 | Dave ?Baby? Cortez, Hitmaker Who Seemed to Vanish, Is Dead at 83 |
His ?The Happy Organ? reached No. 1 in 1959, but his pop stardom was short-lived, and his death in 2022, with an anonymous burial, remains a source of mystery. | |
| John Martin, Black Sparrow Press Founder and Champion of Literary Rebels, Dies at 94 |
Black Sparrow Press, a shoestring operation he ran out of his home, became one of the highest-profile small publishers in the U.S., championing writers like Charles Bukowski. | |
| Thornton Willis, Who Brought Emotion to Geometric Painting, Dies at 89 |
He spent a lifetime patiently excavating the problems and possibilities of the painted surface ? in terms of color, texture, process and space. | |
| Jane Lazarre, Author of ?The Mother Knot,? Dies at 81 |
With books like ?The Mother Knot? and ?Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness,? she challenged liberal orthodoxies about feminism and the Black experience in America. | |
| James B. Maas, Guru of Slumber, Is Dead at 86 |
An author and a professor, he taught a popular and entertaining psychology course at Cornell that focused on the importance of sleep, including ?power naps.? | |
| Henry Mount Charles, Whose Castle Was a Mecca for Rock, Dies at 74 |
To preserve his Irish manor, he staged concerts on its grounds, drawing the likes of U2, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Madonna, 50 Cent and the Rolling Stones as well as tens of thousands of fans. | |
| Paul Bugas, Director of a Nuclear Bunker For Members of Congress, Is Dead at 96 |
The Cold War-era shelter, hidden below the Greenbrier Resort in West Virginia, was designed to house members of Congress in the event of a nuclear attack. | |
| Richard Greenberg, Playwright Whose ?Take Me Out? Won a Tony, Dies at 67 |
More than 30 of his plays were produced on Broadway and off. Many of them dealt with the manners and mores of New York?s upper middle class. | |
| Ivar Giaever, Nobel Winner in Quantum Physics, Dies at 96 |
A former ?D? student from Norway, he made his mark at G.E.?s Research Lab in the U.S., in part by confirming a pivotal theory about superconductivity. | |
| James Carter Cathcart, Voice Behind Memorable ?Pokémon? Characters, Dies at 71 |
Mr. Cathcart was known for playing the characters Professor Oak and Meowth in the long-running franchise. He also made appearances in other popular animated series such as ?Yu-Gi-Oh!? and ?One Piece.? | |
| Norman Tebbit, Conservative Force in Britain and Thatcher Ally, Dies at 94 |
He was a potential prime minister until he left high office to care for his wife, who was seriously hurt in a bombing by the Irish Republican Army. | |
| Franklin W. Stahl, 95, Dies; Helped Create a ?Beautiful? DNA Experiment |
He and a colleague proved a theory advanced by the Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick, who discovered DNA?s helical structure. | |
| Carla Maxwell, Keeper of the José Limón Flame, Dies at 79 |
Her stewardship of the troupe that bears his name became a model for other dance companies, like Martha Graham?s, after their founders died. | |
| Jim Parkinson, Logo Artist in Print?s Glory Days, Dies at 83 |
His work blended classic design with a loose ?60s-style energy, giving publications like Rolling Stone an identity that radiated with gravitas and personality. | |
| Julian McMahon, ?Nip/Tuck? and ?Fantastic Four? Star, Dies at 56 |
He played a half-human, half-demon in the WB supernatural series ?Charmed? and a playboy plastic surgeon in the FX series ?Nip/Tuck.? | |
| Stuart Burrows, Welsh Lyric Tenor Who Straddled the Atlantic, Dies at 92 |
He was a mainstay at both the Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House, winning acclaim for his full tenor range and a rich, unforced tone, notably singing Mozart. | |
| Joseph Giordano, Surgeon Who Helped Save Reagan?s Life, Dies at 84 |
He had built one of the country?s leading trauma centers in Washington, which made it possible for his team to respond quickly after the president was shot. | |
| Paul Libin, an Enduring Force on and Off Broadway, Dies at 94 |
He staged a noted revival of ?The Crucible? in a Manhattan hotel ballroom in 1958, ran Circle in the Square and oversaw the operations of Jujamcyn Theaters. | |
| Sandra Neels, Eminent in Modern Dance for 60 Years, Dies at 85 |
She was a leading dancer for Merce Cunningham, a prolific choreographer and an admired teacher. | |
| Anna Ornstein, Psychoanalyst Who Survived the Holocaust, Dies at 98 |
Despite the unspeakable horror of her youth, she embraced a school of psychotherapy that stresses empathy and the belief that everyone can change for the better. | |
| S. Daniel Abraham, Who Reaped Riches With Slim-Fast, Dies at 100 |
He turned a small family business into a billion-dollar weight-loss empire by replacing calorie counting and forbidden foods with ?just add milk.? | |
| Ronald Ribman, 92, Dies; His Plays Mined the Absurdity of Existence |
He set his frequently neurotic characters in bleak, morally ambiguous situations where laughter, as he put it, ?is a measure of the sickness of society.? | |
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