Mac Conner, a prodigious illustrator whose realistic, colorful and often dramatic paintings for major magazines and advertisers helped lend a distinctive look to postwar popular culture, died on Sept. 26 at his home in Manhattan. He was 105.
Yao Li, a celebrated singer in Shanghai in the midst of war in the 1930s and ’40s, whose music remained popular after she moved to Hong Kong when China turned communist, died July 19. She was 96.Uganda New York Times world26 Jul 2019
Edith Mae Irby was about 7 years old in the early 1930s when her older siblings contracted typhoid fever in their little house in Conway, Arkansas. Her brother Robert recovered, but her sister, Juanita, died.
Edith Mae Irby was about 7 years old in the early 1930s when her older siblings contracted typhoid fever in their little house in Conway, Arkansas. Her brother Robert recovered, but her sister, Juanita, died.Uganda New York Times world20 Jul 2019
Ida Wyman, a photographer who in the 1940s and ’50s roamed New York and other cities to capture compelling images of everyday people working, playing, idling, dancing or selling newspapers, died July 13 in Fitchburg, Wisconsin, near Madison. She was 93.Uganda New York Times world9 Jul 2019
Ben Barenholtz, who began the midnight-movie phenomenon at his Manhattan theater in the 1970s and nurtured the movie careers of David Lynch and the Coen brothers, died June 27 at a hospital in Prague, where he had been living since last year. He was 83.
Michel Roux, a French-born liquor executive who used a distinctive and witty advertising campaign to turn Absolut, a little-known Swedish brand, into the top imported vodka in the United States, died on April 30 at his home in Palm Coast, Florida. He was 78.Uganda New York Times world10 May 2019
Chris Albertson, who as a teenager in Denmark became captivated by blues singer Bessie Smith and decades later produced a widely praised multivolume reissue of her recordings and wrote an equally acclaimed biography, was found dead April 24 at his home in New York. He was 87.
David Winters, who danced in the original Broadway production of “West Side Story” and then fashioned an influential if under-the-radar show business career, notably as a choreographer for Ann-Margret, Elvis Presley and others, died April 23 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 80.
Martin Kilson, a leftist scholar, fierce debater and follower of W.E.B. Du Bois who became the first tenured African American professor at Harvard, died April 24 in hospice care in Lincoln, Massachusetts. He was 88.Uganda New York Times world30 Apr 2019
John Singleton, whose powerful debut film, “Boyz N the Hood,” earned him an Oscar nomination for best director, the first for an African-American, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 51.
John Singleton, whose powerful debut film, “Boyz N the Hood,” earned him an Oscar nomination for best director, the first for an African-American, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 51.Uganda New York Times world26 Apr 2019
Steve Golin, an independent producer whose career began with low-budget movies like “Hard Rock Zombies” in the 1980s and reached its peak when he and three colleagues won the best-picture Oscar in 2016 for “Spotlight,” died Sunday at a hospital in Los Angeles. He was 64.Uganda New York Times world24 Apr 2019
Gary Stewart, a scholarly music fan whose enthusiasm and attention to detail helped make Rhino Records the much-emulated gold standard for reissue compilations of the great, the faded and the forgotten, died April 11 in Santa Monica, California. He was 62.Uganda New York Times world21 Apr 2019
Warren Adler, a late-blooming novelist who wrote “The War of the Roses,” a best-selling dark comedy, and the basis of a hit movie, about the nightmarish deterioration of a marriage, died April 15 at his home in Manhattan. He was 91.
Stanley Plumly, an award-winning former poet laureate of Maryland whose poignant narratives were inspired by the beauty and transcendence of John Keats’ lyrical verse , died Thursday at his home in Frederick, Maryland. He was 79.Uganda New York Times world13 Apr 2019
Sam Pilafian, a virtuoso tuba player who performed an eclectic mix of classical, jazz, pop and rock music and brought unflagging exuberance to teaching young tubists, died April 5 at his home in Tempe, Arizona. He was 69.
Ed Westcott, a photographer who documented life in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the secret city where uranium was enriched as part of the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb during World War II, died March 29 at his daughter’s home in Oak Ridge, where he also still lived. He was 97.
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