Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer (b. 1835) December 20 Hans Hartwig von Beseler, German general (b. 1850) Julius Richard Petri, German microbiologist (b. 1852) December 24 - Misu Sōtarō, Japanese admiral (b. 1855) Nobel Prizes Physics – Albert Einstein Chemistry – Frederick Soddy Medicine – (not awarded) Literature – Anatole France Peace – Karl Hjalmar Branting, Christian Lous Lange References Sources New International Year Book: 1921 (1922) online edition 1921 Aviation Comes North- NWT Historical Timeline- A Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre Online Exhibit