Tag: Deaths (Obituaries)
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 City before returning...
Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, 83, Dies; African Scholar Challenged the West
Mr. Mudimbe was unapologetic. “To the question ‘what is Africa?’ or ‘how to define African cultures?’ one today cannot but refer to a...
David Paton, Creator of Flying Eye Hospital, Dies at 94
David Paton, an idealistic and innovative ophthalmologist who started Project Orbis, converting a United Airlines jet into a flying hospital that took surgeons...
Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-Winning Peruvian Novelist, Dies at 89
Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist who combined gritty realism with playful erotica and depictions of the struggle for individual liberty in Latin...
Irmgard Furchner, Secretary at a Hub of Nazi Atrocities, Dies at...
Irmgard Furchner, whose role as a teenage secretary in the administration of a Nazi concentration camp in German-occupied Poland led to her conviction...
Fridrik Olafsson, Grandmaster Who Led Iceland’s Rise in Chess, Dies at...
Fridrik Olafsson, a chess grandmaster who helped make his native Iceland a bastion of the game, in part by defeating four world champions,...
Kim Shin-jo, North Korean Commando Who Sought to Kill South Korea’s...
Kim Shin-jo, the only captured member of a team of 31 North Korean commandos who came within striking distance of the South Korean...
Amadou Bagayoko, Half of Malian Duo Who Went Global, Dies at...
Amadou Bagayoko, a Malian guitarist and composer who with his wife, the singer Mariam Doumbia, formed Amadou & Mariam, inventing a broadly accessible...
Betty Webb, Who Helped Bletchley Park Code Breakers, Dies at 101
Charlotte Webb, who as a young woman helped code breakers decipher enemy signals at Britain’s top-secret Bletchley Park, died on Monday. She...
Zakia Jafri, Who Sought Justice for Victims of Indian Riots, Dies...
Zakia Jafri, who turned her personal loss into an uphill campaign for justice after her husband, Ehsan Jafri, was brutally murdered during sectarian...
