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Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty had been the longest-serving finance minister among the Group of Seven leading industrial economies until resigning in March to return to the private sector. (Sean Kilpatrick / Associated Press)
British author Sue Townsend’s “Adrian Mole” diaries sold millions of copies. (Ben McMillan / EPA/Penguin Group)
Herbert Allison Jr. testifies about the government’s bailout program in 2009. Allison spent much of his career at Merrill Lynch before going into government service. (Gerald Herbert / Associated Press)
Gary S. Becker, left, receives the 1992 Nobel Prize in economic sciences. Becker is credited with pioneering the approach to economics as a study of human behavior (Tobbe Gustavsson / Associated Press)
ThyssenKrupp AG board of directors member Berthold Beitz prior to the annual shareholders meeting of the steel company in Bochum, Germany, in 2012. (Frank Augstein / Associated Press)
The lobby of the Ace Hotel in downtown Portland, Ore., is shown in July. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times)
Joseph A. Dear is shown in 2009, the year he joined CalPERS as it reeled from nearly $100 billion in losses in the economic downturn of 2008-09. Dear immediately began a methodical process of restructuring and rebalancing the portfolio, which had plunged to $165 billion just before he arrived in Sacramento. (Robert Durell / For the Los Angeles Times)
Detroit Lions owner William Clay Ford on the sidelines before a game against the Washington Redskins in 2008. He became known as an unpretentious owner with a greater passion for his team than for his profits. (Paul Sancya / Associated Press)
Lucy Hood (1957-2014) -- President and chief operating officer of the Television Academy. (Christopher Polk / Getty Images)
Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz, shown last week in Philadelphia, was among seven people killed Saturday night in a fiery plane crash in Massachusetts, the newspaper’s editor said Sunday. (Matt Rourke / Associated Press)
Fred Kavli, at his Santa Barbara home in 2008, gave money to scientific institutions and researchers in addition to several nonprofits in the Moorpark area. He died Thursday at 86. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
G.I. Joe creator Don Levine holds up his original scuba diver G.I. Joe prototype. Levine has died at 86. (Victoria Arocho / Associated Press)
George P. Mitchell, a billionaire oilman, developer and philanthropist, is shown in his Houston office in 2009. Mitchell, one of the wealthiest men in the Unted States, died at his home in Galveston at the age of 94. (Nick de la Torre / Associated Press)
This Oct. 22, 2009, photo shows Hans Riegel, the longtime marketing executive of German candy maker Haribo who took the gummi bear to international fame, in Bonn, Germany. Haribo said in a statement that Riegel, the son of the company’s founder, died of heart failure in Bonn on Tuesday. He was 90. (Rolf Vennenbernd / Associated Press)
Richard Mellon Scaife in a 1997 photo. (Keith Srakocic / Associated Press)
Tom Sherak took on the position of Los Angeles’ film czar even as he was being treated for prostate cancer. (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)
Financier and honoree Muriel Siebert speaks on stage during the Brooklyn Museum’s Sackler Center First Awards at the Brooklyn Museum in 2012. (Neilson Barnard / Getty Images)
Hiroshi Yamauchi, president of Japan’s Nintendo Co., in 1992. (Katsumi Kasahara / Associated Press)