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Princess Alice, 102, aunt of Queen Elizabeth II and the oldest member of the British royal family; Oct. 29, in London.

James Binger, 88, former chief executive of Honeywell Inc. who became one of Broadway’s biggest playhouse owners as the chairman of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns five Broadway houses; Nov. 3, in Minneapolis, of cancer.

Max Burnell Sr., 90, former athletics director and football coach at St. George High School in Evanston; Oct. 20, in Dallas, of Alzheimer’s disease.

Joe Bushkin, 87, swing-era pianist whose career wound through big bands, cabaret, Hollywood and Broadway; Nov. 3, in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Milton Cohen, 93, retired securities lawyer who helped create the Chicago Board Options Exchange; Oct. 30, in Haverford, Pa.

Dr. Robert Dobbie, 80, cardiothoracic surgeon who performed important research in the 1960s and invented a feeding tube that bears his name and is widely used today; Oct. 26, in Libertyville, of emphysema.

Dr. William Dobelle, 62, who developed an experimental system of artificial vision for the blind that involved the transmission of electrical signals to electrodes implanted in the brain and attached to the visual cortex; Oct. 5, in New York, of diabetes-related complications.

Clark Battle Fitz-Gerald, 87, sculptor who produced public commissions for several U.S. cities, churches and universities; Oct. 18, in Castine, Maine.

Lord James Hanson, 82, wealthy industrialist whose business prospered by acquiring poorly run, low-tech companies and turning them into moneymakers; Nov. 1, near Newbury, England, of cancer.

Paul Iams, 89, one-time dog food salesman who developed the premium Iams line of pet foods; Oct. 26, in Chappaqua, N.Y., of complications from a broken hip.

Cardinal Gustaaf Joos, 81, Roman Catholic prelate from Belgium who earlier this year derided lesbians and gays as “sexual perverts”; Nov. 2, in Landskouter, Belgium.

Herbert Katzman, 81, Expressionist painter known for his densely textured figurative canvases; Oct. 15, in New York, of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Robin Kenyatta, 62, who played saxophone alongside such jazz greats as Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Stitt in a career that spanned four decades; Oct. 26, in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Momcilo Kozomara, 72, retired Illinois state housing and enforcement consultant; Oct. 30, in Chicago.

Edward Oliver Leblanc, 81, former Dominica premier, described by some as a founding father of the Caribbean island in its transition to independence; Oct. 29, in Ville Case, Dominica.

Sheik Zayed ibn Sultan Al Nuhayyan, 86, president of the United Arab Emirates who oversaw the transformation of a cluster of tiny desert Persian Gulf sheikdoms into a leading oil and business hub; Nov. 2.

Marco Augusto Quiroa, 67, Guatemalan painter, sculptor and writer as well as an outspoken socialist who drew on a working-class background in his art; Oct. 31, in Amatitlan, Guatemala.

Peggy Ryan, 80, who teamed with dance partner Donald O’Connor in movie musicals such as “This Is the Life” and “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”; Oct. 30, in Las Vegas, of complications from two strokes.

Ezra Stoller, 89, photographer who produced memorable images of buildings by leading 20th Century architects, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Rudolph, Mies van der Rohe and Louis Kahn; Oct. 29, in Williamstown, Mass., of complications from a stroke.

David Swanson, 60, associate provost and professor of speech communication and political science at the University of Illinois; Nov. 1, in Urbana, of a heart attack.

Dr. A. Nichols Taylor, 87, Episcopal priest and physician who was a former president of what now is Rosalind Franklin University; Oct. 25, in San Diego.

Basil Thompson, 67, acclaimed ballet master on sabbatical from the University of Iowa; Nov. 2, in Lynchburg, Va., of a heart attack.

Charles Weeks, 67, Chicago banker who became a powerful advocate for jazz in the city as president of the Jazz Institute of Chicago; Nov. 2, in Lake Forest, of mouth cancer.

Charles Wheeler, 88, cinematographer nominated for an Academy Award for his work on the World War II film “Tora! Tora! Tora!”; Oct. 28, in Orange, Calif.

Dr. John Wiegenstein, 74, leader in establishing emergency medicine as a specialty; Oct. 28, in Bonita Springs, Fla., in a car crash.

Carl Wredling, 89, retired vice president of Northern Illinois Gas Co. and former president of the West Aurora School District 129 Board of Education; Oct. 31, in Aurora.

Sergei Zholtok, 31, center for the NHL’s Nashville Predators; Nov. 3, in Minsk, Belarus, apparently of a heart ailment.