H. Morse Payne Jr., 96, who died Jan. 9, was an architect in Boston, a college teacher, and genealogist.

On “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” Ms. Engel played Georgette Franklin, girlfriend and eventually wife of the buffoonish TV newsman Ted Baxter.

Mr. Gross spent 43 years on the faculty of Princeton’s psychology department, where the university credited him with revolutionizing understanding of sensory processing and pattern recognition.

Dr. Greengard’s 15-year quest to understand how brain cells communicate provided new insights into psychological diseases and earned him a Nobel Prize.

The Swedish actress personified first purity and youth, then complexity and disillusionment, in 13 midcentury Ingmar Bergman films.

Dr. Thouless used a blend of physical theory and mathematical insight to create knowledge applicable in computers, electronics, and materials science.

A career educator, Mr. Stewart also was credited with reviving Spelman College.

After serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II, Mr. Broadis played soccer for Carlisle, Sunderland, Manchester City, and Newcastle in a career that lasted until 1960.

Mr. Burgin wrote the book ‘‘Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific.’’ His daughter says it was among several books that inspired the HBO miniseries that premiered in 2010.

The public interest lawyer and antinuclear activist helped raise national awareness of nuclear power whistleblower Karen Silkwood’s death.

Ms. Jones was a low-key but determined crusader for racial justice and equality in Nova Scotia, whose black population has faced discrimination and hostility for centuries.

Kelsey Davis was on the verge of dropping out of the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University two years ago.

Ralph Solecki, an archaeologist whose research helped debunk the view of Neanderthals as heartless and brutish half-wits and inspired a popular series of novels about prehistoric life, died March 20 in Livingston, New Jersey. He was 101.

William Jacobs was a longtime biology professor who survived being lost in Yosemite for 11 days in February 1946.

Lawrence Rhodes, one of American ballet’s greatest male dancers, who won high praise in the 1960s and ′70s in both classical showpieces and dramatic dance studies of modern angst, died March 27 in New York. He was 79.

Jacob Stein was a Washington lawyer who participated in two of the most dramatic episodes of the modern US presidency, winning the only high-profile acquittal in the Watergate affair and helping obtain immunity for former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Retired Lieutenant Colonel Richard “Dick” Cole, the last of the 80 Doolittle Tokyo Raiders who carried out the daring US attack on Japan during World War II, died Tuesday at a military hospital in Texas.

Marilynn Smith, one of the 13 founders of the LPGA Tour whose 21 victories, two majors and endless support of her tour led to her induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame, died Tuesday.

Charles Van Doren was a Columbia University English instructor and a member of a distinguished literary family who confessed to Congress and a disillusioned nation in 1959 that his performances on a television quiz show had been rigged.

Cho Yang-ho, whose 27 years as president of Korean Air brought substantial growth to the carrier but also a dizzying series of scandals, died Sunday in Los Angeles.

Character actors aren’t often called larger-than-life, but Seymour Cassel was just that.

Mr. Sloane, of Brookline, who died April 6, founded Century Bank in Somerville 50 years ago.

Mr. Tong, a self-described ‘‘freedom fighter’’ who made a daring escape from a communist ‘‘reeducation’’ camp and was granted asylum in the United States, died in San Diego.

Michael Busch, a champion of the Chesapeake Bay and progressive causes during his record-tenure as Maryland’s Democratic House speaker, battled for the environment up until the end of his life.

Jim Blackburn, 80, of Newton, who died March 19, was a legendary longtime running coach at Newton North High School.

Bill Isles, an original member of the chart-topping R&B group The O’Jays, has died at his Southern California Home. He was 78.

Sydney Brenner, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist who helped decipher the genetic code and whose research on a roundworm sparked a new field of human disease research, has died. He was 92.

Dance music’s euphoria and church music’s rapture have been conceptual relatives for years, but Ms. English’s joyful 12-inch singles often made the connection explicit.

Ms. McIntyre’s tales featured female protagonists and she also wrote five “Star Trek” novels.

The silver-haired Democrat who helped shepherd South Carolina through desegregation as governor and went on to serve six terms in the US Senate.

Mr. Stickells was a car mechanic in southeast England who drove local rock groups to their engagements in his van when, in 1966, he met Chas Chandler, Jimi Hendrix’s manager.

When the farm crisis of the 1980s swept across the nation’s fields and plains, Mrs. Brock was moved to act.

Mr. Tuttle found his own kind of international fame by catering to celebrities while helping to move tattooing, as he put it, from the “back alley” into mainstream acceptability.

Mr. Fechheimer was spurred overnight by the fictional gumshoe Sam Spade to switch careers from being an aspiring English teacher.

Mr. Sanna experimented over the stove in the family kitchen in Menomonie, Wis., and enlisted children as guinea pigs for countless taste tests.

The artist who created the first paint-by-numbers pictures and helped turn the kits into an American sensation during the 1950s has died, his family confirmed.

Howard Lee was awarded the Medal of Honor after retiring from the Marine Corps and later pursued a horticultural career where he oversaw landscaping for the city of Virginia Beach.

Mr. Putnam also served as treasurer of Harvard University.

Rockabilly Hall of Famer Billy Adams wrote and recorded the rockabilly staple “Rock, Pretty Mama.”

Ms. Thapa helped to expose the scope of mass rapes in the war-torn Balkans and South Asia and to build the legal arguments for the prosecution of those rapes as crimes against humanity.

Kenneth A. Gibson, became the first black mayor of a major Northeastern city when Newark, New Jersey voters, still recovering from racial rioting three years earlier, elected him in 1970.

David White formed the doo-wop quartet Danny and the Juniors in the mid-1950s, co-wrote their No. 1 hit, “At the Hop.”