Leonard Nimoy, who created the iconic alien character of Spock in the original Star Trek series, has died of COPD.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?_r=0

Nimoy was an actor, a writer, and a photographer, whose career spanned half a century.