Deaths elsewhere

David Caminer, 92, who as an employee of a legendary chain of British tea shops found the earliest ways to use a computer for business purposes, including standardizing flavorful, cost-effective cups of tea, died June 19 in London. His death was announced by the Leo Computers Society, whose purpose is to keep alive the memory of LEO, the computer Caminer helped develop for J. Lyons & Co. Performing its first calculation on Nov. 17, 1951, it was the world's first business computer, certified by Guinness World Records.

Daihachi Oguchi, 84, a master Japanese drummer who led the spread of the art of "taiko" drumming to the United States, has died. Oguchi was struck by a car Thursday while crossing a street and died Friday of excessive bleeding, said an official at Osuwa Daiko, the ensemble in Nagano prefecture in northern Japan that he had led. Oguchi helped found top U.S. taiko groups, including San Francisco Taiko Dojo, which has performed in Hollywood movies and toured internationally for 40 years.

Vic Hershkowitz, 89, a New York City fireman who learned handball on the playgrounds of Brooklyn and was considered by many to be the sport's most brilliant player, died Monday in Plantation, Fla. His wife, Jennie Tartaglia, said the cause was complications of heart and lung disease. Competing from the early 1940s to the early 1960s, Hershkowitz won 23 national amateur titles, including a record nine consecutive three-wall singles championships from 1950 to 1958. He swept the one-, three- and four-wall singles championships in 1952.

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