1886) December 7 – Ariyavangsagatayana, 17th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, Member of the Chetupon Temple (b. 1896) December 8 – Nadia Benois, Russian painter and stage designer; also the mother of English actor Peter Ustinov (b. 1896) December 9 Hans Traut, German General-Lieutenant in the Nazi Wehrmacht in World War II (b. 1895) Ludwig Weber, Austrian bass (b. 1899) December 10 – Paul Richards, American actor, Beneath the Planet of the Apes (b. 1924) December 11 Maravillas de Jesús, Spanish Roman Catholic professed member of the Discalced Carmelites and saint (b. 1891) Reed Hadley, American radio, television and film actor (b. 1911) December 12 – Booker McDaniels, American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues with (Kansas City Monarchs) (b. 1913) December 13 – John G. Bennett, British mathematician (b. 1897) December 14 – Walter Lippmann, American writer and journalist (b. 1889) December 15 – Anatole Litvak, Ukrainian-born film director (b. 1902) December 16 – Kostas Varnalis, Greek poet (b. 1884) December 17 Luis Almarcha Hernández, Spanish cleric, politician and Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1887) Bing Slamet, Indonesian singer, songwriter, comedian and actor (b. 1927) December 18 – Harry Hooper, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1887) December 19 Bernd von Brauchitsch, German air force officer (b. 1911) Catrano Catrani, Italian-born Argentine director & producer (b. 1910) December 20 – André Jolivet, French composer (b. 1905) December 21 – Richard Long, American actor (b. 1927) December 22 – Gordon Purdy, Canadian Liberal politician (b. 1888) December 23 – Jules Rykovich, Croatian-born, American football player (b. 1923) December 24 – Sentarō Ōmori, Japanese admiral (b. 1892) December 25 – Gorman Kennedy, Canadian executive and general manager of the Montreal Alouettes from (1957 to 1959) (b. 1907) December 26 Jack Benny, American actor (b. 1894) Frank Hussey, American Olympic athlete (b. 1905) December 27 Bob Custer, American film actor (b. 1898) Vladimir Fock, Soviet physicist (b. 1898) Ned Maddrell, last surviving native speaker of the Manx language (b. 1877) December 28 – Zachary Cope, British physician and surgeon (b. 1881) December 29 Robert Ellis, American actor (b. 1892) William Charles Fuller, Welsh soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1884) December 30 George Howard Earle III, American politician and diplomat; served as Governor of Pennsylvania from 1935 to 1939 (b. 1890) Sid Terris, American boxer (b. 1904) December 31 Dogen Handa, Japanese