Thomas F. Staley, 86, who as the director of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin elevated its standing as a go-to home for the literary archives of major writers like Norman Mailer, David Foster Wallace and Don DeLillo, died nyti.ms/3KKKEuB #obit

Actress June Brown, who appeared in thousands of episodes of the British soap opera “EastEnders” across 35 years, portraying Dot Cotton, one of the more memorable residents of the fictional Albert Square, died at 95. nyti.ms/3M9SfTx #obit

Charles G. Boyd, an Air Force fighter pilot who was held captive as a prisoner of war in Vietnam for nearly 7 years, rose to the rank of 4-star general and later forged a civilian career as an expert on homeland security, died. He was 83. nyti.ms/3jLOCag #obit

Singer Bill Fries, 93, a.k.a. C.W. McCall, who had hit country records in the 1970s about long-haul truck driving during the height of the citizens band radio craze and whose song “Convoy” inspired an action film directed by Sam Peckinpah, died wapo.st/3EnhKhF #obit

Israeli-American pianist Joseph Kalichstein, who was equally distinguished as a recitalist, a soloist with orchestra and a chamber musician, died at 76. wapo.st/3uMJSYm #obit

Doris Derby, 82, an educator and civil rights era photographer who turned her camera away from the violence of the times to capture the quieter moments of the movement, died nyti.ms/3vmOhjW #obit

Gene Shue, an All-Star NBA guard of the late 1950s and early ’60s who went on to turn losers into winners in 22 seasons as a pro coach, died. He was 90. nyti.ms/3MdW7Tz #obit

Tommy Davis, 83, a former baseball prodigy who became a two-time All-Star, won two consecutive National League batting titles and led the star-studded Los Angeles Dodgers to a World Series championship in 1963, died nyti.ms/3JVqxIA #obit

Veteran Canadian filmmaker John Zaritsky, 79, who earned an Oscar in 1983 for best documentary feature for "Just Another Missing Kid," has died. bit.ly/3K00FeG #obit

Tony Award-winning actress Rae Allen, who was known for roles in "Damn Yankees," "A League of Their Own" and "The Sopranos," died. She was 95. bit.ly/3xFFhsP #obit

DJ Kay Slay, an innovative New York radio personality who served as a crucial bridge between hip-hop generations, died from complications of COVID-19. He was 55. nyti.ms/3jXTBVz #obit

Ted Mooney, 70, who opened his first book, in 1981, with a scene of dolphin-human sex, and who proceeded to write three other offbeat, inventive novels at roughly 10-year intervals, died nyti.ms/39b4x01 #obit

Mandolin player Francisco González, who was also a founding member of Los Lobos, has died. He was 68. n.pr/3L5Q7Mx #obit

Photographer Nan Melville, who was known for elegant, fluid images of prominent dancers and dance companies, died. She was 72. nyti.ms/3L2uLzO #obit

Actor Nehemiah Persoff, who appeared as Barbra Streisand’s rabbi father in “Yentl” and had roles in hundreds of films and TV series including “Some Like It Hot” and “Twins,” died. He was 102. bit.ly/3vDQcAH #obit

Herb Turetzky, 76, the official scorer for nearly every home game played by the nomadic Brooklyn Nets franchise from its inception in 1967 until his retirement last year, died nyti.ms/37zom0g #obit

Joe Messina, a guitarist with the Motown session band known as the Funk Brothers whose largely anonymous work graced hit records such as Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going On” and Stevie Wonder’s “For Once in My Life,” died at 93. wapo.st/3EBABWa #obit

Gerda Weissmann Klein, whose harrowing story of survival through a series of concentration camps and a 350-mile death march during the Holocaust became the subject of an Oscar-winning documentary, died. She was 97. nyti.ms/3v3NjtK #obit

Robert Morse, a Tony-winning actor who starred in the Broadway musical “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” and transformed into author Truman Capote for a celebrated one-man show, died at 90. wapo.st/3rKdnIw #obit

Mikhail Vasenkov, 79, the most senior of 10 Soviet sleeper agents who posed as ordinary citizens in the United States as they scouted potential recruits, and whose mass arrest and deportation in 2010 inspired the TV series “The Americans,” died nyti.ms/3xJLVyi #obit