Roger Summit, Who Invented an Early Online Search Service, Dies at 95
In 1966, to pass the time on a long family road trip, Roger Summit pulled out a tape recorder and ...
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George E. Johnson, Who Built a Black Hair-Care Empire, Dies at 99
George E. Johnson, a hair-care magnate who rose from a sharecropper’s cabin to found, with his wife, Joan, what was ...
David S. Doty, Judge Who Helped Shape the Modern N.F.L., Dies at 96
David S. Doty, a federal judge who presided over a series of cases involving National Football League players that led ...
Les Mills, Olympian Who Founded Fitness Chain, Dies at 91
Les Mills, an Olympian for New Zealand who founded and gave his name to a family-owned fitness empire that helped ...
Philippe Stern, Heir to the Patek Philippe Watch Brand, Dies at 88
Philippe Stern, who inherited one of the world’s leading luxury watch brands, Patek Philippe, and overcame an existential threat to ...
Colette Shulman, Soviet Analyst With On-the-Ground Insights, Dies at 94
Colette Shulman, whose career as an influential analyst of Soviet affairs began in the late 1950s as a Moscow correspondent ...
Om Malik, Whose Blog Shaped How Silicon Valley Saw Itself, Dies at 59
Om Malik, a technology journalist and investor whose blog, Gigaom, which he founded in 2001, established him as one of ...
Jean Ziegler, Swiss Gadfly Who Provoked His Countrymen, Dies at 92
Jean Ziegler, a prolific Swiss writer, sociologist and politician who infuriated his compatriots by calling attention to the dark underside ...
Margot Friedländer, Holocaust Survivor Who Found Her Voice, Dies at 103
Margot Friedländer, a Holocaust survivor who spent more than 60 years in exile (as she saw it) in New York ...
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