December 21: Difference between revisions

*[[2004]] – [[Autar Singh Paintal]], Indian physiologist and neurologist (b. 1925)

*[[2006]] – [[Saparmurat Niyazov]], Turkmen engineer and politician, 1st [[President of Turkmenistan]] (b. 1940)

*[[2009]] – [[Edwin G. Krebs]], American biochemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1918)

* 2009 – [[Christos Lambrakis]], Greek journalist and businessman (b. 1934)

* 2014 &ndash; [[Billie Whitelaw]], English actress (b. 1932)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Coveney |first1=Michael |title=Billie Whitelaw obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/dec/22/billie-whitelaw |website=The Guardian |access-date=24 June 2020 |date=22 December 2014}}</ref>

*[[2017]] &ndash; [[Bruce McCandless II]], US astronaut who conducted the first untethered spacewalk (b. 1937)

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