Henry Mills Alden, 82, personally all but unknown but influential editor of Harper's Monthly, 1869-1919, 7 October 1919.

James Gordon Bennett Jr., editor and publisher of the New York Herald and sports patron, 14 May 1918.

Ambrose Bierce, 72, caustic columnist for Hearst newspapers and popular writer of short stories; known as "Bitter Bierce"; he disappeared on 11 January 1914.

Randolph Bourne, 32, well-respected contributor to the New Republic and the Seven Arts, 23 December 1918.

Samuel Bowles IV, 63, editor and publisher for four decades of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, 16 March 1915.

Henry Richardson Chamberlain, 52, London correspondent for the New York Sun from 1892 to 1911 who predicted that a Balkan conflict would ensnare Europe in a general war, 15 February 1911.

Samuel S. Chamberlain,...