21 – Richard Carlson, American actor (b. 1912) November 30 – Olga Petrova, English-born American actress (b. 1884) December December 3 – Jack Beresford, British Olympic rower (b. 1899) December 5 – Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Soviet general, Marshal of the Soviet Union (b. 1895) December 12 – Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston Churchill (b. 1885) December 16 Gustaf Aulén, Bishop of Strängnäs in the Church of Sweden (b. 1879) Yngve Larsson, Swedish statesman (b. 1881) December 19 Takeo Kurita, Japanese admiral (b. 1889) Nellie Tayloe Ross, American politician (b. 1876) December 24 – Juan Velasco Alvarado, 58th President of Peru (b. 1910) December 25 – Sir Charlie Chaplin, British actor, producer and director (b. 1889) December 26 – Howard Hawks, American film director (b. 1896) December 28 – Charlotte Greenwood, American actress (b. 1890) Nobel Prizes Physics – Philip Warren Anderson, Sir Nevill Francis Mott, John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Chemistry – Ilya Prigogine Physiology or Medicine – Roger Guillemin, Andrew Schally, Rosalyn Yalow Literature – Vicente Aleixandre Peace – Amnesty International Economics – Bertil Ohlin, James Meade References