Editing 1947 (section)

===December===
[[File:Stanley Baldwin ggbain.35233 (cropped).jpg|thumb|110px|[[Stanley Baldwin]]]]
[[File:Vitorioemanuel.jpg|thumb|110px|King [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy]]]]
* [[December 1]]
** [[Aleister Crowley]], British occultist (b. [[1875]])
** [[G. H. Hardy]], British mathematician (b. [[1877]])
** [[Sir John Fraser, 1st Baronet, of Tain]], British surgeon and professor (b. [[1885]])
* [[December 2]] – [[Franz Xaver Schwarz]], German [[Nazi]] politician (executed) (b. [[1875]])
* [[December 3]] – [[Heinrich Hetsch]], German physician, microbiologist (b. [[1873]])
* [[December 4]] 
** [[Margaret Butler (sculptor)|Margaret Butler]], New Zealand sculptor (b. [[1883]])
** [[Walter Walker (actor)|Walter Walker]], American actor (b. [[1864]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Tadashige Daigo]], Japanese admiral (executed) (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 7]]
** [[Tristan Bernard]], French writer, lawyer (b. [[1866]])
** [[Nicholas Murray Butler]], American president of Columbia University, [[Nobel Peace Prize]] recipient (b. [[1862]])
** [[Henry Page Croft, 1st Baron Croft]], British politician (b. [[1881]])
* [[December 9]] – [[John Kelly (actor)|John Kelly]], American actor (b. [[1901]])
* [[December 10]] – [[Pierre Petit de Julleville]], French [[Roman Catholic]] priest, bishop and eminence (b. [[1876]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Huda Sha'arawi]], Egyptian feminist (b. [[1879]])
* [[December 13]] 
** [[Nicholas Roerich]], Russian painter (b. [[1874]])
** [[Juan Bautista Vargas Arreola]], Mexican general during [[Mexican Revolution]] (b. [[1890]])
* [[December 14]]
** [[Stanley Baldwin]], British Conservative politician, 3-time [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] (b. [[1867]])
** [[Edward Higgins]], General of [[The Salvation Army]] (b. [[1864]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Arthur Machen]], British writer (b. [[1863]])<ref>{{cite web |url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-MACH-ART-1863 |title=Machen, Arthur (1863-1947), formerly Jones, Arthur Llewellin, writer |author=Cecil John Layton Price |website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography |publisher=National Library of Wales |access-date=17 October 2021}}</ref>
* [[December 16]] – [[Walter Dew]], British Metropolitan Police officer (b. [[1863]])
* [[December 17]]
** [[Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted]], Danish chemist (b. [[1879]])
** [[Christos Tsigiridis]], Greek engineer (b. [[1877]])
** [[Bernard Spilsbury]], British pathologist (b. [[1877]])
* [[December 20]] 
** [[Benigno Aquino Sr.]], Filipino politician (b. [[1894]])
** [[Luigi Chiarelli]], Italian playwright (b. [[1880]])
* [[December 23]] – [[Ziauddin Ahmad]], Indian educationalist and politician (b. [[1878]])
* [[December 25]] – [[Gaspar G. Bacon]], Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (b. [[1886]])
* [[December 27]] – [[Johannes Winkler]], German rocket pioneer (b. [[1897]])
* [[December 28]] – King [[Victor Emmanuel III of Italy]] (b. [[1869]])
* [[December 30]] 
** [[Han van Meegeren]], Dutch painter, forger (b. [[1889]])
** [[Alfred North Whitehead]], British mathematician, philosopher (b. [[1861]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Louise Beaudet]], Canadian actress, singer and dancer (b. [[1859]])