Deaths Elsewhere

Published 12:00 am Sunday, September 16, 2018

Deaths of note from around the world:

Rachid Taha, 59: A rock star in France with assertive lyrics and music that melded his Algerian heritage with punk, funk and electronic beats. Died in Les Lilas, a Paris suburb of a heart attack.

David John Salamone, 28: One of the last polio patients in America, whose suffering led to a change in federal policy that resulted in banishing the disease altogether. Died Sept. 7 at a Washington, D.C., hospital of cumulative ailments that led to multiple organ failure

— From wire reports