Frank C. Garland, 60, the University of California at San Diego epidemiologist who, with his brother Cedric, was the first to demonstrate that vitamin D deficiencies play a role in cancer and other diseases, died Aug. 17 at UCSD Thornton Hospital. He had cancer of the esophageal junction.

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In addition to his brother, a professor of family and preventive medicine at UC San Diego, survivors include his mother, Eva Caldwell Garagliano of San Diego.

Rest In Peace, Frank.

Anton Geesink, a 6-foot-6 Dutchman who stunned Japan when he defeated Japanese opponents to win the 1961 world judo championship and capture a gold medal at the 1964 Tokyo Games, died Friday in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He was 76.

His death, at a hospital, was announced by the International Judo Federation.

Rest In Peace, Anton.

Tributes were paid on Tuesday to former two-time Tourde France winner Laurent Fignon who died following a battle with cancer.

The French rider, who had been suffering from cancer of the digestive system, passed away in the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris at the age of 50 years.

Rest In Peace, Laurent.

Alain Corneau, the French filmmaker who leapt to international notice with the 1991 hit "Tous les Matins du Monde," aperiod drama about 17th-century musicians, has died, his talent agency said. He was 67.

Artmedia agency said Monday that Corneau, who was suffering from cancer, died overnight.

Rest In Peace, Alain.

Cops and detectives, doctors and lawyers, spies and cowboys, heroes, superheroes and semi-superheroes. These are staples of television drama, and one of the unsung people who stapled them was Jackson Gillis, a prolific slogger in the trenches of television writing whose career spanned more than four decades and whose scripts put words in the mouths of Superman, Perry Mason, Columbo, Wonder Woman, Zorro, Tarzan, NapoleonSolo and Illya Kuryakin, Jessica Fletcher and, in a manner of speaking, Lassie.

Mr. Gillis died of pneumonia in Moscow, Idaho, on Aug. 19, his daughter, Candida, said. He was 93.

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In addition to his daughter, who lives in Moscow, he is survived by a brother, William, of Walnut Creek, Calif., and a grandson.

Rest In Peace, Jackson.

Richard T. Conroy, who recast his early misadventures in the State Department and the Smithsonian Institution in comic memoirs and mystery novels and who had launched a secondary career as an artist and photographer, died Aug. 6 of heart disease at Hillhaven nursing center in Adelphi. He was 82.

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Survivors include two daughters, S. Claire Conroy of Silver Spring and Camille Conroy of Parkersburg, W.Va.; a sister; and a grandson.

Rest In Peace, Richard.

George David Weiss, who helped write chart-topping pop hits including "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "What a Wonderful World," has died. He was 89.

He died Monday of natural causes at his home in Oldwick, N.J., his wife, Claire, said.

Rest In Peace, George.

Jack Pitney, a rising star at BMW of North America, where he was the vice president for marketing and led the wildly successful introduction of BMW’s updated Mini Cooper into the American market in 2002, died Thursday in an accident on his farm in Durham, N.Y. He was 47.

A spokesman for BMW, citing officials in the Greene County sheriff’s office, said Mr. Pitney died when a tractor he was riding flipped over on him as he was trying to uproot a tree stump. No other details were provided.

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He is survived by his wife, Quincey; five children, Ryan, Rose, Morgan, Stella and Max; a sister, Lynn Espey of Stowe, Vt.; and his father, William, of Durham, N.C.

Rest In Peace, Jack.

Marcel Albert, a widely decorated World War II flying ace hailed as a hero of the French "Normandie-Niemen" squadron based in the Soviet Union, has died, officials and a relative said Wednesday. He was 92.
He died Monday of complications from cancer, said Albert's nephew, Jean Mavinger.

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Mavinger said Albert, who had no children, is survived by a 96-year-old sister and nieces and nephews. He said Albert had wanted to be buried next to his American-born wife, who died and was interred in Florida last year.

Rest In Peace, Marcel.

David Rowland, the industrial designer who made it possible for millions of people to sit in church basements, meeting halls, cultural centers and even submarines in comfortable, sculptured chairs, then to clear the space by stacking them in a corner, died on Aug. 13 at his home in Marion, Va. He was 86.

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His wife of 39 years, the former Erwin Wassum, is his only immediate survivor.

Rest In Peace, David.