Clive Barnes, Critic, Dies at 81

Jan Krugier, Dealer in Modern Art, Dies at 80

By RANDY KENNEDY

Mr. Krugier survived two years in Nazi concentration camps and went on to become a highly regarded dealer of work by artists like Picasso, Morandi, Balthus and Giacometti.

Jody Reynolds, 75, Rockabilly Singer, Is Dead

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mr. Reynolds had a single hit, “Endless Sleep,” which ushered in a wave of tragic teenage pop songs in the 1950s.

Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, Cardiac Pioneer, Dies at 90

By JASCHA HOFFMAN

Dr. Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States and pioneered the development of devices to prolong the life of patients with heart failure.

Irving Brecher, 94, Comedy-Script Writer, Is Dead

By BRUCE WEBER

Mr. Brecher wrote vaudeville sketches, jokes, comedies for the Marx Brothers, a television series and screenplays for movie musicals including “Meet Me in St. Louis” and “Bye Bye Birdie.”

James Armsey Dies at 90; Oversaw College Grants

By DENNIS HEVESI

As a Ford Foundation executive, Mr. Armsey directed more than $350 million in grants to universities in the 1960s while prompting the foundation to deny grants to segregated universities.

Pete Newell, Basketball Coach and Innovator, Dies at 93

By BRUCE WEBER

Mr. Newell was one of the most influential coaches in the history of basketball, whose camp became a required seminar in low-post play for generations of professional stars.

Grace Hartigan, 86, Abstract Painter, Dies

By WILLIAM GRIMES

Ms. Hartigan was a second-generation Abstract Expressionist whose gestural, intensely colored paintings often incorporated images drawn from popular culture.

Alan Ford, Top Freestyler in 1940s, Is Dead at 84

By BRUCE WEBER

Mr. Ford became the first swimmer to break 50 seconds for 100 yards, a barrier that some likened to the four-minute mile.

Edward Sheehan, 78, Foreign Correspondent, Dies

By WILLIAM GRIMES

Mr. Sheehan’s perceptive, literate dispatches from the Middle East, Africa and Central America explored the political machinations of the powerful and the misery of the powerless.

I. Bernard Weinstein, Who Studied Causes of Cancer, Dies at 78

By JEREMY PEARCE

Dr. Weinstein was a researcher at Columbia University who advanced the study of how pollutants and other environmental factors can cause cancer.

Peter Levinson, Publicist and Biographer of Jazz Greats, Is Dead at 74

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Mr. Levinson, a music publicist, parlayed his close familiarity with jazz personalities into rich and sometimes intimate biographies of them.

Carl D. Keith, a Father of the Catalytic Converter, Dies at 88

By DENNIS HEVESI

Dr. Keith was a co-inventor of the three-way automotive catalytic converter — a major advance in eliminating the toxic tailpipe emissions that once blanketed cities in smog.

Rosetta Reitz, Champion of Jazz Women, Dies at 84

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Ms. Reitz scavenged through the early history of jazz and the blues to resurrect the music of long-forgotten women and to create a record label dedicated to them.

C. Harmon Brown, Pioneer Sports Doctor, Is Dead at 78

By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Dr. Brown helped develop the field of sports medicine, including doing influential research on the effects of strenuous exercise on the female body.

Florence S. Wald, American Pioneer in End-of-Life Care, Is Dead at 91

By DENNIS HEVESI

Mrs. Wald’s vision of bringing the terminally ill peace of mind and, to whatever extent possible, freedom from pain led to the opening of the first palliative care hospice in the United States.

Henry Loomis, Who Led Voice of America, Is Dead at 89

By WILLIAM GRIMES

Mr. Loomis extended the reach and defended the independence of the Voice of America in the late 1950s and early 1960s before resigning in a clash with President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Abraham Woods, Civil Rights Pioneer, Dies at 80

By DENNIS HEVESI

In the days of crowd-throttling fire-hosings and snarling police dogs, Mr. Woods led the first lunch-counter sit-ins in Birmingham, Ala., and later confronted racism at country clubs.

The Lives They Lived

The year 2007 brought the deaths of many giants of politics and culture, but here we present some of the lesser-known lives.