On Feb. 7, 1964, when the Beatles were greeted by thousands of screaming fans at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a radio reporter named Ed Rudy was there. When they performed in Washington, Mr. Rudy was there. And when they headed to Miami Beach, he was there.

Mr. Rudy filed reports to a syndicate of radio stations throughout the Beatles’ two-week tour of the United States, their first performances in the country. Soon after, he packaged his material into a 35-minute album, “The American Tour With Ed Rudy,” which rose to No. 20 on Billboard’s Top LPs chart.

Fifty-eight years after the Beatles arrived in America, Mr. Rudy was still selling his albums. “It was exciting and fab all the way,” he wrote in 1964. “I contracted Beatlemania and this disease will be with me for a long, long time. Mr. Rudy died on Nov. 7 at his home in Aventura, FL. He was 93.

Charles Koppelman, a longtime music executive who worked with Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, the Lovin’ Spoonful, Tracy Chapman, Wilson Phillips and Vanilla Ice, among many other artists, and later steered the companies of Martha Stewart and the fashion designer Steve Madden through periods of turbulence, died Nov. 25 at his home in Roslyn Harbor, NY. He was 82.

For decades, Mr. Koppelman was a player in the upper ranks of the music industry, acting variously as dealmaker and superstar matchmaker. Seldom pictured without a Cuban cigar and a jovial grin, he relished the excitement of striking big deals and the lifestyle that went along with being a top executive in music’s high-flying 1980s and ‘90s.

Michael Feingold, whose learned writing about the theater was a fixture of The Village Voice for decades, and who was also a dramaturge, a translator, and a Tony Award-nominated lyricist and adapter, died on Nov. 21 in Manhattan. He was 77.

Mr. Feingold had an encyclopedic knowledge of plays and musicals, which he drew upon as he sized up productions, beginning in the early 1970s and continuing until recently. He did not pull punches, even if his target was a venerable veteran.

He once dismissed Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose music is often said to be derivative, with this line: “Webber’s music isn’t so painful to hear, if you don’t mind its being so soiled from previous use.”

He translated numerous European works for the American stage, especially those of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. He was at one time literary manager for the Yale Repertory Theater, the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, and the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, MA, roles in which he would read scripts and often help shape ones that were accepted for production. He wrote for The Voice from 1971 to 2013. “He was, above all, a champion of theater that is bold and challenging,” The New York Times said.

Probably more than any other individual, Michael Pertschuk was responsible for the government’s placing warning labels on cigarettes, banning tobacco advertising from television and radio, requiring seatbelts in cars, and putting in place other consumer protections — all by helping to draft those measures into law as the chief counsel and staff director of the Senate Commerce Committee and later as the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission under President Jimmy Carter.

Michael Pertschuk died on Nov. 16 at his home in Santa Fe, NM. He was 89.

“I spent a good part of my life making life miserable for the tobacco companies,” Mr. Pertschuk once said, “and I’m not sorry about that.”

Freddie Roman, a stand-up comedian who told jokes to mostly Jewish audiences in the Catskills, then brought borscht-belt humor to Manhattan when he conceived and performed in the hit show “Catskills on Broadway,” died on Nov. 26 in Boynton Beach FL. He was 85.

Mr. Roman began his comedy career in the Catskills in the early 1960s, when that resort area in upstate New York was thriving. At one hotel after another, he told one-liners and stories that delighted audiences spending their weekends and summer vacations there.

He spread his Catskills-bred shtick around the country for five decades, working  often in Las Vegas, Atlantic City, and Florida as he followed his older audiences south.

Lord David Young, a British-Jewish member of the House of Lords who advised Conservative governments in the United Kingdom from Margaret Thatcher to David Cameron died Dec. 8. He was 90.

Margaret Thatcher, who appointed Young to his first political post as an advisor in charge of privatization, famously said of him, “Other people bring me problems. David brings me solutions.”

During his many years in politics, Young used his position to advance the needs of British Jewry and push for stronger British-Israeli relations. “Lord Young was always proud of his Jewish heritage,” said Lord Leigh of Hurley, a longtime senior treasurer of the British Conservative party.