1856) December 7 – Isaac C. Kidd, American admiral (killed in action) (b. 1884) December 8 – Izidor Kürschner, Hungarian football player and coach (b. 1885) December 9 – Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Austrian general, German field marshal (b. 1856) December 10 – Sir Tom Phillips, British admiral (killed in action) (b. 1888) December 11 – Émile Picard, French mathematician (b. 1856) December 15 – Blessed Martyrs of Drina, Croatian nuns December 25 – Blanche Bates, American stage actress (b. 1873) December 29 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (b. 1873) December 30 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist, architect (b. 1890) Nobel Prizes Physics – not awarded Chemistry – not awarded Medicine – not awarded Literature – not awarded Peace – not awarded References Further reading William K. Klingaman. 1941: Our Lives in a World on the Edge (1988) world perspective based on primary sources by a scholar.