Obituaries
Donald Harington 
The novelist who created a surreal Ozark world
Earl Cooley
The firefighter who pioneered smoke jumping
Vitaly Ginzburg
The Soviet physicist who worked on the H-bomb
Robert Rines
The inventor who hunted ‘Nessie’
Carl Ballantine
The comic who was a bumbling magician
Claude Lévi-Strauss
The scholar who changed the study of humanity
Qian Xuesen
The scientist who put China in space
Michelle Triola Marvin
The actress who made the case for ‘palimony’
Roy DeCarava
The photographer who chronicled black lives
Lou Jacobi
The actor who wore his heart on his face
Jack Nelson
The journalist who infuriated J. Edgar Hoover
Soupy Sales
The comedian who relished pies in the face
Al Martino
The chart-topping crooner who sang in The Godfather
Bruce Wasserstein
The investment banker whose deals made for high drama
David I. Shapiro
The lawyer who defended free speech
Israel Gelfand
The mathematician who could not be contained
Irving Penn
The fashion photographer who created art
Marek Edelman
The fighter who helped lead the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Donal McLaughlin Jr.
The graphic artist who created the United Nations logo
Susan Atkins
The Manson ‘family’ member who murdered Sharon Tate
