Davis, American fiction writer and poet (b. 1894) November November 2 Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek conductor, pianist and composer (b. 1896) Julio Nakpil, Filipino composer and general (b. 1867) Otoya Yamaguchi, Japanese ultranationalist assassin (b. 1943) November 3 Bobby Wallace, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1873) Sir Harold Spencer Jones, English astronomer (b. 1890) November 5 Ward Bond, American actor (b. 1903) August Gailit, Estonian writer (b. 1891) Johnny Horton, American country singer (b. 1925) Mack Sennett, Canadian film producer and director (b. 1880) November 6 Sir John Bonython, Australian businessman and politician (b. 1875) Erich Raeder, German World War II naval leader (b. 1876) November 7 – A. P. Carter, American singer and songwriter (b. 1891) November 11 – Monte Attell, American boxer (b. 1885) November 12 – Lord Buckley, American monologist (b. 1906) November 16 Paul Faure, French Socialist politician (b. 1878) Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901) November 19 – Phyllis Haver, American actress (b. 1899) November 23 – Allen Hobbs, 32nd Governor of American Samoa (b. 1889) November 24 – Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna of Russia, sister of Tsar Nicholas II (b. 1882) November 25 – Patria (b. 1924), Minerva (b. 1926), and Maria Teresa Mirabal (b. 1935), three Dominican revolutionaries (and their driver, Rufino de la Cruz) November 26 – Helen Hellwig, American tennis player (b. 1874) November 28 Richard Wright, American novelist (b. 1908) Dirk Jan de Geer, Dutch nobleman, lawyer and politician, 26th Prime Minister of the Netherlands (b. 1870) November 29 – Sir Andrew Russell, New Zealand Army general (b. 1868) December December 5 – Hashim al-Atassi, Syrian statesman, 2nd Prime Minister of Syria and 4th President of Syria (b. 1875) December 7 Virginia Balestrieri, Italian actress (b. 1888) Ioannis Demestichas, Greek admiral (b. 1882) December 12 – Christopher Hornsrud, 11th Prime Minister of Norway (b. 1859) December 13 John Charles Thomas, American opera singer (b. 1891) Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, African-American artist known for her sculpture (b. 1890) December 14 – Gregory Ratoff, Russian actor and director December 22 – Sir Ninian Comper, British architect (b. 1864) December 25 – Alberto Maria de Agostini, Italian missionary (b. 1883) December 26 Giuseppe Mario Bellanca, Italian-American aircraft designer and company founder (b. 1886) Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889) Date unknown Signe Bergman, Swedish suffragist (b. 1869) Nobel Prizes Physics – Donald Arthur Glaser