Obituaries

Brian Wilson, the musical savant who scripted a defining Southern California soundtrack with a run of hit songs with the Beach Boys, has died. He was 82.

Compton native David Greenwood, who earned a spot in the College Basketball Hall of Fame after starring at UCLA, has died from cancer at the age of 68.

Frederick Forsyth, the British author of ‘The Day of the Jackal’ and other thrillers, has died after a brief illness. He has a final book coming in August.

Stone had a capacity for summing up the zeitgeist of an America in social transition, from collective joy to racial harmony, and from the search for transcendence to the broken idealism in which the 1960s ended.

Edmund White, who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, memoirs and novels, has died.

Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima has died at age 89. Former Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley once tried to buy his contract. Shohei Ohtani posted his respects on Instagram.

Foster’s relentlessly creative, adaptable percussion drove elegant bepop and raucous fusion groups alike.

John Brenkus, the charismatic TV host who found creative ways to get sports fans to think about science, has died. His show, “Sport Science,” appeared on ESPN and Fox Sports.