Jane Addams, 75, founder of Hull House and active in antiwar groups, the second American to win the Nobel Peace Prize, 22 May 1935.

Felix Adler, 82, founder of the Ethical Culture Society in 1876, 24 April 1933.

Guy Warren Ballard, 51, cofounder with his wife of the I Am Religious Activity, 29 December 1939.

Annie Besant, 85, a convert to theosophy who attracted many followers in the United States, from 1907 head of the World Theosophical Association, 20 September 1933.

William Montgomery Brown, 82, Episcopal bishop of Arkansas until his retirement in 1922, deposed by his church in 1925 because of his communist views, 31 October 1937.

Samuel Parks Cadman, 72, leading Protestant liberal who conducted a series of radio broadcasts over the National Broadcasting Corporation beginning in 1928, elected moderator of the national Council of the Congregational and Christian...