Polish historian and military commander (b. 1891) November 23 – Seán T. O'Kelly, 2nd President of Ireland (b. 1882) November 26 – Siegfried Kracauer, German writer, sociologist and critic (b. 1889) November 28 – Boris Podolsky, Russian-American physicist (b. 1896) December December 2 – L.E.J. Brouwer, Dutch mathematician and philosopher (b. 1881) December 6 – Juan Natalicio González, Paraguayan poet, 37th President of Paraguay (b. 1897) December 14 – Verna Felton, American actress (b. 1890) December 15 – Walt Disney, American animated film producer and founder of The Walt Disney Company and Disneyland Resort (b. 1901) December 19 – Betty Kuuskemaa, Estonian actress (b. 1879) December 22 Harry Beaumont, American film director (b. 1888) Lucy Burns, American women's rights campaigner (b. 1879) December 26 – Herbert Gille, SS German general (b. 1897) December 27 – Guillermo Stábile, Argentine football player and manager (b. 1905) December 30 – Christian Herter, United States Secretary of State (b. 1895) Nobel Prizes Physics – Alfred Kastler Chemistry – Robert S. Mulliken Physiology or Medicine – Peyton Rous and Charles Brenton Huggins Literature – Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs Peace – not awarded References