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PASSINGS: Joe Maross, Al Cervi, Rod Van Hook
Joe Maross dies at 86, prolific character actor; Al Cervi dies at 92, basketball hall of famer; Rod Van Hook dies at 61, veteran sports broadcaster
Vitaly Ginzburg dies at 93; Nobel Prize-winning Russian physicist
Ginzburg played a key role in the Soviet Union's development of the hydrogen bomb. He was awarded the Nobel for his work on the theoretical underpinnings of superconductivity.
David F. Belnap dies at 87; Times correspondent in Latin America
The prize-winning Belnap, based in Buenos Aires, joined The Times in 1967 after working for United Press and remained in the Argentine capital until 1980, when he became an editor at the paper in L.A.
John Scolinos dies at 91; Cal Poly Pomona baseball coach
He turned the school into a baseball powerhouse, winning three Division II national championships. Scolinos was inducted into the American Assn. of Collegiate Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1974.
Jan Vandersloot dies at 64; leading Orange County environmental activist
He was a founder of the Bolsa Chica Land Trust and a founder and board member of the Ocean Outfall Group, which pushed to clean up waste water pumped offshore in Huntington Beach.
Nien Cheng dies at 94; survivor of torture during China's Cultural Revolution
Cheng recounted her 61/2 years of imprisonment in an acclaimed memoir, 'Life and Death in Shanghai.' Despite solitary confinement and losing her teeth, she refused to succumb to her interrogators.
PASSINGS: Barbara J. Miller
Barbara J. Miller, judge who sided with UC Berkeley in building plans that prompted a tree-sitting protest, dies at 58
Seymour Fromer dies at 87; founder of Jewish museums
At the Judah L. Magnes Museum in Berkeley, he displayed thousands of items reflecting the daily lives of Jews around the world. Another museum highlights the Jewish pioneers of the American West.
Stacy Rowles dies at 54; jazz trumpet and fluegelhorn player
Rowles, the daughter of pianist and composer Jimmy Rowles, was a fixture in the L.A. jazz scene. She had built a following in Europe, where she regularly toured.
Nick Counter dies at 69; former chief negotiator for major studios
He was president of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for 27 years and oversaw hundreds of Hollywood labor contracts with writers, actors, film crews, musicians and others.
George Na'ope dies at 81; guardian of native Hawaiian culture
He taught traditional hula dance and chanting to generations of students and introduced the ancient art forms to new audiences. In 2006, he was honored with a National Heritage Fellowship award.
PASSINGS: Manuel Solis, Bill Shepard
Manuel Solis dies at 91, former president of Panama; Bill Shepard dies at 79, longtime casting director
Shel Dorf dies at 76; architect behind San Diego's Comic-Con
As a child, Dorf was an avid comic reader and collector. The first convention drew 300 people in 1970. More than 125,000 attended this year's edition of the pop-culture showcase.
Thomas P. O'Malley dies at 79; former president of Loyola Marymount University
The Jesuit priest also was a dean and professor at Boston College.
Nancy Spero dies at 83; pioneering feminist artist
Her works, which combined drawing, painting, collage and printmaking, examined the treatment of women and the horrors of war.
Bernerd Harding dies at 90; WWII veteran went on quest for his pilot's wings
As a first lieutenant, his B-24 bomber was shot down in Germany a month after the D-Day invasion of Normandy. He returned to a village there two months ago, but came up empty-handed.
Carl Ballantine dies at 92; comedy magician was in 'McHale's Navy' cast
The performer appeared on many other TV shows, in movies and in Las Vegas.
Marian L. Gore dies at 95; antiquarian bookseller
She specialized in titles on food and wine, selling at fairs and by mail order, but says what she really sold was nostalgia.
Lou Filippo dies at 83; boxing hall of famer appeared in 'Rocky' movies
Filippo was known as a pillar of honesty in the sport. He refereed and judged 85 world championship fights, including Sugar Ray Leonard's split-decision win over Marvin Hagler in 1987.
Claude Levi-Strauss dies at 100; French philosopher's ideas transformed anthropology
He was known as the father of modern anthropology because of his then-revolutionary conclusion that so-called primitive societies did not differ greatly intellectually from modern ones.
PASSINGS: Dave Treen, Forest Evashevski, Cordner Nelson
Dave Treen, former governor of Louisiana, dies at 81; Forest Evashevski, University of Iowa football coach, dies at 91; Cordner Nelson, co-founder of Track & Field News, dies at 91
Melvin Brunetti dies at 75; federal appeals court judge
He sat on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for 24 years. His key opinions include upholding Robert Alton Harris' death penalty and broader Pentagon scrutiny of homosexuals' security clearances.
PASSINGS: John Kenley, Jeanne Brodeur
Kenley ran a summer stock theater circuit in Ohio; Brodeur was an official at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach
Lawrence Halprin dies at 93; designer made urban settings feel like nature
The landscape architect behind the FDR memorial, Ghiradelli Square and several public spaces in downtown L.A. focused on how people would interact with their surroundings.
PASSINGS: Dave Treen, Cordner Nelson
Treen was former governor of Louisiana; Nelson was co-founder of of Track & Field News
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