Lawrence Turman, who as a novice movie producer in 1963 read about a novel by a largely unknown writer named Charles Webb, took a $1,000 option on it, and set in motion the making of the landmark film “The Graduate,” died July 1 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 96. Mr. Turman had producing or executive producing credits on more than 40 feature films and television movies, but it was “The Graduate” that [...]

Peter Nero, the concert pianist, born Bernard Nierow, who soared to popularity in the 1960s with a swinging hybrid of classics and jazz and kept the beat for nearly six decades with albums, club and television dates, and segues into conducting pops orchestras, died on July 6 in Eustis, FL. He was 89. Mr. Nero appeared with Frank Sinatra, Mel Tormé, Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis and other headliners; released 72 albums; conducted the Philly Pops [...]

Henry Kamm, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for The New York Times who covered Cold War diplomacy in Europe and the Soviet Union, famine in Africa, and wars and genocide in Southeast Asia, died on July 9 in Paris. He was 98. From the continent he had fled at 15 to escape Nazi persecution during WWII, to the killing fields of what was then known as Indochina, Mr. Kamm was “the consummate star of The [...]

Evelyn M. Witkin, whose discovery of the process by which DNA repairs itself opened the door to significant advances in the treatment of cancer and genetic defects, died on July 8 in Plainsboro Township, NJ. She was 102. In a career that began in the late 1940’s, early in the field of genetic research, Dr. Witkin explored the ways in which radiation both damaged DNA and generated a repair mechanism, what she came to call [...]

Marvin Wulf, a constitutional lawyer who reshaped the American Civil Liberties Union into a more aggressive litigator, argued 10 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and supported the future Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in bringing a landmark sex discrimination case, died on July 8 at his home in Manhattan. He was 95. As the legal director of the ACLU from 1962 to 1977, Mr. Wulf turned the organization from one that mostly filed friend-of-the-court briefs [...]

Marga Minco, a Dutch novelist who was one of the last of a generation of European Holocaust authors whose works are widely considered literary classics, died on July 10 at her home in Amsterdam, at 103. In her writing, Ms. Minco describe the stark crisis of Jewish life in the Netherlands during WWII, based on her own experiences. She described incremental shifts to her life as Nazi persecution degraded and dismantled the Jewish community. Because [...]