businessman (b. 1874) Filippo Perlo, Italian Roman Catholic prelate and missionary (b. 1873) November 7 – David Leland, American actor (b. 1932) November 8 – Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria (b. 1874) November 9 – Edgar Kennedy, American actor (b. 1890) November 10 Julius Curtius, German politician, diplomat (b. 1877) Jack Nelson, American actor, director (b. 1882) November 11 – Fred Niblo, American film director (b. 1874) November 12 – Umberto Giordano, Italian composer (b. 1867) November 17 – Oerip Soemohardjo, Indonesian general (b. 1893) November 21 – Béla Miklós, Hungarian military officer, politician and 38th Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1890) November 23 – Hack Wilson, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), MLB Hall of Fame member (b. 1900) November 28 – D. D. Sheehan, Irish politician (b. 1873) November 29 Maria Koppenhöfer, German actress (b. 1901) Roberto Omegna, Italian cinematographer, director (b. 1876) November 30 – Franco Vittadini, Italian composer (b. 1884) December December 3 Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr, South African politician (b. 1894) Luis Orrego Luco, Chilean politician, lawyer, novelist and diplomat (b. 1866) Chano Pozo, Cuban percussionist (b. 1915) December 8 – Matthew Charlton, Australian politician (b. 1866) December 15 – João Tamagnini Barbosa, Portuguese military officer, politician and 69th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1883) December 20 – C. Aubrey Smith, British actor (b. 1863) December 21 – Władysław Witwicki, Polish psychologist, philosopher, translator, historian (of philosophy and art) and artist (b. 1878) December 23 – Japanese war leaders (hanged): Kenji Doihara, general (b. 1883) Kōki Hirota, diplomat and politician, 32nd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878) Seishirō Itagaki, military officer (b. 1885) Heitarō Kimura, general (b. 1888) Iwane Matsui, general (b. 1878) Akira Mutō, general (b. 1892) Hideki Tojo, general, 40th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1884) December 26 – John Westley, American actor (b. 1878) December 28 Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari, Indian civil servant, politician (b. 1894) Mahmoud an-Nukrashi Pasha, Egyptian political figure, 27th Prime Minister of Egypt (assassinated) (b. 1888) December 30 George Ault, American painter (b. 1891) Denton Welch, English author and painter (b. 1915) December 31 – Sir Malcolm Campbell, English land, water racer (b. 1885) Nobel Prizes Physics – Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett Chemistry – Arne Tiselius Medicine – Paul Hermann Müller Literature – T. S. Eliot Peace – not awarded References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar