Violetta Elvin, Glamorous Royal Ballet Dancer, Is Dead at 97

Celebrated for her strong technique and natural grandeur, she was a star soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet before finding a new audience in London.

Robert Katzmann, U.S. Judge With Reach Beyond the Bench, Dies at 68

As chief of the Second Circuit in New York, he championed immigrants’ rights, judicial transparency and schooling the public on the law. In 2019 he dealt Trump a blow.

Gottfried Böhm, Master Architect in Concrete, Dies at 101

A recipient of his field’s highest award, he was known for his Brutalist designs, of churches in particular, in a postwar Germany trying to rebuild itself.

Jessica Morris, Whose Brain Cancer Was Her Cause, Dies at 57

After her diagnosis of glioblastoma in 2016, she founded an organization that advocated for patients and research.

Cornelia Oberlander, a Farsighted Landscape Architect, Dies at 99

Her acclaimed modernist but naturalist designs recognized the fragility of the climate and the social effects of parks and playgrounds.

Stuart Silver, Designer of Museum Blockbusters, Dies at 84

He helped reinvigorate the Metropolitan and made its exhibitions into crowd-pleasing spectacles, providing a model for other fine-art museums across the country.

Richard Robinson Dies at 84; Turned Scholastic Into an Empire

With help from Harry Potter, the Magic School Bus and the Baby-Sitters Club, he created the largest publisher and distributor of children’s books.

Richard Rubenstein, 97, Dies; Theologian Challenged Ideas of God

A rabbi, educator and author of a landmark book, he asked, “How can Jews believe in an omnipotent, beneficent God after Auschwitz?”

Dan Frank, Adventurous Book Editor, Is Dead at 67

As head of Pantheon, he nurtured prize winners and best sellers, rescued Joseph Mitchell from obscurity and helped establish graphic novels as a literary genre.

Patrick Sky, ’60s Folk Star and Later a Piper, Dies at 80

He was a part of the folk revival emanating from Greenwich Village, mixing melodic songs and satire. Then he became infatuated with the uilleann pipes.

Raymond Donovan, 90, Dies; Labor Secretary Quit Under a Cloud

He faced fraud charges when he left the Reagan administration, but a jury acquitted him, leaving him to ask, “Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?”

Ganga Stone, Who Gave Sustenance to AIDS Patients, Dies at 79

At the height of the AIDS epidemic, she started God’s Love We Deliver, a charity that brought hot meals to people who were too ill to cook.

Friederike Mayröcker, Grande Dame in German Literature, Dies at 96

An Austrian, she was among the most decorated German-language poets of the postwar period, producing a large body of daring work.

John M. Patterson, Segregationist Alabama Governor, Dies at 99

He welcomed the Klan and refused to integrate schools, forging a path that would be followed by Gov. George C. Wallace.

Susan Cole, Advocate for Traumatized Children, Dies at 72

Ms. Cole examined the link between abuse at home and problems in the classroom, and sought to make schools “trauma sensitive.”

Rusty Warren, Brash Comic in a Strait-Laced Time, Dies at 91

In the 1950s and ’60s, Ms. Warren made sex the central subject of her nightclub routines, and of popular comedy albums like “Knockers Up!”

Arthur Staats Dies at 97; Called ‘Time Out’ for Unruly Kids

A behavioral psychologist, he advised that it was more productive to briefly isolate a misbehaving child than to spank or yell. Thus a household phrase was born.

F. Lee Bailey, Lawyer for Patty Hearst and O.J. Simpson, Dies at 87

With theatrical courtroom flair, he was involved in a host of notorious criminal cases, including those of the Boston Strangler and a Vietnam War massacre.

Jerome Hellman, Producer of ‘Midnight Cowboy,’ Dies at 92

His movie-producing career consisted of just seven films, but they earned him six Academy Awards, three for “Midnight Cowboy” and three for “Coming Home.”

Sister Margherita Marchione, Defender of Pius XII, Dies at 99

She spent decades arguing that the pope had helped the Jews during World War II, despite accusations that he had abdicated his moral responsibility.