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Evelyn Fox Keller, MIT professor emerita who challenged gender bias in science, dies at 87

“The relationship between gender and science is a pressing issue not simply because women have been historically excluded from science,” Dr. Keller once wrote.

‘Celtic Sojourn’ host Brian O’Donovan, who championed Irish music, dies at 66
"I try to lure people not just to my program, but into the art of the music,” he once said. “And to do that I have to play something alluring."

Dick Butkus, legendary Chicago Bears middle linebacker, has died
The ferocious defender is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and his No. 51 jersey is retired by the Bears.

Georgia Dullea, 90, dies; reporter chronicled a changing society

Georgia Dullea, a style reporter for The New York Times who chronicled, with sly bemusement and a miniaturist’s eye for detail, three decades of a culture in transition, died Sunday in the Bronx. She was 90.

Joe Christopher, an original Met who was Amazin’ in ’64, dies at 88
Joe Christopher, an original New York Met who achieved an unusual feat of competence in that often-bumbling, last-place franchise’s third season when he batted .300 in 1964, died Tuesday in Edgewood, Maryland. He was 88.

Harriet Pattison, 94, dies; landscape architect with a tie to Louis Kahn
Harriet Pattison, a noted landscape architect whose projects included the grounds of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and the memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt on Roosevelt Island in New York City, both of them collaborations with architect Louis Kahn, with whom she had a son, died on Monday at her home in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania. She was 94.

James Jorden, creator of an essential opera blog, dies at 69
James Jorden, a feisty, influential writer and editor who brought together high culture, punk aesthetics, and gleeful camp in his opera zine-turned-website Parterre Box, was found dead Monday at his home in Queens. He was 69.

Endel Tulving, psychologist who altered the study of memory, dies at 96
A cognitive psychologist who taught at the University of Toronto for 35 years, Endel Tulving transformed the study of human memory with revelatory observations about how the brain stores and retrieves information.

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Ed Young dies at 91; infused his illustrations with Chinese tradition

Ed Young, whose illustrations in some 100 children’s books, many of which he also wrote, mesmerized young and not-so-young readers with intricate depictions of fairy tales, poetry and his own life story as a Chinese immigrant, died on Sept. 29 at his home in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. He was 91.

John Gordon, artist who helped design Packers’ distinctive ‘G’ team logo, dies at age 83

John Gordon, an artist who as a young art student helped design the Green Bay Packers’ distinctive “G” team logo, has died at age 83.

Horace Ové, pioneering Black filmmaker in Britain, dies at 86

Horace Ové, a prolific and groundbreaking Trinidad-born filmmaker and photographer whose 1975 film, “Pressure,” explored the fraught experience of Black Britons and is considered the first feature film by a Black British director, died Sept. 16 in London. He was 86.

Alice Shalvi, hailed as a mother of feminism in Israel, dies at 96

Alice Shalvi, an innovative educator and social activist revered by many as a founding mother of modern Jewish feminism in Israel, died Monday at her home in Jerusalem. She was 96.

Echo Brown, young adult author and performer, dies at 39

Echo Brown, a late blooming storyteller who mined her life to create a one-woman show about Black female identity and two autobiographical young adult novels in which she used magical realism to help convey her reality, died Sept. 16 in Cleveland. She was 39.

Russell Sherman, luminous pianist and longtime New England Conservatory teacher, dies at 93

Mr. Sherman was a pianist of arresting insight, majestic technique, and transfiguring grace.

Chris Snow, NHL executive and ‘beacon of hope’ for those with ALS, dies at 42

“Hope meant outrunning ALS,” his wife, Kelsie Snow, once wrote.

Nancy Van de Vate, composer and advocate for women in music, dies at 92

Early in her career, Nancy Van de Vate, a celebrated modernist composer, would tell people about her work and sometimes be met with dismissive questions such as “Do you write songs for children?” And although she often won competitions that she had entered anonymously, her daughter Katherine said, she rarely won when she entered them under her own name, a dynamic she attributed to gender discrimination.