American Decades
Deaths
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.
Béla Bartók, 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.
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1940's The Arts
