Milestones

WON

Nobel Peace Prize, by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, for his “resolute” efforts to bring the country’s more than 50-year-long civil war to an end. Santos said he would donate the almost $1 million in prize money to the victims of the conflict. The status of Colombia’s peace effort is in limbo after voters narrowly rejected on Oct. 2 a treaty to end the war.

• Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, by Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström, for their contributions to contract theory, the study of how people and companies make legal agreements.

RETIRED

David Ortiz, 40, after 14 seasons with the Boston Red Sox. Affectionately known as Big Papi, he was a 10-time All-Star and was on three World Series champion rosters.

DIED

Andrzej Wajda, 90, acclaimed Polish filmmaker. The director of Katyn won an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2000. He has been hailed as a “symbol of courage and hope for millions of people in postwar Europe.”

• Reginald Brack Jr., 79, a former top executive at Time Inc. who is credited with helping usher the company into a multimedia era. He joined Time Inc. in 1962 as an advertising salesman at TIME magazine and was named chief executive officer of the company in 1990.