Obituaries

Lynn Conway, a pioneering computer scientist who was fired by IBM in the 1960s after telling managers that she was transgender,

A core member of the anti-art movement Fluxus, he died by suicide hours after the death of his wife of 60

Nick Mavar, a commercial salmon fisherman known for his tenacity and resourcefulness who was also a deckhand on the Discovery Channel’s

John Currie Wilmerding Jr. was born on April 28, 1938, in Boston and grew up in Old Westbury, N.Y., on Long

Edward C. Stone, the visionary physicist who dispatched NASA’s Voyager spacecraft to run rings around our solar system’s outer planets and,

Johnny Canales, the Mexican television host whose program introduced new musical acts to wide audiences, including a young Selena Quintanilla in

Remo Saraceni, a sculptor, toy inventor and technological fantasist best known for creating the Walking Piano that Tom Hanks and Robert

For almost two months, in the hell of the besieged French military base at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam, Geneviève de

A tractor-pulling contest in Rockwell, Iowa. “The Big Joe Polka Show.” A veterinarian discussing how to keep flies off cows. A

Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, who helped establish scores of outposts around the world for the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement and served as a