December Deaths

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1st: Hillard Elkins, 2010
2nd: Odetta, 2008; Marty Feldman, 1982; Charlie Byrd, 1999
3rd: Ian McLagan, 2014; David Hemmings, 2003
4th: Frank Zappa, 1993
5th: Arvell Shaw, 2002; Nelson Mandela, 2013; Kenny Dorham, 1972
6th: Roy Orbison, 1988; Jonny Hallyday, 2017; Johnny Hallyday, 2017
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8th: Ruben Gonzalez, 2003; John Lennon, 1980
9th: Edith Sitwell, 1964
10th: Rick Danko, 1999; Otis Redding, 1967
11th: Aage Thaarup, 1987; Ravi Shankar, 2012
12th: Ike Turner, 2007; Frederick Thurston, 1953
13th: Peter O'Toole, 2013
14th: Dinah Washington, 1963
15th: Bobby Brookmeyer, 2011
16th: Silvana Mangano, 1989; Stuart Adamson, 2001
17th: Jennifer Jones, 2009
18th: Sam Wanamaker, 1993
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20th: Bobby Darrin, 1973
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22nd: Paddy Ashdown, 2018; Joe Cocker, 2014
23rd: Ronnie Scott, 1996; Yusef Lateef, 2013; Oscar Peterson, 2007
24th: Harold Pinter, 2008; Rick Parfitt, 2016
25th: James Brown, 2006; George Michael, 2016; Eartha Kitt, 2008
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27th: Carrie Fisher, 2016
28th: Freddie King, 1976; Dennis Wilson, 1983; Billy Taylor, 2010
29th: Harold Macmillan, 1986; Freddie Hubbard, 2008; Bob Monkhouse, 2003
30th: Isamu Noguchi, 1988
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