(d. 2019) December 25 – Alija Behmen, Bosnian politician (d. 2018) December 26 – Edward C. Prescott, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2022) December 28 – Don Francisco, Chilean-American television host December 29 Fred Hansen, American Olympic athlete Brigitte Kronauer, German novelist (d. 2019) December 30 - James Burrows, American television director Philippe Cousteau, French diver and cinematographer (d. 1979) Deaths January January 1 – Fusajiro Yamauchi, Japanese business executive (b. 1859) January 4 – Flora Finch, English-born actress, comedian (b. 1867) January 9 – Alex Bennett, Scottish footballer (b. 1881) January 15 – Kallirhoe Parren, founder of the Greek women's movement (b. 1861) January 18 – Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer, Polish poet, writer (b. 1865) January 20 – Omar Bundy, U.S. Army General (b. 1861) January 22 – Edwin Carewe, Native American director (b. 1883) January 27 – Isaac Babel, Ukrainian writer (executed) (b. 1894) February February – Zheng Pingru, Chinese spy (executed) (b. 1918) February 1 – Philip Francis Nowlan, American science fiction writer, creator of Buck Rogers (b. 1888) February 2 Mikhail Koltsov, Soviet journalist (executed) (b. 1898) Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatre practitioner (b. 1874) February 4 Samuel M. Vauclain, American engineer (b. 1856) Nikolai Yezhov, Soviet politician and police chief, Great Purge Perpetrator (b. 1895) February 9 – William Dodd, American historian, diplomat (b. 1869) February 11 John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Scottish-born novelist, Governor General of Canada (b. 1875) Gunnar Höckert, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1910) February 15 – R. E. B. Crompton, British electrical engineer, industrialist and inventor (b. 1845) February 16 – Louis Dartige du Fournet, French admiral (b. 1856) February 26 – Michael Hainisch, 2nd President of Austria (b. 1858) February 27 – Peter Behrens, German architect, designer (b. 1868) February 29 E. F. Benson, English writer (b. 1867) Josef Swickard, German actor (b. 1866) March March 1 – A. H. Tammsaare, Estonian writer (b. 1878) March 5 Maxine Elliott, American actress (b. 1868) Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator, philosopher, politician and Esperantist and the president of Peking University (b. 1868) March 10 – Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891) March 16 Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858) Samuel Untermyer, American lawyer (b. 1858) March 18 – Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, British army general (b. 1864) March 20 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist and eugenicist (b. 1860) March 23 – Dimitar Stanchov, 15th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1863) March 24