Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca in ‘Star Wars’ films, dies at 74
In a tweet late Thursday, his family said Mayhew had died April 30, “with his family by his side in his North Texas home...
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H. Johannes Witteveen, 97, Dies; Steered I.M.F. Through Turbulent Era
As its managing director, he inherited a dispirited International Monetary Fund in 1973 but revived it, in part by tappi...
The Wall Street Journal: Pro-crypto CFTC commissioner Bart Chilton dies at 58
Chilton helped draft new rules for swaps trading after the financial crisis.
Ira Neimark, Bergdorf Executive Who Put Fashion First, Dies at 97
As president, Mr. Neimark helped transform what had been seen as a safe, dull and expensive store into an avatar of luxu...
Cho Yang-ho, 70, Dies; Expanded Korean Air Amid Scandals
Recently stripped of a board seat in his family’s empire, Mr. Cho had been caught up in corruption investigations and a...
Alan B. Krueger, Economic Aide to Clinton and Obama, Dies at 58
The Princeton scholar, a labor economist known for his early work on the minimum wage, was a Treasury official and the c...
Joseph Boardman, Amtrak Chief During Record Growth, Dies at 70
During Mr. Boardman’s tenure as overseer of the nation’s passenger railroads, from 2008 to 2016, he presided over increa...
Kevin Roche, Architect Who Melded Bold With Elegant, Dies at 96
A favorite of corporations, museums and government, he was given wide leeway in expressing his restless imagination in r...
Devah Pager, Scholar of Racial Bias in Job Market, Dies at 46
Her research established that a white man, even if he had a felony conviction, fared better when applying for a job than...
Carlene Roberts Lawrence, Air Industry Pioneer, Dies at 105
In 1951, at a time when few women were being admitted into the executive suites of any industry, she became a vice presi...
Benetton founder, who took family business beyond sweaters, dies at 77
Gilberto Benetton, a co-founder of Italian clothing retailer United Colors of Benetton who masterminded the family empir...
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65
Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen, who had been suffering from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of cancer, passed...
H.F. Lenfest, Philanthropist and Owner of Philadelphia’s Newspapers, Dies at 88
H.F. Lenfest, a Philadelphia philanthropist who made $1 billion in the cable industry and gave most of it away, died on...
Former Fiat Chrysler CEO Marchionne dies
Former Fiat Chrysler chief executive Sergio Marchionne, one of the auto industry's most tenacious and respected aut...
Ann Hopkins, Winner of a Workplace Bias Fight, Dies at 74
Her bosses at the office saw her as too “macho” and “aggressive” to be made a partner. The Supreme Court saw her as a vi...
Ralph Paige, Champion of Black Farmers, Dies at 74
As head of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Mr. Paige fought to save black farmers’ land and win compensation to...
Anne Tolstoi Wallach, 89, Dies; Her Advertising Novel Caused a Stir
“Women’s Work,” published in 1981, drew an enormous advance for a first-time novelist. It told of an adwoman who was not...
Anne Wallach, Whose Advertising Novel Caused a Stir, Dies at 89
“Women’s Work,” published in 1981, drew an enormous advance for a first-time novelist. It told of an adwoman who was not...
Kazuo Kashio, a Founder of Casio Computer, Dies at 89
One of four brothers who organized the company in postwar Japan, he marketed the mini-calculator, the G-Shock watch and...