List of recent notable deaths includes billionaire founder, lawyer, athlete, and others

K. Anji Reddy, 74. Billionaire founder of Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd., India’s second-largest drugmaker. Died March 15 of liver cancer. Olivier Metzner, 63. One of France’s best-known defense lawyers, whose clients included former Societe Generale SA trader Jerome Kerviel. Died of suicide on March 17, when his body was found floating near his private island in Brittany. Steve Davis, 60. Quarterback on the University of Oklahoma’s national college football championship teams in 1974 and 1975. Died March 17 in a plane crash. Harry Reems, 65. The male star of “Deep Throat,” a 1972 U.S. film that brought hardcore pornography to mainstream audiences. Died March 19 in Salt Lake City. Rise Stevens, 99. New York City-born mezzo-soprano who starred at the Metropolitan Opera in the 1940s and 1950s and was best known for playing the lead role in “Carmen.” Died March 20. Chinua Achebe, 82. The Nigerian author of “Things Fall Apart” (1958), one of the first novels by an African writer to attract a worldwide audience. Died March 21. Georg W. Claussen, 100. The CEO at Beiersdorf AG, the Hamburg- based maker of Nivea skin cream, from 1957 to 1979. Died March 21. Ray Williams, 58. A former guard in the National Basketball Association whose 10-year career included stints with the New York Knicks and New Jersey Nets. Died March 22. Boris Berezovsky, 67. He was one of the first and best-known oligarchs who accumulated vast wealth and influence in post- Soviet Russia until a falling out with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Died March 23 at his home near London, where he lived in self-imposed exile. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013281