Milestones

DIED

Saul Leiter, 89, photographer who gained recognition for his pioneering use of color in New York City street photography of the 1940s and '50s, when black and white still ruled.

DIED

Natalya Gorbanevskaya, 77, Russian poet who in 1968 co-founded the Chronicle of Current Events, for years an influential underground forum for the work of Soviet dissidents.

KILLED

By police in Iceland, a gunman who was firing a shotgun in his apartment in a suburb of Reykjavík--the first fatal police shooting in Icelandic history. Two officers were injured in the exchange of fire.

DIED

William Stevenson, 89, British author of...

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