British actor (b. 1879) Ignacio Zuloaga, Basque Spanish painter (b. 1870) November November 8 – August von Mackensen, German field marshal (b. 1849) November 11 – Jerome Kern, American composer (b. 1885) November 13 – Sir Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair, British admiral (b. 1865) November 16 – Sigurður Eggerz, Minister for Iceland during World War I and 2nd Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1875) November 17 – Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (b. 1882) November 20 – Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1877) November 21 Robert Benchley, American humorist, theater critic and actor (b. 1889) Ellen Glasgow, American novelist (b. 1873) Alexander Patch, United States Army lieutenant general, World War II army commander (b. 1889) Jimmy Quinn, Scottish footballer (b. 1878) November 23 – Charles Coborn, British singer (b. 1852) November 27 – Josep Maria Sert, Spanish Catalan muralist (b. 1874) November 28 – Dwight F. Davis, American tennis player (b. 1879) November 30 – Shigeru Honjō, Japanese general (suicide) (b. 1876) December December 1 – Anton Dostler, German general (b. 1891) December 3 – George McKay, Soviet-born American actor (b. 1884) December 4 Thomas Hunt Morgan, American biologist, geneticist, embryologist and Nobel Prize in Physiology recipient (b. 1866) Richárd Weisz, Hungarian Olympic champion wrestler (b. 1879) December 5 – Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1864) December 8 – Gabriellino D'Annunzio, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1886) December 12 – Prince Frederick of Schaumburg-Lippe (b. 1868) December 13 Juana Bormann, German Nazi concentration camp guard (executed) (b. 1893) Henri Dentz, French general (b. 1881) Irma Grese, German warden at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (executed) (b. 1923) Josef Kramer, German commandant of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp (executed) (b. 1906) Elisabeth Volkenrath, German supervisor at Nazi concentration camps (executed) (b. 1919) December 14 – Forrester Harvey, Irish actor (b. 1884) December 16 Giovanni Agnelli, Italian entrepreneur, founder of Fiat (b. 1866) Fumimaro Konoe, Japanese general, politician and 23rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1891) December 21 – George S. Patton, American general (injuries from automobile accident) (b. 1885) December 22 – Otto Neurath, Austrian philosopher, political economist (b. 1892) December 25 – Duy Tân, Emperor of Vietnam (b. 1900) December 26 – Roger Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, British admiral (b. 1872) December 28 – Theodore Dreiser, American novelist (b. 1871) Nobel Prizes Physics – Wolfgang Pauli Chemistry – Artturi Ilmari Virtanen Physiology or Medicine – Sir Alexander