Laura Ashley, 60, English designer and distributor of interior design products and women's clothing, 17 September 1985.

Pierre Balmaine, 68, French designer of quietly elegant clothes for women, 29 June 1982.

Cecil Beaton, 76, English artist and costume and set designer who created sets for many productions, winning Academy Awards in 1965 for costumes and sets for the film My Fair Lady, 18 January 1980.

Aldo Cipullo, 48, Italian-born jewelry designer who, while working at Cartier, designed the gold "love bracelet," 31 January 1984.

Enzo Ferrari, 90, Italian sports-car manufacturer, 4 August 1988.

Anne Fogarty, 62, fashion designer best known for her crinoline petticoats under full-skirted shirtdresses with tiny waists, and lounging overalls, 15 January 1981.

R. Buckminster Fuller, 88, industrial designer and futurist who held more than two thousand patents for inventions meant to be solutions to social problems, 1 July 1983.

Rudi Gernreich, 63, Austrian-born fashion designer known as one of the most original American designers of the 1950s and 1960s, whose daring clothes — such as the topless bathing...