• October 4 - Janis Joplin, American singer (b. 1943)
• October 17 - Pierre Laporte, Canadian statesman (assassinated) (b. 1921)
• October 21 - John T. Scopes, American Scopes Monkey Trial defendant (b. 1900)
• October 24 - Richard Hofstadter, American historian (b. 1916)
• November 7 - Eddie Peabody, American musician (b. 1902)
• November 9 - Charles de Gaulle, President of France (b. 1890)
• November 14 - Louis Rich, American Entrepreneur (b. 1896)
• November 23 - Yusof bin Ishak, first President of Singapore (b. 1910)
• December 12 - Doris Blackburn, Australian politician (b. 1889)
• date unknown - Paul Celan, Romanian-born German-language poet (body found on May 1) (b. 1920)

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Nobel prizes

• Physics - Hannes Alfvén, Louis Eugène Félix Néel
• Chemistry - Luis Federico Leloir
• Medicine - Sir Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
• Literature - Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
• Peace - Norman E. Borlaug
• Economics - Paul Samuelson

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Fields Medalists

• Alan Baker, Heisuke Hironaka, Sergei Petrovich Novikov, John Griggs Thompson

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See also

• 20th century

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Notes

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External links

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