Antonio Nunez Jimenez; Revolutionary, Cuban Official

Antonio Nunez Jimenez, 75, who fought alongside Che Guevara and went on to hold top positions in the Cuban government. Nunez was a captain who fought in the mountains in the late 1950s as Fidel Castro’s rebel forces toppled the government of Fulgencio Batista. After the revolution, Nunez served as director of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform, was president of the Cuban National Bank and president of the Academy of Sciences. He was an anthropologist who traveled the world and wrote 30 books, including “The Tobacco Book,” a history of cigars, published in 1994. On Sunday of undisclosed causes in Havana.

Ricardo Arnoldo Ramirez de Leon; Former Guatemalan Rebel

Ricardo Arnoldo Ramirez de Leon, 67, a former leftist guerrilla commander who signed peace accords with the Guatemalan government in 1996. Ramirez, who was widely known by his nom de guerre, Rolando Moran, commanded a rebel section known as the Guerrilla Army of the Poor. After the 36-year civil war ended in 1996, he became secretary general of a committee charged with organizing a new leftist party that is expected to participate in 1999 presidential elections. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan said he had been “encouraged by [Ramirez’s] deep commitment to the peace process.” On Friday of a heart attack in Guatemala City.