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The Philadelphia native was one of the first women to join the macho world of Magnum Photography Agency. She was known for the naturalness of her images and for her photos of Marilyn Monroe.
Carter was a civil rights lawyer who created the strategy used in cases that led to Brown vs. Board of Education, which ruled that school desegregation was unconstitutional.
Hirabayashi cleared his name four decades after his 1942 arrest and helped prove that the U.S. falsified the reasons for the mass incarceration.
Robert Dickey, a guitarist and singer in the 1960s soul duo James and Bobby Purify, dies at 72 |
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Gene Bartow succeeded John Wooden as UCLA basketball coach in 1975, and two years later became the architect of a new athletics program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Bob Anderson's first silver screen fencing pupil was Errol Flynn. The British Olympian went on to become a go-to teacher, film fight director and fencing choreographer for movies including 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Star Wars.'
Fred Milano, a singer with Dion and the Belmonts, dies at 72; William Carey, an investor who backed business schools, dies at 81; Mike Colalillo, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 86
Dimitman cultivated some of the state's oldest, largest and rarest exotic Asian fruit trees and sold the fruit at the Alhambra farmers market.
John Buchanan, director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, dies at 58.
Simms Taback, the children's author and illustrator known for his version of 'There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,' has died at age 79.
Yarkoni, known as 'the singer of wars,' entertained troops for more than half a century.
Few who admired Eva Zeisel's often-abstract designs knew that she had been imprisoned as a young woman in the Soviet Union and was later forced to flee Nazi-occupied Austria.
Johannes Heesters was never accused of being a propagandist or anything other than an artist willing to perform for the Third Reich, but he was dogged by controversy because of it.
The L.A. County Superior Court jurist issued the 1981 ruling in a case brought by an Auschwitz survivor against a Holocaust-denying group.
Julia Sampson Hayward, a champion tennis player in the 1950s, dies at 77; James Rizzi, a pop artist known for playful sculptures, dies at 61; Bob O'Rourke, a former Caltech spokesman, dies at 72
Sam Rivers helped define the avant-garde jazz scene in the 1960s and '70s, and crossed musical boundaries while playing with a diverse array of greats.
The L.A. band's single 'Talk Talk' was a Top 20 hit in 1966. The Music Machine is regarded as one of the most original garage-punk bands.
Helen Frankenthaler's work, which featured bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans, took art in a new direction and gave rise to the Color Field movement.
Sean Collins was a founder of Surfline.com, the Huntington Beach company that employs a proprietary prediction methodology to forecast global surfing conditions weeks in advance.
Harry Kullijian, husband of Carol Channing, dies at 91; Joe Bodolai, former 'Saturday Night Live' writer, dies at 63
The lines and curves of Sori Yanagi's designs -- in teapots, ceramic cups, even the lowly whisk -- won a place in homes around the world.
