Clay Risen

A veteran stage actress, she starred in two of Britain’s most beloved TV comedies of the 1970s, “The Good Life” and “To the Manor Born.”

The ejection of the Argentine soccer star during a 1966 match against England led to the introduction of yellow and red cards.

Vincent Pastore, a character actor who specialized in playing Italian American tough guys, most notably the foot soldier turned FBI informant Salvatore Bonpensiero, known to his friends as Big Pussy, on the classic HBO series "The Sopranos," has died at his home in New York City. He was 80.

John Ali, a top official in the Nation of Islam in the 1960s who oversaw the religious group’s tumultuous split with one of its most famous members, Malcolm X, and

A farmer, poet and musician, he revitalized contra dancing in the 1960s and ’70s, bringing the tradition to a new generation.

John Ali, a top official in the Nation of Islam in the 1960s who oversaw the religious group's tumultuous split with one of its most famous members, Malcolm X, and

Ursula Hegi, a novelist who drew on her childhood in post-World War II Germany to write searing books about silence, community and historical memory, including the bestselling “Stones From the River,” died on July 27 in Sag Harbor, N.Y. She was 80.

The eminent critic Harold Bloom called his 1981 book ‘Little, Big’ a ‘neglected masterpiece’ and one of the best novels of the 20th century.

Derrick Parker, a New York City police detective whose love of rap music and deep knowledge of the city’s music and celebrity scene made him the Police Department’s go-to expert

William G. Anderson, a doctor who in 1961 set aside his medical practice in Albany, Georgia, to lead a movement against the city’s entrenched system of racial segregation, attracting national attention and the involvement of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., died Aug. 16 at his home in Detroit. He was 98.