Virginia Hamilton Adair, 91, poet who published her first collection, “Ants on the Melon,” when she was 83; Sept. 16, in Claremont, Calif.
Eddie Adams, 71, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist; Sept. 19, in New York, from complications of Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Richard Arnold, 68, a judge on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis since 1980; Sept. 23, in Rochester, Minn. of complications from lymphoma.
Stephen Baker, 83, an advertising art director who created the “Let your fingers do the walking” campaign for the Yellow Pages; Sept. 13, in New York.
Roland Balay, 102, international art dealer and former president of Knoedler & Co., the New York gallery established in 1846 by his grandfather Michael Knoedler; Sept. 16, in New York.
G. Carl Ball, 83, former owner and chief executive officer of Ball Horticultural; Sept. 19, in Glen Ellyn.
Edward Larrabee Barnes, 89, a Chicago-born architect who designed the IBM headquarters in New York and several other notable structures; Sept. 21, in Cupertino, Calif.
James E. Beasley, 78, a lawyer who won millions of dollars in jury verdicts in major cases, including an unpaid $104-million judgment stemming from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks; Sept. 18, in Philadelphia.
Jack Bolt, 83, Marine lieutenant colonel who flew with the Black Sheep Squadron in World War II and was the only Marine pilot to be an ace in two wars; Sept. 8, in Tampa, of leukemia.
Winston Cenac, 79, briefly became St. Lucia’s prime minister in the early 1980s; Sept. 23, in Castries, St. Lucia.
Skeeter Davis, 72, a singer who hit the top of the pop charts with “The End of the World” in 1963 and sang on the Grand Ole Opry radio show for more than 40 years; Sept. 19, in Nashville, of cancer.
Richard Durkee, 86, an Army veteran of the Second and Korean wars and recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, the military’s second-highest medal for heroism; Sept. 14, in Berwyn Heights, Md.
Dr. Paul B. Gaskill, 82, retired regional flight surgeon for United Airlines; Sept. 20, in Elgin.
Frank L. Hereford Jr., 81, the fifth president at the University of Virginia, serving from 1974-85; Sept. 21, in Charlottesville.
Gaukur Jorundsson, 69, Iceland’s judge on the European Court of Human Rights; Sept. 21, in Reykjavik, Iceland.
Leonard Lindquist, 92, who helped NFL players form their first union and served as the first general counsel of the NFL Players Association; Sept. 10.
Ellis L. Marsalis Sr., 96, patriarch of a jazz-musician dynasty, whose members include grandson Wynton Marsalis; Sept. 19, in New Orleans.
Michael J. Mettler, 46, director of special projects for Chicago’s Department of Planning and Development in the 1990s; Sept. 17, in Chicago, of cancer.
Russ Meyer, 82, a filmmaker called “king of the nudies” for such soft-core pornography classics as “Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!” and “Vixen’; Sept. 18, in Hollywood Hills.
Marvin M. Mitchelson, 76, divorce lawyer who worked on high-profile cases involving Hollywood stars; Sept. 18, in Beverly Hills, Calif., of cancer.
Warren Nelson, 91, a former president of the Nevada Gaming Industry Association and a 1989 inductee into the Gambling Hall of Fame; Sept. 23, in Reno, Nev.
P. Michael O’Sullivan, 64, a Chicago photographer whose work included the 1967 riots in Detroit; Sept. 19, in Chicago, of lung cancer.
Richard A. Pierce, 86, one of the most prominent scholars in the history of Russia’s presence in Alaska; Sept. 14, in Kingston, Ontario.
Raja Ramanna, 79, architect of India’s nuclear-weapons program, heading the team that built and detonated the country’s first atomic bomb in 1974; Sept. 24, in Bangalore, India.
Billy Reay, 86, a former hockey player who won two Stanley Cup championships with Montreal and became the winningest coach in Chicago Blackhawks history; Sept. 23, in Madison, Wis., of liver cancer.
William C. Reeves, 87, a leading authority on the spread and control of mosquito-borne diseases such as West Nile virus; Sept. 19, in Walnut Creek, Calif.
Victor Hugo Ruiz, 48, Mexican musician specializing in the Grupero genre popular along the border; Sept. 15, in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, of a heart attack.
Derald H. Ruttenberg, 88, an investor and industrialist who ran Studebaker-Worthington, an automotive parts company; Sept. 19, in New York.
Hovah Underwood, 85, wife of former Gov. Cecil Underwood of West Virginia; Sept. 23, in Charleston, W.Va.
Harvey Wheeler, 85, scholar and co-author of “Fail-Safe,” a 1962 best-selling novel about an accidental nuclear war; Sept. 6, in Carpinteria, Calif, of complications from cancer.
Harold Zinkin, 82, a champion bodybuilder who won the first “Mr. California” title in 1941 and invented the Universal Gym Machine; Sept. 22, in Fresno, Calif., after a fall.
