Obituaries

Turski became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and was a co-founder of Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum.

Considered the preeminent scholar of a mundane but everyday issue, Donald Shoup left a legacy of persistence and influence

His first novel, “Another Roadside Attraction,” was published in 1971 when Robbins was 39 -- more than three decades after declaring to his parents, at age 5, that he’d be a writer.

Roberts appeared in Allen’s ‘Play It Again, Sam,’ ‘Annie Hall,’ ‘Stardust Memories,’ ‘A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy,’ ‘Hannah and Her Sisters’ and ‘Radio Days.’

The Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims and a major philanthropist, has died. His son will succeed him.

Betty O’Meara helped make the Malibu Cinema a gem for Hollywood stars and regular folks. When the Palisades fire came, she refused to evacuate, dying in the home where she had lived for more than 50 years

Dick Button, a two-time Olympic gold medalist in figure skating and one the sport’s great innovators, dies at the age of 95.

Marianne Faithfull died Thursday in London at age 78. The singer, actress and ‘It’ girl of 1960s London inspired — or wrote — numerous Rolling Stones songs.