- Dec 4 Rosetta Duncan, American vaudevillian (Duncan Sisters), actress (Topsy and Eva), and songwriter (Remeberin'). dies in an auto accident at 65
- Dec 5 K. S. Duleepsinhji, English-Indian cricketer (12 Tests for England, 995 runs), dies at 54
- Dec 6 Len Doyle, American actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66
Jim Bottomley (1900-1959)
Dec 11 American Baseball HOF first baseman (MLB all-time single game RBI record [12] 1924; World Series 1926, 31; NL MVP & NL HR leader 1928; St. Louis Cardinals), dies at 59
- Dec 12 Russell Simpson, American actor (San Francisco, Abraham Lincoln), dies at 82
- Dec 14 Lizzy Ansingh, Dutch painter (Cast Off), dies at 84
- Dec 19 Walter Williams, claimed to be last survivor of Civil War, dies at 117
- Dec 21 Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, restaurateur and ceramicist (b. 1883)
- Dec 22 Gilda Gray [Marianna Michalska], Polish-American stage and screen actress (Piccadilly), and dancer (The Shimmy), dies of a heart attack at 58
- Dec 23 Edward Frederick Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, viceroy of India and British ambassador to US (1940-46), dies at 78
- Dec 23 Lester Lonergan Jr, American stage and screen actor (Guilty Bystander; The Growing Paynes), dies at 66
- Dec 27 Alfonso Reyes, Mexican writer (Simpatías y diferencias) and diplomat (Higenia Cruel), dies at 70
Ante Pavelić (1889-1959)
Dec 28 Croatian leader of Nazi Germany puppet Independent State of Croatia, dies from wounds received in an attempted assassination two years earlier at 70
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