Robin Chandler Duke, a rags-to-riches grande dame who married an ambassador and became one of America’s best known advocates for women by championing reproductive rights and international family planning, died in Charleston, S.C., on Saturday. She was 92.
Umberto Eco, an Italian scholar in the arcane field of semiotics who became the author of best-selling novels, most notably the blockbuster medieval mystery “The Name of the Rose,” died on Friday in Italy. He was 84.
Harper Lee, whose first novel, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” about racial injustice in a small Alabama town, sold more than 40 million copies and became one of the most beloved and most taught works of fiction ever written by an American, died on Friday in Monroeville, Ala., where she lived. She was 89.
Acel Moore, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who co-founded the National Association of Black Journalists and awakened his white colleagues and their readers to everyday life in black communities, died on Friday at his home in Wyncote, Pa., near Philadelphia. He was 75.
Justice Antonin Scalia, whose transformative legal theories, vivid writing and outsize personality made him a leader of a conservative intellectual renaissance in his three decades on the Supreme Court, was found dead on Saturday at a resort in West Texas. He was 79.
Giacomo Tachis, who transformed Italian winemaking in the 1960s and ’70s with a series of innovative, French-influenced red wines from the Chianti region that became known as Super Tuscans, died on Saturday at his home in San Casciano in Val di Pesa, Tuscany. He was 82.
Leo Van Munching Jr., whose stewardship of the importing company started by his father made the Dutch-brewed beer Heineken and its low-calorie sibling, Amstel Light, familiar brand names in the United States, died on Sunday at his home in Darien, Conn. He was 89.
NSND Viễn Châu, danh cầm đàn tranh đồng thời là soạn giả nổi tiếng của cải lương, người đã chắp cánh góp phần làm nên tên tuổi của nhiều thế hệ nghệ sĩ tài danh, đã qua đời trưa 1.2 tại tư gia, để lại kho tàng hơn 70 kịch bản cải lương và hơn 2.000 bài vọng cổ.
Andrzej Zulawski, a Polish director who blended surrealism, horror and psychic excess in the emotionally savage films “The Important Thing Is to Love,” “Possession” and “My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days,” died on Wednesday in Warsaw. He was 75.
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