With a background in marketing, his aunt’s recipe and a winning personality, he built one of the world’s best-known brands of baked goods.
Category: Deaths (Obituaries)
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‘Scarface’ Actor Ángel Salazar Dies at 68
He first made his mark doing stand-up in New York, but he was best known for his role as Chi Chi opposite Al Pacino in the hit 1983 movie.
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Peggy Moffitt, 86, Dies; Defined ’60s Fashion With a Bathing Suit and a Bob
She became famous for posing in the fashion designer Rudi Gernreich’s topless swimsuit. But she saw herself more as a performer than as a model.
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Howie Cohen, Whose Alka-Seltzer Ads Spawned Catchphrases, Dies at 81
A copywriter, he and a partner in 1972 came up with “Try it, you’ll like it” and “I can’t believe I ate that whole thing.” Soon, sales were, well, fizzing.
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Mísia, Who Brought a Modern Flair to Fado Music, Dies at 69
With her smoky voice and her high-fashion look, the self-proclaimed “punk of fado” found stardom by shaking up a venerable Portuguese genre.
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Lorenza de’ Medici, Who Elevated Italian Cooking, Is Dead at 97
A descendant of a storied family, she was an author, TV host and cooking school director who showed that Italian cuisine was about more than tomatoes, pizza and pasta.
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Walter Arlen, Holocaust Refugee and Belated Composer, Is Dead at 103
After fleeing Vienna, he was a music critic and teacher before returning to composing in the 1980s. His memories of Nazi barbarism inspired his music.
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Ina Jaffe, Dogged and Award-Winning NPR Reporter, Dies at 75
Ms. Jaffe spent decades covering politics and aging in America, and she was the first editor of the NPR program “Weekend Edition Saturday.”
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Yvonne Furneaux, Cosmopolitan Actress in ‘La Dolce Vita,’ Dies at 98
An Oxford graduate who spoke five languages, she had an early career as a siren before finding critical acclaim in masterworks by Federico Fellini and Roman Polanski.
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Benjamin Luxon, British Baritone Thwarted by Hearing Loss, Dies at 87
A favorite of Benjamin Britten, he won acclaim in roles like Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin and Falstaff until his affliction forced him to largely give up singing.
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Richard Crawford, Leading Scholar of American Music, Dies at 89
American Music was a marginal subfield in the 1960s when he began his research as a student, and then as a faculty member, at the University of Michigan.
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Francine Pascal, Creator of ‘Sweet Valley High’ Book Series, Dies at 92
The series and its many spinoffs have sold more than 200 million copies and revolutionized the world of young adult publishing.