Daniel Abraham, an entrepreneur who turned a tiny family business into a giant that dominated the weight-loss industry with popular brands like Slim-Fast and Dexatrim, died on June 29 in Manhattan. He was 100.

Mr. Abraham built his fortune on a pharmaceutical company that his father, a dentist, bought for $5,000 in 1947 after spotting it in an advertisement in the trade publication Drug Store News. He expanded the company into an empire that included Slim-Fast.

Mr. Abraham, whose family lived in Israel for much of the 1970s, was also active politically. In pursuit of Middle East peace, he cultivated relationships with top Israeli, American and Arab leaders, including Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a friend for more than three decades.

Forbes estimated Mr. Abraham’s wealth this year at $2.4 billion.

In a long career as a psychoanalyst, Anna Ornstein, who was deported to Auschwitz when she was 17 and experienced unspeakable horror in her youth, embraced a school of psychotherapy that stresses empathy — a belief that all people, even those who seem the most vile, contain a spark of humanity. Dr. Ornstein died on July 2 at her home in Brookline, MA. She was 98.

She and her husband, also a Holocaust survivor, emigrated to the United States in 1950. She taught child psychiatry at the University of Cincinnati, at Harvard Medical School, and at the Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis. She also spoke about the Holocaust to young people and community groups.

Jack Kleinsinger, a lawyer by day who in his evening hours indulged his passion for music by creating and running Highlights in Jazz, one of New York’s longest-running concert series, for which he arranged and hosted more than 300 shows over a 50-year run. Mr. Kleinsinger died on June 11 at his home in Manhattan. He was 88.

He once said he never intended to leave a legacy. He just wanted to hear good jazz, and he befriended many of the artists me met in the city’s jazz clubs and concert halls.

Mr. Kleinsinger left no immediate survivors, nor did he leave any directions for his burial other than his wish to be cremated. A few days after his death, his cousin Elizabeth Elliot arranged for him to be interred in a mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, where many jazz greats are buried. His remains sit in a niche just a few rows away from those of the actress and singer Diahann Carroll.

“Somewhere, Jack is smiling,” she said. “I’m sure of that.”

Mortimer Matz, a New York public relations impresario who was credited with introducing the raincoat as an essential fashion accessory so that recently arrested defendants could hide their handcuffs from photographers, and who co-founded a gluttonous annual hot dog eating contest to promote Nathans of Coney Island, died on June 26 at his home in Manhattan. He was 100.

Sometimes likened to an upscale version of the unsavory press agent Sidney Falco in the 1957 film “Sweet Smell of Success,” Mr. Matz contrived his share of audacious stunts, such as the time he bought a stone and had it inscribed with hieroglyphics by a curator at the Met. A taxi driver turned it into the police as planned, and an Egyptologist from the Brooklyn Museum pronounced it unreadable. But Mr. Matz, who was representing radio station WINS at the time, revealed that the drawings roughly translated as “Everybody’s mummy listens to WINS.”

Richard Greenberg, who won frequent praise for his sharp-witted plays about the manners and mores of urbane New Yorkers, and who received a Tony Award in 2003 for “Take Me Out,” his play about a gay baseball player, died on July 4 in Manhattan. He was 67.

Mr. Greenberg rose to theater fame in the 1980s with a string of scripts that delved into the interior lives of young urban professionals (yuppies).

In addition to the Tony Award for best play, “Take Me Out” won the same honor from the New York Drama Critics’ Circle, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. It was revived on Broadway in 2022. A prolific writer, Mr. Greenberg wrote more than 30 produced plays, including original works, adaptations and one-acts, as well as an occasional television script.

Alan Bergman, who teamed with his wife, Marilyn, to write lyrics for the Academy Award-winning songs “The Way We Were” and “The Windmills of Your Mind” and for some of televisions most memorable theme songs: The gospel-like themes for the comedy series “Maude” and “Good Times” and the breezy intro to “Alice,” died July 17 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 99.

The Bergmans were among the favored lyricists of stars like Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and especially Barbra Streisand who in 2011 released the album “What Matters Most: Barbra Streisand Sings the Lyrics of Alan and Marilyn Bergman.”

The Bergmans received a total of 16 Oscar nominations, and in 1983, 3 of the 5 nominated songs were their songs. They also earned 3 Emmy Awards and a Grammy.

By the time the couple married in 1958, they had already been writing together (”Premarital rhyming was going on,” Mr. Bergman quipped in a 2010 interview on “CBS News Sunday Morning.”) Mr. Bergman was often asked about the creative experience involved in working so closely with his wife. He told the CBS News interviewer, “One is the creator, and the other is the editor. And those roles change within seconds.” He re-told that anecdote to The New York Times, and added the following: “At the end of the song, we rarely know who wrote what.”

Hans Noë, an architect, sculptor and accidental restaurateur, best known for his meticulous revival of one of New York City’s oldest bars, died on May 11 at his home in Garrison, NY. He was 96.

Although Mr. Noë designed and built both innovative houses and geometric wooden sculptures, his most visible role in the cultural life of his adopted city was as the proprietor of Fanelli Café. In the early 1970s, he began buying neglected buildings in SoHo, fixing them up and renting them to commercial tenants and as artists’ lofts. When the seller of a five-story building on the corner of Prince and Mercer Streets threw in the street-level bar, Fanelli Café, Mr. Noë adopted the place, improved it, and made it, as The New York Times described it, “…a place where the roar of conversation is still the only background noise, and SoHo artists, Wall Street bankers, and international tourists sit side by side at an ornate wooden bar under a ceiling stained the golden color of smoldering marshmallows by a century’s worth of tobacco smoke.”

Mr. Noë spent three years as a student at the Cooper Union in Manhattan, where he found a mentor in the sculptor and architectural designer Tony Smith, who introduced him to other downtown figures, including Mark Rothko, for whom he stretched canvases, and Barnett Newman.

Later, at home in Garrison, he constructed geometric figures like intersecting  pyramids, extended triangles sliced-up cubes and a distinctive trapezoidal solid.