What a career. Other credits include “The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming”, “A Soldier’s Story”, and…
Mary Weiss, lead singer of the Shangri-Las.
Okay, in a restricted technical sense, Beatrix Potter died on December 22, 1943. This is from the paper of record’s “Overlooked No More” series. While the paper of record ran followup articles after her death, for some reason (and even the NYT staff can’t figure out that reason) they never actually ran an obit for her until now.