American film director (b. 1918) John Robinson, British Anglican bishop (b. 1919) December 6 Lucienne Boyer, French singer (b. 1903) Gul Khan Nasir, Baloch politician and poet from Pakistan (b. 1914) December 7 – Fanny Cano, Mexican actress and producer (b. 1944) December 8 Keith Holyoake, New Zealand politician, 26th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1904) Slim Pickens, American actor (b. 1919) December 9 Tito Junco, Mexican actor (b. 1915) David Rounds, American actor (b. 1930) December 11 – Sir Neil Ritchie, British general (b. 1897) December 13 Leora Dana, American actress (b. 1923) Mary Renault, English author (b. 1905) December 15 – David Markham, British actor (b. 1913) December 19 – Cameron Hall, British actor (b. 1897) December 20 Prince Moulay Abdallah of Morocco (b. 1935) Bill Brandt, German-British photographer and photojournalist(b. 1904) December 21 – Paul de Man, Belgian-born literary critic (b. 1919) December 23 – Colin Middleton, Northern Irish artist (b. 1910) December 25 – Joan Miró, Spanish painter (b. 1893) December 26 – Hans Liska, Austrian-German artist (b. 1907) December 27 – William Demarest, American actor (b. 1892) December 28 Jimmy Demaret, American golf champion (b. 1910) Dennis Wilson, American singer, songwriter and drummer (b. 1944) Date unknown Mary Cohan, Broadway composer and lyricist, daughter of George M. Cohan (b. 1909) Freda Simmonds, New Zealand artist (b. 1912) Nobel Prizes Physics – Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, William Alfred Fowler Chemistry – Henry Taube Medicine – Barbara McClintock Literature – William Golding Peace – Lech Wałęsa Economics – Gérard Debreu References