Robert Ingersoll Aitken, 70, sculptor specializing in public monuments, 3 January 1949.

Ivy Anderson, 45, blues singer, 28 December 1949.

Sherwood Anderson, 64, short-story writer, author of Winesburg, Ohio, 8 March 1941.

George Arliss, 77, British actor and playwright, 5 February 1946.

Gertrude Franklin Atherton, 90, novelist (The Conqueror, 1902), 14 June 1948.

Philip Barry, 53, playwright (The Philadelphia Story), 3 December 1949.

John Barrymore, 60, Shakespearean actor, 29 May 1942.

Bela Bartok, 64, Hungarian composer and pianist, 26 September 1945.

Amy Marcy Cheney Beach, 77, pianist and composer, 27 December 1944.

Noah Beery, 62, character actor, 1 April 1946.

Wallace Beery, 63, Academy Award—winning actor (The Champ, 1931), 15 April 1949.

Stephen Vincent Benet, 44, author, acclaimed for John Brown's Body (1928) and The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937), winner of Pulitzer Prize for verse, 13 March 1943.

Richard Bennett, 72, actor of Eugene O'Neill plays and film actor (The Magnificent Ambersons), 22 October 1944.

Jules Bledsoe, 44, singer ("OF Man River" in Showboat on stage and screen), 14 July 1943.

Carl Oscar Borg, 68, painter, 8 May 1947.

Gutzon Borglum, 70, sculptor of Mount Rushmore, 6 March 1941.

Tom Breneman, 45, vaudevillian and former partner of Jack...