(b. 1912) October 12 – Hjalmar Hammarskjöld, Swedish politician, 13th Prime Minister of Sweden, one of the leaders of World War I (b. 1862) October 13 – Millard Mitchell, American actor (b. 1903) October 14 – Arthur Wimperis, English illustrator and playwright (b. 1874) October 20 – Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, British air chief marshal (b. 1878) October 25 – Holger Pedersen, Dutch linguist (b. 1867) October 27 – Thomas Wass, English cricketer (b. 1873) November November 5 – Harry A. Marmer, Ukrainian-born American mathematician and oceanographer (b. 1885) November 8 Ivan Bunin, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1870) John van Melle, Dutch-born author (b. 1883) November 9 Louise DeKoven Bowen, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1859) King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia (b. 1875) Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet and author (b. 1914) November 16 – T. F. O'Rahilly, Irish academic (b. 1882) November 18 – Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer (b. 1901) November 21 António Cabreira, Portuguese polygraph (b. 1868) Larry Shields, American musician (b. 1893) November 22 – Sulaiman Nadvi, Indian/Pakistani historian, biographer, littérateur and scholar of Islam (b. 1884) November 27 – Eugene O'Neill, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888) November 28 – Rudolf Bauer, German-born painter (b. 1889) November 29 Ernest Barnes, English mathematician, scientist and theologian (b. 1874) Sam De Grasse, Canadian actor (b. 1875) Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator and animator (b. 1895) November 30 – Francis Picabia, French painter and poet (b. 1879) December December – Seth Weeks, African-American jazz mandolinist, composer, arranger and bandleader (b. 1868) December 2 Radu Băldescu, Romanian general (b. 1888) Trần Trọng Kim, Vietnamese historian and Prime Minister of the Empire of Vietnam (b. 1883) December 5 Jorge Negrete, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1911) Ray Paddock, American farmer and politician (b. 1877) December 10 – Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Indian-born Islamic scholar and translator (b. 1872) December 14 – Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American writer (b. 1896) December 19 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1868) December 21 – Nicholas H. Heck, American geophysicist, oceanographer and surveyor (b. 1882) December 23 – Lavrentiy Beria, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union (b. 1899) December 25 – Lee Shubert, Polish-born theater owner and operator (b. 1871) December 27 Şükrü Saracoğlu, 9th Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1887) Julian Tuwim, Polish poet (b. 1894) December 31 – Albert Plesman, Dutch aviation pioneer (b. 1889)