1915) November 7 Dina Romano, Italian stage and film actress (b. 1888) Hasui Kawase, Japanese painter and printmaker (b. 1883) November 11 – Masao Maruyama, Japanese general (b. 1889) November 13 – Antonín Zápotocký, 6th President and 15th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1884) November 15 – Andrzej Bursa, Polish poet (b. 1932) November 17 – Cora Witherspoon, American actress (b. 1890) November 18 – Rudolf Diels, German Nazi civil servant and Gestapo chief (b. 1900) November 24 – Diego Rivera, Mexican painter (b. 1886) November 25 Prince George of Greece and Denmark, high commissioner of the Cretan State (b. 1869) Raymond Griffith, American actor (b. 1895) William V. Pratt, American admiral (b. 1869) November 26 Billy Bevan, Australian actor (b. 1887) Petros Voulgaris, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1884) November 29 – Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Austrian composer (b. 1897) November 30 – Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (b. 1890) December December 2 – Harrison Ford, American silent film actor (b. 1884) December 4 – Sir John Lavarack, Australian general, Governor of Queensland (b. 1885) December 6 Claude Barnard, Australian politician and government minister (b. 1890) Robert Esnault-Pelterie, French aircraft designer and pioneer rocket theorist (b. 1881) December 8 Petre Antonescu, Romanian general (b. 1891) Reginald Sheffield, English actor (b. 1901) December 10 – Maurice McLoughlin, American tennis champion (b. 1890) December 10 James Stevenson-Hamilton, first warden of South Africa's Kruger National Park (b. 1867) Napoleon Zervas, Greek WW II Resistance leader (b. 1891) December 11 – Musidora, French actress (b. 1889) December 15 – Alfonso Bedoya, Mexican actor (b. 1904) December 17 – Dorothy L. Sayers, British crime writer, poet, playwright and essayist (b. 1893) December 21 – Eric Coates, English composer (b. 1886) December 24 – Norma Talmadge, American actress (b. 1894) December 25 Alfred Walton Hinds, 17th Naval Governor of Guam (b. 1874) Charles Pathé, French film pioneer (b. 1863) December 26 – Angelo Motta, Italian entrepreneur (b. 1890) December 28 – Hilda Vaughn, American actress (b. 1898) December 31 – Óscar Domínguez, Spanish painter (b. 1906) Nobel Prizes Physics – Chen-Ning Yang, Tsung-Dao Lee Chemistry – Lord Alexander R. Todd Physiology or Medicine – Daniel Bovet Literature – Albert Camus Peace – Lester Bowles Pearson References