Laurence Arnold

William Webster, the only person to lead both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency and, very briefly, the first head of the US accounting oversight board, has died. He was 101.

Donald Weeden, who as chairman of securities firm Weeden & Co. clashed with New York Stock Exchange officials in the 1970s over what he and others saw as anticompetitive rules and practices, has died. He was 95.

S. Daniel Abraham, the New Yorker who became a billionaire by tempting dieters with Slim-Fast meal-replacement shakes and selling his company in 2000 to Unilever NV, has died. He was 100.

Carolyn McCarthy, the New York congresswoman motivated to enter politics by the shooting of her husband and son, only to find gun control a difficult sell in Washington, has died. She was 81.

Leonard Lauder, who built Estée Lauder Cos. into one of the world’s biggest cosmetics makers and catapulted himself into the top echelon of wealthiest New Yorkers, has died. He was 92.

Wayne Angell, who brought a farmer’s wariness of inflation to US monetary policy-making during an eight-year term on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors starting in 1986, has died. He was 94.

Jimmy Carter, the former Georgia peanut farmer who as US president brokered a historic and lasting peace accord between Israel and Egypt in a single term marred by soaring inflation, an oil shortage and Iran’s holding of American hostages, has died. He was 100.

A distinctive feature of Russia’s military tactics has been that it doesn’t rule out using nuclear weapons in a conventional war.

Thomas E. Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who co-created the novice-friendly computer code known as Basic during the 1960s and helped make it the industry standard for programmers during the rise of personal computing, has died. He was 96.

William Donaldson, a founder of Wall Street investment bank Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette who presided over a divided US Securities and Exchange Commission during its crackdown on corporate misdeeds from 2003 to 2005, has died. He was 93.