comedian (The Three Stooges) (b. 1895) November 27 – Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (b. 1892) December December 5 – Jirō Minami, Japanese general and Governor-General of Korea (1936-1942) (b. 1874) December 6 – Honus Wagner, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1874) December 8 – Hermann Weyl, German mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher (b. 1885) December 13 – António Egas Moniz, Portuguese neurologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1874) December 14 - Paddy Mayne, Irish & British lions rugby international, Founding member of the S.A.S December 15 – Otto Braun, German politician, former Minister President of the Free State of Prussia (b. 1872) December 18 – Anna Murray Vail, American botanist (b. 1863) December 21 – Garegin Nzhdeh, Armenian statesman (b. 1886) December 24 – Nana Bryant, American actress (b. 1888) Nobel Prizes Physics – Willis Eugene Lamb and Polykarp Kusch Chemistry – Vincent du Vigneaud Physiology or Medicine – Axel Hugo Theodor Theorell Literature – Halldór Kiljan Laxness Peace – not awarded References