1819) December 13 – Nikolay Beketov, Russian chemist (b. 1827) December 19 – John Bigelow, American lawyer, statesman (b. 1817) December 20 – Rose Eytinge, American actress (b. 1835) December 21 Catharine H. T. Avery, American author and editor (b. 1844) Emilio Estrada Carmona, 18th President of Ecuador (b. 1855) December 22 Mary Jane Coggeshall, American suffragist (b. 1836) Odilon Lannelongue, French surgeon (b. 1840) December 24 – Hyacinth (Jacek) Gulski, American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1847) December 25 – Arthur F. Griffith, American calculating prodigy (b. 1880) Nobel Prizes Physics – Wilhelm Wien Chemistry – Marie Curie Medicine – Allvar Gullstrand Literature – Maurice Maeterlinck Peace – Tobias Asser References Further reading New International year book: 1911 comprehensive, global coverage online Britannica year-book, 1913 (1913) covers 1911 and 1912, global coverage Gilbert, Martin. A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1 1900-1933 (1997); global coverage of politics, diplomacy and warfare; pp 225–44.