tennis champion (b. 1894) December 23 – Gerard Kuiper, Dutch-born American astronomer (b. 1905) December 25 İsmet İnönü, Turkish general and statesman, 3-time Prime Minister of Turkey and 2nd President of Turkey during World War II (b. 1884) Gabriel Voisin, French aviation pioneer (b. 1880) December 26 – Harold B. Lee, American president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1899) Nobel Prizes Physics – Leo Esaki, Ivar Giaever, Brian David Josephson Chemistry – Ernst Otto Fischer, Geoffrey Wilkinson Medicine – Karl von Frisch, Konrad Lorenz, Nikolaas Tinbergen Literature – Patrick White Peace – Henry Kissinger, Lê Đức Thọ Economics – Wassily Leontief References