APPOINTED
As the executive editor of the New York Times, Dean Baquet, 57, following the unexpected departure of Jill Abramson. Baquet will be the first African American to hold the position.
DIED
Patrick J. Lucey, 96, two-term Democratic Wisconsin governor. Named U.S. ambassador to Mexico by Jimmy Carter in 1977, Lucey ran for Vice President in 1980 on John B. Anderson’s Independent ticket.
DIED
Malik Bendjelloul, 36, Swedish filmmaker whose 2012 film Searching for Sugarman won the Best Documentary Oscar.
DIED
Bill H. Dana, 83, test pilot who was one of 12 chosen by NASA to fly the X-15 rocket plane. In 16 flights from 1965 to 1968, he reached speeds of 4,000 m.p.h. and altitudes of 300,000 ft.
DIED
Farley Mowat, 92, Canadian writer and environmentalist best known for his 1963 book Never Cry Wolf, a sympathetic look at Arctic wolves, which he had studied as a biologist in northern Manitoba.
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