Deaths Elsewhere
- Martin Charnin in his office in Manhattan in 1983. Charnin, the Broadway lyricist and director who conceived of turning the comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” into “Annie,” the hit musical whose title character vowed that “the sun’ll come out tomorrow,” died July 6, 2019, in a hospital in White Plains, N.Y. He was 84. (Keith Meyers/The New York Times, file)
Published 12:00 am Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Deaths of note from around the world:
Phil Freelon, 66: An architect who designed buildings ranging from local libraries to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture. Died Tuesday in Durham, North Carolina, after suffering from ALS for several years.
Fernando De la Rua, 81: A former president of Argentina, 1999 to 2001, who attracted voters with his image as an honest statesman and later left as the country plunged into its worst economic crisis. Died Tuesday from cardiac and other complications.
Martin Charnin, 84: A Broadway lyricist and director who conceived of turning the comic strip “Little Orphan Annie” into “Annie.” Died Saturday in White Plains, New York from a heart attack.
Jack Renner, 84: A recording engineer who with Robert Woods founded Telarc, a record label whose carefully engineered recordings were prized by audiophiles and won dozens of Grammy Awards — 11 of them for him personally. Died on June 19 at his home in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, from cancer.
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