Dorothy Vogel, Librarian With a Vast Art Collection, Dies at 90

On modest civil servants’ salaries, she and her husband amassed a trove of some 4,000 works by art-world luminaries, storing them in their one-bedroom Manhattan apartment.

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Terry Martin Hekker, a Happy Housewife Scorned, Dies at 92

She wrote two popular memoirs: the first about the joys of married life, the second about her husband serving her divorce papers on their 40th anniversary.

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Mark Mellman, 70, Dies; Helped Democrats Understand Their Voters

A pollster and political strategist, he was a key figure in John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign and used his prominence to speak out in defense of Israel.

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Ward Landrigan, Jeweler to the Stars, Dies at 84

At Sotheby’s, he provided famous diamonds to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton before reviving Verdura, a venerable jewelry company founded by a Sicilian duke.

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Henry Todd, LSD Kingpin Turned Everest Guide, Dies at 80

He helped make and distribute millions of LSD tablets in the 1970s. After seven years in prison, he ran mountain climbing expeditions in the Himalayas.

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Sid Davidoff, Powerful Aide to Mayor Lindsay, Dies at 86

In the 1960s and ’70s, he was a brash lieutenant to a young, ambitious, reform-minded mayor and ended up on President Nixon’s “enemies list.”

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Alice Wong, Writer and Relentless Advocate for Disability Rights, Dies at 51

Born with muscular dystrophy, she received a MacArthur “Genius” grant in 2024 for her decades of calling attention to the need for equal rights for disabled people.

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Jim Avila, Former ABC News Correspondent, Dies at 70

He spent almost two decades at the network, covering a wide range of court cases and the White House. He was also at the center of a defamation lawsuit over “pink slime.”

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Juan Ponce Enrile, a Political Power in the Philippines, Dies at 101

A protégé of Ferdinand Marcos, he helped administer eight years of martial law before turning on his patron in the “People Power” uprising of 1986.

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William Rataczak, Co-Pilot of Flight Hijacked by D.B. Cooper, Dies at 86

He was a witness to one of the most riveting unsolved crimes in American history, which inspired scores of conspiracy theories and obsessed amateur sleuths.

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