Dr. Herbert Pardes, a psychiatrist and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health, who brought order to the merger of two major medical centers that became New York-Presbyterian Hospital Martin Luther King, Jr., O.J. Simpson, Jon Benet Ramsey, Mary Jo Kopechne and many others, died on April 14, in St. Clair Shores, MI, a suburb of Detroit. He was 97.

Dr. Spitz’s career of more than 60 years traced to the early days of modern forensic pathology, and his textbook on the topic remains a gold standard in the field.

Ilon Specht, who wrote a successful television commercial for L’Oréal’s Preference hair color product

and ran it for 11 years, died on April 30 at his home in Manhattan. He was 89.

Dr. Pardes aspired to make New York-Presbyterian a model for medical care, with focus on patients, efficient management, and rigid financial controls.

Disney legend Richard M. Sherman, half of the Academy Award-winning songwriting team of the Sherman Brothers (with his late brother Robert B. Sherman), died May 25, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills. He was 95.

One of the most prolific composer-lyricists in the history of family entertainment, and a key member of Walt Disney’s inner circle of creative talents, Mr. Sherman garnered nine Academy Award nominations (winning two Oscars for his work on the 1964 classic “Mary Poppins”), won three Grammy Awards, and received 24 gold and platinum albums over the course of his 65-year career.

Adele Faber, a former high school teacher who, with her Long Island neighbor Elaine Mazlish, wrote child-rearing blockbusters like How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk and Siblings Without Rivalry, which became bibles for generations of parents, died on April 24 in White Plains, NY. She was 96.

The parenting guides have sold more than four million copies in North America alone, and have been published in 40 countries. The impetus for the books was a lecture series by the child psychologist Haim Ginott. “I tried a few of his ideas with my own three kids and saw stunning results,” Ms. Faber said. The two women decided to write their own book based on their experiences applying the techniques. In all, the writing team wrote seven books.

“I remember once telling Haim Ginott that living according to his principles is a beautiful way to live,” Ms. Faber said, “but that it was hard. I find myself starting, stopping, tripping over my own tongue. He replied: ‘To learn a new language is not easy. For one thing, you will always speak with an accent. But for your children, it will be their native tongue.’”

Robert Moskowitz, a painter who used the New York City skyline as his muse for work that borders abstraction and representation, died on March 24 in Manhattan. He was 88.

Beginning in the 1970s, Mr. Moskowitz began painting the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and, most indelibly, the World Trade Center. Those three buildings appear over and again through the decades, ink black on blue, lavender, orange, yellow or white; in white on black; surrounded by smudgy fingerprints or plumes of smoke; naked in fields of color; rendered in oil, ink, graphite or pastel.

But it was in the imposing modernist stripes of the Twin Towers that Mr. Moskowitz found his great subject, The New York Times said. After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, these works took on a darker resonance, and Mr. Moskowitz, whose TriBeCa loft was only a few blocks from the towers, regretfully moved on to other motifs.

The throughline of his career was always his devotion to his art. “All he did was paint,” said the sculptor John Newman, a longtime friend. “It’s all he wanted to do. And when he couldn’t paint, he drove a cab so he could paint some more.”

Amnon Weinstein, an Israeli luthier who restored violins belonging to Jews during the Holocaust so musicians around the world could play them as tributes to those silenced in Nazi death camps, died on March 4 in Tel Aviv. He was 84.

Mr. Weinstein was the founder of Violins of Hope, an organization that provides violins he restored to orchestras for concerts and educational programs commemorating the Holocaust. The instruments have been played in dozens of cities worldwide.

In 2016, Mr. Weinstein was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, one of the country’s highest honors. During the ceremony, Germany’s foreign minister at the time, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, spoke directly to Mr. Weinstein: “A human soul lies behind each of your priceless violins,” he said. “Each violin represents a person. And when your violins play, they represent six million people.”

Marjorie Perloff, whose incisive readings of avant-garde artists like Ezra Pound, John Cage and John Ashbery made her one of the world’s leading scholars of contemporary poetry, died on March 24 at her home in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. She was 92.

Professor Perloff, who spend the latter part of her career at Stanford University, made her name as a forceful advocate for experimental poetry, reaching back to early 20th-century writers like Pound and Gertrude Stein and embracing more recent movements like Language Poetry and conceptual poetry.

Throughout her life and even after she took emeritus status from her academic work, she wrote essays, reviews and books, including a translation of notebooks that the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein kept during WWI. A few weeks before her death, a new translation of Wittgenstein’s Tractus Logico-Philosophicus was published with a foreword by Professor Perloff.