Richard Rosenberg, a marketing whiz who transformed Bank of America into a national behemoth under his leadership, died on March 3 at his home in San Francisco. He was 92.

He joined Bank of America in 1987and helped make the bank profitable again by creating new products and lines of business, like credit cards. He was named chief executive and chairman in 1990 and soon turned Bank of America into the nation’s second-largest bank through a series of acquisitions.

Before joining Bank of America, he held leadership positions at Wells Fargo, Crocker-National, Seattle-First National Bank, and Seafirst Corporation.

As a wealthy philanthropist, Mr. Rosenberg and his wife have donated money to more than 150 organizations, The New York Times said.

Public health advocate and Canyon Ranch founder Mel Zuckerman died March 18 at his home in Tucson, the University of Arizona announced. He was 94.

Zuckerman turned his own health struggles into a strength for himself and others by founding Canyon Ranch on Tucson’s east side. Throughout his life, he worked to build the wellness resort into an iconic worldwide brand.

Zuckerman has been described by his colleagues as “a visionary,” who saw years before others recognized that good nutrition and physical activity can improve performance in all aspects of life.

Stuart Hodes, who danced with Martha Graham in the 1940s and ‘50s and who for the rest of his life served the field of dance as a performer, choreographer, educator, administrator and author, died on March 15 in Manhattan. He was 98.

Mr. Hodes did not grow up as a dancer. When he took his first dance class, at the Martha Graham Studio in 1946, he was nearly 21 and fresh from flying B-17 bombers for the Army during WWII. Mr. Hodes would connect the experience of working with Graham with that as a wartime pilot. Working with Graham was “life in the eye of the storm, at the epicenter of an earthquake,” he wrote in his memoir, Onstage With Martha Graham.

Martha Graham died in 1991, but his devotion to her never faded. During a 2007 show reuniting Graham alumni, he recited a witty rap in her honor, ending with the lines, “Now every day on celestial grass / Heaven is taking Martha’s class.”

Gladys Kessler, a federal judge who issued a landmark ruling against the tobacco industry in 2006 — finding that cigarette makers had violated racketeering laws by conspiring to deceive the public about the deadly threat posed by smoking — died March 16 at a hospital in Washington, DC. She was 85.

Judge Kessler handled cases involving detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act; the administration of the Medicaid program; and environmental protection legislation. She rose to greatest prominence as the judge who presided over United States of America v. Philip Morris USA et al, a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department in 1999 against leading U.S. cigarette makers.

The tobacco case is set to conclude later this year, nearly a quarter-century after it began, when, by court order, cigarette companies will begin displaying in retail stores signs about the dangers of cigarette smoking. One of them reads: “Smoking kills, on average, 1,200 American. Every day.”

Norman Steinberg, a screenwriter, including the films “Blazing Saddles” and “My Favorite Year,” and the TV movie “Free to be…You and Me,” died on March 15. He was 83.

A lawyer, who began practicing in Manhattan, Mr. Steinberg disliked being a lawyer, his family said. He would stop for coffee at Chock Full o’ Nuts, where he met Mel Brooks. Brooks encouraged him to try writing a script for “Get Smart.” When Brooks told him the script was funny, Steinberg quit his job at the law firm the same day.

“I’m so glad I rescued him from a dull stable legal career,” Mel Brooks wrote on Twitter. He was one of the best writers I ever worked with.”

Rivka Basman Ben-Hayim, a Lithuanian-born Israeli Yiddish poet and educator, died on March 22 in Herzliya, Israel. She was 98.

During WWII, she spent two years in the Vilna ghetto, after which she was sent to the Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga. There, she started writing poetry to cheer up fellow inmates. She was liberated in 1945. In 1947, she made Aliyah and joined Kibbutz HaMa’apil. At her kibbutz, she taught children and also joined a Yiddish poets group and wrote and published her first volume of poetry.

She received the Itzik Manger Prize in 1984 and the Chaim Zhitlowsky Prize in 1998, among other prized throughout her writing career. She published nine volumes of poetry.

Ian Black, Middle East editor of the Guardian, author and academic who embodied the journalist’s duty to show fairness to all sides, died Jan. 25, in Jerusalem. He was 69.

Jews and Palestinians alike have expressed affection and admiration for a journalist who spent much of his career covering perhaps the most vexing conflict in the world. A presence in the Guardian newsroom, where he held the posts of diplomatic editor, Europe editor, and Middle East editor, he embodied the correspondent’s duty to show fairness. Colleagues would hear him taking alternate telephone calls, chatting with one contact in Arabic at one moment, switching to Hebrew for an Israeli contract the next. He also published two books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.