Deaths Elsewhere

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Deaths of note from around the world:

Philip French, 82: Longtime film critic for the Guardian’s Sunday edition, the Observer. Died Tuesday after having a heart attack following years of ill health.

E. Virgil Conway, 85: Chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority that presided over the first subway and bus fare abatement in the system’s history, the retirement of the iconic token and a surge in ridership. Died on Oct. 21 in the Southampton, New York, hospital where he was born.

— From wire reports