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Alex Traub

Alex Traub

Reporter and Writer, Obituaries Desk at The New York Times

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Juan Hamilton, Georgia O’Keeffe’s Companion and Contested Heir, Dies at 79

As a young potter, he turned up on the doorstep of an octogenarian master of modern painting. They grew so close it became a scandal.
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Marion Wiesel, Translator, Strategist and Wife of Elie Wiesel, Dies...

A fellow survivor, she was a literary and political adviser who helped her husband gain recognition as a singular moral authority on the Holocaust.
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Harry Stewart Jr. Dies at 100; One of Last Tuskegee Airmen to See C...

His boyhood dream to be an adventurous pilot was fulfilled thanks to World War II. But, as a civilian, racial prejudice kept him out of the cockpit.
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Claire van Kampen, 71, Playwright and Arranger of Period Music, Dies

After she married Mark Rylance, the two often collaborated; her specialty was arranging music for Tudor-era plays. Then she wrote a period piece of her own.
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Bill McCartney, Coach Who Led a Movement for ‘Godly’ Men, Dies at 84

After transforming the University of Colorado’s football team, he founded the Promise Keepers, a masculine revivalist group that drew millions of supporters.
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Olivia Hussey, Teen Star of a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ on Film, Dies at 73

Her passionate portrayal of Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s 1968 adaptation won enduring acclaim. In 2023, she sued over the circumstances of a nude scene.
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Sir Lady Java, ’60s Drag Star Who Challenged the Law, Dies

Sir Lady Java, ’60s Drag Star Who Challenged the Law, Dies
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Victor Brombert, Princeton Scholar With a Secret Army Past, Dies at...

As a Jewish teen, he fled the Nazis for America — then landed at D-Day and swept across Europe in a unit that gathered intelligence. Its work was hidden for decades.
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Mary McGee, Motorcycle Racing Pioneer, Is Dead at 87

Her most remarkable achievement came in 1975, when she became the first person, man or woman, to complete the Baja 500 race solo.
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‘A Wonderful Wit’: Woody Allen on Working With Marshall Brickman

In an interview, Mr. Allen describes the years he spent collaborating with Mr. Brickman, a friend, on beloved movies. Mr. Brickman died on Friday.
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Bruce Degen, Who Drew ‘The Magic School Bus,’ Dies at 79

Bruce Degen, Who Drew ‘The Magic School Bus,’ Dies at 79