* Arthur Boyd; Australian Landscape Artist

Arthur Boyd, 78, Australian landscape artist, sculptor and philanthropist. Born to artistic parents, Boyd left school at the age of 14 and briefly attended night classes at the National Gallery School in Melbourne. At the age of 16, he went to live and study with his grandfather, Arthur Merric Boyd, in rural Victoria state. A year later, the teenager presented his first art exhibition. Prime Minister John Howard hailed Boyd as one of Australia’s greatest painters of the 20th century and said he would be remembered for helping Australians understand and appreciate their nation’s landscape. In 1993, Boyd gave his $13-million, 2,470-acre rural property in New South Wales state to the Australian people. On Saturday in Melbourne.

* Teodoro Garcia; Fought Pancho Villa

Teodoro Garcia, 110, the last known surviving Mexican soldier who fought Pancho Villa’s rebel forces during the Mexican Revolution. Born Jan. 7, 1889, in Sacramento, Mexico, Garcia was among the Mexican federales who fought for dictator Porfirio Diaz, winner of several fraudulent elections for the presidency. Villa joined the revolution on the side of Francisco Madero, who in 1910 toppled Diaz. Garcia fought for Diaz in 1910 and 1911, said Manuel Urbina, professor of Latin American history at College of the Mainland in Texas City, Texas. The son of a wealthy hacienda owner, Garcia was in the cavalry and rose to the rank of first lieutenant. His left arm suffered permanent damage from a bullet wound. After his family fled to Texas, Garcia worked as a carpenter’s assistant, bricklayer and contractor, retiring at the age of 80. On Saturday in Houston.

* Sir L. Kirwan; Organized Everest Conquest

Sir Laurence Kirwan, 91, who led England’s Royal Geographic Society for three decades and helped organize the first conquest of Mt. Everest. As director and secretary of the society from 1945 to 1975, Kirwan was deeply involved in organizing three major expeditions: the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic expedition of 1949-52 led by John Giaever; the 1953 Everest expedition led by John Hunt, and the trans-Antarctic expedition of 1955-57 led by Vivian Fuchs. Two members of Hunt’s expedition, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, reached the summit of Mt. Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, on May 29, 1953. Leaving Oxford without a degree, Kirwan began his career working in Egypt and the Sudan. He later advised the Sudanese government regarding the flooding of Nubian antiquities by the Aswan dam. Kirwan, who wrote or co-wrote several books about his expeditions and those he organized, was knighted in 1972. On April 16 in London.

* Fred ‘Red’ McKinnon; TV Lighting Designer

Fred “Red” McKinnon, 73, television lighting designer who worked on specials, including political events and beauty pageants. A native of Staten Island, N.Y., McKinnon began his career as a teenager working in the NBC mail room. He put himself through New York’s RCA Institute and the Illuminating Engineering Society program and worked as house electrician for live radio shows. From 1950 to 1971, McKinnon was staff lighting director for NBC. For the next 12 years, he worked with Imero Fiorentino Associates Inc. and later with the Los Angeles-based Design Partners Inc. McKinnon had most recently worked with “The Oprah Winfrey Show” on location and “Larry King Live” from Los Angeles’ CNN studios. He also lighted several Republican and Democratic national convention telecasts, the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 and “The Miss America Pageant.” On April 21 in Los Angeles of heart failure.

* Herman Miller; Developed TV’s ‘Kung Fu’

Herman Miller, 79, television writer and producer who developed the “Kung Fu” series of the 1970s. Miller wrote the pilot and first three episodes of the highly stylized, philosophical Western created by Ed Spielman about a soft-spoken drifter who eschewed violence but used martial arts as a last resort. The popular series, which aired on the ABC network from 1972 to 1975, starred David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, and was notable for its use of slow-motion, particularly in fight sequences, and flashbacks showing how the young Caine learned the discipline required by the martial arts. Miller, who spent much of his life on a spiritual quest, won a Writers Guild award for best episodic drama in 1972 for a “Kung Fu” script titled “King of the Mountain.” His other television credits include scripts for “The Beverly Hillbillies,” “Death Valley Days,” “MacGyver” and “The New Mike Hammer.” He also wrote feature films, including “Coogan’s Bluff,” which he later developed as the television series “McCloud.” A Brooklyn, N.Y., native who earned a master’s degree in drama at USC, Miller wrote and directed the off-Broadway play “Ulysses Complex,” produced in 1982. On Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after a long illness.

* John Nicolaides; Former NASA Official

John Nicolaides, 76, former NASA official and Cal Poly San Luis Obispo aeronautics professor. Born in Washington, D.C., Nicolaides earned degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic University, Johns Hopkins University and Catholic University of America. He served in the Navy during World War II, developing weapons including the atomic bomb. An avid golfer, he also invented the Royal Plus-6 golf ball, still used in a modified form. Nicolaides served as director of space sciences and applications with NASA, was the first technical director for the Navy space program and was a scientific advisor to the Army, Navy and Air Force. He invented the parafoil, a rectangular parachute used by the Army Golden Knights and others, and added a motorized vehicle, calling it the Nicolaides Flyer. He later taught and did research at Notre Dame University and in 1975 joined the staff of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He was the author of “Missile Flight Dynamics.” On Sunday in San Luis Obispo of a bone marrow disorder.

* Michi Nishiura Weglyn; Costume Designer

Michi Nishiura Weglyn, 72, Japanese American costume designer who wrote of American internment camps. Born in Stockton, Calif., Weglyn was one of 112,000 citizens placed in “relocation centers” during World War II. In 1976, she published an account of the Japanese American internment in the book: “Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America’s Concentration Camps” with an introduction by James A. Michener. Weglyn also became a civil rights and welfare rights advocate along with her husband, the late Walter Weglyn, a Jewish refugee from the Netherlands. In 1993, the couple funded the Michi and Walter Weglyn Endowed Chair for Multicultural Studies at Cal Poly Pomona, and she dedicated future royalties from her book for its support. Not a professional writer, Weglyn instead was a highly successful costume designer working under the name “Michi.” Educated at Mount Holyoke and Barnard Colleges, she designed costumes for ice shows, nightclubs, Broadway plays and television series including “The Tony Bennett Show” and the long-running “The Perry Como Show.” On Sunday in New York City of cancer.