Playwright Joseph Stein, who turned a Yiddish short story into the classic Broadway musical "Fiddler on the Roof" and later wrote the screenplay for its successful movie adaptation, has died at age 98.

His wife, Elisa Stein, said he died at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan on Sunday from complications of a fall. He had been hospitalized for treatment for prostate cancer, his relatives said.

Rest In Peace, Joseph.

Alex Anderson, 90, the artist who created the cartoon characters Rocky and Bullwinkle, the flying squirrel and hapless moose who were TV fixtures in the early 1960s, died Oct. 22 at a nursing facility in Carmel, Calif. His wife said he had Alzheimer's disease.

Mr. Anderson, who grew up in a cartooning family in California, was also the creator of Crusader Rabbit, which became television's first animated cartoon series in 1949. He spent much of his career in advertising, and his role in creating Rocky and Bullwinkle was overlooked with time. He fought a long legal battle late in life to reclaim recognition as the cartoon characters' artistic father.

Rest In Peace, Alex.

Dick Miles, whose powerful forehand and sterling defensive skills made him perhaps the greatest table tennis player the United States has ever produced, died Oct. 12 in Manhattan. He was 85.

The death was of natural causes, his wife, Mary Detsch said, though he had had heart problems for many years.

Rest In Peace, Dick.

Prime Minister David Thompson of Barbados died before dawn Saturday after struggling to beat pancreatic cancer most of the year. He was 48.

Thompson, who became prime minister of the Caribbean nation of 270,000 people in January 2008, died at his private residence in St. Philip, the government announced.

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He is survived by his wife, Marie-Josephine Mara, and their three daughters.

Rest In Peace, David.

Outside the courtroom, James F. Neal had an amiable, backslapping way with friends and foes alike. Inside the chamber, the face of one of America's greatest trial lawyers often became fixed in a steely gaze.

The attorney who regularly grabbed national headlines — whether prosecuting Jimmy Hoffa or key Watergate figures, or defending Elvis Presley's doctor or the Exxon Corp. after the Alaska oil spill — died Thursday night. He was 81.

Rest In Peace, James.