Famous people died in December - page 6

Marcello Mastroianni was an Italian film icon, who became one of the greatest international screen symbols of his time

Charles Laughton was an English actor counted amongst the most versatile performers of his generation

Richard Andrew Palethorpe Todd was an Irish-born British military officer and film actor

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Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo was a significant figure in colonial Ecuador

François Auguste Victor Grignard was a French chemist who developed the synthetic reaction, the ‘Grignard reaction’

Wolfgang Paul was a German physicist who shared one-half of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1989

Victor Francis Hess was an Austrian-American physicist who won the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of cosmic radiation

Trygve Lie was a Norwegian politician who holds the distinction of becoming the first Secretary-General of the United Nations

Harold Pinter was an English playwright, poet, screenwriter, director, actor who won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature

Hyder Ali was the Muslim ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore in southern India in mid-18th century

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