Édouard Daladier, 72nd Prime Minister of France (b. 1884) October 18 – Prince Zeid bin Hussein (b. 1898) October 19 – Lázaro Cárdenas, 44th President of Mexico (b. 1895) October 21 Li Linsi, Chinese educator and diplomat (b. 1896) Ernest Haller, American cinematographer (b. 1896) October 24 – Richard Hofstadter, American historian (b. 1916) October 25 – René Schneider, commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army (b. 1913) November November 2 Abram Besicovitch, Russian mathematician (b. 1891) Fernand Gravey, French actor (b. 1904) November 4 – Friedrich Kellner, German diarist (b. 1885) November 6 – Agustín Lara, Mexican composer (b. 1897) November 8 – Napoleon Hill, American author in the area of the new thought (b. 1883) November 9 – Charles de Gaulle, French general and statesman, 98th Prime Minister of France and 18th President of France (b. 1890) November 13 – Bessie Braddock, British politician (b. 1899) November 15 – Konstantinos Tsaldaris, Greek politician, 2-time Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1884) November 19 Andrei Yeremenko, Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1892) Maria Yudina, Soviet pianist (b. 1899) November 21 C. V. Raman, Indian physicist (b. 1888) Percy Ernst Schramm, German historian (b. 1894) November 23 – Yusof bin Ishak, Singaporean politician, 1st President of Singapore (b. 1910) November 25 Louise Glaum, American actress (b. 1888) Yukio Mishima, Japanese novelist (b. 1925) December December 7 – Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist (b. 1883) December 8 – Sir Christopher Kelk Ingold, British chemist (b. 1893) December 9 – Feroz Khan Noon, 7th Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1893) December 14 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, British field marshal and 13th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1891) December 15 – Ernest Marsden, English-New Zealand physicist (b. 1889) December 16 – Friedrich Pollock, German social scientist and philosopher (b. 1894) December 23 – Charlie Ruggles, American actor (b. 1886) December 29 – Prince Adalbert of Bavaria (b. 1886) December 30 – Sonny Liston, American boxer (b. c.1930) December 31 – Cyril Scott, English composer, writer, and poet (b. 1879) Nobel Prizes Physics – Hannes Alfvén, Louis Néel Chemistry – Luis Federico Leloir Medicine – Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod Literature – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Peace – Norman Borlaug Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences – Paul Samuelson References