A self-taught electric guitar virtuoso, he influenced a generation of musicians. One of them, John Fogerty, called him rock’s first guitar god.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/arts/music/duane-eddy-dead.html
She was from Czechoslovakia. He was from the U.S. And after meeting at the 1956 Games and winning gold medals, they married. Love had breached the iron curtain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/sports/olympics/olga-fikotova-connolly-dead.html
With critically lauded works like “The New York Trilogy,” the charismatic author drew inspiration from his adopted borough and won worldwide acclaim.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/books/paul-auster-dead.html
He figured in the examination of sensational cases involving President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., O.J. Simpson and others.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/werner-spitz-dead.html
His decision to officiate at the ceremony prompted a debate within the Reformed Church in America that led ultimately to a schism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/norman-kansfield-dead.html
As the well-connected pastor of the Glide Memorial Church in the blighted Tenderloin district, he preached a “radically inclusive” gospel in serving people in need.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/us/cecil-williams-dead.html
Celebrated for his long tenure with Lyric Opera of Chicago, he led this and other orchestras with force and a notably energetic podium presence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/arts/music/andrew-davis-dead.html
He heralded stock options and golden parachutes as a professor at Harvard Business School, influencing a generation of Wall Street executives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/business/michael-c-jensen-dead.html
At Mississippi Valley State University, he unleashed a high-powered, pass-heavy offense that featured the future Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/sports/football/archie-cooley-death.html
A New York State forest ranger who worked in the Adirondacks, she died after falling about 1,000 feet from a peak at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/nyregion/robbi-mecus-dead-alaska-denali-park.html
As a childbirth educator and maternal advocate, she promoted a profession that provides comfort to women giving birth and offers postpartum care as well.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/health/penny-simkin-dead.html
His expertise on the electromechanical Mellotron helped define the band’s progressive sound in the 1960s and ’70s on albums like “Days of Future Passed.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/arts/music/mike-pinder-moody-blues-dead.html
Possibly the most prolific archival record producer in history, he was a founder of the Mosaic label, which became the gold standard of jazz reissues.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/arts/music/michael-cuscuna-dead.html
He won the right to services like school and health care for people illegally crossing the border into the U.S. He also fought the Trump administration’s family separation policy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/us/politics/peter-schey-dead.html
She helped people fleeing conflicts in Vietnam, China, Kosovo and elsewhere around the world, and established the Washington office of the International Rescue Committee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/world/asia/sheppie-abramowitz-dead.html
In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/books/helen-vendler-dead.html
A Miami Herald correspondent, he powered a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and helped snare three other Pulitzers for the paper.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/obituaries/alfonso-chardy-dead.html
A Newark Democrat, he succeeded his father, who was the first Black member of his state’s congressional delegation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/nyregion/rep-donald-m-payne-jr-dead.html
She made a classic wig and poodle skirt for “Grease” (using a bath mat and a toilet cover) and turned actors into Spanish inquisitors, British highwaymen and more.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/theater/carrie-robbins-dead.html
He stepped out of his behind-the-scenes role in 2004 when he was cast as the ultimate sports know-it-all on the game show “Stump the Schwab.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/sports/howie-schwab-dead.html