(b. 1838) December 3 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter (b. 1841) December 12 - Feng Guozhang, Chinese general (b. 1859) December 16 – Julia Lermontova, Russian chemist (b. 1846) December 18 – Sir John Alcock, British aviator; pilot of first nonstop transatlantic flight in airplane, June 1919 (b. 1892) December 19 Alice Moore McComas, American suffragist (b. 1850) Martin Savage, IRA commander (b. 1898) December 22 – Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, American poet (b. 1836) December 28 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (b. 1854) Nobel Prizes Physics – Johannes Stark Chemistry – not awarded Physiology or Medicine – Jules Bordet Literature – Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler Peace – Woodrow Wilson References Sources Further reading Klingaman, William K. 1919, The Year Our World Began (1987) world perspective based on primary sources by a scholar. New International Year Book 1919 (1920), Comprehensive coverage of world and national affairs, 744pp External links