Deaths Month: December 2023
Arno J. Mayer
Luxembourgish-born American historian · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18 · Mayer
Bob Allen
American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18
Joseph Henry Smith
Ghanaian military officer and diplomat · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18 · Smith
Ronnie Caryl
English guitarist (Phil Collins) · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18
Clyde Berry
American football and baseball player and coach · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18
Kojiro Nakamura
Japanese scholar of Islam · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18
Eduardo Walczak
Argentine tango musician and violinist · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18 · Argentine
Pilarín Bueno
Spanish Aragonese jota singer · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18
Sir Norman Arthur
British military officer and Olympic equestrian (1960) · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18 · Arthur · Other
Bo Larsson
Swedish footballer (Malmö · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18
Manny Martinez
American drummer (The Misfits) · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18 · Martínez
Alexandros Papadopoulos
Greek Orthodox prelate and theologian · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18 · Greek
Jiang Ping
Chinese legal scholar · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18 · Lawyers
Lewis Pragasam
Malaysian jazz fusion drummer · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18
Dimitriy Krasilov
Russian dancer (Little Big) · 18 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 18 · Other
Brian Price
Welsh rugby union player (national team) · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Welsh
Jim Ladd
American disc jockey · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Larisa Gershtein
Soviet-born Israeli politician · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Oleg Ryakhovskiy
Russian triple jumper · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Other
Jim Heighton
Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Mike Maxfield
British songwriter and guitarist (The Dakotas) · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Hermann Brede
German architect · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Other
Speightstown
American Thoroughbred racehorse · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Other
Bronislovas Genzelis
Lithuanian politician · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Eric Montross
American basketball player (Boston Celtics · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Éric
Abderrahim Ouakili
Moroccan footballer · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Valery Lagunov
Russian choreographer · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Other
Keisha Whitaker
American actress and producer · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Amp Fiddler
64-65 · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Other
David Gell
Canadian Radio DJ and television presenter · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Musicians
Brijesh Tripathi
Indian actor (Dulhan Ganga Paar Ke · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Michael L. Cowan
American navy admiral · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Cowan · Other
Luca de Castro
Brazilian actor ( The Middle of the World · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17 · Castro
Steve Junker
American football player (Detroit Lions · 17 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 17
Maureen Flavin Sweeney
Irish postmistress · 16 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 16 · Sweeney · Other
Richard Pilbrow
British stage lighting designer · 16 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 16 · Other
Vaggelis Serdaris
Greek film director (Vasiliki) · 16 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 16 · Greek · Other
Lionel Wickrama
Sri Lankan actor (Sanda Yahanata · 16 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 16
Maâmar Ousser
Algerian footballer · 16 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 16
Viktors Avotiņš
Latvian publicist · 16 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 16 · Other
Otar Iosseliani
Georgian-born French film director · 16 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 16 · French · Other
Travis Dopp
American guitarist (Small Brown Bike) · 16 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 16
Mort Engelberg
American film producer (Smokey and the Bandit) and advance man for the presidential campaigns of Walter Mondale (1984) · 16 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 16 · Other
Tomáš Janovic
Slovak writer · 16 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 16
Aleš Haman
Czech literary theorist · 16 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 16 · Czech · Other
Rehmat Shah Afridi
Pakistani journalist (The Frontier Post) · 15 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 15 · Afridi
Kevin Wylie
Australian footballer (Collingwood) · 15 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 15
Michael H. Stone
American forensic psychiatrist and writer · 15 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 15 · Stone
Jayanta Das
Indian actor (Raamdhenu · 15 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 15
Jimmy Ayoub
Canadian drummer (Mahogany Rush) · 15 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 15
Roger McMurrin
American conductor and pastor · 15 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 15
Sebastiano Lo Monaco
Italian actor (La piovra · 15 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 15 · Monaco
Lorenzo Riva
Italian fashion designer · 15 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 15 · Other
Carlos Lyra
Brazilian composer and songwriter ("Maria Ninguém") · 15 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 15
Giorgos Michalakopoulos
Greek actor and director · 15 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 15 · Greek
Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Kuwaiti emir (since 2020) · 15 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 15 · Al-Sabah · Other
Kenpachiro Satsuma
Japanese actor (Godzilla vs. Hedorah · 15 December 2023 · December 2023 · December 15