(b. 1854) December 26 – Melvil Dewey, American librarian, inventor of the Dewey Decimal Classification (b. 1851) December 27 – José Figueroa Alcorta, Argentine politician, 16th President of Argentina (b. 1860) Nobel Prizes Physics – not awarded Chemistry – Carl Bosch, Friedrich Bergius Physiology or Medicine – Otto Heinrich Warburg Literature – Erik Axel Karlfeldt Peace – Jane Addams, Nicholas Murray Butler References External links The 1930s Timeline: 1931 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia 1931: A Glance at the Twentieth Century by Henry Hartshorne