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.

Dave Garroway, 69, long-time host of the Today program on NBC, 21 July 1982.

Jackie Gleason, 71, television comedian best known for his 1950s sitcom The Honeymooners, 24 June 1987. Arthur Godfrey, 79, television and radio host, 16 March 1983.

Chester Gould, 84, cartoonist and originator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, 11 May 1985.

Robert A...