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
By Thomas H. Maugh II
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.
By Claire Noland
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.
By Keith Thursby
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.
By Keith Thursby
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.
By Patricia Sullivan
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.
Barbara J. Miller, judge who sided with UC Berkeley in building plans that prompted a tree-sitting protest, dies at 58
By Elaine Woo
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.
By Keith Thursby
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.
By Richard Verrier
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.
By Claire Noland
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.
Manuel Solis dies at 91, former president of Panama; Bill Shepard dies at 79, longtime casting director
By Valerie J. Nelson
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.
By Elaine Woo
The Jesuit priest also was a dean and professor at Boston College.
Her works, which combined drawing, painting, collage and printmaking, examined the treatment of women and the horrors of war.
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.
By Dennis McLellan
The performer appeared on many other TV shows, in movies and in Las Vegas.
By Valerie J. Nelson
She specialized in titles on food and wine, selling at fairs and by mail order, but says what she really sold was nostalgia.
By Lance Pugmire
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.
By Thomas H. Maugh II
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.
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
By Carol J. Williams
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.
Kenley ran a summer stock theater circuit in Ohio; Brodeur was an official at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach
By Valerie J. Nelson
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.
Treen was former governor of Louisiana; Nelson was co-founder of of Track & Field News