Nelson Johnson, Labor Leader Wounded in Greensboro Massacre, Dies at 81
White supremacists killed five people in a 1979 shootout in North Carolina. Mr. Johnson later led a commission that investigated the attack.
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CreditAllen G. Breed/Associated Press Yrjo Kukkapuro, Who Made the Easiest of Easy Chairs, Dies at 91
A celebrated Finnish modernist, he designed a variety of furnishings but was best known for his seating — which, his company said, “almost every Finn has sat on.”
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Creditvia Studio Kukkapuro Graham Nickson, 78, Dies; Passionate Steward of the New York Studio School
An artist known for his lush, large-scale oil paintings, he also created the Drawing Marathon, a two-week boot camp that transformed the lives of participants.
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CreditFrances Roberts for The New York Times Edith Mathis, Radiant Swiss Soprano, Is Dead at 86
Known for her interpretations of Bach, Mozart and Weber, she was praised for her clear, bright voice and her perfect intonation even on the highest notes.
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Eleanor Maguire, Memory Expert Who Studied London Cabbies, Dies at 54
By watching the brain process information, she discovered that a specific region plays a key role in spatial navigation — and that it can be strengthened like a muscle.
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CreditUCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology Ken Wydro, Who Helped Create an Off Broadway Phenomenon, Dies at 81
He and his wife, Vy Higginsen, poured all they had into “Mama, I Want to Sing,” a long-shot musical that became an enduring staple of Black theater.
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CreditJeff Goode/Toronto Star, via Getty Images Walter Robinson, Exuberant Art-World Participant and Observer, Dies at 74
A painter who took his subjects from pop culture, he was also the founding editor of Artnet.com and chronicled the rise of the SoHo art scene in the 1970s.
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CreditTimothy Greenfield-Sanders Jim Guy Tucker, Ex-Arkansas Governor Caught Up in Whitewater, Dies at 81
He was among those targeted by the investigation that consumed much of Bill Clinton’s presidency. But his conviction was later questioned.
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CreditNajlah Feanny/Corbis, via Getty Images Michael Longley, 85, Northern Irish Poet of Nature and ‘the Troubles,’ Dies
“Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t Homeric in length: “Michael was a miniaturist.”
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More in Overlooked ›Overlooked No More: Lena Richard, Who Brought Creole Cooking to the Masses
She hosted a cooking show years before Julia Child was on the air, tantalizing viewers with okra gumbo, shrimp bisque and other Southern specialties.
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CreditNewcomb Archives and Vorhoff Collection at Tulane University. Overlooked No More: Annie Easley, Who Helped Take Spaceflight to New Heights
She broke barriers at NASA and contributed to its earliest space missions as a rocket scientist, mathematician and computer programmer.
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CreditNASA Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth
She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”
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CreditCarl Plotz, via Fonstad family Overlooked No More: Fidelia Bridges, Artist Who Captured the Natural World
A prolific artist, she was known for her graceful watercolors of birds, plants and butterflies, and was considered as the equal of Winslow Homer in her day.
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CreditOliver Ingraham Lay, Charles Downing Lay, and Lay Family papers, 1789-2000 Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Overlooked No More: Margaret Getchell, Visionary Force at Macy’s
As the store’s first female executive, she helped turn it into what it is today, paving the way for other women to hold senior positions in retail.
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Meet the Champion Who Memorized 80 Numbers in 13.5 Seconds
This month, Vishvaa Rajakumar won the Memory League World Championship, which tests memorization skills. He shared some of his techniques with The Times.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
Barbie Hsu, Taiwanese Actress and Star of ‘Meteor Garden,’ Dies at 48
Her role in the teen drama catapulted her to fame as a pop idol. She was also a TV host and appeared in films.
By Ash Wu
David Edward Byrd, Whose Posters Captured Rock’s Energy, Dies at 83
His designs for Jimi Hendrix, the Who and others embodied the spirit of the psychedelic era. He also created images for stage shows like “Godspell.”
By Alex Williams
Christopher Jencks, a Shaper of Views on Economic Inequality, Dies at 88
His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments, transformed debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.
By Clay Risen
Helen Hays, Who Helped Bring Terns Back to Long Island Sound, Dies at 94
Beginning in 1969, she spent five months a year on Great Gull Island, leading teams of young volunteers devoted to preserving the seabirds.
By Clay Risen
Maria Teresa Horta, the Last of Portugal’s ‘Three Marias,’ Dies at 87
The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their country’s dictatorship.
By Adam Nossiter
Tom Robbins, Whose Comic Novels Drew a Cult Following, Dies at 92
He blended pop philosophy and absurdist comedy in best-selling books like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Skinny Legs and All.”
By Clay Risen
Rutherford Chang, Who Turned Collections Into Art, Dies at 45
He was best known for amassing more than 3,400 copies of the Beatles’ “White Album” and using them to demonstrate the aging of a cultural artifact.
By Richard Sandomir
Gyalo Thondup, Political Operator and Brother of the Dalai Lama, Dies at 97
Mr. Thondup’s influence in Tibet has been seen as second only to his younger brother, Tenzin Gyatso, the exiled head of Tibetan Buddhism, whom he spent decades trying to help return to their homeland.
By Ali Watkins
Sam Nujoma, Founding President of Namibia, Dies at 95
As the self-exiled leader of the South-West Africa People’s Organization, he directed a guerrilla army in a 24-year war for independence from South African rule.
By Alan Cowell
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