CLIVE BARNES, 81

Influential arts critic for New York Times, Post

Clive Barnes, a witty and powerful arts critic whose voracious interest in theater of all forms led him from ballet to discotheques, died of cancer Wednesday at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. He was 81. 1227326820

IRVING GERTZ, 93

Film, TV composer wrote music for sci-fi favorites

LOS ANGELES -- Irving Gertz, a film and television composer who contributed music to 1950s science-fiction films such as It Came From Outer Space and The Incredible Shrinking Man and to 1960s TV series such as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, has died. He was 93. 1227326820

JOSEPH ANDREW MARTYNA, 54

State wildlife pilot

Donning night vision goggles and soaring over Collier County in a Bell 206L4 LongRanger helicopter, Lt. Joseph Andrew Martyna spent the late evening of Saturday searching for a hunter lost in the Everglades.

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DR. ADRIAN KANTROWITZ, 90

Performed first human heart transplant in U.S.

Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, who performed the first human heart transplant in the United States in 1967 and pioneered the development of mechanical devices to prolong the life of patients with heart failure, died Friday in Ann Arbor, Mich. He was 90.

ORLANDO C. MANRIQUE, 84

Cuban fighter, Miami exile

Orlando C. Manrique -- who smuggled weapons into Cuba to try and overthrow the government, was later shot seven times in a failed 1957 coup and took part in the Bay of Pigs invasion -- died Saturday. He was 84.

MILTON FERRELL JR., 57

'Extraordinary' lawyer fought to the very end

The scene unfolding in the intensive-care unit was extraordinary. Milton M. Ferrell Jr. -- a second-generation Miami lawyer, philanthropist and Democratic Party activist just nine days past his 57th birthday -- lay dying. The primary cause: mesothelioma, an asbestos-linked cancer that cost him a lung in May.

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EDWARD R.F. SHEEHAN, 78

Writer drawn to war zones

Edward R.F. Sheehan, an author and foreign correspondent whose perceptive, literate dispatches from the Middle East, Africa and Central America explored the political machinations of the powerful and the misery of the powerless, died Nov. 3 in Boston. He was 78 and lived in Newton, Mass.