Walter "Wally" Lee Jones, 73, a crew member on the last flight of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the first atom bomb on Japan during World War II, died Sunday in San Antonio.
Mr. Jones, of San Antonio, was a member of the crew that flew the Enola Gay on Dec. 2, 1953, to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland from Pyote Air Force Base in Texas. After World War II, the Air Force stored or scrapped hundreds of planes at Pyote.
Nearly three years earlier, the Enola Gay, named after the mother of Col. Paul W. Tibbets, the pilot on the Aug. 6, 1945, Hiroshima mission, had been accepted by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
"He was extremely proud to be flying on the Enola Gay's last flight," said Brenda King, Mr. Jones' daughter. "He knew it was a moment of history."
The fully assembled Enola Gay, restored by Smithsonian experts, will be on permanent display at the museum's new Dulles annex outside Washington when it opens late next year.
Mary A. Dieli, 46, who designed some of the first software to make computers easier to use, died in Seattle on June 14 after an 18-month battle with breast cancer. She was 46.
Born into a large Sicilian family in Brooklyn, N.Y., she earned a doctorate in rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University before going to work at Apple Computer, where she helped design the Lisa operating system in the early 1980s. Lisa was one of the first commercially available systems to move away from commands that had to be typed and often were difficult to remember, as in the old Microsoft MS-DOS system.
Ms. Dieli moved to Seattle in 1988 to establish two computer usability laboratories for the study of human-computer interaction at Microsoft Corp., and her work was used in designing the Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 user interfaces. Most recently, she started a consulting business and worked with Cisco Systems, Netscape, Hewlett-Packard and Dow Jones Inc.
Daniel G. Collins, 72, a law professor and labor arbitrator who helped broker a deal that ended a months-long impasse between New York City and its schoolteachers over pay, died in New York on Sunday of cancer.
Mr. Collins headed a special fact-finding panel that proposed a compromise that led to an agreement between a teachers union and the city after 19 months of failed negotiations.
In some of his higher profile cases as an arbiter, Mr. Collins ruled that the Shubert Organization had not discriminated against Vanessa Redgrave for her political beliefs; that NBA star Patrick Ewing could not become a free agent; and that a contract clause allowed dancer Tommy Tune to escape a Broadway role.
Jack Cottrell Dutton, 92, a former mayor who helped bring the Angels baseball team to Anaheim, Calif., died Saturday after a bout with pneumonia. He was 92.
Mr. Dutton was a canny entrepreneur who became a millionaire by 40 by selling wiping rags to gas stations, shipyards and oil refineries. He went on to found a restaurant where he kept exotic animals, including a bear, a lion and an ostrich.
A baseball star in high school, Mr. Dutton brought his love of the game with him while serving as a city councilman from 1962 to 1970 and as mayor from 1970 to 1976.
Mr. Dutton was a councilman when the city agreed to build a new stadium if Gene Autry would move the Angels from Los Angeles. The team, renamed the California Angels, arrived in 1966. The stadium is now known as Edison International Field.
Dobri Dzhurov, 86, a former Bulgarian defense minister who helped oust dictator Todor Zhivkov in 1989, died Tuesday in Sofia, officials said. The cause of death was not immediately made public in the announcement made by the Socialist Party.
Lee Otis Johnson, 62, a black student leader in the 1960s who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for passing a marijuana cigarette to an undercover officer, died in Houston, Texas, on June 12.
His 1968 sentence sparked the rallying cry "Free Lee Otis!" It became the chant of students and liberals across Texas.
The saying, also featured on bumper stickers, was shorthand for their arguments that state drug laws were overly harsh, that civil rights needed a boost and that Mr. Johnson was framed because of his activities that displeased the city's conservative powers.
Mr. Johnson was freed four years into his prison term, and the Texas marijuana laws eventually were relaxed.