Tag: Deaths (Obituaries)

Flo Fox, an indomitable photographer who was born blind in one eye and later lost her vision in the other ...

Joan Dye Gussow, a nutritionist and educator who was often referred to as the matriarch of the “eat locally, think ...

Melody Beattie, whose experiences as a drug addict, a chemical dependency counselor and the wife of an alcoholic informed a ...

Selwyn Raab, an investigative reporter for The New York Times and other news organizations who in exacting detail explored the ...

Ken Rosenthal, who opened a bakery cafe in the St. Louis area, with sourdough bread as its star, and built ...

Patsy Grimaldi, a restaurateur whose coal-oven pizzeria in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge won new fans for New York ...

Marshall Rose, a real estate developer who was instrumental in reviving the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue and ...

Dickson Despommier, a microbiologist who proposed that cities should grow food in high-rises, popularizing the term “vertical farming” — an ...

Eleanor Maguire, a cognitive neuroscientist whose research on the human hippocampus — especially those belonging to London taxi drivers — ...

Jim Guy Tucker, a former governor of Arkansas who was caught up in the long-running investigation that unsuccessfully targeted his ...

C. Richard Kramlich, an early investor in Silicon Valley who co-founded the investment giant New Enterprise Associates, helping to fuel ...

Susan F. Wood, a women’s health expert who resigned in protest from the Food and Drug Administration in 2005, accusing ...

Ernest Drucker, a pioneering public-health researcher who approached drug addiction with compassion, invigorated needle-exchange programs to stem the AIDS epidemic ...

Samuel Butler, a Midwesterner who became a top figure of the Wall Street legal world, advising on transformative takeovers and ...

Pableaux Johnson, a New Orleans food writer, photographer and cook who spread the gospel of community by serving bowls of ...

Jay Mazur, a blunt-speaking, Bronx-born labor leader who was president of American garment workers’ unions in the 1980s and ’90s, ...

Carol Downer, a leader in the feminist women’s health movement who drew national fame for her role in a case ...

Derek Humphry, a British-born journalist whose experience helping his terminally-ill wife end her life led him to become a crusading ...

Charles Phan, a self-taught chef whose family fled Vietnam when he was a teenager and whose sleek restaurant helped change ...

David Schneiderman, an editor turned publisher turned chief executive of The Village Voice, the granddaddy of alternative newspapers, whose 28-year ...