Deaths of note from around the world:
Leon Leyson, 83: At age 13, he was the youngest of the 1,100 Jews saved from the Nazis by German industrialist Oskar Schindler, subject of the 1993 movie “Schindler’s List." Leyson immigrated to America in 1949 and taught high school in Los Angeles for 39 years. Died of lymphoma Saturday in Whittier, Calif.
Ralph Martin, 92: Best-selling author of political and celebrity biographies whose subjects included the Kennedys, Golda Meir and Winston Churchill’s mother. Died Wednesday in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, 53: Psychologist and writer whose work helped explain why women are twice as prone to depression as men and why such low moods can be so hard to shake. Died Jan. 2 in New Haven, Conn., following heart surgery.
