 | Randall Robinson, Anti-Apartheid Catalyst, Is Dead at 81 |
He also supported reparations for descendants of enslaved Americans and sanctuary for Haitian refugees. But he lived for two decades in self-imposed exile. | |
| George Nassar, 86, Killer Who Heard Confession in Strangler Case, Is Dead |
A fellow inmate, Albert DeSalvo, told him that he was the Boston Strangler who had killed 13 women in the early 1960s. Mr. Nassar?s death, in 2018, had gone unreported. | |
| Emily Fisher Landau, Patron of Contemporary Art, Dies at 102 |
A jewelry heist in her Manhattan home spurred her to start one of America?s premier collections, shown in a private Queens museum and much of it donated to the Whitney. | |
| Dubravka Ugresic, Who Wrote of Dislocation and Exile, Dies at 73 |
She was acclaimed in Yugoslavia. But when that country fell apart, she refused to embrace the nationalism of the newly formed Croatia and was vilified as a result. | |
| Bill Zehme, Author With a Knack for Humanizing the Famous, Dies at 64 |
A prolific biographer, he charmed his way into access to, and insights about, Frank Sinatra, Hugh Hefner, Johnny Carson and many others. | |
| Ann Wilson, Last Survivor of an Influential Art Scene, Dies at 91 |
Working from a gritty loft in Lower Manhattan in the late 1950s, she made abstract paintings on quilts that brought a fine-art sensibility to a folk art. | |
| Gladys Kessler, Judge Who Curbed Deceptive Tobacco Ads, Dies at 85 |
In a landmark case, she ruled in 2006 that cigarette companies had been deceiving the public about the health hazards of smoking, violating racketeering laws. | |
| Bobbi Ercoline, Whose Hug Became a Symbol of Woodstock, Dies at 73 |
Embracing her boyfriend, a blanket around them, she appeared on the cover of the ubiquitous soundtrack album of ?Woodstock,? the 1970 documentary film about the music festival. | |
| Scott Johnson, Playfully Inventive Composer, Is Dead at 70 |
In works like ?John Somebody,? he mixed the structural rigor of classical composition with the ebullient sound and attitude of rock. | |
| Gordon E. Moore, Intel Co-Founder Behind Moore?s Law, Dies at 94 |
His prediction in the 1960s about rapid advances in computer chip technology charted a course for the age of high tech. | |
| John Woods, Masterly Translator of Thomas Mann, Dies at 80 |
Among the other German writers whose work he rendered into English was Arno Schmidt, whose Joycean wordplay presented a daunting challenge. | |
| Greg Wittine, Once a Hero for Disabled Boy Scouts, Dies at 67 |
As a young man with cerebral palsy, he gained notice for his quest to be an Eagle Scout, which changed Scouting. But his name was lost to popular memory. | |
| Jacqueline Gold, 62, Dies; Executive Tapped Into the Female Libido |
She made Britain?s Ann Summers shops a thriving source of lingerie and sex toys and became a role model for female entrepreneurs. | |
| Howard Brandston, Who Made His Mark With Light, Dies at 87 |
His lighting design company applied his art globally to landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty, as well as architecture, exhibitions and even penguins in a zoo. | |
| Marisol Malaret, First Puerto Rican Miss Universe, Dies at 73 |
Edging out Miss USA, Ms. Malaret ? who was also the first winner from the Caribbean ? brokered her fame to become a television host and magazine editor back home. | |
| Fuzzy Haskins, Who Helped Turn Doo-Wop Into P-Funk, Dies at 81 |
As a teenager, he joined forces with George Clinton. Their vocal group, the Parliaments, morphed into Parliament-Funkadelic, one of the wildest acts of the 1970s. | |
| Raphael Mechoulam, ?Father of Cannabis Research,? Dies at 92 |
His work helped break down the chemical structures of THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana, to figure out how cannabis makes users high. | |
| William A. Wulf, Pioneering Computer Scientist, Dies at 83 |
One of the first people to receive a graduate degree in the field, Dr. Wulf helped to adapt an early Pentagon communications web into the network that eventually grew into the internet. | |
| John Jenrette Jr., Congressman Nabbed in Abscam Sting, Dies at 86 |
Once a rising star of the Democratic Party, he served 13 months in prison for bribery after being targeted in an F.B.I. scam involving a phony sheikh. | |
| Warren Boroson, Who Surveyed Psychiatrists on Goldwater, Dies at 88 |
The defeated Republican presidential candidate sued Mr. Boroson and the magazine he worked for, saying it had libeled him for suggesting that he was mentally unfit for the presidency. | |
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