11 – Prince August Leopold of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (b. 1867) October 22 – Lyman Abbott, American theologian (b. 1835) October 25 – Oscar Hertwig, German zoologist (b. 1849) October 30 – Géza Gárdonyi, Hungarian author (b. 1863) November November 1 – Lima Barreto, Brazilian writer (b. 1881) November 7 – Sam Thompson, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1860) November 14 – Godfrey Chevalier, American naval aviation pioneer (b. 1889) November 15 – Dimitrios Gounaris, 94th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1867) November 18 – Marcel Proust, French author (b. 1871) November 23 – Eduard Seler, Prussian scholar, Mesoamericanist (b. 1849) November 24 Erskine Childers, Irish novelist, nationalist (executed) (b. 1870) Sidney Sonnino, 19th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1847) November 27 – Demetrio Castillo Duany, Cuban revolutionary, soldier, and politician (b. 1856) December December 8 – Mary Marcy, American socialist (b. 1877) December 12 – John Wanamaker, American businessman (b. 1838) December 13 – Hannes Hafstein, 1st Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1861) December 14 – Henry Pierrepoint, British executioner (b. 1878) December 16 – Gabriel Narutowicz, Polish professor and politician, 1st President of Poland (assassinated) (b. 1865) December 17 – David Lindsay, Australian explorer (b. 1856) Date unknown Sufi Azizur Rahman, Bengali Muslim theologian and teacher (b. 1862) Sergei Sheydeman, Russian general (b. 1857) Nobel Prizes Physics – Niels Henrik David Bohr Chemistry – Francis William Aston Physiology or Medicine – Archibald Vivian Hill, Otto Fritz Meyerhof Literature – Jacinto Benavente Peace – Fridtjof Nansen References Sources