Editing 1975 (section)

==Deaths==

===January===
[[File:Gral. Gustavo Rojas Pinilla.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Gustavo Rojas Pinilla]]]]
* [[January 3]] – [[Victor Kraft]], Austrian philosopher (b. [[1880]])
* [[January 5]] – [[Gottlob Berger]], German Nazi senior official (b. [[1896]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.statistik-bw.de/LABI/PDB.asp?ID=118837419|title=Berger, Gottlob|language=German|date=2015|website=Landesbibliographie Baden-Württemberg online|publisher=Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart/Badische Landesbibliothek|accessdate=18 June 2015}}</ref>
* [[January 8]] – [[David Marshall Williams]], American inventor (b. [[1900]])<ref>[https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/david-carbine-williams-1900-1975/ David “Carbine” Williams (1900 – 1975)]</ref>
* [[January 9]] – [[Pierre Fresnay]], French actor (b. [[1897]])
* [[January 14]] – [[Georgi Traykov]], head of [[List of heads of state of Bulgaria|State of Bulgaria]] as Chairman of the Presidium of the National Assembly (b. [[1898]])	
* [[January 17]] – [[Gustavo Rojas Pinilla]], 19th [[President of Colombia]] (b. [[1900]])
* [[January 19]] – [[Thomas Hart Benton (painter)|Thomas Hart Benton]], American artist (b. [[1889]])
* [[January 23]] – [[Prince Karl Franz of Prussia]] (b. [[1916]])
* [[January 24]] – [[Larry Fine]], American actor and comedian, [[The Three Stooges]] (b. [[1902]])
* [[January 27]] 
** [[Antonín Novotný]], Czechoslovak Communist leader and 7th [[President of Czechoslovakia]] (b. [[1904]])
** [[Bill Walsh (producer)|Bill Walsh]], American film producer and writer (b. [[1913]])
* [[January 28]] – [[Ola Raknes]], Norwegian psychoanalyst and philologist (b. [[1887]])

===February===
[[File:Julian Huxley 1964.jpg|thumb|110px|Sir [[Julian Huxley]]]]
[[File:PGWodehouse.jpg|thumb|110px|Sir [[P. G. Wodehouse]]]]
* [[February 3]] – [[Umm Kulthum]], Egyptian actress and singer (b. [[1904]])
* [[February 4]] – [[Louis Jordan]], American musician (b. [[1908]])
* [[February 6]] – [[Keith Park|Sir Keith Park]], New Zealand-born British air chief marshal (b. [[1892]])<ref>[https://www.sirkeithparkmemorial.org.nz/biography-of-sir-keith-park/ BIOGRAPHY Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park GCB, KBE, MC & Bar, DFC, DCL, CdeG]</ref>
* [[February 8]] 
** [[Robert Robinson (organic chemist)|Sir Robert Robinson]], British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1886]])
** [[Jan Mukařovský]], Czech literary, linguistic and aesthetic theorist. (b. [[1891]])
* [[February 9]] – [[Ivan Stedeford|Sir Ivan Stedeford]], British industrialist (b. [[1897]])<ref>[https://www.devonheritage.org/stentiford/Issue_35/Article4/4Nov4art2.htm Ivan Arthur Rice Stedeford]</ref>
* [[February 10]] – [[Dave Alexander (musician)|Dave Alexander]], American musician (b. [[1947]])
* [[February 12]] – [[Carl Lutz]], Swiss diplomat and humanitarian (b. [[1895]])<ref>[http://www.carl-lutz.com/en/carl-lutz-2/ Carl Lutz]</ref>
* [[February 13]] – [[André Beaufre]], French general (b. [[1902]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andre-Beaufre André Beaufre French general]</ref>
* [[February 14]] 
** Sir [[Julian Huxley]], British biologist (b. [[1887]])<ref>{{cite book|title=Addresses Delivered at a Memorial Ceremony for Julian Huxley Formerly Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 1946-1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3a_1Ahk010C|year=1975|publisher=Unesco House}}</ref>
** Sir [[P. G. Wodehouse]], English writer (b. [[1881]])<ref>{{cite book | last = McCrum | first = Robert | author-link =Robert McCrum| title = Wodehouse: A Life | year = 2004 | location = London | publisher = Viking | isbn = 978-0-670-89692-9 |pages=415–417}}</ref>
* [[February 16]] – [[Morgan Taylor]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1903]])
* [[February 17]] – [[Hugo Österman]], Finnish general (b. [[1892]])
* [[February 18]] – [[Chivu Stoica]], 48th [[Prime Minister of Romania]] and head of State (b. [[1908]])
* [[February 19]] – [[Luigi Dallapiccola]], Italian composer (b. [[1904]])
* [[February 22]] – [[Lionel Tertis]], English violist (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://friendsofhoneywood.co.uk/lionel-tertis.html|title=Honeywood Museum - Lionel Tertis|website=The Friends of Honeywood Museum}}</ref>
* [[February 24]] – [[Nikolai Bulganin]], [[Premier of the Soviet Union]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[February 25]] – [[Elijah Muhammad]], American Nation of Islam leader (b. [[1897]])
* [[February 28]] – Sir [[Neville Cardus]], British cricket and music writer (b. [[1888]])<ref>[https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricketers/neville-cardus-11777 Neville Cardus England]</ref>

===March===
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[[File:S. Kragujevic, Ivo Andric, 1961.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Ivo Andrić]]]]
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[[File:King Faisal bin Abdulaziz.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Faisal of Saudi Arabia]]]]
* [[March 2]] – [[Madeleine Vionnet]], French fashion designer (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/news-analysis/madeleine-vionnet-1876-1975/|title=Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975)|website=The Business of Fashion|date=August 23, 2015 }}</ref>
* [[March 3]] – [[Therese Giehse]], German actress (b. [[1898]])
* [[March 6]] – [[Glenn Hardin]], American athlete (b. [[1910]])
* [[March 7]] – [[Mikhail Bakhtin]], Russian philosopher and literary scholar (b. [[1895]])
* [[March 8]]
** [[Joseph Bech]], [[Prime Minister of Luxembourg]] (b. [[1887]])
** [[George Stevens]], American director, producer and cinematographer (b. [[1904]])
* [[March 9]] 
** [[Joseph Dunninger]], American mentalist (b. [[1892]]){{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
** [[Shirley Ross]], American actress and singer (b. [[1913]])
* [[March 11]] – [[Margarita Fischer]], American silent film actress (b. [[1886]])
* [[March 13]] – [[Ivo Andrić]], Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1892]])
* [[March 14]] – [[Susan Hayward]], American actress (b. [[1917]])
* [[March 15]] – [[Aristotle Onassis]], Greek shipping magnate (b. [[1906]])
* [[March 16]] – [[T-Bone Walker]], American blues performer (b. [[1910]])
* [[March 19]] – [[Harry Lachman]], American set designer and film director (b. [[1886]])
* [[March 20]] – [[Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia]] (b. [[1908]])
* [[March 21]] – [[Joe Medwick]], American baseball player and manager (b. [[1911]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/22/archives/ducky-meduwick-slugger-for-gas-house-gang-dies-a-controversial.html |title=Ducky Medwick, Slugger For Gas House Gang, Dies |date=March 22, 1975 |work=[[The New York Times]] |accessdate=November 24, 2021}}</ref>
* [[March 25]]
** King [[Faisal of Saudi Arabia]] (b. [[1906]])
** [[Michèle Girardon]], French actress (b. [[1938]])
* [[March 27]] – Sir [[Arthur Bliss]], British composer and Master of the Queen's Music (b. [[1891]])
* [[March 30]] – [[Boots Adams]], American business magnate, president of [[Phillips Petroleum Company]] (b. [[1899]]){{importance inline|date=January 2021}}

===April===
[[File:Chiang Kai-shek Colour.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Chiang Kai-shek]]]]
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* [[April 5]]
** [[Chiang Kai-shek]], Chinese nationalist general and politician, 1st [[President of the Republic of China]] (b. [[1887]])
** [[Harold Osborn]], American Olympic athlete (b. [[1899]])
** [[Victor Marijnen]], Dutch politician and jurist, 40th [[Prime Minister of the Netherlands]] (b. [[1917]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/bwn1880-2000/lemmata/bwn2/marijnen|title=Marijnen, Victor Gerard Marie (1917-1975)|publisher=Huygens ING|date=12 November 2013|access-date=20 May 2019|language=nl}}</ref>
* [[April 10]]
** [[Walker Evans]], American photographer (b. [[1903]])
** [[Marjorie Main]], American actress (b. [[1890]])
* [[April 12]] – [[Josephine Baker]], American-born French entertainer and activist (b. [[1906]])
* [[April 14]] – [[Fredric March]], American actor (b. [[1897]])
* [[April 17]] – [[Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan]], Indian philosopher and politician, 2nd [[President of India]] (b. [[1888]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Percy Lavon Julian]], American scientist (b. [[1899]])<ref>[https://www.biography.com/scientists/percy-julian Percy Julian]</ref>
* [[April 23]] – [[William Hartnell]], English actor (b. [[1908]])
* [[April 24]] – [[Pete Ham]], Welsh singer, songwriter and guitarist (b. [[1947]])

===May===
[[File:Avery Brundage 1964.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Avery Brundage]]]]
* [[May 4]] – [[Moe Howard]], American actor and comedian, [[The Three Stooges]] (b. [[1897]])
* [[May 8]] – [[Avery Brundage]], American administrator, 5th [[President of the International Olympic Committee]] (b. [[1887]])
* [[May 9]] – [[Philip Dorn]], Dutch actor (b. [[1901]])
* [[May 14]] – [[Ernst Alexanderson]], Swedish-born American television pioneer (b. [[1878]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://edisontechcenter.org/alexanderson.html|title=Ernst F. Alexanderson - Electrical Pioneer|website=edisontechcenter.org}}</ref>
* [[May 18]]
** [[Leroy Anderson]], American composer (b. [[1908]])
** [[Aníbal Troilo]], Argentine tango musician (b. [[1914]])
* [[May 20]] – [[Barbara Hepworth|Dame Barbara Hepworth]], English sculptor and artist (b. [[1903]])
* [[May 22]]
** [[Lefty Grove]], American baseball player (b. [[1900]])
** [[Torben Meyer]], Danish actor (b. [[1884]])
* [[May 23]] – [[Moms Mabley]], African-American comedian (b. [[1894]])<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/biography/Moms-Mabley Moms Mabley American comedian]</ref>
* [[May 28]] 
** [[Ezzard Charles]], American boxer, World Heavyweight Champion (b. [[1921]])
** [[Lung Chien]], Chinese screenwriter and film director (b. [[1916]])
* [[May 30]]
** [[Steve Prefontaine]], American distance runner (b. [[1951]])
** [[Michel Simon]], Swiss actor (b. [[1895]])

===June===
[[File:Eisaku Sato 1960.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Eisaku Satō]]]]
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* [[June 3]]
** [[Eisaku Satō]], Japanese politician, [[Prime Minister of Japan]], recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. [[1901]])<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Peace Prize 1974 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1974/sato/facts/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=12 November 2022}}</ref>
** [[Ozzie Nelson]], American actor, director and producer (b. [[1906]])
* [[June 4]] – [[Evelyn Brent]], American actress (b. [[1895]])
* [[June 9]] – [[Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer]], British aristocrat (b. [[1892]])
* [[June 12]] – [[Rafael Arévalo Martínez]], Guatemalan writer (b. [[1884]])
* [[June 13]] – [[José María Guido]], 33rd [[President of Argentina]] (b. [[1910]])
* [[June 15]] – [[William Austin (actor)|William Austin]], English actor (b. [[1884]])
* [[June 18]] – [[Hugo Bergmann]], German and Israeli Jewish philosopher (b. [[1883]])
* [[June 26]] – [[Josemaría Escrivá]], Spanish [[Roman Catholic]] priest and saint (b. [[1902]])<ref>[https://stjosemaria.org/biography/ Biography]</ref>
* [[June 27]] – [[G. I. Taylor]], British physicist, mathematician and expert on fluid dynamics and wave theory (b. [[1886]])
* [[June 28]] – [[Rod Serling]], American television screenwriter and narrator (b. [[1924]])
* [[June 29]] – [[Tim Buckley]], American singer-songwriter (b. [[1947]])

===July===
[[File:Konstantine Gamsakhurdia.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Konstantine Gamsakhurdia]]]]
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* [[July 2]] – [[James Robertson Justice]], British actor (b. [[1907]])
* [[July 4]] – [[Luigi Carlo Borromeo]], Italian [[Roman Catholic]] bishop (b. [[1893]])
* [[July 5]] – [[Otto Skorzeny]], Austrian-born German lieutenant colonel (b. [[1908]])
* [[July 10]] – [[Achille Van Acker]], 33rd [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (b. [[1898]])
* [[July 13]] – [[Thomas Walter Swan]], American jurist and judge on the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit]] from 1926 until 1975 (b. [[1877]])
* [[July 14]] – [[Madan Mohan (music director)|Madan Mohan]], Indian music director (b. [[1924]])
* [[July 17]] – [[Konstantine Gamsakhurdia]], Georgian writer and public benefactor (b. [[1893]])
* [[July 19]] 
** [[Lefty Frizzell]], American singer (b. [[1928]])
** [[Charles Alan Pownall]], American admiral, 3rd Military Governor of Guam (b. [[1887]])<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/23/archives/adm-ca-pownall-a-governor-of-guam.html ADM. C. A. POWNALL, A GOVERNOR OF GUAM]</ref>
* [[July 21]] – [[Billy West (silent film actor)|Billy West]], American actor (b. [[1892]])
* [[July 23]] – [[Emlen Tunnell]], American football player and coach (b. [[1924]])
* [[July 30]] – [[James Blish]], American science fiction and fantasy writer (b. [[1921]])

===August===
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* [[August 3]]
** [[Andreas Embirikos]], Greek poet (b. [[1901]])
** [[Jack Molinas]], American basketball player (b. [[1931]])
* [[August 6]] – [[Infante Alfonso, Duke of Galliera]], Spanish prince, military aviator (b. [[1886]]){{Citation needed|date=May 2024}}
* [[August 9]] – [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], Soviet and Russian composer (b. [[1906]])
* [[August 10]] – [[Anthony McAuliffe]], American general (b. [[1898]])
* [[August 11]] – [[Rachel Katznelson-Shazar]], Zionist political figure and wife of third President of Israel (b. [[1885]])
* [[August 15]] – [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]], 2nd [[Prime Minister of Bangladesh]] and 1st and 4th [[President of Bangladesh]] (b. [[1920]])
* [[August 16]] – [[Vladimir Kuts]], Soviet runner (b. [[1927]])
* [[August 17]] – [[Sig Arno]], German actor (b. [[1895]])
* [[August 19]]
** [[Mark Donohue]], American race car driver (b. [[1937]])
** [[Ima Hogg]], American society leader, philanthropist, patron and collector of the arts (b. [[1882]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.humanitiestexas.org/programs/tx-originals/list/ima-hogg|title=Ima Hogg &#124; Humanities Texas|website=www.humanitiestexas.org}}</ref>
** [[Frank Shields]], American tennis player (b. [[1909]])
* [[August 23]] – [[Sidney Buchman]], American screenwriter (b. [[1902]])
* [[August 25]] – [[Joseph Kane]], American film director and producer (b. [[1894]])
* [[August 26]] – [[Cullen Landis]], American actor (b. [[1896]])
* [[August 27]] – [[Haile Selassie|Haile Selassie I]], [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] (b. [[1892]])
* [[August 28]] – [[Fritz Wotruba]], Austrian sculptor (b. [[1907]])
* [[August 29]] 
**[[Charles C. Bass]], American physician and medical researcher (b. [[1875]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/395930257/|title=Daily News 31 Aug 1975, page 166|website=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
**[[Éamon de Valera]], Irish politician and statesman, 3rd [[President of Ireland]] and 3-time [[Taoiseach]] (b. [[1882]])

===September===
[[File:George Paget Thomson.jpg|thumb|110px|Sir [[George Paget Thomson]]]]
[[File:Saint-John Perse 1960.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Saint-John Perse]]]]
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* [[September 5]] – [[Alice Catherine Evans]], American microbiologist (b. [[1881]])
* [[September 9]]
** [[Minta Durfee]], American actress (b. [[1889]])
** [[Ethel Griffies]], British actress (b. [[1878]])
* [[September 10]] – Sir [[George Paget Thomson]], British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1892]])
* [[September 15]] – [[Pavel Sukhoi]], Soviet aerospace engineer, twice [[Hero of Socialist Labour]] (b. [[1895]])
* [[September 19]] – [[Pamela Brown (actress)|Pamela Brown]], English actress (b. [[1917]])
* [[September 20]] 
**[[Doria Shafik]], Egyptian feminist, poet, writer and editor (b. [[1908]])<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/obituaries/doria-shafik-overlooked.html|title=Overlooked No More: Doria Shafik, Who Led Egypt's Women's Liberation Movement|work=The New York Times |date=August 22, 2018|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref>
**[[Saint-John Perse]], French diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. [[1887]])
* [[September 23]] – [[Ian Hunter (actor)|Ian Hunter]], British actor (b. [[1900]])
* [[September 26]] – [[C. H. Waddington]], British biologist, paleontologist, geneticist and philosopher (b. [[1905]])
* [[September 27]] 
** [[Mark Frechette]], American actor (b. [[1947]])
** [[Jack Lang (Australian politician)|Jack Lang]], Australian politician (b. [[1876]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jack-Lang|title=Jack Lang &#124; Australian statesman &#124; Britannica|website=www.britannica.com|date=December 17, 2023 }}</ref>
* [[September 29]] – [[Casey Stengel]], American baseball player and manager (b. [[1890]])

===October===
[[File:Gustav Hertz.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Gustav Ludwig Hertz]]]]
* [[October 3]] – [[Guy Mollet]], 94th [[Prime Minister of France]] (b. [[1905]])
* [[October 4]] – [[May Sutton]], American tennis champion (b. [[1887]])
* [[October 10]] – [[Norman Levinson]], American mathematician (b. [[1912]])
* [[October 16]] – [[Don Barclay (actor)|Don Barclay]], American actor and artist (b. [[1892]])<ref>[https://www.rshonor.org/node/15007 Actor, Artist Don Barclay]</ref>
* [[October 21]] – [[Charles Reidpath]], American athlete (b. [[1889]])<ref>[https://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/JOH-Archives/JOHv11n1o.pdf CHARLES REIDPATH, OLYMPIC CHAMPION]</ref>
* [[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 in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1887]])

===November===
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[[File:Franco0001.PNG|thumb|110px|[[Francisco Franco]]]]
* [[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]])<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://spartacus-educational.com/GERhanfstaengel.htm|title=Ernst Hanfstaengel|website=Spartacus Educational}}</ref>
** [[Annette Kellerman]], Australian swimmer and actress (b. [[1886]])
* [[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, [[Caudillo of Spain]] (b. [[1892]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Francisco Franco {{!}} Biography, Nickname, Beliefs, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francisco-Franco |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=19 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[November 29]]
** [[Tony Brise]], English racing driver (b. [[1952]])
** [[Graham Hill]], English racing driver (b. [[1929]])

===December===
[[File:Hannah Arendt 1975 (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Hannah Arendt]]]]
[[File:Bernard-Herrmann.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Bernard Herrmann]]]]
* [[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]] – [[Boy Charlton|Andrew "Boy" Charlton]], Australian Olympic swimmer (b. [[1907]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Saadi Al Munla]], 4th [[Prime Minister of Lebanon]] (b. [[1890]])
* [[December 13]] – [[Addie Viola Smith]], American lawyer and trade commissioner (b. [[1893]])<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Addie Viola Smith (1893–1975) |encyclopedia=[[Australian Dictionary of Biography]] |publisher=National Centre of Biography, [[Australian National University]] |location=Canberra |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/smith-addie-viola-11717 |url-status=live |access-date=April 14, 2024 |last=Barker |first=Heather |date=2006 |orig-date=2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222081431/https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/smith-addie-viola-11717 |archive-date=February 22, 2024}}</ref>
* [[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]])