venerable (b. 1900) November 26 – King Vajiravudh (Rama VI) of Siam (b. 1880) December December 5 Wilhelmina Drucker, Dutch politician and writer (b. 1847) Władysław Reymont, Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1867) December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, American actress (b. 1888) December 9 – Pablo Iglesias Posse, co-founder of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (b. 1850) December 13 – Antonio Maura, Spanish conservative politician, 5-time Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1853) December 15 – Battling Siki, Senegalese boxer (b. 1897) December 18 – Sir Hamo Thornycroft, British sculptor (b. 1850) December 19 – José Ignacio Quintón, Puerto Rican composer and pianist (b. 1881) December 21 Lottie Lyell, Australian female pioneer film director and producer (b. 1890) Jules Méline, French statesman, 50th Prime Minister of France (b. 1838) December 22 Alice, Princess Dowager of Monaco, consort of Albert I of Monaco (b. 1858) Mary Thurman, American actress (b. 1895) December 25 Karl Abraham, German psychoanalyst (b. 1877) Ester Rachel Kamińska, Polish actress, "mother of Yiddish theatre" (b. 1870) December 27 – Marie-Louise Jaÿ, French businesswoman (b. 1838) December 28 Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet (b. 1895) Raymond P. Rodgers, American admiral (b. 1849) December 29 – Félix Vallotton, Swiss painter (b. 1865) December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards, Canadian film director (b. 1867) Nobel Prizes Physics – James Franck and Gustav Ludwig Hertz Chemistry – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy Physiology or Medicine – not awarded Literature – George Bernard Shaw Peace – Austen Chamberlain and Charles Gates Dawes References