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.

Judith Hope Blau, a painter whose accidental detour into bagel art — necklaces, napkin rings, wreaths and candleholders fashioned from, yes, bagels — led to a career as a children’s book author and illustrator and a toy designer, died on May 4 at her home in Eastchester, NY. She was 87.

She started by masking bagel puppets and bagel necklaces for her young children. She painted them with smiling faces, and sold hundreds of them. Her daughter brought one of the bagel necklaces to school, and it was such a hit that Mrs. Blau’s husband suggested she show a bag of them to a Bloomingdale’s buyer. The store ordered 100, and thousands were sold in the first few months. The publisher McGraw Hill asked her to write a children’s book about her bagels. For Fieldcrest, she designed bedding and socks with bagel characters. She made plush bagel toys.

A local newspaper declared that “Bagelmania was contagious and incurable.”

Rabbi Sholom B. Lipskar, a charismatic figure in the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement, who helped transform South Florida into a vibrant center of Jewish life, and who founded a national organization that supports Jews in prison and the military, died on May 3 in Miami. He was 78.

Rabbi Lipskar was sent to Miami in 1969 by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the Lubavitcher rebbe. At the time, the Jewish community consisted primarily of affluent retirees who were not particularly religious. Rabbi Schneerson saw a different future.

Rabbi Lipskar acted as educator, lecturer, spiritual leader, and Torah scholar. Early on, a dozen people showed up, but within a year, hundreds of Jews were attending his programs. At the same time, he founded Aleph Institute, an outreach organization for prisoners. Aleph now has 75 full-time employees.

Rabbi Lipskar “created a Jewish community which right now is one of the most intensely engaged, committed and active Jewish communities in the World, Jacob Solomon, the president and chief executive emeritus of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, told The Miami Herald. “He was a visionary.”

Stanley Fischer, an economist and central banker whose expertise helped guide global economic policies and defuse financial crises for decades, died on April 30 at his home in Lexington, MA. He was 81.

Mr. Fischer served as head of Israel’s central bank from 2005 to 2013, as vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board from 2014 to 2017, and as the No. 2 officer at the International Monetary Fund from 1994 to 2001, when that agency was struggling to contain financial panics in Mexico, Russia, Asia and Latin America, The New York Times said.

As a professor at M.I.T., he was a thesis adviser to an extraordinary range of future leaders, including Ben S. Bernanke, later chairman of the Fed; Mario Draghi, president of the European central bank; and Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan. His former students also included Christina D. Romer and N. Gregory Mankiw, who served as chairs of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisors, and Lawrence H. Summers, who served as secretary of the Treasury and president of Harvard University.

Pierre Nova, a French scholar whose ideas about the role of memory and identity in the writing of history gained prominence both in France and abroad, and who became a kingpin in his country’s intellectual community through his influence over publishing, died on June 2 in Paris. He was 93.

Mr. Nora’s major contribution to historiography was the concept of “lieux de mémoire” (sites of memory), a term he coined to describe elements of the past that a community chooses to remember and which become symbolic of a shared identity. Examples would be Joan of Arc, the national anthem “La Marseillaise,” and the rooster — “le coq gaulois” — as an unofficial icon of France.

Joel Shapiro, a celebrated American sculptor whose works imbued life-size stick figures with a surprising depth of feeling, died June 14 in Manhattan. He was 83.

From one piece to the next, his figures appear to leap with joy, dance balletically, fall backward, topple onto their heads, or collapse onto the floor into a tangle of arms and legs.

He executed more than 30 large-scale commissions, most notably “Loss and Regeneration,” commissioned for the plaza of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which opened in 1993.

In 1982, at age 41, Mr. Shapiro was honored with a much-praised midcareer retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He was also well regarded for his works on paper, especially his abstract compositions in chalk and charcoal.