13th Dalai Lama (b. 1876) Oskar Potiorek, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1853) December 18 – Hans Vaihinger, German philosopher (b. 1852) December 19 George Jackson Churchward, English Great Western Railway chief mechanical engineer (b. 1857) Friedrich von Ingenohl, German admiral (b. 1857) December 21 Dora Montefiore, English suffragist and socialist (b. 1851) Knud Rasmussen, Danish polar explorer and anthropologist (b. 1879) Tod Sloan, American jockey (b. 1874) December 24 – Prince Aribert of Anhalt December 25 – Francesc Macià, President of the Generalitat (autonomous government of Catalonia) (b. 1859) December 26 Anatoly Lunacharsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary (b. 1875) Eduard Vilde, Estonian writer (b. 1865) December 29 – Ion G. Duca, 35th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1879) Nobel Prizes Physics – Erwin Schrödinger and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac Chemistry – not awarded Physiology or Medicine – Thomas Hunt Morgan Literature – Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin Peace – Sir Norman Angell (Ralph Lane) References External links The 1930s Timeline: 1933 – from American Studies Programs at The University of Virginia