DEATHS | ESTELLE CALDWELL OVERSTREET, 102

A pioneer of Coconut Grove

Centenarian's own storyis intertwined with the history of Coconut Grove. 1258865578

JEANNE-CLAUDE, 74

Jeanne-Claude | Noted artist co-created Central Park `Gates'

(AP) -- Artist Jeanne-Claude, who created the 2005 Central Park installation The Gates and other large scale ``wrapping'' projects around the globe with her husband Christo, has died. She was 74.

KEN OBER, 52

Ken Ober | Hosted MTV game show `Remote Control'

Ken Ober, a brassy comedian best known as the host of the 1980s-era MTV game show Remote Control, was found dead on Sunday in his home in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 52.

DAVID LLOYD, 75

David Lloyd | Writer for many popular sitcoms

David Lloyd, who wrote scores of scripts for some of the most popular television sitcoms of the 1970s, '80s and '90s -- including the memorable Chuckles the Clown episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which was revered by comedy connoisseurs for wringing belly laughs from a funeral -- died Tuesday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 75.

CLARA RUSH OESTERLE, 84

Clara Oesterle | Former Miami-Dade commissioner pushed for Metrorail

Clara Rush Oesterle's legacy as a Miami-Dade County commissioner runs on 30 miles of electrified track: the Metrorail/Metromover system.

As commissioner from 1974 to 1988 and close ally of the late county Mayor Steve Clark, she championed light rail as essential to controlled county growth.

JEREMY N. MORRIS, 99

Jeremy N. Morris | Epidemiologist linked exercise, heart health

Jeremy N. Morris, a British epidemiologist whose comparison of heart-attack rates among double-decker bus drivers and conductors in London in the late 1940s and early '50s laid the scientific groundwork for the modern aerobics movement, died Oct. 28 in Hampstead, London. He was 99 1/2.

FRANCISCO AYALA, 103

Francisco Ayala | Spanish novelist examined abuses of power

Francisco Ayala, an eminent Spanish novelist whose work explored societies in which there is much despotism and little benevolence, died on Tuesday at his home in Madrid. He was 103.