October 17 – Bart King, American cricketer (b. 1873) October 18 Oscar Beregi, Hungarian actor (b. 1876) Henry Travers, English actor (b. 1874) October 21 Bill Black, American musician and bandleader (b. 1926) Marie McDonald, American actress (b. 1923) October 22 – Paul Tillich, German American Christian existentialist philosopher and theologian (b. 1886) October 23 – Luis de la Puente Uceda, Peruvian guerrilla leader (b. 1926) October 24 – Hans Meerwein, German chemist (b. 1879) October 26 – Sylvia Likens, American murder victim (b. 1949) October 29 – Miller Anderson, American Olympic diver (b. 1922) October 31 – Rita Johnson, American actress (b. 1913) November November 2 Félix Paiva, 28th President of Paraguay (b. 1877) H.V. Evatt, Australian politician, judge (b. 1894) November 6 Edgard Varèse, French-born composer (b. 1883) Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1893) November 7 – Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, 2nd Caliph of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam (b. 1889) November 8 Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist and television personality (b. 1913) Emma Gramatica, Italian actress (b. 1874) November 16 Harry Blackstone Sr., American magician and illusionist (b. 1885) W. T. Cosgrave, Irish politician, president of the Provisional Government and the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (b. 1880) November 18 Khalid al-Azm, 5-time Prime Minister of Syria and acting President of Syria (b. 1903) Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice President of the United States (b. 1888) November 24 – Abdullah III Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1895) November 25 – Dame Myra Hess, English pianist (b. 1890) December December 5 – Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1874) December 9 – Branch Rickey, American baseball executive (b. 1881) December 10 – Henry Cowell, American composer (b. 1897) December 11 – George Constantinescu, Romanian scientist (b. 1881) December 15 – Joseph Bamina, 8th Prime Minister of Burundi (executed) (b. 1925) December 16 W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (b. 1874) Tito Schipa, Italian tenor (b. 1889) December 24 – William M. Branham, American minister (b. 1909) December 27 – Edgar Ende, German painter (b. 1901) December 29 – Kosaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor (b. 1886) Nobel Prizes Physics – Shin'ichirō Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard P. Feynman Chemistry – Robert Burns Woodward Physiology or Medicine – François Jacob, André Michel Lwoff, Jacques Monod Literature – Mikhail Sholokhov Peace – United Nation's Children's Fund (UNICEF) References