Famous Deaths on December 1

Guatemalan musician (1920-2009)

North Korean politician and Kim Il-sung's younger brother

Nobel laureate: Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1982)

4th President of Italy (1891-1972)

Canadian inventor, politician, goldsmith and flutist in Quebec city (1841–1922)

11th Prime Minister of Norway (1848–1928)

Polish aristocrat, army officer, scientist and engineer (1840-1925)

British industrialist and engineer

Sri Lankan academic (1900–1976)

Catholic Archibishop (1844-1917)

New Zealand artist, writer and teacher (1891-1975)

Hungarian novelist and playwright (1891–1974)

Author of poetry, novels, essays and children's stories from Flanders, Belgium (1836-1923)

Israeli doctor, Zionist activist, and writer

Norwegian politician (1890-1972)

Turkish-Greek archaeologist and art historian (1872–1940)

French Navy officer, astronomer and mathematician (1724-1805)

Juggler, physicist, and illusionist

Bishop of Ossory; Bishop of Clonfert and Kilmacduagh; Irish Anglican bishop

Spanish writer

Swiss poet (1796-1865)

King of Cambodia

German theologian

German astronomer (1677–1750)

Poet

German publisher (1552-1622)

Emperor of Annam

German painter (1480–c. 1522)

King of Pinya

Lord of Montmorency

Judge of Logudoro-Torres

Arabic poet

Catholic pope, 946-955

Pope

Later Tang/Later Jin general

Arabic writer (776–869)

Syrian writer and bishop

King of the Visigoths

Sogdian warlord