American Decades
Deaths
Desi Arnaz, 69, Cuban-born actor, musician and producer, created the television comedy I Love Lucy (1951-1956) with wife Lucille Ball, 2 December 1986.
William Bernbach, 71, founder of the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising firm, 2 October 1982.
Barry Bingham Sr., 82, publisher of the Louisville (Kentucky) Courier-Journal and Times, 15 August 1988.
James Burnham, 82, political essayist and founding editor of the National Review, 28 July 1987.
Cass Canfield, 88, publisher and author associated with Harper and Row for more than sixty years, 27 March 1986.
Milton A. Caniff, 81, cartoonist and creator of the Terry and the Pirates comic strip, 3 April 1988.
Gardner Cowles Jr., 82, head of the Cowles publishing and communications empire, 8 July 1985.
Broderick Crawford, 74, television actor, 26 April 1986.
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1980's Media
