Browsing: Deaths (Obituaries)
Loretta Ford, who co-founded the first academic program for nurse practitioners in 1965, then spent decades transforming the field of…
Wolfgang Zwiener, who immigrated to New York City from Germany in 1960, ferried thousands of hissing platters of porterhouse to…
Jay Mazur, a blunt-speaking, Bronx-born labor leader who was president of American garment workers’ unions in the 1980s and ’90s,…
Charles Phan, a self-taught chef whose family fled Vietnam when he was a teenager and whose sleek restaurant helped change…
David Schneiderman, an editor turned publisher turned chief executive of The Village Voice, the granddaddy of alternative newspapers, whose 28-year…
The first time Jean Jennings confronted the Mexican federal police, they had just arrested one of her friends for public…
Oliviero Toscani, an Italian photographer who used images of an AIDS patient and death row inmates to break the boundaries…
James Arthur Ray, an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker who spent two years in prison for manslaughter after the 2009 deaths of…
Richard M. Cohen, an outspoken and award-winning television news producer whose career was eventually derailed by the ravages of multiple…
Paul F. Oreffice, who as the pugnacious head of Dow Chemical grew and diversified the company at the same time…