Deaths of note from around the world:
Pete La Roca Sims, 74: A powerful and distinctive drummer who created the pulse for some of jazz’s leading figures from the late 1950s through the ’60s. Died Nov. 20 in Manhattan of lung cancer.
Boris N. Strugatsky, 79: A prolific writer who used the genre of science fiction to voice criticisms of Soviet life that would have been unthinkable in other literary forms. Died Nov. 19 in St. Petersburg, Russia, of heart failure.