Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 64, the duke of Westminster, the billionaire owner of swaths of central London, a friend of Britain's royal family and the scion of an aristocratic family stretching back to the Norman Conquest, died Tuesday in Preston, England, after suddenly becoming ill.
Edward Daly, 82, a Roman Catholic bishop of Northern Ireland who argued relentlessly for peace during the three decades of sectarian violence known as "the Troubles," died Monday in Londonderry. On Jan. 30, 1972, as a 38-year-old curate at St. Eugene's Cathedral, he escorted unarmed protesters on a march toward the center of Londonderry when British soldiers opened fire, resulting in the deaths of 14 people. The massacre became known as Bloody Sunday.
Elliot Tiber, 81, an artist, gay rights activist, screenplay writer and interior designer best known as a businessman who helped enable the staging of the landmark 1969 Woodstock music festival by obtaining a permit for it amid area opposition, died of a stroke Aug. 3 in Boca Raton.
Ivo Pitanguy, 93, a pioneering Brazilian plastic surgeon who performed facelifts, tummy tucks and other procedures on the rich, famous and royal, becoming rich, famous and celebrated himself, died of heart failure Aug. 6 in Rio de Janeiro. He established himself as one of the world's most famous plastic surgeons through his marketing savvy and surgical skills.
Frank Palopoli, 94, a chemist whose team of researchers invented Clomid, the world's most widely prescribed fertility drug for women, died of heart failure Aug. 6 in Montgomery, Ohio. Over nearly 50 years, millions of women have become pregnant because of the relatively inexpensive drug clomiphene citrate, which the William S. Merrell Co. began marketing as Clomid in 1967.
Glenn Yarbrough, 86, a folk singer who at midcentury found fame and fortune with the popular trio the Limeliters and later made a string of solo albums and toured as a solo act, died Thursday in Nashville. In the early 1970s he took to the sea aboard his sailboat. Throughout the '70s '80s and '90s, he spent much of his time at sea.
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