AP - Spanish novelist and scriptwriter Rafael Azcona, known for films such as the Oscar-winning comedy “Belle Epoque” and Luis Garcia Berlanga’s “The Executioner,” has died. He was 81.
AP - Ivan Toms, a South African doctor who played a key role in the campaign to end conscription of young white men to bolster the racist apartheid security forces has died. He was 55.
AP - Neil Aspinall, a longtime friend of the Beatles who managed their business enterprises and helped make the group a moneymaking phenomenon decades after they split up, has died. He was 66.
AP - Cuban bassist and composer Israel “Cachao” Lopez, who is credited with pioneering the mambo style of music, died Saturday. He was 89.
AP - A 114-year-old woman, considered the oldest person in Texas, has died at a Dallas retirement home.
AP - Author Jon Hassler, who chronicled the foibles of small-town life in “Staggerford,” “Grand Opening” and other novels after starting his career late in life, has died. He was 74.
AP - Paul Scofield, a commanding stage and screen actor indelibly stamped on filmgoers’ minds as the doomed philosopher-statesman Sir Thomas More in “A Man For All Seasons,” has died at age 86.
AP - Philip Jones Griffiths, a photojournalist who spent years traveling across Vietnam to capture the effects of the war on its people, died Wednesday. He was 72.
AP - Writer Hugo Claus an artist, poet, playwright and novelist whose books painted a scathing picture of repression and hypocrisy in bourgeois Flanders died Wednesday by euthanasia, his wife said. He was 78.
AP - Actor Ivan Dixon, who brought the problems and promise of contemporary blacks to life in the film “Nothing But a Man” and portrayed the levelheaded POW Kinchloe in TV’s “Hogan’s Heroes,” has died. He was 76.