Obituaries Related to "White" from New York Times Archive
Francis Bator, Influential White House Economist, Dies at 92
His proposals found their way into Lyndon B. Johnson’s overtures to the Soviet Union, his collaboration with Western Europe and his War on Poverty.
Roy Bennett, White Zimbabwean With Black Political Base, Dies in U.S. Helicopter Crash
Mr. Bennett, 60, was a coffee grower whose farm was seized as part of the land redistribution program of Robert G. Mugabe. He was a formidable leader of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party.
Dr. Burton J. Lee, 86, Reagan AIDS Panelist and Bush’s White House Physician, Dies
Dr. Lee diagnosed the elder Mr. Bush’s thyroid condition, treated him after he vomited at a state dinner and earlier recommended government support for AIDS patients.
Wilson Jerman, Longtime White House Butler, Dies at 91
Mr. Jerman started working as a cleaner for President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1957 and retired in 2012 as an elevator operator for President Barack Obama.
Texas Executes White Supremacist for 1998 Dragging Death of James Byrd Jr.
John William King was put to death for the murder of Mr. Byrd, a 49-year-old black man who was dragged behind a truck for miles in an act of unfathomable brutality.
Frank Press, White House Science Adviser, Is Dead at 95
After serving as President Jimmy Carter’s chief aide on scientific matters, he led the National Academy of Sciences for 12 years.
Patrick Caddell, Self-Taught Pollster Who Helped Carter to White House, Dies at 68
Decades after aiding the Democratic presidential campaigns of George McGovern and Jimmy Carter, he began advising conservatives like Stephen Bannon.
Curtis Roosevelt, a White House Charmer as a Child, Dies at 86
He and his sister were well known to Americans when they lived with their mother and grandparents in the White House in the 1930s.
Sheena Duncan, White Who Fought Apartheid, Dies at 77
Mrs. Duncan’s campaign to help blacks was far removed from a traditional role for a middle-class white woman.
CHARLES DUNLAP, INDUSTRIALIST, 77; Ex-Head of Berwind-White and Society Leader Is Dead
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Dave ‘Baby’ Cortez, Hitmaker Who Seemed to Vanish, Is Dead at 83
His “The Happy Organ” reached No. 1 in 1959, but his pop stardom was short-lived, and his death in 2022, with an anonymous burial, remains a source of mystery.
Henry Mount Charles, Whose Castle Was a Mecca for Rock, Dies at 74
To preserve his Irish manor, he staged concerts on its grounds, drawing the likes of U2, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Madonna, 50 Cent and the Rolling Stones as well as tens of thousands of fans.
Richard Greenberg, Playwright Whose ‘Take Me Out’ Won a Tony, Dies at 67
More than 30 of his plays were produced on Broadway and off. Many of them dealt with the manners and mores of New York’s upper middle class.
Ivar Giaever, Nobel Winner in Quantum Physics, Dies at 96
A former “D” student from Norway, he made his mark at G.E.’s Research Lab in the U.S., in part by confirming a pivotal theory about superconductivity.
Norman Tebbit, Conservative Force in Britain and Thatcher Ally, Dies at 94
He was a potential prime minister until he left high office to care for his wife, who was seriously hurt in a bombing by the Irish Republican Army.
Carla Maxwell, Keeper of the José Limón Flame, Dies at 79
Her stewardship of the troupe that bears his name became a model for other dance companies, like Martha Graham’s, after their founders died.
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