Editing 1969 (section)

==Deaths==
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===January===
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[[File:Georges Pire 1958.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dominique Pire]]]]
* [[January 1]] – [[Barton MacLane]], American actor (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Movie Bad Guy, Barton MacLane, Dead At 66 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fVVQAAAAIBAJ&pg=4378,287185&dq=barton+maclane+dead&hl=en |access-date=3 April 2017 |work=The Evening Independent |agency=Associated Press |date=January 2, 1969}}</ref>
* [[January 3]] – [[Commodore Cochran]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1902]])
* [[January 4]] – [[Paul Chambers]], American jazz bassist (b. [[1935]])
* [[January 6]] – [[Shalva Nutsubidze]], Georgian philosopher, historian, rustvelologist, literary critic, translator, and public figure (b. [[1888]])
* [[January 8]] – [[Albert Hill (athlete)|Albert Hill]], British athlete (b. [[1889]])
* [[January 12]] – [[Roberto Noble]], Argentine politician, journalist and publisher (b. [[1902]])<ref>[https://www.cadenanueve.com/2025/01/11/roberto-noble-un-hombre-de-impacto-en-el-periodismo-la-politica-y-la-sociedad-argentina/ Roberto Noble, un hombre de impacto en el periodismo, la política y la sociedad argentina] {{in lang|es}}</ref>
* [[January 19]] – [[Jan Palach]], Czech student (b. [[1948]])
* [[January 27]] – [[Charles Winninger]], American actor (b. [[1884]])
* [[January 29]] – [[Allen Dulles]], American director of the Central Intelligence Agency (b. [[1893]])
* [[January 30]] – [[Dominique Pire]], Belgian Dominican friar, [[Nobel Peace Prize]] laureate (b. [[1910]])
* [[January 31]] – [[Meher Baba]], Indian spiritual master (b. [[1894]])

===February===
[[File:Borris Karloff still.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Boris Karloff]]]]
[[File:King Saud.jpg|thumb|100px|King [[Saud of Saudi Arabia|Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud]]]]
[[File:Portrait of prime minister Levy Eshkol. August 1963. D699-070.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Levi Eshkol]]]]
* [[February 2]] – [[Boris Karloff]], English actor (b. [[1887]])
* [[February 3]] 
** [[Eduardo Mondlane]], leader of the [[Mozambique]] nationalist organization [[FRELIMO]] (b. [[1920]])
** [[Al Taliaferro]], American Disney comics artist (b. [[1905]])
** [[C. N. Annadurai]], Indian politician and [[List of chief ministers of Tamil Nadu|Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu]] (b. [[1909]])   [[File:CN Annadurai.jpg|thumb|149x149px|[[C. N. Annadurai]]]]
* [[February 5]] – [[Thelma Ritter]], American actress (b. [[1902]])
* [[February 9]] – [[George "Gabby" Hayes]], American actor (b. [[1885]])
* [[February 13]] – [[Florence Mary Taylor]], English-born Australian architect (b. [[1879]])
* [[February 14]] – [[Vito Genovese]], Italian-American mobster (b. [[1897]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Dragiša Cvetković]], 13th [[Prime Minister of Yugoslavia]] (b. [[1893]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Madge Blake]], American actress (b. [[1899]])
* [[February 20]] – [[Ernest Ansermet]], Swiss conductor (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Ansermet |title=Ernest Ansermet &#124; Swiss conductor &#124; Britannica |website=www.britannica.com |date=February 16, 2024}}</ref>
* [[February 23]]
** King [[Saud of Saudi Arabia]], (b. [[1902]])
** [[Madhubala]], Indian actress (b. [[1933]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Jan Zajíc]], Czech student (b. [[1950]])
* [[February 26]]
** [[Levi Eshkol]], 3rd [[Prime Minister of Israel]] (b. [[1895]])
** [[Karl Jaspers]], German psychiatrist and philosopher (b. [[1883]])
* [[February 27]] – [[John Boles (actor)|John Boles]], American actor (b. [[1895]])

===March===
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[[File:Dwight D. Eisenhower, official photo portrait, May 29, 1959.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]]]
* [[March 3]]
** [[Ali Jawdat al-Aiyubi]], 11th [[Prime Minister of Iraq]] (b. [[1886]])
** [[Fred Alexander]], American tennis player (b. [[1880]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Óscar Osorio]], Salvadorian military leader, 32nd [[President of El Salvador]] (b. [[1910]])
* [[March 11]]
**[[Daniel E. Barbey]], American admiral (b. [[1889]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tracesofwar.com/ |title=TracesOfWar.com |website=www.tracesofwar.com}}</ref>
**[[John Wyndham]], English author (b. [[1903]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Seed |first1=David |title=A Companion to Science Fiction |date=9 June 2008 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-0-470-79701-3 |page=387 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PiphRocVYRwC&pg=PA387 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 14]] – [[Ben Shahn]], Lithuanian-American artist (b. [[1898]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Miles Malleson]], English actor (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.oldbrightonians.com/news/notable-obs/film-theatre-television/218-miles-malleson-ob-1899-08.html |title=Miles Malleson (OB. 1899-08) |website=Old Brightonians - The Alumni of Brighton College}}</ref>
* [[March 24]] – [[Joseph Kasavubu]], 1st [[President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo|President of Congo-Léopoldville]] (b. [[1917]])
* [[March 25]] – [[Max Eastman]], American writer (b. [[1883]])<ref>{{cite news |date=March 26, 1969 |title=Max Eastman Dies: Author and Radical |page=1 |work=The New York Times |format=obituary |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/03/26/archives/max-eastman-dies-author-and-radical-max-eastman-author-radical-and.html}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] – [[John Kennedy Toole]], American author (b. [[1937]])
* [[March 28]] – [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], American general and politician, 34th [[President of the United States]] (b. [[1890]])

===April===
[[File:Rómulo Gallegos 1940s.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Rómulo Gallegos]]]]
[[File:FSHussain.png|thumb|100px|[[FS Hussain]]]]
* [[April 2]] – [[Fortunio Bonanova]], Spanish actor and singer (b. [[1895]])<ref>{{cite book |author=Everett Grant Jarvis |title=Final Curtain: Deaths of Noted Movie and TV Personalities, 1912-1996 |publisher=Carol Publishing Group |year=1995 |page=142}}</ref>
* [[April 5]]
** [[Alberto Bonucci]], Italian actor and director (b. [[1918]])
** [[Rómulo Gallegos]], Venezuelan novelist and politician, 48th [[President of Venezuela]] (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature |publisher=Taylor & Francis |year=1997 |isbn=9781135314255 |page=630}}</ref>
* [[April 9]]  – [[FS Hussain]], Pakistani [[aerobatic]] pilot who fought in [[World War II]] (b. [[1924]])
* [[April 10]] – [[Harley Earl]], American designer and executive (b. [[1893]])
* [[April 15]] – [[Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg]], Queen consort of Spain (b. [[1887]])
* [[April 20]] – [[Vjekoslav Luburić]], Croatian [[Ustaše]] official and concentration camp administrator (b. [[1914]])
* [[April 26]] – [[Morihei Ueshiba]], Japanese martial artist and founder of [[aikido]] (b. [[1883]])
* [[April 27]] – [[René Barrientos]], Bolivian general and statesman, 47th [[President of Bolivia]] (helicopter crash) (b. [[1919]])

===May===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-1988-0113-500, Franz v. Papen (cropped)(2).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Franz von Papen]]]]
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[[File:Jeffrey Hunter Sgt Rutledge.jpg|100px|thumb|[[Jeffrey Hunter]]]]
* [[May 2]] – [[Franz von Papen]], 22nd [[Chancellor of Germany (German Reich)|Chancellor of Germany]] and 26th [[Prime Minister of Prussia]] (b. [[1879]])
* [[May 3]]
** [[Karl Freund]], German cinematographer (b. [[1890]])
** [[Zakir Husain (politician)|Zakir Hussain]], Indian politician, 3rd [[President of India]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[May 4]] – [[Osbert Sitwell|Sir Osbert Sitwell]], English writer (b. [[1892]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sir-Osbert-Sitwell-5th-Baronet Sir Osbert Sitwell, 5th Baronet English writer]</ref>
* [[May 14]]
** [[Enid Bennett]], American actress (b. [[1893]])
** [[Frederick Lane]], Australian swimmer (b. [[1880]])
* [[May 15]] – [[Robert Rayford]], American HIV/AIDS victim (b. [[1953]])
* [[May 18]] – [[Camille Drevet]], French anti-colonialist, feminist activist and pacifist (b. [[1881]])
* [[May 21]] – [[William Lincoln Bakewell]], American explorer (b. [[1888]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Jimmy McHugh]], American composer (b. [[1894]])
* [[May 24]] – [[Mitzi Green]], American actress (b. [[1920]])
* [[May 26]] – [[Paul Hawkins (racing driver)|Paul Hawkins]], Australian racing driver (b. [[1937]])
* [[May 27]]
** [[Muhammad Fareed Didi]], [[Sultan of Maldives]] (b. [[1901]])
** [[Jeffrey Hunter]], American actor (b. [[1926]])
* [[May 28]] – [[Rhys Williams (Welsh-American actor)|Rhys Williams]], Welsh actor (b. [[1897]])

===June===
[[File:Judy Garland publicity photo.png|thumb|100px|[[Judy Garland]]]]
* [[June 1]] – [[Ivar Ballangrud]], Norwegian Olympic speed skater (b. [[1904]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Rafael Osuna]], Mexican professional tennis player (b. [[1938]])
* [[June 8]] – [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]], American actor (b. [[1911]])
* [[June 11]] – [[John L. Lewis]], President of the [[United Mine Workers of America]] (b. [[1880]])
* [[June 12]] – [[Aleksandr Deyneka]], Russian painter and sculptor (b. [[1899]])
* [[June 13]] – [[Martita Hunt]], Argentine-born British actress (b. [[1900]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/67/101067806/ |title=Martita Hunt |website=oxforddnb.com |access-date=2017-10-19 |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220125843/http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/67/101067806/ |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 16]] – [[Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis]], British field marshal and 17th [[Governor General of Canada]] (b. [[1891]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Edgar Anderson]], American botanist (b. [[1897]])
* [[June 19]] – [[Natalie Talmadge]], American actress (b. [[1896]])
* [[June 20]] – [[Mohamed Siddiq El-Minshawi]], Egyptian Qur'anic reciter (b. [[1920]])
* [[June 22]] – [[Judy Garland]], American actress and singer (b. [[1922]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Judy Garland &#124; Biography, Movies, Songs, & Facts &#124; Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Judy-Garland |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=2 January 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 23]] – [[Volmari Iso-Hollo]], Finnish athlete (b. [[1907]])

===July===
[[File:Brian Jones, Statesboro, Georgia, May 4, 1965 (377872218).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Brian Jones]]]]
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[[File:WalterGropius-1919.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Walter Gropius]]]]
* [[July 2]] – [[Mikio Naruse]], Japanese film director (b. [[1905]])
* [[July 3]] – [[Brian Jones]], British rock musician (b. [[1942]])<ref>{{Cite web |last=Aswad |first=Jem |date=19 June 2020 |title='Life and Death of Brian Jones' Documentary Digs Deep Into the Rolling Stones Co-Founder's Demise |url=https://variety.com/2020/music/news/rolling-stones-life-death-of-brian-jones-documentary-1234643158/ |access-date=26 July 2022 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[July 5]]
** [[Ben Alexander (actor)|Ben Alexander]], American actor (b. [[1911]])
** [[Wilhelm Backhaus]], German pianist (b. [[1884]])
** [[Walter Gropius]], German architect (b. [[1883]])
** [[Lambert Hillyer]], American film director (b. [[1889]])
** [[Tom Mboya]], Kenyan politician (b. [[1930]])
** [[Leo McCarey]], American film director (b. [[1898]])
* [[July 9]] – [[Raizō Tanaka]], Japanese admiral (b. [[1892]])
* [[July 15]] – [[Peter van Eyck]], German actor (b. [[1911]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Ichikawa Raizō VIII]], Japanese actor (b. [[1931]])
* [[July 20]] - [[Roy Hamilton]], American singer (b. [[1929]])
* [[July 24]] – [[Witold Gombrowicz]], Polish novelist and dramatist (b. [[1904]])<ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkUhDi-q5mkC&pg=PA235 |title=The Rhetoric of Failure: Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism |author=Ziarek, Ewa Płonowska |date=January 1995 |page=235 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=9780791427118}}</ref>
* [[July 25]] – [[Otto Dix]], German painter (b. [[1891]])
* [[July 28]]
** [[Frank Loesser]], American songwriter (b. [[1910]])<ref>Krebs, Alvin, "Frank Loesser, Composer, Dead," ''The New York Times'', July 29, 1969, p. 1</ref>
** [[Ramón Grau]], president of Cuba (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://biography.yourdictionary.com/ramon-grau-san-martin |title=Ramón Grau San Martin |website=biography.yourdictionary.com}}</ref>

===August===
[[File:Adorno.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Theodor W. Adorno]]]]
[[File:Sharon Tate in Eye of the Devil (1965).jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sharon Tate]]]]
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* [[August 5]] – [[Duke Adolf Friedrich of Mecklenburg]] (b. [[1873]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Theodor W. Adorno]], German sociologist and philosopher (b. [[1903]])
* [[August 8]] – [[Choi Seung-hee]], Korean modern dancer (b. [[1911]])
* [[August 9]]
** [[C. F. Powell|Cecil Frank Powell]], British physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1903]])
** [[Constantin Ion Parhon]], Romanian politician (b. [[1874]])
** [[Jay Sebring]], American celebrity hair stylist (b. [[1933]])
** [[Sharon Tate]], American actress and model (b. [[1943]])
* [[August 13]] – [[Nicolás Fasolino]], Argentine [[Roman Catholic]] cardinal (b. [[1887]])
* [[August 14]] – [[Leonard Woolf]], English writer (b. [[1880]])
* [[August 17]]
** [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe]], German-American architect (b. [[1886]])
** [[Otto Stern]], German physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1888]])
* [[August 20]] – [[Marty Barry]], Canadian ice hockey player (b. [[1905]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Ismail al-Azhari]], 2nd Prime Minister, 3rd President of Sudan (b. [[1900]])
* [[August 27]]
** Dame [[Ivy Compton-Burnett]], English novelist (b. [[1884]])
** [[Erika Mann]], German writer (b. [[1905]])
* [[August 31]] – [[Rocky Marciano]], American professional boxer (b. [[1923]])

===September===
[[File:Ho Chi Minh 1946.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Ho Chi Minh]]]]
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* [[September 2]] 
** [[Ho Chi Minh]], Vietnamese Communist politician, 1st [[Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam|Prime Minister of North Vietnam]] and 1st [[President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam|President of North Vietnam]] (b. [[1890]])
** [[Norman Manley]], Premier of Jamaica (b. [[1893]])<ref>[https://jis.gov.jm/information/heroes/norman-washington-manley/ Norman Washington Manley]</ref>
* [[September 3]] – [[John Lester]], American cricketer (b. [[1871]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/john-lester-155716 |title=John Lester |website=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref>
* [[September 6]] – [[Arthur Friedenreich]], Brazilian footballer (b. [[1892]])
* [[September 8]]
** [[Bud Collyer]], American radio and television personality (b. [[1908]])
** [[Alexandra David-Néel]], French explorer (b. [[1868]])
* [[September 12]] – [[Terry de la Mesa Allen, Sr.]], American general (b. [[1888]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.uswarmemorials.org/html/people_details.php?PeopleID=28393 |title=Allen Terry de la Mesa Sr. |website=www.uswarmemorials.org}}</ref>
* [[September 19]] – [[Rex Ingram (actor)|Rex Ingram]], American actor (b. [[1895]])
* [[September 22]]
** [[Adolfo López Mateos]], Mexican politician, 48th [[President of Mexico]], 1958-1964 (b. [[1909]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.buscabiografias.com/biografia/verDetalle/8782/Adolfo%20Lopez%20Mateos |title=Adolfo López Mateos |publisher=Busca Biografias |language=es |access-date=May 30, 2019}}</ref>
** [[Aleksandras Stulginskis]], Lithuanian politician, 2nd [[President of Lithuania|President of the Republic of Lithuania]] (b. [[1885]])
* [[September 27]] – [[Nicolas Grunitzky]], 2nd [[President of Togo]] (b. [[1913]])
* [[September 28]] – [[Nicolae Dăscălescu]], Romanian general (b. [[1884]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.roaf.ro/?page_id=4793 |title=General Nicolae Dăscălescu &#124; Fortele Aeriene Romane |accessdate=December 18, 2022 |archive-date=November 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117112516/http://www.roaf.ro/?page_id=4793 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===October===
[[File:Sonja Henie 1936.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Sonja Henie]]]]
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* [[October 3]] – [[Skip James]], American blues singer (b. [[1902]])<ref>{{cite book |first=Tony |last=Russell |year=1997 |title=The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray |publisher=Carlton Books |location=Dubai |page=123 |isbn=1-85868-255-X}}</ref>
* [[October 6]] – [[Walter Hagen]], American golf champion (b. [[1892]])
* [[October 7]]
** [[Natalya Lisenko]], Russian actress (b. [[1884]])
** [[Ture Nerman]], Swedish communist leader (b. [[1886]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://snl.no/Ture_Nerman |title=Ture Nerman |first=Helge |last=Giverholt |date=August 23, 2023 |via=Store norske leksikon}}</ref>
* [[October 12]] – [[Sonja Henie]], Norwegian figure skater (b. [[1912]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Leonard Chess]], Polish-American record company executive, co-founder of [[Chess Records]] (b. [[1917]])
* [[October 21]]
** [[Jack Kerouac]], American author (b. [[1922]])<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/10/what-hollywood-gets-wrong-about-jack-kerouac-and-the-beat-generation/280612/ |title=What Hollywood Gets Wrong About Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation |last=Larson |first=Jordan |work=The Atlantic |access-date=September 12, 2017}}</ref>
** [[Wacław Sierpiński]], Polish mathematician (b. [[1882]])
* [[October 22]] – [[Vittorio Tur]], Italian admiral (b. [[1882]])<ref>[http://www.difesa.it/Area_Storica_HTML/editoria/2016/uomini-mm/Pagine/files/basic-html/page527.html Biographical Dictionary Men of the Navy.]</ref>
* [[October 23]] - [[Tommy Edwards]], American singer-songwriter (b. [[1922]])
* [[October 26]] – [[Gyula Mándi]], Hungarian footballer and manager (b. [[1899]])
* [[October 29]] – [[Francisco Orlich Bolmarcich]], 34th [[President of Costa Rica]] (b. [[1907]])
* [[October 31]] – [[Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Río]], 26th [[President of Ecuador]], leader during [[World War II]] (b. [[1893]])

===November===
[[File:Iskander Mirza.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Iskander Mirza]]]]
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* [[November 1]] – [[Pauline Bush (actress)|Pauline Bush]], American actress (b. [[1886]])
* [[November 5]] – [[Lloyd Corrigan]], American actor (b. [[1900]])
* [[November 8]]
** [[Dave O'Brien (actor)|Dave O'Brien]], American actor (b. [[1912]])
** [[Vesto M. Slipher]], American astronomer (b. [[1875]])
* [[November 12]] 
** [[William F. Friedman]], American cryptanalyst (b. [[1891]])
** [[Liu Shaoqi]], [[President of the People's Republic of China]] (b. [[1898]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Liu-Shaoqi Liu Shaoqi Chinese statesman]</ref>
* [[November 13]] – [[Iskander Mirza]], Pakistani politician, 1st [[President of Pakistan]] (b. [[1899]])
* [[November 18]] – [[Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.]], American politician (b. [[1888]])
* [[November 21]]
** [[Norman Lindsay]], Australian painter (b. [[1879]])
** [[Mutesa II of Buganda]], [[Kabaka of Buganda]] and 1st [[President of Uganda]] (b. [[1924]])

===December===
[[File:Kliment Voroshilov.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Kliment Voroshilov]]]]
[[File:Spencer williams carmel theater 1958.jpg|thumb|100px|[[Spencer Williams Jr.]]]]
* [[December 1]] – [[Magic Sam]], American musician (b. [[1937]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Deep Blues |first=Robert |last=Palmer |author-link=Robert Palmer (American writer) |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |pages=267, 269}}</ref>
* [[December 2]] – [[Kliment Voroshilov]], Soviet military commander (b. [[1881]])
* [[December 4]] – [[Fred Hampton]], American activist (b. [[1948]])
* [[December 5]]
** [[Princess Alice of Battenberg]] (b. [[1885]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lagos |first1=Constantinos |last2=Carr |first2=John |title=Philip, Prince of Greece: The Duke of Edinburgh's Early Life and the Greek Succession |date=30 June 2021 |publisher=Pen and Sword History |isbn=978-1-5267-9083-5 |page=282 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WBcuEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT282 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Claude Dornier]], German airplane builder, founder of [[Dornier Flugzeugwerke]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[December 6]] – [[João Cândido Felisberto]], Brazilian sailor, led the [[Revolt of the Lash]] (b. [[1880]])<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.infoescola.com/biografias/joao-candido/ |title=João Cândido - Biografia do almirante negro |first=Ana Paula de |last=Araújo |website=InfoEscola}}</ref>
* [[December 7]] 
** [[Lefty O'Doul]], American baseball player and restaurateur (b. [[1897]])<ref>[https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/o'doule01.shtml Lefty O'Doul]</ref>
** [[Eric Portman]], English actor (b. [[1901]])<ref>[http://www.calderdalecompanion.co.uk/p112_2.html Eric Portman Biography]</ref>
* [[December 8]] – [[Karl Fiehler]], German Nazi politician and mayor of Munich (b. [[1895]])
* [[December 13]]
** [[Spencer Williams Jr.]], American actor (b. [[1893]])
** [[Raymond A. Spruance]], American admiral (b. [[1886]])
* [[December 21]] – [[Georges Catroux]], French Army general and colonial governor (b. [[1877]])
* [[December 22]]
** [[Josef von Sternberg]], Austrian film director (b. [[1894]])
** [[Enrique Peñaranda]], Bolivian general, 38th [[President of Bolivia]], leader during [[World War II]] (b. [[1892]])
* [[December 26]] – [[Louise Lévêque de Vilmorin]], French author (b. [[1902]])<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1969/12/27/archives/louise-leveque-de-vilmorin-french-novelist-is-dead-at-67.html Louise Leveque de Vilmorin, French Novelist, Is Dead at 67]</ref>
* [[December 29]] – [[Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango]], 11th [[President of Panama]], leader during [[World War II]] (b. [[1899]])