Steve Shickles

AP - Jaroslav Skala, a Czech pioneer of alcohol addiction treatment, has died, Czech media reported Monday. He was 91.

AFP - Vladimir Kryuchkov, the former head of the Soviet KGB and a ringleader in an attempted coup against Mikhail Gorbachev, has died, Russian media reported Sunday. He was 83.

AP - Vladimir Kryuchkov, the former KGB chief who spearheaded a failed coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, has died, officials said Sunday. He was 83.

AP - Herbert Saffir, an engineer who created the five-category system used to describe hurricane strength and warn millions of an approaching storm’s danger, has died. He was 90.

Reuters - Ian Smith, who defied the world in 1965
when he led 270,000 white Rhodesians in a unilateral
declaration of independence from Britain rather than accept
moves to black-majority rule, has died in South Africa aged 88.

AP - Ian Smith, Rhodesia’s last white prime minister whose attempts to resist black rule dragged the country now known as Zimbabwe into isolation and civil war, died Tuesday at age 88.

AP - Victor Rabinowitz, a lawyer who represented leftist causes and clients such as Alger Hiss, the Black Panthers, Fidel Castro and Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin, has died at 96.

AP - Milo Radulovich, the Air Force Reserve lieutenant championed by Edward R. Murrow when the military threatened to decommission him during the anti-communist crackdown of the 1950s, has died. He was 81.

AP - Dick Wilson, the actor and pitchman who played the uptight grocer begging customers “Please, don’t squeeze the Charmin,” died Monday. He was 91.

AP - The actress who played Col. Klink’s sexy blond secretary Hilda on “Hogan’s Heroes” and married the show’s star, Bob Crane, has died. She was 72.