Deaths of note from around the world:

Patsy Swayze, 86: Choreographer, dance instructor and the mother of late actor Patrick Swayze. Her students included Tommy Tune and Debbie Allen, and she choreographed the movie “Urban Cowboy.” Died Monday night at her home in Simi Valley, Calif.

Marcel Reich-Ranicki, 93:A survivor of the Warsaw ghetto who fled Poland to become a powerful cultural figure in postwar Germany as a distinguished literary critic and a popular television talk show host. Died Wednesday in Frankfurt.