Browsing: Dies

Ann Lurie, a self-proclaimed hippie who became one of Chicago’s most famous philanthropists, in one case giving more than $100…

Anthony JF O’Reilly, a charming, talented, Irish-born former chairman of the HJ Heinz Company who also owned newspapers, luxury brands…

Lynn Conway, a pioneering computer scientist who was fired by IBM in the 1960s after telling managers she was transgender…

Morrie Markoff, a centenarian blogger and scrap metal sculptor who was believed to be the oldest man in the United…

H. Bruce Franklin, a self-described Maoist whose dismissal from Stanford University in 1972 for an anti-Vietnam War speech became a…

Taro Akebono, a Hawaiian-born sumo wrestler who became the sport’s first foreign grand champion and helped revive the sport’s popularity…

Anthony Insolia, a down-to-earth former Newsday editor who presided over the expansion of that Long Island newspaper and several major…

David E. Harris, a former Air Force bomber pilot who at the height of the civil rights movement in the…

Defying the boundaries of taste and time, Martin Greenfield made suits for President Dwight Eisenhower, gangster Meyer Lansky, Leonardo DiCaprio…

James D. Robinson III, who as chief executive of American Express Company from 1977 to 1993 helped transform Wall Street…