– Ferdinand Bie, Norwegian Olympic athlete (b. 1888) November 15 Elsie Ferguson, American actress (b. 1883) Johanna Westerdijk, Dutch plant pathologist (b. 1883) November 16 – Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b. 1882) November 22 – Anselmo Alliegro y Milá, Cuban politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Cuba, leader of World War II (b. 1899) November 24 – Ruth Chatterton, American actress, novelist and aviator (b. 1892) November 25 – Adelina de Lara, British composer (b. 1872) November 30 – Anna Gould, American heiress and socialite, daughter of financier Jay Gould (b. 1875) December December 2 – Dulcie Mary Pillers, English medical illustrator (b. 1891) December 3 – Pat O'Hara Wood, Australian tennis player (b. 1891) December 6 – Frantz Fanon, Martiniquais philosopher (b. 1925) December 7 – Herbert Pitman, British sailor, third officer of the (b. 1877) December 10 – Elwyn Welch, New Zealand farmer, ornithologist, conservationist and Open Brethren missionary (b. 1925) December 13 – Anna Mary Robertson Moses aka Grandma Moses, American naïve painter (b. 1860) December 15 – Gioacchino Failla, Italian-born American physicist (b. 1891) December 20 Moss Hart, American dramatist (b. 1904) Sir Earle Page, Australian politician, 11th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1880) December 22 – Dick Elliott, American actor (b. 1886) December 23 Kurt Meyer, German Generalmajor der Waffen-SS'' and war criminal (b. 1910) Fanny Schoonheyt, Dutch Communist Lieutenant in the Spanish Civil War. (b. 1912) December 25 – Otto Loewi, German-born pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873) December 27 – Bernard McConville, American screenwriter (b. 1887) December 28 – Edith Wilson, First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 (b. 1872) December 29 Anton Flettner, German aviation engineer and inventor (b. 1885) Sibyl Morrison, first female barrister in New South Wales, Australia (b. 1895) Nobel Prizes Physics – Robert Hofstadter, Rudolf Mössbauer Chemistry – Melvin Calvin Physiology or Medicine – Georg von Békésy Literature – Ivo Andrić Peace – Dag Hammarskjöld (posthumously) See also Upside down year References