American actor (b. 1932) November 15 – Alexandre Tansman, French composer and virtuoso pianist (b. 1897) November 16 – Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (b. 1923) November 18 – Gia Carangi, American supermodel (b. 1960) November 21 Jerry Colonna, American comedian (b. 1904) Dar Robinson, American stunt performer and actor (b. 1947) November 22 Scatman Crothers, American actor, musician (b. 1910) Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (b. 1921) November 29 – Cary Grant, English actor (b. 1904) December December 2 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born American actor, bandleader, musician and television producer (b. 1917) December 8 – Anatoly Marchenko, Soviet dissident and author (b. 1938) December 10 – Susan Cabot, American actress (b. 1927) December 12 – Paul Verner, German politician (b. 1911) December 13 Heather Angel, British-born American actress (b. 1909) Ella Baker, American civil rights activist (b. 1903) December 14 – Antal Páger, Hungarian actor (b. 1899) December 15 – Serge Lifar, Soviet dancer and choreographer (b. 1905) December 17 Guillermo Cano Isaza, Colombian journalist (b. 1925) Wanis al-Qaddafi, Libyan politician, 10th Prime Minister of Libya (b. 1924) December 21 – Willy Coppens, Belgian pilot (b. 1892) December 24 Gardner Fox, American writer (b. 1911) Richard van der Riet Woolley, English astronomer (b. 1906) December 26 – Elsa Lanchester, British-American actress (b. 1902) December 29 Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1894) Pietro Parente, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1891) Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian filmmaker, writer, and film theorist (b. 1932) December 31 – Lloyd Haynes, American actor (b. 1934) Date unknown D.R. Kaprekar, Indian recreational mathematician (b. 1905) Nobel Prizes Physics – Ernst Ruska, Gerd Binnig, Heinrich Rohrer Chemistry – Dudley R. Herschbach, Yuan T. Lee, John Polanyi Physiology or Medicine – Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini Literature – Wole Soyinka Peace – Elie Wiesel Economics – James M. Buchanan References