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Donald Henderson (also known as “D.A.”), was an American epidemiologist that headed the global war on smallpox that led to its obliteration in 1980, died on August 19th at a hospice facility in Towson, Md. He was 87. His medical accomplishment was the only such eradication in the records of any human disease, and he has been praised with saving the lives of tens of millions of people. The cause of his death was complications from a broken hip

Sonia Rykiel, the Paris designer, died on Thursday. She was 86, and best recognized for her knitwear, Ms. Rykiel started designing clothing in 1961, when she was pregnant with her second child. She broke a lot of popular traditions, and one was the rule of sending models down the runway in singles. Instead, she sent them down the runway in groups.

Warren Hinckle, the flamboyant editor, and creator of Ramparts magazine was a strong national voice for the extreme left in the 60’s. After supporting the work of Hunter S. Thompson introduced the no-holds-barred style of reporting referred to as gonzo journalism. He died on Thursday in San Francisco at the age of 77. The cause of his death was complications from pneumonia.

Steven Hill, who played lead characters on two remarkable television series, “Mission: Impossible” in the 60s and “Law & Order” in the 90’s, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 94.

Jean-Baptiste “Toots” Thielemans, 94, whose unrivaled command of the harmonica led to cooperation with jazz luminaries including pianist Oscar Peterson and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, died Monday in Belgium.

George E. Curry, 69, a journalist, civil rights activist and publisher whose syndicated column ran in hundreds of black-owned papers around the United States, died August 20th in Takoma Park, Md. He served as a national correspondent for the Chicago Tribune before becoming editor in chief of Emerge magazine in the 90s. He was a regular commentator on Black Entertainment TV.

Esther Jungreis, a magnetic speaker, and instructor whose immensely popular revival-style assemblies encouraged secular Jews to study the Torah and adopt conventional spiritual principles, died on Tuesday in Brooklyn. She was 80, and the cause of her death was complications from pneumonia.

Doris Bohrer, who was a secret agent for the Office of Strategic Services during WWII helped plan the Allied invasion of Sicily and followed the movement of German trains transporting prisoners to concentration camps, died on August 8th in Greensboro, NC, she was 93.