Johnny Griffin at the 2007 North Sea Jazz festival in Rotterdam.

Eugene A. Foster

Paul Bentley, right, with Lee Harvey Oswald in custody outside the Texas Theater in Dallas.

Sidney and Genevieve Craig cheering on one of their racehorses in 1992. They established a chain of weight-loss centers.

Ms. Friede was the book editor who sent “Jonathan Livingston Seagull” on its nonstop flight to publishing glory in 1970.

Barbara Ann Teer in 2003.

Mr. Bachrach was a biochemist who helped produce an early vaccine to prevent foot and mouth disease in livestock and did important early research on the polio virus.

Richard C. Wade in 1985.

Victor A. McKusick with his Japan Prize this year.

Charles Z. Wick being greeted by his friend and the man who appointed him, President Ronald Reagan, in the Oval Office.

Estelle Getty holding the Emmy she won in 1988 for “The Golden Girls.”

Dinko Sakic, center, was convicted in 1999 of war crimes.

Jacques Kaplan in his salon in New York in 1966.

Jerome Holtzman, right, with Don Zimmer in 1989.

Artie Traum in 2006. He recorded albums and film scores.

Mrs. Nederlander was a producer of nine Broadway shows between 1976 and 1993, most notably of a revival of “West Side Story” in 1980.

Lyall Watson’s interests and studies included anthropology, ethology, chemistry and botany.

The former music director and principal conductor of Dance Theater of Harlem was noted for his arrangements of the 2003 premiere of “St. Louis Woman.”

Anatoly I. Pristavkin

Jo Stafford, a singer who was a favorite of American servicemen during World War II.

Sherman Leander Maxwell.

Mr. Gregg was an epidemiologist and former editor of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a federal medical bulletin that published early warnings of the impending AIDS crisis in 1981.