Henry Adams, 80, historian, teacher, editor, and author of The Education of Henry Adams, which was published posthumously in 1919 and won the Pulitzer Prize for biography, 27 March 1918.
Amelia Barr, 87, author of popular romantic novels and short stories, 10 March 1919.
L. Frank Baum, 62, author of children's books, including The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), 6 May 1919.
Ambrose Bierce, 72, short-story writer and journalist who disappeared while traveling in Mexico with the rebel army of Pancho Villa, exact date unknown, 1914.
Karl Bitter, 47, Austrian-immigrant sculptor who helped to organize several important American sculpture exhibits, 10 April 1915.
James A. Bland, 56, African American composer of minstrel- show songs, including "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" and "Golden Slippers," 5 May 1911.
Randolph Bourne, 32, literary radical and cultural critic, 22 December 1918.
Vernon Castle, 30, husband and dance partner of Irene Castle, killed during a.....
