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| washingtonpost.com - Obituaries
Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia obituaries, appreciations and death notices.
Charles Norton Van Doren, 84, a retired State Department official who served for nearly two decades as an arms-control specialist, died Aug. 23 at Sibley Memorial Hospital of congestive heart failure. He was a District resident.
John G. McAfee, 82, a nuclear medicine specialist whose work led to advances in blood cell labeling and other ways to understand disease, died of respiratory failure July 26 at Stella Maris hospice in Timonium, Md.
Garth P. McCormick, 72, a retired mathematics professor at George Washington University who wrote an influential book in his field of mathematical optimization, died Aug. 24 of cancer at Suburban Hospital. He lived in Chevy Chase.
Brandon Ashley Bundy, 24, a computer logistics program manager, died Aug. 24 in a motorcycle accident on U.S. 33 near Elkins, W.Va.
Josephine F. Pacheco, a historian and retired George Mason University professor who revived the little-known Washington story about one of the largest attempted slave escapes in U.S. history, died of gastric cancer Aug. 16 at her home in Falls Church. She was 87.
Orville J. "Nip" Litzsinger, 71, a retired Air Force colonel who was a key figure in the intercontinental ballistic missile program, died Aug. 4 of sepsis at Inova Fairfax Hospital. He lived in Fairfax County near Alexandria.
Yuri I. Nosenko, 81, a Soviet KGB agent whose defection to the United States in 1964 and subsequent three-year harsh detention and hostile interrogation by CIA officials remains immensely controversial, died Aug. 23 under an assumed name in a Southern state, according to intelligence officials. No...
Wolfgang Vogel, 82, an East German lawyer who became the go-between for thousands of spy swaps and prisoner exchanges during the Cold War, died Aug. 21 at his home in the Bavarian city of Schliersee after a heart attack.
Thomas H. Weller, 93, the physician and researcher who shared a Nobel Prize for work vital to the development of vaccines against polio, died Aug. 23 at his home in Needham, Mass. The family did not disclose the cause of death.
Dave Freeman, co-author of "100 Things to Do Before You Die," a travel guide and ode to odd adventures that inspired readers and imitators, died Aug. 17 after a fall at his home in Venice, Calif. He was 47.
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