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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 20th of December 0069 | EVENT | Vespasian, formerly a general under Nero, enters Rome to claim the title of emperor. |
| 20th of December 0217 | EVENT | The papacy of Zephyrinus ends. Callixtus I is elected as the sixteenth pope, but is opposed by the theologian Hippolytus who accuses him of laxity and of being a Modalist, one who denies any distinction between the three persons of the Trinity. |
| 20th of December 1192 | EVENT | Richard the Lion-Heart is captured and imprisoned by Leopold V of Austria on his way home to England after signing a treaty with Saladin ending the Third crusade. |
| 20th of December 1522 | EVENT | Suleiman the Magnificent accepts the surrender of the surviving Knights of Rhodes, who are allowed to evacuate. They eventually settle on Malta and become known as the Knights of Malta. |
| 20th of December 1606 | EVENT | The Virginia Company loads three ships with settlers and sets sail to establish Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. |
| 20th of December 1803 | EVENT | The Louisiana Purchase is completed at a ceremony in New Orleans. |
| 20th of December 1860 | EVENT | South Carolina becomes the first state to secede from the United States. |
| 20th of December 1915 | EVENT | World War I: Last Australian troops evacuated from Gallipoli. |
| 20th of December 1917 | EVENT | Cheka, the first Soviet secret police, is founded. |
| 20th of December 1924 | EVENT | Hitler: is released from Landsberg Prison |
| 20th of December 1941 | EVENT | World War II: First battle of the American Volunteer Group, better known as the "Flying Tigers" in Kunming, China. |
| 20th of December 1942 | EVENT | World War II: Bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese. |
| 20th of December 1946 | EVENT | An 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaido, Japan, kill over 1,300 people and destroy over 38,000 homes. |
| 20th of December 1951 | EVENT | The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs. |
| 20th of December 1952 | EVENT | United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87. |
| 20th of December 1955 | EVENT | Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom. |
| 20th of December 1959 | EVENT | The Walker Family Murders |
| 20th of December 1960 | EVENT | National Front for the Liberation of Vietnam is formed. |
| 20th of December 1968 | EVENT | The Zodiac Killer kills Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday in Vallejo, California. |
| 20th of December 1973 | EVENT | The Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, is assassinated by a car bomb attack in Madrid. |
| 20th of December 1977 | EVENT | Djibouti and Vietnam join the United Nations. |
| 20th of December 1984 | EVENT | The Summit tunnel fire is the largest underground fire in history, as a freight train carrying over 1 million litres of petrol derails near the town of Todmorden in the Pennines. |
| 20th of December 1987 | EVENT | History's worst peacetime sea disaster, when the passenger ferry Dona Paz sinks after colliding with the oil tanker Vector 1 in the Tablas Strait in the Philippines, killing an estimated 4,000 people (1,749 official). |
| 20th of December 1988 | EVENT | The United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances is signed in Vienna. |
| 20th of December 1989 | EVENT | United States invasion of Panama: The United States sends troops into Panama to overthrow government of Manuel Noriega. |
| 20th of December 1991 | EVENT | A Missouri court sentences the Palestinian militant Zein Isa and his wife Maria to death for the honor killing of their daughter Palestina. |
| 20th of December 1995 | EVENT | American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50 km north of Cali, Colombia killing 160. |
| 20th of December 1995 | EVENT | NATO begins peacekeeping in Bosnia. |
| 20th of December 1996 | EVENT | NeXT merges with Apple Computer, starting the path to Mac OS X. |
| 20th of December 1999 | EVENT | Macau is handed over to the People's Republic of China by Portugal. |
| 20th of December 2004 | EVENT | A gang of thieves steal ?26.5 million worth of currency from the Donegall Square West headquarters of Northern Bank in Belfast, Northern Ireland, one of the largest bank robberies in UK history. |
| 20th of December 2005 | EVENT | US District Court Judge John E. Jones III rules against mandating the teaching of "intelligent design" in his ruling of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District. |
| 20th of December 2007 | EVENT | Elizabeth II becomes the oldest ever monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria, who lived for 81 years, 7 months and 29 days. |
| 20th of December 2007 | EVENT | The painting Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, is stolen from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art, along with O Lavrador de Cafe, by the major Brazilian modernist painter Candido Portinari. |
| 20th of December 1494 | BIRTHDAY | Oronce Fine, French mathematician (d. 1555) |
| 20th of December 1537 | BIRTHDAY | King John III of Sweden (d. 1592) |
| 20th of December 1566 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Wightman, English Baptist preacher (d. 1612) |
| 20th of December 1579 | BIRTHDAY | (baptized) John Fletcher, English playwright (d. 1625) |
| 20th of December 1626 | BIRTHDAY | Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (d. 1692) |
| 20th of December 1629 | BIRTHDAY | Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (d. 1684) |
| 20th of December 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes, French statesman and diplomat (d. 1787) |
| 20th of December 1740 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Lee, American diplomat (d. 1792) |
| 20th of December 1786 | BIRTHDAY | Pietro Raimondi, Italian composer (d. 1853) |
| 20th of December 1792 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Charlet, French painter (d. 1845) |
| 20th of December 1833 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Mudd, American physician (d. 1883) |
| 20th of December 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster, theologian, and author (d. 1926) |
| 20th of December 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1932) |
| 20th of December 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Leno, English entertainer (d. 1904) |
| 20th of December 1861 | BIRTHDAY | Ivana Kobilca, Slovenian painter (d. 1926) |
| 20th of December 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Elsie De Wolfe, American socialite and interior decorator (d. 1950) |
| 20th of December 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Harvey Firestone, American automobile pioneer (d. 1938) |
| 20th of December 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Grapewin, American actor (d. 1956) |
| 20th of December 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian (d. 1948) |
| 20th of December 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Branch Rickey, baseball executive (d. 1965) |
| 20th of December 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (d. 1974) |
| 20th of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Yitzhak Baer, German-born Israeli historian (d. 1980) |
| 20th of December 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Merkle, American baseball figure (d. 1958) |
| 20th of December 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Jaroslav Heyrovsky, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967) |
| 20th of December 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Yvonne Arnaud, French-born actress (d. 1958) |
| 20th of December 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Robert Menzies, twelfth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1978) |
| 20th of December 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Irene Dunne, American actress (d. 1990) |
| 20th of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Van de Graaff, American physicist and inventor (d. 1967) |
| 20th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Sidney Hook, American philosopher (d. 1989) |
| 20th of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | George Edward Alexander Windsor, Duke of Kent (d. 1942) |
| 20th of December 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (d. 1977) |
| 20th of December 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Spud Davis, baseball player (d. 1984) |
| 20th of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricket player (d. 1992) |
| 20th of December 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Francis Webster, songwriter (d. 1984) |
| 20th of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis Morgan, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 20th of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Vakkom Majeed, Indian politician (d. 2000) |
| 20th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Hortense Calisher, American author (d. 2009) |
| 20th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Harry F. Byrd Jr, American politician |
| 20th of December 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Chartrand, Quebec union leader (d. 2010) |
| 20th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | David Bohm, American-born physicist, philosopher, and neuropsychologist (d. 1992) |
| 20th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Marchand, French Canadian trade unionist and politician (d. 1988) |
| 20th of December 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Audrey Totter, American actress |
| 20th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | George Roy Hill, American film director (d. 2002) |
| 20th of December 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Beverly Pepper, American sculptor and painter |
| 20th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Charlie Callas, American comedian |
| 20th of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Judy LaMarsh, Canadian politician and broadcaster (d. 1980) |
| 20th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Mahathir bin Mohamad, Prime Minister of Malaysia |
| 20th of December 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Benito Lorenzi, Italian footballer (d. 2007) |
| 20th of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Geoffrey Howe, British politician |
| 20th of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Otto Graf Lambsdorff, German politician |
| 20th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Young-sam, 14th President of South Korea |
| 20th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Sanders, American filmmaker |
| 20th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Mala Powers, American film actress (d. 2007) |
| 20th of December 1932 | BIRTHDAY | John Hillerman, American actor (Magnum, P.I.) |
| 20th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Rik van Looy, Belgian cyclist |
| 20th of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Carnahan, U.S. Senator |
| 20th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Khalid Ibadulla, Pakistani cricket player |
| 20th of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | John Harbison, American composer |
| 20th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Chapman, English Author, Founder The Curry Club |
| 20th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Cole, American makeup artist, actor and singer |
| 20th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Rana Bhagwandas, Former Pakistani Chief Justice |
| 20th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jean-Claude Trichet, French banker and economist |
| 20th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Colomby, American musician (Blood, Sweat & Tears) |
| 20th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Fergusson, English actress |
| 20th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Criss, American drummer and singer (Kiss) |
| 20th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Sivakant Tiwari, senior legal officer of the Singapore Legal Service (d. 2010) |
| 20th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lesley Judd, English TV presenter and dancer |
| 20th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | John Spencer, American actor (d. 2005) |
| 20th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Sonny Perdue, American politician, governor of Georgia |
| 20th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Mumphord, NFL football player |
| 20th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Wolf, American television series creator |
| 20th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Uri Geller, Israeli mentalist |
| 20th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gigliola Cinquetti, Italian singer |
| 20th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Parsons, British music producer and artist |
| 20th of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Stevie Wright, English-born Australian musician and songwriter |
| 20th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Soumaila Cisse, Malian politician |
| 20th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Cecil Cooper, American baseball player |
| 20th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Arturo Marquez, Mexican composer |
| 20th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Peter May, Scottish novelist and scriptwriter |
| 20th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Gilbert Montagne, French musician |
| 20th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Sky Gilbert, Canadian writer |
| 20th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Jenny Agutter, English actress |
| 20th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Badalucco, American actor |
| 20th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Cisneros, American writer |
| 20th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | David Breashears, American mountaineer |
| 20th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Rory Markas, American sportscaster (d. 2010) |
| 20th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Kuepper, German-born Australian musician (The Saints, Laughing Clowns) |
| 20th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Blanche Baker, American actress |
| 20th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Junji Hirata, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 20th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Bragg, English singer and songwriter |
| 20th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Watt, American bassist |
| 20th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Bicknell, British organ builder and scholar (d. 2007) |
| 20th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Joyce Hyser, American actress |
| 20th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Anna Vissi, Greek-Cypriot singer |
| 20th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Sailer, American political commentator |
| 20th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Trent Tucker, American basketball player |
| 20th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Polish politician |
| 20th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Nalo Hopkinson, Canadian writer |
| 20th of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Ki-duk, Korean filmmaker |
| 20th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Fouad, Arab singer and actor |
| 20th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Keneally, American musician |
| 20th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Gretsch, American actor |
| 20th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Infanta Elena of Spain |
| 20th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Coleman, American mixed martial artist, UFC Hall of Famer |
| 20th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Cavanah, Scottish actor |
| 20th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Rich Gannon, American football player |
| 20th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Carr (US), Digital Strategist |
| 20th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Neal , British Race Driver |
| 20th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Robinson, American singer (Black Crowes) |
| 20th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Myrra Malmberg, Swedish singer |
| 20th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Wendlinger, Austrian racing driver |
| 20th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Cornish, British comedian |
| 20th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Phills, American basketball player (d. 2000) |
| 20th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Alister McRae, Scottish rally driver |
| 20th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Flower, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 20th of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole DeBoer, Canadian actress |
| 20th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Roger J. Beaujard, American musician |
| 20th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Anders Odden, Norwegian musician |
| 20th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Cory Stillman, National Hockey League forward |
| 20th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Die, Japanese musician (Dir en grey) |
| 20th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Bartosz Bosacki, Polish footballer |
| 20th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jaydy Michel, Mexican model |
| 20th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jang Hyuk, Korean actor |
| 20th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Adam Powell, Neopets creator |
| 20th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ramon Stoppelenburg, world traveler and Dutch author |
| 20th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Aubrey Huff, American baseball player |
| 20th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Saukrates, Canadian rapper |
| 20th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Andrei Markov, Russian ice hockey player |
| 20th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Geremi Njitap, Cameroon footballer |
| 20th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Moore, American comic book artist |
| 20th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | David DeJesus, American baseball player |
| 20th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | George Lamb, English radio and TV presenter |
| 20th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Rogers, Australian cyclist |
| 20th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Cole, English footballer |
| 20th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Tony, French-born Portuguese footballer |
| 20th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Demichelis, Argentine footballer |
| 20th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Fitz Hall, English footballer |
| 20th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Williams, American football player |
| 20th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | James Shields, American baseball player |
| 20th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Royal Ivey, American basketball player |
| 20th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | David Cook, American singer, winner of American Idol. |
| 20th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | David Wright, American baseball player |
| 20th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Keny Arkana, French rapper & singer |
| 20th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammed Asif, Pakistani cricket player |
| 20th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | David Tavare, Spanish singer |
| 20th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kasper Klausen, Danish footballer |
| 20th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jonah Hill, American actor |
| 20th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Lucy Pinder, British model |
| 20th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Darren Sammy, St. Lucian West Indies cricketer |
| 20th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Varela, Mexican singer |
| 20th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Anoop Desai, American singer and former American Idol contestant |
| 20th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Brierley, English-born German rugby player |
| 20th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Tariel Zintiridis, Greek judoka |
| 20th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Andres Bottiglieri Italian : Argentine footballer |
| 20th of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | JoJo, American singer |
| 20th of December 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Hunter Gomez, American actor |
| 20th of December 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Ksenia Makarova, Russian-American figure skater |
| 20th of December 0217 | DEATH | Pope Zephyrinus |
| 20th of December 0860 | DEATH | King Ethelbald of Wessex (Born 834) |
| 20th of December 0910 | DEATH | Alfonso III of Leon (Born 848) |
| 20th of December 1022 | DEATH | Elvira Mendes, wife of Alfonso V of Castile (Born 996) |
| 20th of December 1355 | DEATH | Tsar Stefan Dusan of Serbia (Born 1308) |
| 20th of December 1494 | DEATH | Matteo Maria Boiardo, Italian poet (Born 1434) |
| 20th of December 1524 | DEATH | Thomas Linacre, English scholar and physician (Born 1460) |
| 20th of December 1539 | DEATH | Johannes Lupi, Flemish composer (Born 1506) |
| 20th of December 1590 | DEATH | Ambroise Pare, French physician (Born 1510) |
| 20th of December 1722 | DEATH | Kangxi Emperor of China (Born 1654) |
| 20th of December 1723 | DEATH | Augustus Quirinus Rivinus (Born 1652) |
| 20th of December 1740 | DEATH | Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon, English military officer and statesman (Born 1675) |
| 20th of December 1765 | DEATH | Louis, Dauphin of France, son of Louis XV; father of Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, and Charles X (Born 1729) |
| 20th of December 1768 | DEATH | Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, Italian poet (Born 1692) |
| 20th of December 1783 | DEATH | Antonio Soler, Spanish composer (Born 1729) |
| 20th of December 1786 | DEATH | Hannah Ocuish, Native American convicted murderer (Born 1774) |
| 20th of December 1812 | DEATH | Sacagawea, Native American member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Born 1788) |
| 20th of December 1856 | DEATH | Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (Born 1820) |
| 20th of December 1862 | DEATH | Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (Born 1791) |
| 20th of December 1915 | DEATH | Upendrakishore Ray, Indian writer, painter and composer (Born 1863) |
| 20th of December 1917 | DEATH | Lucien Petit-Breton, French racing cyclist (Born 1882) |
| 20th of December 1921 | DEATH | Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (Born 1850) |
| 20th of December 1927 | DEATH | Roshan Singh, Indian nationalist (date of birth unknown) |
| 20th of December 1929 | DEATH | Emile Loubet, French statesman (Born 1838) |
| 20th of December 1935 | DEATH | Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (Born 1882) |
| 20th of December 1937 | DEATH | Erich Ludendorff, German general (Born 1865) |
| 20th of December 1938 | DEATH | Annie Armstrong, American missionary (Born 1850) |
| 20th of December 1941 | DEATH | Igor Severyanin, Russian poet (Born 1887) |
| 20th of December 1954 | DEATH | James Hilton, British author (Born 1900) |
| 20th of December 1956 | DEATH | Ramon Carrillo, Argentine neuroscientist (Born 1906) |
| 20th of December 1961 | DEATH | Moss Hart, American dramatist (Born 1904) |
| 20th of December 1961 | DEATH | Earle Page, Australian politician (Born 1880) |
| 20th of December 1968 | DEATH | John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1902) |
| 20th of December 1971 | DEATH | Roy O. Disney, American entertainment industry executive (Born 1893) |
| 20th of December 1973 | DEATH | Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish statesman (Born 1904) |
| 20th of December 1973 | DEATH | Bobby Darin, American singer (Born 1936) |
| 20th of December 1974 | DEATH | Andre Jolivet, French composer (Born 1905) |
| 20th of December 1976 | DEATH | Richard J. Daley, American politician (Born 1902) |
| 20th of December 1981 | DEATH | Dimitris Rontiris, Greek actor and director (Born 1899) |
| 20th of December 1982 | DEATH | Arthur Rubinstein, Polish-born American pianist (Born 1887) |
| 20th of December 1984 | DEATH | Gonzalo Marquez, Venezuelan baseball player (Born 1946) |
| 20th of December 1986 | DEATH | Joe DeSa, American baseball player (Born 1959) |
| 20th of December 1988 | DEATH | Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television executive (Born 1908) |
| 20th of December 1989 | DEATH | Kurt Bohme, German bass (Born 1908) |
| 20th of December 1991 | DEATH | Simone Beck, French chef (Born 1904) |
| 20th of December 1991 | DEATH | Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (Born 1942) |
| 20th of December 1994 | DEATH | Dean Rusk, American diplomat (Born 1909) |
| 20th of December 1996 | DEATH | Carl Sagan, American astronomer and writer (Born 1934) |
| 20th of December 1997 | DEATH | Denise Levertov, English-born American poet (Born 1923) |
| 20th of December 1997 | DEATH | Juzo Itami, Japanese actor and director (Born 1933) |
| 20th of December 1997 | DEATH | Dawn Steel, American film producer (Born 1946) |
| 20th of December 1998 | DEATH | Irene Hervey, American actress (Born 1909) |
| 20th of December 1998 | DEATH | C. P. Lyons, Canadian naturalist and author (Born 1915) |
| 20th of December 1998 | DEATH | Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, British scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1916) |
| 20th of December 1999 | DEATH | Riccardo Freda, Italian film director (Born 1909) |
| 20th of December 1999 | DEATH | Hank Snow, Canadian singer (Born 1914) |
| 20th of December 2000 | DEATH | Mirza Ghulam Hafiz, Bangladeshi statesman and philanthropist (Born 1920) |
| 20th of December 2001 | DEATH | Foster Brooks, American actor and comedian (Born 1912) |
| 20th of December 2001 | DEATH | Leopold Sedar Senghor, Senegalese politician (Born 1906) |
| 20th of December 2002 | DEATH | Bernard King, Australian chef and television personality (Born 1934) |
| 20th of December 2005 | DEATH | Maniam Moorthy, Malaysian climber |
| 20th of December 2006 | DEATH | Piergiorgio Welby, Italian poet and activist (Born1945) |
| 20th of December 2006 | DEATH | Anne Rogers Clark, American dog breeder and trainer (Born 1929) |
| 20th of December 2006 | DEATH | Shi Yuejun, Chinese serial killer (Born 1970) |
| 20th of December 2007 | DEATH | Nataline Sarkisyan, American medical patient (Born 1990) |
| 20th of December 2009 | DEATH | Jack Hixon, English football talent scout (Born 1921) |
| 20th of December 2009 | DEATH | Mairoon Ali, Trinidadian comedienne and actress (Born 1954) |
| 20th of December 2009 | DEATH | Brittany Murphy, American actress (Born 1977) |
| 20th of December 2009 | DEATH | Arnold Stang, American comic actor (Born 1918) |
| 20th of December 2010 | DEATH | Brian Hanrahan, British journalist (Born 1949) |
| 20th of December 2010 | DEATH | Steve Landesberg, American actor and comedian (Born 1945) |
| 20th of December 2010 | DEATH | James R. Mann, American attorney and politician (Born 1920) |