Milestones

DIED Because of hundreds of roles in TV, film and theater, character actor Robert Prosky, 77, had one of those "I know that guy" faces. He put it to good use with parts in the TV drama Hill Street Blues, the film Mrs. Doubtfire and the play Glengarry Glen Ross.

As the spiritual patriarch of more than 110 million members of the Russian Orthodox Church, Alexy II, 79, led his followers for 18 years. Credited with restoring the church in the post-Soviet era, he mended a rift with a rival sect established by Russians who had fled the Soviet Union for the West. In his later years, Alexy was an ardent supporter of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

For most of his life, Henry Molaison, 82, was known as H.M., an amnesiac whose inability to form new memories made him the star of several groundbreaking studies of the brain.

In the 1960s, Warren M. Robbins, 85, raised $13,000 and took out a mortgage to buy the former home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. House in hand, he established the Museum of African Art with work purchased during his travels abroad.

SENTENCED Thirteen years after being acquitted of murdering his wife, former football star O.J. Simpson, 61, was given a sentence of up to 33 years in prison for a 2007 armed robbery in a Las Vegas hotel. He will not be eligible for parole until he is 70.

HOSPITALIZED After suffering a heart attack on Dec. 5, 1950s pinup sensation Bettie Page, 85, remained in critical condition, according to her agent. Page had been in the hospital coping with pneumonia and was set to go home shortly before the attack.