Deaths Elsewhere

Published 12:00 am Friday, September 11, 2015

Deaths of note from around the world:

Dr. William Grier, 89: Psychiatrist who co-authored the groundbreaking 1968 book “Black Rage,” which offered the first psychological examination of black life in the United States. Died Thursday in a hospice care facility in Carlsbad, California, of a brain lesion.

Charles Hallac, 50: Co-president of asset-management giant BlackRock. Died at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Wednesday in New York.

Eldon Johnson, 85: Longtime Republican state lawmaker from southern Oregon. Died Sept. 4 in a Medford hospice center after sustaining a stroke.

Irving Harper, 99: Pioneered pop art furniture design with whimsical mid-20th-century modernist classics like the marshmallow sofa, the ball clock and the sunburst clock. Died Aug. 4 of kidney failure at his home in Rye, New York.

— From wire reports