Tag: Deaths (Obituaries)

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, a federal judge who presided over a series of cases involving National Football League players that led ...

Les Mills, an Olympian for New Zealand who founded and gave his name to a family-owned fitness empire that helped ...

Philippe Stern, who inherited one of the world’s leading luxury watch brands, Patek Philippe, and overcame an existential threat to ...

Colette Shulman, whose career as an influential analyst of Soviet affairs began in the late 1950s as a Moscow correspondent ...

Om Malik, a technology journalist and investor whose blog, Gigaom, which he founded in 2001, established him as one of ...

Jean Ziegler, a prolific Swiss writer, sociologist and politician who infuriated his compatriots by calling attention to the dark underside ...

Hoyle Schweitzer, a surfer and sailor who turned a garage experiment into a global sport when he and a friend, ...

Alan Riding, who trained as a barrister in London before becoming a cosmopolitan correspondent for The New York Times, one ...

Dang Van Phuoc, a Vietnamese-born photographer for The Associated Press whose dauntless work on the front lines of the Vietnam ...

Donald E. Newhouse, the billionaire media mogul who for decades ran the lucrative if low-profile newspaper division of Advance Publications, ...

Toshifumi Suzuki, the convenience store pioneer who built 7-Eleven into a fixture of daily life in Japan, died on May ...

Margot Friedländer, a Holocaust survivor who spent more than 60 years in exile (as she saw it) in New York ...