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From: American Decades
Date: 20010101
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THE 1940s: THE ARTS: 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.
B é la Bart ó k, 64, Hungarian composer and ...
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