- Dec 12 Walter Robins, cricketer (19 Tests for England 64 wkts), dies
- Dec 15 Jess Willard, American boxer (World heavyweight champion 1915-19), dies from heart failure at 86
- Dec 18 Sir John Layton Jarvis, English thoroughbred race horse trainer (9 x British Classic Races; 3 x British flat racing Champion Trainer), dies at 80
- Dec 31 Carl Ahues, German Chess Master (1950), dies at 85
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