NOTABLE DEATHS
Anouk Aimée, 92, the French actress whose cult movies included Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita,” Jacques Demy’s “Lola” and Claude Lelouch’s “A Man and a Woman.” Aimée, born Nicole Françoise Florence Dreyfus, appeared in over 70 films throughout her career. She made her debut at age 14 in the 1947 movie “The House Under the Sea” after being scouted by the director Henri Calef on the street, she told the Los Angeles Times in 2002. Her character in the film was Anouk, which she went on to adopt as a mononym. , which means “beloved” in French, at the suggestion Jacques Prévert, screenwriter of “The Lovers of Verona.” Aimée earned an Oscar nomination and Golden Globe win for best actress for her role in 1967’s “A Man and a Woman.”
Lynn Conway, 86, a transgender woman who helped launch the computing revolution but was long underappreciated in the tech world. In 1968, IBM fired Conway when she expressed her intention to transition. She quickly found a new job under her post-transition name and identity at the prestigious Xerox PARC and for many years kept the fact that she was trans from her employers. Conway did groundbreaking work in chip design as the co-inventor of very large-scale integration, or VLSI, but her male colleague, Carver Mead, was repeatedly given most of the credit. She made many other major strides in technology and eventually dropped the low profile she had sought to keep when, in 1999, she came out publicly as trans and became a vocal supporter of trans rights and of other trans people in high tech.
Mark James, 83, a famed songwriter behind hits including “Always on My Mind,” “Hooked on a Feeling” and “Suspicious Minds.” Between 1969 and 1982, Willie Nelson, Blue Swede and Elvis Presley achieved platinum-selling success via the trio of songs. “Suspicious Minds” was Presley’s all-time bestselling single. ” James also wrote songs recorded by such artists as Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones and Ronnie Milsap.
Nick Mavar Jr., 59, a deckhand for the F/V Northwestern who was featured on the series “Deadliest Catch” over the course of 15 years. Mavar appeared on 16 seasons of “Deadliest Catch,” which started airing on Discovery Channel in 2005.
Willie Mays, 93, the Hall of Fame center fielder whose all-around skills made him one of greatest baseball players of all time. Mays played 23 seasons for the New York Giants, San Francisco Giants and New York Mets, from 1951 through 1973. His snag of a fly ball in the 1954 World Series, sprinting with his back toward home plate some 460 feet away, is known simply as The Catch. Mays, known as “The Say Hey Kid” because of his standard greeting, was ranked second on The Sporting News’ 1998 list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players. Mays was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979, his first year of eligibility, won the Most Valuable Player award twice and was named to the all-star team 24 times, a record shared only with Hank Aaron and Stan Musial. When he retired, Mays held third place on the all-time home run list with 660, behind Aaron at 755 and Ruth with 714. He was also the first ballplayer to hit 300 homers and steal 300 bases.
Jeakson James Rice, 18, a Tongan kitefoiler who was chosen to compete at the Paris Olympics, died in a diving accident near Ha’apai. Rice, born to British parents in the United States, grew up in Ha’apai and was a naturalized Tongan. He represented Tonga in several major sailing competitions.
Donald Sutherland, 88, the versatile Canadian actor whose prolific career in TV shows and movies showed a diverse range, from authority-loathing surgeon Hawkeye Pierce in the “M*A*S*H” movie to authoritarian villain President Snow in “The Hunger Games” franchise. During his six-decade career, he was the pot-smoking professor in 1978’s “Animal House,” the titular detective John Klute starring alongside then-lover Jane Fonda in the 1971 thriller “Klute,” a pod person in the 1978 horror remake “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” a Venetian explorer in 1976’s “Fellini’s Casanova” with director Federico Fellini, and an embattled father working to save his emotionally troubled uppermiddle-class family in “Ordinary People.” Sutherland was never nominated for an Oscar, but he was awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2017.