Jeanne-Claude, Christo’s Collaborator on Environmental Canvas, Is Dead at 74

Sir John Crofton, Pioneer in TB Cure, Dies at 97

By DENISE GELLENE

The clinician showed that three antibiotics could be safely combined to provide a cure, providing the template for later combination therapies for cancer and AIDS.

Wade F. B. Thompson, Who Rebuilt Airstream Brand, Dies at 69

By DAVID SEGAL

Mr. Thompson and his partner bought travel trailer businesses, including the popular Airstream brand, which they built up after a difficult period.

Glenn Remick, Darts Promoter, Dies at 58

By DENNIS HEVESI

Mr. Remick became a professional darting promoter in 1977 when he opened a dart supply store in Holyoke, Mass., and founded the Western Massachusetts Darting Association.

Col. Lewis Millett, Who Led ‘Bayonet Hill’ Charge, Dies at 88

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN

Colonel Millett was an Army veteran of three wars who received the Medal of Honor for leading a rare bayonet charge up a hill in Korea.

Eugene Cotton, Labor Union Lawyer, Dies at 95

By STEVEN GREENHOUSE

Mr. Cotton was a labor lawyer whose negotiating savvy helped improve the wages and conditions of tens of thousands of meatpacking workers.

Sy Syms, Founder of Discount Chain, Dies at 83

By CHARLES DUHIGG

Mr. Syms pioneered selling off-price clothing and built his retail chain, the Syms Corporation, into a national brand.

Allen Hughes, Music and Dance Critic for The Times, Dies at 87

By ALLAN KOZINN

Mr. Hughes was known for his encouragement of experimental dance companies and his love of the 20th-century French musical repertory.

Pierre Harmel, Belgian Who Helped Reshape NATO, Dies at 98

By BRUCE WEBER

Mr. Harmel was a former prime minister but had his greatest impact as the foreign minister when he was deeply involved in the future of the Atlantic alliance.

Irving Kriesberg, Artist of Dreamlike Landscapes, Dies at 90

By MARGALIT FOX

Mr. Kriesberg was an American painter whose work combined the intense colors of Abstract Expressionism with haunting images of human and animal forms.

Bobby Frankel, 68, Trainer of Champion Horses, Dies

By WILLIAM GRIMES

Mr. Frankel was one of the most successful American thoroughbred trainers of the last 40 years, though he never won the Kentucky Derby.

Edward Woodward, Star of Spy Series, Dies at 79

By BRUCE WEBER

Mr. Woodward was a British actor with a long résumé in television and theater who was best known in the United States as the star of “The Equalizer.”

Ken Ober, Host of ‘Remote Control’ on TV, Dies at 52

By DAVE ITZKOFF

Mr. Ober was a brassy comedian best known as the host of the 1980s-era MTV game show “Remote Control.”

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Patriarch Pavle, Serbian Church Leader, Dies at 95

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Patriarch Pavle called for peace and conciliation during the Balkan ethnic wars of the 1990s but failed to openly condemn extreme Serb nationalism.

James R. Lilley, 81, Envoy in Tiananmen Era, Dies

By DAVID STOUT

A native of China, Mr. Lilley worked there for the C.I.A. for years and served as the American ambassador from 1989 to 1991.

John J. O’Connor, a Times TV Critic in Years of Industry Upheaval, Dies at 76

By ANITA GATES

Mr. O’Connor was a television critic for The New York Times for more than 25 years.

Earl Cooley Is Dead at 98; Fought Fires as Original Smoke Jumper

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Mr. Cooley was one of the last links to the beginnings of a firefighting program famed for both efficiency and audacity.

Amir Pnueli, Pioneer of Temporal Logic, Dies at 68

By KENNETH CHANG

Mr. Pnueli turned a philosopher’s explorations of time, logic and free will, called temporal logic, into a critical technique for verifying the reliability of computers.

Earl Coleman, Publisher and Poet, Dies at 93

By WILLIAM GRIMES

Mr. Coleman started a custom translation service and built it into the Plenum Publishing Corporation, one of the world’s largest translators and publishers of scientific and technical material.

Bruce King, 3-Term Governor, Dies at 85

By BRUCE WEBER

Mr. King rose from a rough-hewn, rural upbringing on the family ranch to become the only three-term governor of New Mexico.

William Ganz, Catheter Inventor, Dies at 90

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Dr. Ganz, a cardiologist and medical inventor, helped develop a revolutionary catheter to measure blood flow and heart functions.

David Lloyd, 75, Dies; Wrote ‘Chuckles’ Episode

By BRUCE WEBER

Mr. Lloyd wrote scores of scripts for some of the most popular television sitcoms of the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s.

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Dick Katz, 85, Jazzman of Many Gifts Over 6 Decades, Is Dead

By BEN RATLIFF

Mr. Katz was a pianist, record producer and writer whose knowledge of jazz made him a valuable presence on New York’s jazz scene for six decades.

Thomas J. O’Malley, Who Helped Launch Glenn Into Orbit, Dies at 94

By DENNIS HEVESI

Mr. O’Malley was the aviation engineer who pushed the button that launched the rocket that carried John Glenn into orbit in 1962.

Gene D. Cohen, Geriatric Psychiatrist, Dies at 65

By BRUCE WEBER

Dr. Cohen was a pioneer in the field of geriatric psychiatry who helped shift the emphasis in gerontological research from the problems of people as they age to their potential.

John J. O’Connor III, Husband of Former Justice, Is Dead at 79

By DENNIS HEVESI

Mr. O’Connor was a lawyer whose struggle with Alzheimer’s disease was a large factor in the decision by his wife, former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, to retire.