Obituaries

Anthony J.F. O’Reilly, a high-flying, charming, Irish-born former chairman of the H.J. Heinz Company, who also owned newspapers, luxury brands and

In 1946, she married Graciano Rozada Vallina, a miner and Socialist militant who had been seized by Franco’s police while serving

William Goines, who overcame racial obstacles in his Ohio hometown, as well as in the military, before becoming the first Black

James Chance, the singer, saxophonist and composer who melded punk, funk and free jazz into bristling dance music as the leader

Thomas J. McCormack, an iconoclastic chief executive and editor who transformed St. Martin’s Press into a publishing behemoth with best-selling books

Never anyone’s idea of a heartthrob, he had a chameleon-like ability to be endearing in one role, menacing in another and

George M. Woodwell, the founder of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts and a renowned ecologist whose keen research and

Ricardo M. Urbina, a trailblazing Latino lawyer who scored victories for civil liberties as an empathetic federal judge and for civil

Elinor Fuchs, whose impassioned insights into contemporary theater — first as a critic prowling the avant-garde scene in New York, and

Willie Mays, the spirited center fielder whose brilliance at the plate, in the field and on the basepaths for the Giants