Obituaries

Jac Venza, a shoemaker’s son who almost single-handedly delivered to the proverbial “vast wasteland” that was American television in the 1960s

Nora Morales de Cortiñas, a founding member of a group of mothers who searched for their children who were disappeared by

The victims of witch hunts face gruesome punishments, according to “Contemporary Practices of Witch Hunting,” a 2015 report by the Indian

Susanne Page, whose intimate photographs of the Hopi tribe and Navajo nation opened a rare window on the everyday culture of

Bette Nash, whose nearly seven decades of serving airline passengers aboard the Washington-to-Boston shuttle earned the route the nickname the Nash

The presence of Mr. Ruddy at the news conference so enraged Charles Bluhdorn, the combustible chairman of Gulf & Western, Paramount’s

Richard Ellis, a polymath of marine life whose paintings, books and museum installations — especially the life-size blue whale at the

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in