Deaths

Gracie Allen, 58, comedian, wife and partner of George Burns, 27 August 1964.

Laverne Andrews, 51, oldest of the singing trio the Andrews Sisters, 8 May 1967.

Fay Bainter, 74, stage and film actress, 16 April 1968.

Tallulah Bankhead, 65, stage and screen star, 12 December 1968.

Diana Barrymore, 38, stage and film actress, 25 January 1960.

Vicki Baum, 64, novelist (GrandHotel), playwright, and screenwriter, 29 August 1960.

William Baziotes, 52, abstract painter, 5 June 1963.

Sylvia Beach, 75, supporter of American writers in Paris and first publisher of James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses,6 October 1962.

William Bendix, 58, film actor (The Hairy Ape, The Babe Ruth Story), 14 December 1964.

R. P. Blackmur, 61, literary critic, 2 February 1965.

Marc Blitzstein, 58, composer and...

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