He was one of the last of “The Few,” the Royal Air Force airmen who defended Britain against the powerful Luftwaffe.
Author: RICHARD SANDOMIR
George Sakheim, Interpreter at Nuremberg Trials, Dies at 96
A German refugee, he translated during the interrogations of Nazi leaders like Hermann Göring and Rudolf Höss, the commandant at Auschwitz.
Jake Burton Carpenter, Who Ushered in Snowboarding as a Sport, Dies at 65
After his fascination with the Snurfer, a crude version of a snowboard created in the 1960s, he built the first successful snowboard company.
Marcelle Ninio, Spy for Israel Imprisoned in Egypt, Dies at 89
She was the only woman in an espionage ring of about a dozen Egyptians that engineered bombings. Their mission did not go well.
John Mbiti, 87, Dies; Punctured Myths About African Religions
A theologian and an Anglican priest, he argued that traditional African religions deserved the same respect as Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism.
Frederic Pryor, Player in ‘Bridge of Spies’ Case, Dies at 86
Arrested and jailed on an espionage charge in East Berlin in 1961, Mr. Pryor, an economics student, became part of a famous prisoner exchange.
Sogyal Rinpoche Dies; Tibetan Buddhist Lama Felled by Abuse Accusations
A friend of the Dalai Lama’s, he wrote a popular book about life, death and the afterlife that updated “The Tibetan Book of the Dead.”
Kay Ann Johnson, 73, Who Studied China’s One-Child Policy, Dies
After adopting an abandoned infant from an orphanage in China, she began researching the lives of birth parents who had been forced to give up their children.
Ed Westcott, a Singular Eye at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, Dies at 97
He was the government’s official photographer at Oak Ridge, Tenn., a secret city where uranium was enriched for the bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.