10 – Norman Levinson, American mathematician (b. 1912) October 22 – Arnold J. Toynbee, English historian (b. 1889) October 27 Peregrino Anselmo, Uruguayan football player (b. 1902) Rex Stout, American author (b. 1886) October 28 – Georges Carpentier, French boxer (b. 1894) October 30 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1887) November November 1 – C. S. Wright, Canadian explorer (b. 1887) November 2 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian film director (b. 1922) November 4 – Francis Dvornik, Czech historian (b. 1893) November 5 – Lionel Trilling, American literary critic (b. 1905) November 6 Ernst Hanfstaengl, German-born American businessman and politician (b. 1887) Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer and actress (b. 1887) November 13 – R. C. Sherriff, English writer (b. 1896) November 17 – Kay Johnson, American actress (b. 1904) November 20 – Francisco Franco, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1892) November 29 Tony Brise, English racing driver (b. 1952) Graham Hill, English racing driver (b. 1929) December December 4 – Hannah Arendt, German political theorist (b. 1906) December 7 – Thornton Wilder, American playwright (b. 1897) December 8 – Plínio Salgado, Brazilian politician and writer (b. 1895) December 9 – William A. Wellman, American film director (b. 1896) December 10 – Andrew "Boy" Charlton, Australian Olympic swimmer (b. 1907) December 12 – Saadi Al Munla, 4th Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. 1890) December 14 – Arthur Treacher, English actor (b. 1894) December 15 Alex Aronson, Jewish-Dutch aid worker (b. 1934) Shigeyoshi Inoue, Japanese admiral (b. 1889) December 17 – Noble Sissle, American jazz composer (b. 1889) December 18 – Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionary biologist (b. 1900) December 19 – René Maheu, French professor and administrator, 6th Director-General of UNESCO (b. 1905) December 20 – William Lundigan, American actor (b. 1914) December 21 – Rowland V. Lee, American film director (b. 1891) December 24 – Bernard Herrmann, American composer (b. 1911) December 30 – Elene Akhvlediani, Soviet painter (b. 1901) Date unknown Sisowath Monireth, 3rd Prime Minister of Cambodia (b. 1909) Nobel Prizes Physics – Aage Bohr, Ben Roy Mottelson, James Rainwater Chemistry – John Cornforth, Vladimir Prelog Medicine – David Baltimore, Renato Dulbecco, Howard Martin Temin Literature – Eugenio Montale Peace – Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov Economics – Leonid Kantorovich, Tjalling Koopmans References