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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 30th of December 1066 | EVENT | Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city. |
| 30th of December 1460 | EVENT | Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield. |
| 30th of December 1816 | EVENT | The Treaty of St. Louis is proclaimed. |
| 30th of December 1853 | EVENT | Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest. |
| 30th of December 1853 | EVENT | A dinner party is held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London. |
| 30th of December 1862 | EVENT | The USS Monitor sinks off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. |
| 30th of December 1896 | EVENT | Jose Rizal is executed by firing squad in Manila. |
| 30th of December 1897 | EVENT | Natal annexes Zululand. |
| 30th of December 1903 | EVENT | A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills 600. |
| 30th of December 1905 | EVENT | Former Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated near his home in Caldwell, Idaho. |
| 30th of December 1906 | EVENT | The All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India Empire, which later laid down the foundations of Pakistan. |
| 30th of December 1916 | EVENT | The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita. |
| 30th of December 1919 | EVENT | Lincoln's Inn in London admits its first female bar student. |
| 30th of December 1922 | EVENT | The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed. |
| 30th of December 1924 | EVENT | Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies. |
| 30th of December 1927 | EVENT | The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan. |
| 30th of December 1936 | EVENT | The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike. |
| 30th of December 1943 | EVENT | Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair. |
| 30th of December 1944 | EVENT | King George II of Greece declares a regency, leaving the throne vacant. |
| 30th of December 1947 | EVENT | King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania. |
| 30th of December 1948 | EVENT | The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate (1,077 performances), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award. |
| 30th of December 1965 | EVENT | Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines. |
| 30th of December 1972 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam. |
| 30th of December 1977 | EVENT | For the second time, Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. |
| 30th of December 1981 | EVENT | In the 39th game of his 3rd NHL season Wayne Gretzky scores 5 goals giving him 50 on the year setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games. |
| 30th of December 1993 | EVENT | Israel and the Vatican establish diplomatic relations. |
| 30th of December 1996 | EVENT | Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel. |
| 30th of December 1996 | EVENT | In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26. |
| 30th of December 1997 | EVENT | In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed. |
| 30th of December 2000 | EVENT | Rizal Day Bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred. |
| 30th of December 2004 | EVENT | A fire in the Republica Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194. |
| 30th of December 2005 | EVENT | Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin. |
| 30th of December 2006 | EVENT | Deposed President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, convicted of the executions of 148 Iraqi Shiites, is executed by hanging. |
| 30th of December 2006 | EVENT | Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed. |
| 30th of December 0039 | BIRTHDAY | Titus, Roman emperor (d. 81) |
| 30th of December 1204 | BIRTHDAY | Abu 'Uthman Sa'id Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (d. 1282) |
| 30th of December 1552 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611) |
| 30th of December 1642 | BIRTHDAY | Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (d. 1707) |
| 30th of December 1673 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmed III, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1736) |
| 30th of December 1678 | BIRTHDAY | William Croft, English composer (d. 1727) |
| 30th of December 1722 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Yorke, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain (d. 1770) |
| 30th of December 1724 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Jean-Francois Lagrenee, French painter (d. 1805) |
| 30th of December 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain (d. 1759) |
| 30th of December 1760 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Sapinaud de La Rairie, French royalist general and counterrevolutionary (d. 1829) |
| 30th of December 1785 | BIRTHDAY | Dorothea Lieven, Russian noblewoman (d. 1857) |
| 30th of December 1819 | BIRTHDAY | Theodor Fontane, German writer (d. 1898) |
| 30th of December 1819 | BIRTHDAY | John W. Geary, 1st Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1873) |
| 30th of December 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Emile Loubet, 7th President of France (d. 1929) |
| 30th of December 1849 | BIRTHDAY | John Milne, English seismologist and geologist (d. 1913) |
| 30th of December 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician (d. 1929) |
| 30th of December 1853 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Messager, French composer (d. 1929) |
| 30th of December 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Rudyard Kipling, English writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1936) |
| 30th of December 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Butler Leacock, English-born Canadian writer and economist (d. 1944) |
| 30th of December 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Ozutsu Man'emon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 18th Yokozuna (d. 1918) |
| 30th of December 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Al Smith, American politician (d. 1944) |
| 30th of December 1878 | BIRTHDAY | William Aberhart, Canadian politician (d. 1943) |
| 30th of December 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Sri Ramana Maharshi, Indian philosopher (d. 1950) |
| 30th of December 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Lester Patrick, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1960) |
| 30th of December 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Hideki Tojo, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948) |
| 30th of December 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, President of Mexico (d. 1973) |
| 30th of December 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Alfredo Bracchi, Italian author (d. 1976) |
| 30th of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (d. 2001) |
| 30th of December 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Dmitri Kabalevsky, Russian composer (d. 1987) |
| 30th of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Daniil Kharms, Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist (d. 1942) |
| 30th of December 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Reed, English film director (d. 1976) |
| 30th of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Bowles, American composer and author (d. 1999) |
| 30th of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Jeanette Nolan, American actress (d. 1998) |
| 30th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Lucio Agostini, Italian-born Canadian conductor and composer (d. 1996) |
| 30th of December 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (d. 2002) |
| 30th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Bert Parks, American television host (d. 1992) |
| 30th of December 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Van Fleet, American actress (d. 1996) |
| 30th of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Seymour Melman, American industrial engineer (d. 2004) |
| 30th of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Lord, American actor (d. 1998) |
| 30th of December 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Rashid Karami, Lebanese statesman (d. 1987) |
| 30th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hossein, French film actor and director |
| 30th of December 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Barrow, American actor (d. 1993) |
| 30th of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Bo Diddley, American singer and musician (d. 2008) |
| 30th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Rosalind Hurley, British physician, barrister, ethicist and writer (d. 2004) |
| 30th of December 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Nichols, American actress (d. 1976) |
| 30th of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Skeeter Davis, American singer (d. 2004) |
| 30th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | John Norris Bahcall, American physicist (d. 2005) |
| 30th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Bologna, American actor |
| 30th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph P. Hoar, former US Central Command commander |
| 30th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Del Shannon, American singer (d. 1990) |
| 30th of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Russ Tamblyn, American actor, dancer, and singer |
| 30th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Omar Bongo, President of Gabon (d. 2009) |
| 30th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Sandy Koufax, American baseball player |
| 30th of December 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Riley, American actor |
| 30th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | John Hartford, American musician (d. 2001) |
| 30th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Marshall, American football player |
| 30th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon Banks, English footballer |
| 30th of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Noel Paul Stookey, American folk singer (Peter, Paul & Mary) |
| 30th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Glenda Adams, Australian author (d. 2007) |
| 30th of December 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Felix Pappalardi, American musician and recording producer (Mountain) (d. 1983) |
| 30th of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | James Burrows, American television director |
| 30th of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Renfro, American football player |
| 30th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Nesmith, American singer and musician (The Monkees) |
| 30th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and dissident |
| 30th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Edwards, English racing driver |
| 30th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Ward, American actor |
| 30th of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Janko Prunk, Slovenian historian |
| 30th of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | William J. Fallon, U.S. Navy Admiral, former U.S. Central Command commander |
| 30th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Lloyd Kaufman, American film director and producer |
| 30th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Davy Jones, English singer (The Monkees) |
| 30th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Concetta Tomei, American actress |
| 30th of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Vernon Wells, Australian actor |
| 30th of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Patti Smith, American singer and poet |
| 30th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Lynne, English musician (ELO) |
| 30th of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Burns, American historian |
| 30th of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Flaherty, Canadian politician |
| 30th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Lewis Shiner, American sci-fi/fantasy author |
| 30th of December 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Bjarne Stroustrup, Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ |
| 30th of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Doug Allder, English footballer |
| 30th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Melissa Fay Greene, American author |
| 30th of December 1952 | BIRTHDAY | June Anderson, American soprano |
| 30th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Kazmaier, American powerlifter |
| 30th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Barry, American astronaut |
| 30th of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Meredith Vieira, American television journalist |
| 30th of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Greenstein, American poker player |
| 30th of December 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Dindo Yogo, Congolese musician (d. 2000) |
| 30th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Suzy Bogguss, American singer |
| 30th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Claudia Di Girolamo, Chilean actress |
| 30th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Patricia Kalember, American actress |
| 30th of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Sheryl Lee Ralph, American actress |
| 30th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Rod Harrington, English darts player |
| 30th of December 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Lauer, American newscaster |
| 30th of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Steven L. Smith, American astronaut |
| 30th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Tracey Ullman, English actress and singer |
| 30th of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Josee Verner, Canadian politician |
| 30th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Coupland, Canadian author |
| 30th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Johnson, Canadian athlete |
| 30th of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Hannity, American talk radio and television host |
| 30th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Cho, Korean-American comedian |
| 30th of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Joshua Clover, American poet |
| 30th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Chandler Burr, American author |
| 30th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Douglas, Canadian human rights activist |
| 30th of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Milan Srejber, Czech tennis player |
| 30th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvie Moreau, French Canadian actress |
| 30th of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Duglas T. Stewart, Scottish musician (BMX Bandits) |
| 30th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Heidi Fleiss, American madam |
| 30th of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Darrin C. Huss, Canadian singer (Psyche) |
| 30th of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Bennett Miller, American film director |
| 30th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Ouellet, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 30th of December 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Dunne, American track and road cyclist |
| 30th of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Meredith Monroe, American actress |
| 30th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dave England, American television personality |
| 30th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Wehrmann, German footballer |
| 30th of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Kay, English musician (Jamiroquai) |
| 30th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Sunjata, American actor |
| 30th of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Lopez Felipe, Spanish footballer |
| 30th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Kerry Collins, American football player |
| 30th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Keegan, Irish footballer |
| 30th of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Wiig, American actor and musician |
| 30th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Behr, American actor |
| 30th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Nacho Vidal, Spanish porn star |
| 30th of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ato Boldon, Trinidadian athlete |
| 30th of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Johanna Sallstrom, Swedish actress (d. 2007) |
| 30th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Chipperfield, Australian soccer player |
| 30th of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Tiger Woods, American golfer |
| 30th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | A.J. Pierzynski, American baseball player |
| 30th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ashley Callie, South African actress (d. 2008) |
| 30th of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Kerney, American football player |
| 30th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Laila Ali, American boxer |
| 30th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Balfour, Australian baseball player |
| 30th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Lucas, Australian rules footballer |
| 30th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sasa Ilic, Serbian footballer |
| 30th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kenyon Martin, American basketball player |
| 30th of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuyuki Toda, Japanese footballer |
| 30th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Devin Brown , American basketball player |
| 30th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Tyrese, American singer and actor |
| 30th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Zbigniew Robert Prominski, Polish drummer |
| 30th of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Scuderi, American ice hockey player |
| 30th of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Flavio, Angolan footballer |
| 30th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | DJ Mbenga, basketball player |
| 30th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Eliza Dushku, American actress |
| 30th of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Kwan, Hong Kong singer |
| 30th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Al Habsi, Omani footballer |
| 30th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Rodriguez, Costa Rican footballer |
| 30th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Haley Paige, American porn star (d. 2007) |
| 30th of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Ulrich, American football player |
| 30th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress |
| 30th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dawan Landry, American football player |
| 30th of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Dathan Ritzenhein, American runner |
| 30th of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Davide Mandorlini, Italian footballer |
| 30th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Randall Azofeifa, Costa Rican footballer |
| 30th of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | LeBron James, American basketball player |
| 30th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Lars Boom, Dutch cyclist |
| 30th of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Bryson Goodwin, rugby league player |
| 30th of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ellie Goulding, British singer |
| 30th of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Cuenca, Filipino actor and commercial model |
| 30th of December 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Jackson, Scottish singer |
| 30th of December 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Sheckler, American professional skateboarder |
| 30th of December 2000 | BIRTHDAY | Johntae Lipscomb, American actor |
| 30th of December 0274 | DEATH | Pope Felix I |
| 30th of December 1218 | DEATH | Richard de Clare, 4th Earl of Hertford, English politician (Born 1162) |
| 30th of December 1460 | DEATH | Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, claimant to the English throne (killed in battle) (Born 1411) |
| 30th of December 1460 | DEATH | Edmund, Earl of Rutland, second son of Richard, Duke of York (murdered after battle) (Born 1443) |
| 30th of December 1525 | DEATH | Jacob Fugger, German banker (Born 1459) |
| 30th of December 1572 | DEATH | Galeazzo Alessi, Italian architect (Born 1512) |
| 30th of December 1573 | DEATH | Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Italian writer (Born 1504) |
| 30th of December 1591 | DEATH | Pope Innocent IX (Born 1519) |
| 30th of December 1621 | DEATH | Saint Job of Maniava, Ukrainian Orthodox Saint (Born 1550) |
| 30th of December 1640 | DEATH | John Francis Regis, French saint (Born 1597) |
| 30th of December 1644 | DEATH | Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist (Born 1577) |
| 30th of December 1662 | DEATH | Archduke Ferdinand Charles of Austria (Born 1628) |
| 30th of December 1691 | DEATH | Robert Boyle, English scientist (Born 1627) |
| 30th of December 1769 | DEATH | Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe, Austrian soldier (Born 1685) |
| 30th of December 1803 | DEATH | Francis Lewis, signer of the American Declaration of Independence (Born 1713) |
| 30th of December 1879 | DEATH | Manuel de Araujo Porto-alegre, Brazilian Romantic poet, painter and caricaturist (Born 1806) |
| 30th of December 1896 | DEATH | Jose Rizal, national hero of the Philippines, (executed) (Born 1861) |
| 30th of December 1908 | DEATH | Thomas-Alfred Bernier, Canadian lawyer, journalist and senator (Born 1844) |
| 30th of December 1937 | DEATH | Hans Niels Andersen, Danish businessman, founder of the East Asiatic Company (Born 1852) |
| 30th of December 1940 | DEATH | Childe Wills, early associate of Henry Ford, one of the first employees of the Ford Motor Company, and a contributor to the design of the Model T (Born 1878) |
| 30th of December 1941 | DEATH | El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (Born 1890) |
| 30th of December 1944 | DEATH | Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel laureate (Born 1866) |
| 30th of December 1947 | DEATH | Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, portraitist and art forger (Born 1889) |
| 30th of December 1947 | DEATH | Alfred North Whitehead, English mathematician and philosopher (Born 1861) |
| 30th of December 1954 | DEATH | Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (Born 1863) |
| 30th of December 1955 | DEATH | Rex Ingamells, Australian poet (Born 1913) |
| 30th of December 1967 | DEATH | Vincent Massey, Governor-General of Canada (Born 1887) |
| 30th of December 1968 | DEATH | Trygve Lie, Norwegian politician, first United Nations Secretary General (Born 1896) |
| 30th of December 1970 | DEATH | Sonny Liston, American boxer (Born 1932) |
| 30th of December 1971 | DEATH | Melba Rae, American actress (Born 1922) |
| 30th of December 1979 | DEATH | Richard Rodgers, American composer (Born 1902) |
| 30th of December 1981 | DEATH | Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (Born 1959) |
| 30th of December 1984 | DEATH | Massa, oldest gorilla on record (Born 1930) |
| 30th of December 1986 | DEATH | Era Bell Thompson, American journalist (Born 1905) |
| 30th of December 1988 | DEATH | Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (Born 1925) |
| 30th of December 1989 | DEATH | Lenore Lemmon, wife of George Reeves (Born 1923) |
| 30th of December 1992 | DEATH | Ling-Ling, panda given to the USA by China (Born 1969) |
| 30th of December 1993 | DEATH | Mack David, American lyricist and songwriter (Born 1912) |
| 30th of December 1993 | DEATH | Irving "Swifty" Lazar, American Hollywood talent agent (Born 1907) |
| 30th of December 1993 | DEATH | Giuseppe Occhialini, Italian physicist (Born 1907) |
| 30th of December 1994 | DEATH | Maureen Starkey, wife of Ringo Starr (Born 1946) |
| 30th of December 1994 | DEATH | Dmitri Ivanenko, Russian physicist (Born 1904) |
| 30th of December 1995 | DEATH | Ralph Flanagan : American band leader (Born 1914) |
| 30th of December 1995 | DEATH | Doris Grau, American actress (Born 1924) |
| 30th of December 1996 | DEATH | Lew Ayres, American actor (Born 1908) |
| 30th of December 1996 | DEATH | Jack Nance, American actor (Born 1943) |
| 30th of December 1997 | DEATH | Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (Born 1926) |
| 30th of December 1998 | DEATH | Johnny Moore, American singer (The Drifters) (Born 1934) |
| 30th of December 1998 | DEATH | Sam Muchnick, American professional wrestling promoter (Born 1905) |
| 30th of December 1998 | DEATH | George Webb, English actor (Born 1911) |
| 30th of December 1999 | DEATH | Fritz Leonhardt, German structural engineer (Born 1909) |
| 30th of December 1999 | DEATH | Sarah Knauss, American, once considered the world's oldest living person (Born 1880) |
| 30th of December 2000 | DEATH | Julius J. Epstein, American screenwriter (Born 1909) |
| 30th of December 2002 | DEATH | Mary Brian, American actress (Born 1906) |
| 30th of December 2002 | DEATH | Mary Wesley, English novelist (Born 1912) |
| 30th of December 2003 | DEATH | David Bale, South African : born activist (Born 1941) |
| 30th of December 2003 | DEATH | John Gregory Dunne, American writer (Born 1932) |
| 30th of December 2003 | DEATH | Anita Mui, Hong Kong singer and actress (Born 1963) |
| 30th of December 2004 | DEATH | Artie Shaw, American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader (Born 1910) |
| 30th of December 2005 | DEATH | Rona Jaffe, American author (Born 1932) |
| 30th of December 2005 | DEATH | Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer (Born 1940) |
| 30th of December 2006 | DEATH | Terry Peck, Falkland Islander who acted as a scout for 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment in the Falklands War (Born 1938) |
| 30th of December 2006 | DEATH | Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1948) |
| 30th of December 2006 | DEATH | Saddam Hussein, former Iraqi Dictator, (executed for war crimes) (Born 1937) |
| 30th of December 2009 | DEATH | Rowland S. Howard, Australian guitarist (The Birthday Party) (Born 1959) |
| 30th of December 2009 | DEATH | Abdurrahman Wahid, 4th President of Indonesia (Born 1940) |
| 30th of December 2010 | DEATH | Bobby Farrell, Aruban singer (Boney M) (Born 1949) |
| 30th of December 2010 | DEATH | Per Oscarsson, Swedish actor (Born 1927) |