John ‘Jack’ King Baillie; Civic Leader and Former Head of S & L

John “Jack” King Baillie, 87, a civic leader, yachtsman and former president and chairman of the board of Los Angeles Federal Savings & Loan Assn. Reared in Pasadena and educated at USC, Baillie worked in the family business, Los Angeles Federal Savings, which is now part of Wells Fargo Bank. He inherited the president’s mantle in 1959 after the death of his father, John K. Baillie Sr., a veteran financial journalist. The younger Baillie guided development and construction of a landmark headquarters building, the 22-story Sunset & Vine Tower, in the early 1960s. In 1959, Mayor Norris Poulson named Baillie to the Los Angeles Airport Commission. He later served on the Los Angeles Harbor Commission and the statewide Perishable Agricultural Commodities Corp. In the 1950s, Baillie served as president of the Los Angeles County Savings & Loan Managers. A lifelong yachtsman, he sailed in the Newport-Ensenada Ocean Race more than 40 times in six boats and won five times. He was best known as skipper of the Newsboy, a 12-meter yacht he purchased in 1968 and named for a 19th century ship built in the same shipyard in Marblehead, Mass. On Dec. 14 in Newport Beach of Parkinson’s disease.

Sir Alan Hodgkin; Biologist Shared Nobel Prize in Medicine

Sir Alan Hodgkin, 84, a biologist who shared the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1963. Hodgkin and fellow scientists Sir Andrew Huxley and Sir John Eccles earned the prize for explaining how nerve cells send messages to the brain. Their research revealed the complex manner in which nerve cells transmit electrical impulses from the skin to the brain and back again. Educated at Cambridge, Hodgkin halted his research into the nervous system during World War II while he worked with other scientists to develop Britain’s radar program. Hodgkin’s American father-in-law, Frederick Rous, won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1966 for discovering that some forms of leukemia are caused by a virus. Hodgkin was knighted in 1972 and awarded the Order of Merit in 1973. On Sunday in Cambridge, England.

Antonio Ordonez; Matador Inspired Hemingway Novel

Antonio Ordonez, 66, a Spanish matador who befriended author Ernest Hemingway and inspired one of his novels. Ordonez was the son of Nino de la Palma, the bullfighter who was the hero of Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises.” When Ordonez met the American writer, he asked if he was as good as his father. “Better,” said Hemingway. The intense rivalry between Ordonez and his brother-in-law, Luis Miguel, known as “Dominguin,” provided the background for Hemingway’s 1959 work “The Dangerous Summer,” written as a three-part series for Life magazine and later issued in a book version. Ordonez made his bullring debut in 1948 and fought until 1971. He killed more than 2,000 bulls, was gored countless times and suffered 27 serious injuries. After his retirement from the ring, Ordonez bred bulls for fighting. He also owned the bullring in his native Ronda, where the art of bullfighting was first codified in the 18th century. On Saturday in Seville, Spain, of an unspecified but lingering illness.

B.V. Raman; Author Promoted Scientific Study of Astrology

B.V. Raman, 87, India’s most famous astrologer. Raman, who promoted the scientific study of astrology, founded dozens of astrology study groups across the world and wrote more than 100 books on the subject. He also edited the Astrological Magazine. On Sunday in Bangalore, India, of a heart attack.