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Cristobal Banenciaga, 77, Spanish designer whose revolutionary designs in the 1950s and 1960s created a new, more relaxed look in women's clothing, 24
March 1972. Marie-Louis Valentin Bousquet, 88, Paris editor of Harper's Bazaar for fifty years, 15 October 1975.
John Ely Burchard, 77, educator, architectural historian, and dean emeritus of the School of Humanities and Social Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 25 December 1975.
Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, 88, French designer of comfortable, fashionable women's clothes, 10 January 1971.
John Donnelly, 67, architectural sculptor who designed the facades of the New York Public Library and the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C., 27 April 1970.
Charles Eames, 71, American architect and designer of formfitting chairs, 21 August 1978.
Norman Hartnell, 78, dressmaker to Queen Elizabeth II, best known for the elaborate, pearl-embroidered wedding dress for the queen's 1947 marriage to the duke of Edinburgh, 8 June 1979.
Charles James, 72, English-born dress designer known for his single one-seam or no-seam dresses that were much copied in the United States...
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