fiction author (d. 1982) Friedrich Wilhelm Schnitzler, German landowner, politician (CDU), manager and businessman (d. 2011) December 19 – Guy Razanamasy, 2-time prime minister of Madagascar (d. 2011) December 22 – Piero Angela, Italian television host, science journalist and writer (d. 2022) December 25 – Dick Miller, American actor (d. 2019) December 26 – Martin Cooper, American inventor, "Father of the mobile phone" December 29 – Bernard Cribbins, English actor, comedian and singer (d. 2022) December 30 – Bo Diddley, African-American musician (d. 2008) Deaths January January 1 – Loie Fuller, American dancer (b. 1862) January 3 – Emily Stevens, American actress (b. 1882) January 6 – Alvin Kraenzlein, American athlete (b. 1876) January 11 – Thomas Hardy, British writer (b. 1840) January 12 – Ruth Snyder, American murderer (executed) (b. 1895) January 16 – Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (b. 1851) January 21 Nikolai Astrup, Norwegian painter (b. 1880) Sir John de Robeck, British admiral (b. 1862) January 28 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish novelist and screenwriter (b. 1867) January 29 – Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British soldier (b. 1861) January 30 – Johannes Fibiger, Danish scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1867) February February 1 – Hughie Jennings, American baseball player, MLB Hall of Famer (b. 1869) February 4 – Hendrik Lorentz, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1853) February 8 – Theodor Curtius, German chemist (b. 1857) February 12 – Manfred von Clary-Aldringen, Austro-Hungarian nobleman, statesman and former prime minister of Austria (b. 1852) February 15 – H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1852) February 16 – Eddie Foy Sr., American vaudevillian (b. 1856) February 25 – Toribio Romo González, Mexican Roman Catholic priest, martyr and saint (b. 1900) February 26 – Juan Vázquez de Mella, Spanish scholar, politician (b. 1861) February 27 – Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky, German diplomat, noble (b. 1860) February 28 – Armando Diaz, Italian general, Marshal of Italy (b. 1861) March March 7 – Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851) March 10 – Mateo Elías Nieves Castillo, Mexican Roman Catholic priest and blessed (b. 1882) March 19 Nora Bayes, American singer, actress (b. 1880) Emil Wiechert, German physicist and geophysicist (b. 1861) March 21 – Edward Walter Maunder, British astronomer (b. 1851) March 25 – Nina Bang, Danish politician (b. 1866) April April 2 – Theodore William Richards, American chemist, Nobel Prize