<strong>Robert C. Lautman</strong>, a renowned architectural photographer whose gorgeously lit work included Washington National Cathedral, Monticello, Mount Vernon and countless private residences, has died of pancreatic cancer in Washington, D.C. He was 85.</p><p> Lautman created 1850s-style platinum prints of Monticello that were used in Ken Burns&rsquo; PBS documentary on Thomas Jefferson. Those photos became the subject of a book. </p><p><strong>Michelle Triola Marvin</strong>, whose landmark lawsuit against her former lover, &ldquo;Dirty Dozen&rdquo; actor Lee Marvin, placed the word &ldquo;palimony&rdquo; into the family law lexicon and changed the legal rights of unmarried cohabiting partners, has died in Malibu, Calif. She was 76.</p><p> She underwent surgery for lung cancer last year and died at the home of actor Dick Van Dyke, her partner of 30 years, said family spokesman Bob Palmer.</p><p> Michelle Marvin&rsquo;s birth name was Triola. She met Lee Marvin while working as an extra in his 1965 movie &ldquo;Ship of Fools.&rdquo; They lived together for six years. She took his last name but never married. </p><p><strong>Roy DeCarava</strong>, whose often melancholy black-and-white images of Harlem life made him one of the most respected photographers of the 20th century, has died in New York. He was 89. </p><p> DeCarava spent most of his career working near his birthplace in Harlem as he focused his cameras on lonely children, tired workers, expressive jazz musicians and bleak street corners. He collaborated with poet Langston Hughes on the book &ldquo;Sweet Flypaper of Life&rdquo; in 1955. </p><p><strong>Mildred Cohn</strong>, a chemist who overcame religious and sexual prejudice to make major contributions in applying physics to problems of biology, has died of respiratory failure in Philadelphia. She was 96. </p><p> Cohn worked with four Nobel laureates over the course of her career, eventually earning the nation&rsquo;s highest science award, the National Medal of Science, in her own right. She pioneered the use of stable isotopic tracers to study the mechanisms of enzymes, which are the proteins that carry out chemical reactions within the cell. She also did critical work in nuclear magnetic resonance, which enables chemists to examine the structure of proteins and other molecules.</p><p><strong>John de J. Pemberton Jr.</strong>, who as executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union during the turbulent 1960s helped double its size and shift its focus to the criminal courts as an arena for issues such as civil rights and Vietnam, has died of congestive heart failure in Monte Rio, Calif. He was 90.</p><p> Under Pemberton&rsquo;s leadership, the ACLU pressed ahead on its historic mission of advocating for controversial defendants on civil liberties grounds. They included communists, members of the Ku Klux Klan, Black Panthers, Harlem congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Lt. William A. Calley Jr., who was convicted of ordering the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.</p><p><strong>Amos Ferguson</strong>, a folk artist known for his brilliantly colored Bible scenes and his depictions of the social rituals and the flora and fauna of the Bahamas, has died in Nassau. He was 89.</p><p><strong>William Basch</strong>, a concentration camp survivor and garment executive who was featured in an Oscar-winning documentary on the Holocaust, has died. He was 82.</p><p> Basch was in Hungary during World War II and worked with diplomat Raoul Wallenberg to save Jews from the Nazis. He used the sewers to deliver falsified documents. He was featured in the 1998 documentary &ldquo;The Last Days.&rdquo;