Harold Keith; Chaired California Arts Council

Harold Keith, 80, former chairman of the California Arts Council. The Rochester, N.Y., native began his career as an actor and maintained a lifelong interest in theater. He was a founder of the Los Angeles County Music Center and served on the board of its Center Theatre Group, as well as on the board of Los Angeles Free Public Theater. Keith created and operated Belkeith Jewelers in the Broadway department stores, building his chain to 30 outlets. He later became a political activist concerned with such issues as pollution, government waste and the Vietnam War, and once ran unsuccessfully for Congress. As a board member of the Coro Foundation, which offers a public affairs internship program for young people, Keith helped rescue the foundering organization financially. He and his second wife, Diane Slotkin Bregman, bred racehorses and engaged in philanthropy. They endowed a gallery at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and donated a major sculpture to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. On Sunday in Beverly Hills.

Dr. Edward A. Weinstein; Neuropsychiatrist, Author

Dr. Edward A. Weinstein, 89, author and neuropsychiatrist who studied the relationships of brain function, culture and experience. Among his best-known books were “Denial of Illness,” which he co-wrote with Robert L. Kahn in 1955, “Cultural Aspects of Delusion” in 1962, and “Woodrow Wilson,” a medical and psychological biography of the former president, published in 1981. Weinstein taught at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, the Washington School of Psychiatry and Mt. Sinai Medical School in New York. He was also a consultant at the National Naval Medical Center and a guest researcher at the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health. Weinstein’s most recent research examined the Alzheimer’s disease suffered by former President Ronald Reagan. Born in New York and educated at Dartmouth and Northwestern University Medical School, Weinstein was the doctor at Cook County Hospital who declared John Dillinger dead after the notorious bank robber was shot by FBI agents. Weinstein served in the Army neuropsychiatric unit in Italy during World War II and was assigned to bring the brain of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini to the United States for medical analysis. In the 1960s, he became a consultant to the President’s Office of Science and Technology, reviewing threatening letters to the president to try to determine psychiatric information on the senders. On Monday in Bethesda, Md.