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 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 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 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 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.
Robert DeProspero, who after the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981 became the Secret Service agent in charge of Reagan’s protection and added measures to shore up the president’s safety, died Monday in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 80.
Eusebio Pedroza, a Panamanian boxer with a sharp jab and a reputation for dirty tactics who successfully defended the World Boxing Association featherweight title 19 times over seven years, died Friday in Panama City. He was in his 60s, but his exact age was uncertain.
Patrick McCarthy, who spent his entire glamorous reporting and editing career at the Fairchild media company — known for the fashion industry bible Women’s Wear Daily and W magazine — and who succeeded his mentor, John Fairchild, as its chairman and editorial director, died Sunday in Manhattan. He was 67.
Ira Gitler, who was one of the most respected and prolific jazz writers of the postwar era and an early champion of bebop, died Saturday in Manhattan. He was 90.
Bisi Silva, an adventurous curator who, with her own money, founded a nonprofit art gallery and education center in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, that has nurtured the growth and recognition of contemporary African artists, died Feb. 12 in a hospital there. She was 56.
