Obituaries
D. Wayne Lukas, Horse Trainer Who Saddled Winners From Coast to Coast, Dies at 89
He earned purses of more than $300 million in a Hall of Fame career that revolutionized thoroughbred racing with a modern-day corporate approach.
Jane Stanton Hitchcock, 78, Dies; Crime Novelist Who Mocked High Society
A daughter of privilege, she mixed social satire with murder in a series of addictive mysteries.
Dave Parker, Power Hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Dies at 74
Parker, a towering outfielder who helped propel the Pirates to the World Series in 1979, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame last year.
Lalo Schifrin, 93, Dies; Composer of ‘Mission: Impossible’ and Much More
He was best known for one enduring TV theme, but he had a startlingly diverse career as a composer, arranger and conductor in a wide range of genres.
Gerry Philbin, Star Defensive End for the Jets, Dies at 83
A sack specialist, he led the American Football League in taking down quarterbacks in the 1968 regular season, which was capped by the Jets’ upset win in Super Bowl III.
Pat Williams, Last Montana Democrat to Serve in the House, Dies at 87
His liberal politics, inspired by the safety nets of the New Deal, were shaped in working-class mining country.
Diana Oh, Passionate Voice for Queer Liberation in Theater, Dies at 38
Mx. Oh’s politically provocative and often playful works, including the Off Broadway production “{my lingerie play},” asserted the right to be oneself while having fun.
Max Fink, Champion of Electroconvulsive Therapy, Dies at 102
As a psychiatry resident, he became convinced of the benefits of ECT. But he spent years battling detractors and a misleading pop-culture depiction of the procedure.
Rosalind Fox Solomon, Whose Photos Captured Emotional Nuance, Dies at 95
Critics compared her unnerving images to those of Diane Arbus, but praised her ability to infuse her subjects with warmth and humanity.
Mikayla Raines, Who Rescued Foxes and Other Animals, Is Dead at 30
She founded Save a Fox Rescue to care for foxes that had been abandoned or bred for their pelts on fur farms. She gained millions of social media followers along the way.
Jack Kleinsinger, Impresario Behind a Marathon Jazz Series, Dies at 88
A lawyer by day, he created Highlights in Jazz, bringing together artists both famous and unknown in more than 300 concerts over 50 years.
Overlooked No More: Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Whose Camera Sought a Truer Image of Black Men
He was a pioneering figure in Black British art whose rebellious, symbol-rich images explored race, queerness, desire and spirituality.
Jonathan Mayers, a Founder of the Bonnaroo Music Festival, Dies at 51
He helped bring crowds of music fans to a remote Tennessee cow farm with Bonnaroo, and to San Francisco with the Outside Lands festival.
John Robbins, Author of ‘Diet for a New America,’ Dies at 77
He walked away from his family’s hugely successful ice cream business to crusade for a plant-based diet and against cruelty to animals.
Rick Hurst, Cletus Hogg on ‘The Dukes of Hazzard,’ Dies at 79
As the affable deputy sheriff on the popular CBS show, Mr. Hurst became a beloved figure for many fans of the show.
Carolyn McCarthy, Who Turned a Gunman’s Massacre Into a Crusade, Dies at 81
After her husband was killed and her son wounded on a Long Island commuter train in 1993, she went to Congress on a mission against gun violence.
Bill Moyers, a Face of Public TV and Once a White House Voice, Dies at 91
He was a renowned television correspondent and commentator who also had long ties with Lyndon B. Johnson, including as his press secretary.
Mortimer Matz, a Virtuoso New York P.R. Man, Is Dead at 100
He represented the lofty as well as the low. His credits included the Nathan’s hot dog eating contest and the obligatory raincoat to keep a defendant’s cuffed hands covered in a “perp walk.”
Susan Beth Pfeffer, 77, Dies; Wrote Complex Stories for Young Adults
Her 76 books included “Life as We Knew It,” a late-career best seller that told the story of a family in postapocalyptic Pennsylvania.
These L.G.B.T.Q. Figures Forever Changed U.S. History
They helped advance the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and questioning people through legislation, legal challenges or fiery advocacy.
Léon Krier, Architect Whose Classical Work Won a Royal Ally, Dies at 79
Although many of his designs remain unbuilt — with a few exceptions, including King Charles’s Poundbury — he was a driving force in the New Urbanism movement.
Valery Panov, Ballet Star Who Fought to Leave the U.S.S.R., Dies at 87
Trying to move to Israel with his ballerina wife, he was harassed and jailed while becoming an international cause célèbre and a Cold War symbol of the plight of Soviet Jews.
Fred Espenak, Astrophysicist Known as Mr. Eclipse, Dies at 73
He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked with NASA to make data accessible to nonscientist sky gazers.
P. Adams Sitney, Leading Scholar of Avant-Garde Film, Dies at 80
He championed works of cinema that were destined never to have a commercial breakthrough — which, to him, was the whole point.
Gailard Sartain, Character Actor and ‘Hee Haw’ Regular, Dies at 81
Though best known for comedy, he also played serious roles, including a sinister sheriff in “Mississippi Burning.” The director Alan Rudolph cast him in nine films.
Mick Ralphs, of Mott the Hoople and Bad Company, Dies at 81
A guitarist and songwriter, he ditched glam rock at its peak and scored with meatier stadium-rock anthems like “Can’t Get Enough” and “Feel Like Making Love.”
Marcia Resnick, Whose Camera Captured New York’s ‘Bad Boys’, Dies at 74
A conceptual artist, she used photography to make surrealistic images and then went on to document Manhattan’s downtown scene and its mostly male provocateurs.
Lynn Hamilton, a Steady Presence on ‘Sanford and Son,’ Dies at 95
A former Broadway actress, she was a no-nonsense foil for the unruly Fred Sanford. She also warmed hearts with a recurring role on the “The Waltons.”
Blake Farenthold, 63, Congressman Who Quit in Harassment Case, Dies
A Texas Republican, he gave up his seat after news broke that public funds had been used to settle the case, made by his former communications director.
Bobby Sherman, Easygoing Teen Idol of the 1960s and ’70s, Dies at 81
First on TV and then on the pop charts, he became so popular so young, he once said, that he “didn’t really have time to have an ego.”
Arnaldo Pomodoro, 98, Sculptor of Monumental Fractured Spheres, Dies
His bronze works — smooth-skinned orbs slashed to reveal complex cores — are in public places around the world, including outside the U.N. headquarters and in Vatican City.
James Lloydovich Patterson, 91, Dies; Soviet Poet and Symbol of Racial Unity
Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and international solidarity.
Fred Smith, Billionaire Founder of FedEx, Is Dead at 80
His vision for how to ship packages overnight led to not just a new company, but also a new sector of the world economy and a now-familiar English verb.
Rod Nordland, 75, Dies; War Reporter Who Also Wrote of His Own Struggle
Motivated by the helplessness of his boyhood, he described the lives of vulnerable people in conflicts around the world and later his own terminal illness.
