Famous people died in December - page 4

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Gladys George was an American stage and screen actress who played onscreen leading roles in both the silent era as also in talkies

Luise Rainer was a German and American actress who rose to stardom in Hollywood during 1930s

Irene Dunne was an American stage, film and television actress and singer

Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentinean physician and biochemist who won the Noble Prize for Chemistry in 1970

Gerardus Mercator was a famous Flemish cartographer during the Renaissance period

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Lafayette Mendel was an American biochemist who established the modern concept of nutrition

Vincent du Vigneaud was an American biochemist who was awarded ‘Nobel Prize in Chemistry’ in 1955

Rita Levi-Montalcini was an Italian American neurologist who won a share of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.