Jeremy Giambi, 47, who played for the Oakland Athletics and three other teams in his six-season Major League Baseball career, was found dead Wednesday morning in Southern California.
The brothers briefly played together on the Athletics in the early s. Giambi delivered solid numbers in his career, compiling a. In , as professional baseball was facing intense scrutiny over steroid use by players, Giambi became one of the first baseball stars to admit to using steroids. For all the glory Montagnier earned in helping to discover the virus, today known as HIV, in later years he distanced himself from colleagues by dabbling in maverick experiments that challenged the basic tenets of science.
Most recently he was an outspoken opponent of coronavirus vaccines. George Crumb, 92, a composer whose works contained an array of instrumental and human sounds and drew on the traditions of Asia and his native Appalachia to create music of startling effect, died Feb. The cause was congestive heart failure, said his daughter Syleecia Thompson. His elder brother Jimmy Johnson, also a Chicago blues singer and guitarist, died Jan Hammer, and the Geto Boys.
Lata Mangeshkar, 92, a legendary Indian singer with a prolific, groundbreaking catalog and a voice recognized by more than a billion people in South Asia, died Feb. She was hospitalized on Jan.
Mangeshkar received a state funeral attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Jack Mikulincer, 99, who survived two wars, the Nazi invasion of Hungary and the Holocaust, and who had turned 99 just two weeks earlier, died Feb. He was crossing a street in Brooklyn in his electric wheelchair, making his weekly trip to the Manhattan Beach Jewish Center to observe the Sabbath. Mikulincer was known as the gabbai of the synagogue, leading its day-to-day operations. Todd Gitlin, 79, a prominent anti-war activist of the s, author and professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University and University of California, Berkeley, died Feb.
