Niger (b. 1931) November 12 – Cornelis Vreeswijk, Dutch-born Swedish singer-songwriter, poet and actor (b. 1937) November 18 – Jacques Anquetil, French road racing cyclist (b. 1934) November 23 – Antonio Sastre, Argentine footballer (b. 1911) November 26 – Duncan Sandys, British politician (b. 1908) December December 1 – James Baldwin, African-American novelist, essayist, playwright and poet (b. 1924) December 2 Juan Alberto Melgar Castro, Honduran military officer (b. 1930) Donn F. Eisele, American astronaut (b. 1930) Luis Federico Leloir, French-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (b. 1914) December 4 – Rouben Mamoulian, Armenian-American film director (b. 1897) December 8 Marcos Calderón, Peruvian football coach (b. 1928) José González Ganoza, Peruvian footballer (b. 1954) December 10 – Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-born violinist (b. 1901) December 17 – Bernardus Johannes Alfrink, Dutch cardinal (b. 1900) December 21 – Ralph Nelson, American film and television director, producer, writer, and actor (b. 1916) December 22 – Alice Terry, American actress (b. 1899) December 23 - Nikki Sixx, American bassist, died for two minutes, fortunately he's still alive (b. 1958) December 24 Joop den Uyl, Dutch politician and journalist, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1973–1977) (b. 1919) M. G. Ramachandran, Indian actor and Chief Minister of the Tamil Nadu (1977–1987) (b. 1917) December 27 – Priscilla Dean, American actress (b. 1896) Nobel Prizes Physics – J. Georg Bednorz, Karl Alexander Müller Chemistry – Donald J. Cram, Jean-Marie Lehn, Charles J. Pedersen Medicine – Susumu Tonegawa Literature – Joseph Brodsky Peace – Óscar Arias Sánchez Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel – Robert Solow References