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He played the mechanic Cooter Davenport on the hit television series before serving two terms as a Democratic congressman from Georgia.
He played the mechanic Cooter Davenport on the hit television series before serving two terms as a Democratic congressman from Georgia.
A founding faculty member of Juilliard Drama, she helped the actors Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Wendell Pierce and others find their voices, quite literally.
After a successful singing career, she led the revival of jazz in the Windy City in the 1970s and ’80s, organizing festivals and concert series.
She challenged the conventional view that most head and neck cancers resulted from cigarette smoking and excessive alcohol consumption.
One of the winningest coaches in league history, he led the Bucks, the Warriors and the Mavericks. He also had a brief stint with the Knicks.
He was among the first to perform microscopic surgery in the 1970s and revolutionized techniques to treat traumatic injuries.
She was a Broadway dancer before becoming Xavier Cugat’s star vocalist and later building a solo career.
A three-time Grammy winner who was renowned for his mastery of electronic music styles, he also worked with Blur, Pink, Britney Spears and All Saints.
Over a six-decade career, he drastically expanded chess through the tournaments he started, especially the competitions for young players.
After 20 years in the C.I.A., he emerged as an outspoken critic of the agency and as a leader of the election-denial movement in Pennsylvania.
A historian at U.C.L.A., he showed how Los Angeles’s architects and planners made the city a global center for modernist design in the 20th century.
As a detective with the N.Y.P.D., he helped prosecute violent crimes under federal law. At the U.S. attorney’s office, he was involved in high-profile exonerations.
For an audience that grew to more than a million followers, she challenged assumptions about how people with serious illnesses should look and live.
He screamed as much as sang, as his heavy-metal-inflected punk band, Sick of It All, spread the sound of the New York underground to the world.
“Stones From the River,” her best-known work and an early Oprah’s Book Club selection, was set in a fictional German town in the early 20th century.
A farmer, poet and musician, he revitalized contra dancing in the 1960s and ’70s, bringing the tradition to a new generation.
Sent away as a baby, she remained loyal to her famous father, translating his poetry while fighting to distinguish his literary legacy from his fascist politics.
He was one of the first to make a case for the local grapes and traditional methods, even as others abandoned them, inspiring a younger generation.
She was the first Republican woman from the state to be elected to the House. It caused a stir in 2024 when she was discovered to be residing in a senior living facility while still in office.
His approach ran counter to centuries of conventional wisdom, and it won the enthusiastic approval of Queen Elizabeth II, with whom he became friends.
An artist known for his lush, large-scale oil paintings, he also created the Drawing Marathon, a two-week boot camp that transformed the lives of participants.
A painter who took his subjects from pop culture, he was also the founding editor of Artnet.com and chronicled the rise of the SoHo art scene in the 1970s.
He and his wife, Vy Higginsen, poured all they had into “Mama, I Want to Sing,” a long-shot musical that became an enduring staple of Black theater.
This month, Vishvaa Rajakumar won the Memory League World Championship, which tests memorization skills. He shared some of his techniques with The Times.
By watching the brain process information, she discovered that a specific region plays a key role in spatial navigation — and that it can be strengthened like a muscle.
Her role in the teen drama catapulted her to fame as a pop idol. She was also a TV host and appeared in films.
She hosted a cooking show years before Julia Child was on the air, tantalizing viewers with okra gumbo, shrimp bisque and other Southern specialties.
He was among those targeted by the investigation that consumed much of Bill Clinton’s presidency. But his conviction was later questioned.
“Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t Homeric in length: “Michael was a miniaturist.”
His clear prose, illuminating data and novel arguments, transformed debates around issues like public education and welfare reform.
His designs for Jimi Hendrix, the Who and others embodied the spirit of the psychedelic era. He also created images for stage shows like “Godspell.”
The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their country’s dictatorship.
Mr. Thondup’s influence in Tibet has been seen as second only to his younger brother, Tenzin Gyatso, the exiled head of Tibetan Buddhism, whom he spent decades trying to help return to their homeland.
Beginning in 1969, she spent five months a year on Great Gull Island, leading teams of young volunteers devoted to preserving the seabirds.
He was best known for amassing more than 3,400 copies of the Beatles’ “White Album” and using them to demonstrate the aging of a cultural artifact.
He blended pop philosophy and absurdist comedy in best-selling books like “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” and “Skinny Legs and All.”
As the self-exiled leader of the South-West Africa People’s Organization, he directed a guerrilla army in a 24-year war for independence from South African rule.
Known for her expertise on midcentury modernism and love of Southwestern colors, she also helped create an annual event showcasing the work of other designers.
He had an acclaimed Broadway career in musicals and comedies, but moviegoers knew him mostly as the self-assured, easygoing friend of Mr. Allen’s insecure heroes.
After a stellar college football career, he spent 11 years with the Dolphins. He caught a touchdown pass in 1973 that concluded the team’s 17-0 season.
The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, which he founded in 1968, presented more than 50 of his plays, among them “My Head Was a Sledgehammer” and “Permanent Brain Damage.”
Mr. Simitis imposed financial measures to prepare for Greece’s entry into the eurozone and laid the groundwork for the Olympic Games’ return to Athens.
James Lee Williams was best known by their stage name and also built a career in musical theater.
His long collaboration with Nancy Meyers produced a string of hit movies, including “Baby Boom” and “Father of the Bride,” that spoke to the moment.
Mr. Baena, who was married to the actress Aubrey Plaza, co-wrote the existential comedy “I Heart Huckabees,” and wrote and directed films including “Life After Beth” and “The Little Hours.”
He charted the rise of musical minimalism on New York’s downtown scene in the 1970s. He later gained notice for abstract works of his own.
His 15 well-plotted novels teemed with romance and strange coincidence. An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books.
A South African dancer and choreographer, she was known as a fearless creative force who brought African dance styles to traditional pieces like “Swan Lake.”
He put forth the so-called Easterlin paradox, finding that the richer you are doesn’t mean the more satisfied you’ll be with your life.
She chronicled the melodrama of Pale Male, a red-tailed hawk who became an avian sensation as it took up residence atop a Manhattan apartment building.
She was the first woman elected lieutenant governor in the state after defying party leaders and her eventual running mate, Hugh Carey, to win the nomination.
Born in 1908, she raised four children, ran a family textile factory during World War II, and remained an avid hiker into her 80s.
She adapted the children’s book series to TV, creating a lasting cultural behemoth that spawned movies, merchandise and theme parks.
He was a founding member of the family pop group, whose slew of hits in the 1970s included the No. 1 record “One Bad Apple.”
Her lurid divorce from the wealthy scion of an art-world dynasty earned headlines. Her elaborate plastic surgeries brought even more attention.
She turned to gymnastics after surviving World War II as a persecuted Jew and won 10 Olympic medals competing against far younger athletes.
His career was defined by bizarre episodes — blowing a rolling ball foul, knocking down a pitcher and standing at the plate when the lights went out in New York City.
With colorful knitwear, she and her husband, Ottavio, built one of the world’s most recognizable brands, helping to make Milan a capital of “alta moda.”
He created groundbreaking programs, like “The Mike Douglas Show,” brought “Good Morning America” to life and won an Emmy for “The Richard Simmons Show.”
He was a regular at the mountain resorts where many comedians honed their acts, then had a star turn in the long-running revue “Catskills on Broadway.”
He was still in training when he was rushed into live coverage of the collapse of the World Trade Center, and his broadcast became one of the enduring records of the day.
Items from his family, the military, his political career and long post-presidency — and two he made himself.
He rose to fame leading the Romanian and U.S. Olympic teams. He was later caught up in scandals involving the abuse of young female gymnasts.
He was the first African American to become president of a large white university, C.E.O. of a major corporation and deputy secretary of state.
Though he was American, he helped define the sound of the British Invasion after settling in London in the early 1960s.
Credited with designing the first eco-friendly office building, he never forgot the lessons he learned observing communes in the 1960s.
Her unusual approach to building bridges between her wealthy campus and its beleaguered hometown led to a Supreme Court case and a faculty revolt.
Her death reduces Japan’s rapidly dwindling imperial family to 16 people, and only 4 men, as the country faces questions about the future under a male-only succession law.
In “Prospero’s Daughter” and other novels, she explored the legacy of colonialism in her native Trinidad and the struggle for belonging in an adopted country.
He headed a commission that documented widespread abuse in Canada’s boarding schools for Indigenous children and sought to correct the history of Indigenous people.
A colorful figure in Thessaloniki, he tried to reconcile the city’s painful history with its Turkish and Jewish communities, and he extended a hand to his country’s foes.
A renowned Supreme Court litigator, he argued the Republican side in Bush v. Gore, but later championed gay rights and undocumented children.
His Trojans won four Rose Bowls during his two stints at Southern California and shared one national championship. He took the Rams to two conference championships.
A staple of British television, he played Churchill three times over a long career. Onstage, he was King Lear, Macbeth and Willy Loman.
An embattled leader for decades in Niger’s rough-and-tumble politics, he alternated stints in high office with prison and exile.
Known for his unyielding seven-day-a-week work schedule, he returned again and again to the same models and London street scenes.
He became one of the world’s most sought-after teachers of a style of yoga that his grandfather helped turn into a popular form of exercise worldwide.
Ten years after her sexual assault, she discovered that the evidence in her rape kit hadn’t been tested — and neither had thousands of others nationwide.
Jumping from the high school ranks to lead one of the most storied programs in college football, he lost games but rarely lost hope.
An irrepressible force who remained relevant over the course of a seven-decade career, he had a hand in every major development in modern jazz.
With her husband, David LaFlamme, she founded the rock band It’s a Beautiful Day and wrote a soaring paean to a generation’s dreams of escape.
Mr. Todd’s decades-long career spanned across mediums and genres, but he was largely associated with a scary figure summoned in front of a mirror.
A player of impeccable technique and a mainstay of the Blue Note label, he recorded constantly as both a leader and a sideman beginning in 1952.
In the 1880s, the only roles for Indigenous performers were laden with negative stereotypes. So Mohawk decided to write her own narratives.
The organization that he led advocated the separation of church and state, with no exceptions for holidays, currency, symbolism or blessings.
Performing and recording, she transformed what was seen as a marginal genre in the music industry into a celebration of shared humanity.
He memorably portrayed a frizzy-haired science teacher roping her elementary school class into adventures aboard a shape-shifting yellow bus.
He trekked up Ecuador’s tallest mountain twice a week for six decades to hack ice off a glacier with a pickax. He is believed to have been the last of his breed.
The bus boycott and one-man pub sit-in that he led in the mid-1960s helped pave the way for a law outlawing discrimination in public places.
She wrote lovingly and often hilariously about her harrowing childhood in a working-class Southern family, as well as about the violence and incest she suffered.
A two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he was a reporter, editor and columnist for The Washington Post, renowned for his deeply sourced dispatches.
He introduced ticket prices that couldn’t be beat, but asked fliers to pay extra for nearly everything, including water, carry-ons and printed tickets.
She became an international star as a member of the company and later directed it, guiding it out of debt and boosting its popularity.
A three-time winner of the Daytona 500, he was ranked as one of NASCAR’s greatest drivers, with 84 victories. But his career was darkened by tragedy and injuries.
He also styled hair for Helen Mirren, the Beach Boys and others, and he was honored by Queen Elizabeth II for services to British hairdressing.
Best known for his star turn in the cult film about a flesh-eating plant, he was a go-to member of the low-budget auteur Roger Corman’s repertory company.
A “gloriously erudite” critic, he denounced the embrace of blandly functional architecture in efforts to rebuild after World War II.
Early in the internet era, he was also behind other AOL messages, including “Welcome!” “They said my voice was heard more than 35 million times a day,” he once said.
He pulled dump trucks, flipped cars and tossed five-pound bricks as if they were Kleenex boxes. Tending to parakeets brought out his gentler side.
He helped sway Ronald Reagan to sign a bill offering cash and an apology to Japanese Americans who had been imprisoned during World War II.
He pioneered a surrealistic narrative style in collaborations with dancers, artists and the author Yukio Mishima, with whom he created startling erotic tableaus.
As a lawyer for The Associated Press and other news outlets, he challenged efforts to muzzle reporters and organized lawyers to promote free expression around the world.
He invented a computer model that made it possible to measure human-induced climate change. He also helped break a color barrier in science.
A physicist who headed a chapter of the National Organization for Women, she took a career detour to be a feminist voice in Mr. Lear’s empire of socially aware sitcoms.
Working with a group of talented collaborators, Eikoh Hosoe redefined what it meant to be a photographer.
With steel hooks for hands and a flamboyant personality, Mr. Armes captured the attention — and scrutiny — of reporters across the nation.
He was 23 years old when he took part in the attack that triggered America’s declaration of war against Japan. He rarely spoke publicly about it.
He prosecuted high-profile cases in the 1970s and championed Soviet Jews, but, after retiring, he ran afoul of the law himself, charged with a sex offense.
An outstanding fielder though never an All-Star, he broke that barrier with the Giants in 1956 and later became the Tigers’ first Black player.
He and his friend Mike Wolfe launched the treasure-hunting show in 2010, part of a wave of reality TV aimed at finding fortune in everyday items.
He was the patriarch in one of the first sitcoms with an all-Black cast and an enslaved African as a grown man in the blockbuster TV mini-series.
Her solstice and equinox celebrations might involve an egg-balancing ritual and bonfires, all to remind modern New Yorkers of their humble place in the cosmos.
One of the sport’s greatest players, he set a record with 4,256 career hits. But his gambling led to a lifetime ban and kept him out of the Hall of Fame.
One of the sport’s greatest players, he set a record with 4,256 career hits. But his gambling led to a lifetime ban and kept him out of the Hall of Fame.
Coming late to basketball, he nevertheless found stardom, retiring with the second-most blocked shots in league history. He devoted much of his life to humanitarian causes.
He wrote songs for hundreds of other artists, including “Me and Bobby McGee” for Janis Joplin and “Sunday Morning Coming Down” for Johnny Cash, before a second act in film.
He wrote songs for hundreds of other artists, including “Me and Bobby McGee” for Janis Joplin and “Sunday Morning Coming Down” for Johnny Cash, before a second act in film.
In 32 years in charge of Hezbollah, Mr. Nasrallah built the Iranian-backed militia into an influential regional force and a potent adversary of Israel.
He was the first Black African to head a major international organization, but complaints about his tenure led the U.S. and Britain to pull out of it.
She earned an extraordinary array of awards, from Oscars to Emmys to Tonys, but could still go almost everywhere unrecognized. Then came “Downton Abbey.”
His decision to describe gruesome murders to the F.B.I. led at least 10 other members to do the same and ultimately immobilized a mafia family.
A blues devotee from Chicago, he tasted fame in the late 1960s with the Electric Flag, a band that made its debut at Monterey but proved short-lived.
Part of a talented backfield triumvirate that also included Larry Csonka and Jim Kiick, he helped lead Miami to two Super Bowls and an undefeated season.
He and his wife began buying pieces to furnish their apartment. They wound up with a museum-quality collection and a pre-eminent retail business.
Part of a long line of cantors, he led services at the Great Synagogue in Jerusalem for 30 years and helped train the next generation.
She worked with Prince on many of his signature works, including the “Sign o’ the Times” tour and the “U Got the Look” music video.
His students, including Tracy Austin, Maria Sharapova, Pete Sampras and Lindsay Davenport, developed their ground strokes through his regimen of intense repetition.
A labor lawyer, he was crucial to toppling a decades-old system that bound players to teams year after year, setting the stage for their rich contracts of today.
Born in Paris to Italian parents and raised in Germany, she had her own show on television in the 1950s and was later a small-screen mainstay in the U.S.
Among the world’s leading academic critics, he brought his analytical rigor to topics as diverse as German opera and sci-fi movies.
She was a Texas-born starlet when she married the beloved crooner, but put aside her career at his urging.
After forming a lauded band and writing tunes like “I Remember Clifford,” “Whisper Not” and “Killer Joe,” he had a second career composing and arranging music for television.
A moderate Republican, he championed education, civil rights and environmental causes as a three-term governor and on Capitol Hill. He was eyed as a potential vice president.
An amiable Korean-born graduate of Georgetown University, he was imprisoned after a second scandal involving the U.N.
His plain-spoken songs were recorded by Elvis Presley, Kenny Rogers and many others. The duo of Johnny Cash and June Carter made his “Jackson” a huge country hit.
Carrying on a family tradition, she brought her singular act, full of illusion and humor, to Black audiences in the segregated South and on up to Philadelphia.
In best seller after best seller, world-weary investigators tackled military malfeasance and Russian spies, cracking jokes and beers to the delight of legions of devoted fans.
He identified the cause of a respiratory condition that was killing 10,000 infants a year in the United States. Then he helped design a drug that slashed those mortality rates.
He was a pioneer in chronobiology, the study of how our bodies understand the passage of time.
At the 1960 Summer Games in Rome, he set a world record in the 400-meter race and another in the 4 x 400 relay, where he anchored the United States team’s victory.
His role as a surfer in that trendsetting hit movie led to success on television shows like “The Time Tunnel” and “T.J. Hooker,” and on the pop charts.
Born into New York wealth and married to a Scottish earl, she was the only American-born lady-in-waiting to the queen, serving for nearly 50 years.
He was perhaps best known for heading the team that created the statues of biblical figures at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan.
He began playing as a child and quickly found success for his technical command and, as one critic put it, his “thoughtful elegance.”
His clean tone and less-is-more approach made him a studio stalwart and a pioneer of what came to be known as the Nashville Sound.
With his wife, Dr. Jean Carruthers, he conducted hundreds of studies on the wrinkle-erasing properties of the neurotoxin that causes botulism. The work revolutionized beauty care.
The first Black Army officer elevated to lieutenant general, he lived to see a military post named for a slaveholding Confederate general rechristened in his honor.
He was at the Hamden Town Center Park in Hamden, Conn., when he collapsed onstage on Friday night.
The king, who had held the title for 18 years, was praised by New Zealand’s prime minister for his “unwavering commitment to his people.”
Her award-winning documentaries for PBS’s “Frontline” series shed light on serious flaws in several convictions and helped lead to the release of 13 prisoners.
His work provided the basis for the worldwide best seller “The Bible Code,” but he later rejected the book as unscientific.
He pioneered the bookstore-as-superstore, a retail behemoth that dominated the industry before Amazon overtook it with its online reach.
She was a fiery lawyer from eastern Kentucky who charged coal companies with discrimination for their refusal to hire women. Her campaign was a success.
An unapologetic champion of the newsworthiness of celebrities, he also drew attention to teenage pregnancy and helped popularize the term “baby boomer.”
His research enabled the discovery that protons and neutrons are made of smaller particles, contributing to a fuller picture of the subatomic universe.
A progressive nun, she used a welcome address before Pope John Paul II in 1979 to call for equality in the ranks of the Roman Catholic Church.
She was a local New York secret before gaining wider renown as the dressing-room companion of rich, powerful women. A dark past lay beneath her savoir faire.
He brought French classics to New York, published a film magazine, worked as a Hollywood publicist and, as seen on “Antiques Roadshow,” thrived selling vintage film posters and other ephemera.
He first gained attention with Jimmy Smith and went on to work with Harry Connick Jr., Diana Krall and Ron Carter. He also had a distinguished solo career.
As a counselor, he embraced an alternative to “zero tolerance” disciplinary policies that are disproportionately meted out to Black students.
For decades, he ran a school in the New Jersey wilderness that taught thousands of students how to survive and even thrive in the great outdoors.
She and her husband had the bad luck to make their “Ed Sullivan Show” debut the same night as the Beatles. They bombed. But their careers would recover.
She and her husband, LeRoi Jones, published works by their literary friends. After he left her and became Amiri Baraka, she found her own voice.
She was a teacher when she participated in an educational experiment with IBM. As a result, she became the first female video game designer.
Styling himself as a rebel, he won more than 600 races and nine championships in a 40-year career.
He was known as the Destroyer for his gritty intensity as a player. He later coached Golden State to an N.B.A. championship and served as its general manager.
An outspoken progressive, he vigorously opposed President Donald J. Trump and focused on legislation to help “regular Americans pay their bills.”
As a leader behind many of the world’s best-known brands, he exuded operational know-how. He also displayed a rare humility, which helped drive his success.
He tracked the rise of grunge as the editor of the Seattle music magazine The Rocket. He also wrote acclaimed books about two of the city’s most celebrated rock luminaries.
His music, which was performed by many prominent ensembles, mixed melodic themes and rich textures with the sharp-edged angularity of modernism.
Stalking the aisles, microphone in hand, he turned “The Phil Donahue Show” into a participation event, soliciting questions and comments on topics from human rights to orgies.
He played Salvatore “Sal” Tessio in “The Godfather Part II” in 1974, and the father of a popular character on “Full House,” a sitcom.
Working out of her basement, and with no teaching experience, she created a nonprofit that helped people around the world learn to read.
The César-winning actor was an international favorite in the 1960s and ’70s, often sought after by the era’s great auteurs.
A chart topper in 1960 for him and his doo-wop group the Zodiacs, it inspired several notable cover versions and was heard in the 1987 film “Dirty Dancing.”
As a pioneer of Madison Avenue’s creative revolution, he collaborated on campaigns for Alka-Seltzer and other products. But his tourism pitches were a game changer.
He located a musical sweet spot between the romantic and the risqué for Ricky Nelson, Johnny Mathis and most famously Gary Puckett and the Union Gap.
He played straight man to all manner of celebrities, asking questions on what was for many years the most popular game show on television.
A virtuoso of physical comedy, he performed around the world with his wife. Most notably, he helped stage clown shows in Afghanistan.
Known for playing on-the-verge characters, she was twice earned Oscar nominations for her work in films directed by John Cassavetes, her husband.
A top editor and executive at two publishing houses, she was an advocate for other women in publishing, and for equal pay in an industry that had long been male-dominated.
With a background in marketing, his aunt’s recipe and a winning personality, he built one of the world’s best-known brands of baked goods.
She became famous for posing in the fashion designer Rudi Gernreich’s topless swimsuit. But she saw herself more as a performer than as a model.
The feat, a collegiate record, came in 1954 in South Carolina. As a pro, he missed a shot that would have given the Los Angeles Lakers a championship.
A copywriter, he and a partner in 1972 came up with “Try it, you’ll like it” and “I can’t believe I ate that whole thing.” Soon, sales were, well, fizzing.
He first made his mark doing stand-up in New York, but he was best known for his role as Chi Chi opposite Al Pacino in the hit 1983 movie.
His quick thinking saved fellow soldiers in Vietnam. Later, he had a role in the presidential runs of Ross Perot, George H.W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Ms. Lillis voiced the characters of Misty and Jessie in the animated series based on a video game. She was diagnosed with breast cancer this year.
As a White House official and later as a lobbyist, he guided about 300 nominees through their confirmation hearings, including Supreme Court justices.
He led Dallas to its first Super Bowl victory after engaging in a well-publicized contract dispute in which he called Coach Tom Landry “plastic” and refused to talk to reporters.
A producer of “The National Lampoon Radio Hour” and albums by the Blues Brothers, he became S.N.L.’s head writer after a dismal season early in its history.
In the 1960s, he was among the first Westerners allowed into the country, and for decades he helped the rest of the world understand it.
After a long career as a union organizer, he came out of retirement in 2013 to form the South Texas Human Rights Center and provide lifesaving aid.
The business executive helped turn Google into an internet juggernaut and became one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley.
From the cloakroom at Sardi’s, she made her own mark on Broadway, hobnobbing with celebrity clients while safekeeping fedoras, bowlers, derbies and more.
He won eight PGA Tour tournaments and two senior majors — but it was his flair on the greens that made him one of the sport’s most popular players.
With her smoky voice and her high-fashion look, the self-proclaimed “punk of fado” found stardom by shaking up a venerable Portuguese genre.
Modeling himself after the heavy metal bands of the 1970s and ’80s, he played the role of an occult-inspired villain and tangled with the likes of Hulk Hogan.
He endured skepticism but won a Nobel Prize for his work upending the conventional wisdom that stress, diet or alcohol caused the painful condition.
She was the first openly gay woman to write a comic book about lesbians. She went on to write detective novels with a queer woman in the lead.
As an outfielder, he hid his sexual identity from his teammates for nearly a decade before retiring and becoming a force for inclusion in the organization.
The longtime associate director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, she also edited more than 50 books about the South.
Her career began during apartheid and outlived it, reaching a personal milestone in a blockbuster movie and its sequel.
A sheep farmer, he set records in so-called fell running — rugged off-trail competitions that can last days and present painful hazards, including an irate cow.
At 31, he and a colleague won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that subatomic particles, contrary to what scientists thought, are not always symmetrical.
She was already a prominent hostess in the nation’s capital when her uninhibited, best-selling 1973 memoir, “Laughing All the Way,” made her a star.
She spent decades covering politics and aging in America, and she was the first editor of the NPR program “Weekend Edition Saturday.”
The brother, son and grandson of famous English writers, he carved out his own space as a composer, critic, columnist and historian.
A descendant of a storied family, she was an author, TV host and cooking school director who showed that Italian cuisine was about more than tomatoes, pizza and pasta.
After fleeing Vienna, he was a music critic and teacher before returning to composing in the 1980s. His memories of Nazi barbarism inspired his music.
He was the first to touch the edge of space and later to go beyond it in two different aircraft, an X-15 and a shuttle. But the moon, to his disappointment, proved out of reach.
For decades, he meticulously crafted short films and documentaries in relative obscurity. Then, in his 80s, he enjoyed a burst of productivity and acclaim.
He traced the dramatic transformation of the Lower East Side from his building, where he lived for 50 years. He also assisted the cartoonist Saul Steinberg.
A favorite of Benjamin Britten, he won acclaim in roles like Don Giovanni, Eugene Onegin and Falstaff until his affliction forced him to largely give up singing.
An Oxford graduate who spoke five languages, she had an early career as a siren before finding critical acclaim in masterworks by Federico Fellini and Roman Polanski.
He directed a team of engineers that built Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity, mobile robots that offered astonishing glimpses into the planet’s ancient past.
Her causes and quiet, elegant manner enhanced Colin Powell’s mystique, and she figured strongly in his decision not to run for president in 1996.
His cameras, food mixers and lamps, and even taxis and trains, were widely celebrated objects of post-World War II design.
Daniel Ellsberg was so moved by Mr. Kehler’s opposition to the Vietnam War that he decided to leak documents that changed the course of the conflict.
After delivering improvements to the Bronx as borough president, he, along with others, was convicted in the 1980s Wedtech scandal and went to prison.
He had clients like Tony Curtis and Kim Novak, but his biggest score came when he negotiated the “King of All Media’s” landmark contract with Sirius Satellite Radio.
Mr. Haniyeh, the Palestinian militant group’s exiled political chief, managed high-stakes negotiations, including the ongoing cease-fire talks to end the war in Gaza.
He helped City College win two national championships in 1950 before pleading guilty in a point-shaving scheme. He later became City’s basketball coach and a mentor.
American Music was a marginal subfield in the 1960s when he began his research as a student, and then as a faculty member, at the University of Michigan.
At James Monroe High School in the Bronx, he inspired students to embrace the arts and to be engaged with the world, through AIDS programs and other community service projects.
Hundreds of Vietnamese civilians died at the hands of American soldiers, but Lieutenant Calley was the only one found guilty.
The series and its many spinoffs have sold more than 200 million copies and revolutionized the world of young adult publishing.
Likened to a “court composer” for Germany, he wrote more than 500 pieces and was considered one of the most original and independent musical voices in Europe.
Her novels and short stories often explored the lives of willful women who loved men who were crass, unfaithful or already married.
She wrote two books about multiple generations of her forebears, including her mother, Lena Horne.
He drew praise for his blues-inflected fretwork as his critically acclaimed band rode high, if briefly, during San Francisco’s Summer of Love.
A lawyer and confidant of François Mitterrand, he was in the forefront of French politics for decades, only to be undone by his taste for the high life.
His audacious descents around the world inspired a generation of extreme skiers. “One mistake,” he once said, “you die.”
As ambassador to Israel in the Clinton administration and as a special envoy under Barack Obama, he was skeptical of Israeli settlements.
Most record companies didn’t think “The First Family,” which he and his writing partner created, was a good idea. It went on to become the fastest-selling album of the pre-Beatles era.
He believed that music could transcend national borders set by colonialism and restore ancient ties, even as it embraced the changes of a globalizing society.
Guided by a keen sense of timing, she covered wars, sports, riots, politics and more for The A.P. in the ’70s, when few women worked as news photographers.
Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States.
He was a threat as a halfback, receiver and returner for the Dallas Texans, the team that became the Kansas City Chiefs. But he still had to deal with racism.
She was, she said, unable to cook a basic meal into her mid-20s. But she went on to a successful career as a restaurateur and an authority on Asian cuisine.
He was best known not for his own playing or singing but for recruiting and polishing the talents of one gifted lead guitarist after another, starting with Eric Clapton.
She starred in kung fu movies from the modern origins of the form in midcentury Hong Kong to the worldwide breakout “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”
She starred in “Doraemon” and other animated shows watched by nearly every child in Japan, and her voice became widely recognized.
He brought to his writing a sharp sense of humor, honed in stand-up comedy clubs, and never pulled punches even though he was an unabashed Democrat.
He used his platforms on CNN and Fox Business to share baseless conspiracy theories. His tenure at Fox ended after the network was sued for defamation over claims of voting machine fraud.
He wrote of how 50 Black sailors were court-martialed for refusing to keep loading munitions onto cargo ships in 1944 after explosions had killed hundreds. They were exonerated this month.
A noted guitarist and banjo player, he emerged from the same Greenwich Village folk-revival scene as his friend and sometime collaborator Bob Dylan.
Early in the civil rights movement, a Georgia governor tried to ban Black players from the game, but after a protest by Georgia Tech students, Grier was allowed to play.
He sang tenor on hits like “Standing in the Shadows of Love,” “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” and “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch).”
Ms. TerBlanche played Gillian Andrassy, a Hungarian princess whose story line was beloved by fans.
An M.I.T. physicist, he engineered an East-West deal that reduced nuclear threats and produced one of the greatest peace dividends of all time.
A singer, composer, curator and founder of the vocal group Sweet Honey in the Rock, she provided a gospel soundtrack for the civil rights movement.
He gained national attention for his unorthodox approaches to policing in Little Rock and then went on to win three terms in the House of Representatives.
Known for his “blazing furnace” anticorruption campaign, Mr. Trong consolidated power in one of the world’s few remaining Communist dictatorships.
He was a show-business neophyte when he stammered his way to fame in 1960. He went on to star in two of TV’s most memorable sitcoms.
Known for his unorthodox marketing practices, Mr. Williams, a founder of the Orlando Magic, was sometimes called the P.T. Barnum of professional basketball.
A Public Health Service employee, he turned whistle-blower after learning of decades-long research involving hundreds of poor, infected Black men who were left untreated.
After tasting fame with “Please Come to Boston” in 1974, he became a major Nashville songwriter. He also wrote the theme to the Masters golf tournament.
The first Black American model to appear on the cover of GQ magazine, he was an avatar of male beauty for nearly half a century.
His Texas-style brisket, made with exacting precision, inspired a generation of New York City pit masters, who opened a wave of smoky joints in the 2000s.
His best seller about Marines in Iraq, members of a “disposable generation,” was made into an HBO mini-series. He focused on subjects outside mainstream media coverage.
Her refined palate and pursuit of excellence made her the city’s culinary matriarch, attracting diners and talent alike to Oregon. She died in a tubing accident.
A Swedish biochemist, he shared the 1982 prize for breakthrough discoveries that led to drugs that treat inflammation, glaucoma and allergies.
A 6-foot-9 forward known as Jellybean, he was drafted out of La Salle and had pro stints in Philadelphia, San Diego and Houston before playing in Italy.
He helped Martha Stewart, Leona Helmsley, Michael Milken and other white-collar criminals win lighter sentences, and prepared them for life in prison.
His natural rectitude landed him roles on hundreds of TV dramas and comedies, including the beloved “Car Pool Lane” episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”
A branding expert, he deployed the “I’m lovin’ it” campaign globally in 2003 to bring customers and sales back to the fast-food giant when it was in a slump.
As an influential committee leader and the majority leader in the New York Assembly, he led efforts, later embraced in Washington, to expand coverage.
A Dutch painter, sculptor and engraver, she worked in experimental mediums, founded an influential multidisciplinary journal and enjoyed a late-career resurgence.
Ms. Doherty, who also had roles in the TV series “Charmed” and the comedy-thriller “Heathers,” had continued to work after a breast cancer diagnosis.
Frank and funny, the taboo-breaking psychologist said things on television and radio that would have been shocking coming from almost anyone else.
Inspired by Renaissance painters, he explored life’s passages — birth, death, romantic love, redemption and rebirth — in often moving, often thrilling exhibitions.
Her career unfolded in three phases: as the creator of costumes for movies like “Chinatown,” as a studio executive and as a producer, largely with her friend Goldie Hawn.
She was married to John Belushi until his fatal drug overdose in 1982. She went on to celebrate his comic talent in books and a documentary.
Her lithesome features and quirky screen presence made her a popular figure in 1970s movies, particularly Robert Altman’s.
His innovative version of the chocolate chip cookie, studded with irregular pieces of dark Swiss chocolate, led to a chain of more than 100 stores worldwide.
Her loyalty to artists and her eye for talent made her a force in a male-dominated business. Among her accomplishments: introducing Bob Dylan to the Band.
His vocals on songs like “Elvira” were a key to the evolution of the group, originally a Southern gospel quartet, into perennial country hitmakers.
A leading biochemist, she helped shape guidelines to protect a revolutionary new field in the ’70s while calming public fears of a spread of deadly lab-made microbes.
An Oklahoma Republican who led the Environment Committee, he took hard-right stands on many issues but was especially vocal in challenging evidence of global warming.
An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands “to take over their unions and change them.”
His clients included antiwar protesters and Black Panthers. His practice “not only defended needy people, it propelled social movements,” a colleague said.
In a decades-long collaboration with the director James Cameron, he produced three of the highest-grossing films of all time.
A coach at San Jose State for seven decades, he helped establish the sport in America and trained generations of athletes, many of whom went to the Olympics.
His moving and often painful free-verse observations on friends’ deaths, the Holocaust and other topics won him many devoted fans.
Once declared “the face of American tennis,” he was ranked among the leading players in the United States from the 1940s to the ’60s.
A former State Department official, he resigned in protest in 1982 over Cuba policy, then spent decades trying to rebuild relations with the island nation.
A promising player for a storied Norwegian soccer club, he instead found infamy for stealing one of the world’s most famous artworks.
She was a frequent sight on the series, which began in 2019, and impressed fans with her straightforward attitude.
He found that a failed contraceptive, tamoxifen, could block the growth of cancer cells, opening up a whole new class of treatment.
His baroque fusions of bright paint, wood and other detritus wowed the art world. But as his fame faded, he turned his attention to historic preservation.
She helped establish the New York Feminist Art Institute. In her own work — monumental pieces carved from found lumber — she evoked ancient feminine imagery.
She painted and sculpted, but she was best known for her oversized still lifes, painted from photographs and crowded with color and detail.
A founder of the influential music magazine The Fader, he also bridged the worlds of hip-hop and the Fortune 500 with his innovative marketing agency.
Celebrated for his mastery of dialogue, he also contributed (though without credit) to the scripts of “Bonnie and Clyde” and “The Godfather.”
She wrote memorably about her upbringing by a circle of maternal elders and the life lessons they imparted, and of her yearning for the mother she lost.
A favorite of early personal computer users, his company was eventually overtaken by Microsoft Word. He later came out as gay and became an L.G.B.T.Q. activist.
Womanly power was a recurring theme of her work, expressed in idiosyncratic sculpture and paintings that did not align with prevailing trends.
Often compared to Orwell and Kafka, he walked a political tightrope with works that offered veiled criticism of his totalitarian state.
She was the first woman to serve as the paper’s national editor, and she rose to assistant managing editor, generating ideas for prizewinning articles.
She was the first woman to serve as the paper’s national editor, and she rose to assistant managing editor, generating ideas for prizewinning articles.
She developed one of the first modern intensive care units for premature babies, helping newborns to breathe with lifesaving new treatments.
A former hippie who chafed at wealth, she married a Chicago real estate titan and, after his death, donated hundreds of millions in her adopted city and beyond.
Only the second Puerto Rican native elected to the Hall of Fame, he hit 379 home runs but later served time in prison on a drug-smuggling charge.
Her warning of a big buildup of enemy troops poised to attack South Vietnam in 1968 was ignored, a major U.S. Army intelligence failure during the war.
He carved out a niche by singing songs by living composers from his own country, and was praised by critics at home and abroad.
He and his band, the Texas Jewboys, won acclaim for their satirical takes on American culture. He later wrote detective novels and ran for Texas governor.
He was not a Hollywood household name. But his face was one anyone who watched TV or movies over the past several decades could recognize.
He hanged high-profile inmates in exchange for a reduction in his own robbery and murder sentences, and became a social media sensation after his release.
Hailed as a pioneer of D.I.Y. programming, he oversaw groundbreaking how-to shows on public television in the days before HGTV and YouTube.
He began handling dogs in his native Japan and then became a poodle specialist, leading Spice and Sage to Best in Show victories.
His 2020 lament “$20 Bill” was covered by scores of artists and, a fellow musician said, might well be destined for the folk music canon.
He elevated many of France’s most provocative writers through his publishing house, La Fabrique, but he made his greatest mark as a politically engaged, and strolling, historian of Paris.
A literary critic, essayist and author, he was a leading voice among revisionist skeptics who saw Freud as a charlatan and psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience.
Da Silvano was a celebrity hangout, drawing boldface names like Madonna, Barry Diller and Yoko Ono. It was often referred to as the downtown Elaine’s.
He left a career in tech and found success as a producer, winning four Tonys. His mission: staging productions about underrepresented communities.
As a journalist, singer, label owner and radio producer, he fostered a community of musicians on the outskirts of Americana.
He had success on the rugby pitch and in boardrooms, building a media empire and boosting Heinz’s profits, but his fortunes buckled in the global financial crisis.
Seeking to bring the ideas of Black power into the classroom — and coining the term “ethnic studies” — he clashed with a university as well as allies on the left.
She was revered as an essential guardian of the country’s memory of war and repression long after the Franco dictatorship.
An art world power, she represented more than 70 artists and estates and ran two large exhibition spaces in Manhattan as well as offshoots abroad.
He overcame segregation at home and in the military to serve three tours in Vietnam as a member of the storied special operations unit.
Before being appointed to the bench in Washington, he was a track star who became a symbol of discrimination against Black athletes.
With the Contortions and James White and the Blacks, the songwriter and saxophonist set out to challenge musicians and stir up audiences.
The founder of the renowned Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, he also helped shape U.S. policies on controlling toxic substances like DDT.
In a wide-ranging career (from “MAS*H” to “Ordinary People” to “Invasion of the Body Snatchers”), he could be endearing in one role, menacing in another and just plain odd in a third.
He turned “an insignificant trade house” into a powerhouse, publishing best sellers like “The Silence of the Lambs” and “All Creatures Great and Small.”
Mays, the Say Hey Kid, was the game’s exuberant embodiment of the complete player. Some say he was the greatest of them all.
She received a diagnosis of Stage 4 breast cancer late in her second pregnancy and described her experience in a book, “Little Earthquakes: A Memoir.”
First as a journalist and later as a professor at Yale, she provided the intellectual tools to help actors, directors and audiences understand challenging work.
His remarkable sprint in the final yards on a muddy track in the 1964 Games in Tokyo made him the only American ever to win the gold medal in the event.
The French actress had already made an impression in international film when she appeared in Claude Lelouch’s 1966 romance, a role that earned her an Oscar nomination.
While he was reviving Portland, Ore., as a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly city, he was also sexually abusing a teenage girl over three years, he later admitted.
Starting in the late 1970s, she scored multiple hit singles, including “This Time I’ll Be Sweeter” and “I Try,” but a pair of strokes in the 2000s ended her career.
He co-founded D.L.J., the first securities firm to offer shares to the public. As S.E.C. chairman, he pressed for a stronger watchdog role after a series of accounting scandals.
A master of the ancient and exacting art of carving into rock, he was 25 when he began his first major commission, at Arlington National Cemetery.
She made significant contributions at IBM, but she lost her job because of her conviction that she inhabited the wrong body. She later fought for transgender rights.
Mr. Mavar, who ran a fishing operation in Alaska, starred in the reality television show for 16 years and captained his own boat.
A core member of the anti-art movement Fluxus, he died by suicide hours after the death of his wife of 60 years.
He had opened two restaurants and a cocktail bar in downtown Manhattan, and he was preparing for a big expansion backed by LeBron James.
A former judge, he helped steer the Southern Baptist Convention to the right. But at least seven men accused him of sexual abuse.
He helped send the twin spacecraft on their way in 1977. Decades and billions of miles later, they are still probing — “Earth’s ambassadors to the stars,” as he put it.
He was known for introducing new musical acts to a wide audience, including Selena Quintanilla, whose appearance on his show in 1985 was one of her first live TV performances.
Böttner, whose specialty was self-portraiture, celebrated her armless body in paintings she created with her mouth and feet while dancing in public.
His songs became hits for Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, Brenda Lee and many other artists. They were also heard on movie soundtracks.
In his decade at ABC, long the doormat network in prime time, he helped guide it toward the No. 1 spot. He later produced “Nashville” and won an Emmy for “Friendly Fire.”
The Japanese biochemist found in the 1970s that cholesterol-lowering drugs lowered the level of LDL, or “bad” cholesterol, in the blood.
American paintings were largely overlooked and undervalued until he came along. A scholar, curator and collector, he oversaw important exhibitions over the last 50 years.
Chabad, one observer said, is “in more places in the world than any other Hasidic group and most visible to the world because of their outreach — largely thanks to Kotlarsky.”
With hit songs and an understated personality, she incarnated a 1960s cool still treasured by the French.
His roster of students also included Linda Fratianne, but he did not coach an Olympic gold medalist until Evan Lysacek won in 2010.
His keyboard, which became famous after Tom Hanks melodiously hopped on it, displayed Mr. Saraceni’s vision of technology powered by “people energy.”
A nurse, she tended to the wounded as the French were under fateful attack by Viet Minh forces in 1954. Hailed in France and the U.S., she was given a ticker-tape parade down Broadway.
From his beginnings with a daily newspaper, he moved easily through Newsweek magazine to cable news and, later, to the frontiers of online journalism.
As the leader and spokesman for Reporters Without Borders, he rescued some, sought refuge for others and lobbied for pluralism in the press.
Once labeled a “natural-born heavy,” he shined onscreen and especially onstage, securing a Tony nomination and winning an Obie Award.
After a career as a satellite dish installer, he found success with RFD-TV, a 24-hour cable channel aimed at farmers and ranchers.
A Pritzker Prize winner, he designed notable projects in his native Japan and in the U.S., including 4 World Trade Center and the M.I.T. Media Lab’s new home.
He was a sharpshooting, high-scoring Hall of Fame guard for the Lakers and later an executive with the team. His image became the N.B.A.’s logo.
His $6 bottle of Napa Valley cabernet won a historic tasting in Paris in 1976, astonishing connoisseurs and putting his Stag’s Leap winery on the map.
A theoretical physicist-turned-sociologist, he upended his field by focusing on social networks to explain how society works. His writing was compared to James Joyce’s.
Mr. Potter narrated the epic sagas of popular comic book heroes and villains on his channel Comicstorian.
The concertmaster and first-chair violinist with the Philadelphia Orchestra for decades, he took part in a diplomatic breakthrough in 1973 with concerts in Mao Zedong’s Beijing.
A rare supercentenarian, he remained remarkably lucid after 11 decades, even maintaining a blog. His brain has been donated for research on what’s known as super-aging.
After studying Gandhi’s principles of civil disobedience in India, he joined the 1960s civil rights movement and became an architect of it as a nonviolent struggle.
Her successful campaign against foam lunch trays in New York City led to similar city and statewide bans — and taught a group of fifth graders how to take on City Hall.
He called himself a “professional listener,” and he tended to develop lifelong relationships with the artists he worked with.
A vital member of the 1966-67 champion Philadelphia 76ers, he later produced a TV series based on the life on the point guard Isiah Thomas’s mother.
A Holocaust survivor and a shipping financier, he returned to his home country, where his parents and brother perished, to help build a museum and other memorials.
Considered one of the leading Christian theologians of the 20th century, he insisted that any established set of beliefs had to confront the implications of Auschwitz.
During the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, his color photograph of an emerging Earth, known as “Earthrise,” became an icon and driving force for the environmental movement.
She bore a startling resemblance to Elizabeth II. In “The Naked Gun” and other movies, and in comedy sketches on TV, she wore the crown lightly.
A cultural historian, he was fired by Stanford University in 1972 over an anti-Vietnam War speech that became a cause célèbre of academic freedom.
Within months of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and continuing almost until his death, he was a street orator hollering about that day’s loss and destruction.
Reporting from more than 80 countries, he combined close observation with sharp conclusions that pointed the finger at misdeeds or abuse of power. He was an author as well.
Even on the star-studded Dallas Cowboys roster of the 1990s, he stood out with his head-turning strength and bone-rattling pancake blocks.
Inspired by Robert Frank’s book “The Americans,” she traveled to China, Russia and the coal mines of Kentucky to capture intimate glimpses of everyday routines.
He knew all the data that went into determining a vehicle’s price, but he insisted that it was as much an art as it was a science.
He was one of the greatest drivers of the 1960s and ’70s, winning six times at Indianapolis and four times in NASCAR events while setting speed marks.
Working for The Associated Press, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his sequence of photos showing the president being struck by a bullet while three others fell wounded.
A two-time Caldecott Medal winner, she brought multiculturalism to children’s literature by evoking her Armenian heritage.
The “Mighty Atom” enjoyed a glittering professional career in Britain before gaining more acclaim for his charity efforts after a diagnosis of motor neuron disease.
She first made her mark in the all-star 1944 movie “Hollywood Canteen” before finding acclaim on the musical stage. Movie and TV roles followed.
In columns and notably “The New York Times Book of Wine,” he introduced Americans to European and premium domestic varieties in the 1970s and ’80s.
A self-described activist-journalist, he was for many years the national affairs correspondent for the community-focused Pacifica network.
A native of Morocco, he often embodied the resentment of North Africans and Middle Eastern Jews toward European Israelis.
Once one of his country’s most powerful figures, he helped found its main opposition party. “I had to face up to the harm I did to people when I served in the army,” he said.
She was hailed for her books and admired for promoting women’s rights. But her support for a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict angered many.
His childlike porcelain characters thrilled and inspired generations of collectors. They also made him a millionaire.
Her death was announced in a statement by Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and other members of the family.
Her death was announced in a statement by Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and other members of the family.
He was in “The Grapes of Wrath” and other films. As an adult, he was seen often on TV. He later oversaw daytime programming at CBS and taught acting.
By making entertainment as well as education part of its mission, he gave the world “Great Performances” and other enduring programs.
She traveled from village to village in a crusade to stop a practice in which women have been accused of being witches and harshly punished, or even killed, for it.
A Medal of Honor recipient, he was repeatedly wounded in an ambush. Despite his injuries, he ran through gunfire and “swam” through mud to reach his comrades.
His biggest hit, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida,” was a 17-minute psychedelic journey that epitomized 1960s rock indulgence. But after just a few years in the limelight, he walked away.
A creator of the sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes,” he won a second Academy Award for “Million Dollar Baby,” the boxing film starring Hilary Swank and Clint Eastwood.
His prodigious paintings of whales and his books about sharks, giant squid and tuna were acclaimed for melding science with art.
She was the first photographer allowed to document life among the Hopi, in the Southwest, since the early 20th century. Her work appeared in books and magazines.
An archaeologist, he wrote widely on everyday life under the pharaohs and did much of his fieldwork at Amarna, considered the Egyptian version of Pompeii.
A Guinness record-holder, she started flying in 1957, and never stopped. Her regular route from Washington to Boston was nicknamed the Nash Dash.
She believed the bond between adults was as sustaining as that between parent and child, and developed a therapy to strengthen and repair broken relationships.
A dominant, colorful center (when he wasn’t injured), he won championships in high school, at U.C.L.A. and with the Trail Blazers and the Celtics before becoming a TV commentator.
Over four decades, he produced more than 150 events. Some dealers reported selling more in a weekend at a Smith fair than in a year in their galleries.
He and his brother, Robert, teamed up to write the songs for “Mary Poppins” and other Disney classics. They also gave the world “It’s a Small World (After All).”
With her collaborator, Elaine Mazlish, she wrote “How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk” and other books that have endured as parenting bibles.
A spindly guitarist nicknamed Spider, Mr. Koerner was Mr. Dylan’s first friend in the scruffy world of Minneapolis bohemia where he learned about folk music.
Widely considered to have the best eye for talent in Hollywood, he shared the best-picture Oscar with Francis Ford Coppola for “The Godfather Part II.”
His 2004 film followed Mr. Spurlock as he ate nothing but McDonald’s for a month. It was nominated for an Oscar, but it later came in for criticism.
His own dark history prompted him to write about and investigate the roots of violence, notably in his best-selling novel “The Alienist.”
One of the winningest drivers in dirt racing history, he was a folk hero who cursed wildly, drove aggressively and crashed a lot.
His art, which he described as “conceptual and literal,” used a variety of materials, including cotton, wood and even squeegee handles.
A divorced single mother, she started out to write a sex guide for schoolgirls and ended up with a tale of female autonomy that became a best-selling novel.
Known for his leadership and his commitment to company culture, he left as chief executive in 1996, opening the door to a corporate makeover.
It cost $18,000 when it was introduced in 1965, but it bridged the world between room-size mainframes and the modern desktop.
He also identified the virus, which can cause infants to be born with severe physical and mental impairments as well as causing miscarriages and stillbirths.
He brought a P.T. Barnum-like showmanship to Sotheby’s, where he sold items like Babe Ruth’s bat and a research rover that had been left behind on the moon.
An inspiration for the Gordon Gekko character in the movie “Wall Street,” he made a fortune from insider trading before his downfall brought a crashing end to a decade of greed.
The hard-line Shiite cleric was seen as a possible successor to Iran’s supreme leader. Mr. Raisi’s death comes at a moment of turbulence for a country facing a deepening conflict with Israel.
Though he was the company’s president, he opted for joint leadership with family members as they made Nordstrom, starting as a string of shoe stores, into an international fashion retail brand.
She had appeared onscreen as a conservative voice since the 2016 presidential race. A political strategist, she had worked for Republican presidential candidates.
The model and actress, who went by Roxanne, had a modest role on the game show, appeared on numerous magazine covers and inspired the creation of a doll.
He single-handedly shot down 16 enemy planes in dogfights over Europe. After the war, he became one of America’s top test pilots during the “Right Stuff” era.
First as half of the duo Cephas and Wiggins and later on his own, he was one of the best-known musicians playing the style known as the Piedmont blues.
A Foreign Service officer, he was one of 52 hostages seized in Iran and held for 444 days. He later challenged the U.S. government to reshape its diplomacy with the Islamic world.
In newspaper columns and on radio and TV, he was his country’s “premier provocateur,” gaining a wide audience for his conservative attacks on liberals and environmentalists.
A widely respected forensic expert and frequent TV presence, he was also a powerful figure in Pennsylvania Democratic politics.
In movies like “9 to 5” and “Tootsie” and on TV shows like “Buffalo Bill,” he turned the portrayal of egomaniacal louts into a fine art.
Nurturing artists and performers, she was the last of Las Tres Hermanas, three sisters revered for galvanizing arts, education and social programs in the Latino community.
Arising from the free-form San Francisco radio scene of the 1960s, he became an influential voice on the powerhouse WPLJ in New York.
She wrote lusty work about her life. She also started what may have been America’s first feminist press, Shameless Hussy, in her garage.
He coached the University of Michigan to 13 Big Ten Conference titles and a national championship. Overall, his swimmers won 21 medals at the Summer Olympics.
He invented DRAM, the technology that allowed for the faster and higher-capacity memory storage that is the basis for modern computing.
He challenged racial barriers in Hollywood, was a producer of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air” and earned a Tony nomination for “Home,” a paean to his Southern roots.
At Restaurant Jasper in the North End of Boston, and later with a small chain of family-friendly seafood establishments, he focused relentlessly on regional ingredients.
He was the first Black officer to lead a Marine Corps infantry company into combat. He later became an Alabama state lawmaker and an assistant secretary of the Air Force.
Her palette was entirely personal, making contact with the natural world just long enough to spirit viewers back into her own psychology.
He fought prejudice and incarceration during World War II to lead a successful career, becoming one of the first editors of color at a metropolitan newspaper.
He built Sarvodaya, an organization that battled dismal living conditions in his country’s villages and championed peace and mediation during a vicious civil war.
A prototypical Washington insider, he once said, “The hot air index is actually down when people like me go on vacation.”
After serving as an officer, he became a leading antiwar activist. In 1971, he tossed away his medals during a Washington protest demonstration.
He was best known as a jazz musician, but his shimmering sound was also heard on classic albums by David Bowie, Stevie Wonder and Bruce Springsteen.
Her stories were widely considered to be without equal, a mixture of ordinary people and extraordinary themes.
For 366 days, he captured intimate images of the singer-songwriter as he changed the look and sound of the 1960s.
He pivoted between serving as an adviser to the Carter, Clinton and Obama White Houses and teaching at Harvard and Berkeley, where he was the law school dean.
Mr. Rubin began at the Los Angeles television news station KTLA in 1991 and became a staple of morning viewing through his interviews with celebrities.
Her first stunt was riding a horse bareback down a cliff when she was 9. She went on to soar on the hit TV series “Wonder Woman” and in many other places.
Ensconced in a 15th-century Swiss manor house, he became an expert on the old masters and later tangled with heirs of a collector killed by the Nazis.
She was the first woman to own and run a major national advertising agency. Her company, Wells Rich Greene, was best known for the “I ♥ NY” campaign.
A bioethicist, she pioneered bedside methods for helping patients, their families and doctors deal with anguishing life-and-death decisions in a high-tech age.
She came up with the feminist campaign, for a hair color product, when challenging the notions of men at her ad agency.
Using advanced computers, he went from M.I.T. professor to multibillionaire. His Medallion fund had 66 percent average annual returns for decades.
He brought his hard-hitting style to the band, which helped lay the foundation of American punk rock and is set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
For 15 years, French viewers watched Mr. Pivot on his weekly show, “Apostrophes,” to decide what to read next.
A renowned member of the New York School of poets, he also found accidental notoriety when he was photographed during the 1968 uprising at Columbia University.
His economical, linear writing helped define the sound of Stan Kenton’s band. He also led his own 16-piece ensemble for many decades.
A psychiatrist, he ran New York-Presbyterian after a landmark merger, improving its patient care and finances and raising money to expand its footprint across the region.
He led the national team to a championship in 1978 but was convinced that it didn’t get the recognition it deserved in the shadow of the country’s dictatorship.
Trained as a ballet dancer, painter and graphic designer, she was at the forefront of a movement that upended design and architecture with bold graphics.
An antiwar California congressman, he defeated Shirley Temple Black in a special election before launching a long-shot bid for the 1972 G.O.P. nomination.
A musician and audio engineer, he helped define the sound of alternative rock while becoming an outspoken critic of the music industry.
His nine-day voyage, in a plane designed by his brother that resembled a child’s glider but had wings longer than a Boeing 727’s, made aviation history.
He pushed back against doctors who recommended surgery on infants born with ambiguous genitalia, arguing for acceptance of diversity.
He played Kevan Lannister, the brother of the feared patriarch Tywin, capping a television and stage career spanning a half century.
Mr. Kim, who served under all three generations of the country’s ruling family, was likened to Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister.
Born in England and raised Jewish, she became agnostic, writing books about her own lack of faith, the prophet Muhammad and her time as a car columnist.
After being diagnosed when she was 23, she became determined to educate other young people about early detection.
A founding dancer with the groundbreaking company, she served not only as a principal dancer but also as its first ballet mistress.
With a stout frame, bushy whiskers and a weathered visage, he embodied men of authority facing down danger with weary stoicism.
He moved American art away from Abstract Expressionism toward cool minimalism. His explorations of color and form were endlessly discussed and constantly on exhibit.
He wrote a popular series of books revolving around a hunchbacked detective, Shardlake, whose troubles echo the author’s experiences of childhood bullying.
An influential arts administrator and educator, he was a trusted confidant to countless writers, notably Philip Roth.
A dedicated cruciverbalist, she won the first American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in 1978. She went on to test and proofread puzzles for The New York Times.
A bluegrass innovator, he recorded numerous albums as a leader, and his list of collaborators included both Leonard Bernstein and Jerry Garcia.
Through psychotherapy, recounted in a memoir, he learned that he had 11 personalities, or fractured parts of his identity. One of them told of childhood abuse.
Professor Young’s experiments with prairie voles revealed what poets never could: how the brain processes that fluttering feeling in the heart.
She was an enthusiastic supporter of the counterculture. And when she suggested that her brothers rent Mr. Leary a mansion, she made psychedelic history.
A self-taught electric guitar virtuoso, he influenced a generation of musicians. One of them, John Fogerty, called him rock’s first guitar god.
She was from Czechoslovakia. He was from the U.S. And after meeting at the 1956 Games and winning gold medals, they married. Love had breached the iron curtain.
With critically lauded works like “The New York Trilogy,” the charismatic author drew inspiration from his adopted borough and won worldwide acclaim.
His decision to officiate at the ceremony prompted a debate within the Reformed Church in America that led ultimately to a schism.
He figured in the examination of sensational cases involving President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., O.J. Simpson and others.
A New York State forest ranger who worked in the Adirondacks, she died after falling about 1,000 feet from a peak at Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska.
At Mississippi Valley State University, he unleashed a high-powered, pass-heavy offense that featured the future Pro Football Hall of Famer Jerry Rice.
Celebrated for his long tenure with Lyric Opera of Chicago, he led this and other orchestras with force and a notably energetic podium presence.
As the well-connected pastor of the Glide Memorial Church in the blighted Tenderloin district, he preached a “radically inclusive” gospel in serving people in need.
He heralded stock options and golden parachutes as a professor at Harvard Business School, influencing a generation of Wall Street executives.
As a childbirth educator and maternal advocate, she promoted a profession that provides comfort to women giving birth and offers postpartum care as well.
His expertise on the electromechanical Mellotron helped define the band’s progressive sound in the 1960s and ’70s on albums like “Days of Future Passed.”
Possibly the most prolific archival record producer in history, he was a founder of the Mosaic label, which became the gold standard of jazz reissues.
He won the right to services like school and health care for people illegally crossing the border into the U.S. He also fought the Trump administration’s family separation policy.
She helped people fleeing conflicts in Vietnam, China, Kosovo and elsewhere around the world, and established the Washington office of the International Rescue Committee.
In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering.
A Miami Herald correspondent, he powered a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and helped snare three other Pulitzers for the paper.
A Newark Democrat, he succeeded his father, who was the first Black member of his state’s congressional delegation.
He was a rare Black presence on “Combat!” and “The Phil Silvers Show,” then made well-regarded documentaries on luminaries like Duke Ellington and Katherine Dunham.
She made a classic wig and poodle skirt for “Grease” (using a bath mat and a toilet cover) and turned actors into Spanish inquisitors, British highwaymen and more.
He stepped out of his behind-the-scenes role in 2004 when he was cast as the ultimate sports know-it-all on the game show “Stump the Schwab.”
She started working at Barneys to be closer to her husband. Then, she became the architect of the Chelsea Passage, the home goods bazaar that helped make it an enticing destination.
They were distinct people who pursued different lives. “Get past this already, everybody,” Lori said, “get past it and learn to know the individual person.”
Part of a team flown in to fight the deadly virus in 1976, Dr. Breman also worked to stamp out tropical diseases like smallpox, malaria and Guinea worm.
The Beirut bureau chief for The Associated Press, he was kidnapped in 1985 by Islamic militants.
A groundbreaking audio engineer, he provided the large-scale systems that brought tours by the Who and the Grateful Dead to life.
A historian as well, he challenged, with a muckraker’s spirit, the political and corporate establishment of a country he adopted after fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe.
His career began in 1957, when he and some friends from the Bronx formed the vocal group that would become the Earls. He recorded his last song 65 years later.
A singer who performed alongside Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger, he was known for his topical songs, some of which he wrote in minutes.
Violent crime dropped under his sometimes contentious, sometimes innovative watch. But his response to the fatal police shootings of Black men drew criticism.
A founder of the acclaimed Jazz Passengers, he was also a sought-after sideman who played trombone for both jazz and rock heavyweights.
He led a project in Scotland that, in 1996, cloned a mammal for the first time, a feat of genetic engineering that shocked the world.
She had been competing in pageants in the Philippines, but she found her calling when she observed the offenses of the Marcos regime firsthand.
He created hoopla around art made in prison — first in the early 2000s, with himself as the artist, then 20 years later with the scammer Anna Sorokin.
He was a robust defender of a host of high-profile clients, including Bill Clinton over the president’s relationship with an intern.
Known as Dr. Max (he was not a medical doctor. but had a Ph.D. in neuroscience), he reported on health and science with an easygoing gravitas.
He was best known for his jazz work. But he was also heard on Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks” and with orchestras conducted by Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein.
As the creative force for Christian Dior longer than its founder, he maintained a reputation for playful elegance throughout fashion’s endless cycles.
He was a powerful force as apartheid ended and bargaining over South Africa’s future began, emerging as a voice for tribal and ethnic rights, and powers for regional governments.
As director-general of the Mossad under three prime ministers, he helped orchestrate a treaty between Israel and Jordan. But he also showed an iron hand.
Her book “Jesus Calling,” written in the voice of Jesus Christ, rose to the top of the Christian publishing best-seller lists. Sequels and spinoffs followed.
He was a star witness in televised hearings in New York. He was then convicted of murder and spent decades in prison saying he’d been framed for speaking out.
She sued the pop artist while she was executive editor of Modern Photography. She later traveled the world as a nature photographer.
Her “Days of Our Lives” character provided a rare burst of daytime-drama comedy. She was later the voice of Harley Quinn, the Joker’s henchwoman.
He was a pioneer in using synthesizers, and his friendship with George Harrison led to a spiritual awakening that also influenced another hit, “Love Is Alive.”
Her advocacy in New York and Massachusetts won protections for free speech, gender equality and access to birth control. And she was a voice on marital rape.
An American pharmacologist, he delved into the effects of nitric oxide, work that led to advances in treating heart disease, hypertension and erectile dysfunction.
A Wisconsin native, she was among the most prolific female composers of symphonies, 17 in all, finding particular prominence in Europe, where she lived.
She embodied the glamour and the hardship of being married to an American hero. Her husband, Jim Lovell, was the captain of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission.
He spent decades working on artificial intelligence, striving to create machines that could replicate common sense.
He was a founding member of the band, which broke out in the late 1990s with hit songs like “Walkin’ on the Sun” and “All Star.”
He wrote plays that tackled big issues like the death penalty and gun violence. He also wrote for series including the superhero saga “Luke Cage.”
After serving in Congress and as governor of New Mexico, he practiced quasi-public diplomacy, working to secure the release of people he believed were being wrongfully detained.
With songs like “Margaritaville” and “Fins,” he became a folk hero to fans known as Parrot Heads. He also became a millionaire hundreds of times over.
She worked on “Sweeney Todd” and “Candide” and also on the early seasons of “Saturday Night Live,” contributing to the look of the Blues Brothers and the Killer Bees.
He was the first Black person to sail alone by way of the arduous southern route, rounding the perilous Cape Horn and withstanding storms and loneliness.
An Egyptian businessman, he built an empire of trophy properties in London, Paris and elsewhere, but it was overshadowed by a fatal car crash that stunned the world.
As talent evaluator for nearly 30 years, he built Dallas into an N.F.L. powerhouse through the use of computer technology and other innovations.
His global portfolio was dominated by projects that helped revitalize downtown Los Angeles and restore landmarks in New York.
As a lawyer, he worked on behalf of the families of Jews who had been persecuted by the Nazis to recover artworks, some housed in pre-eminent museums.
He wrote a romantic song for his friend’s girlfriend, Paula, and recorded it as a duet with Jill Jackson. It became a No. 1 hit.
He was promoting a new trade journal, Tape Recording, when he lent a video recorder to Andy Warhol, who used it to make a classic work with Edie Sedgwick.
His investment strategy, which tracked the flow of money, won him a reputation for prescience in the 1990s.
She mixed insight and absurdity in a vast body of work that also included “Painting Churches” and “Pride’s Crossing,” both of which were Pulitzer finalists.
He was one of the original children profiled in “Seven Up!,” a 1964 British documentary, and reappeared in subsequent installments for more than a half-century.
A Republican, he never lost an election in 12 years in Congress and eight more as governor, but his party soured on him when he proposed a state income tax.
For Republicans in 2008, he briefly became a symbol of Middle America when he questioned the presidential candidate Barack Obama in an impromptu televised encounter.
He took charge of the estate after he and his sister Paloma successfully sued in court to be recognized as Pablo Picasso’ s legitimate heirs.
As a founder of the San Francisco band It’s a Beautiful Day, he was at the center, if not in the forefront, of the Haight-Ashbury acid-rock explosion.
The winner of numerous Emmy Awards, he was almost as well known for his advocacy of animal rights as he was for his half a century as a daytime television fixture.
A noted educator and anthropologist, she spent almost her entire life in China, where she was a committed friend of the Communist government.
As the creator of “Dallas” and its spinoff “Knots Landing,” he did more than anyone to change the landscape of nighttime TV.
Mr. Utkin, a prominent commander in the private Russian military company, was a longtime lieutenant to Yevgeny V. Prigozhin. He is believed dead at 53 in a plane crash.
Best known internationally for her breakout performance in the 1959 film “Black Orpheus,” she challenged racial stereotypes over a seven-decade career.
A tycoon and a Putin ally, he built a paramilitary force that fought by Russia’s side even as he castigated its military leaders. He is believed dead at 62 in a plane crash.
The youngest American to be made a bishop, he died while still defending himself against allegations of sexual abuse.
Almost three years before it exploded, he was aboard the shuttle on its maiden flight. He commanded two other shuttle missions and was the first New York City native to orbit the earth.
As a founder of Adobe Systems, he oversaw the development of software and systems that made modern personal computing possible.
As a Republican member of the House of Representatives from Minnesota and as the state’s governor, he became identified with Christian piety and limited government.
As a New York City deputy mayor and a lawyer for the city and state court systems, she fought for equal access and opportunity for women, immigrants and minorities.
As a correspondent, including as a bureau chief, he wrote vividly from all corners of the globe. He later served as foreign editor and assistant managing editor.
Of South Asian descent, he was discriminated against as “colored” in South Africa, but he flourished in London as a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.
The nostalgic ballads and catchy pop songs he wrote paved the way for an international career. He sold more than 100 million albums worldwide.
He lived with the condition also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease much longer than most and spread the message, an admirer said, that disability was “just a different way of living.”
She was New York’s longest-serving female inmate when her conviction was overturned in 1998. She left prison 25 years to the day after her arrest.
In 1956 in Melbourne, he was dueling with another American when an English runner burst toward the finish line. But Courtney had one last surge in him.
His work in the neuroscience of touch led to devices that allow amputees and quadriplegics not just to move about the world but also to sense temperature and pressure.
A star at Georgia Tech and later in the N.F.L., he dominated his way to nine Pro Bowl selections and could be inducted into the Hall of Fame next year.
A sociologist, he challenged conventional thinking on matters as diverse as deviance, art making and marijuana use. He found a particular following in France.
For decades he helped shape Rhode Island’s venerable folk and jazz events, presenting stars and unknowns alike. One colleague called him a “test pilot of jazz.”
After facing homelessness in his youth, he became an admired theater and television actor, playing tough and weathered but vulnerable characters.
An uncompromising, charismatic dancer and choreographer, he was a towering (6-foot-3) figure who taught, wrote and had the ability, a colleague said, “to wake you up.”
She had success on Broadway in “110 in the Shade” and other shows, but a later generation knew her from a sitcom.
Whether helping refurbish the Statue of Liberty and the Carlyle hotel or decorating the homes of Bill Gates and Calvin Klein, he designed with a sense of heritage and place.
A former army chief of staff, he was put in charge of the cathedral’s restoration and prided himself on keeping the project on track.
Working for New York City, New York State and the U.S. government, he made a career of preparing for the worst and then dealing with it, from 9/11 to hurricanes.
Three decades after establishing herself as a civil rights lawyer, she became a trailblazer for women on the bench in two upstate New York districts.
A champion of tribal sovereignty, she was the first chairwoman of the Menominee in Wisconsin and the first Native American woman to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
He won two Olympic gold medals for Australia, but the second was awarded after a disputed finish — one of the more freakish moments in sports history.
In 1970, Mr. Buckley, the son of an oil tycoon and the brother of a leading force on the right, became the first third-party candidate elected to the U.S. Senate in 30 years.
In partnership with Herb Alpert, he turned a small independent label into a powerhouse with a roster full of superstars.
In his long career at The New Yorker, he specialized in writing about this and other threats to people’s health, including chlorofluorocarbons.
A mainstay of British television, he was best known for a long-running BBC program that was called simply “Parkinson.”
Largely self-taught, he became a grandmaster in his 20s and was later a founder of Chess Informant, which revolutionized how people studied the game.
On Michigan television and then on national shows, she showed viewers how to make all sorts of decorative and practical items. The responses she got could be moving.
He headed the journalism program at Harvard after overseeing Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Kent State shootings and corruption in Michigan.
She collaborated with two professors at Gallaudet University on the first ASL dictionary, laying the groundwork for a flourishing in Deaf identity over the last 50 years.
Ms. Scotto, a leading Italian soprano, sang more than two dozen roles at the Metropolitan Opera and was a charismatic and demanding stage partner.
She collapsed a day after the police raided her home and the offices of The Marion County Record, a weekly paper in Kansas.
A mohel who became a boldface name, he said his record in 45 years of performing the Jewish religious rite was 11 in a single day (including two pairs of twins).
The man whose birth name was Melvin Barcliff was a teenager in Virginia when he joined a hip-hop scene that continues to influence music today.
Behind the scenes, he furthered the careers of numerous entertainers, as well as some athletes and politicians.
The son of a Wall Street lion, he charted his own course with a camera, chronicling uptown Manhattan society and the downtown cool crowd.
She wrote about heroic Jewish resisters in her book “Defiance,” which was later made into a film starring Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber.
He won the National Book Award for poetry in 2009, having first been nominated 40 years earlier. He also taught at Brown University for four decades.
Michela Murgia was a voice for minorities and a lightning rod for political debate. She also garnered respect even from a prime minister whose policies she opposed.
He wrote the book and lyrics to a little show that opened in 1960 in Greenwich Village and became “the longest-running musical in the universe.”
His salon on the penthouse level of Bergdorf Goodman drew regulars like Martha Stewart, Princess Diana, Ethel Kennedy and Hillary Clinton.
As president of a foundation established by her father, she focused her grant making on issues related to the city’s architecture, design and quality of life.
His framework offered a new way to think about continental drift and revolutionized the study of earthquakes, volcanoes and evolution.
His book about the patriarch of the Kennedy political dynasty was a best seller. He later worked, briefly and not happily, for Richard M. Nixon.
He created some of the most controversial — and celebrated — artwork of the punk era, which outraged polite British society almost as much as the band’s music did.
As head of Chris-Craft Industries, he played a role in the Time-Warner merger and sold 10 television stations to Rupert Murdoch.
When conceptual art, Pop Art and minimalist sculpture were in the ascendancy and many were saying that painting was dead, Mr. Marden issued a powerful counterstatement.
As the chief songwriter and guitarist for The Band, he offered a rustic vision of his adopted country that helped inspire the genre that came to be known as Americana.
Two albums in the early 1970s went largely unnoticed in the United States, but not overseas. Then came the 2012 documentary “Searching for Sugar Man.”
Working with collaborators, she wrote “The G Spot,” which became a cultural sensation and sold more than a million copies.
The photographer took intimate portraits of hustlers, prostitutes and drag queens he met on the city’s streets and in gay bars. His best known photographs were of nude men.
He won critical and commercial acclaim, but drew censure for comments on the Holocaust and antisemitic tropes in one of his novels.
The popular line dance, which gained international fame in the early 2000s, has been a staple at family functions, night clubs and more for more than 20 years.
He is credited with stabilizing that venerable British troupe while energizing it with ambitious projects, including Broadway’s “Matilda the Musical.”
The first woman to be named executive director of Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports, she expanded its readership and its influence in Washington.
He made his name with two of the biggest box-office hits of the 1970s. But despite some later successes, he never regained his early acclaim.
As a longtime power broker he helped make his West African country an economic dynamo, but in office he fomented ethnic divisions and cracked down on dissent.
A tenured professor at Cornell with a feel for human chemistry, she found a second calling as a successful matchmaker. Almost all of her pairings lasted.
A mentor to the Obamas and many others, he was renowned for his work in both the classroom and the courtroom, taking cases on behalf of the famous and the indigent alike.
With her soulful, cigarette-tinged contralto and emotive “bossa-jazz” stylings, she mesmerized audiences and critics alike.
She oversaw Modern Photography for 20 years and wrote an acclaimed book about her rough-and-tumble childhood, some of it spent in an orphanage and in remote Alaska.
Hired to run a troubled Mississippi affiliate of NBC, he turned it into a respected and highly profitable operation, with a more diverse staff.
His character, an ex-drug lord in a wheelchair, was unable to speak, but Mr. Margolis, who also appeared in “Better Call Saul,” didn’t need dialogue to wield fearsome power.
As one of the leaders of Doc Society, she supported countless filmmakers, with an emphasis on underrepresented groups and unconventional stories.
As Nixon’s choice to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission, he protected the public from buying 25 million risky goods.
In a widely read book, he detailed gruesome biological experiments on people at a secret Imperial Army site in occupied China before and during World War II.
His houses, which dot the Hamptons and other parts of the New York region, include a residence featured in “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
As a journalist she covered issues affecting women, then turned to writing about housekeeping in handbooks and a syndicated newspaper column.
The “godfather” of progressive bluegrass, he grew up in New York, honed his skills in the mountains and flourished in Greenwich Village in the ’60s.
In “In Search of Self” and other books, he emphasized the role of cultural influences in a patient’s life.
With his partner, Tommy Nutter, he outfitted London celebrities at the tail end of the Swinging Sixties — and beyond — in suits with swagger.
The cause of death was not released, but his family said that he had “intensely struggled” after the recent death of his father.
The document, one of 13 known copies from the original printing, was auctioned off for a record $43.3 million, which financed her philanthropy.
With his bow tie, short drainpipe pants and flattop hairdo, Pee-wee became enshrined in the popular imagination as a symbol of childlike whimsy.
The go-to guru for those seeking their dream yurt, spiritual retreat or treehouse, he brought forth his handmade structures like a wizard with a chain saw.
As Val, one of the dancers in the hit Broadway musical, she sang a memorable song explaining how she got work by enhancing her body through cosmetic surgery.
While his cousin Jimmy was in the White House, his job was to make the Oval Office less imperial. Staffers called him “Cousin Cheap.”
Her books explored psychoanalytic theories and a range of other topics, including the enduring popularity of a Julia Roberts movie.
Her research proved that a 19th-century book presumed to be a novel by a white woman was actually an autobiography by a formerly enslaved Black woman.
She was one of hundreds of people, all of them Ashkenazi Jews, whose good health and cognitive ability at extreme old age were the subject of genetic research.
His partnership with Barbara Walters began when he produced her prime-time specials. He later helped turn her idea for an all-female talk show into a long-running hit.
Mr. Barry’s scripts for a hit Broadway play and later a Hollywood movie about that rule-breaking comic helped give Mr. Bruce a lasting place in pop culture lore.
He was a struggling writer when he won an Academy Award for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” He won another for “Melvin and Howard.”
She broke out with the single “Nothing Compares 2 U,” then caused an uproar a few years later by ripping up a photo of Pope John Paul II on “S.N.L.”
He emerged from a largely commercial background to join the towering figures who defined an art form — street photography — in the 1950s and ’60s
He took the Irish to three national championships in the 1940s, won the Heisman Trophy in 1947 and then had a stellar (if brief) stint with the Chicago Bears.
A “holy fool,” in his words, he railed against the repressive Lukashenko government, once with a pile of manure. He died under mysterious circumstances.
He turbocharged high-end vehicles for Alfa Romeo, Chevrolet and others, and in 1988 a Corvette he had modified reached over 254 miles per hour, breaking a record.
She made her name with a watershed book for same-sex parents and later studied the impact of racial and economic inequality on health.
He played a role in the celebrated Allied operation to preserve European artworks and cultural treasures stolen by the Nazis.
The murder of his daughter sent him on a successful quest to push for tougher sentencing at a time when violent crime was a top concern nationwide.
She was among a small group of students who restarted the Freedom Rides after the first attempt ended in violence and nearly destroyed the movement.
A prolific pianist, composer and arranger who began recording in the 1950s, he was a pioneer of bossa nova but didn’t confine himself to any genre.
He sentenced Rod Blagojevich to 14 years to send a message about corruption in high places. As a prosecutor he helped put the mass murderer Richard Speck in prison.
From his initial success as a jazzy crooner through his generation-spanning duets, his career was remarkable for both its longevity and its consistency.
Her wide range of subjects included the actress Jayne Mansfield, the novelist Louisa May Alcott and Mary Washington, the mother of a president.
After putting her career on hold to raise children, she won the part of the madam in “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” — and then a statuette hailing her performance.
“Wild, outrageous, goofy and uplifting,” as one fan put it, he was based in Chicago for most of his career but had fans all over the country.
Best known for a crime spree during the 1990s that involved the theft of computer data and credit card numbers, he later became a security consultant, writer and public speaker.
After being ousted from the U.S. military for being gay, she became an early fighter for gay rights and a prominent figure in the nascent L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement.
A historian and novelist, he provided a 96-page “interrogation” memo for David Frost’s TV interviews that prodded Nixon to admit, “I let the American people down” over Watergate.
A longtime Nashville executive, he was the driving force behind “Wanted! The Outlaws,” the 1976 album that sold a million copies and shook up the status quo.
He had the disease and was interviewed on the PTL network in 1985 by Tammy Faye Bakker, a broadcast that was said to have changed minds and hearts.
In 1968, Father Doran, who had been in Nigeria as an educator, became the linchpin of one of the largest civilian humanitarian efforts in history.
He built Countrywide Financial into the country’s largest mortgage lender, but its increasingly risky loans helped precipitate the 2008 financial crisis.
An entertainment journalist, he persuaded the publicity-shy director David Lean to let him write his story and died before seeing his final book, on Stephen Sondheim, published.
Grand Central Terminal. Grand Army Plaza. The Queensboro Bridge. They, and more, were preserved as historic treasures under her fierce watch at the city’s landmarks commission.
He spent his career exploring will and deceit. Then came a sudden success: a bluntly titled book that found that one strain of dishonesty with a barnyard name was worse than lying.
In 1956, he starred for the University of Southern California in a signal victory over an all-white University of Texas team after withstanding racial threats.
She was making her name in New York journalism in the footsteps of her famous father and becoming an outspoken feminist when she met an Indian guru.
She was a British-born “French icon” for years associated with the singer Serge Gainsbourg. In the U.S., she was known for lending her name to luxury handbags by Hermès.
Her first and best-known book, “Het Bittere Kruid” (“Bitter Herbs”), described her experiences as a young woman after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands in 1940.
A longtime professor at Harvard, he lectured on atom bombs, genetics and more, examining how science, culture and politics influence one another.
After fleeing the island in 1961, he became one of the leading voices of opposition against the country’s Communist dictatorship.
As legal director for 15 years, he made the A.C.L.U. a more aggressive organization and worked with Ruth Bader Ginsburg before she became a United States Supreme Court justice.
One of the first Black superstars in classical music, he awed audiences with his charisma and his technical powers.
In an era when track and field athletes could rise to national celebrity, Uelses became a newsreel idol and made the cover of Sports Illustrated.
A longtime linchpin of the San Diego underground music scene, he built a devoted and enthusiastic following and was also a prolific visual artist.
He spent two decades guiding a popular newspaper Sunday supplement as its revenue and circulation grew, reaching nearly 40 million readers at one point.
Her collection “Crime Against Nature,” which recounts her losing custody of her children after she came out, made her a literary star — and a target of conservatives.
Her findings led to breakthroughs in the treatment of cancer and in the understanding of the mechanics of evolution.
She wrote whimsical tales about the little things in a child’s life. “A House Is a House for Me” won a National Book Award.
He led a struggling but innovative (if not quirky) American Motors to record profits and helped fuel an appetite for off-road vehicles with the Jeep Cherokee.
The author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” he was known for sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in his native Czechoslovakia.
She worked with the Maysles brothers on the groundbreaking film about two Long Island recluses, and she later shared an Emmy for a mini-series about Ben Franklin.
Feeling called to the Roman Catholic priesthood but denied entry, she became a leader of a national group that has pushed the Vatican to ordain women.
A noted constitutional law scholar, he also led Columbia University Law School and two networks of for-profit private schools.
Mr. Lewis was convicted of extortion after he sent a letter to Johnson & Johnson demanding $1 million to “stop the killing.” He was never charged with the deaths of seven people from cyanide-laced Tylenol.
In a 47-year career at The Times, he covered Cold War diplomacy in Europe, famine in Africa and genocide in Southeast Asia.
He soared to popularity with a swinging hybrid of classics and jazz. He later conducted the Philly Pops, often with one hand while the other played piano.
After a standout college career at the University of Tennessee, she won two Olympic gold medals, played nine years in the W.N.B.A. and was the head coach at two universities.
A beloved radio and television host, first in Canada and then also in the U.S., she approached the hottest topic with compassion and humor.
She made several varieties of the thin, crispy cookie in a factory next door to her North Carolina home, and sold 10 million of them a year.
As an envoy the to the pro-democracy protesters, Mr. Yan, who was also Mao’s interpreter, tried to find a peaceful way out of the crisis.
He was relatively new to the business when he was struck by an obscure novel and turned it into the biggest film of 1967.
He helped secure landmark status for more than two dozen theaters in the 1980s, then initiated the design competition that led to a new TKTS booth.
A pop star across Asia by her early 20s, Ms. Lee reached international recognition with an Oscar-nominated song in 2001.
Her charismatic nationalism made independence from Britain a mainstream idea. She championed that idea for her many decades in office.
“We were at the head of the landing,” he said. “The British let us go a few meters in front. For us it was the liberation of France, the return into the family.”
He led scientific advances at I.B.M. and within the federal government during a career that spanned the space race and the dawn of the internet.
An influential M.I.T. professor and an outside-the-box scientific theorist, he gained fame with unorthodox views as a pioneer in digital physics.
One of Europe’s most influential free-jazz musicians, he played with “a kind of scream” to exorcise his demons, and those of German history.
One of the world’s most visible public faces in the war on breast cancer, she helped reshape both the doctor’s role and the patient’s.
A self-confessed maverick, he was praised by some and criticized by others for ideas that upset the law-enforcement status quo.
The 37-year-old poet and novelist became the 13th person to be killed in the missile strike on a restaurant in eastern Ukraine on June 27.
After establishing himself as a leading music video director in the 1980s, he found acclaim with his 2002 documentary about session musicians.
A former professional football player, he had a promising career in the ring until an injury in 1999 left him quadriplegic.
For more than five decades, he brought together emerging classical and folk performers as well as established stars for interviews and live performances.
He was a member of a cohort of Black designers celebrated in the late 1960s and early ’70s. But struggles with financing led to several changes in direction.
The first meteorologist to forecast the weather on New York television, he later became known for, among other things, publicizing the Heimlich maneuver.
An entrepreneur for more than 50 years, he built a luxurious club in Fiji and started a bottled water company, now the second-largest imported water brand in the United States.
A Hollywood producer’s wife who was emboldened by second-wave feminism, she was a founder of the Feminist Majority and worked to get female candidates elected.
The commercials he created, with their “ch-ch-ch-Chia” jingle, became as much a vivid part of American consumer life as the goofy product they sold.
He got laughs and won awards on Broadway in “Enter Laughing” and in movies like “Little Miss Sunshine.” But he also had a flair for drama.
He twitted the networks for 35 years as a critic at Newsday. He also audited George Washington’s wartime expense account and wrote a biography of Bill O’Reilly.
He was one of more than 700 child survivors flown to Britain after World War II. He later became a leader in efforts to remember the Nazi horrors.
A liberal Republican, he became known for his fierce criticism of Nixon during Watergate. Decades later, he termed Donald Trump “a total con artist.”
The band he led with his brother broke new ground with an unusually broad repertoire, unorthodox instrumentation and untraditional vocal harmonies.
Over a 40-year screen career, the instantly recognizable Mr. Sands displayed great versatility onscreen. He died while hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains.
He appeared in a string of films directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and his performance as Bette Midler’s love interest earned him an Oscar nomination.
As part of the influential Bang on a Can All-Stars, he helped popularize experimental music through international tours and well-regarded albums.
Also a mandolinist, he performed alongside his brother, Jesse, in an act that lasted 55 years. He continued performing after his brother’s death.
An unassuming professor who remained active into his 90s, he is credited with the breakthrough that gave rise to the batteries powering today’s electronic devices.
He helped New York City avoid bankruptcy in the mid-1970s, ran the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and later served as lieutenant governor.
He also played mandolin in the act, Jim & Jesse, performing with his brother for 55 years.
He played an essential role in the creation of the New York Transit Museum by helping to save vintage train cars — sometimes using subterfuge.
He overturned the traditional approach to buying stocks by examining the relationship between risk and reward.
In his 15 years on the U.S. District Court bench in Newark, he also ruled on high-profile cases involving the tobacco industry and the rights of homeless people.
His camera captured the variety of the human experience, but changing tastes in photography kept him from the acclaim he sought — as did his own idiosyncrasies.
One of the five people aboard the Titan submersible when it imploded, he died near the Titanic wreckage that he had visited dozens of times.
An antiwar sign she put up in 1990 led to a legal clash with a wealthy suburb of St. Louis. The case made it all the way to the Supreme Court.
His collaborations with the composer Jerry Bock also included “Fiorello!” — which, like “Fiddler,” was a Tony winner — and “She Loves Me.”
As an offensive tackle for three teams in a Hall of Fame career, he said he prided himself on being the “beater” and not the “beatee.”
An aviation tycoon who pushed the limits, he went to the depths of the ocean and the blackness of space before his fateful dive to the Titanic on Sunday.
A lifelong adventure seeker, Mr. Rush said he took on the risk of deepwater travel because the “ocean is the universe. That’s where life is.”
In addition to playing with the audacious Texas band, she helped define the image of an aimless generation with her role in the 1990 film “Slacker.”
In a career that was an inspiration to Iranians and Iranian Americans, he oversaw multiple missions to Mars, including two successful landings.
He wrote extensively about the design of buildings and bridges and how they failed. He also examined the history of commonplace objects like the pencil.
She first became known for novels set in the distant past. She later wrote contemporary tales that involved computer hacking and Ponzi schemes.
Since he first read the names of people murdered by the Nazis at a protest in 1989, the practice has become a part of memorial ceremonies around the world.
An Englishman with a deep, cultured voice, he played uptight snobs in films like “Back to School” and on shows like “Friends” and “Mad About You.”
Trained at the Bolshoi, she became a star of the Cairo Ballet and played a key role in making ballet accessible to people of all classes.
A student of both music and history, he entertained audiences in the 1960s and beyond while educating them about a genre whose heyday had ended decades earlier.
He was widely considered the first person to be diagnosed with autism. His happy life later became the subject of a book and documentary.
In addition to her prizewinning writing, she was known for editing the correspondence between the poet Robert Lowell and the writer Elizabeth Hardwick.
A flamboyant photojournalist with the moxie to stand up to autocrats, she captured the intimate moments of leading figures of the 20th century.
After he helped collar the men behind New York City’s biggest jewel heist, he worked as a private investigator for defendants like O.J. Simpson and Patty Hearst.
Deeply disturbed by the accounting of American deceit in Vietnam, he approached The New York Times. The disclosures that followed rocked the nation.
He challenged a company’s prerogative to transfer an employee and a news organization’s ability to assert publishing rights when a reporter’s articles are used for a book.
She had a modest career as an actress but was best known for following in the footsteps of her mother, the best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark.
He started out in the Southern Baptist Convention, but when that group took a sharp conservative turn he became a voice for tolerance and diversity.
For a few years with the Giants, he was among the most feared pass catchers in the N.F.L. — and the acknowledged inventor of an end-zone celebration.
Ms. Jackson was a two-time Oscar winner who walked away from a successful acting career to become a member of the British Parliament, before then returning to the stage.
He was a reliable pro-football place-kicker for 16 years and had a moment of glory in the 1969 championship game.
At Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf and The New Yorker, he polished the work of a who’s who of mid-to-late 20th century writers.
As chief executive of Diageo for a decade, he presented alcohol as an attainable luxury and helped brands like Smirnoff, Guinness and Johnnie Walker grow.
His underwater microphones recorded “Songs of the Humpback Whale,” inspiring a movement that led to national and international bans on commercial whaling.
As an artist he defined decades of storytelling at Marvel and helped bring to life characters like Spider-Man, Mary Jane Watson, Wolverine and Kingpin.
Though he never achieved the fame of Jean-Luc Godard or François Truffaut, he was considered by many to be their equal.
“All the Pretty Horses,” “The Road” and “No Country for Old Men” were among his acclaimed books that explore a bleak world of violence and outsiders.
The veteran actor also starred in the movie “Deep Rising.” He died after a motorcycle accident in Vermont.
The veteran actor also starred in the movie “Deep Rising” and the TV show “Everwood.” He died after a motorcycle accident in Vermont.
A former refugee from Nazi-held Austria, he fought successfully in New York for same-sex marriage, legalizing marijuana and, in a signal moment, abortion rights.
He introduced sex and glamour to Italian TV and then brought the same formula to politics, dominating the country and its culture for more than 20 years.
He wrote and lectured widely, often on the theme that religion and science were not incompatible. He also chased down 600 copies of Copernicus’s landmark book.
She was believed to be the first Black woman to produce, write and direct an independent feature film. She also broke ground as a union cinematographer.
He presided over the annual Hall induction ceremony in Cooperstown, N.Y., for many years. But he also helped keep one star, Pete Rose, from being part of it.
Alone in a shack in the Montana wilderness, he fashioned homemade bombs and launched a violent one-man campaign to destroy industrial society.
When he proposed that the human papillomavirus caused cervical cancer, he was ridiculed. He persevered, and today a vaccine exists.
A pioneer in radio art and, later internet art, she created a blend of synthesizer compositions and found sounds that opened new artistic terrain.
An educator who served in the Obama administration, he championed workers, especially Black workers, and challenged his profession’s racial assumptions.
Mr. Watt once declared that Interior Department policies over years had swung too far toward conservation under the influence of “environmental extremists.”
His interrogation helped lead to a Supreme Court ruling that established rights that protect criminal suspects from incriminating themselves while in custody.
In two decades of leadership at the publishing house, he helped remold a clubby book industry into a diversified and highly profitable corporate enterprise.
Panned when it was released in 1971, the movie gained acclaim decades later. Mr. Newman also starred on TV in the legal drama “Petrocelli.”
A Baptist minister and a broadcaster, he turned Christian conservatives into a powerful constituency that helped Republicans capture Congress in 1994.
Khosrow Vaziri drew on his Iranian heritage to create a caricature of a Middle Eastern villain and became one of the most memorable heels in wrestling history.
His top-selling records for the Windham Hill label helped define a genre that took off in the 1970s, but his interests also included Hawaiian guitar and the Doors.
He built his act on making fun of his Italian American heritage. He later publicly insulted stars he had worked with, including Frank Sinatra and Howard Stern.
A lifelong protester, he became a leading promoter of organic food and a forceful critic of a food industry that genetically engineers what it produces and sells.
It was the first song she ever recorded. And it played a key role in making the Brazilian sound known as bossa nova a phenomenon in the United States.
An accomplished painter (and memoirist) in her own right, she was long his lover until she did what no other mistress of his had ever done: She walked out.
Mr. Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison in 2002, bringing to a close one of the most lurid and damaging espionage cases in American history.
He ran a gold-medal-winning time of 9.95 seconds at the Mexico City Olympics in 1968, setting an official world record that held for 15 years.
His obsession with recreating the original New York pizza helped revive a classic and inspire a generation of chefs. But his ambitions led to conflicts and, once, prison.
A playwright, novelist and poet, she was a leading African writer who explored the complexities faced by modern women living in the shadow of colonialism.
After winning three World Series as a player, Craig became a coach and spread the gospel of the split-fingered fastball, what one player of the time called “the pitch of the ’80s.”
He played a prankster and adoring father in “Toni Erdmann,” the Oscar-nominated 2016 comedy that made him an international star, but he had long been a celebrity at home.
With her husband and songwriting partner, Barry Mann, she wrote lyrics for timeless hits by the Righteous Brothers, the Animals and Dolly Parton.
He said his survival of the Holocaust at 10 years old allowed him to understand “what it is like to be a victim of human rights violations.”
He played in the Ramsey Lewis Trio when it released “The ‘In’ Crowd” in 1965, and a group he co-led recorded the funky hit “Soulful Strut.”
His cockpit warning system, which alerts the crew if an aircraft is heading toward a mountain, a building or the ocean, has saved thousands of lives.
She brought new colors to modernist music, sometimes using electronics, and became the first female living composer to have two operas staged by the Met.
In often fantastical paintings, drawings and immersive installations, he explored the privations and indignities of the Soviet life he would flee, landing on Long Island.
A sociologist, he advised U.S. presidents and other Western leaders while fathering communitarianism, a political middle ground between the left and the right.
The son of Juan Formell, a giant of Cuban music, he found his own voice as a singer-songwriter. He died during a performance in New York.
He created sets for more than 50 of Broadway’s most celebrated productions, including “Hair,” “A Chorus Line,” “On the Twentieth Century” and “The Producers.”
He was near death after his plane was shot down in the Vietnam War but survived to fly the world’s fastest and highest-altitude jet.
He appeared in Off Broadway roles before starring on CBS as one of two young men who find adventure crossing the country in a Corvette convertible.
Never limited by categories, his free-ranging intellect delved into physics, probability and anthropology, establishing him as a major thinker.
His two-volume study, written with Robert W. Fogel, used data to challenge commonly held ideas about American slavery, including that it was unprofitable and inefficient.
He beat some of the world’s top players despite growing up with little access to chess books and not having the same knowledge his rivals possessed.
In concerts and on dozens of recordings, she applied a delicate touch that critics said set her apart from other performers.
She was known as “the Burner” for her seductive delivery, but off the air she was anything but a wild rock ’n’ roller. She later became an addiction counselor.
A British Beat poet, he wrote lyrics for the band Cream and, after it broke up, continued to collaborate with Jack Bruce, the group’s lead singer and bassist.
After more than a decade of hit records with his brothers, he found success as a solo performer and a star of the series “Daniel Boone.”
A Democrat from Ohio, he said the 1990 population data missed more than two million Black Americans and shortchanged the nation’s older cities.
He accompanied a wide range of jazz and folk musicians and scored “She’s Gotta Have It,” “School Daze” “Do the Right Thing” and “Mo’ Better Blues.”
Hailed in the 1960s for her dynamic performances with her first husband, Ike, she became a sensation as a recording artist, often echoing her personal struggles in her songs.
His storefront eatery, a knockoff of a leading frankfurter grill, helped turn an unlikely culinary combination into a New York phenomenon.
A mathematician, he was for many years the president of the University of Chicago, where he argued that civility was not a reason to silence discussion.
His career as a musician and a painter over six decades ended abruptly when he was convicted of sexually abusing teenage girls.
His movie, “Scorpio Rising,” proved that sound and image could be combined to create something powerful, influencing the rise of music video.
His wide-ranging roles included fantasy characters, a knight, a Roman soldier and a Punisher.
His first feature, “El Super,” was critically acclaimed. He continued to examine culture and exile in “Crossover Dreams,” “El Cantante” and “Piñero.”
Inspired by Motown early in her career, she became an acclaimed singer-songwriter and backed the likes of David Bowie, Rod Stewart and Cat Stevens.
A product of a Wisconsin lake region, he was the first sailor to win both Olympic gold and sailing’s top prize, the America’s Cup. And his colleagues revered him.
As a psychological coach (and ex-player), he helped revive a woeful Cleveland baseball team. He had a WFAN show about youth sports and shepherded best sellers.
He first made his mark in “The Damned” as a character one critic said personified “the outright perversion” of Nazism. He and the director became lovers.
A former Democrat, he served as White House counsel under George Bush and aided other presidents, including Ronald Reagan and Donald J. Trump.
In three elections, she was a “first,” becoming one of the leading Latina politicians in California and the country.
A flamboyant mezzo-soprano (who could also sing meaty soprano roles), she overcame racial prejudice to become one of opera’s first, and biggest, Black stars.
In essays and books. he saw the U.S. postwar era as a series of misadventures spawning unwise wars. He also wrote the definitive biography of the journalist Walter Lippmann.
In his rookie season in 1971, he was an unstoppable fastball pitcher. Then he had a fight with the owner of the Athletics that left him embittered.
He won 10 tournaments in 10 different years on the PGA Tour and was an early star on the senior Champions Tour.
He worked with stand-up comedians to develop shows — one of which is headed for Broadway — that were more than just collections of jokes.
Mr. Pressler, who fled Nazi Germany as a youth, was the anchor of a group that, with various lineups, performed all over the world for 53 years.
His stunning declaration caused an instant sensation when he made it in 1961 and ignited a national debate over Americans’ viewing habits.
He won Tonys for his orchestrations and Grammys for his compositions and arrangements. But he was best known for his genre-straddling work at CTI Records.
Known for her many guidebooks, she helped determine what was trash and what was treasure on the BBC series that inspired the American show.
On New Yorker covers and elsewhere, he lampooned the rich by forecasting a plutocratic fantasyland — or, as he put it, “looking back to see how yesterday viewed tomorrow.”
He foresaw the problems with punch-card ballots that benumbed the nation after Florida’s chaotic vote in the 2000 presidential election. His warnings went largely unheeded.
She led a foundation that underwrote productions for numerous theater groups, as well as playwrights like Harold Pinter and Arthur Miller.
The last surviving member of a generation that defined his country’s modern art, he painted exuberant landscapes that changed the way Australia saw its environment.
As head of public relations, she worked closely with Steve Jobs, the company’s visionary chief executive, to spread the word about products like the iMac and the iPhone.
In a peripatetic life, beginning with a flight from the Nazis, she found a kind of stability in making pictures for more than seven decades.
His books covered an unusual range of subjects, including the trajectory of railroad tracks and why the South claimed a “moral” victory in the Civil War.
She was the first person to hold the post for an American first lady, helping Mrs. Kennedy navigate times both dazzling and tragic.
She won three Olympic medals in 2016, including a gold, and the world championship the next year in an intense 100-meter dash.
He got his start at Caffe Cino, the birthplace of Off Off Broadway. His first of many, many plays, performed there in 1964, is a milestone of gay theater.
A St. Louis native, he devoted his entire career to the team — first as an outfielder and third baseman and then, for 50 years, as a radio announcer.
His rich baritone and gift for melodies made him one of the most popular artists of the 1970s with songs like “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” and “If You Could Read My Mind.”
She was known to hire airplanes, hang out of helicopters and explore skyscrapers to get the towering perspectives required for her unusual landscapes.
A dominant long jumper in the 1960s, he surpassed Jesse Owens’s 25-year-old record before becoming the first to break the 27-foot mark.
He expanded a family steel and jeep business into an international leviathan, but his career was stained by a conviction in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
Dismissing modern art as “baloney,” he made millions as a master of historical harbor paintings.
Undeterred by arson at his home and by the murder of a colleague, he provided reproductive care in Nebraska and Maryland, including late-term abortions.
He helped the Sierra Club fight a plan to build dams in the Grand Canyon and started a think tank to warn of the effects of economic globalization.
Whether directing august art museums or scrappy upstarts, he championed art-world outsiders and socially conscious and political art. He gave Yoko Ono her first solo show.
With a wide-reaching spiritual message in books like “When Bad Things Happen to Good People,” he drew on his own experience with grief and doubt.
The award-winning company he co-founded, Theaterworks USA, went on the road to introduce millions of students to professional productions of plays and musicals.
His band, the Pop Group, was anything but pop, blending anti-authoritarian fury with a ferocious mix of punk, funk and experimental jazz.
A former milkman, he combined attentive customer service, low prices, quality goods and gimmicks, like singing cows, into a retailing grocery phenomenon.
The raucous and often confrontational “Jerry Springer Show” ran for nearly three decades and became a cultural phenomenon. Mr. Springer also had a career in politics.
He insisted he was better at basketball, but as a shortstop he won the National League batting championship and M.V.P. Award and was a five-time All-Star.
She said Till, 14, had accosted her, and her testimony in the 1955 trial of her husband and his half brother was crucial in their acquittal in one of the most momentous murders in American history.
Her unusual version of the standard, which she recorded with her brother, Nino Tempo, reached No. 1 on the Billboard chart in 1963 and won a Grammy.
Mrs. Meggett, who never used a recipe book in nearly 80 years of cooking, published a best-selling cookbook that documented the Gullah Geechee food of the coastal South.
The case inflamed racial tensions, with Mr. Maddox later calling New York “the Mississippi of the ’90s.” After the fraud was revealed, he was unrepentant.
In the 1950s, when segregation was still widespread, his ascent to the upper echelon of show business was historic. But his primary focus was civil rights.
The developer and philanthropist presided over progress on the L.I.R.R.-Grand Central connection project and helped hold a fare increase to 25 cents.
She wrote 70 plays, won an Obie Award and wrote and directed “Viet Rock,” a musical that predated “Hair” and is considered the first U.S. stage work to address the Vietnam War.
The oldest living U.S. Olympic medalist, he met Owens as a teenager, won bronze in the broad jump in 1948 and later created an award in his idol’s honor.
Mr. Goodman, who was also a longtime judge on the British show “Strictly Come Dancing,” was known for his wry humor, wit and colorful phrases.
An Australian, he assisted South African dissidents like the journalist Donald Woods, whose story was told in the movie “Cry Freedom.”
Bewigged, bejeweled and bejowled, Mr. Humphries’s creation was one of the longest-lived characters ever channeled by a single performer.
He helped lead a conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention, and he mastered the use of media to spread his message.
A dancer with a singularly theatrical presence, she was best known for her long collaboration with her husband, the choreographer David Gordon.
She photographed “Law & Order” and Elaine’s. And in 2006, she was given exclusive access to chronicle the construction of the new Yankee Stadium.
Mr. Cameron’s groundbreaking portraits of himself and others, collected in his book, “Body Alchemy,” inspired a generation of transgender people.
He was a successful businessman before taking office in 1993 amid civil unrest after the police beating of Rodney King. He became known for impolitic wisecracking.
As a novelist, a poet and an editor, she sought to illuminate rarely told stories of her immigrant female forebears in a new land.
After rescuing the company from bankruptcy, he turned it into a major player on Broadway and one of the largest nonprofit theater companies in the country.
He created the discount chain retailer Family Dollar, which found success, and criticism, by catering to the poor.
Her 2005 book, “Mozart in the Jungle,” lived up to its subtitle, “Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music,” and was later made into an Amazon TV series.
She had faded from public view in the last half-century, until some young magicians realized she was probably the first to perform a magic act at a Las Vegas casino.
He denied that he was Stakeknife, the code name of a high-ranking British mole in the Irish Republican Army during the Northern Ireland conflict.
He ran New York City’s Sanitation Department, the world’s largest, longer than anyone else, disposing of three million tons of garbage a year and coping with snowstorms and hurricanes.
Her exhibitions, at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan and elsewhere, showed that drawings were far more than preliminary works executed on paper.
The club he started as a coach has helped young Black and Hispanic youths learn to swim and compete in the sport in urban areas not known as oases for it.
He was known for his laid-back style and for his influence on, among others, Miles Davis, who once said, “All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.”
Known for his iron resolve and his attention to detail, he transformed Grey Advertising from a midsize agency into a multinational powerhouse.
With her husband, Jack, she expanded I. Kleinfeld & Son into a bridal superstore that became a New York City institution.
For six decades in The New Yorker and elsewhere, his hairy, toothy, long-nosed characters offered witty commentary on the foibles of the American middle class.
The theatrical games and performance techniques Mr. Johnstone developed became a familiar part of the acting arsenal.
He was a Special Forces soldier during the Vietnam War then worked for the C.I.A., tracking Osama bin Laden in Sudan and fighting in Afghanistan after 9/11.
His newspaper, the East Village Eye, was as scrappy and iconoclastic as the young maverick stars its pages brought to life.
He befriended Rudolf Nureyev in 1961 while the Kirov Ballet was in Paris and witnessed his headline-making defection at the height of the Cold War.
As a designer, clad in her signature playclothes and boots, with huge painted eyes, fake freckles and a distinctive bob, she epitomized the style of London’s Swinging Sixties.
In one of many jobs she held in a diverse journalism career, she dealt with charges that the network was “serving as right-wing apologists for waterboarding.”
A pioneer in aerospace, she invented a technology that has enabled scientists to map and study the earth for more than 50 years.
She was well into her career as a prolific author of historical crime fiction when a murderous past was publicly revealed and dramatized in a 1994 movie.
Part of the ‘Black is beautiful’ movement during the civil rights era, he trained his camera on athletes, musicians and models as well as everyday people.
Among his most famous photographs was one depicting Muhammad Ali as a martyr stuck full of arrows.
Veering from European-inspired abstraction, he embraced multimedia forms to reflect the realities of a country torn by ethnic and religious violence.
In a postmodern era dominated by minimalism and conceptual themes, her work focused on emotion and storytelling.
She started charitable institutions in Belgium, Nepal and China, including a major museum. Her stepson fatally shot her after a fight over money.
A former firefighter, he broke the land-speed record repeatedly in the 1960s in jet-engine-powered vehicles, all called Spirit of America.
A major league catcher for 14 seasons, he was the first player picked by the newly formed Mets in the expansion draft in 1961.
She was a writer and translator but was best known as the widow of Jorge Luis Borges, one of Latin America’s great writers.
The first Black finalist for mayor of the city, he was credited, along with the eventual winner, Raymond Flynn, with running a respectful, calming campaign.
He came up with a mechanism that allowed Steven Spielberg to film underwater. His work on “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” earned him an Oscar nomination.
In addition to convicting prominent Nazi war criminals, he crusaded for an international criminal court and for laws to end wars of aggression.
A German publishing heiress and music promoter, she settled in London in time for the 1970s punk-rock explosion and became the muse to its baddest boy.
A memory expert and magician who was a favorite guest of Johnny Carson’s, he astonished audiences by reeling off the names of hundreds of people he had only just met.
Among his accomplishments in New York City was successfully lobbying to ban smoking indoors, a move that was replicated around the world.
Ms. Sheraton, who worked for many publications in a six-decade career, was the first restaurant reviewer to wear a disguise in order to get a normal diner’s experience.
No stranger to blue-collar work herself, she pushed for equality in male-dominated unions and as a writer chronicled the struggles of “sisters in the brotherhoods.”
A Rockefeller heiress who was inspired by the monuments of Europe, she fashioned towering metal creations that channeled the cosmic.
He built a reputation for finding compelling subjects on the street. “Anyone can take a picture,” he liked to say, “but are you a journalist?”
He created the strategy game about settling a new land in 1995. Millions of copies have been sold since then, and it’s played all over the world.
He wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded a company that reaped its benefits.
The legally blind son of a janitor, he wrote a program that allowed people to buy and sell stocks on their home computers and co-founded the company that became E*Trade.
He broke with traditions in writing cookbooks, teaching thousands of cooks, consulting for restaurants, leading tours, catering meals and creating frozen dinners.
As chancellor of the Exchequer, he helped lift Britain with tax cuts and other Conservative measures — the “Lawson Boom” — but harder times followed, and he resigned.
Born in Ethiopia, she seemed headed for a career as a concert pianist before she chose a monastic life. Her intricate piano recordings gained a cult following.
With an encyclopedic knowledge of pop music, he championed acts including the Ramones, Talking Heads and the Pretenders on his label Sire, and helped found the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Mr. Sakamoto, whose work with Yellow Magic Orchestra influenced electronic music, composed scores for “The Last Emperor” and “The Revenant.”
She started an organization whose curriculums challenge teenagers to understand the roots of the Holocaust, racism, apartheid and other human injustices.
He did not perform with the group, but his impressionistic words made it one of the leading acts of the progressive-rock era.
He won an upset victory in 1982 to become tribal chairman. In 1990, after a restructuring, he was the first person elected to the new post of president.
Making his name with a blend of poetry and rock ’n’ roll he called “rocketry,” he straddled two eras of British youth culture at the dawn of the 1960s.
Her clients were not celebrities but developers, Hollywood executives and philanthropists like herself, working behind the scenes in Los Angeles and elsewhere.
Washington was his main quarry. Did he have any writers? “Oh, yes — 100 in the Senate and 435 in the House of Representatives.”
He turned a run-down tavern into a drag cabaret that became a hub and a fund-raising powerhouse for the L.G.B.T.Q. community as well as a beloved Portland, Ore., institution.
Her 2004 novel, “Luna,” broke new ground by having a transgender teenager as a main character. That book and others she wrote have been targets of conservatives.
A former English teacher with a modest writing career in Britain, he found fame in 1981 with an inventive story of an opera singer, Freud and the Holocaust.
Starting with a modest shop in Taiwan in 1958, he built Din Tai Fung into a global dumpling and noodle empire, earning a Michelin star along the way.
He also supported reparations for descendants of enslaved Americans and sanctuary for Haitian refugees. But he lived for two decades in self-imposed exile.
She was acclaimed in Yugoslavia. But when that country fell apart, she refused to embrace the nationalism of the newly formed Croatia and was vilified as a result.
A jewelry heist in her Manhattan home spurred her to start one of America’s premier collections, shown in a private Queens museum and much of it donated to the Whitney.
A fellow inmate, Albert DeSalvo, told him that he was the Boston Strangler who had killed 13 women in the early 1960s. Mr. Nassar’s death, in 2018, had gone unreported.
A prolific biographer, he charmed his way into access to, and insights about, Frank Sinatra, Hugh Hefner, Johnny Carson and many others.
Working from a gritty loft in Lower Manhattan in the late 1950s, she made abstract paintings on quilts that brought a fine-art sensibility to a folk art.
In a landmark case, she ruled in 2006 that cigarette companies had been deceiving the public about the health hazards of smoking, violating racketeering laws.
Embracing her boyfriend, a blanket around them, she appeared on the cover of the ubiquitous soundtrack album of “Woodstock,” the 1970 documentary film about the music festival.
In works like “John Somebody,” he mixed the structural rigor of classical composition with the ebullient sound and attitude of rock.
His prediction in the 1960s about rapid advances in computer chip technology charted a course for the age of high tech.
As a young man with cerebral palsy, he gained notice for his quest to be an Eagle Scout, which changed Scouting. But his name was lost to popular memory.
Edging out Miss USA, Ms. Malaret — who was also the first winner from the Caribbean — brokered her fame to become a television host and magazine editor back home.
As a teenager, he joined forces with George Clinton. Their vocal group, the Parliaments, morphed into Parliament-Funkadelic, one of the wildest acts of the 1970s.
One of the first people to receive a graduate degree in the field, Dr. Wulf helped to adapt an early Pentagon communications web into the network that eventually grew into the internet.
His work helped break down the chemical structures of THC, the psychoactive compound in marijuana, to figure out how cannabis makes users high.
Once a rising star of the Democratic Party, he served 13 months in prison for bribery after being targeted in an F.B.I. scam involving a phony sheikh.
He was beloved by New York fans for his willingness to play hurt, as memorably exemplified in the decisive Game 7 of the 1970 N.B.A. finals at Madison Square Garden.
A noted Violetta in Verdi’s “La Traviata,” she had an equally noted second act as a singing teacher when her performing career ended.
The defeated Republican presidential candidate sued Mr. Boroson and the magazine he worked for, saying it had libeled him for suggesting that he was mentally unfit for the presidency.
He was a historian of India and Tibet, but best known for his biography of Naipaul, which one reviewer described as “a portrait of the artist as a monster.”
Devoting his long life to dance, he was also a choreographer, an educator and an author, and was still onstage in his 90s.
The island’s leading expert on its cuisine and its roots, he sought to educate the world about it through books, podcasts and teaching.
In a career that began in 1960, the Puerto Rico-born Mr. Vega became, one admirer said, “the architect of Hispanic radio at a global level.”
A prolific actor, he also starred in the Amazon series “Bosch” and had recently branched out into video games like Horizon Zero Dawn and the Destiny franchise.
He was an elite studio musician who played with A-list artists and helped write the Eric Clapton hit “Layla." But his life was shattered by mental illness and a murder conviction.
A former college professor among student revolutionaries, he brought a fiery Marxist sensibility to the group before it veered into violence.
Portrayed in Life magazine in 1944 as a simple farm girl brandishing a submachine gun, she became a symbol of the partisans who helped defeat the Nazis.
Under the name Napoleon XIV, he recorded “They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” and, to almost everyone’s surprise, it stormed the charts in 1966.
His opera sat unproduced for decades. Then a piece of it garnered one of the field’s top prizes. Then it sat some more.
His much-covered 1978 hit “What You Won’t Do for Love” launched him on a prolific career that spanned decades and genres.
Considered one of the greats of her era, she partnered with Nureyev, Baryshnikov and others, bringing a passionate style to roles in dance, both ballet and modern.
As head of the Episcopal Church in America, he consecrated the denomination’s first gay bishop, ordained women as priests and formed a communion with Lutherans.
As chief executive and chairman in the 1990s, he helped turn the bank into the nation’s second-largest through a series of acquisitions.
The dozens of books for young readers that she wrote and illustrated had a knack for finding “the wondrous in the mundane.”
His sagas of the Revolution and the Civil War sold tens of millions of copies, were adapted for TV and put him in the pantheon of big-name authors.
Ms. Schroeder, who had a long career in the House, helped steer passage of legislation on family leave, pregnancy discrimination and other progressive causes.
He had All-Star years, won three Gold Gloves, hit with power and was a fan favorite, but as the team’s fortunes dimmed, his renegade lifestyle had its costs.
His back-first, neck-down leaping style struck competitors and onlookers as a novelty act. After he won an Olympic gold in 1968, it came to dominate his sport.
With his powerful novels and essays, Mr. Oe tried to ensure that Japan learned the lessons of its 20th-century militarism.
With his powerful novels and essays, Mr. Oe tried to ensure that Japan learned the lessons of its 20th-century militarism.
He and his brothers, Felipe and Matty, were the only three brothers in major league history to play together in a single game.
The first diver to sweep the gold medals in two Olympics, she won 26 national championships in a career that ended when she was still in her 20s.
He took his Vikings, with Fran Tarkenton at quarterback and the famed Purple People Eaters defensive line, to four Super Bowls — although he lost each time.
She played a key role in the freewheeling performance art of the 1960s, and her biggest impact may have come from the open house she kept in an attic studio.
A lifelong jazz aficionado, he changed course to produce bands like Black Flag and Hüsker Dü for the influential SST label.
As a member of the White Rose, a small anti-Nazi resistance group, she used peaceful tactics to try persuading Germans to turn against Hitler.
A leading evolutionary biologist who defended Darwin’s theory in books and in the courtroom, he was forced to retire amid charges of sexual harassment.
When she took over in 1989, she found herself dealing with controversies over the 1990 count, including the problem of overlooked populations.
His film and TV career began with “Our Gang” comedies and was highlighted by a performance as a mass killer in “In Cold Blood.” But he led a tempestuous life.
His firm, Kohn Pedersen Fox, became an international force, merging the commercial with the creative in designing some of the world’s tallest buildings.
Wide acclaim for his portrayal of Tevye helped make him, according to one newspaper, “Israel’s most famous export since the Jaffa orange.”
He was a stage designer noted for his work in opera when he hit the best-seller list in 2000 with the first in a series of books for children.
She created a comprehensive record of the country’s social history, her focus often falling outside New Zealand’s white conservative mainstream.
Despite low budgets and years of mostly negative reviews, he gained a cult following for his giant villains, homemade effects and preposterous plotlines.
A New Zealand lawmaker, she fought for the rights of sex workers, L.G.B.T.Q. and Māori people, and won a battle to legalize civil unions for couples of any gender.
He worked with a wide range of luminaries, most notably Jackson Browne, and there was seemingly no stringed instrument he couldn’t play.
He translated works by Proust, Nabokov, Tolstoy and Emily Brontë into Vietnamese, and a classic Vietnamese poem, ‘The Tale of Kieu,’ into English.
Starting with sensuous posters for Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, his graphic work came to visually define the city and the bohemian ethos that took root there.
The last surviving original member of the classic Southern rock group, he played the soaring slide guitar solo on “Free Bird” and co-wrote “Sweet Home Alabama.”
She successfully battled to become a teacher and went on to help bring about a revolution in the government’s treatment of the disabled.
He used the money he made playing for the Baltimore Colts to build a fast-food restaurant empire and then bought an N.F.L. expansion franchise.
He helped bring “Flipper” to the movies and TV but was best known for his plunge in a monster suit in “Creature From the Black Lagoon.”
He earned praise for his work in films like “Saving Private Ryan” and “Black Hawk Down.” He also served prison time for drug possession and domestic abuse.
Working with a paper magnate (and without a budget), he helped put together what later became the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s celebrated photography collection.
Uruguayan-born and New York-based, he was responsible for major commercial and cultural buildings in nearly a dozen countries.
She was one of the first Black female journalists at The New York Times and The Washington Post. The Times put her on the staff of a women’s news section.
Shortly after he joined that long-running group in 1987, it rose from obscurity to chart-topping success in what came to be called the Cool Britannia era.
Studying the venom of bees, wasps and ants, he was stung hundreds of times and famously ranked the stings in a colorful pain scale index.
After losing his dominant right hand from a Vietnam War injury, he began chronicling Mexican American culture with his left.
As a long-distance, open-water swimmer, she braved waves, sharks and darkness to break 18 world records.
His career as an influential tenor saxophonist and composer reached across more than half a century, tracking jazz’s complex evolution during that span.
He produced many books about film. But Groucho Marx tried to stop distribution of one collaborative effort because he didn’t like seeing his salty and insulting remarks in print.
She had been a Manson family member and was along on the nights of the infamous Tate-LaBianca murders, but she later became the prosecution’s lead witness.
Admired for his creative instincts, he oversaw films that won 28 Oscars, including “West Side Story,” “The Apartment” and “In the Heat of the Night.”
He was being held in the prison when inmates took it over in 1971. Murder charges against him were dropped, but he spent years trying to escape the memories.
A member of the old guard of Palestinian leaders, Mr. Qurei was a principal architect of the Oslo Accords, the first peace agreement with Israel.
An ordained minister known as the Vaulting Vicar, he was an Olympic gold medal winner and the first athlete to appear on the front of Wheaties boxes.
A Democrat from South Dakota, he found the freedom to act on principle in the House and Senate by choosing not to seek re-election.
Known for his association with Francis Ford Coppola, Werner Herzog and many others, he was also a founder of the Telluride Film Festival.
As New York State’s animal pathologist, he ventured far afield to investigate the impact of toxic chemicals on humans.
The Islamic boarding school she helped found offers a haven for transgender women in a country where discrimination can be acute.
Dead bodies shielded him as the Nazis killed 643 people in Oradour-sur-Glane. He spent his life keeping the memory of the slaughter alive.
Few knew the Northern Rhône Valley when he began growing grapes and making wine in the 1940s. By the time he retired, the region, and his wines, were world famous.
Born into wealth, he turned it into even greater wealth in founding a Boston firm and was remembered as a “kinder, gentler” corporate raider.
Her work exploring the idea of female subservience within the church won acclaim. But it also led to her being blacklisted by Mormon leaders.
In addition to having a roster of authors that included Gail Sheehy, David Levering Lewis and Lech Walesa, he spoke out for the rights of writers worldwide.
Soon after he opened Catch a Rising Star in Manhattan in 1972, it became a showcase for emerging talents like Billy Crystal, Robin Williams and Pat Benatar.
Thought to be Brazil’s first Black TV journalist and a rare female anchor, she was a trailblazer in a country with a long history of racism.
She received five consecutive Emmy nominations for her role as Fay Furillo, the frenetic ex-wife of a police precinct captain.
As founding artistic director, he made Trinity Rep in Rhode Island a leader in theatrical innovation. He then made his mark in Dallas as well.
In 1971, he transferred material from one organism to another, creating the first recombinant DNA, or rDNA. He later helped lead a historic effort to write protocols for genetic research.
With songs like “Don’t You Just Know It,” “Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu” and “Sea Cruise,” he put a firm backbeat behind joyful nonsense.
A stand-up comic, he called his hard-boiled character on the long-running TV drama “Lenny Bruce with a badge.”
A stand-up comic, he called his hard-boiled character on the long-running TV drama “Lenny Bruce with a badge.”
Like many others, he was riveted by the film and attended numerous midnight showings. Unlike many others, he made it the focus of his life.
A one-time doorman and bus driver, he became an assistant secretary of labor but fell short of his goal of being elected head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.
His fantastical work for The New Yorker, New York and Playboy made him a hot commodity in the last golden era for magazines and their illustrators.
As a Time magazine bureau chief, he was pivotal in the publication of revelatory taped interviews with the ousted premier that had been smuggled out of the Soviet Union.
He used poker winnings to open a modest bakery in 1946 that grew into an artisanal dessert empire, tempting New Yorkers of all ages.
As a student of Martha Graham and a founding member of the Batsheva Dance Company, she helped lay the foundation for an art that has thrived in Israel.
She starred alongside the likes of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis. But she wanted to direct and write, and she felt held back by industry sexism.
His skill in completing Alban Berg’s “Lulu” almost 40 years after Berg’s death was considered one of the greatest operatic achievements of the 20th century.
He wrote more than two dozen books, including richly detailed biographies of Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Laurence Olivier and Jesus.
Known as “the Mighty Atom,” she excelled at long-distance time trials and set several records that still stand more than 70 years later.
Twice an All-Star, he played on four teams over four decades and won two World Series titles. Then he took his baseball smarts and gift of gab into the TV booth.
She showed that basic musical ability is present in infants across cultures, laying a foundation for a growing field of study.
In one of the biggest espionage scandals of the Cold War, he handed over NATO plans and other secrets. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
He pushed the company into North America and beyond, setting it on its path to becoming one of the world’s most powerful automakers.
Beginning with a doeskin bikini in “One Million Years B.C.,” she built a celebrated show business career around sex appeal and, sometimes, a comic touch.
He became prime minister less than two weeks after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and initially sought to preserve East Germany before accepting reunification.
He ruled against the Giuliani administration on issues of homelessness and free speech and revoked the citizenship of a Brooklyn man who had aided Nazis.
He was called in to do damage control for celebrities in a negative spotlight, but his specialty was working with gay stars, athletes and others.
Duangphet Promthep, 17, was a member of the soccer team that escaped from a submerged cave in Thailand in 2018 and later attended a soccer academy in England. The cause of his death was unclear.
His first film — about two runners, one Christian, one Jewish, who compete at the 1924 Summer Olympics — won four Oscars, including for best picture.
In the 1960s and ’70s, he created indelible images of the city’s combustible mix of art, rock ’n’ roll, new Hollywood and social ferment.
As an educator, he worked to put architecture on an equal footing with other disciplines. As an architect, he was known for buildings at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.
Called “one of the fundamental filmmakers in the history of Spanish cinema,” he began making movies under Franco, often hiding his messages in allegory.
A billionaire and Washington native, he gave the city its first baseball championship in 95 years, along with 20 million square feet of shopping malls and housing.
The trio expanded the stylistic vocabulary of hip-hop in the 1980s and ’90s, but its early experiments with sampling led to legal troubles, and the group’s longtime exclusion from streaming.
She helped Laura Dern, Marlo Thomas, Mickey Rourke and many others overcome fears, find their characters and discover “the joy of acting.”
He left his mark in Hamburg, Berlin, Salzburg and elsewhere. He also directed a memorable “Ring” cycle in Bayreuth.
His masquerade — a tale recounted in a memoir and in the film “Europa Europa” — saved his life. But “to this day,” he said, “I have a tangle of two souls in one body.”
Tough, pragmatic and brusque when she had to be, she helped transform Mississauga from a sleepy Toronto suburb into one of the country’s largest and most dynamic cities.
He established a modern brand of Buddhism in Taiwan and opened temples around the world, becoming the rare religious figure backed by Beijing.
Thrust into the role of spokesman after the assassination attempt in 1981, he led televised medical briefings that reassured an anxious nation.
He won Tony Awards for “Wicked” and other shows while also overseeing the sets for the late-night franchise’s fast-paced sketch comedy.
An activist leader in Atlanta, in 1960 she wrote, with Julian Bond’s help, “An Appeal for Human Rights,” which resonated in the struggle across the country.
His sophisticated collaborations with the lyricist Hal David — “The Look of Love,” “Walk On By,” “Alfie” and many more hits — evoked a sleek era of airy romance.
An architect, he followed his hunch that teams would abandon ugly concrete multipurpose arenas for fan-friendly single-sport facilities, like Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
In her early 20s she co-founded the groundbreaking spoken-word record label Caedmon, which had a hit with Dylan Thomas’s “A Child’s Christmas in Wales.”
An activist who went to jail for refusing to serve in the military, he teamed with and married Joan Baez and later became a journalist.
He wrote tens of thousands of jokes in his career — told by, among others, Dick Gregory, Jack Paar, Red Skelton and, for a while, President Gerald R. Ford.
Her 1,300-page “Doubleday Cookbook” was a rival to “The Joy of Cooking,” and her rigorously tested recipes taught generations of home cooks.
He built a California fast-food chain, opened a McDonald’s museum and restored a historic town on Route 66, a road that was special to him.
Mr. Musharraf took power in a bloodless coup in late 1999 but resigned under threat of impeachment in 2008. He drew fire for his ties to Washington.
He was best known for his 1969 book “Akenfield,” but he was also beloved for his many essays and columns about rural life in his native Suffolk.
He was at the forefront in persuading the American Psychiatric Association to reassess its classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder.
He descended from famed Islamic royalty in India and Turkey, but later fled to Australia and became a sheep farmer.
In midcareer, having worked for the biggest agencies, he quit to conjure up novels about a British spy named Alex Hawke, who was likened to James Bond.
One of the best-known Black poets of the 19th century, she was also a renowned orator. “You white women speak here of rights,” she said. “I speak of wrongs.”
He was heard on hits like “There Goes My Baby,” “Under the Boardwalk” and “Up on the Roof.” He kept singing them for decades.
A prisoner at Auschwitz and three other camps, he dealt with his trauma in semiabstract works that depict crematories, ovens and chimneys and serve as testimony.
He drew headlines in 2006 when he was struck by birdshot from a shotgun fired by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident — then apologized himself for the incident.
In a career that included a Tony nomination for “Company,” he specialized in playing uptight characters, notably Candice Bergen’s stuffy straight man.
She was a Broadway star at 23 and then quit acting, but later re-emerged in films like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “A Christmas Story.”
After seemingly being on the verge of stardom, she languished for decades, battered by changing tastes and bad luck, before enjoying a midlife comeback.
An outspoken American who became a model for Coco Chanel, she partied with Europe’s elite before starting her own clothing line for stars and socialites.
By mechanizing and greatly expanding production, he made the gooey yellow chicks an Easter favorite and a pop-culture phenomenon.
In 15 collections, beginning in the early 1970s, she wrote of family, nature, loss and sometimes dogs.
Widely regarded as one of her country’s greatest contemporary writers, she was also the first woman elected president of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
During his long tenure, the seminary’s collection was a primary destination for scholarly inquiry into the history and literature of the Jewish people.
Whitworth was a hall of famer who became the first woman’s pro golfer to earn more than $1 million.
The son of Coventry factory workers, he overcame a traumatic childhood to find fame in the Thatcher years as the frontman of the Specials.
As a girl she brought out a childlike quality in Picasso. As an adult she became an authority on his works.
Known as the Garlic King, he used his enthusiasm and a business acumen to build an empire around the once-lowly “stinking rose.”
As a songwriter, arranger and producer, he brought sophistication and melodic inventiveness to hits by the Delfonics, the Spinners and others.
A leader in the field of socially responsible investing, she used shareholder actions and private meetings to pressure big corporations, including G.E. and Ford.
She was the Communist Party candidate in 1968 and later led the campaign to free Angela Davis. But she eventually split with the party.
His family-friendly company revived historic Luna Park in Coney Island and built attractions for Disney and Six Flags.
A well-connected Texan, she made a significant mark supporting the visual arts and theater, and a lasting one on a master of Abstract Expressionism.
A Glasgow restaurateur, he was part of the rise of the British curry house — and played an essential part in its story.
He used a small Teamsters local in the city to amass broad political influence over 25 years, only to be undone by corruption charges.
An archaeologist at the Met, he warned about plundered and fake antiquities and about the acquisition practices of collectors and museums, including his own.
As a scholarly statistician, he also evaluated stock options, the best nonfiction books and the most mouthwatering pastrami sandwich.
The former Pittsburgh Steelers running back died days before the 50th anniversary of one of the most memorable plays in N.F.L. history.
She challenged racial barriers when she joined the San Francisco Symphony in 1972. But she became embroiled in a legal battle when she was denied tenure two years later.
Known as Cadillac Frank, he took over the region’s top organized-crime outfit in the 1990s, then cooperated with prosecutors against his former ally, Whitey Bulger.
He played in the orchestra for 60 years, performing under the baton of five music directors. He personified the orchestra’s brilliant, even brash, character.
His band, Savoy Brown, never had a hit single, but it showcased his skills as a guitarist and songwriter and remained active for more than 50 years.
He had a reputation as a colorful character, but he was probably best known for the gem he threw against the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1988.
Her brightly colored work, often serving as visual metaphors, was sought after worldwide by major periodicals and advertisers like Apple and Nike.
Fielding a force of armed guerrillas, the organization had a role in the ouster of Ferdinand Marcos. In exile he continued, in his words, to “lead from abroad.”
His reporting on delayed care for military veterans at Veterans Affairs hospitals led to the resignation of the secretary of the department.
He helped lead a dominant squad at Syracuse and won all-American honors. He later became a role player for the Knicks and a college coach.
His percussion virtuosity was a key to the band’s many hits of the late 1960s, including the chart-topping “Good Lovin’,” “Groovin’” and “People Got to Be Free.”
Her choices for exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Academy of Music gave foreign directors and newcomers valuable exposure in New York.
He wrote that the Six-Day War was a necessary prelude to peace, but he also warned that the conflict would continue without Palestinian statehood.
After achieving early fame, he abandoned the insular art world of New York and fled to Bali, producing work that was lush, provocative and often sharply satirical.
His harshly lit studies of life models represented a major departure in American painting and shocked modernist critics.
He was particularly fond of vertical caving, often dangling freely in a hundred-foot abyss on a rope no thicker than a thumb.
An experimental composer, Mr. Deutsch collaborated with Robert Moog to create the first synthesizer to make a significant impact on popular music, launching a revolution in electronic music.
He helped dispel the candidate’s stiff image for the 1968 presidential campaign and then led U.S. government broadcasting efforts overseas under Nixon and Reagan.
Widely cited as a model of leadership, she took the scouts out of “the Betty Crocker era,” halting a membership decline and recruiting minority girls.
She taught for decades at the Fieldston School and founded a free summer dance program open to all students in New York.
Her versatility and theatricality brought her world renown and an appearance with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow. She later became a troupe’s artistic director.
Called “the American Venus,” she was a model immortalized by sculptors, her image remaining visible in monuments across New York City.
She was the first coach to lead two different schools to titles in the 1970s, when the women’s college game was new and struggling.
He defended Donald Trump, Sean Combs, Bono, the Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels and mob figures with wit and verve.
She was the great-great niece of the last king as well as the heiress to one of the state’s largest fortunes.
A close friend of Gloria Steinem, she toured with her and spoke widely about the need for women to confront racism and classism in their ranks.
A sought-after character actor for decades, he worked frequently with James Garner. He also wrote and directed.
A three-time All Star pitcher, he helped Philadelphia win the pennant in 1950 and was with the Cardinals when they won the 1964 World Series.
He and LeAlan Jones recorded stories of life and death in a Chicago housing project for NPR, winning a Peabody Award and inspiring the birth of StoryCorps.
At Mississippi State and earlier at Texas Tech and Washington State, he deployed a high-powered, pass-happy “Air Raid” offense, winning eight bowl games.
He invented the first system for integrating multiple instruments using a single control panel, predating the MIDI controller by years.
The filmmaker David Lynch turned to his haunting work again and again, for “Blue Velvet,” “Mulholland Drive” and other neo-noir films.
Known for his rebounding, he spent 16 seasons as a player, most notably with the Celtics. He was also LeBron James’s first coach as a pro.
Working with his brother, he became a star of the design world, creating furniture and other objects and elevating the culture of his native Brazil.
Her 1952 novel “Spring Fire” was about a girl who falls in love with a sorority sister. As M.E. Kerr, Ms. Meaker wrote popular young adult books.
He was a referee for more than a hundred boxing title fights, but gained national renown for the 1997 bout between Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield.
The mild-mannered, French-born chef cooked for presidents and stars at Le Cirque in New York and earned an early four-star rating at Le Cygne.
Over 40 years at the magazine he drew hundreds of cartoons and covers and served as art and cartoon editor, recruiting new talent and deciding who got published.
Grant Wahl, who in his career covered soccer for Sports Illustrated, Fox Sports and CBS, was in Qatar for his eighth men’s World Cup.
He soared in a balloon to 102,800 feet and, with parachutes, plunged in a free fall for 16 miles, helping to set the stage for manned spaceflights.
A career criminal in England for nearly a half-century, he was hired by The Guardian to report on injustices in prisons — work that led to exposés and honors.
She ran the famous New York comedy club with her husband for years as they launched the careers of many comic stars.
His books, many co-written with the American journalist Larry Collins, were international best-sellers, among them “City of Joy,” based on his travels to India.
His background was in country music. But Stax, the label he founded with his sister, achieved a level of success with Black artists that rivaled Motown’s.
With the Royal Air Force, he took part in a morale-boosting strike on Nazi Germany’s industrial heartland, breaching dams and unleashing devastating floods.
Be it objectification or celebration, the annual rite she created earned millions for the magazine and helped usher in the supermodel era.
He was the last surviving member of the team that produced the educational cartoon for ABC-TV that informed Generation X.
In the 1940s and ’50s she was a glamorous Black star when there were few. Then she became a missionary.
One of his students became a president, another an actress. He also helped the university modernize during the 1970s and ’80s.
At Yankee Stadium on Oct. 1, 1961, Mr. Durante, a 19-year-old truck driver, stood on his seat in right field and nabbed Roger Maris’s 61st home run one-handed.
His relentless campaign against the war and his exposure of South Vietnam’s “tiger cages” were instrumental in turning the American public and Congress against the war.
His vote for the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996 prompted a gay-interest magazine to prepare to out him. He later regretted his vote and celebrated coming out.
At his training camps, he employed a tough style in developing 10 players who reached the No. 1 world ranking. “He yells at kids, insults them. And they work harder.”
Politicians, protesters and celebrants of happy community news have known where to converge: Versailles, a Miami landmark for Cuban Americans.
He was an original cast member who, for nearly half a century, played a sweater-clad and easygoing music teacher who dispensed advice.
In the 1990s, he and his wife unearthed documentary evidence of the illicit, state-sponsored drug program that propelled the country to Olympic glory.
A New York writer and artist who found inspiration in the countryside, she used experimental forms to celebrate mundane pleasures.
Among his best known articles were one that helped clear a man of killing his mother and one that disputed plagiarism charges against Jerzy Kosinski.
Her autobiographical cartoons — confessional, sexualized and self-deprecating — were considered the first by a woman in underground comics.
An “archives rat,” he was expert at digging through declassified materials to tell new stories about America’s military history.
Poet, essayist, journalist and social critic, he held wide influence among a postwar literary generation with works as intellectual as they were political.
He created many memorable commercials, including one featuring a monk who works miracles with a Xerox copier. His most notable slogan helped save lives.
She took home, to Ohio, a 2019 Oscar for “American Factory,” and in a long career teaching and making films, she paid special attention to working women.
He drew the best from complex instruments at Riverside Church in Manhattan, at countless recitals and on the “Hour of Power” TV show.
As an activist and an author, she was determined to demystify and normalize the lesbian experience, and to integrate it into the women’s movement.
A surfer from a young age, he began publishing his pictures when he was a teenager and became renowned for both his action shots and his portraits.
He won 314 games and recorded 3,500 strikeouts, but he’s remembered as much for his acknowledged spitball, with saliva just one substance in his arsenal.
He was the first living Japanese American to receive the country’s highest military award for valor.
As a singer, songwriter and keyboardist, she was a prolific force behind one of the most popular rock bands of the last 50 years.
A college All-American, he led the San Diego Chargers to an American Football League title and later steered the N.F.L.’s Rams into the playoffs.
For decades he wrote about theater in The Village Voice, but he also was a dramaturge and a Tony-nominated translator.
Mr. Jiang, a wily and garrulous politician, presided over a decade of meteoric economic growth in the post-Tiananmen era.
As an obscure but muscular congressional staffer and chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, he helped usher into law a raft of consumer protections.
She worked with the family for over 40 years, mostly for Senator Ted Kennedy. But her duties went far beyond the office.
A dealmaker and superstar matchmaker, he worked with artists like Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton and Tracy Chapman. Later he was chairman of Martha Stewart Living.
Vladimir Makei, a former foreign minister who led failed efforts to improve relations with the West, died over the weekend. His death comes as Russia presses Belarus to send troops to Ukraine.
Like her mother, she became a Graham dancer, and then oversaw acclaimed productions of the choreographer’s works as well as Jerome Robbins’ musical.
A renowned defender of the marginalized, she had many celebrated victories, including a Florida appeal known as the case of the Death Row Brothers.
Ms. Cara was a child star from the Bronx who gained fame in the 1980s as a singer of pop anthems and as the star of the movie “Fame.”
She stopped performing to raise children, at the request of her first husband, the bandleader Harry James. After remarrying, she resumed singing decades later.
A Hall of Fame defenseman for the Toronto Maple Leafs, he led the way for other European hockey players in the league.
Though his political career was brief, after storming to victory with a former Miss America by his side, he made millions by buying the fried chicken chain.
His music blended traditional idioms with pop inflections and social themes, earning him comparisons with Bob Dylan.
Emerging from the French New Wave, driven by artistic purity, he and his wife and directing partner, Danièle Huillet, didn’t care if audiences walked out on their films.
A civil rights activist herself, she guarded Thurgood Marshall’s legacy as the first Black member of the Supreme Court.
He was among the leading thinkers to explain the economic shocks of the 1970s, and his work was critical to the supply-side economics of the ’80s.
He was a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM’s dominance for decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a quirky classic.
She helped Jews in Africa and elsewhere feel connected to their origins by helping them start businesses and open synagogues and schools.
He fought for transparency, accountability, equity and support directed to grass-roots organizations.
She was a key force behind a 1970s human rights movement demanding justice from Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship. Her extreme leftist views later made her a polarizing figure.
Born in a garage, his company, Generac, thrived on the threat of power failures to corner the market on portable and backup sources of electricity.
He helped design China’s political reforms in the 1980s and tried to avert the bloodshed that ended the democracy protests. After prison, he became a critic of the party.
An astronomer at Williams College, he probably saw more solar eclipses than any other human in history.
Her store, Art Catalogues, specialized in books for and about museum and gallery exhibitions and became a gathering place for artists and bibliophiles.
His 1960s band, the Blues Project, won a following with a driving, experimental approach to traditional material that was anything but purist.
He became well known for the covers he designed for Esquire magazine, many of them wordless critiques of American society.
A psychiatrist, he was an early apostle for treating drug and alcohol addiction with group therapy in a residential setting.
He sent reports about the Fab Four’s travels to radio stations in February 1964. Then he turned the material into an album that rose to No. 20 on the Billboard chart.
After being blacklisted from academia for his antiwar activity, he became an organizer among steel workers in the industrial Midwest.
She was serious about issues related to sex for money. But she also spoke through an amusing persona she called Scarlot Harlot.
Considered a post-punk pioneer, he was also a founding member of the Clash but left before it became one of the biggest bands of its era.
A Pulitzer Prize winner, he wrote many orchestral works but was most celebrated for his vocal pieces. He was also well known for writing candidly about his life.
He came from a wealthy family, but he championed the ideas of the counterculture. Journalists called him “the hippie millionaire.”
After surviving concentration camps as a youth, he went on to star on the hit 1960s sitcom set in a German prisoner-of-war camp.
She created the costumes for more than 150 singing, dancing robotic children in It’s a Small World, and for the buccaneers of Pirates of the Caribbean.
He composed many of George W. Bush’s signature addresses, and later, as a writer for The Washington Post, took a stand against Donald J. Trump.
Starting with the original Improv in Midtown Manhattan, he gave Richard Pryor, Lily Tomlin and countless other comedians a launching pad to fame.
He was teamed memorably with Nick Charles for many years on “Sports Tonight” and gained praise early on for his interviews with sports figures.
“I thought I would never live to get in the White House,” the centenarian said during a 2016 meeting with the first couple. A video of the encounter made her famous.
As dean of the faculty, he diplomatically persuaded his colleagues to tighten requirements for a degree and create a Black studies program.
Ireland is mourning Vicky Phelan, who died this week. She became an advocate for women after a Pap smear that had been deemed negative turned out to be positive.
He slept on a bench in Charles de Gaulle Airport for 18 years, stuck in limbo as a refugee. His story inspired a Steven Spielberg film with Tom Hanks.
Mr. Aniston, the father of the actor Jennifer Aniston, played a suave villain on the soap opera “Days of Our Lives” for more than three decades.
She was Good Housekeeping’s first female top editor, earlier edited Woman’s Day and Redbook, and helped Oprah Winfrey create a newsstand sensation.
A leader of the United Auto Workers and a Kennedy confidant, he remained convinced that a second gunman had been involved in the assassination.
A writer and producer, he worked with James Brooks and others on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and was a creator of “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Taxi.”
His Scottish band became known for hard-driving stadium rock, but its biggest hit was a cover of a country ballad about heartbreak.
With a distinctively deep and raspy voice, Mr. Conroy spent more time playing Batman than any other actor, without ever showing his face.
He called himself “The Wizard of Odd” for his outrageous stage act, making him one of the most recognizable comedians of the 1980s.
He went to war at 22 with limited flying experience but dodged Zeros, knocked out bombers and won the Distinguished Flying Cross and a Purple Heart.
A restless Irish polymath who had trained as a doctor in Dublin, he found his way to New York and became a leading figure in the city’s bustling art scene.
“Nobody drew like Kevin O’Neill,” said the writer Alan Moore, who collaborated with him from 1999 to 2019 on the series The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Her restaurant in Dartmouth, England, received a Michelin star in the 1970s, a rare honor for a kitchen presided over by a woman.
Her influential band, Low, emerged in the 1990s, but its minimalist sound stood in sharp contrast to the anthems of angst that came to define the grunge era.
In 1973, he put out a little-noticed album of songs about same-sex love and social protest. Forty-one years later, he became an unlikely star.
She and her husband, Joe, recorded the first commercial recording of Cajun music ever made, giving voice to French-speaking Louisiana.
His group had 32 No. 1 country singles, and his guitar and fiddle playing helped extend its reach to a generation raised on rock ’n’ roll.
She made news by entering a pro basketball inner sanctum to do her job. Years later, her mother’s physical decline led her to write about aging for The Times and in a book.
The Supreme Court decided in Olmstead v. L.C. that warehousing people with disabilities in mental institutions was discriminatory.
His clinical studies focused largely on how to reduce the risk factors of cardiovascular disease. He also established a link between menopause and heart disease.
His one-man Off Broadway show, “Everything’s Fine,” directed by John Lithgow, had opened just weeks ago.
His main medium was paint, but his most viewed work may have been the outdoor memorial in Queens to Flight 587.
As both an artist and a model, he created alternative worlds where ordinary characters seemed extraordinary.
A fearless scholar of English literature, she argued in books and interviews that the revered playwright was a narcissist, misogynist and social climber.
He was a member of two Super Bowl-winning teams in the 1980s and recorded 64 sacks in his 16-year career.
She drew praise for the precision and compassion of “Under the Bridge,” her account of the beating and murder of a 14-year-old girl.
The government charged him with funneling $78 million in bribes to Kazakhstan, but dropped the case after a judge decided he had acted with C.I.A. approval.
With arresting ad campaigns, he helped promote the New York Urban Coalition (“Give a Damn”) and the re-election of Mayor John V. Lindsay (“I Made Mistakes”).
A slender Georgia country boy with the outlaw Oakland Raiders of the 1970s, he proved that a punt could be a spectacle in its own right.
The two young women knew each other from kindergarten until their final encounter, on opposite sides of a barbed-wire fence in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
His bridge-building efforts notably included a book and traveling exhibition of Jewish manuscripts from the Vatican’s archives.
He depicted a quirky cast of people and pets — notably his mad-as-a-hatter bull terrier, which became a reader favorite and the magazine’s unofficial mascot.
Present at the creation, she guarded the awards’ independence and integrity but, the Grammys’ longtime producer said, “never received the recognition she deserves.”
Withstanding “a tsunami of shingles” on houses going up on the East End, he stuck to an aesthetic of clean, elegant lines and simple materials.
He led a life marked by encounters with touchstone moments in Black history, from the March on Washington to Barack Obama’s first inauguration.
He rebounded from the humiliation of “the fumble” as coach of the ’78 New York Giants to help San Francisco win five Super Bowls over 14 seasons as a top team executive.
His book “How the Irish Saved Civilization” became a best seller and helped open the door to a new appreciation of that country’s culture.
He knew how to find hidden pots of money. “There wasn’t a budget director in the last 50 years who didn’t rely on Bernie,” one of his acolytes said.
She documented her attempt to cook every recipe in Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” in a popular blog that became a best-selling book and a hit movie.
She brought sass and sensuality to the job as a critic for New York magazine for four decades. She also helped create the charity Citymeals on Wheels.
She upended the clubby male landscape of British publishing, and expanded the literary canon, reintroducing works by forgotten women authors.
He fed material to gossip columns, buttered up reporters and banged on typewriters from the heyday of the Copacabana to the rise of reality TV.
For more than three decades, he worked on his multivolume series, “A Marginal Jew,” drawing praise from Pope Benedict XVI.
With his pounding piano, his impassioned vocals and his incendiary performing style, Mr. Lewis lived up to his nickname, the Killer.
As a City Council member, she vowed to bring Major League Baseball to the city and persuaded the team’s owner, Walter O’Malley, to move from Brooklyn.
Mr. Stern, who drew on his own upbringing and the death of his sister, began writing late in life and earned the 1998 National Book Award, among other accolades.
In a 25-year coaching career, he appeared in 20 bowl games and won 201 games, the fourth-highest total in Southeastern Conference history.
She worked with Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan, Frank Capra and John Ford, and she was known for her deft touch, particularly with action movies.
The animation company he ran with Arthur Rankin Jr. gave the world “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “Frosty the Snowman” and much more.
He led Abyssinian Baptist Church and helped revitalize his community by building housing, some of which he reserved for existing residents.
A former protégé of John Cage who was once married to Yoko Ono, he was part of a lively experimental music scene in New York and became a leading modern composer in Japan.
She handled the sales of the great caricaturist’s works and told stories of flying Diane Arbus in her plane and encountering the woman who shot Andy Warhol.
He started playing in Broadway orchestras in 1957, and eventually he began recruiting those orchestras as well.
It was Ms. Goldberg, a literary agent, who suggested that Linda Tripp tape her conversations with Monica Lewinsky. She later fed revelations to the news media.
Weary of the angry and aggressive sound of New York’s musical underground of the late 1970s, he returned to rock’s roots and seeded a rockabilly revival.
His 1971 novel became a movie, with John Houseman giving an award-winning performance as the imperious Professor Kingsfield, and later a television series.
Once called “the world’s greatest living artist,” Mr. Soulages was best known for exploring the possibilities of the color black.
Best known for a 1965 homemaker’s reply to a hobo’s refrain, the Oklahoma native had a hit the same year with the very different “Home of the Brave.”
At stations in Philadelphia and then New York, he relaxed the tone of news delivery, using two anchors, a diverse team of reporters and dollops of banter.
He drew acclaim as the central character in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 14-part 1980 television epic about Weimar Germany.
His article on the landmark abortion-rights ruling gained renewed attention this year after a draft of the opinion overturning that decision was leaked.
Ms. Tenuta rose to prominence with an outlandish act in the 1980s and became one of the most prominent women comedians.
For two decades, his Chelsea Theater Center was on the cutting edge with productions that could be challenging, baffling or, sometimes, Broadway bound.
An uncompromising voice in the women’s movement’s second wave, she focused on working-class women and later on women’s rights around the world.
For “Konin: A Quest,” Mr. Richmond, a filmmaker, conducted 200 interviews to memorialize the culture of his forebears that vanished once the Nazis arrived.
He popularized a farmers’ market cuisine at his and his wife’s tiny, quirky and acclaimed East Village establishment called the Tasting Room.
She was an All-American in college and spent nine years as a pro. “I don’t think I’ve seen a player as competitive,” her college coach said.
A logger’s daughter, she was among the first women to thrive in the high-risk, high-reward field and a key backer of fledgling Russian companies in the 1990s.
Her powerful voice, playful lyrics and topical songs were a model for generations of country singers and songwriters. So was her life story.
From his powerful perch on the D.C. appeals court, he voided gun controls and challenged press freedoms but also upheld the Affordable Care Act.
She was top-billed in his final feature, “Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens.” She was also his paramour and, he said, his favorite leading lady.
He spent the 1980s as the Polish regime’s sarcastic spokesman, then transformed himself into a controversial media entrepreneur in the ’90s.
He was the second Black playwright to win the award and later adapted the play into an Oscar-nominated film, “A Soldier’s Story.”
He raised the profiles of the news programs “Morning Edition” and “The World” on public radio, and created the overnight program “Nightwatch” on CBS.
The actress was booed at the Academy Awards in 1973 after she refused the best actor award on Marlon Brando’s behalf in protest of Hollywood’s depictions of Native Americans.
After gaining fame for an odd 1976 bout with Muhammad Ali, he became a politician and globe-traveling broker of peace.
A Canadian mixed martial artist, he brought cerebral flair to the ring and a dogged determination to his campaign for changing the sport’s drug rules.
She was a prominent figure in the field of childhood cancer when, in 1974, she helped create the first Ronald McDonald House in Philadelphia.
A utility player for the powerhouse Yankees of the 1960s, he later became the first Black manager at minor league baseball’s highest level.
He was a busy inventor, entrepreneur and investor (movie theaters, real estate, a “super food” and more) whose Skyy Vodka was, he claimed, hangover-free.
Considered a moderate by some and an extremist by others, he backed political Islam, attacked Al Qaeda and dispensed advice in a TV show viewed by millions.
His “365 Days” offered unvarnished, vivid sketches of soldiers injured in the war. He said it was a book he felt compelled to write.
A fan of Henry James and John Ashbery, he brought a poet’s sensibility to stories about ghosts, demons and other things that go bump in the night.
He was convinced that human beings would eventually connect with extraterrestrials, and he inspired others to share that belief.
He rose in local politics in the 1960s and ’70s by nurturing crosscultural connections, even as many other Southern leaders of his era exploited racial division.
Mr. Mistry, who was unceremoniously removed from his job in 2016, was killed in a car accident.
The list of well-known writers he represented is long. But his success began with an unknown named Jack Kerouac and his hard-to-sell novel “On the Road.”
She was asked to speak at a conference in 1978 about barriers faced by women in the workplace. She noted a barrier she called “the glass ceiling.”
Her book “Nickel and Dimed,” an undercover account of the indignities of being a low-wage worker in the United States, is considered a classic in social justice literature.
A familiar TV face for years, he appeared on many of the most popular prime-time shows of recent decades.
He exposed what he saw as pretension and bad art with passion and, at times, viciousness, winning fans but offending many.
He won 68 bouts by knockout and fought some of the biggest names in boxing. He lasted 15 rounds against Muhammad Ali. But he never won a championship.
A hotelier, a history maven and a New York civic activist, he chronicled hotels in extraordinary detail both in books and on a blog.
His song “Took the Children Away,” inspired by his childhood, shook Australians into confronting a grim era when their government tore apart Aboriginal families.
As the only woman in a tournament, she was often greeted with skepticism. She once responded by saying that she looked forward “to drinking some men’s blood.”
Founding two giant companies, he helped turn his country into an economic giant while encouraging employees to approach work with an almost spiritual devotion.
A feminist and a self-proclaimed revolutionary, she was in the forefront of the fledgling movement for economic and political equality in the 1940s.
She worked on early projects at Florentine Films, where Ken Burns, her husband for a time, would find fame with “The Civil War.”
After playing a critical Broadway role in “A Chorus Line,” he helped start the vibrant Off Broadway MCC Theater. TV watchers knew him from “The Sopranos” and “Law and Order.”
A South African-born actress and model, she had a breakout role in the satirical “Triangle of Sadness,” due in theaters in the fall.
A celebrated antiques lover with an understated, old-guard approach, his clients included Prince Charles and Andrew Lloyd Webber.