2010) |
| 19th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Brookmeyer, American jazz musician |
| 19th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Sackler, American screenwriter (d. 1982) |
| 19th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer |
| 19th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Kevan Gosper, Australian athlete |
| 19th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Cicely Tyson, American actress |
| 19th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Rudi Carrell, Dutch entertainer (d. 2006) |
| 19th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Al Kaline, American baseball player |
| 19th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Casper R. Taylor, Jr., American politician |
| 19th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Pratibha Patil, Indian politician |
| 19th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Bostock, American actress |
| 19th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (d. 1974) |
| 19th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Joanne Weaver, American baseball player (d. 2000) |
| 19th of December 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Marian McKnight, American beauty pageant contestant (Miss America 1957) |
| 19th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Ochs, American folk singer (d. 1976) |
| 19th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Myung-bak, South Korean politician |
| 19th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice White, American singer and songwriter (Earth, Wind & Fire) |
| 19th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Rufus, French actor |
| 19th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | General James L. Jones, American military figure |
| 19th of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Ross M. Lence, American political scientist (d. 2006) |
| 19th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist |
| 19th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | William Christie, American-born French musician (Les Arts Florissants) |
| 19th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Leakey, Kenyan paleontologist, conservationist and politician |
| 19th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Alvin Lee, English singer and musician (Ten Years After) |
| 19th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Reid, American actor |
| 19th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Zal Yanovsky, Canadian guitarist (The Lovin' Spoonful) (d. 2002) |
| 19th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Elaine Joyce, American actress |
| 19th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Rosemary Conley, English businesswoman, author and broadcaster |
| 19th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Urich, American actor (d. 2002) |
| 19th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Van Dyke, American actor and radio disc jockey |
| 19th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Bain, Scottish musician |
| 19th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Ken Brown, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 19th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Kyes, American actress |
| 19th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastian, Danish musician |
| 19th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Rouse, British mountaineer (d. 1986) |
| 19th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Murphy, American composer, pianist and arranger |
| 19th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Lincoln Hall, Australian mountaineer |
| 19th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Portman, American politician, senator elect from Ohio |
| 19th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Lawless, American baseball player |
| 19th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Harris, American fisherman (Deadliest Catch) (d. 2010) |
| 19th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Cyril Collard, French film director (d. 1993) |
| 19th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin McHale, American basketball player |
| 19th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | John Gulager, American film director |
| 19th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Limahl, English singer (Kajagoogoo) |
| 19th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Isserlis, English cellist |
| 19th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Vallejo, Ecuadorian mountaineer |
| 19th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Lookinland, American actor |
| 19th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Derrick Jensen, American author and activist |
| 19th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Michelangelo Signorile, American writer |
| 19th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Reggie White, American football player (d. 2004) |
| 19th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Allin Cornell, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 19th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Waterhouse, English actor |
| 19th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Talley, American actress |
| 19th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Fleder, American film director |
| 19th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Beals, American actress |
| 19th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Til Schweiger, German actor |
| 19th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Beatrice Dalle, French actress |
| 19th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Arvydas Sabonis, Lithuanian basketball player |
| 19th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Chito Martinez, Belizean baseball player |
| 19th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jessica Steen, American actress |
| 19th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Chuckii Booker, American singer, musician and producer |
| 19th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Tomba, Italian alpine skier |
| 19th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Weinrich, American ice hockey player |
| 19th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Robert MacNaughton, American stage and screen actor |
| 19th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Frankie Lam, Hong Kong actor |
| 19th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Criss Angel, American illusionist |
| 19th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Villano IV, Mexican professional wrestler |
| 19th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kristy Swanson, American actress |
| 19th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Hammond, English television presenter |
| 19th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Gugliotta, American basketball player |
| 19th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Liz Cho, American television reporter |
| 19th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tyson Beckford, American model |
| 19th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Locane, American actress |
| 19th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Alyssa Milano, American actress |
| 19th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rosa Blasi, American actress |
| 19th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Warren Sapp, American football player |
| 19th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Takashi Sorimachi, Japanese actor |
| 19th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Zulfiya Zabirova, Russian cyclist |
| 19th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Felipe Lopez, Dominican basketball player |
| 19th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mikko Paananen, Finnish bassist (HIM) |
| 19th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Jurevicius, American football player |
| 19th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Plummer, American football player |
| 19th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ricky Ponting, Australian cricketer |
| 19th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Branyan, American baseball player |
| 19th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Michiel van den Bos, Dutch composer |
| 19th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Olivier Tebily, Ivorian footballer |
| 19th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Smith, British writer |
| 19th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Jorge Garbajosa, Spanish basketball player |
| 19th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Casey, American screenwriter and actor |
| 19th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Devine, American musician |
| 19th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Paola Rey, Colombian actress |
| 19th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Gyllenhaal, American actor |
| 19th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Haslam, Canadian skateboarder and bassist (Kobra Triangle) |
| 19th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Iman Ali, Pakistani model and actress |
| 19th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Marla Sokoloff, American actress |
| 19th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Williams, American basketball player |
| 19th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tero Pitkamaki, Finnish javelin thrower |
| 19th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Stajan, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 19th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Crescenzo, American Rock Artist |
| 19th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Kennedy, American baseball player |
| 19th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Cahill, English footballer |
| 19th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Kilkenny, English-born Australian soccer player |
| 19th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Lady Sovereign, English musician |
| 19th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Babel, Dutch footballer |
| 19th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Karim Benzema, French footballer |
| 19th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Winn, English footballer |
| 19th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Alexis Sanchez, Chilean footballer |
| 19th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Paulina Gretzky, American singer and model |
| 19th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Valdimar Bergsta?, Icelandic horse rider |
| 19th of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Bretz, American snowboarder |
| 19th of December 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Declan Galbraith, English singer |
| 19th of December 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Iker Muniain, Spanish/Basque footballer |
| 19th of December 0211 | DEATH | Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (Born 189) |
| 19th of December 0401 | DEATH | Pope Anastasius I |
| 19th of December 1075 | DEATH | Edith of Wessex, wife of Edward the Confessor |
| 19th of December 1111 | DEATH | Al-Ghazali, Islamic philosopher (Born 1058) |
| 19th of December 1327 | DEATH | Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy |
| 19th of December 1370 | DEATH | Pope Urban V (Born 1310) |
| 19th of December 1737 | DEATH | James Louis Sobieski, son of John III Sobieski, and pretender to the throne of Poland (Born 1667) |
| 19th of December 1741 | DEATH | Vitus Bering, Danish-born explorer (Born 1681) |
| 19th of December 1745 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste van Loo, French painter (Born 1684) |
| 19th of December 1749 | DEATH | Francesco Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (Born 1672) |
| 19th of December 1751 | DEATH | Louise of Great Britain, wife of Frederick V of Denmark (Born 1724) |
| 19th of December 1807 | DEATH | Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (Born 1723) |
| 19th of December 1813 | DEATH | James McGill, Scottish-born Canadian businessman and philanthropist (Born 1744) |
| 19th of December 1814 | DEATH | Joseph Bramah, British inventor and locksmith (Born 1748) |
| 19th of December 1819 | DEATH | Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval officer and politician (Born 1765) |
| 19th of December 1848 | DEATH | Emily Bronte, English author (Born 1818) |
| 19th of December 1878 | DEATH | Bayard Taylor, American author and poet (Born 1825) |
| 19th of December 1915 | DEATH | Alois Alzheimer, German neuroscientist (Born 1864) |
| 19th of December 1916 | DEATH | Thibaw Min, King of Burma (Born 1859) |
| 19th of December 1927 | DEATH | Ashfaqulla Khan, Indian independence movement figure (Born 1900) |
| 19th of December 1932 | DEATH | Yoon Bong-Gil, Korean activist (Born 1908) |
| 19th of December 1933 | DEATH | George Jackson Churchward, British locomotive engineer (Born 1857) |
| 19th of December 1938 | DEATH | Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American politician (Born 1873) |
| 19th of December 1939 | DEATH | Hans Langsdorff, German naval officer (Born 1894) |
| 19th of December 1944 | DEATH | Abbas II of Egypt (Born 1874) |
| 19th of December 1944 | DEATH | Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (Born 1856) |
| 19th of December 1946 | DEATH | Paul Langevin, French physicist (Born 1872) |
| 19th of December 1953 | DEATH | Robert Millikan, American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1868) |
| 19th of December 1968 | DEATH | Norman Thomas, American socialist (Born 1884) |
| 19th of December 1982 | DEATH | Dwight Macdonald, American social critic (Born 1906) |
| 19th of December 1984 | DEATH | Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (Born 1903) |
| 19th of December 1986 | DEATH | V. C. Andrews, American author (Born 1923) |
| 19th of December 1988 | DEATH | Robert Bernstein, American comic book writer (Born 1919) |
| 19th of December 1989 | DEATH | Stella Gibbons, English author (Born 1902) |
| 19th of December 1991 | DEATH | Joe Cole, American rock music roadie (Born 1961) |
| 19th of December 1993 | DEATH | Michael Clarke, American drummer (The Byrds) (Born 1946) |
| 19th of December 1996 | DEATH | Marcello Mastroianni, Italian actor (Born 1924) |
| 19th of December 1997 | DEATH | Masaru Ibuka, Japanese industrialist (Sony) (Born 1908) |
| 19th of December 1997 | DEATH | Jimmy Rogers, American blues guitarist (Born 1924) |
| 19th of December 1998 | DEATH | Mel Fisher, American treasure hunter (Born 1922) |
| 19th of December 1998 | DEATH | Antonio Ordonez, Spanish bullfighter (Born 1932) |
| 19th of December 1999 | DEATH | Desmond Llewelyn, Welsh actor (Born 1914) |
| 19th of December 2000 | DEATH | Milt Hinton, American jazz double bassist (Born 1910) |
| 19th of December 2000 | DEATH | Rob Buck, American guitarist (10,000 Maniacs) (Born 1958) |
| 19th of December 2000 | DEATH | David Dewayne Johnson, American convicted murderer (Born 1963) |
| 19th of December 2000 | DEATH | John Lindsay, American politician (Born 1921) |
| 19th of December 2000 | DEATH | Pops Staples, American singer (The Staple Singers) (Born 1915) |
| 19th of December 2001 | DEATH | Marcel Mule, French saxophonist (Born 1901) |
| 19th of December 2002 | DEATH | Arthur Rowley, English footballer (Born 1926) |
| 19th of December 2003 | DEATH | Hope Lange, American actress (Born 1933) |
| 19th of December 2003 | DEATH | Les Tremayne, English-born American actor (Born 1913) |
| 19th of December 2003 | DEATH | Peter Carter-Ruck, English lawyer (Born 1914) |
| 19th of December 2004 | DEATH | Herbert C. Brown, English-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1912) |
| 19th of December 2004 | DEATH | Renata Tebaldi, Italian soprano (Born 1922) |
| 19th of December 2005 | DEATH | Keith Duckworth, English mechanical engineer (Cosworth) (Born 1933) |
| 19th of December 2005 | DEATH | Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (Born 1927) |
| 19th of December 2008 | DEATH | Kenny Cox, American jazz musician (Born 1940) |
| 19th of December 2008 | DEATH | Dock Ellis, American baseball pitcher (Born 1945) |
| 19th of December 2008 | DEATH | James Bevel, American civil rights activist (Born 1936) |
| 19th of December 2008 | DEATH | Carol Chomsky, American linguist (Born 1930) |
| 19th of December 2008 | DEATH | Michael Connell, American political consultant (Born 1963) |
| 19th of December 2009 | DEATH | Kim Peek, American savant (Born 1951) |
| 19th of December 2009 | DEATH | Giridharilal Kedia, Indian entrepreneur (Born 1936) |
| 19th of December 2009 | DEATH | Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Iranian dissident cleric (Born 1922) |
| 19th of December 2010 | DEATH | Trudy Pitts, American jazz organist, pianist, and vocalist (Born 1932) |
| 19th of December 2010 | DEATH | Anthony Howard, English journalist (Born 1934) |