1878) November 12 - Walter Buch, German SS general (b. 1883) November 15 – Nathuram Godse, assassin of Mohandas Gandhi (b. 1910), and his accomplice, Narayan Apte (b. 1911) November 19 – James Ensor, Belgian painter (b. 1860) November 23 – Prince Ludwig Ferdinand of Bavaria (b. 1859) November 25 Mizuno Rentarō, Japanese statesman, politician and cabinet minister (b. 1868) Bill Robinson, African-American dancer (b. 1878) November 27 Charles F. Haanel, American New Thought author and businessman (b. 1866) Vincenzo Irolli, Italian painter (b. 1860) Martin Benno Schmidt, German pathologist (b. 1863) November 30 – Dame Irene Vanbrugh, British actress (b. 1872) December December 3 Philip Barry, American playwright (b. 1896) Maria Ouspenskaya, Soviet actress, acting teacher (b. 1876) December 5 – Arthur Bedford, British navy officer (b. 1881) December 6 Lead Belly, African-American blues musician (b. 1888) José María Zeledón Brenes, Costa Rican politician, poet, writer and journalist (b. 1877) December 7 Rex Beach, American novelist, playwright and Olympic water polo player (b. 1877) Stanislas Blanchard, Canadian politician (b. 1871) December 8 – George Barnes, Australian businessman, politician (b. 1856) December 11 Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, Indian philosopher (b. 1875) Marian Grzybowski, Polish dermatologist (b. 1895) December 16 Sidney Olcott, Canadian film director (b. 1873) Lee White, American actor (b. 1888) December 22 – Manuel Camus, Filipino lawyer, politician (b. 1875) December 23 Arthur Eichengrün, German chemist (b. 1867) Felix Kaufmann, Austrian-born American philosopher (b. 1895) December 24 – Gertrude Bacon, British aeronautical pioneer (b. 1874) December 25 – Leon Schlesinger, American producer, filmmaker (b. 1884) December 26 – Julius Brandt, Austrian actor (b. 1873) December 27 – Antoni Ponikowski, Polish academician, politician and 7th Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1878) December 28 Hervey Allen, American author (b. 1889) Jack Lovelock, New Zealand Olympic athlete (b. 1910) December 30 – Leopold IV, Prince of Lippe (b. 1871) December 31 Josef Maria Auchentaller, Austrian architect, painter, draftsman and printmaker (b. 1865) Raimond Valgre, Estonian composer, musician (b. 1913) Date unknown Constantin Atanasescu, Romanian general (b. 1885) Abd Allah Siraj, Prime Minister of Jordan (b. 1876) Ernest Spybuck, Native American artist (b. 1883) Zhang Haipeng, Chinese and Manchukuoan general (executed) (b. 1867) Nobel Prizes Physics – Yukawa Hideki Chemistry – William Francis Giauque Medicine – Walter Rudolf Hess and António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz Literature – William Faulkner Peace – John Boyd Orr References