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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 31st of December 0406 | EVENT | Vandals, Alans and Suebians cross the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul. |
| 31st of December 0535 | EVENT | Byzantine General Belisarius completes the conquest of Sicily, defeating the Ostrogothic garrison of Syracuse, and ending his consulship for the year. |
| 31st of December 1225 | EVENT | The Ly Dynasty of Vietnam ends after 216 years by the enthronement of the boy emperor Tran Thai Tong, husband of the last Ly monarch, Ly Chieu Hoang, starting the Tran Dynasty. |
| 31st of December 1229 | EVENT | James I of Aragon the Conqueror enters Medina Mayurqa (now known as Palma, Spain) thus consummating the Christian reconquest of the island of Majorca. |
| 31st of December 1600 | EVENT | The British East India Company is chartered. |
| 31st of December 1660 | EVENT | James II of England is named Duke of Normandy by Louis XIV of France. |
| 31st of December 1687 | EVENT | The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope. |
| 31st of December 1695 | EVENT | A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax. |
| 31st of December 1759 | EVENT | Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at ?45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness. |
| 31st of December 1775 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery. |
| 31st of December 1831 | EVENT | Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City. |
| 31st of December 1857 | EVENT | Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada. |
| 31st of December 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River is fought near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. |
| 31st of December 1862 | EVENT | American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two. |
| 31st of December 1879 | EVENT | Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, NJ. |
| 31st of December 1904 | EVENT | The first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in New York, New York. |
| 31st of December 1909 | EVENT | Manhattan Bridge opens. |
| 31st of December 1923 | EVENT | The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC. |
| 31st of December 1944 | EVENT | World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany. |
| 31st of December 1946 | EVENT | President Harry Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II. |
| 31st of December 1951 | EVENT | The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $13.3 billion USD in foreign aid to rebuild Europe. |
| 31st of December 1955 | EVENT | The General Motors Corporation becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over $1 billion USD in a year. |
| 31st of December 1960 | EVENT | The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom. |
| 31st of December 1963 | EVENT | The Central African Federation officially collapses and splits into Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia. |
| 31st of December 1965 | EVENT | Jean-Bedel Bokassa, leader of the Central African Republic army, and his military officers begins a coup d'etat against the government of President David Dacko. |
| 31st of December 1981 | EVENT | A coup d'etat in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings. |
| 31st of December 1983 | EVENT | In Nigeria a coup d'etat led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Nigerian Second Republic. |
| 31st of December 1983 | EVENT | The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government. |
| 31st of December 1986 | EVENT | A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140. |
| 31st of December 1991 | EVENT | All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved. |
| 31st of December 1992 | EVENT | Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. |
| 31st of December 1994 | EVENT | The first Chechen war: Russian army began a New Year's storm of Grozny |
| 31st of December 1994 | EVENT | This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC-11 to UTC+13 and UTC-10 to UTC+14, respectively. |
| 31st of December 1998 | EVENT | The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency. |
| 31st of December 1999 | EVENT | Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane, leave the plane with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed. |
| 31st of December 1999 | EVENT | Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia, resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President. |
| 31st of December 1999 | EVENT | The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties. |
| 31st of December 2004 | EVENT | The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft). |
| 31st of December 0695 | BIRTHDAY | Muhammad bin Qasim, Syrian general (d. 715) |
| 31st of December 1378 | BIRTHDAY | Pope Callixtus III (d. 1458) |
| 31st of December 1491 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Cartier, French explorer (d. 1557) |
| 31st of December 1514 | BIRTHDAY | Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564) |
| 31st of December 1572 | BIRTHDAY | Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan, (d. 1617) |
| 31st of December 1585 | BIRTHDAY | Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, (d. 1645) |
| 31st of December 1668 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Boerhaave, Dutch humanist and physician (d. 1738) |
| 31st of December 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the British throne (d. 1788) |
| 31st of December 1738 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general (d. 1805) |
| 31st of December 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Isabella Maria of Parma, wife of future Holy Roman emperor (d. 1763) |
| 31st of December 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, French admiral (d. 1806) |
| 31st of December 1815 | BIRTHDAY | George Meade, American Civil War general (d. 1872) |
| 31st of December 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Sandor Petofi, Hungarian poet (d. 1849) |
| 31st of December 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Isma'il Pasha, Governor of Egypt (d. 1895) |
| 31st of December 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Smith, Scottish poet (d. 1867) |
| 31st of December 1855 | BIRTHDAY | Giovanni Pascoli, Italian poet (d. 1912) |
| 31st of December 1857 | BIRTHDAY | King Kelly, American baseball player (d. 1894) |
| 31st of December 1860 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (d. 1937) |
| 31st of December 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Grant Aitken, American astronomer (d. 1951) |
| 31st of December 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Henri Matisse, French painter (d. 1954) |
| 31st of December 1877 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Beesley, English journalist and author (d. 1967) |
| 31st of December 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Arden, Canadian businesswoman (d. 1966) |
| 31st of December 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Horacio Quiroga, Uruguayan-Argentinian writer (d. 1937) |
| 31st of December 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Beebe, American baseball player (d. 1957) |
| 31st of December 1880 | BIRTHDAY | George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State, Nobel Laureate (d. 1959) |
| 31st of December 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Max Pechstein, German painter (d. 1955) |
| 31st of December 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Martin O'Meara, Australian soldier (d. 1935) |
| 31st of December 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Byrne, American baseball player (d. 1964) |
| 31st of December 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Victoria Adelaide of Schleswig-Holstein (d. 1970) |
| 31st of December 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Pola Negri, Polish actress (d. 1987) |
| 31st of December 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican composer (d. 1940) |
| 31st of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Ploumpidis, Greek resistance fighter (d. 1954) |
| 31st of December 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Bathory, Hungarian glass designer(d. 2000) |
| 31st of December 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Daunais, French-Canadian singer and composer (d. 1982) |
| 31st of December 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Nathan Milstein, Ukrainian violinist (d. 1992) |
| 31st of December 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Umm Kulthum, Egyptian singer and actress (d. 1975) |
| 31st of December 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Jule Styne, English-born composer (d. 1994) |
| 31st of December 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian Holocaust survivor (d. 2005) |
| 31st of December 1909 | BIRTHDAY | Jonah Jones, American jazz trumpeter (d. 2000) |
| 31st of December 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Dudley, American film director (d. 1973) |
| 31st of December 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Dal Stivens, Australian novelist (d. 1997) |
| 31st of December 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Maj-Gen John Frost, British para commander (d. 1993) |
| 31st of December 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Wilfrid Noyce, English mountaineer (d. 1962) |
| 31st of December 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Tommy Byrne, American baseball player (d. 2007) |
| 31st of December 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Allen, American actor, singer, and songwriter (d. 1999) |
| 31st of December 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Mead, American actor |
| 31st of December 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Snedden, Australian politician (d. 1987) |
| 31st of December 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Sine, French cartoonist |
| 31st of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Odetta, American singer (d. 2008) |
| 31st of December 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Jaime Escalante, American teacher (d. 2010) |
| 31st of December 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Shaw, Irish writer (d. 1996) |
| 31st of December 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Bunker, American author and actor (d. 2005) |
| 31st of December 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Akram Awan, Islamic scholar |
| 31st of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Avram Hershko, Israeli biologist, Nobel laureate |
| 31st of December 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Anthony Hopkins, Welsh actor |
| 31st of December 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Rosalind Cash, American actress (d. 1995) |
| 31st of December 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Mani Neumeier, German musician (Guru Guru) |
| 31st of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Alex Ferguson, Scottish football manager |
| 31st of December 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Miles, English actress |
| 31st of December 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Andy Summers, British guitarist (The Police) |
| 31st of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | John Denver, American singer and songwriter (d. 1997) |
| 31st of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Ben Kingsley, English actor |
| 31st of December 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Quaife, English bassist (The Kinks) (d. 2010) |
| 31st of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Ross, British-American voice actor |
| 31st of December 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Taylor Hackford, American producer and director |
| 31st of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Carrera, Nicaraguan actress and model |
| 31st of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Diane von Furstenberg, Belgian-born fashion designer |
| 31st of December 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Connie Willis, American writer |
| 31st of December 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Pius Ncube, Zimbabwean human rights advocate |
| 31st of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tim Matheson, American actor |
| 31st of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Rita Lee, Brazilian Rock Star |
| 31st of December 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Burton Cummings, Canadian keyboardist (The Guess Who) |
| 31st of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Donna Summer, American singer |
| 31st of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Dallesandro American actor |
| 31st of December 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Robert, National Hockey League player |
| 31st of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Seub Nakhasathien, Thai conservationist (d. 1990) |
| 31st of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Susan Shwartz, American writer |
| 31st of December 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ellen Datlow, American editor |
| 31st of December 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Hamilton, American bassist (Aerosmith) |
| 31st of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Badler, American actress |
| 31st of December 1953 | BIRTHDAY | James Remar, American actor |
| 31st of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Tilke, German racing circuit architect |
| 31st of December 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Alex Salmond, Scottish politician |
| 31st of December 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Rude, American comics artist |
| 31st of December 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Bebe Neuwirth, American actress |
| 31st of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Liveris Andritsos, Greek basketball player |
| 31st of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Alfie Anido, Filipino actor (d. 1981) |
| 31st of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Baron Waqa, Nauruan politician and musician |
| 31st of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Val Kilmer, American actor |
| 31st of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Phill Kline, American politician |
| 31st of December 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Westerberg, American musician (The Replacements) |
| 31st of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | John Allen Muhammad, American spree killer (d. 2009) |
| 31st of December 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Bruce, English football player & manager |
| 31st of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Aguilera, American baseball player |
| 31st of December 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Nina Li Chi, Chinese actress |
| 31st of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Tyrone Corbin, American basketball player |
| 31st of December 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Heather McCartney, British activist |
| 31st of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Ian, American guitarist (Anthrax) |
| 31st of December 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Konishiki, American sumo wrestler |
| 31st of December 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Michael McDonald, American actor-comedian |
| 31st of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Doucet, Canadian underground cartoonist |
| 31st of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Gong Li, Chinese actress |
| 31st of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Dorigo, English Footballer (soccer) |
| 31st of December 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholas Sparks, American author |
| 31st of December 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Joyner, American entertainment reporter |
| 31st of December 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Dee, Canadian comedian and actor |
| 31st of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Lance Reddick, American actor |
| 31st of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Dominik Diamond, Scottish presenter and newspaper columnist |
| 31st of December 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Are Kalv?, Norwegian writer and satirist |
| 31st of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Jorjao, Brazilian footballer |
| 31st of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Bryon Russell, American basketball player |
| 31st of December 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Carlos Morales Quintana, husband of Princess Alexia of Greece and Denmark |
| 31st of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Esteban Loaiza, Mexican Major League Baseball player |
| 31st of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Brent Barry, American basketball player |
| 31st of December 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Lopez Felipe, Spanish footballer |
| 31st of December 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Joe McIntyre, American singer (New Kids on the Block) |
| 31st of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Shandon Anderson, American basketball player |
| 31st of December 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Malcolm Middleton, Scottish musician (Arab Strap) |
| 31st of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Aerts, Belgian cyclist |
| 31st of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Kanaan, Brazilian racing driver |
| 31st of December 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Sakoda, Japanese American professional wrestler |
| 31st of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Toni Kuivasto, Finnish footballer |
| 31st of December 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Penders, Dutch footballer |
| 31st of December 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Reucassel, Australian comedian, member of The Chaser |
| 31st of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Wardy Alfaro, Costa Rican footballer |
| 31st of December 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Trump Jr., son of Donald Trump and Ivana Trump |
| 31st of December 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Papoose, American rapper |
| 31st of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Elaine Cassidy, Irish actress |
| 31st of December 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Paul O'Neill, British racing driver |
| 31st of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jesse Carlson, American baseball player |
| 31st of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Richie McCaw, New Zealand rugby player |
| 31st of December 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Capiccioni, American professional wrestler |
| 31st of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Pavlich, Australian football player |
| 31st of December 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Campbell, American football player |
| 31st of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Julio DePaula, Dominican baseball player |
| 31st of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Bryce Avary, The Rocket Summer, American musician |
| 31st of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Schenscher, Australian basketball player |
| 31st of December 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Gordon, Scottish footballer |
| 31st of December 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Mariana Renata, French-Indonesian Actress |
| 31st of December 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Rodriguez Jr., Professional skateboarder |
| 31st of December 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Smit, Dutch singer |
| 31st of December 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Bronson Pelletier, Canadian actor |
| 31st of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Javaris Crittenton, American basketball player |
| 31st of December 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Emilie Le Pennec, French gymnast |
| 31st of December 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Chan, Canadian figure Skater |
| 31st of December 0192 | DEATH | Commodus, Roman Emperor (Born 161) |
| 31st of December 0335 | DEATH | St. Silvester, Pope |
| 31st of December 1164 | DEATH | Margrave Ottokar III of Styria (Born 1124) |
| 31st of December 1194 | DEATH | Duke Leopold V of Austria (killed at a tournament) (Born 1157) |
| 31st of December 1297 | DEATH | Humphrey de Bohun, 3rd Earl of Hereford, English soldier (Born 1249) |
| 31st of December 1302 | DEATH | Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine (Born 1238) |
| 31st of December 1384 | DEATH | John Wycliffe, English theologian and Bible translator (Born circa 1328) |
| 31st of December 1424 | DEATH | Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, English military leader |
| 31st of December 1460 | DEATH | Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, English politician (Born 1400) |
| 31st of December 1510 | DEATH | Bianca Maria Sforza, wife of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1472) |
| 31st of December 1535 | DEATH | William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of Ireland (Born 1465) |
| 31st of December 1568 | DEATH | Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (Born 1493) |
| 31st of December 1575 | DEATH | Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (Born 1502) |
| 31st of December 1583 | DEATH | Thomas Erastus, Swiss theologian (Born 1524) |
| 31st of December 1610 | DEATH | Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (Born 1540) |
| 31st of December 1650 | DEATH | Dorgon, Chinese emperor (Born 1612) |
| 31st of December 1655 | DEATH | Janusz Radziwi??, Polish : Lithuanian noble and magnate (Born 1612) |
| 31st of December 1673 | DEATH | Oliver St John, English statesman and judge |
| 31st of December 1679 | DEATH | Giovanni Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (Born 1608) |
| 31st of December 1691 | DEATH | Dudley North, English economist (Born 1641) |
| 31st of December 1719 | DEATH | John Flamsteed, English astronomer (Born 1646) |
| 31st of December 1742 | DEATH | Karl III Philip, Elector Palatine (Born 1661) |
| 31st of December 1799 | DEATH | Jean-Francois Marmontel, French historian and writer (Born 1723) |
| 31st of December 1872 | DEATH | Aleksis Kivi, Finnish author (Born 1834) |
| 31st of December 1876 | DEATH | Catherine Laboure, French visionary and saint (Born 1806) |
| 31st of December 1877 | DEATH | Gustave Courbet, French painter (Born 1819) |
| 31st of December 1888 | DEATH | Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (Born 1808) |
| 31st of December 1889 | DEATH | Ion Creanga, Romanian writer |
| 31st of December 1890 | DEATH | Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican war heroine (Born 1826) |
| 31st of December 1891 | DEATH | Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Nigerian bishop. (Born 1809) |
| 31st of December 1894 | DEATH | Thomas Joannes Stieltjes, Dutch mathematician (Born 1856) |
| 31st of December 1905 | DEATH | Alexander Popov, Russian physicist (Born 1859) |
| 31st of December 1909 | DEATH | Spencer Trask, American financier (Born 1844) |
| 31st of December 1910 | DEATH | John Moisant, American aviator (Born 1868) |
| 31st of December 1910 | DEATH | Arch Hoxsey, American aviator (Born 1884) |
| 31st of December 1921 | DEATH | Boies Penrose, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania (Born 1860) |
| 31st of December 1936 | DEATH | Miguel de Unamuno, Spanish writer and philosopher (Born 1864) |
| 31st of December 1948 | DEATH | Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver (Born 1885) |
| 31st of December 1953 | DEATH | Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (Born 1889) |
| 31st of December 1964 | DEATH | Olafur Thors, Prime Minister of Iceland (Born 1892) |
| 31st of December 1964 | DEATH | Bobby Byrne, baseball player (Born 1884) |
| 31st of December 1969 | DEATH | George Lewis, American clarinetist (Born 1900) |
| 31st of December 1971 | DEATH | Pete Duel American actor (Born 1940) |
| 31st of December 1971 | DEATH | Marin Sais, American actress (Born 1890) |
| 31st of December 1971 | DEATH | Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist (Born 1919) |
| 31st of December 1972 | DEATH | Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player (Born 1934) |
| 31st of December 1977 | DEATH | Sabah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, ruler of Kuwait (Born 1924) |
| 31st of December 1980 | DEATH | Raoul Walsh, American film director (Born 1887) |
| 31st of December 1980 | DEATH | Marshall McLuhan, Canadian writer (Born 1911) |
| 31st of December 1985 | DEATH | Rick Nelson, American singer (Born 1940) |
| 31st of December 1986 | DEATH | Lloyd Haynes, American actor (Born 1934) |
| 31st of December 1987 | DEATH | Jerry Turner, American television anchorman (Born 1929) |
| 31st of December 1988 | DEATH | Nicolas Calas, Greek-American poet and art critic (Born 1907) |
| 31st of December 1990 | DEATH | Vasili Lazarev, Soviet cosmonaut (Born 1928) |
| 31st of December 1990 | DEATH | George Allen, American football coach (Born 1918) |
| 31st of December 1993 | DEATH | Zviad Gamsakhurdia, first President of Georgia (Born 1939) |
| 31st of December 1993 | DEATH | Brandon Teena, American murder victim (Born 1972) |
| 31st of December 1994 | DEATH | Leigh Bowery, Australian-born English fashion performance artist (Born 1961) |
| 31st of December 1994 | DEATH | Woody Strode, American actor and decathlete (Born 1914) |
| 31st of December 1997 | DEATH | Floyd Cramer, American musician (Born 1933) |
| 31st of December 1997 | DEATH | Billie Dove, American actress (Born 1903) |
| 31st of December 1997 | DEATH | Michael Kennedy, American politician (Born 1958) |
| 31st of December 1999 | DEATH | Elliot Richardson, American politician (Born 1920) |
| 31st of December 2000 | DEATH | Jose Greco, Italian-born American flamenco dancer and choreographer (Born 1918) |
| 31st of December 2000 | DEATH | Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane, Israeli leader of Kahane Chai party and son of Rabbi Meir Kahane (Born 1966) |
| 31st of December 2000 | DEATH | Alan Cranston, American politician (Born 1914) |
| 31st of December 2001 | DEATH | Eileen Heckart, American actress (Born 1919) |
| 31st of December 2002 | DEATH | Kevin Scott MacMichael, American guitarist (Cutting Crew) (Born 1951) |
| 31st of December 2003 | DEATH | Arthur R. von Hippel German-born physicist (Born 1898) |
| 31st of December 2004 | DEATH | Gerard Debreu, French economist, Bank of Sweden Prize laureate (Born 1921) |
| 31st of December 2005 | DEATH | Phillip Whitehead, British politician (Born 1937) |
| 31st of December 2005 | DEATH | Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor (Born 1932) |
| 31st of December 2006 | DEATH | George Sisler, Jr., American baseball executive (Born 1917) |
| 31st of December 2007 | DEATH | Tony Elliott, American football player (Born 1959) |
| 31st of December 2007 | DEATH | Tommy Dickson, British footballer (Born 1929) |
| 31st of December 2007 | DEATH | Michael Goldberg, American painter (Born 1924) |
| 31st of December 2007 | DEATH | Bill Idelson, American actor (Born 1919) |
| 31st of December 2007 | DEATH | Kathryn Ish, American actress (Born 1936) |
| 31st of December 2007 | DEATH | Milton L. Klein, Canadian politician (Born 1910) |
| 31st of December 2007 | DEATH | Markku Peltola, Finnish actor and musician (Born 1956) |
| 31st of December 2007 | DEATH | Ettore Sottsass, Italian architect and designer (Born 1917) |
| 31st of December 2008 | DEATH | Donald E. Westlake, American author (Born 1933) |