Eric Lidow, International Rectifier founder, dies at 100
Eric Lidow, a photovoltaics whiz kid who fled Nazi Germany with $14 in his pocket and went on to become a power-electronics pioneer and multimillionaire philanthropist in the United States, died Jan. 18 at the age of 100.
British writer Keith Waterhouse, a raconteur and wit whose works include the enduringly popular novel ''Billy Liar,'' has died at the age of 80.