Odile de Vasselot, Teenage Aristocrat in the French Resistance, Dies at 103

During World War II, she deceived her watchful mother so she could take part in dangerous missions. Later, she founded a girls’ school in Ivory Coast.

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Francis Davis, Sharp-Eared Jazz Critic and Husband of Terry Gross, Dies at 78

He wrote prolifically about various aspects of the arts and popular culture. But he kept his focus on jazz, celebrating its past while worrying about its future.

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Dag Solstad, Norwegian Novelist and Short Story Writer, Dies at 83

A winner of top awards in his country, he drew the attention of European and American critics. The prime minister said he “made us see Norway and the world in new ways.”

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Jennifer Johnston, Irish Novelist Who Probed Country’s Fault Lines, Dies at 95

She explored tensions among the social classes and within families in fiction that prompted Roddy Doyle to call her “Ireland’s greatest writer.”

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Robert G. Clark, 96, Dies; Broke a Barrier in Mississippi’s Statehouse

In 1968, he became the first Black person to serve in the Legislature since Reconstruction. Shunned by colleagues at first, he became a political force in the state.

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Jim Guy Tucker, Ex-Arkansas Governor Caught Up in Whitewater, Dies at 81

He was among those targeted by the investigation that consumed much of Bill Clinton’s presidency. But his conviction was later questioned.

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Richard Williamson, Renegade Priest and Holocaust Denier, Dies at 84

Ordained as a bishop by a traditionalist sect, he was excommunicated then reinstated by the Vatican, but was undone by his antisemitic views.

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Mauricio Funes, Salvadoran President Who Fled to Nicaragua, Dies at 65

He was a popular TV journalist when elected as El Salvador’s first modern-day leftist leader in 2009, but he went into exile hounded by corruption charges.

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Bertrand Blier, Acclaimed Director of Sexually Blunt Films, Dies at 85

A much-decorated French filmmaker, he divided audiences and critics with explorations, often darkly comic but brutal, of misogyny and the male sexual imagination.

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Michel del Castillo, 91, Dies; Child’s-Eye Chronicler of Concentration Camps

His first novel, “Tanguy,” published when he was 24, was a fact-based Holocaust story that one reviewer said “begins where Anne Frank’s diary ended.”

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