Neva Patterson, who played Cary Grant's fiancee in the 1957 classic "An Affair to Remember," has died. She was 90.

Her daughter, Megan Lee, tells the Los Angeles Times that Patterson died Tuesday at her home in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. She suffered complications from a broken hip.

Rest In Peace, Neva.

When Julie Andrews began writing her 2008 autobiography, "Home," her husband Blake Edwards had just one piece of advice: "Characters make your story."

In an up-and-down career that spanned writing, directing and producing nearly 50 films, Edwards, who died Wednesday, cultivated more than his share of indelible characters: Peter Sellers' bumbling Inspector Clouseau of the "Pink Panther" movies, Dudley Moore's equally clueless George Webber from "10," Audrey Hepburn's high fashion wild child Holly Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's."

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Edwards is survived by his wife, five children, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. His family says a private memorial is planned and a public memorial will be scheduled in the new year.

Rest In Peace, Blake.

Enrique Morente, one of the world’s most celebrated flamenco singers, whose work embraced both traditional styles and contemporary influences as diverse as George Gershwin and Leonard Cohen, died on Monday in a Madrid hospital. He was 67.

Hospital officials confirmed the death to The Associated Press, giving no cause. According to many reports in the European news media, Mr. Morente died as a result of complications of surgery he underwent earlier this month.

Rest In Peace, Enrique.

Richard C. Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2009 and a diplomatic troubleshooter who worked for every Democratic president since the late 1960s and oversaw the negotiations that ended the war in Bosnia, died Monday evening in Washington. He was 69 and lived in Manhattan.

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Mr. Holbrooke was hospitalized on Friday afternoon after becoming ill while meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in her Washington office. Doctors found a tear to his aorta, and he underwent a 21-hour operation. Mr. Holbrooke had additional surgery on Sunday and remained in very critical condition until his death.

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In 1964, Mr. Holbrooke married the first of his three wives, Larrine Sullivan, a lawyer. The couple had two sons, David and Anthony, and were divorced. His marriage to Blythe Babyak, a television producer, also ended in divorce. In 1995, he married Kati Marton, an author, journalist and human rights advocate who had been married to the ABC anchorman Peter Jennings until their divorce in 1993. He is survived by Ms. Marton; his two sons; his brother, Andrew; and two stepchildren, Christopher and Elizabeth Jennings.

Rest In Peace, Richard.

Sherrill "Shaun" Nielsen, a gospel singer who performed with Elvis Presley, has died at age 68.

Nielsen's publicist, Aaron Crisler, says Nielsen died Friday of lung cancer.

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Nielsen is survived by his wife Brenda Hall Nielsen. His funeral is scheduled for Thursday in Cullman, Ala.

Rest In Peace, Shaun.

Heda Margolius Kovaly, who wrote a widely acclaimed memoir, "Under a Cruel Star," about the horrors she endured first in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and later under communist rule in her native Czechoslovakia, died Dec. 5 in Prague. She was 91 and had Alzheimer's disease.

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Her survivors include a son from her first marriage, Ivan Margolius of Bedfordshire, England, and five grandchildren.

Rest In Peace, Heda.

Samuel P. King, a federal judge who mobilized the power of the pen to topple overseers of one of the nation’s wealthiest charities, a 19th-century trust set up by Hawaiian royalty to educate the kingdom’s natives, died Tuesday in Honolulu. He was 94.

The cause was complications of a fall the day before, his daughter Charlotte King Stretch said.

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Besides Ms. Stretch, Judge King is survived by his wife of 66 years, the former Anne Van Patten Grilk; a son, Samuel Jr.; another daughter, Louise King Lanzilotti; and six grandchildren.

Rest In Peace, Samuel.

Jazz saxophonist James Moody is best known for his 1949 "Moody's Mood for Love," but when he recorded the hit that eventually was elected into the Grammy Awards' Hall of Fame, he said, he was just "trying to find the right notes."

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Moody, who recorded more than 50 solo albums as well as songs with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and B.B. King, died Thursday at San Diego Hospice after a 10-month battle with pancreatic cancer, his wife said. He was 85.

Rest In Peace, James.

Dov Shilansky, a Holocaust survivor and former speaker of the Israeli parliament, has died. He was 86.

Born in Lithuania, Shilansky emigrated to Israel in 1948.

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Shilansky is survived by a son. His funeral is scheduled Friday in Tel Aviv.

Rest In Peace, Dov.

Elizabeth Edwards, who closely advised her husband in two bids for the presidency and advocated for health care even as her own health and marriage publicly crumbled, died Tuesday after a six-year struggle with cancer. She was 61.

She died at her North Carolina home surrounded by her three children, siblings, friends and her estranged husband, John, the family said.

Rest In Peace, Elizabeth.