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He personified the paparazzi -- brazen and relentless in chasing the famous, particularly Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. But his pictures also came to be admired. Ron Galella, the freelance photographer who [...]

Valentina Cortese, an Italian film actress best known for her role as a fading, tippling movie diva in François Truffaut's ''Day for Night,'' which earned her a 1975 Academy Award [...]

Richard N. Bolles, a former Harvard physics major, Episcopal minister and career counselor whose own twisting vocational path led to his writing ''What Color Is Your Parachute?'' -- the most [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWilliam Peter Blatty, the author whose best-selling book ''The Exorcist'' was both a milestone in horror fiction and a turning point in his own career, died on Thursday in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDBruce Mazlish, a historian of ideas who created controversy with psychoanalytic biographies of living world leaders, including one about Richard M. Nixon that assessed him as constantly seeking crises [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDPatricia Derian, a civil rights veteran who tangled with repressive dictators as President Jimmy Carter's chief advocate on behalf of human rights abroad, died on Friday at her home [...]

Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, a cloistered Franciscan nun who founded the largest Roman Catholic television network in the country, and used it unstintingly to criticize liberalizing trends in [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDVito J. Lopez, a former community organizer and New York assemblyman who parlayed a small antipoverty center in Brooklyn into a political machine that made him a power broker [...]

Dick Rich, a copywriter and advertising executive who turned the disadvantages of indigestion and outsize cigarettes into classic 1960s television commercials for Alka-Seltzer and Benson & Hedges 100s, died on [...]

Dick Rich, a copywriter and advertising executive who turned the disadvantages of indigestion and outsize cigarettes into classic 1960s television commercials for Alka-Seltzer and Benson & Hedges 100s, died on [...]

Mary Burke Nicholas Washington, an economist who pioneered myriad roles for women and African-Americans in public life, notably heading a civilian panel in 1989 that assailed the New York City [...]

Mary Burke Nicholas Washington, an economist who pioneered myriad roles for women and African-Americans in public life, notably heading a civilian panel in 1989 that assailed the New York City [...]

Juan Flores, a leading theorist of Latin American studies and a pioneer in the field of ''Nuyorican'' culture, the arts and language of Puerto Ricans in New York who toggle [...]

Juan Flores, a leading theorist of Latin American studies and a pioneer in the field of ''Nuyorican'' culture, the arts and language of Puerto Ricans in New York who toggle [...]

Brumsic Brandon Jr., the creator of ''Luther,'' one of the first nationally syndicated comic strips to feature a mainly black cast of characters, died on Nov. 28 in Cocoa Beach, [...]

Martin Litton, an environmentalist, river pilot, writer and unrelenting forward scout in the battle to preserve what was left of the wilderness in the American West, most notably the Grand [...]

Brumsic Brandon Jr., the creator of ''Luther,'' one of the first nationally syndicated comic strips to feature a mainly black cast of characters, died on Friday in Cocoa Beach, Fla. [...]

Lucien Clergue, one of the most acclaimed photographers in France and a founder of an annual festival in Arles that has become a mainstay of the art photography world, died [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDDr. Denham Harman, a research biochemist who asserted that old age was just another disease, and who drew support from medical experts for his claim that aging could be [...]

Lucien Clergue, one of the most acclaimed photographers in France and a founder of an annual festival in Arles that has become a mainstay of the art photography world, died [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDNancy H. Teeters, a liberal economist who was the first woman appointed to the Federal Reserve Board and who broke with tradition by openly criticizing decisions of fellow board [...]

Raleigh Trevelyan traced his family across five centuries of British history, a rich delta of ancestor-achievers that included Sir Walter Raleigh, the 16th-century explorer; Thomas Babington Macaulay, an influential 19th-century [...]

Jimmy Ruffin, a soul singer best known for his plaintive 1966 Top 10 hit ''What Becomes of the Brokenhearted,'' died on Monday in a Las Vegas hospital. He was 78. [...]

Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed al-Thani, a Qatari royal relative who was one of the world's most prolific and idiosyncratic buyers of art, antiquities, jewelry, vintage cars and dinosaur fossils until [...]

Sheikh Saud bin Mohammed al-Thani, a Qatari royal relative who was one of the world's most prolific and idiosyncratic buyers of art, antiquities, jewelry, vintage cars and dinosaur fossils until [...]

John V. Shields Jr., a retail executive who transformed Trader Joe's from a quirky Southern California grocery store chain into a billion-dollar enterprise with dozens of still-quirky but uniformly organized [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDHarry Pearson, a journalist and audiophile who founded The Absolute Sound, a magazine for connoisseurs of high-fidelity audio in the 1970s and the locus of a backlash against CDs [...]

John V. Shields Jr., a retail executive who transformed Trader Joe's from a quirky Southern California grocery store chain into a billion-dollar enterprise with dozens of still-quirky but uniformly organized [...]

Richard Schaal, an actor, writer and first-generation member of Second City, the Chicago improvisational theater company that sparked a new comedy movement in America, died on Tuesday in Woodland Hills, [...]

Thomas W. Sneddon Jr., a former district attorney who tried and failed twice to convict Michael Jackson on child molestation charges and became the target of a bitter song on [...]

Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete, a former aerospace researcher turned Roman Catholic priest who became one of the Vatican's most articulate, unofficial defenders in the United States, died on Oct. 24 in [...]

Susan Sollins, an art curator who took avant-garde exhibitions to small communities across the country and produced an award-winning PBS television series aimed at demystifying and popularizing contemporary art, died [...]

Susan Sollins, an art curator who took avant-garde exhibitions to small communities across the country and produced an award-winning PBS television series aimed at demystifying and popularizing contemporary art, died [...]

David Armstrong, a photographer who gained prominence exploring the often overlapping worlds of gay men, drug addicts, transvestites, fashion models and artists, died on Sunday in Los Angeles. He was [...]

Stan M. Jay, owner of the Mandolin Brothers musical instrument store on Staten Island, which has been a pilgrimage destination for recording stars, collectors and other connoisseurs of the guitar, [...]

Msgr. William B. O'Brien, a co-founder of Daytop Village, one of the first and most successful residential drug and alcohol treatment programs in the United States, died on Oct. 19 [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDMost adults do not remember anything before the age of 3 or 4, a gap that researchers had chalked up to the vagaries of the still-developing infant brain. By [...]

Park Honan, an American biographer whose prodigious research opened new vistas on the family history of some of Britain's greatest literary figures and reshaped modern views about their personalities, died [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDRobert W. Fri, an influential energy adviser who held pivotal positions in both government policy making and private enterprise, and who served for five years as director of the [...]

''The Threepenny Opera'' was a sensation in Europe after its premiere in Berlin in 1928. Yet it did not find an audience in New York until a quarter-century later, when [...]

David Jones, a Hollywood florist who for 50 years adorned the grand social affairs of a roster of famous clients that included Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor [...]

The Rev. Benedict J. Groeschel, a Franciscan priest and author known in New York City for his efforts on behalf of the poor and familiar to a worldwide television audience [...]

Joseph D. McNamara, a onetime New York City patrolman who earned a doctorate from Harvard and went on to become a California police chief whose pioneering embrace of community policing [...]

J. California Cooper, an award-winning writer whose black female characters confront a world of indifference and betrayal, but find kinship there in unexpected places, died on Saturday in Seattle. She [...]

Joseph D. McNamara, a onetime New York City beat cop who earned a doctorate from Harvard and went on to become a California police chief whose pioneering embrace of community [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDYoshiko Yamaguchi, a singer and actress who starred in Japanese propaganda films during Japan's brutal military occupation of China in the 1930s and '40s and who, after narrowly escaping [...]

Flavored ice drinks had been around since the Romans, and machines had been churning them out under various brand names for almost as long, it seems, when Will Radcliff, a [...]

Terrance Paul, an entrepreneur who, with his wife, created computerized teaching programs like Accelerated Reader that were widely adopted in American schools over the last 25 years as educators turned [...]

Jack Wayman, a sales executive who saw the future and said it was consumer electronics, organized the industry's first trade show in the era of black-and-white television and fought Hollywood's [...]