UmairTheodore McCarrick, Cardinal Accused of Sexual Abuse, Dies at 94
Patrick Noaker, a lawyer for the man, said that in 1971, his client had been a student at Cathedral Preparatory School and Seminary in Queens, hoping to become a priest.…
Leonardo Patterson, Disgraced Dealer in Latin American Artifacts, Dies at 82
Leonardo Augustus Patterson was born on April 15, 1942, in Limon, a town on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. Little is known about his family history. He said that…
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Overlooked No More: Katharine McCormick, Force Behind the Birth Control Pill
This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. Katharine Dexter McCormick, who was born to…
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- April 2, 2025
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Ralph Holloway, Anthropologist Who Studied Brain’s Evolution, Dies at 90
Ralph Holloway, an anthropologist who pioneered the idea that changes in brain structure, and not just size, were critical in the evolution of humans, died on March 12 at his…
Betty Webb, Who Helped Bletchley Park Code Breakers, Dies at 101
Charlotte Webb, who as a young woman helped code breakers decipher enemy signals at Britain’s top-secret Bletchley Park, died on Monday. She was 101. Her death was confirmed by the…
Richard Carlson, Journalist Who Led Voice of America, Dies at 84
Richard Carlson, who won a Peabody Award for his investigative television reports about an automobile company’s brazen fraud — during which he also outed the company’s founder as a transgender…
Joe Harris, 108, Dies; Thought to Be the Oldest World War II Paratrooper
Joe Harris, who as a sergeant with an all-Black infantry unit during World War II parachuted into forest fires across the Pacific Northwest set off by bomb-laden Japanese balloons, and…
Victor Emanuel, Revered Birder and Pioneer of Ecotourism, Dies at 84
Victor Emanuel, a renowned birder whose adventures around the world in pursuit of imperial woodpeckers, red-crowned cranes and other avian wonders were chronicled by George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen and Rose…
Oleg Gordievsky, K.G.B. Officer Turned Double Agent, Dies at 86
Oleg Gordievsky, who was the top K.G.B. agent in London until he defected to the West in 1985 and revealed himself as a longtime double agent for British intelligence —…
J. Bennett Johnston, Who Shaped U.S. Energy Policy, Dies at 92
J. Bennett Johnston Jr., a Louisiana Democrat and four-term United States senator who helped shape America’s energy and science policies in an era of rising concerns over the perils of…
