company’s financial problems. Died Sept. 21 of cancer. Richard T. McSherry, 77. The co-founder, along with James Elkins, of New York-based Elkins/McSherry LLC, which pioneered a way to crunch data to assess trading costs and help institutional investors maximize profits. Died Sept. 26 of prostate cancer. L.C. Greenwood, 67. The four-time NFL Super Bowl champion, who played defensive end on the Pittsburgh Steelers’ defensive line known as the “steel curtain” in the 1970s. Died Sept. 29. October Tom Clancy, 66. The U.S. author of “The Hunt for Red October” and “Patriot Games,” he became one of the world’s best-known writers by infusing espionage thrillers with technical details about military weaponry and intelligence agencies. Died Oct. 1. Karen Strauss Cook, 61. In 1975, she became the first woman hired in Goldman Sachs’s equities division, and the firm’s first female trader. Died Oct. 2 of a degenerative brain disease in New York, where she lived. Amy Dombroski, 26. The U.S. bicyclist who was a three-time national cyclo-cross champion. Died Oct. 3 when struck by a vehicle while training in Belgium. Sergei Belov, 69. He played guard on the Soviet Union’s basketball team that beat the U.S. to win a gold medal in the 1972 Olympics. Died Oct. 3. Vo Nguyen Giap, 102. The North Vietnamese general whose fighters drove the French out of Vietnam in 1954, then served as commander-in-chief against U.S. forces during the Vietnam War. Died Oct. 4. Ovadia Yosef, 93. An ultra-Orthodox rabbi who galvanized Israel’s Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent into a political force with the Shas Party. Died Oct. 7. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_013296