Deaths in December 2014 facts for kids

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.

December 2014

Jean Béliveau 1931-2014

Fabiola of Belgium 1928-2014

Ralph H. Baer 1922-2014

Ken Weatherwax 1955-2014

Mary Ann Mobley 1939-2014

Ralph Giordano 1923-2014

Norman Bridwell 1928-2014

Dieter Grau 1913-2014

Virna Lisi 1936-2014

Horacio Ferrer 1933-2014

Joe Cocker 1944-2014

Leo Tindemans 1922-2014

Luise Rainer 1910-2014

• 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 - 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