– Laura Smulders, Dutch racing cyclist December 11 Kōyō Aoyagi, Japanese baseball player Yalitza Aparicio, Mexican actress and preschool teacher December 13 – Danielle Collins, American tennis player December 12 – Max Rendschmidt, German sprint canoeist December 15 – Alina Eremia, Romanian singer December 16 – Thiago Braz da Silva, Brazilian pole vaulter December 17 – Kiersey Clemons, American actress and singer December 18 – Ana Porgras, Romanian artistic gymnast December 20 Andrea Belotti, Italian footballer Yana Egorian, Russian sabre fencer December 21 – Naomi Yoshimura, Japanese basketball player December 22 Aliana Lohan, American singer, actress, model and television personality Raphaël Guerreiro, Portuguese footballer Meghan Trainor, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer December 25 – Andrea Drews, American volleyball player December 29 Ivona Dadic, Austrian athlete Moeko Nagaoka, Japanese basketball player Deaths January January 5 Juan Benet, Spanish writer (b. 1927) Yuri Bezmenov, Soviet KGB informant (b. 1939) January 6 Archduchess Elisabeth of Austria (b. 1922) Dizzy Gillespie, American jazz musician (b. 1917) Richard Mortensen, Danish painter (b. 1910) Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer (b. 1938) January 9 – Paul Hasluck, Australian politician, 17th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905) January 13 – René Pleven, French politician, 88th Prime Minister of France (b. 1901) January 15 – Sammy Cahn, American lyricist (b. 1913) January 16 Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930) Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic strongman (b. 1960) January 18 – Eleanor Burford, English writer (b. 1906) January 20 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born British actress (b. 1929) January 21 Charlie Gehringer, American baseball player (b. 1903) Leo Löwenthal, German sociologist (b. 1900) January 22 Kōbō Abe, Japanese author (b. 1924) Jim Pollard, American professional basketball player and coach (b. 1922) January 23 Thomas A. Dorsey, American musician and Christian evangelist, "Father of Gospel Music" (b. 1899) Keith Laumer, American science fiction author (b. 1925) January 24 Gustav Ernesaks, Estonian composer and a choir conductor (b. 1908) Thurgood Marshall, American jurist, first African-American on the Supreme Court (b. 1908) Uğur Mumcu, Turkish journalist and writer (b. 1942) January 25 – Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Tunisia (b. 1911) January 26 Baron Axel von dem Bussche, German military officer, member of the anti-Hitler Resistance (b. 1919) Jan Gies, Dutch resistance fighter (b. 1905) Robert Jacobsen Danish artist (b. 1912) Jeanne Sauvé, Canadian politician, 23rd Governor General of Canada (b. 1922) January 27 – André the Giant, French professional wrestler (b. 1946)