- 25: CAROLYN BRYANT, 88, US woman whose claim of unwanted attention from Black teenager Emmett Till led to his lynching in 1955
- 25: HARRY BELAFONTE, 96, superstar American music performer and activist
- 27: JERRY SPRINGER, 79, popular US talk show host, whose rowdy programme symbolised low-brow TV
- 19: MARTIN AMIS, 73, leading voice in modern British fiction
- 24: TINA TURNER, 83, US rock icon famed for her electrifying stage presence
- 05: ASTRUD GILBERTO, 83, Brazilian Girl from Ipanema singer
- 05: ROBERT HANSSEN, 79, US double agent who fed Russia some of America's deepest secrets
- 06: FRANCOISE GILOT, 101, French artist and longtime lover of Pablo Picasso, with whom she had two children
- 10: TED KACZYNSKI, 81, Unabomber who terrorised America with a two-decade bombing campaign aimed at halting the advance of modern technology and society
- 12: SILVIO BERLUSCONI, 86, larger-than-life, scandal-tainted former Italian premier and billionaire media mogul
- 13: CORMAC McCARTHY, 89, titan of American fiction with novels including The Road and No Country for Old Men
- 15: GLENDA JACKSON, 87, British Oscar-winning actress and politician
- 01: VICTORIA AMELINA, 37, rising star of Ukrainian literature, dies from injuries sustained in a Russian missile attack
- 11: MILAN KUNDERA, 94, Czech-French novelist who criticised Czechoslovakia's communist regime
Dec 19 2023.
Crime:
. Best known for The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- 16: JANE BIRKIN, 76
. Best known for The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- 16: JANE BIRKIN, 76