Deaths Elsewhere

Published 12:00 am Friday, May 15, 2015

Deaths of note from around the world:

Fran Fisher, 91: Man who broadcast Penn State football games on the radio for many years. He was found dead Thursday morning but may have died Wednesday in State College, Pennsylvania.

Cecil Jones Attuquayefio, 70: Ghana soccer forward who was part of the squad that clinched successive African Cup of Nations titles for Ghana in 1965. Died Tuesday in Accra, Ghana.

Chris Burden, 69: Conceptual artist who in the line of duty had himself shot, pierced, starved, crucified, electrocuted, cut by glass, kicked down stairs, locked up, dropped from heights and nearly drowned. Died Sunday at his home in Topanga, California.

Gertrude Schimmel, 96: Broke gender barriers in the New York Police Department as one of the first two women to become a sergeant and ultimately the first to be named a chief. Died on Monday in Manhattan.

Rachel Rosenthal, 88: Performance and theater artist who embraced environmentalism during a half-century career devoted to the avant-garde. Died Sunday in Southern California.

— From wire reports