– Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (b. 1882) December 4 – Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player and member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1879) December 9 – Laird Cregar, American actor (b. 1913) December 11 – Montgomery Cunningham Meigs, American WWII hero (b. 1919) December 12 – Bernard Chrzanowski, Polish activist (b. 1861) December 13 – Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born Polish artist (b. 1866) December 14 – Lupe Vélez, Mexican actress, dancer and singer (b. 1908) December 15 – Glenn Miller, American band leader (accident) (b. 1904) December 19 – King Abbas II of Egypt (b. 1874) December 20 Caesar von Hofacker, German resistance member (b. 1896) Carl Wentzel, German resistance member (b. 1875) December 22 – Harry Langdon, American comedian (b. 1884) December 26 – George Bellamy, British actor (b. 1866) December 27 Amy Beach, American pianist and composer (b. 1867) Peter Deunov, Bulgarian spiritual teacher (b. 1864) Sára Salkaházi, Hungarian Roman Catholic religious sister and blessed (b. 1899) December 30 – Romain Rolland, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1866) December 31 Vicente Lim, Filipino general of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (b. 1888) Ruth Hanna McCormick, American politician, activist and publisher (b. 1880) Nobel Prizes Physics – Isidor Isaac Rabi Chemistry – Otto Hahn Medicine – Joseph Erlanger, Herbert Spencer Gasser Literature – Johannes V. Jensen Peace – International Committee of the Red Cross References Leap years in the Gregorian calendar