NGO, Women's Australian National Services (WANS) (b. 1896) November 16 Boris Aronson, Russian set designer (b. 1898) Imogen Hassall, English actress (b. 1942) November 18 – Conn Smythe, Canadian NHL coach (b. 1895) November 20 Avtandil Gogoberidze, Soviet football player (b. 1922) Sir John McEwen, Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900) November 21 – Sara García, Mexican actress (b. 1895) November 22 Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter and illustrator (b. 1901) Mae West, American actress (b. 1893) Leonard Barr, American stand-up comic, actor, and dancer (b. 1903) November 24 George Raft, American actor (b. 1901) Molly Reilly, Canadian aviator (b. 1922) November 25 – Herbert Flam, American tennis player (b. 1928) November 26 – Rachel Roberts, British actress (b. 1927) November 27 – F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (b. 1882) November 29 Dorothy Day, American journalist, activist, Roman Catholic convert and Servant of God (b. 1897) Babe London, American actress and comedian (b. 1901) December December 2 – Romain Gary, Lithuanian-born writer (b. 1914) December 3 – Sir Oswald Mosley, British fascist leader (b. 1896) December 4 Francisco de Sá Carneiro, Portuguese lawyer, 109th Prime Minister of Portugal (b. 1934) Stanisława Walasiewicz, Polish-born runner (b. 1911) December 7 – Darby Crash, American rock songwriter, singer (b. 1958) December 8 – John Lennon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1940) December 10 – Patriarch Benedict I of Jerusalem (b. 1892) December 12 – Bruno Bartolozzi, Italian composer (b. 1911) December 14 – Nichita Smochină, Moldovan activist (b. 1894) December 16 Colonel Sanders, American fast-food entrepreneur (b. 1890) Hellmuth Walter, German engineer and inventor (b. 1900) Peter Collinson, British film director (b. 1936) December 18 Alexei Kosygin, Soviet politician, Premier of the Soviet Union (b. 1904) Sir Albert Margai, 2nd Prime Minister of Sierra Leone (b. 1910) December 19 – Héctor José Cámpora, Argentine Peronist politician, 38th President of Argentina (b. 1909) December 21 – Marc Connelly, American playwright (b. 1890) December 24 Karl Dönitz, German admiral and 4th President of Germany (b. 1891) Heikki Liimatainen, Finnish Olympic athlete (b. 1894) December 29 – Tim Hardin, American musician (b. 1941) December 31 Marshall McLuhan, Canadian author and professor (b. 1911) Raoul Walsh, American film director (b. 1887) Date unknown Nureddine Rifai, 25th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1899) Nobel Prizes Physics – James Watson Cronin, Val Logsdon Fitch Chemistry – Paul Berg, Walter Gilbert, Frederick Sanger Medicine – Baruj Benacerraf,