The 1920s: The Arts: Deaths

THE 1920s: THE ARTS: DEATHS

Brooks Adams, 78, historian (The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma ), 13 February 1927.

James Lane Allen, 75, local-color novelist (A Kentucky Cardinal), 18 February 1925.

John Kendrick Bangs, magazine editor and humorist (A Houseboat on the Styx ), 21 January 1922.

Nora Bayes, 47, singer ("Shine on Harvest Moon"), 19 March 1928.

Henry A. Beers, 79, literary critic, 7 September 1926.

George Bellows, 42, painter, 8 January 1925.

William Crary Brownell, 76, literary critic and editor, 22 July 1928.

Frances Hodgson Burnett, 74, author (Little Lord Fauntleroy ), 29 October 1924.

John Burroughs, 83, naturalist writer, 29 March 1921.

Donn Byrne, 39, Irish American writer (Messer Marco Polo ), 19 June 1928.

George Washington Cable, 80, local-color writer (Old Creole Days ), 31 January 1925.

William Bliss Carman, 68, Canadian American poet (Songs from Vagabondia, with Richard Hovey), 8 June 1929.

Emma Carus, 48, singer, 18 November 1927.

Enrico Caruso, Italian tenor, 2 August 1921.

Mary Cassait, 81, painter, 14 June 1926.

George Randolph Chester, 54, author (Get Rich Quick Wallingford ), 26 February 1924.

George Cram Cook, 45, playwright and producer, January 1924.

Ina Coolbrith, 76, poet, 29 February 1928.

J. R. Coryell (Nick Carter and Bertha M. Clay), 76, pulp author, 15 July 1924.

Harry Crosby, 31, expatriate poet and publisher (Black Sun Press), 10 December 1929.

James Oliver Curwood, 49, adventure novelist, 13 August 1927.

Reginald de Koven, 60, composer (Robin Hood ), 16 January 1920.

Frederick Van Renssalaer Dey (Nick Carter), 61, pulp writer, 26 April 1922.

John Drew, 73, member of illustrious acting family, 9 July 1927.

Isadora Duncan, 47, modern-dance pioneer, 14 September 1927.

Eleanora Duse, Italian actress, 21 April 1924.

Louise Imogen Guiney, 59, poet, 2 November 1920.

Silvio Hein, songwriter, 19 December 1928.

Victor Herbert, composer (Babes in Toyland ) and founder of ASCAP, 26 May 1924.

Raymond Hitchcock, 64, comedian and actor, 25 November 1929.

Marietta Holley ( Josiah Allen's Wife), 80, humorist, 1 March 1926.

Avery Hopwood, 46, playwright (Getting Gertie's Garter ), 1 July 1928.

Harry Houdini (born Eric Weiss), 52, magician, 31 October 1926.

Emerson Hough, 65, writer (The Covered Wagon ), 30 April 1923.

William Dean Howells, 83, novelist (The Rise of Silas Lapham ), 11 May 1920.

James Gibbons Huneker, 61, literary and music critic, 9 February 1921.

George Innes, painter, 27 July 1926.

Barbara La Marr, 29, movie actress, 30 January 1926.

Charles B. Lewis (M. Quad), 82, journalist and humorist, 21 August 1924.

Harriet M. Lothrop (Margaret Sidney), 80, writer (Five Little Peppers and How They Grew ), 2 August 1924.

Amy Lowell, 51, imagist poet, 12 May 1925.

June Mathis, 35, screenwriter, 25 July 1927.

Brander Matthews, 77, writer and professor, 31 March 1929.

George Barr McCutcheon, 62, romantic novelist (Graustark ), 23 October 1928.

Henry Miller, 66, actor, 9 April 1926.

Florence Mills, 32, singer, 1 November 1927.

Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock), 72, local-color author (In the Tennessee Mountains), 31 July 1922.

Peter Newell, 62, painter and illustrator, 15 January 1924

Frances Newman, 45, critic and novelist (The Hard-Boiled Virgin ), 22 October 1928.

Thomas Nelson Page, 69, local-color writer (In Oie Virginia ), 1 November 1922.

Vernon Louis Parrington, 57, literary historian (Main Currents in American Thought ), 16 June 1929.

Joseph Pennell, 65, painter, 23 April 1926.

Eleanor Porter, 51, writer (Pollyana ), 21 May 1920.

Maurice Prendergast, 61, painter, 1 February 1923.

John Quinn, 54, bibliophile and art collector, 28 July 1924.

John Reed, 32, radical journalist ((Ten Days That Shook the World ), 17 October 1920.

Wallace Reid, 30, movie actor, 18 January 1923.

Charles Rumsey, 42, sculptor, 21 September 1922.

Lillian Russell, 61, actress, 6 June 1922.

Edgar Saltus, 63, novelist, 31 July 1921.

John Singer Sargent, 69, painter, 15 April 1925.

Larry Semon, 39, movie comedian and cartoonist, 9 October 1928.

Harriet Spofford, 86, writer (New-England Legends ), 15 August 1921.

George Sterling, 56, poet, 18 November 1926.

Grant Stewart, 63, a founder of Actors' Equity, 18 August 1929.

Gene Stratten-Porter, 56, novelist (Freckles ), 6 December 1924.

Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune (Marion Harland), 81, romantic novelist, 3 June 1922.

Rudolph Valentino (born Rudolpho Alfonzo RafFaelo Pierre Filbert Guglielmi Di Valentina d'Antonguolla), 31, movie actor, 23 August 1926.

Elihu Vedder, 86, painter, 29 January 1923.

Kate Douglas Wiggin, 66, writer (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch ), 23 August 1923.

Bert Williams, 45, comedian, 4 March 1922.

Jesse Lynch Williams, 58, writer, 14 September 1929.

Elinor Wylie, 42, poet and novelist, 16 December 1928.