Obituaries - The Boston Globe (2024)

Walter Shapiro, political columnist with a contrarian streak, dies at 77Mr. Shapiro, whose career included stints as a presidential speechwriter, stand-up comic, professor, author and, as a recent college graduate, congressional candidate, died on July 21 in Manhattan.
James C. Scott, iconoclastic social scientist, dies at 87Mr. Scott, whose studies on why top-down government schemes of betterment often fail and how marginalized groups subtly undermine authority led to his embrace of anarchism as a political philosophy, died July 19 at his home in Durham, Conn.
Jill Schary Robinson, who wrote of her Hollywood upbringing, dies at 88Ms. Robinson, an author and journalist who found fame for chronicling Hollywood’s darker side in “Bed/Time/Story,” died July 19 at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Ina Jaffe, dogged and award-winning NPR reporter, dies at 75Ms. Jaffe, an NPR correspondent for roughly 40 years who was known for her unflinching approach to journalism and was the first editor of the network’s initial iteration of the weekly national news show “Weekend Edition Saturday,” died Thursday.
Floyd Layne, 95, basketball player tarnished by gambling scandal, dies Floyd Layne won both the NCAA and NIT basketball championships with the City College of New York in 1950 but shattered his career in a point-shaving scandal.
Alexander Waugh, literary scion of a literary dynasty, dies at 60Throughout Alexander Waugh's varied career as a composer, columnist, and historian, he bore lightly the weight of his literary inheritance — his father, Auberon, and his grandfather, Evelyn, were considered among the finest English writers of the 20th century.
Wolfgang Rihm, prolific contemporary classical music composer, dies at 72Wolfgang Rihm, a composer whose forceful, shape-shifting output reinvigorated contemporary classical music, died Saturday in Ettlingen, Germany. He was 72.
Benjamin Luxon, British baritone thwarted by hearing loss, dies at 87Benjamin Luxon, a warm-voiced British baritone who was admired for his singing of German and British song and his robust opera performances, but whose flourishing career was cut short by encroaching deafness, died July 25 at his home in Sandisfield, Mass. He was 87.

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Kenneth Grange, industrial designer of modern life, dies at 95

Sir Kenneth Grange, a British industrial designer whose cameras, food mixers, trains, taxis, parking meters, pens, alarm clocks, lamps, and razors were among the most celebrated objects of modernist, post-World War II design, died July 21 at his home in London. He was 95.

Robin Warren, pathologist who rewrote the science on ulcers, dies at 87

Robin Warren, an Australian pathologist who shared a Nobel Prize for rewriting medical views on gut health with research that included his partner drinking a bacteria-laced brew to show how microbes can cause ulcers, died July 23 in Perth, Australia. He was 87.

Alma Powell, civic leader and widow of Colin Powell, dies at 86

In addition to supporting the diplomatic and military career of her husband, Colin, Ms. Powell served on several boards to help disadvantaged youths and wrote children's books.

Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas leader on Israel’s hit list since Oct. 7, is killed in an airstrike at 62

Hamas said Haniyeh was killed at his residence in Tehran in an Israeli airstrike after he attended the swearing-in ceremony of Iran’s new president. Israel has not commented on the accusation.

Tommy Robinson, colorful Arkansas sheriff and congressman, dies at 82

Mr. Robinson, who over two terms as a county sheriff in Arkansas in the 1980s made repeated national headlines with stunts like chaining inmates to a prison tower to protest jail overcrowding, and who then used that reputation to win three terms in Congress, died July 10.

Toumani Diabaté, world music master of Mali’s stringed kora, dies at 58

Mr. Diabaté, a Malian virtuoso of a 21-string instrument known as the kora, brought a rich West African musical legacy to audiences around the world with genre-mixing collaborations ranging from American blues to the London Symphony Orchestra.

Erica Ash, comedian and ‘Real Husbands of Hollywood’ and ‘Mad TV’ star, dies at 46

Ms. Ash, an actor and comedian skilled in sketch comedy, starred in the parody series “Mad TV” and “Real Husbands of Hollywood.”

John Teal, Woods Hole scientist who championed wetland protections, dies at 94

Teal’s research and advocacy efforts influenced key New England environmental protections, including the Massachusetts Wetlands Protection Act and the Boston Harbor cleanup.

Obituaries - The Boston Globe (2024)
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