Editing 1951 (section)

===December===
[[File:Shoeless Joe Jackson by Conlon, 1913.jpeg|100px|thumbnail|[[Shoeless Joe Jackson]]]]
[[File:Vescovo Anton Durcovici.jpg|100px|thumbnail|Blessed [[Anton Durcovici]]]]
* [[December 1]] – [[Felix Petyrek]], Austrian composer (b. [[1892]])
* [[December 4]] – [[Pedro Salinas]], Spanish poet (b. [[1891]])
* [[December 5]] – [[Shoeless Joe Jackson]], American baseball player ([[Chicago White Sox]]) (b. [[1887]])
* [[December 6]]
** [[J. Edward Bromberg]], Hungarian-born character actor (b. [[1903]])
** [[André Gobert]], French tennis player (b. [[1890]])
** [[Harold Ross]], American editor (b.[[1892]])
* [[December 10]] – [[Algernon Blackwood]], British writer (b. [[1869]])
* [[December 11]]
** [[Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison]], British politician and physician (b. [[1869]])
** [[Selim Palmgren]], Finnish composer, pianist and conductor (b. [[1878]])
* [[December 12]] – [[Bill Patton (actor)|Bill Patton]], American actor (b. [[1894]])
* [[December 15]] – [[Eric Drummond, 7th Earl of Perth]], British diplomat, 1st Secretary-General of the [[League of Nations]] (b. [[1876]])
* [[December 19]] 
** [[Barton Yarborough]], American actor (b. [[1900]])
** [[Umberto Cassuto]], Italian rabbi and biblical scholar (b. [[1883]])
* [[December 20]] – [[Anton Durcovici]], Austro-Hungarian born Romanian [[Roman Catholic]] bishop and blessed (b. [[1888]])
* [[December 23]] – [[Enrique Santos Discépolo]], Argentine tango and milonga musician and composer (b. [[1901]])
* [[December 24]] – [[Raffaele Rossetti]], Italian engineer and military naval officer (b. [[1881]])
* [[December 31]] – [[Maxim Litvinov]], Russian revolutionary and Soviet diplomat (b. [[1876]])