NOTABLE DEATHS

Louis Gossett Jr., 87, the first Black man to win an Academy Award for supporting actor. In 1982, Gossett starred as Marine Gunnery Sgt. Emil Foley in

“An Officer and a Gentleman,” for which he scored an Academy Award. He also won an Emmy for his role in the TV miniseries “Roots.” He also starred in stage and screen versions of “A Raisin in the Sun,” which helped make him a Hollywood star. Off-screen, his Eracism Foundation was founded to help end racism around the world.

Joe Lieberman, 82, a former U.S. senator and the 2000 Democratic nominee for vice president who later became a political independent. Lieberman, a former Connecticut state senator and attorney general who was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1988, developed a reputation for bipartisanship during his years in Washington. After former Vice President Al Gore clinched the presidential nomination in 2000, he made Lieberman his running mate. Lieberman was the first Jewish candidate on a major party ticket. More recently, Lieberman worked with the “No Labels” organization in seeking a third-party alternative to President Joe Biden and Trump.

Richard Serra, 85, an American artist whose enormous steel sculptures coated with a fine patina of rust decorated landscapes and dominated oversize galleries in the world’s finest museums. Despite the large scale of his works, artistically he was considered a minimalist, letting the dimensions of his art relative to the viewer, rather than elaborate imagery, make its point. He made a breakthrough in 1969 when he was included in “Nine Young Artists: Theodoron Awards” at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. After he traveled to Spain to study Mozarabic architecture in the early 1980s, his work gained renown in Europe and he had solo exhibitions at major museums in Germany and France.