Deaths Elsewhere

Published 12:00 am Thursday, February 27, 2014

Deaths of note from around the world:

Maria Franziska von Trapp, 99: The last surviving sibling of seven brothers and sisters who were portrayed in the Broadway musical and the film “The Sound of Music.” She was the third-oldest child of seven born to Baron Georg von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe, who died of scarlet fever. The 1965 film was based on the real story of how the baron fell in love with the children’s governess, also named Maria, and the family toured together as a choir. Died Tuesday in Stowe, Vt.

Alice Herz-Sommer, 110: Believed to be the oldest Holocaust survivor, she was an accomplished pianist whose son is up for an Oscar. Died Sunday in London.

Henry Casso, 82: A longtime civil rights leader in New Mexico who worked his way out of an orphanage to become a noted educational scholar and a founder of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Casso would later say he developed a desire to join the priesthood and use Biblical stories to fight poverty while living at the orphanage. Died Tuesday in Albuquerque, N.M.

Mario Coluna, 78: Captained Portugal to a third-place finish at the 1966 World Cup. Died Tuesday in Mozambique.

Carlos Paez Vilaro, 90: a self-trained painter, sculptor, screenwriter, musician and architect who championed Afro-Uruguayan Candombe music and dance, created colorful murals in dozens of cities around the world, and built a huge “living sculpture” that became an iconic 50-room hotel. Died Monday in Montevideo, Uruguay.

— From wire reports