Mangope, President of Bophuthatswana Bantustan (d. 2018) December 28 Louis Lansana Beavogui, Guinean politician (d. 1984) Georg Hille, Norwegian clergyman Mira Sulpizi, Italian composer December 29 Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, French mathematician and physicist Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegalese historian, anthropologist, physicist and politician (d. 1986) Lily Ebert, Hungarian-born English Holocaust survivor Dina Merrill, American actress, heiress, socialite and philanthropist (d. 2017) Mike Nussbaum, American actor and director December 30 – Carl-Göran Ekerwald, Swedish novelist, literary critic and teacher December 31 – Balbir Singh Sr., Indian hockey player (d. 2020) Deaths January January 1 – Willie Keeler, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1872) January 2 Thomas Bavister, English-born Australian politician (b. 1850) Girolamo Caruso, Italian agronomist, teacher (b. 1842) January 3 – Jaroslav Hašek, Czech writer (b. 1883) January 8 – Shimamura Hayao, Japanese admiral (b. 1858) January 9 Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand-born British novelist, died in France (b. 1888) Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters, British couple hanged for murder (Thompson b. 1893, Bywaters b. 1902) January 11 – Constantine I, abdicated king of Greece (b. 1868) January 12 – Herbert Silberer, Austrian psychoanalyst (b. 1882) January 13 – Alexandre Ribot, French statesman, 46th Prime Minister of France (b. 1842) January 16 – Abdul Kerim Pasha, Ottoman general (b. 1872) January 18 – Wallace Reid, American actor (b. 1891) January 19 – Amalia Eriksson, Swedish businesswoman (b. 1824) January 23 – Max Nordau, Hungarian author, philosopher and Zionist leader (b. 1849) January 27 – Carolina Santocanale, Italian Roman Catholic nun and blessed (b. 1852) January 30 – Columba Marmion, Irish Benedictine and Roman Catholic monk and blessed (b. 1858) January 31 – Eligiusz Niewiadomski, Polish artist, political activist and assassin (executed) (b. 1869) February February 1 Ernst Troeltsch, German theologian (b. 1865) Luigi Variara, Italian Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1875) February 3 – Count Kuroki Tamemoto, Japanese general (b. 1844) February 4 Giuseppe Antonio Ermenegildo Prisco, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1833) Prince Fushimi Sadanaru of Japan (b. 1858) February 5 – Count Erich Kielmansegg, former Prime Minister of Austria (b. 1847) February 6 Edward Emerson Barnard, American astronomer (b. 1857) Gerdt von Bassewitz, Prussian general, playwright and actor (b. 1878) February 8 – Bernard Bosanquet, English philosopher and political theorist (b. 1848) February 10 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) February 14 – Bartolomeo Bacilieri, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1842) February 19