Deaths of note from around the world:

Roy Bryce-Laporte, 78: Sociologist and scholar of the African diaspora and the black migration to and from the United States. Died July 31 in Sykesville, Md., after having suffered several small strokes.

DeAndre McCullough, 35: Experiences as a 15-year-old drug dealer in Baltimore inspired the writer David Simon and the former police officer Edward Burns to feature him in the book “The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner City Neighborhood,” which later became an Emmy-winning mini-series on HBO. Found dead Aug. 1 in Woodlawn, Md.

Jean Merrill, 89: Children’s author best known for her 1964 book, “The Pushcart War,” about street peddlers in New York who use (nonlethal) guerrilla tactics to fight back when Big Business threatens to banish their pushcarts from the streets. Died Aug. 2 in Randolph, Vt., of cancer.