Katherine Loker

LOS ANGELES—Philanthropist Katherine Bogdanovich Loker, heir to the StarKist tuna fortune who along with her husband donated millions of dollars to Harvard University, the University of Southern California and other institutions, has died. She was 92.

Loker died Thursday at her home in Oceanside five days after a stroke, USC announced Friday.

Loker was the daughter of a fishing boat captain who in 1917 founded a fishing cannery that became StarKist Foods, which is now owned by Del Monte Foods.



Sam Manekshaw

NEW DELHI—India’s most celebrated army chief, Field Marshal Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, has died. He was 94.

Manekshaw died Friday of a progressive lung disease in a military hospital, the defense ministry said.

He was commissioned into the Indian army in 1934 when the country was still ruled by Britain. He became chief of the Indian army in 1969 and went on to lead troops to victory in a 1971 war against neighboring Pakistan that led to the creation of Bangladesh.