Frank Frost Abbott, 64, Princeton University history professor and author of Roman Political Institutions (1901), 27 July 1924.

Henry A. Beers, 79, Yale English professor best known for his History of English Romanticism (1899), 7 September 1926.

T. G. Bergen, 81, president of the Brooklyn Board of Education, 13 March 1929.

Maximillan D. Berlitz, 67, teacher and founder of the Berlitz Schools of Languages, 6 April 1921.

Albert J. Beveridge, 64, former United States senator and historian whose best work was the two-volume, Pulitzer Prize-winning Life of John Marshall (1916, 1919), 27 April 1927.

Melville Madison Bigelow, 74, lawyer and professor at the University of Michigan and Harvard University; he wrote influential law textbooks and histories, including History of Procedure in England from the Norman Conquest (1896), 4 May 1921.