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Vernon E. Jordan Jr., the Washington civil rights leader and power broker whose private advice was sought at the highest levels of government and the corporate world, died Monday at his Washington home. He was 85 years old.His death was…

Fred Segal, whose fashion boutiques became a Los Angeles landmark selling figure-hugging jeans and chambray shirts to Bob Dylan, Farah Fawcett and the Beatles, died Thursday in Santa Monica, California. He was 87 years old.The cause was…

A Michigan woman died 61 days after receiving a pair of lungs from an organ donor infected with the coronavirus. This came out from a case report published this month.There was no evidence that the donor, a woman who was fatally injured in…

Lenore Janis, a force of nature in New York's construction industry who left thousands of cracks in the concrete ceiling of a male-dominated company, died on January 31 at an assisted living facility in Brookfield, Connecticut. She was 86…

Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabia's powerful oil minister and architect of the Arab world's aspiration to control its own energy resources in the 1970s and later influence oil production, fuel prices and international affairs, died in London.…

This obituary is part of a series about people who died from the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.By the time Leo A. Goodman started working on statistics in the early 1950s, social science researchers had a problem. It was…

When Seattle grunge band Nirvana recorded their breakthrough album "Nevermind" at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California in 1991, they used a massive mixer developed by a British engineer named Rupert Neve.The Neve 8028 console and…

Bruce Blackburn, a graphic designer whose modern and minimalist logos were anchored in the nation's consciousness, including the four bold red letters for NASA known as "Worm" and the bicentennial star of the 1976 American Revolution, died…

But as the millennium turned, Mr. Limbaugh faced problems that threatened his kingdom. In 2001, he admitted that he was almost deaf - which was due to an autoimmune disease. He continued his show with powerful hearing aids, but they…

Stewart Prestley Blake was born on November 26, 1914 in Jersey City, New Jersey, to Herbert Prestley Blake and Ethel (Stewart) Blake. He grew up in Springfield, where his father worked for the watch manufacturer Standard Electric Time…