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    Nancy Wigginton, First Woman to Read National News on BBC, Dies at 93

    Known on TV as Nan Winton, she presented bulletins for a few months in 1960, when prejudices against female anchors ran deep.

    By Palko Karasz

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    Georgie Anne Geyer, Foreign Correspondent and Columnist, Dies at 84

    Ms. Geyer, who broke into the business when few women reported from overseas, traveled the world and interviewed Castro and other often elusive leaders.

    By Neil Genzlinger

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    Edwin Drummond, 73, Who Turned Climbing Into Activism, Dies

    A poet as well as a mountaineer, he climbed the Statue of Liberty and Nelson’s Column in London to draw attention to causes.

    By Daniel E. Slotnik

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    Unita Blackwell, 86, Dies; Rights Crusader and Winner of Historic Election

    A sharecropper’s daughter, she joined the voter-registration fight before becoming the first black woman elected a mayor in Mississippi.

    By Katharine Q. Seelye

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    Bobbie Raymond, 80, Visionary on Racially Integrated Housing, Dies

    In Oak Park, bordering Chicago’s West Side, she fought for a fair housing law and helped curb white flight using a strategy that became a model.

    By Sam Roberts

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    Thomas Nozkowski, Painter of Bold (if Small) Abstractions, Dies at 75

    Mr. Nozkowski rejected the grandiose Abstract Expressionism of his youth and created modest, colorful and self-contained abstract works with his own stamp.

    By Roberta Smith

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    Machiko Kyo, Star of ‘Rashomon’ and Other Films, Dies at 95

    Ms. Kyo, whose dedication to her craft left Akira Kurosawa “speechless,” rose to fame during an extraordinarily creative period in Japanese filmmaking.

    By Richard Sandomir

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    Herman Wouk, Best-Selling Novelist With a Realist’s Touch, Dies at 103

    His critics could be brutal, but he enthralled millions of readers with novels like “The Winds of War,” “The Caine Mutiny” and “Marjorie Morningstar.”

    By William Grimes

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    Six of I.M. Pei’s Most Important Buildings

    The architect’s legacy includes some of the world’s most recognizable buildings, including the Louvre Pyramid.

    By The New York Times

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    I.M. Pei, Master Architect Whose Buildings Dazzled the World, Dies at 102

    Mr. Pei, a committed modernist, was one of the few architects equally attractive to real estate developers, corporate chieftains and art museum boards.

    By Paul Goldberger

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