air force general (b. 1888) November 16 – Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman, politician (b. 1877) November 17 – Josaphat Kotsylovsky, Ukrainian Roman Catholic bishop, martyr and blessed (b. 1876) November 20 – Georg Kolbe, German sculptor (b. 1877) November 28 W. E. Lawrence, American actor (b. 1896) Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general (b. 1902) November 30 – Ernst Lubitsch, German film director (b. 1892) December December 1 Aleister Crowley, British occultist (b. 1875) G. H. Hardy, British mathematician (b. 1877) December 2 – Franz Xaver Schwarz, German Nazi politician (executed) (b. 1875) December 3 – Heinrich Hetsch, German physician, microbiologist (b. 1873) December 4 Margaret Butler, New Zealand sculptor (b. 1883) Walter Walker, American actor (b. 1864) December 6 – Tadashige Daigo, Japanese admiral (executed) (b. 1891) December 7 Tristan Bernard, French writer, lawyer (b. 1866) Nicholas Murray Butler, American president of Columbia University, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1862) Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft, British politician (b. 1881) December 9 – John Kelly, American actor (b. 1901) December 10 – Pierre Petit de Julleville, French Roman Catholic priest, bishop and eminence (b. 1876) December 12 – Huda Sha'arawi, Egyptian feminist (b. 1879) December 13 Nicholas Roerich, Russian painter (b. 1874) Juan Bautista Vargas Arreola, Mexican general during Mexican Revolution (b. 1890) December 14 Stanley Baldwin, British Conservative politician, 3-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1867) Edward Higgins, General of The Salvation Army (b. 1864) December 15 – Arthur Machen, British writer (b. 1863) December 17 Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted, Danish chemist (b. 1879) Christos Tsigiridis, Greek engineer (b. 1877) December 20 Benigno Aquino Sr., Filipino politician (b. 1894) Luigi Chiarelli, Italian playwright (b. 1880) December 23 – Ziauddin Ahmad, Indian educationalist and politician (b. 1878) December 25 – Gaspar G. Bacon, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1886) December 27 – Johannes Winkler, German rocket pioneer (b. 1897) December 28 – King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy (b. 1869) December 29 – Han van Meegeren, Dutch painter, forger (b. 1889) December 30 – Alfred North Whitehead, British mathematician, philosopher (b. 1861) Date unknown Ayoub Tabet, 6th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1884) Nobel Prizes Physics – Edward Victor Appleton Chemistry – Sir Robert Robinson Medicine – Carl Ferdinand Cori, Gerty Cori, Bernardo Houssay Literature – André Gide Peace – The Friends Service Council (UK) and The American Friends Service Committee (USA), on behalf of the Religious Society