Deaths of note from around the world:

Jon Huntsman Sr., 80: the son of a music teacher in the heart of Idaho potato country who rose to become a billionaire industrialist and philanthropist, creating the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, and the father of a former Utah governor. Died Friday at his home in Salt Lake City.

Richard K. “Kirk” Bowden, 82: served as a deputy U.S. marshal during the civil rights era, providing security at the 1963 March on Washington and for James Meredith, the first African-American student at the University of Mississippi. Died Jan. 20 at his home in Silver Spring, Maryland, of congestive heart failure.

Gene Sharp, 90: a scholar at Harvard and elsewhere and onetime conscientious objector who wrote penetratingly about civil disobedience, was often called “the Machiavelli of nonviolence” and who became an influential backstage figure in international peace movements from Serbia to Egypt. Died Jan. 28 at his home in Boston.

— From wire reports