Obituaries

One of the biggest bangs heard in the history of wine, on a May evening in 1976, caused barely a ripple

Frank Carroll, who coached elite figure skaters like Michelle Kwan and Linda Fratianne to silver medals in the Olympics but had

In an episode of HBO’s “The Gilded Age,” Peggy Scott, the budding journalist, and T. Thomas Fortune, her discerning editor, expectantly

Howard Fineman, a witty, encyclopedic political reporter who dominated the fast-evolving world of Washington journalism for nearly 40 years, moving effortlessly

Harrison C. White, a theoretical physicist-turned-sociologist who upended the study of human relations and society by examining how social networks shape

Christophe Deloire, whose nonpartisan organization to protect journalists rescued dissidents from jail and championed a diversity of viewpoints in the profession

Akira Endo, a Japanese biochemist whose research on fungi helped to lay the groundwork for widely prescribed drugs that lower a

Fumihiko Maki, an architect who designed many notable buildings in his native Japan and several in the United States, including a

Jerry West, who emerged from West Virginia coal country to become one of basketball’s greatest players, a signature figure in the

David Boaz, an apostle of “reasonable, radical libertarianism” who argued that Americans are entitled to pursue life, liberty and happiness without