Anthony Solomon, Finance Policy Maker, Is Dead at 88
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Mr. Solomon was a former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and an influential behind-the-scenes financial policy maker in three presidential administrations and at the World Bank.
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Lord Hanson, perhaps the most successful and buccaneering businessmen to have been produced by Britain in the past 50 years, died yesterday aged 82 after a long battle against cancer.
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Alan Shugart, the co-founder of hard drive maker Seagate Technology LLC, has died, the company said Wednesday. He was 76.
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Paul Nitze, one of the last leading  U.S. statesmen of the Cold War period and architect of nuclear  deterrence, has died at the age of 97.
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Hiram L. Fong, 97, a Hawaii Republican who served in the US Senate from 1959 to 1977 and rose from poverty to become a venerable figure in Pacific politics, died of kidney failure Aug. 18 at his home in Honolulu.
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Lord James Hanson, a wealthy industrialist whose business prospered by acquiring poorly run, low-tech companies and turning them into money makers, died after a long battle with cancer, his spokesman said. He was 82.
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Tributes are paid to Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, who has died at the age of 83.
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Description: British journalist Anthony Sampson, who died this weekend at age 78, was a longtime resident of South Africa and edited the influential anti-apartheid magazine, Drum.
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Former French Prime Minister Raymond  Barre, an economist who also served as a European commissioner,  has died, his family said on Saturday. He was 83.
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Portrait and fashion photographer  Richard Avedon died on Friday morning at age 81, a spokeswoman  for the family said.
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Richard Avedon, who turned fashion and portrait photography into art forms and captured unforgettable images of some of the world's most famous figures, died on Friday at 81, a spokeswoman for the New Yorker magazine said.
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Charles William Maynes, editor of Foreign Policy magazine for 18 years and a former State Department official, died last weekend at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was 68.
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Albert Warren, 86, who built a group of newsletters covering the telecommunications, broadcasting and consumer electronics industries into a small, influential empire, died after a stroke Nov. 26 at his home in Washington.
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Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay, who was convicted of helping perpetuate one of the most sprawling business frauds in U.S. history, died Wednesday in Aspen, Colo. He was 64.
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Arif Ali, regional product director for Europe, Middle East and Africa for The Associated Press, died of cancer at his home Thursday. He was 46.
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Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos, a key voice on foreign affairs, has died aged 80, his spokeswoman says.
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Gerard Debreu, a former University of California-Berkeley economist who won a Nobel Prize for breakthroughs in the study of supply and demand, has died at the age of 83.