NYT Obituaries

Nabil Shaban, a British actor and playwright born without the use of his legs, who used his disability to heighten his performances across a wide range of roles, has died at 72. nyti.ms/4oI8ZF9

Ed Moloney was an authoritative chronicler of the Troubles in Northern Ireland as a reporter and historian. His articles and books made use of his deep knowledge of the long conflict, which he started covering in 1978, and sources on both sides. nyti.ms/4pgxYiT

Juan Ponce Enrile, a powerful political force in the Philippines as a martial law administrator and defense minister for the Marcos regime, and as a coup plotter and president of the Senate, has died. nyti.ms/4plFE3r

Hal Sirowitz, a onetime poet laureate of Queens who mined his suffocating relationship with his mother to create mordant reminiscences that were highly personal and universal, has died at 76. nyti.ms/43BCShZ

Sri Owen, a Sumatra-reared, London-based food writer was credited with popularizing Indonesian cuisine in the English-speaking world. She has died at 90. nyti.ms/48iZHcS

The journalist Anthony Grey became a global symbol of China’s isolation and of the anti-foreigner hysteria spawned by the Cultural Revolution when he was held prisoner at his home in Beijing for two years. He has died at 87. nyti.ms/4pAAbpF

During his heyday with the New York Knicks, Michael Ray Richardson, a four-time All-Star guard, awed N.B.A. greats like Magic Johnson. But Richardson saw his career collapse because of a cocaine addiction. He has died at 70. nyti.ms/4oILbAV

William Rataczak, the co-pilot of the passenger jet hijacked in 1971 by the man known as D.B. Cooper, who sipped bourbon before parachuting into the night with $200,000 in ransom money and disappearing forever, has died at 86. nyti.ms/3JIY2UO

As chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Bill Ivey soothed conservative critics, some of whom wanted to abolish the agency. nyti.ms/3LQfYxb

A chance encounter with a movie director on the streets of Tehran led to a film career. Homayoun Ershadi, who starred in “The Kite Runner” and “Taste of Cherry,” has died at 78. nyti.ms/48gWWc5

Alvin Kass, the New York Police Department’s youngest and longest-serving chaplain, has died at 89. nyti.ms/3LInAlo

Her haunting work focused on the lingering traces of conflict in places like Bosnia and Sierra Leone, after the firing had stopped. nyti.ms/4oBp938

She persuaded Toyota to build its first American factory in Kentucky. Martha Layne Collins, her state’s first female governor, has died at 88. nyti.ms/4oLSQyH

Juan Ponce Enrile, a powerful political force in the Philippines as a martial law administrator and defense minister for the Marcos regime, and as a coup plotter and president of the Senate, has died. nyti.ms/47Xj89R

He presided over an era of labor peace, soaring revenues and expansion for the National Football League. Paul Tagliabue, a lawyer who led the league for 17 years, has died at 84. nyti.ms/3LLKeJC

Nabil Shaban, a British actor and playwright born without the use of his legs, who used his disability to heighten his performances across a wide range of roles, has died at 72. nyti.ms/43wxHzZ

Tony Harrison was widely considered Britain’s reigning poet of the working class, and in particular the miners, mechanics and shopkeepers of his native Yorkshire, in north-central England. He has died at 88. nyti.ms/43ykrLf

Dr. Nolan Williams was a pioneering neuroscientist at Stanford University who developed a fast-acting therapy for depression — using an M.R.I. scanner and targeted brain stimulation — to provide relief in as little as a few days. nyti.ms/4pd4X7E

Robert H. Bartlett, a surgeon who helped to develop a transformative life-support system that temporarily assumes the work of a patient’s heart and lungs when they are failing because of illness or injury, has died at 86. nyti.ms/4nUfEL9

Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, a singer who performed on hits such as “When a Man Loves a Woman” by Percy Sledge and helped shape the sound of the Grateful Dead in the 1970s, has died. She was 78. nyti.ms/4i37aAg