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Pat Bowlen, the influential hands-on owner of the Denver Broncos, which won all three of its Super Bowl titles under his long stewardship, died Thursday night at his home in Englewood, Colorado.
A member of the Newton School Committee from 1962 to 1969, Mrs. Fink was also coordinator of the federally funded Women’s Career Project at Northeastern University.
Girish Karnad, a top Indian playwright, actor, and director and a rights activist, died Monday after a prolonged illness. He was 81.
Robert Earle was the articulate and fast-talking host of one of television’s most challenging and popular quiz shows of the 1960s, ‘‘General Electric College Bowl.”
Pat Bowlen, owner of the Denver Broncos, transformed the team from also-rans into NFL champions and helped the league usher in billion-dollar TV deals.
Mr. Klein was a broadcast pioneer who helped create “American Bandstand” and launched the careers of Dick Clark and Bob Saget.
Nicknamed ‘‘The Bullet’’’ because of his speed, Gabor, who grew up in Binghamton, New York, played six years for the Syracuse Nationals of the NBA.
Martin S. Feldstein, 79, of Belmont, who died June 11, was a Harvard University professor who formerly served as chairman of President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Gabriele Grunewald was an elite runner who gained the support of thousands of followers on social media for her perseverance in competing while facing a rare metastatic cancer.
Herbert Sandler, savings and loan magnate who also seeded ProPublica, dies at 87
Ms. Lee helped her husband take on a military dictatorship and used her influence to expand women’s rights in a deeply male-dominated country.
Tony Glover, a harmonica player who as a member of the group Koerner, Ray and Glover was at the center of the folk music revival of the 1960s and helped introduce a new audience to the blues, died on May 29 in a hospital in St. Paul, Minn.
Bushwick Bill, who helped inject Southern hip-hop storytelling with vivid psychological horror and lightly morbid comedy and became one of the genre’s most recognizable characters in the process, died Sunday at a Colorado hospital.
Katherine McCourt, 102, who died June 6, encouraged her family and everyone to practice “acceptance and gratitude.”
Tom Kenney, who died June 5, was a longtime Hyannis firefighter and paramedic who was part of the first FEMA team to arrive at Ground Zero in New York after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Ms. Schreiber became the first woman to run a major American daily newspaper’s sports section when The New York Times appointed her to that position in 1978.
As a newlywed and then a young mother in the 1950s, Janet Pagliuca would ride from Framingham into Brookline and Boston for singing lessons and to perform.
Everett Raymond Kinstler began his career as a comic book illustrator and became one of the country’s premier portrait artists, with paintings of celebrities, business tycoons, Cabinet officers and eight presidents.
Dr. Patricia Bath became the first black female doctor to receive a medical patent after she invented a more precise treatment of cataracts.
The family of the Louisiana-born musician known as Dr. John says the celebrated singer and piano player has died.
Known as the father of cancer genetics, he was credited with saving thousands of lives by championing screening practices that help physicians catch cancers early in their course, as well as preventive surgeries that in some cases forestall the disease’s onset altogether.
Judge David T. Doyle, 90, who died June 2, was a legendary jurist who presided for 35 years in Salem District Court.
Louis Levi Oakes, the last of the Mohawk code talkers, helped American soldiers triumph in the Pacific Theater during World War II along with code talkers from other tribes.
“The idea of chemical weapons is still preferable to me, depending on how they are used, as a way of neutralizing an enemy,” Dr. Ketchum said.
Adele Herter Seronde, 93, of Sedona, Ariz., who died April 16, had been a catalyst for launching Boston’s Summerthing festival.
Lowell North, a pioneering sailmaker who won an Olympic gold medal and four world championships in the venerable Star Class, has died. He was 89.
Retired US District Judge Ellen Bree Burns, the first woman to serve on the federal bench in Connecticut, was widely admired as a pioneer and role model.
Ms. Bluitt Foster, an African-American woman, became a dentist at a time when only about 2 percent of dental school graduates were women and “maybe 2 percent of that 2 percent” were African American, said Dr. Jeanne Craig Sinkford, a former dean of Howard University’s dental school.
Mr. Fraser led hearings that exposed a conspiracy by South Korean officials to buy political influence.
Mr. Cochran was a courtly Mississippi Republican who cultivated his constituents for 45 years as a congressman and US senator with traditional catfish fries, Southern charm, and billions of dollars in federal pork-barrel largess.
Leann L. Birch, whose research into children’s eating habits challenged some long-held notions about finicky young diners and led to new insights on childhood nutrition and obesity, died May 26 in Durham, North Carolina.
Leah Chase, New Orleans chef who championed Creole cuisine, dies at 96
Ms. Chase transformed the restaurant bearing her father-in-law’s name from a sandwich shop where black patrons could buy lottery tickets to a refined restaurant where people of all races dined.
Mr. Erickson headed the Austin-based 13th Floor Elevators, a pioneering psychedelic rock band in the 1960s that scored with ‘‘You’re Gonna Miss Me.’’
Mr. Hirson was a prominent writer for live television in the 1950s and ’60s who collaborated with composer Stephen Schwartz on the hit Broadway musical “Pippin.”
Richard Todd, 78, of Ashfield, who died April 21, was a longtime editor at Houghton Mifflin, The Atlantic Monthly who shaped work of Tracy Kidder and others.
Leon Redbone, the acclaimed singer and guitarist who performed jazz, ragtime and Tin Pan Alley-style songs, died Thursday, according to a statement released by his family.
US District Judge Richard Matsch ruled his courtroom with a firm gavel and a short temper and gained national respect in the 1990s for his handling of the Oklahoma City bombing trials.
LaSalle D. Leffall Jr. was a Howard University cancer specialist who chaired the medical school’s department of surgery for 25 years and became the first African-American president of the American Cancer Society and other medical organizations.
Amalie Kass, 91, of Belmont, who died May 19, was a teacher, a medical historian, and the patron and creative force behind the creation of the carousel on the Rose Kennedy Greenway.
John Gary Williams, the lead singer for the R&B vocal group The Mad Lads who sung “I Want Someone” and “Don’t Have to Shop Around,” has died. He was 73.
Mr. Seaga was the only remaining member of the generation of leaders who drafted the constitution when the Caribbean island gained independence in 1962.
Horwitz, who lived in West Tisbury, was on a publicity tour for his latest book, ‘‘Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide.’’
Robert L. Bernstein, who built Random House into an international publishing giant and championed political dissent, freedom of expression and relief for oppressed peoples as the founder of Human Rights Watch, died Monday in New York.
Mr. Morris wrote an acclaimed biography of Theodore Roosevelt but is best known for his life of Ronald Reagan, in which the author inserted himself as a fictional narrator.
Samuel Lobley, 22, who died May 10 from complications of a double-lung transplant, was a gifted writer who finished a short story collection that earned highest honors at Tufts University.
The former high school football coach was portrayed in the 2000 film ‘‘Remember the Titans’’ as an opponent of racism and a savvy on-field tactician.
