a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1866) October 22 – Jibanananda Das, Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in Bengali (b. 1899) October 30 – Wilbur Shaw, American racing driver (b. 1902) November November 3 – Henri Matisse, French painter (b. 1869) November 10 – Édouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician (b. 1870) November 13 – Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, German field marshal (b. 1881) November 15 – Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878) November 16 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist (b. 1874) November 17 Ludovic Dauș, Romanian novelist and playwright (b. 1873) Yitzhak Lamdan, Russian-born Israeli poet and columnist (b. 1899) November 20 – Clyde Cessna, American aviator and aircraft designer and manufacturer, founder of the Cessna Aircraft Corporation (b. 1879) November 21 – Jess McMahon, American professional boxing and wrestling promoter; founder of Capitol Wrestling Corporation (b. 1882) November 22 Moroni Olsen, American actor (b. 1889) Andrey Vyshinsky, Russian jurist and diplomat, former Soviet Foreign Minister (b. 1883) November 28 – Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901) November 29 – Dink Johnson, American musician (b. 1892) November 30 – Wilhelm Furtwängler, German conductor (b. 1886) December December 1 – Fred Rose, American songwriter (b. 1898) December 8 Claude Cahun, French photographer and writer (b. 1894) Gladys George, American actress (b. 1904) December 20 – James Hilton, English novelist (b. 1900) December 23 – René Iché, French sculptor (b. 1897) December 25 Ioan Arbore, Romanian general (b. 1892) Liberty Hyde Bailey, American botanist (b. 1858) December 30 Archduke Eugen of Austria, Austrian field marshal (b. 1863) Günther Quandt, German industrialist who founded an industrial empire that today includes BMW and Altana (b. 1881) Nobel Prizes Physics – Max Born, Walther Bothe Chemistry – Linus Pauling Medicine – John Franklin Enders, Thomas Huckle Weller, Frederick Chapman Robbins Literature – Ernest Hemingway Peace – The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. References