2 – Tomás Bretón, Spanish composer (b. 1850) December 4 – Maurice Barres, French novelist, journalist and politician (b. 1862) December 9 – Meggie Albanesi, British actress (b. 1899) December 10 – Thomas George Bonney, English geologist (b. 1833) December 11 – Kata Dalström, Swedish politician (b. 1858) December 13 – Théophile Steinlen, Swiss painter (b. 1859) December 14 – Giuseppe Gallignani, Italian composer, conductor and teacher (b. 1851) December 22 – Georg Luger, German firearms designer (b. 1849) December 25 – William Ludwig, Irish opera singer (b. 1847) December 26 – Rafael Valentín Errázuriz, Chilean politician, diplomat (b. 1861) December 27 Gustave Eiffel, French engineer, architect (Eiffel Tower) (b. 1832) Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Spanish architect (b. 1850) December 28 – Frank Hayes, American actor (b. 1871) Date unknown Józef Tretiak, Polish writer (b. 1841) Nobel Prizes Physics – Robert Andrews Millikan Chemistry – Fritz Pregl Physiology or Medicine – Frederick Grant Banting, John James Rickard Macleod Literature – William Butler Yeats References