(b. 1861) Amos Rusie, American baseball player and MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1871) December 7 – Orland Steen Loomis, Governor of Wisconsin (b. 1893) December 8 Prince Eitel Friedrich of Prussia (b. 1883) Albert Kahn, American architect (b. 1869) December 9 – Séraphine Louis, French painter (b. 1864) December 12 Robert Danneberg, Austrian politician (b. 1882) Helen Westley, American actress (b. 1875) December 13 Hakeem Fateh Mohammad Sehwani, Indian scholar, poet, literary, journalist and politician (b. 1882) Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Polish Jesuit priest and servant of God (b. 1866) December 17 – Edith Pretty, British landowner (b. 1883) December 19 – Carl Gustav Fleischer, Norwegian general (b. 1883) December 21 – Franz Boas, German anthropologist (b. 1858) December 22 Robert Kosch, Prussian general (b. 1856) Richard-Heinrich von Reuss, German General, KIA at Stalingrad (b, 1896). December 23 – Konstantin Balmont, Soviet poet and translator (b. 1867) December 24 – François Darlan, French admiral and politician, 81st Prime Minister of France (assassinated) (b. 1881) December 27 – William G. Morgan, American inventor of volleyball (b. 1870) December 30 – Sir Neville Henderson, British diplomat (b. 1882) References