Famous Deaths for December 1940

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5th - Jan Kubelik, composer, dies at 60
5th - Mordechai Frizis, Jewish Greek military officer (b. 1893)
6th - Charlie Hime, cricketer (one Test for S Africa 1895), dies
8th - George Exton Lloyd, Anglican Bishop and theologian (b. 1861)
9th - Maletti, Italian general, dies in battle
13th - Dusty Tapscott, cricket (bro of Doodles, 4&1 in only S Af Test), dies
13th - George Macaulay, cricketer (took 24 wkts in 8 Tests, Eng 22-33), dies
13th - Jacques-Arsène d'Arsonval, French physicist (b. 1851)
13th - George Regas, Greek actor (b. 1890)
16th - M Eugene F T Dubois, geologist/paleontologist (Wadjakmens), dies
16th - William Wallace, composer, dies at 80
16th - Billy Hamilton, American baseball player (b. 1866)
17th - Alicia Boole Stott, Irish mathematician (b. 1860)
21st - F Scott Fitzgerald, author (Zelda), dies of a heart attack at 44
22nd - Nathanael West, [Weinstein], US writer (Cool Million), dies at 37
25th - Agnes Ayres, actress (Johnny Belinda, Sheik), dies at 42
30th - Fritz Volbach, composer, dies at 79


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