Obituaries

He was known for his roles as the hard-nosed sheriff in the “Halloween” horror film series.

A descendant of a storied family, she was an author, TV host and cooking school director who showed that Italian cuisine

She was already a prominent hostess in the nation’s capital when her uninhibited, best-selling 1973 memoir, “Laughing All the Way,” made

At 31, he and a colleague won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that subatomic particles, contrary to what

He traced the dramatic transformation of the Lower East Side from his building, where he lived for 50 years. He also

Ms. Jaffe spent decades covering politics and aging in America, and she was the first editor of the NPR program “Weekend

The brother, son and grandson of famous English writers, he carved out his own space as a composer, critic, columnist and

He directed a team of engineers that built Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity, mobile robots that offered astonishing glimpses into the planet’s

For decades, he meticulously crafted short films and documentaries in relative obscurity. Then, in his 80s, he enjoyed a burst of

He touched the edge of space in one aircraft, an X-15, and ventured beyond it in another, a NASA shuttle. But