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After participated in controversial studies by Timothy Leary involving hallucinogens, he continued researching alternate states of consciousness.

A fleet running back, he was the overwhelming choice for the 1960 Heisman, but his pro career, delayed by military service, fell short of expectations.

Ms. Fileva, who died in a plane crash, was the rare woman to hold an executive post in Russia. She helped consolidate the post-Soviet airline industry.

Tattooed almost head to foot himself, he helped move the art form “out of the back alley” and into the mainstream, finding fame with a celebrity clientele.

A practitioner of old-fashioned investigative techniques, he was inconspicuous compared with many of his colleagues and high-profile clients.

He gave up life as a successful Burmese businessman to teach meditation in India, and played a significant role in the explosion of interest in meditation as we know it today.

His skills as production manager were invaluable to Queen, Paul McCartney and others as the logistics of touring and performing grew increasingly elaborate.

A surplus of perishable powdered milk was the mother of invention for the popular instant drink made with hot water and formulated in the early 1960s.

A sampling of creative works by the recently departed, from their obituaries.

The rapper remained a regular presence at the strip mall that houses the clothing store he owned in South Los Angeles.