Deaths Elsewhere

Published 12:00 am Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Deaths of note from around the world:

Martin Brooks, 90: Actor whose career stretched from Broadway dramas to TV series including “The Six Million Dollar Man” and “Dallas.” Died Monday of natural causes in Los Angeles.

Tibor Rubin, 86: Hungarian-born concentration camp survivor who joined the U.S. Army out of gratitude for his liberators, fought in Korea and received the Medal of Honor 55 years later. Died Saturday of natural causes in Garden Grove, California.

David Cohen, 79: Self-styled Washington white-hat lobbyist who as the president of Common Cause successfully fought for post-Watergate laws on ethics, campaign financing and public disclosure. Died Nov. 29 of a heart attack in Westport, Connecticut.

Amir Aczel, 65: Science writer who took readers on a mathematical mystery tour in “Fermat’s Last Theorem,” his account of how a famous 300-year-old problem in number theory was finally solved in the 1990s, and went on to write more than a dozen popular books on intriguing scientific ideas and discoveries. Died Nov. 26 of cancer in Nîmes, France.

— From wire reports