Famous People Who Died in December 1965

Dec 5 Joseph Erlanger, American physiologist (shock therapy-Nobel 1944), dies of heart disease at 91

Dec 9 Branch Rickey, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns), manager (St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers) and sports executive, dies of heart failure at 83

Dec 10 Henry (Dixon) Cowell, US pianist/composer (Aeolian Harp), dies at 68
Dec 12 Johnny Lee, American actor (Song of the South, The Amos 'n' Andy Show), dies from a heart attack at 67
Dec 13 Robert Frederick Sink, United States Army Officer (WWII, Korean War & Vietnam War), dies at 60
Dec 14 Hermann Sandby, Danish cellist & composer, dies at 84
Dec 16 William Somerset Maugham, English author (Razor's Edge), dies at 91
Dec 16 Tito Schipa [Raffaele Attilio Amedeo Schipa], Italian tenor/composer (La Rondine), dies at 77
Dec 20 Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt, German anthropologist (classified human into races), dies at 73
Dec 21 Claude Champagne, Canadian composer, dies at 74
Dec 22 Al Ritz [Joaquim], American actor (Gorilla, Hi Ya Chum), dies at 62
Dec 22 Richard Dimbleby, British journalist and broadcaster, dies at 52
Dec 24 William M. Branham, Christian minister (b. 1906)
Dec 26 Nico Donkersloot, Dutch literary and writer, dies at 63
Dec 27 Edgar Ende, German painter (b. 1901)
Dec 29 Kusaku Yamada, Japanese composer and conductor, dies at 79
Dec 29 Kōsaku Yamada, Japanese composer (Nagauta Symphony), and conductor, dies of a heart attack at 79