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The celebrated Colombian scientist Manuel Elkin Patarroyo passed away on January 9 in the country’s capital city, Bogotá, the National University confirmed. The scientist, who held degrees in medicine from Colombia’s National University, and Immunology and Virology from Yale University, was 78 years old. In conversation with Colombian newspaper Semana, Patarroyo’s son explained that his…
Charles Santore was in the middle of illustrating the children’s book he did not know would be his last when he began to feel weak. The book was “The Scroobious Pip,” Edward Lear’s nonsense poem about an uncategorizable creature: part beast, part bird, part fish, part insect. The man bringing it to visual life was…
Oliviero Toscani, an Italian photographer who used images of an AIDS patient and death row inmates to break the boundaries of fashion imagery as the creative mastermind of Benetton’s advertising campaigns, died on Monday. He was 82. His death was announced by his family on Instagram. They did not say where he died or cite…
Coach Bill McCartney, founder of the Christian men’s movement \”Promise Keepers,\” preaches about the spiritual needs of men before some 2,500 clergy inside the Nashville Arena Feb. 5, 1998. Former Colorado football coach Bill McCartney, who guided the Buffaloes to their only national championship, died Friday night at age 84. In a statement, his family…
James Arthur Ray, an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker who spent two years in prison for manslaughter after the 2009 deaths of three people in a sweat lodge, the culmination of a three-day spiritual program he ran in the Arizona desert, died on Jan. 3 in Henderson, Nev. He was 67. His brother, Jon Ray, announced the…
Richard M. Cohen, an outspoken and award-winning television news producer whose career was eventually derailed by the ravages of multiple sclerosis, which he wrote about in a best-selling memoir, died on Dec. 24 in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., a village in Westchester County. He was 76. His wife, the former “Today” show host Meredith Vieira, said…
In early 1988, the British neuropsychiatrist Peter Fenwick found himself drowning in letters from people who believed they had survived an encounter with death. “I slowly floated down a tunnel, not afraid in any way but looking forward to something,” one man wrote to him. “When it came I was absolutely at peace and going…
Carole Wilbourn, a self-described cat therapist, who was known for her skill in decoding the emotional life of cats, as confounding as that would seem to be, died on Dec. 23 at her home in Manhattan. She was 84. Her death was confirmed by her sister Gail Mutrux. Ms. Wilbourn’s patients shredded sofas, toilet paper…
Rosita Missoni, who, with her husband, Ottavio Missoni, built a luxury clothing brand on a foundation of boldly colorful striped and zigzagged knitwear that helped make Milan a capital of Italian high fashion, died on Wednesday at her home in Sumirago, in Northern Italy. She was 93. Her death was confirmed on Thursday by Angela…
Dr. Michael H. Stone, a psychiatrist and scholar who sought to define evil and to differentiate its manifestations from the typical behavior of people who are mentally ill, died on Dec. 6 at his home in Manhattan. He was 90. The cause was complications of a stroke he had in January, his son David said….
