1871) November 19 – Vittorio Ambrosio, Italian general (b. 1879) November 24 Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, English politician and diplomat, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1864) November 27 Artur Rodziński, Polish conductor (b. 1892) Georgi Damyanov, Bulgarian Communist political, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly and head of the State (b. 1892) November 30 – Oscar C. Badger II, American admiral (b. 1890) December December 1 – Boots Mallory, American actress (born 1913) December 4 – José María Caro Rodríguez, Chilean Roman Catholic cardinal and eminence (born 1866) December 5 Willie Applegarth, British Olympic athlete (b. 1890) Patras Bokhari, Pakistani humorist (b. 1898) December 8 – Tris Speaker, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and a member of the MLB Hall of Fame (b. 1888) December 11 – Alberto Meschi, Italian anarchist (b. 1879) December 12 Slobodan Jovanović, Serbian intellectual and politician (b. 1869) Milutin Milanković, Yugoslav mathematician, astronomer, climatologist and geophysicist, (b. 1879) Albert Walsh, Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland (b. 1900) December 13 – Tim Moore, American comedian (b. 1887) December 15 – Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900) December 21 Lion Feuchtwanger, German novelist and playwright (b. 1884) H. B. Warner, English actor (b. 1876) December 27 – Mustafa Merlika-Kruja, 16th Prime Minister of Albania (b. 1887) December 29 – Doris Humphrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1895) Nobel Prizes Physics – Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov, Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, and Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm Chemistry – Frederick Sanger Physiology or Medicine – George Wells Beadle, Edward Lawrie Tatum, and Joshua Lederberg Literature – Boris Leonidovich Pasternak Peace – Georges Pire References