Deaths Elsewhere

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Deaths of note from around the world:

Hugh O’Brian, 91: Actor who rose to fame on television as the quick-drawing Wyatt Earp in the 1950s — but who later devoted extensive time to a foundation he created that trains young people to be leaders. Died Monday at his home in Beverly Hills, California.

Namon O’Neal Hoggle, 81: Last surviving defendant accused of bludgeoning a minister to death in 1965 — a murder that galvanized the civil rights movement in the South and emboldened Congress to bar racial discrimination in voting. Died Aug. 30 in Selma, Alabama.

Roger Tsien, 64: Chemist who won Nobel Prize for creating a rainbow of fluorescent proteins that could light up the dance of molecules within cells. Died Aug. 24 in Eugene.

Michel Butor, 89: French novelist whose experiments with narrative and structure in the late 1950s and early ’60s put him at the forefront of the literary trend known as le nouveau roman. Died Aug. 24 in Contamine-sur-Arve, in the Rhone-Alpes region of southeastern France.

— From wire reports