(AP) - James Armstrong

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) - Birmingham barber and civil rights foot soldier James Armstrong has died. He was 86.

Armstrong died Wednesday. The Birmingham News first reported Armstrong's death on its Web site.

Armstrong had a long history of involvement in the civil rights movement.

He carried the American flag at the head of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights march and in 1957 initiated a class action lawsuit to integrate Birmingham schools after trying to enroll his two sons in the then all-white Graymont Elementary School.

He cut hair at Armstrong Barbershop in downtown Birmingham for more than 50 years. One of his clients was civil right leader Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Armstrong was a board member and volunteer at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.

Jose Cisneros

EL PASO, Texas (AP) _ Artist Jose Cisneros, known for his vivid depictions of the people and culture of the Southwest, has died in El Paso.

A funeral mass was scheduled Wednesday for Cisneros, who died Saturday, said Dolores Bolanos with Martin Funeral Home in El Paso. Cisneros was 99.

Cisneros was honored with a 2001 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President George W. Bush in April 2002.

Cisneros, who was born in Durango, Mexico, was known for his historical pen-and-ink illustrations of magazines, books and newspapers. The University of Texas-El Paso library, according to its Web site, has more than 100 original drawings by Cisneros.

Thomas Benton Hollyman

NEW YORK (AP) _ Thomas Benton Hollyman, a leading magazine photographer who worked on the classic movie "Lord of the Flies," has died at 89.

Hollyman died Saturday in Austin Texas, according to his daughter.

Graydon Carter, managing editor of Vanity Fair, included Hollyman in a roundup of "photographic greats."

The son of a Presbyterian pastor, he was a staff photographer for the St. Louis Post Dispatch before serving in the Air Force.

In 1963, as a travel photographer, he was hired to direct photography for British director Peter Brook's movie "Lord of the Flies."

Hollyman was president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers from 1969 to 1971.

His daughter, Stephenie Hollyman, says a memorial service for Hollyman will be held at Manhattan's Saint Bartholomew's Church on Nov. 30.

Irving Kriesberg

NEW YORK (AP) _ American painter Irving Kriesberg has died in New York City. He combined intense abstract colors with human and animal elements.

His son, Matthias, tells The New York Times his father died Nov. 11 of complications from Parkinson's disease. He was 90.

Kriesberg's works appear in major museums, including New York's Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington.

The Chicago-born artist also taught at Yale, Columbia and Pratt Institute.

In the 1940s, he applied for a job as lighting designer of the Times Square Wondersign billboard. For his audition, he created an illuminated Frank Sinatra, and got the job.

David Olsen

NEW YORK (AP) _ A Marsh & McLennan Cos. board member, David A. Olsen, died Saturday, the company said in a statement Wednesday. He was 71.

Olsen had served on the board of the insurance company since 1997. He also was a member of the audit, compliance and corporate responsibility committees.

He joined Marsh & McLennan after it bought Johnson & Higgins in 1997. He had been CEO of Johnson & Higgins since 1990.

Huang Tingxin

BEIJING (AP) _ The last Chinese veteran of the 1944 liberation of France has died, state media reported Wednesday.

Huang Tingxin had been an officer aboard the British aircraft carrier HMA Searcher during the invasion of southern France known as Operation Dragoon. The August landings near the city of Toulon were a follow-up to the June 6 D-Day invasion of Normandy.

Huang returned to China in 1948 and served for a decade in the Chinese navy after the founding of the communist state in 1949. He later taught English and tended the library at Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in the eastern city of Hangzhou.

In 2006, Huang received France's Legion d'Honneur in recognition of his wartime service, dedicating the award to his Chinese comrades.

A graduate of the Qingdao Naval Academy in eastern China, Huang was one of 24 Chinese officers sent to study in Britain in 1942 and who later served with the Allies.

After studying at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich outside London, Huang was assigned to the Searcher, a U.S.-built assault carrier that deployed up to 25 fighter planes.

Huang died Nov. 11 at the age of 91, the official Xinhua News Agency said. No cause of death was given, although earlier reports said Huang suffered from Parkinson's disease.

Although Nationalist China maintained close ties with Nazi Germany before the war, its forces fought on the side of the Allies against Japan, which had linked up with Germany and Italy. Very few Chinese fought in the European theater.