The 1970s: Lifestyles and Social Trends: Deaths

THE 1970s: LIFESTYLES AND SOCIAL TRENDS: DEATHS

Saul Alinsky, 63, social organizer, 12 June 1972.

Charles Atlas, 79, bodybuilder, 24 December 1972.

Dr. Eric Berne, 60, psychiatrist and author of Games People Play (1964), 15 July 1970.

Margaret Bourke-White, 67, photojournalist with Life magazine, 27 August 1971.

Al Capp, 70, cartoonist, creator of "Lil' Abner," 5 November 1979.

Roberto Clemente, 38, baseball player and philanthropist, 31 December 1972.

Marie Dionne, 35, one of the Dionne quintuplets, 28 May 1970.

Virginia O'Hanlon Douglas, 80, famous for having written the letter to the New York Sun that brought the famous editorial reply, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus," 13 May 1971.

Mamie Doud Eisenhower, 82, wife of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 14 November 1979.

Duke Ellington, 75, composer and bandleader, 24 May 1974.

Walker Evans, 71, photographer whose most famous work was Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), a collaboration with James Agee, 10 April 1975.

Arthur Fiedler, 84, conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra, 10 July 1979.

Erle Stanley Gardner, 80, lawyer and author of the Perry Mason mystery series, 11 March 1970.

Euell Gibbons, 64, naturalist, 29 December 1975.

Dr. Haim Ginott, 51, child pyschologist who wrote the best-seller Between Parent and Child, 4 November 1973.

Samuel Goldwyn, 91, movie producer and phenomenologist, 31 January 1974.

Paul Goodman, 60, social critic and author of Growing Up Absurd (1960), 2 August 1972.

Dr. Alan F. Guttmaker, 75, pioneer in the birth-control movement, 18 March 1974.

Betty Grable, 56, film star and pin-up girl, 2 July 1973.

Harry F. Guggenheim, 80, publisher, philanthropist, and horseman, 22 January 1971.

Jimi Hendrix, 27, rock muscician, 18 September 1970.

Dr. Edith B.Jackson, 82, originator of rooming-in care for newborn infants and their mothers and a leader in child-care and preventive psychiatry, 5 June 1977.

Jim Jones, 47, leader of the Peoples Temple cult that committed mass suicide in Guyana, 18 November 1978.

Janis Joplin, 27, rock musician, 4 October 1970.

Arthur Kallet, 69, publisher of Consumer Reports, 24 February 1972.

Emmett Kelly, 80, circus clown, 28 March 1979.

Walt Kelly, 59, cartoonist, creator of "Pogo," 18 October 1973.

Joseph Wood Krutch, 76, naturalist and conservationist, 22 May 1970.

Bruce Lee, 33, actor and martial artist, 20 July 1973.

Charles Lindbergh, 72, aviator, 26 August 1974.

Charles Lochridge, 65, bridge champion, 11 November 1970.

Alma Lutz, 83, lifelong activist for women's rights, including suffrage and the Equal Rights Amendment, 31 August 1973.

Groucho Marx, 86, actor and comedian, 17 July 1977.

Margaret Mead, 76, anthropologist, author of Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), 15 November 1978.

Emma Guffey Miller, 95, activist in the movement for suffrage for women and in the struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment from the 1930s through the 1960s, 24 February 1970.

Martha Mitchell, 56, wife of U.S. attorney general John Mitchell, 31 May 1976.

Jim Morrison, 27, rock musician, 3 July 1971.

Elijah Muhammad, 72, leader of the Nation of Islam, 25 February 1975.

John Mulholland, 71, magician, 25 February 1970.

Gardner Murphy, 83, psychologist, pioneer scientist in the field of parapsychology, and director of research at the Menninger Foundation (1952-1968), 19 March 1979;

Ozzie Nelson, 68, television actor, star of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, 3 June 1975.

Louella Parsons, 91, movie columnist, 9 December 1972.

Alice Paul, 93, activist for woman suffrage and for the Equal Rights Amendment, 9 July 1977.

Dr. Marion Hill Preminger, 58, film actress who became a disciple of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, served in the Congo (1950-1965), and lectured to raise funds for hospitals and other philanthropies, 15 April 1972.

Elvis Presley, 42, singer, 16 August 1977.

Eddie Rickenbacker, 82, race-car driver, World War I flying ace, and airline executive, 23 July 1973.

Jackie Robinson, 53, first black baseball player in the Major Leagues, 24 October 1972.

Norman Rockwell, 84, artist and illustrator known for his covers drawn for the Saturday Evening Post, 9 November 1978.

Rose Schneiderman, 90, activist for woman suffrage and in the Women's Trade Union League, 12 August 1972.

John Thomas Scopes, 70, defendent in the 1925 Scopes "monkey trial," 21 October 1971.

Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard, 46, osteopath who was freed in the second trial for his wife's murder; the case was the inspiration for the television show The Fugitive, 6 April 1970.

G. L. K. Smith, 78, rabble-rouser, 15 April 1976.

Ed Sullivan, 73, television impresario and newspaper columnist, 13 October 1974.

Jacqueline Sussann, 53, author of Valley of the Dolls, 21 September 1974.

Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, 75, financier and yachtsman, 4 July 1970.

Alan Watts, 58, booster of Zen Buddhism, 16 November 1973.

John Wayne, 72, actor, 11 June 1979.

Walter Winchell, 74, newspaper columnist, 20 February 1972.

Chic Young, 72, cartoonist, creator of "Blondie," 14 March 1973.

M. Whitney Young, Jr., 49, civil rights activist, 11 March 1971.