The 1960s: Lifestyles and Social Trends: Deaths

THE 1960s: LIFESTYLES AND SOCIAL TRENDS: DEATHS

S. Ruth Barrett, 62, educator of the blind, director of the American Bible Society's recording department, 9 March 1961.

Bernard Baruch, 94, unpaid adviser to seven U.S. presidents, financier, and philanthropist, 20 June 1965.

Brace Beemer, 62, former radio actor who portrayed the Lone Ranger from 1941 to 1954, 1 March 1965.

Lenny Bruce (Leonard Alfred Schneider), 40, influential and controversial comedian, 3 August 1966.

Rachel Carson, 56, conservationist and author of Silent Spring, 14 April 1964.

Marshall Cassidy, 76, horse-racing official, inventor of stall starting gate, former director of the New York Racing Association, 23 October 1968.

Valentine Davies, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1960 and of the Screenwriter's Guild since 1949, 23 July 1961.

Walt Disney, 65, cartoonist, studio mogul, and designer of the Disneyland theme park, 15 December 1966.

W. E. B. DuBois (William Edward Burghardt), 95, educator and civil rights pioneer, 27 August 1963.

Ethel DuPont, 49, heiress of the multimillion-dollar E. T. du Pont de Nemours and Company fortune, former wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., 25 May 1965.

Charles Edison, 78, industrialist, son of inventor Thomas Edison, Secretary of the Navy (1939-1940), governor of New Jersey (1941-1944), 31 July 1969.

Earl Dewey Eisenhower, 70, younger brother of the former president, electrical engineer, 18 December 1968.

Julius Fleishmann, 68, art patron and philanthropist, heir to Fleishmann Company, director of the Metropolitan Opera, 22 October 1968.

Lawrence Kelso Frank, 77, behavioral scientist, child-development authority, longtime author of the "Parent and Child" column in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, 23 September 1968.

Wilfred John Funk, 83, publisher, lexicographer, president of Funk and Wagnalls (1925-1940), 1 June 1965.

Dr. Carl Gottfried Hartman, 88, zoologist whose research in embryology and gynecology contributed to birth-control advances, 1 March 1968.

Spike (Lindsay Armstrong) Jones, 53, bandleader of the City Slickers musical group, 1 May 1965.

Natalie M. Kalmus, 87, codeveloper of Technicolor for motion pictures, 15 November 1965.

Helen Keller, 87, blind and deaf writer and humanitarian, 1 june 1968.

Joseph P. Kennedy, 81, financier and ambassador, father of John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy, 18 November 1969.

Jack Kerouac, 47, novelist, chronicler of the Beat Generation, 21 October 1969.

Anita King, 74, silent-film actress, the first woman to make a solo auto trip from New York to California (1916), 10 June 1963.

Lenox Riley Lohr, 76, president of Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, former president of NBC (1936-1940), manager of the 1933-1943 Chicago World's Fair, 28 May 1968.

Daniel Longwell, 69, Life magazine executive, president of the American Federation of the Arts (1954-1956), 20 November 1968.

Marilyn Monroe, 36, actress and sex symbol, 6 August 1962.

Henrietta Nesbitt, 89, White House executive house-keeper (1932-1946), author of White House Diary (1948) and The Presidential Cookbook: Feeding the Roosevelts and Their Guests (1951), 16 June 1963.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, 62, nuclear physicist who directed development and testing of the first atomic bomb, 18 February 1967.

Eleanor Roosevelt, 78, former first lady, diplomat, 7 November 1962.

Helena Rubinstein, 94, Polish-born American beauty expert and cosmetics manufacturer, 1 April 1965.

Upton Sinclair, 90, writer and activist whose The Jungle (1906) led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, 25 November 1968.

Joan Merriam Smith, 28, woman pilot who made a 1963 around-the-world solo flight, 17 February 1965.

Doris Stevens, 70, pioneer of women's movement, organizer of the first National Convention of Women Voters in 1915, 22 March 1963.

Robert Stroud, 73, "Birdman of Alcatraz," authority on birds and bird diseases who was serving a life sentence for murder, 21 November 1963.

Princess Farid-es-Sutanah (Doris Mercer), 74, divorced wife of Iranian prince Farid-es-Sutaneh and former wife of Sebastian S. Kresge, founder of the Kresge department-store chain, 12 August 1963.

Norman Thomas, 84, American Socialist, promoter of social justice and the welfare state, 19 December 1968.

Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, 60, Swiss-born widow of railroad heir Reginald Vanderbilt and mother of Gloria Vanderbilt, whose custody she lost in a highly publicized court case (1934), 13 February 1965.

Cornelius Westbrook Van Voorhis, 64, radio and film announcer best known for the phrase "Time marches on!" in the March of Time radio and movie series of the 1930s and 1940s, 13 July 1968.

Countess Elizabeth von Furstenburg, 62, U.S.-born wife of Count Franz Egon von Furstenburg and mother of actress Betsy von Furstenburg, 28 December 1961.

Aubrey Willis Williams, 74, publisher, lay preacher, and social worker who headed the National Youth Administration (1938-1943), 3 March 1965.