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Died. Jules Guerin, 79, whose outsize handiwork decorates many a U.S. public wall (the map murals in Manhattan's Penn Station, the allegorical murals on the north & south walls of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington); after brief illness; in Neptune, N.J.
Died. Gerhart Hauptmann, 83, world-famed, Nobel Prizewinning German poet-dramatist; in Agnetendorf, in now-Polish Silesia. A lone light in Germany's end-of-the-century literary darkness, he passed from his era's realism and social protest (The Weavers) to a new era's symbolistic fantasy (The Sunken Bell); in his old age was seized upon as a symbol of German culture by both the Nazis and their Soviet conquerors.