Milestones

By Harriet Barovick, Gilbert Cruz, Elizabeth Salemme, Tiffany Sharples, M.J. Stephey

DIED Over a peripatetic 40-year career, he appeared in more than 100 TV shows, with small parts in hits such as Beverly Hills, 90210; L.A. Law; and hbo's Six Feet Under. But Stanley Kamel will probably be remembered best for his regular role as devoted but put-upon psychiatrist to Tony Shalhoub's obsessive-compulsive detective in Monk, in its seventh season this summer. "I have what every actor dreams of: a hook," he told TV Guide last year. "I'm the psychiatrist on Monk. Everyone knows who that is." He suffered a heart attack at age 65.

A criminal investigator before he became a journalist in 1955, Robert Greene was relentless about uncovering corruption. As a reporter and an editor for Newsday, based on Long Island, N.Y., he was a formidable opponent of crooked businessmen and politicians and ultimately earned two Pulitzer prizes for his reporting on property scandals and heroin-trafficking. He later taught journalism and established a nonprofit group, Investigative Reporters and Editors, but it is his fieldwork that will continue to set the bar for tenacious and effective reporting. "He was not only respected," a former Suffolk County police commissioner told Newsday, "he was feared." He was 78.

Known as Mama B to her friends and family, Cedella Booker, the mother of legendary reggae musician Bob Marley, was an accomplished artist. In addition to penning two biographies of her world-famous son, the Jamaican native recorded albums, including Awake Zion and Smilin' Island of Song. Married to Bob's father Norval Marley for nearly 30 years, until his death in 1955, she later remarried and moved to the U.S. Like her son, who died in 1981, she passed away in Miami. She was 81.

One of the first Americans to be accepted by the international Magnum photo agency, photographer Burt Glinn captured several defining moments of the cold war, including Fidel Castro's triumphant march across Cuba and seldom-seen images of daily life in the Soviet Union. Glinn turned his lens on seemingly unlikely subjects, transforming subtleties into iconic moments, as in his 1959 photograph of former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev before the Lincoln Memorial. Glinn attributed that shot--his best-known work--to chance. "I was late, and I couldn't get to where everybody else was," he explained. "The most important thing that a photographer like me can have is luck." He was 82.

Age 53 when he took office in 1976, Patrick Hillery was the youngest President in Irish history--and possibly Ireland's most unifying. A former physician, Hillery headed four government ministries--from Education to Foreign Affairs--before his 14-year tenure as President. Though he initially didn't seek re-election when his first term ended in 1983, voters from multiple parties clamored for him to continue. The educational reforms of the 1960s and his work with what would later become the European Union are Hillery's enduring political legacy, but it was his ability to rise above political mudslinging that most endeared him to voters. He was 84.

An expert in nuclear fission who taught at Princeton and the University of Texas and authored five books, physicist John Wheeler--who coined the term black hole--was involved in many of the major scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century. As a member of the Manhattan Project, he collaborated with Albert Einstein and others to create the atom bomb. Unlike some colleagues who agonized over the weapon's awful power, he regretted only that it hadn't been used sooner. He often recalled a letter from his brother, who was later killed in World War II, that read simply, "Hurry up." Wheeler was 96.

It was a romance for the ages: an heiress to the Carnegie fortune and daughter of a yachtsman, socialite Polly Lauder fell in love with boxer Gene Tunney, a heavyweight champion with a taste for classical literature. After a secret courtship, they made national headlines on their engagement in 1928. The couple was married for 50 years, until Gene's death in 1978. Polly Lauder Tunney was 100.