Henri Salmide, a former German naval officer who defied orders to blow up the French port of Bordeaux in 1944, died Feb. 23. He was 90 and lived in Bordeaux. (Today)

Sam Hamilton, head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and a 30-year veteran of wildlife and habitat conservation, suffered a fatal heart attack while skiing in Colorado Feb. 20. He was 54. (Today)

Nan Martin, a stage, TV and film actress who played Ali MacGraw's snobbish mother in "Goodbye, Columbus" and was a mainstay on the Southern California theater scene for decades, has died. (Today)

Bruce Graham, the hard-driving Chicago architect of the Willis Tower, once the world's tallest building, and the John Hancock Center, the X-braced giant that became the Second City's Eiffel Tower, died last Saturday at his home in Hobe Sound, Fla., family members said. (Today)

Paula B. Thomas, a classically-trained accordionist, clarinetist and pianist who was the state's first woman to earn a degree in music education, died Thursday. She was 86. Mrs. (Yesterday)