December 2 Deaths |
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| December 2nd, 2006 (December 02 2006) | Death | Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (born in 1947) | |
| December 2nd, 2005 (December 02 2005) | Death | Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (born in 1919) | |
| December 2nd, 2005 (December 02 2005) | Death | Van Tuong Nguyen, Australian drug smuggler (hanged) (born in 1980) | |
| December 2nd, 2005 (December 02 2005) | Death | Kenneth Lee Boyd, American convicted murderer (executed) (born in 1948) | |
| December 2nd, 2004 (December 02 2004) | Death | Mona Van Duyn, American poet (born in 1921) | |
| December 2nd, 2004 (December 02 2004) | Death | Alicia Markova, British ballerina (born in 1910) | |
| December 2nd, 2003 (December 02 2003) | Death | Alan Davidson, British author (born in 1924) | |
| December 2nd, 2002 (December 02 2002) | Death | Ivan Illich, Austrian priest and philosopher (born in 1926) | Philo Quotes |
| December 2nd, 2002 (December 02 2002) | Death | Arno Peters, German historian (born in 1916) | |
| December 2nd, 1997 (December 02 1997) | Death | Shirley Crabtree, British professional wrestler (born in 1930) | |
| December 2nd, 1997 (December 02 1997) | Death | Michael Hedges, American guitarist known for originality (born in 1953) | |
| December 2nd, 1995 (December 02 1995) | Death | Robertson Davies, Canadian novelist (born in 1913) | |
| December 2nd, 1995 (December 02 1995) | Death | Roxie Roker, American actress/news personality (born in 1929) | |
| December 2nd, 1993 (December 02 1993) | Death | Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug dealer (born in 1949) | |
| December 2nd, 1990 (December 02 1990) | Death | Aaron Copland, American composer (born in 1900) | Aaron Copland Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1990 (December 02 1990) | Death | Robert Cummings, American film and television actor (born in 1908) | |
| December 2nd, 1988 (December 02 1988) | Death | Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) | |
| December 2nd, 1987 (December 02 1987) | Death | Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1906) | |
| December 2nd, 1987 (December 02 1987) | Death | Yakov Borisovich Zel dovich, Russian physicist (born in 1914) | |
| December 2nd, 1986 (December 02 1986) | Death | Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, musician, band leader, and composer (born in 1917) | |
| December 2nd, 1986 (December 02 1986) | Death | John Curtis Gowan, American psychologist (born in 1912) | |
| December 2nd, 1985 (December 02 1985) | Death | Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (born in 1914) | |
| December 2nd, 1985 (December 02 1985) | Death | Philip Larkin, English writer and jazz critic (born in 1922) | Philip Larkin Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1983 (December 02 1983) | Death | Fifi d Orsay, Canadian actress (born in 1904) | |
| December 2nd, 1982 (December 02 1982) | Death | Marty Feldman, British comedian, writer and actor (born in 1933) | Marty Feldman Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1980 (December 02 1980) | Death | Chaudhry Muhammad Ali, Prime Minister of Pakistan (born in 1905) | Muhammad Ali Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1980 (December 02 1980) | Death | Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born French writer (born in 1914) | Romain Gary Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1976 (December 02 1976) | Death | Danny Murtaugh, baseball player and manager (born in 1917) | |
| December 2nd, 1974 (December 02 1974) | Death | Max Weber, Swiss Federal Councilor (born in 1897) | |
| December 2nd, 1969 (December 02 1969) | Death | Kliment Yefremovich Voroshilov, Russian politician (born in 1881) | Kliment Voroshilov Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1968 (December 02 1968) | Death | Adamson-Eric (Eric Adamson), Estonian painter (born in 1902) | |
| December 2nd, 1963 (December 02 1963) | Death | Thomas J. Hicks, British-born runner (born in 1875) | |
| December 2nd, 1963 (December 02 1963) | Death | Sabu Dastagir, Indian-born American actor (born in 1924) | |
| December 2nd, 1957 (December 02 1957) | Death | Manfred Sakel, Polish psychiatrist (born in 1902) | |
| December 2nd, 1950 (December 02 1950) | Death | Dinu Lipatti, Romanian pianist (born in 1917) | |
| December 2nd, 1944 (December 02 1944) | Death | Josef Lhevinne, Russian pianist (born in 1874) | |
| December 2nd, 1944 (December 02 1944) | Death | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Italian writer (born in 1876) | Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1943 (December 02 1943) | Death | Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian author and journalist (born in 1902) | |
| December 2nd, 1936 (December 02 1936) | Death | John Ringling, American circus owner (born in 1866) | |
| December 2nd, 1931 (December 02 1931) | Death | Vincent d Indy, French composer (born in 1851) | |
| December 2nd, 1924 (December 02 1924) | Death | Kazimieras Buga, Lithuanian philologist (born in 1879) | Philo Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1918 (December 02 1918) | Death | Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist (born in 1868) | |
| December 2nd, 1899 (December 02 1899) | Death | Gregorio del Pilar, Filipino general (killed at Battle of Tirad Pass) (born in 1875) | |
| December 2nd, 1892 (December 02 1892) | Death | Jay Gould, American entrepreneur (born in 1836) | |
| December 2nd, 1860 (December 02 1860) | Death | Alfred Bunn, British theatrical manager (born in 1796) | Alfred Bunn Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1859 (December 02 1859) | Death | John Brown, American abolitionist (hanged) (born in 1800) | |
| December 2nd, 1849 (December 02 1849) | Death | Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, wife of William IV of the United Kingdom (born in 1792) | William King Quotes |
| December 2nd, 1844 (December 02 1844) | Death | Eustachy Erazm Sanguszko, Polish general and politician (born in 1768) | |
| December 2nd, 1814 (December 02 1814) | Death | Marquis de Sade, French writer (born in 1740) | |
| December 2nd, 1774 (December 02 1774) | Death | Johann Friedrich Agricola, German composer and organist (born in 1720) | |
| December 2nd, 1748 (December 02 1748) | Death | Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset, English politician (born in 1662) | |
| December 2nd, 1747 (December 02 1747) | Death | Vincent Bourne, English classical scholar (born in 1695) | |
| December 2nd, 1726 (December 02 1726) | Death | Samuel Penhallow, English-born American colonist and historian (born in 1665) | |
| December 2nd, 1719 (December 02 1719) | Death | Pasquier Quesnel, French Jansenist theologian (born in 1634) | |
| December 2nd, 1694 (December 02 1694) | Death | Pierre Paul Puget, French artist (born in 1622) | |
| December 2nd, 1665 (December 02 1665) | Death | Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, French socialite (born in 1588) | |
| December 2nd, 1615 (December 02 1615) | Death | Louis des Balbes de Berton de Crillon, French general | |
| December 2nd, 1552 (December 02 1552) | Death | Francis Xavier, Spanish Catholic missionary (born in 1506) | |
| December 2nd, 1547 (December 02 1547) | Death | Hernan Cortes, Spanish explorer and conqueror (born in 1485) | |
| December 2nd, 1515 (December 02 1515) | Death | Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba, Spanish general and statesman (born in 1453) | |
| December 2nd, 1469 (December 02 1469) | Death | Piero di Cosimo de Medici, ruler of Florence (born in 1416) | |
| December 2nd, 1463 (December 02 1463) | Death | Archduke Albert VI of Austria (born in 1418) | |
| December 2nd, 1381 (December 02 1381) | Death | John of Ruysbroeck, Flemish mystic | |
| December 2nd, 1348 (December 02 1348) | Death | Emperor Hanazono of Japan (born in 1297) | |
