Alun Owen, 69, an Oscar nominee for the screenplay of the Beatles film "A Hard Day's Night," died Tuesday in London.
Richard Brown, 79, founder of the Brown Institute where thousands of radio and television broadcasters got their start, was found dead Monday with his wife, Helen, 76, in a double suicide in their home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Mr. Brown's painful arthritis kept him in a wheelchair. Mrs. Brown had Alzheimer's disease.
John B. Stephenson, 57, president emeritus of Berea (Ky.) College, died Tuesday of a viral infection. He retired July 31 after serving for 10 years.
Gian Maria Volonte, 61, whose wide-ranging acting career included the "spaghetti" westerns "A Fistful of Dollars" in 1964 and "For a Few Dollars More" in 1966, died Tuesday of a heart attack He had arrived in the northern Greece town of Florina on Monday from the Bosnian city of Mostar to film "The Gaze of Odysseus."
Irving Kenneth Zola, 59, a sociologist at Brandeis University who studied and championed the disabled, died Dec. 1 of a heart attack. He was disabled by polio when he was 16, and used canes and braces to help him walk. His disabilities were increased by injuries suffered in an automobile accident when he was 19. He was a founding member and counselor at the Boston Self Help Center, an advocacy and counseling organization based in Brookline, Mass., for people with chronic diseases and disabilities. He was the center's executive director from 1982 to 1987.