Obituaries

When the headmistress at the North London Collegiate School told Lilian Lindsay that she should become a teacher, and that she would block her from finding any other type of work, Lindsay shot back: “You cannot prevent me from being a dentist.” “I knew nothing of dentistry,” Lindsay wrote in her unpublished autobiography, “but having … Read more

Patricia Schroeder, a trailblazing feminist legislator who helped redefine the role of women in American politics and used her wit to combat egregious sexism in Congress, died on Monday. She was 82. She died at a hospital in Celebration, Fla., from complications from a stroke, her daughter, Jamie Cornish, said in an email. Ms. Schroeder, … Read more

Kenzaburo Oe, a Nobel laureate whose intense novels and defiant politics challenged a modern Japanese culture that he found morally vacant and dangerously tilted toward the same mind-set that led to catastrophe in World War II, died on March 3. He was 88. His publisher, Kodansha, announced the death on Monday. It did not specify … Read more

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. In 1972, Dilys Winn had an idea to open a bookstore that would sell nothing but mystery stories, but she knew nothing about the book business. She went to Doubleday and Brentano’s … Read more

Robert Blake, an actor whose career portraying gritty characters like the television detective Tony Baretta was eclipsed by his trial and acquittal in the murder of his wife in 2001, died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89. The cause was long-term heart disease, Noreen Austin, his niece, said. Mr. Blake began … Read more

Topol, the Israeli actor best known for playing Tevye, the soulful shtetl milkman at the center of “Fiddler on the Roof,” a role he performed thousands of times on stage and screen, has died. He was 87. His death was announced by President Isaac Herzog of Israel on Twitter on Thursday. Mr. Herzog did not … Read more