Steve Shickles

AP - Arthur Jones, whose invention of Nautilus exercise equipment offered a more-targeted approach to strength training and changed the idea of a workout, died Tuesday. He was 80.

AP - Galina Dzhugashvili, a granddaughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin who challenged widely accepted accounts of her father’s internment at a Nazi prison camp, has died in Moscow, a hospital official said Tuesday. She was 69.

AP - Edward Seidensticker, a leading scholar and translator of Japanese literature including the epic “Tale of Genji,” has died in Tokyo. He was 86.

AP - “The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died” (Harper Paperbacks, 281 pages. $14.95), by Michael Largo: It’s hard to imagine overselling the importance of death to a person’s life, but listen to author Michael Largo.

AP - Norman Cohn, a historian who studied the links between apocalyptic Medieval sects and 20th century totalitarianism and genocide, has died. He was 92.

AP - Robert H. “Bob” Johnson, a champion for open government and a former Associated Press executive who during a 42-year career wrote AP’s first bulletin on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has died. He was 84.

AFP - Raymond Barre, a prominent economist who served as French prime minister in the 1970s, has died Saturday aged 83, his family announced.

AP - Raymond Barre, a tough-speaking former French prime minister and economist who refused to bow to protesters or political alliances, died Saturday, his family said. He was 83.

Reuters - Former French Prime Minister Raymond
Barre, who helped set Europe on its road to a single currency,
died on Saturday. He was 83.

AP - Ralph Alpher, a physicist whose pioneering work on the underpinnings of the “Big Bang” theory went unheralded for years while others won a Nobel Prize, has died. He was 86.