By Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times
The experimental psychologist's work raised public consciousness about drunk driving and helped lead to stricter laws against it.
By Valerie J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times
Hal Schaefer was a jazz pianist, composer and arranger and a figure in what became known as the 'wrong-door raid,' led by Monroe's ex-husband Joe DiMaggio.
By Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times
Gerson opened the summer camp halfway between Malibu and Agoura Hills in the Santa Monica Mountains in 1947. By 1984 more than 14,000 children had gone through the camp's program.
By Randy Lewis and Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times
Gil Friesen is called a visionary by label co-founder Herb Alpert. Friesen also contributed significantly to A&M's reputation for fair play among the musicians it signed.
By Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times
After the Northridge earthquake in 1994, he helped secure more than $300 million in federal funding to reconstruct 14,000 damaged housing units in Los Angeles.
By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times
One of the first conservatives to establish a beachhead in radio, Ray Briem consistently attracted the largest ratings of any overnight talk show. He championed Propositions 13 and 187.
Los Angeles Times Wire Reports
N. Joseph Woodland worked at IBM for nearly four decades. He was on the team that developed a bar-code-reading laser scanner system in response to demand from grocers.
By Don Heckman, Special to The Times
Ravi Shankar, who introduced Indian music to much of the Western world, counted Beatles member George Harrison among his disciples.
By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times
Dr. William F. House also developed a successful surgery for an ear disease that had prevented astronaut Alan Shepard from returning to space.
By Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times
Forrest Shumway helped engineer the merger that created Allied-Signal Corp. He also served on the USC board of trustees for many years.
Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian opera singer, dies at 86; Lisa della Casa, soprano known for Strauss, Mozart roles, dies at 93; Paul Rauch, daytime drama executive, dies at 78
By David Ng, Los Angeles Times
Rosen combined a concert pianist's virtuosity with a well-rounded cultural erudition that made him a forceful and sometimes feared presence in New York's intellectual circles.
By Scott Gold, Todd Martens and Richard Fausset, Los Angeles Times
Jenni Rivera defied the limits of genre and used her personal struggles in her songs, becoming a hero among Latin women in the U.S. and Mexico and a powerful player in a field dominated by machismo.
By Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times
The long-running comic strip offered a sardonic look at the world of sports, and Americans' fixation on it, from the perspective of an outsider looking in.
James D. Hodgson, former secretary of Labor, dies at 96; Patrick Moore, popular BBC TV astronomy show host, dies at 89.
By Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times
Berkus built a portfolio of 600,000 dwellings encompassing about 10,000 designs in developments across the U.S. He favored high ceilings, natural light and open spaces.
Times staff and wire reports
Brooks was first elected in 1952 and left office in 1994. He served on the House Judiciary Committee and drafted the articles of impeachment of President Nixon.
By Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times
The Emmy-winning comedy, part of a powerhouse Thursday-night lineup for NBC that included "The Cosby Show," "Family Ties" and "Cheers" pushed the envelope for network TV at the time.
By Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times
The drummer influenced the sound of the L.A. band, which for a time lived communally in Topanga Canyon.
By Bob Pool, Los Angeles Times
John D. Silva created the Telecopter, essentially a flying television studio, for KTLA-TV Channel 5 in L.A.