Editing 1968 (section)

== Deaths ==
{{BD ToC|deaths}}

=== January ===
[[File:Karl Kobelt.gif|thumb|100px|[[Karl Kobelt]]]]
[[File:Leopold Infeld 1960.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Leopold Infeld]]]]
* [[January 4]]
** [[Armando Castellazzi]], Italian footballer and manager (b. [[1904]])
** [[Joseph Pholien]], Belgian politician, 37th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[January 6]] – [[Karl Kobelt]], 2-time President of the Swiss Confederation (b. [[1891]])
* [[January 7]]
** [[Gholamreza Takhti]], Iranian wrestler (b. [[1930]])
** [[Mario Roatta]], Italian general (b. [[1887]])
* [[January 9]] – [[Kōkichi Tsuburaya]], Japanese athlete (b. [[1940]])
* [[January 10]]
** [[Ali Fuat Cebesoy]], Turkish politician (b. [[1882]])
** [[Eben Dönges]], acting [[Prime Minister of South Africa]] and elected [[President of South Africa]] (b. [[1898]])
* [[January 15]] – [[Leopold Infeld]], Polish physicist (b. [[1898]])
* [[January 16]] – [[Bob Jones Sr.]], American evangelist, religious broadcaster, and founder of [[Bob Jones University]] (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{Cite news|title=Bob Jones: He Bridged a Great Gap|url=https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1968/february-2/bob-jones-he-bridged-great-gap.html|access-date=2022-10-28|website=Christianity Today|date= 2 February 1968}}</ref>
* [[January 18]] – [[John Ridgely]], American actor (b. [[1909]])
* [[January 21]] – [[Georg Dertinger]], German politician (b. [[1902]])
* [[January 22]]
** [[Aleksandr Arbuzov]], Russian chemist (b. [[1877]])
** [[Duke Kahanamoku]], American Olympic swimmer (b. [[1890]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Tsuguharu Foujita]], Japanese-French painter and printmaker (b. [[1886]])

=== February ===
[[File:Mae Marsh 1916.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Mae Marsh]]]]
[[File:Howard Walter Florey 1945.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Howard Florey]]]]
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* [[February 4]]
** [[Eddie Baker]], American actor (b. [[1897]])
** [[Neal Cassady]], American author and poet (b. [[1926]])
* [[February 7]] – [[Nick Adams (actor, born 1931)|Nick Adams]], American actor (b. [[1931]])
* [[February 10]] – [[Pitirim Sorokin]], Russian-American sociologist (b. [[1889]])
* [[February 11]] – [[Howard Lindsay]], American playwright (b. [[1888]])
* [[February 13]]
** [[Mae Marsh]], American actress (b. [[1894]])
** [[Ildebrando Pizzetti]], Italian composer (b. [[1880]])
* [[February 15]] – [[Little Walter]], American blues musician, singer, and songwriter (b. [[1930]])
* [[February 17]] – Sir [[Donald Wolfit]], English actor (b. [[1902]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Georg Hackenschmidt]], German strongman and professional wrestler (b. [[1877]])
* [[February 20]] – [[Anthony Asquith]], British film director and writer (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=Frank Manchel|title=Film Study: An Analytical Bibliography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GM8UAQAAIAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press|isbn=978-0-8386-3413-4|page=1841}}</ref>
* [[February 21]] – [[Howard Florey]], Australian-born pharmacologist, recipient of the [[Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine]] (b. [[1898]])
* [[February 22]] – [[Peter Arno]], American cartoonist (b. [[1904]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Camille Huysmans]], Belgian politician, 34th [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1871]])
* [[February 27]]
** [[Frankie Lymon]], American singer (b. [[1942]])
** [[Hertha Sponer]], German physicist and chemist (b. [[1895]])
* [[February 29]] – [[Hugo Benioff]], American seismologist (b. [[1899]])

=== March ===
[[File:Yuri Gagarin (1961) - Restoration.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Yuri Gagarin]]]]
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* [[March 6]] – [[Joseph W. Martin Jr.]], American politician (b. [[1884]])
* [[March 8]] – [[Jerzy Braun (rower)|Jerzy Braun]], Polish athlete (b. [[1911]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Erwin Panofsky]], German-Jewish art historian (b. [[1892]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Khuang Aphaiwong]], 4th [[Prime Minister of Thailand]], country leader during [[World War II]] (b. [[1902]])
* [[March 16]] – [[Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco]], Italian composer (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{Cite book|title=Journal of Synagogue Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fF8JAQAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Cantors Assembly|page=9}}</ref>
* [[March 20]] – [[Carl Theodor Dreyer]], Danish film director (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=James Monaco|title=The Encyclopedia of Film|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kqcYAQAAIAAJ&pg=RA2-PT25|year=1991|publisher=Perigee Books|isbn=978-0-399-51604-7|pages=166}}</ref>
* [[March 23]] – [[Edwin O'Connor]], American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator (b. [[1918]])<ref>{{Cite book|author1=Charles F. Duffyedwin O'Connor|author2=Charles F. Duffy|title=A Family of His Own: A Life of Edwin O'Connor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vV7MJDy29GcC&pg=PA353|year=2003|publisher=CUA Press|isbn=978-0-8132-1337-8|pages=353}}</ref>
* [[March 24]] – [[Alice Guy-Blaché]], French filmmaker (b. [[1873]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=Louise Heck-Rabi|title=Women Filmmakers: A Critical Reception|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1FBoAAAAMAAJ|year=1984|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-1660-2|page=1}}</ref>
* [[March 27]] – [[Yuri Gagarin]], Soviet cosmonaut, first human in space (b. [[1934]])<ref>"FIRST SPACEMAN IS KILLED— Gagarin Dies in Crash of Test Plane", ''Chicago Tribune'', March 28, 1968, p1</ref>
* [[March 30]] – [[Bobby Driscoll]], American child actor (b. [[1937]])

=== April ===
[[File:Landau.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lev Landau]]]]
[[File:Martin Luther King, Jr..jpg|thumb|100px|[[Martin Luther King Jr.]]]]
[[File:Jim Clark 1965.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Jim Clark]]]]
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* [[April 1]] – [[Lev Landau]], Russian physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1908]])
* [[April 4]]
** [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], American civil rights leader, recipient of the [[Nobel Peace Prize]] (b. [[1929]])
** [[Assis Chateaubriand]], Brazilian newspaper magnate (b. [[1892]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Jim Clark]], Scottish racing driver and double [[Formula One]] [[World Champion]] (b. [[1936]])
* [[April 12]] – [[Heinrich Nordhoff]], German automotive engineer (b. [[1899]])<ref>[https://www.pre67vw.com/history/nordhoff Heinz Nordhoff]</ref>
* [[April 15]] – [[Boris Lyatoshinsky]], Ukrainian composer, conductor, and teacher (b. [[1895]])
* [[April 16]]
** [[Fay Bainter]], American actress (b. [[1893]])
** [[Albert Betz]], German physicist (b. [[1885]])
** [[Edna Ferber]], American writer (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=R. Baird Shuman|title=Great American Writers: Twentieth Century|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YBIvc_e_YwwC&pg=PA503|year=2002|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=978-0-7614-7240-7|pages=503}}</ref>
* [[April 20]] – [[Soraya Tarzi]], Afghan queen (b. [[1899]])<ref>[https://www.afghan-web.com/biographies/biography-of-soraya-tarzi/ Biography of Soraya Tarzi]</ref>
* [[April 24]]
** [[Tommy Noonan]], American actor (b. [[1921]])
** [[Walter Tewksbury]], American athlete (b. [[1876]])
* [[April 26]] – [[John Heartfield]], German visual artist (b. [[1891]])

=== May ===
* [[May 5]] – [[Albert Dekker]], American actor (b. [[1905]])
* [[May 7]] – [[Lurleen Wallace]], American politician (b. [[1926]])
* [[May 9]]
** [[Finlay Currie]], Scottish actor (b. [[1878]])
** [[Marion Lorne]], American actress (b. [[1883]])
** [[Mercedes de Acosta]], American poet, playwright, and novelist (b. [[1892]])
* [[May 10]] – [[Scotty Beckett]], American child actor (b. [[1929]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Robert Burks]], American cinematographer (b. [[1909]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Husband E. Kimmel]], American admiral (b. [[1882]])
* [[May 25]] – [[Georg von Küchler]], German field marshal and war criminal (b. [[1881]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Little Willie John]], American R&B singer (b. [[1937]])
* [[May 28]]
** [[Kees van Dongen]], Dutch-French painter (b. [[1877]])
** [[Fyodor Okhlopkov]], Soviet sniper (b. [[1908]])

=== June ===
[[File:Helen Keller circa 1920 - restored.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Helen Keller]]]]
[[File:Robert F Kennedy crop.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Robert F. Kennedy]]]]
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* [[June 1]] – [[Helen Keller]], American activist and spokeswoman for the deaf and blind (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=Nigel Starck|title=Life After Death: The Art of the Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EfvchwHafFsC&pg=PA188|date=1 January 2006|publisher=Melbourne Univ. Publishing|isbn=978-0-522-85256-1|page=188}}</ref>
* [[June 2]] – [[R. Norris Williams]], American tennis player (b. [[1891]])
* [[June 4]]
** [[Dorothy Gish]], American actress (b. [[1898]])
** [[Walter Nash|Sir Walter Nash]], 27th Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia| title=Sir Walter Nash &#124; prime minister of New Zealand |encyclopedia= Britannica|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Nash|access-date=2022-10-28|date=1998}}</ref>
* [[June 6]]
** [[Randolph Churchill]], British politician, son of [[Winston Churchill]] (b. [[1911]])
** [[Robert F. Kennedy]], American lawyer, politician ([[United States Senator]], [[U.S. Attorney General]]) and a leading [[1968 Democratic Party presidential primaries|1968 Democratic presidential candidate]] (b. [[1925]])
* [[June 7]] – [[Dan Duryea]], American actor (b. [[1907]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Ludovico Scarfiotti]], Italian racing driver (b. [[1933]])
* [[June 14]]
** [[Karl-Birger Blomdahl]], Swedish composer (b. [[1916]])
** [[Salvatore Quasimodo]], Italian writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1901]])
** [[Ernest Stoneman]], American country music artist (b. [[1893]])<ref>[https://www.countrymusichalloffame.org/hall-of-fame/ernest-v-pop-stoneman ERNEST V. "POP" STONEMAN]</ref>
* [[June 15]]
** [[Sam Crawford]], American baseball player (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sam Crawford Stats, Fantasy & News|url=https://www.mlb.com/player/sam-crawford-112806|access-date=2022-10-28|website=MLB.com|language=en}}</ref>
** [[Wes Montgomery]], American jazz guitarist (b. [[1923]])
* [[June 17]] – [[José Nasazzi]], Uruguayan footballer (b. [[1901]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Nikolaus von Falkenhorst]], German general and war criminal (b. [[1885]])
* [[June 25]] – [[Tony Hancock]], English comedian and actor (b. [[1924]])

=== July ===
[[File:Corneille Heymans nobel.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Corneille Heymans]]]]
[[File:Otto Hahn (Nobel).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Otto Hahn]]]]
* [[July 1]]
** [[Fritz Bauer]], German judge and prosecutor (b. [[1903]])
** [[Virginia Weidler]], American actress (b. [[1927]])
* [[July 2]]
** [[Zaki al-Arsuzi]], Syrian philosopher, philologist, sociologist, and historian (b. [[1899]])
** [[Francis Brennan (cardinal)|Francis Brennan]], American cardinal (b. [[1894]])
* [[July 7]] – [[Jo Schlesser]], French racing driver (b. [[1928]])
* [[July 9]]
** [[Viktor Blinov]], Russian ice hockey player (b. [[1945]])
** [[Alexander Cadogan]], British diplomat (b. [[1884]])
* [[July 12]] – [[José Bordas Valdez]], 43rd [[President of the Dominican Republic]] (b. [[1874]])
* [[July 14]] – [[Konstantin Paustovsky]], Russian-Soviet writer (b. [[1892]])
* [[July 15]] – [[Cai Chusheng]], Chinese film director (b. [[1906]])
* [[July 18]] – [[Corneille Heymans]], Belgian physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1892]])
* [[July 20]] – [[Joseph Keilberth]], German conductor (b. [[1908]])
* [[July 21]] – [[Ruth St. Denis]], American dancer (b. [[1879]])
* [[July 22]] – [[Giovannino Guareschi]], Italian journalist (b. [[1908]])
* [[July 23]]
** [[Luigi Cevenini]], Italian footballer and coach (b. [[1895]])
** [[Henry Hallett Dale|Sir Henry Dale]], English pharmacologist and physiologist (b. [[1875]])
* [[July 27]] – [[Lilian Harvey]], Anglo-German actress and singer (b. [[1906]])
* [[July 28]]
** [[Otto Hahn]], German chemist, discoverer of nuclear fission, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1879]])
** [[Ángel Herrera Oria]], Spanish journalist, politician, cardinal and servant of God (b. [[1886]])

=== August ===
[[File:Konstanty Rokossowski, 1945.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Konstantin Rokossovsky]]]]
* [[August 3]] – [[Konstantin Rokossovsky]], Soviet officer, [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] (b. [[1896]])
* [[August 5]] – [[Luther Perkins]], American guitarist (b. [[1928]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Ye Gongchuo]], Chinese politician, poet, and calligrapher (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{cite news
 |work=The Paper
 |title=纪念｜叶恭绰逝世五十周年：衣被满天下 谁能识其恩
 |trans-title=Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Ye Gongchuo's Death: Who Can Recognize His Kindness When His Clothes and Bedding Are All Over the World?
 |language=zh
 |url=https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2325465
 |last=Qijie
 |first=
 |author1-mask=Qijie (奇洁)
 |date=7 August 2018
|access-date=24 September 2024
|archive-date=24 September 2024
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240924202118/https://m.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2325465
}}</ref>
* [[August 10]] – [[Ratna Asmara]], Indonesian actress and director (b. [[1913]])
* [[August 19]] – [[George Gamow]], Soviet-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist (b. [[1904]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Stan McCabe]], Australian cricketer (b. [[1910]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Kay Francis]], American actress (b. [[1905]])
* [[August 27]]
** [[Robert Z. Leonard]], American film director (b. [[1889]])
** [[Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark]] (b. [[1906]])
* [[August 29]] – [[Ulysses S. Grant III]], American soldier and planner (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{Cite web|website=Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States | title=Commander-in-Chief Major General Ulysses S. Grant III|url=https://suvcw.org/mollus/pcinc/usgrantIII.htm| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060505224904/https://suvcw.org/mollus/pcinc/usgrantIII.htm|access-date=2022-10-28| archive-date=May 5, 2006}}</ref>
* [[August 30]] – [[William Talman (actor)|William Talman]], American actor (b. [[1915]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Dennis O'Keefe]], American actor (b. [[1908]])

=== September ===
[[File:Padre Pio.jpg|thumb|100px|Saint [[Pio of Pietrelcina]]]]
* [[September 3]] – [[Juan José Castro]], Argentine composer and conductor (b. [[1895]])
* [[September 7]] – [[Lucio Fontana]], Italian painter and sculptor (b. [[1899]])
* [[September 13]] – [[Frank Barson]], English footballer (b. [[1891]])
* [[September 17]] – [[Armand Blanchonnet]], French Olympic cyclist (b. [[1903]])
* [[September 18]]
** [[Franchot Tone]], American actor (b. [[1905]])
** [[Francis McDonald]], American actor (b. [[1891]])
* [[September 19]]
** [[Chester Carlson]], American physicist, and inventor (b. [[1906]])
** [[Red Foley]], American singer (b. [[1910]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Padre Pio]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] priest and saint (b. [[1887]])
* [[September 24]] – [[Virginia Valli]], American actress (b. [[1898]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Norman Brookes|Sir Norman Brookes]], Australian tennis champion (b. [[1877]])

=== October ===
[[File:Gale Gordon Bea Benaderet Granby's Green Acres 1950 (cropped).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Bea Benaderet]]]]
[[File:Lise Meitner (1878-1968), lecturing at Catholic University, Washington, D.C., 1946.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Lise Meitner]]]]
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* [[October 1]] – [[Romano Guardini]], Italian-German Catholic priest and theologian (b. [[1885]])
* [[October 2]] – [[Marcel Duchamp]], French artist (b. [[1887]])
* [[October 4]]
** [[Francis Biddle]], American politician (b. [[1886]])
** [[Hitoshi Imamura]], Japanese general (b. [[1886]])
* [[October 13]]
** [[Manuel Bandeira]], Brazilian poet, literary critic, and translator (b. [[1886]])
** [[Bea Benaderet]], American actress (b. [[1906]])
* [[October 15]]
** [[Franz Beyer (general)|Franz Beyer]], German general (b. [[1892]])
** [[Herbert Copeland (biologist)|Herbert Copeland]], American biologist (b. [[1902]])
* [[October 18]] – [[Lee Tracy]], American actor (b. [[1898]])
* [[October 20]] – [[Bud Flanagan]], British entertainer and comedian (b. [[1896]])<ref>[https://www.londonshoes.blog/2019/05/21/the-legendary-bud-flanagan-from-cradle-to-grave-an-east-end-boy-done-good/ *The legendary “Bud Flanagan” – from ‘cradle-to-grave’ – (an east-end boy done good)]</ref>
* [[October 26]] – [[Sergei Bernstein]], Russian and Soviet mathematician (b. [[1880]])
* [[October 27]] – [[Lise Meitner]], German-Austrian physicist, discoverer of nuclear fission (b. [[1878]])
* [[October 28]] – [[Hans Cramer]], German general (b. [[1896]])
* [[October 30]]
** [[Rose Wilder Lane]], American author (b. [[1886]])<ref>[http://www.liwfrontiergirl.com/rose.html Rose Wilder Lane]</ref>
** [[Ramon Novarro]], Mexican-born American actor (b. [[1899]])
** [[Conrad Richter]], American writer (b. [[1890]])

=== November ===
[[File:Charles Bacon 1909.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Charles Bacon]]]]
[[File:Upton Beall Sinclair Jr.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Upton Sinclair]]]]
* [[November 1]] – [[Georgios Papandreou]], 3-time Prime Minister of Greece (b. [[1888]])
* [[November 6]] – [[Charles Munch (conductor)|Charles Munch]], French conductor (b. [[1891]])
* [[November 7]] – [[Alexander Gelfond]], Soviet mathematician (b. [[1906]])
* [[November 8]] – [[Wendell Corey]], American actor (b. [[1914]])
* [[November 9]]
** [[Jan Johansson (jazz musician)|Jan Johansson]], Swedish jazz pianist (b. [[1931]])
** [[Gerald Mohr]], American actor (b. [[1914]])
* [[November 11]] – [[Jeanne Demessieux]], French composer (b. [[1921]])
* [[November 14]] – [[Ramón Menéndez Pidal]], Spanish philologist and historian (b. [[1869]])
* [[November 15]] – [[Charles Bacon]], American athlete (b. [[1885]])
* [[November 16]]
** [[Augustin Bea]], German cardinal (b. [[1881]])
** [[Carl Bertilsson]], Swedish gymnast (b. [[1889]])
* [[November 17]]
** [[Abdul Wahed Bokainagari]], Bengali politician (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.valuka.com/news/NewsDetail/2366|title=৪৪ তম মৃত্যুবার্ষিকী আবদুল ওয়াহেদ বোকাইনগরী|work=Valuka.com|language=bn-bd|access-date=2019-01-08}}</ref>
** [[Mervyn Peake]], English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator (b. [[1911]])<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Dementia With Lewy Bodies and the Neurobehavioral Decline of Mervyn Peake |first=Demetrios J. |last=Sahlas |journal=[[Archives of Neurology]] |year=2003 |volume=60 |issue=6 |doi=10.1001/archneur.60.6.889 |url=http://archneur.jamanetwork.com/Mobile/article.aspx?articleid=784261 |pages=889–892 |pmid=12810496|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* [[November 18]] – [[Walter Wanger]], American film producer (b. [[1894]])
* [[November 20]] – [[Helen Gardner (actress)|Helen Gardner]], American actress (b. [[1884]])
* [[November 24]] – [[István Dobi]], prime minister of Hungary (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/István+Dobi István Dobi]</ref>
* [[November 25]] – [[Upton Sinclair]], American writer (b. [[1878]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=Jay Parini|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nMhMAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA3-PA48|year=2004|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-515653-9|pages=3}}</ref>
* [[November 26]] – [[Arnold Zweig]], German writer, pacifist and socialist (b. [[1887]])
* [[November 28]] – [[Enid Blyton]], English writer (b. [[1897]])
* [[November 30]] – [[Charles Henry Bartlett (cyclist)|Charles Henry Bartlett]], British cyclist (b. [[1885]])

=== December ===
[[File:Tallulah Bankhead 1941.JPG|thumb|100px|[[Tallulah Bankhead]]]]
[[File:John Steinbeck 1962.jpg|thumb|100px|[[John Steinbeck]]]]
* [[December 1]]
** [[Hugo Haas]], Czech actor, director and writer (b. [[1901]])
** [[Darío Moreno]], Turkish-Jewish polyglot singer, composer, lyricist, and guitarist (b. [[1921]])
* [[December 4]] – [[Archie Mayo]], American actor and director (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 5]] – [[Fred Clark]], American actor (b. [[1914]])
* [[December 9]] – [[Enoch L. Johnson]], American political boss and racketeer (b. [[1883]])
* [[December 10]]
** [[Karl Barth]], German Protestant theologian (b. [[1886]])
** [[Thomas Merton]], American author (b. [[1915]])
* [[December 12]]
** [[Tim Ahearne]], Irish athlete (b. [[1885]])
** [[Tallulah Bankhead]], American actress (b. [[1902]])
* [[December 14]] – [[Dorothy Payne Whitney]], American-born philanthropist, social activist (b. [[1887]])<ref>[https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/whitney-dorothy-payne-1887-1968 Whitney, Dorothy Payne (1887–1968)]</ref>
* [[December 18]] – [[Giovanni Messe]], Italian field marshal and politician (b. [[1883]])
* [[December 19]] – [[Norman Thomas]], American socialist (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 20]]
** [[Max Brod]], Czech-born Israeli composer, writer and biographer (b. [[1884]])
** [[John Steinbeck]], American writer, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.steinbeck.org/Bio.html |title=John Steinbeck Biography |publisher=National Steinbeck Centre |url-status=dead  |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305004150/http://www.steinbeck.org/Bio.html |archive-date=March 5, 2010}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] – [[Vittorio Pozzo]], Italian football player and manager (b. [[1886]])<ref>[https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/vittorio-pozzo/ Vittorio Pozzo]</ref>
* [[December 30]]
** [[Augustus Agar]], British naval officer, [[Victoria Cross]] recipient (b. [[1890]])
** [[Trygve Lie]], Norwegian politician, 1st [[United Nations Secretary General|Secretary General of the United Nations]] (b. [[1896]])<ref>{{Cite book|author=Estados Unidos. Presidente (1963–1969: Johnson)|title=Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1_1ZAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1232|year=1971|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|pages=1232}}</ref>
** [[Kirill Meretskov]], Soviet military officer, [[Marshal of the Soviet Union]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[December 31]] – [[George Lewis (clarinetist)|George Lewis]], American musician (b. [[1900]])

=== Date unknown ===
* [[Sami Solh]], 5-Time Prime Minister of Lebanon (b. [[1887]])