Monday, Jul. 11, 1955
Died. Harry Agganis, 25, Boston Red Sox first baseman and former Boston University football and baseball star; of a massive pulmonary embolism; in Cambridge, Mass.
Died. Isabel Bonner, 47, stage, television and radio actress (Uncle Harry, Omnibus, The Right to Happiness), wife of Playwright Joseph Kramm (The Shrike), 1952 Pulitzer Prizewinner; of cerebral hemorrhage; on the stage of Hollywood's Carthay Circle Theater during the first act of a performance of The Shrike, in which she was playing the title role.
Died. Alexandrovich Gamburtsev, 52, leading Russian seismologist, director of the Geophysical Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences; in Moscow.
Died. Rudolf Appelt, 54, East German Ambassador to Moscow, onetime vice president of the Foreign and International Trade Committee of the East German Economic Commission; in Berlin.
Died. Dr. Edgar Grim Miller Jr., 62, dean of graduate faculties of Columbia University and renowned research biochemist; of cancer; in Manhattan.
Died. Brigadier General Walter N. Hill, 73, wartime head of the Marine Corps Naval Examining Board, Medal of Honor winner in the Vera Cruz campaign in Mexico in 1914; in St. Albans Naval Hospital, New York City.
Died. Max Pechstein, 73, leading German expressionist painter, lecturer at the Berlin Academy of Plastic Arts; in Berlin. A leader of pre-World War I German impressionists, Pechstein built an international reputation in the 1920s, was denounced as "decadent" by the Nazis, saw most of his canvases destroyed during the war, returned to Berlin afterward to repaint many of his early works from memory (TIME, Jan. 21, 1952).
Died. Ernst Legal, 74, veteran German actor, theater manager and director, post-World War II manager of the State Opera in East Berlin; in Berlin. Invited by East Berlin's Communist regime to manage the State Opera, Legal rebuilt it into one of Europe's important cultural showcases, resigned in 1952 in protest against the firing of 250 opera employees living in West Berlin.
Died. Stanley H. Jevons, 79, noted British social scientist and expert on Indian economic affairs, British adviser to the Ethiopian embassy; in London.
Died. Jan van den Tempel, 88. Dutch statesman and novelist (Jacqueline Vrijlieff), first Dutch Socialist Cabinet Minister (Department of Social Affairs, 1939-45); in Amsterdam.
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