Marvin Newman, a renowned photographer who brought an artistic eye to capturing shadows on a Chicago main street; people in front of shuttered storefronts on Coney Island; and athletes in competition, including Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates smashing the 1960 World Series-winning home run, died on Sept. 13 at his home in Jersey City, NJ. He was 95. One of Mr. Newman’s most famous pictures is one he took for Sports Illustrated in the [...]

Dianne Feinstein, the long-serving Jewish senator from California who rose to national prominence when she appeared before cameras with her hands stained with the blood of a murdered colleague, died Sept. 28. She was 90 and in failing health. Feinstein served in the Senate for more than three decades as its longest-serving woman. Feinstein became a national figure in 1978 when she was the president of the Board of Supervisors in San Francisco and found [...]

Victor R. Fuchs, the so-called dean of American health care economists, died on Sept. 16 at his home on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. He was 99. Dr. Fuchs was best known for a slim book published in 1975 with the attention-grabbing title, Who Shall Live? Health Economics and Social Choice. He was among the first to articulate why the United States was in the midst of rapidly rising health care [...]

Stephen Rubin, a publisher who helped make John Grisham and Dan Brown famous writers, and who published Michael Wolff’s 2018 chronicle of the Trump White House, Fire and Fury, died on Oct. 13 in Manhattan. He was 81. “Trying to publish big-ticket best sellers is the riskiest game you can play,” Mr. Rubin wrote in his memoir, Words and Music: Confessions of an Optimist. “But it has been my modus operandi.” Among his successes are [...]

Evelyn Fox Keller, a theoretical physicist, a mathematical biologist and, beginning in the late 1970s, a feminist theorist who explored the way gender pervades and distorts scientific inquiry, died on Sept. 22 at an assisted living home in Cambridge, MA. She was 87, Like many women in the sciences, she had faced years of disparagement and discrimination, and one of her first efforts was to quantify the effect such a hostile environment had on women [...]

Florence Fisher, an adoptee who spend decades searching for her birth parents and then spent another half century fighting to open adoption records for millions of others, died on Oct. 1 in Brooklyn. She was 95. Although she ultimately found her birth parents, the difficulties she dealt with — sealed records, silent families — made her think about what millions of other adoptees had faced. “The impact that Florence had on the adoptee-rights movement cannot [...]

Piper Laurie, a respected actress with three Oscar nominations, an Emmy Award, and eight other Emmy nominations, died on Oct. 14 at a nursing facility in Los Angeles. She was 91. Moviegoers will recall her performances in “The Hustler,” “Carrie,” and “Children of a Lesser God.” She won an Emmy for “Promise,” a CBS movie about schizophrenia. When asked in a 2011 interview with the Archive of American Television what acting advice she would offer, [...]

Alice Shalvi, an educator and social activist, died on Oct. 2 at her home in Jerusalem. She was 96. Dr. Shalvi was best known for her leadership of Pelech, an experimental school in Jerusalem that provides an egalitarian secular and religious education for Orthodox girls, and for her work as the founding director of the Israel Women’s Network. The network lobbies the government to reform Israeli laws treating women differently in the military, marriage, employment [...]

Russell Sherman, a music educator and a pianist admired for his poetic interpretations of Schoenberg, Beethoven, Debussy, Liszt and others, died on Sept. 30 at his home in Lexington, MA. He was 93. Mr. Sherman began giving public concerts in the 1970s, performing with the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra as well as major European orchestras. His concerts drew devoted fans [...]

Eva Kollisch, who escaped Nazi-occupied Austria when she was a teenager to become a professor and memoirist who broke new ground in feminist studies, died on Oct. 10 in Manhattan. She was 98. The author of two memoirs, Ms. Kollisch taught for 30 years at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY, where with Gerda Lerner, Joan Kelly and Sherry Ortner, she helped introduce a foundational women’s studies curriculum. Raised in a prosperous, secular Jewish family [...]