NEW YORK — Ray Santos, who played saxophone with the biggest stars in Latin jazz and went on to write arrangements renowned for their economy and clarity, died on Oct. 17 at a hospital near his home in the Bronx. He was 90.
Max Azria, a fashion designer whose BCBG Max Azria line became a global powerhouse by offering chic apparel for considerably less than many of his competitors, died Monday in Houston.
Nipsey Hussle’s raps boasted of his exploits as a young man in South Central Los Angeles and the perils of becoming a gang member. But his music was also a path to a more legitimate life for him and an inspiration and exhortation to others in his situation.
Lyle Tuttle, a tattoo artist who found his own kind of international fame by catering to celebrities while helping to move tattooing, as he put it, from the “back alley” into mainstream acceptability, died on March 26 at his home in Ukiah, California, where he had grown up. He was 87 (and practically covered in tattoos himself).
Edda Goering was practically a princess of the Third Reich. As the only daughter of Hermann Goering, the leader of the Luftwaffe and Adolf Hitler’s right-hand man and potential successor, Goering was a national celebrity from the day she was born.
Jacques Loussier, a French pianist who led a trio that performed jazzy interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach, selling millions of albums and touring the world, died March 5 at a hospital in Blois, in France’s Loire Valley. He was 84.
Jan-Michael Vincent, who became nationally recognizable on the 1980s television series “Airwolf,” but whose career later foundered, in part because of problems with drugs and alcohol, died Feb. 10 at a hospital near his home in Asheville, North Carolina. He was 73.
Mark Hollis, the frontman for the British band Talk Talk, which had synth-pop hits in the early 1980s before veering into a more experimental sound that influenced a generation of musicians, has died.
Dick Churchill, the last living participant in a daring breakout from a German prisoner-of-war camp that inspired the 1963 movie “The Great Escape,” died Feb. 12 at his home near Crediton, Devon, England. He was 99.
Mark Bramble, a Broadway jack-of-all-trades who wrote or co-wrote the books for the hit 1980s musicals “Barnum” and “42nd Street,” both of which earned him Tony nominations, died on Feb. 20 at a hospital in Baltimore. He was 68.
W.E.B. Griffin, who depicted the swashbuckling lives of soldiers, spies and cops in almost 60 novels, dozens of which became best-sellers, died Feb. 12 at his home in Daphne, Alabama. He was 89.
Bibi Ferreira, an indefatigable grande dame of the Brazilian stage who performed internationally and helped bring Broadway musicals to Brazil in the 1960s, died on Feb. 13 at her home in Rio de Janeiro. She was 96.
Pedro Morales, a Hall of Fame professional wrestler who in the 1970s and ‘80s became the first to win all three of what were then wrestling’s premier championships, died Monday in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. He was 76.
Manfred Eigen, who shared the 1967 Nobel Prize in chemistry for devising a method to time chemical reactions that had been thought too swift to measure, died Feb. 6 in at his home in Göttingen, Germany. He was 91.
Nehanda Abiodun, a radical black nationalist who was charged in the deadly botched robbery of a Brink’s armored truck in 1981 and then spent decades as a fugitive in Cuba, a hero to would-be revolutionaries and a criminal to many others, died Jan. 30 at her home in Havana. She was 68.
Jan Wahl, a children’s author known for his nimble prose whose work over many decades was illustrated by eminent artists like Maurice Sendak, Norman Rockwell and Edward Gorey, died Jan. 29 at a hospice facility near his home in Toledo, Ohio. He was 87.
Kristoff St. John, who won two Daytime Emmy Awards during his long tenure on the CBS soap opera “The Young and the Restless,” was found dead early Sunday morning at his home in Los Angeles. He was 52.
Margo Rodriguez, half the husband-and-wife team Augie and Margo, who danced the mambo on television and before presidents and helped it evolve from a nightclub craze into popular entertainment, died Tuesday in West Palm Beach, Florida. She was 89.
Edwin Birdsong, a keyboard player and producer whose blend of funk, jazz and disco music from the 1970s and ′80s developed a cult following and was sampled by a later generation of artists, died Jan. 21 in Inglewood, California. He was 77.
Thomas L. Phillips, who transformed Raytheon from mainly a weapons company into a diversified manufacturer of aircraft, industrial equipment and appliances as its longtime chief executive, died on Jan. 9 at his home in Weston, Massachusetts.
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