Dec. 1 — Arthur Chaskalson, 81, a civil rights lawyer who once helped defend Nelson Mandela and later became South Africa's chief justice, Johannesburg. He had leukemia. Dec. 5 — Dave Brubeck, 91, a pianist and composer of "Take Five," a deceptively complex jazz composition that introduced a new, adventurous sound to millions of listeners, in Norwalk, Connecticut of heart failure. — Oscar Niemeyer, 104, an architect who recreated Brazil's sensuous curves in reinforced concrete and built the capital of Brasilia on the empty central plains as a symbol of the nation's future, in Rio de Janeiro of a respiratory infection. — Kanzaburo Nakamura, 57 a kabuki actor who helped...
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