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Mac Conner, Illustrator for Ads and Magazines, Dies at 105
Mac Conner, a prodigious illustrator whose realistic, colorful and often dramatic paintings for major magazines and advertisers helped lend a distinctive look to postwar popular culture, died on Sept. 26 at his home in Manhattan. He was 105.
Yao Li, 'Silver Voice' of Shanghai, Dies at 96
Yao Li, a celebrated singer in Shanghai in the midst of war in the 1930s and ’40s, whose music remained popular after she moved to Hong Kong when China turned communist, died July 19. She was 96.Edith Irby Jones, Pioneering Black Doctor in the South, Dies at 91
Edith Mae Irby was about 7 years old in the early 1930s when her older siblings contracted typhoid fever in their little house in Conway, Arkansas. Her brother Robert recovered, but her sister, Juanita, died.
Edith Irby Jones, Pioneering Black Doctor in the South, Dies at 91
Edith Mae Irby was about 7 years old in the early 1930s when her older siblings contracted typhoid fever in their little house in Conway, Arkansas. Her brother Robert recovered, but her sister, Juanita, died.Ida Wyman, Whose Camera Captured Ordinary People, Dies at 93
Ida Wyman, a photographer who in the 1940s and ’50s roamed New York and other cities to capture compelling images of everyday people working, playing, idling, dancing or selling newspapers, died July 13 in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, near Madison. She was 93.Michel Roux, Whose Vodka Success Was Absolut, Is Dead at 78
Michel Roux, a French-born liquor executive who used a distinctive and witty advertising campaign to turn Absolut, a little-known Swedish brand, into the top imported vodka in the United States, died on April 30 at his home in Palm Coast, Florida. He was 78.Chris Albertson, Biographer of Bessie Smith, Is Dead at 87
Chris Albertson, who as a teenager in Denmark became captivated by blues singer Bessie Smith and decades later produced a widely praised multivolume reissue of her recordings and wrote an equally acclaimed biography, was found dead April 24 at his home in New York. He was 87.
Chris Albertson, Biographer of Bessie Smith, Is Dead at 87
Chris Albertson, who as a teenager in Denmark became captivated by blues singer Bessie Smith and decades later produced a widely praised multivolume reissue of her recordings and wrote an equally acclaimed biography, was found dead April 24 at his home in New York. He was 87.Martin Kilson, Scholar and Racial Pathbreaker at Harvard, Dies at 88
Martin Kilson, a leftist scholar, fierce debater and follower of W.E.B. Du Bois who became the first tenured African American professor at Harvard, died April 24 in hospice care in Lincoln, Massachusetts. He was 88.John Singleton, 'Boyz N the Hood' Director, Dies at 51
John Singleton, whose powerful debut film, “Boyz N the Hood,” earned him an Oscar nomination for best director, the first for an African-American, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 51.
John Singleton Is Dead; 'Boyz N the Hood' Director Was 51
John Singleton, whose powerful debut film, “Boyz N the Hood,” earned him an Oscar nomination for best director, the first for an African-American, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 51.Steve Golin Is Dead at 64; Producer Built a Small Hollywood Empire
Steve Golin, an independent producer whose career began with low-budget movies like “Hard Rock Zombies” in the 1980s and reached its peak when he and three colleagues won the best-picture Oscar in 2016 for “Spotlight,” died Sunday at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 64.Gary Stewart, Master of the Reissue Compilation, Dies at 62
Gary Stewart, a scholarly music fan whose enthusiasm and attention to detail helped make Rhino Records the much-emulated gold standard for reissue compilations of the great, the faded and the forgotten, died April 11 in Santa Monica, California. He was 62.Stanley Plumly, Lyrical Poet Influenced by Keats, Dies at 79
Stanley Plumly, an award-winning former poet laureate of Maryland whose poignant narratives were inspired by the beauty and transcendence of John Keats’ lyrical verse , died Thursday at his home in Frederick, Maryland. He was 79.Ed Westcott, a Singular Eye at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, Dies at 97
Ed Westcott, a photographer who documented life in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the secret city where uranium was enriched as part of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb during World War II, died March 29 at his daughter’s home in Oak Ridge, where he also still lived. He was 97.
Gerry Stickells, Who Helped Make Rock Shows Big, Dies at 76
Gerry Stickells was a car mechanic in southeast England who drove local rock groups to their engagements in his van when, in 1966, he met Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix’s manager. Chandler made him an offer: If he could get Hendrix’s gear out of customs at Heathrow Airport, he could join him on the road in Europe.David White, Hitmaker With Danny and the Juniors, Dies at 79
David White, who formed the doo-wop quartet Danny and the Juniors in the mid-1950s, co-wrote their No. 1 hit, “At the Hop,” and composed their successful follow-up, “Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay,” died March 16 in Las Vegas. He was 79.Mary Warnock, Who Offered Guidance on Embryo Use, Dies at 94
Mary Warnock, an Oxford-educated philosopher who helped provide an ethical pathway for Britain to govern its fledgling infertility treatment and research industry after the first test-tube baby was born, died March 20 at her home in Wiltshire, about 75 miles west of London. She was 94.Victoria Ruvolo, Who Forgave Her Attacker, Is Dead at 59
Victoria Ruvolo, whose face was shattered when a teenager tossed a 20-pound frozen turkey through the windshield of her car in 2004 but who then insisted on mercy in his sentencing, died Monday at her home in Ronkonkoma, New York, on Long Island. She was 59.
Scott Walker, Pop Singer Who Turned Experimental, Dies at 76
Scott Walker, who with his American pop group, the Walker Brothers, became a teenage idol in Britain in the 1960s, but who later immersed himself in experimental music that influenced artists like David Bowie and Radiohead, died Friday in London. He was 76.
