Spanish playwright (b. 1851) December 14 - Belgrave Edward Sutton Ninnis, British explorer and officer (b. 1887) December 15 – Sir Thomas Charles Scanlen, South African politician, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (b. 1834) December 18 – William McKendree Carleton, American poet (b. 1845) December 23 – Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist (b. 1850) December 29 – Philip H. Cooper, American admiral (b. 1844) Nobel Prizes Physics – Nils Gustaf Dalén Chemistry – Victor Grignard, Paul Sabatier Medicine – Alexis Carrel Literature – Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann Peace – Elihu Root References Further reading 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 245–68. Leap years in the Gregorian calendar