MILESTONES

DIED. BRUNO ZEHNDER, 51, Swiss-born, penguin-snapping photographer; in a blizzard that surprised him as he filmed his flightless friends; in Antarctica. Zehnder, who legally changed his middle name to Penguin, shot TIME's Jan. 15, 1990, cover on Antarctica.

DIED. SIR JAMES GOLDSMITH, 64, billionaire financier; of a heart attack after a long battle with cancer; at his villa near Malaga, Spain. Goldsmith made his nut with pharmaceuticals and groceries and parlayed it into a fortune as a corporate raider in the '80s, acquiring high-profile targets. A legendary gambler, his business motto was "If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on it." Late in life he started one of his own, founding Britain's Referendum Party, which opposed the European common currency. His warm and very extended family included his third wife, who lives in London, and his second wife, his mistress and their families, who share a home in Paris.

DIED. ARTHUR LIMAN, 64, among his generation's best-known litigators, whose A-list clients included junk-bond king Michael Milken and the Senate Iran-contra committee; of cancer; in New York City. Liman brought a rare exuberance to a career that spanned prosecuting white-collar crime, haranguing Lieut. Colonel Oliver North and investigating the riots at Attica. (The searing Attica report he helped write was nominated for a National Book Award.) The famously disheveled Liman was known for getting so caught up in the advocacy he loved that he sometimes showed up in court with the pants from one suit and the jacket from another. (See Eulogy below.)

DIED. EUGENE SHOEMAKER, 69, vigilant planetary geologist who spent a lifetime tracking the comets he believed posed a threat to life on Earth; in a car accident; near Alice Springs, Australia. Shoemaker co-discovered the comet that smashed into Jupiter in July 1994, creating dazzling fireworks for stargazers.

DIED. ROBERT WEAVER, 89, the first African American appointed to the Cabinet; in New York City. In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson named him to fill the new post of Secretary of Housing and Urban Development at a time of intense inner-city turmoil.

DIED. GERDA CHRISTIAN, 83, Adolf Hitler's devoted secretary; in Dusseldorf, Germany. Christian was on hand at the Fuhrer's eleventh-hour wedding to Eva Braun and lunched with him before he committed suicide, but chose not to take the poison pills that Hitler reportedly gave her as a parting gift.

DIED. ALEXANDRA DANILOVA, 93, ballet's radiant empress who left Russia in 1924 but never defected from its classical dance traditions; at her home in New York City. Orphaned at three, Danilova fell in love with the stage. At the Ballet Russes in the 1920s and '30s, she soared as Odette in Swan Lake and sizzled as the street dancer in Le Beau Danube. As a teacher at the School of American Ballet, she inspired generations of dancers. "I sacrificed marriage, children and country to be a ballerina," she wrote, "and there was never any misunderstanding on my part: I knew the price." Her audiences knew only the profit.