His bronze works — smooth-skinned orbs slashed to reveal complex cores — are in public places around the world, including outside the U.N. headquarters and in Vatican City.
Years after being catapulted to national fame in the U.S.S.R. as a child actor, he wrote about ideals of racial harmony and international solidarity.
His vision for how to ship packages overnight led to not just a new company, but also a new sector of the world economy and a now-familiar English verb.
Motivated by the helplessness of his boyhood, he described the lives of vulnerable people in conflicts around the world and later his own terminal illness.
An architect, he wrote in his book “Lost New York” about the many buildings that were destroyed before passage of the city’s landmarks preservation law.
The Food Network chef, who died Tuesday at 55, was remembered in a star-studded service that sent her off with a singalong.
A model who was crowned Miss Sweden in 1961, she became best known for commercials that one observer said “replaced the ‘hard sell’ with the ‘sex sell.’”
A late-1960s throwback to the days of clean-cut teen idols — he called himself “the missing link” — he rode his gymnastic vocal range to a string of hits.
He posed as a renegade mobster dealing drugs and laundering cash to help topple Nicky Barnes, who as “Mr. Untouchable” ran a formidable Harlem heroin ring.
She channeled her experiences — and frustrations — as a Los Angeles prosecutor into an award-winning career as a television writer and producer.
She was a blunt and bossy domestic dominatrix on the series “How Clean Is Your House?” honing a persona as the rudest woman on reality television.
A top general, he was appointed prime minister in 1992, a short-lived tenure that immediately incited the Black May uprising — and a violent backlash by his military.
His research unraveled mysteries about the solar system and the demise of the dinosaurs. In retirement, he turned his attention to the Holocaust.
Producing or directing, he made more than 50 films over 50 years, including a series on the English language and an exploration of J. Edgar Hoover’s secret life.
Working for a TV station in Oklahoma City, he was known for using high-tech tools to give early warnings of tornadoes in the central U.S.
An influential photography critic, she wrote essays, newspaper columns and books, including a notable biography of the photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White.
Born and raised in Louisiana, he investigated unresolved civil-rights-era killings in the Deep South. His reporting on one of those cases made him a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
His record label, Putumayo, gathered sounds from around the globe and pushed them into the mainstream, selling 35 million compilation CDs worldwide.
Su característico cabello rubio y su actitud confiada en la cocina la convirtieron en una de las chefs de comida italiana más reconocidas de Estados Unidos.
Tuvo un papel breve pero memorable en la exitosa película de Disney.
Mr. Bell’s first role in a feature film was providing comic relief in the Disney hit.
Her distinctive hairstyle and swagger in the kitchen made her one of America’s most recognizable Italian chefs.
With little formal training but full of ideas, he focused on the core classical composers, winning over audiences (though not every critic) worldwide.
He used biblical exegesis to argue that faith demands justice, calling on churches to challenge oppression and uplift society’s marginalized.
Overcoming male resistance, she became the first woman to enter the New York City Marathon and the first official female winner of the Boston event.
He served from 1984 to 1989, and sought to maintain checks and balances in city government to prevent against what he called “an imperial mayor.”
He was a prominent member of the Kamoinge Workshop, a collective that nurtured Black photographers at a time when they were marginalized by the mainstream.
He was a master of long form narratives, often involving high-stakes topics. He reported for Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and The New York Times Magazine.
He was best known for his success in business, notably the international beauty company he built with his mother, Estée Lauder. But he was also an influential art patron.
She was a proponent of natural childbirth when she joined the group that produced the candid guide to women’s health. It became a cultural touchstone and a global best seller.
He notched a victory in a Supreme Court decision against the City of Chicago in 1976. He then spent over 40 years making sure the ruling was enforced.
His stick-figure sculptures conveyed a surprising depth of emotion, hinting at the threat of imbalance. He also produced more than 30 large-scale commissions.
En 1990 se convirtió en la primera mujer en dirigir un país centroamericano. Su presidencia llegó después de que la nación se viera sumida en luchas políticas.
The first woman to lead a Central American country, she served in the 1990s after the nation had been shaken by political strife.
Fluent in German and passing as an Aryan, she once crossed into Germany, uncovered Nazi military secrets and nursed a wounded, and deceived, SS officer.
As early as the 1970s, she demonstrated that mass media was fair game as artistic material, and that its power could be turned against itself.
A master of the kora who worked with Herbie Hancock and Philip Glass, his career was powered as much by experimentation as by reverence for tradition.
As an award-winning actor and director, he appeared in scores of stage plays, movies and TV shows over six decades, most often as unsavory characters.
A hit for Julie London in 1955, it was later recorded by — among many others — Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand and Michael Bublé, who praised it for its “darkness.”
Mr. Kapur, who died of a heart attack after playing in a polo match in England, was formerly married to the Bollywood star Karisma Kapoor.
A noted art collector as well as a designer, he brought a personal, history-minded approach to his work around Boston and on college campuses.
The group reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987 with the ballad “Always” and went on to leave a lasting impression on modern-day artists.
She was a concert promoter, a nightclub impresario and the producer of an award-winning 1992 film about the Nicholas Brothers dance duo.
He was a school dropout at 14 and homeless for a spell, but as a driven investor he became a billionaire. Later came another quest: to extend life through better nutrition.
His band’s output ranged from the 1966 psychedelic hit “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)” to what he called a “Catholic Mass done in rock veneer.”
She was ridiculed for drilling a hole in her skull to increase blood flow, but her foundation’s research into the therapeutic use of counterculture drugs proved visionary.
Discovered on the street in Rome, he had a brush with stardom when he was cast in what many consider one of the greatest films of all time.
She said last year that her breast cancer, which she was diagnosed with in 2019, had progressed to Stage 4.
A fashion photographer, he built a do-it-yourself life on 40 lonely acres in West Texas, living like a modern-day Thoreau and telling millions of his experience on a blog.
Brian Wilson, leader and chief songwriter of The Beach Boys, wrote several hits in the 1960s, a musical counterpart to the myth of Southern California as paradise.
Playing in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which inspired the film “A League of Their Own,” she won a batting title and stole 127 bases in 1944.
Creador de éxitos, músico prestigioso y un artista agobiado por la etiqueta de genio, Wilson trascendió el género surf para crear complejas armonías e intrincados paisajes sonoros en el estudio.
Using neon, searchlights — or even shadows — he dramatically shaped the look of prominent spaces in almost every corner of the world.
A hitmaker elevated and burdened by the label of genius, he transcended the breezy surf genre to create complex harmonies and intricate soundscapes in the studio.
A top Wall Street lawyer, he worked on some of the biggest corporate mergers in history, including KKR’s takeover of Nabisco in 1989. He also served in the Carter administration and in city government.
His site, Cryptome, was a precursor to WikiLeaks, and in some ways bolder in its no-holds-barred approach to exposing government secrets.
Her work in Brazil challenged the prevailing theory of when humans first arrived in the Americas and led to the development of a forgotten corner of the country.
Beginning with a reading by Dylan Thomas, she and a friend found unlikely commercial success in the 1950s with recordings of famous writers reciting their work.
Leading Sly and the Family Stone, he helped redefine the landscape of pop, funk and rock in the late 1960s and early ’70s.
He started studying tigers at a reserve in 1976 and became a leading activist in efforts to save the tiger from poaching and shrinking habitats.
He wrote best-sellers like “The Day of the Jackal” and “The Dogs of War,” often using material from his earlier life as a reporter and spy.
His Navy plane spent only 49 minutes on the ground and needed a boost from small rockets to break free from the ice and take off.
She made her mark in publications like Glamour, W, Jane and Mademoiselle. In 2007, she was on the receiving end of media attention, testifying in a sensational trial.
A designer for Apple, he created software that made it possible to display shapes, images and text on the screen and present a simulated “desktop.”
Diagnosed with a psychotic disorder, he spent 30 years on death row. In 2007, the Supreme Court raised the bar for executing the mentally ill, though Texas still tried to put him to death.
With Paul Williams, he wrote enduring 1970s soft-rock classics like “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Rainy Days and Mondays.”
Though the Sackler name was tarnished over Purdue Pharma’s role in the opioid crisis, Arthur Sackler’s should not be, she insisted; a company founder, he died well before the trouble began.
Her story, fashioned into an Off Broadway play and television movies, was later questioned by an investigator in a 2021 book.
He struggled to become the first Chinese American person to practice law in the U.S., then used his training to fight for other Chinese Americans.
He survived electroshock treatments and the threat of lobotomy to become one of Ireland’s most popular poets. The Irish Times called him a “literary phenomenon.”
His career took flight with a newspaper ad in Ottawa — the same city where he would later help steer the country under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
As an author (often blurring the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction), a film director, a lyricist and a host of TV and radio shows, he sought to capture his epoch.
She appeared in magazines like Playboy and sci-fi films in the 1950s. Later, in Clint Eastwood’s “Sudden Impact,” she was a hostage until he uttered five famous words.
She was the first woman to serve on the White House Council of Economic Advisers. At General Motors, she became one of the highest-ranking women in corporate America.
Mr. Lungu, who was recently barred by a court ruling from running for president again, left a checkered legacy, with allegations that he eroded freedoms while in office.
He was the pied piper of a loose community of DIY artists homesteading on New York City’s waterways, which he used as his canvas and stage.
Shaped by early hip-hop culture, his documentaries put race in the foreground, whether the topic was hip-hop fashion, the Capitol riots or Louis Armstrong.
He created the music for hundreds of episodes over 27 seasons, spanning jazz, rock, blues and musicals. He won two Emmys and was nominated for 28 more.
He worked for the Brooklyn Dodgers and wrote about sports but mostly focused on conservation, publishing a sequel to Rachel Carson’s exposé on the dangers of pesticides.
He mined his own varied catalog of sexual experiences in more than 30 books of fiction and nonfiction.
Part of Minnesota’s famed unit the Purple People Eaters, he started a record 270 consecutive games. Also famously, he once scooped up a fumble and ran to the wrong end zone.
A renowned French scholar and publishing figure, he looked at what societies choose to honor — and forget — in telling their stories.
Considered the father of Danish contemporary music, he aspired to works in which “everything came out of a single note,” he said, “like the big bang.”
His photos and graphic design for the Chicago-based company cemented its artistic reputation. He also painted and served as Dance Magazine’s art director.
His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity.
Once called “our present-day Homer” for her sprawling, experimental epics, she was honored with prizes and was a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1999.
He began his career as a pastor. But he was forced out of his congregation in 1965, which led to a new life pondering the value of nature.
His “Sport Science” program was whimsical and fun, showing how golfers can drive balls so far and how snowboarders’ quad flips generated G-forces.
A Marxist-turned-Catholic who denounced individualism, he provoked and inspired fellow thinkers and gained a degree of popularity unusual for a moral philosopher.
She had many memorable roles in her decades-long career, including Lupita in the television series “Weeds.”
He elevated his instrument’s often-maligned reputation with deft musicianship, and by writing and commissioning a wide range of music.
He was the No. 2 at the Federal Reserve and the I.M.F. during periods of economic turmoil, and he mentored future economic leaders, like Ben Bernanke.
He was probably best known for his long tenure with Miles Davis, who praised his ability to “keep the groove going forever.”
She had memorable roles on TV shows like “Desperate Housewives” and “Northern Exposure,” and in the dark comedy film “French Exit.”
In seven novels, dozens of essays and a collection of short stories, she explored her Jewish upbringing during apartheid and the ways women negotiate sexual desire.
His long run with that venerable character was the highlight of a career that also encompassed Spider-Man, Aquaman and best-selling “Star Trek” novels.
He became an advocate of a woman’s right to choose and once said, “It is always tragic when politics takes the most vulnerable hostage — in this case, women.”
Together with Willard S. Boyle, he invented an imaging device that is an essential part of nearly every telescope, photocopier and digital camera used today.
A Japanese-born multimedia artist whose associates included John Cage and Yoko Ono, he pushed digital music past its breaking point.
She won two Emmy Awards for her sympathetic portrayal of an Army major on the hit TV show and had a long career in TV and theater.
A German tenor, he was admired for his clear, powerful voice and his exceptional stamina during hourslong performances.
As the founder, director and genial host of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, he helped drive the chamber music boom of the 1970s.
He was the last of three generations spanning nearly the entire history of the United States: When his grandfather was born, George Washington had just become president.
He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ transplant.
Mr. Ngugi composed the first modern novel in the Gikuyu language on prison toilet paper while being held by Kenyan authorities. He spent many prolific years in exile.
After working in the petrochemical industry, he devoted himself to environmental activism — and to creating an inclusive movement that looked “more like America.”
He exposed corrupt officials and greedy landlords, and his reporting on prison violence was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
A special effects artist and cinematographer, he also worked on “2001: A Space Odyssey” and “Tron,” and took a detour to comedy with “Airplane!”
A charismatic figure in the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, he opened a synagogue in South Florida, unifying the Jewish community there, and founded the Aleph Institute.
A Zelig-like rocker, the guitarist, singer and songwriter collaborated with the likes of Barbra Streisand and Peter Frampton and composed Hulk Hogan’s “Real American” theme.
A Pulitzer Prize winner, he wrote with humanity and zest for The Boston Globe for more than 40 years.
As founding editor of The Texas Observer, he fought bigotry and exposed corporate greed, political chicanery and government corruption.
The congressman from Harlem was a force on Capitol Hill — and a familiar presence on the streets he represented for decades.
As the dean of New York’s delegation and the first Black chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, he was a powerful political force for decades.
He was best-known for “The Sorrow and the Pity,” a landmark film that debunked ideas of vast French resistance to the Nazi occupation.
He founded the duck-call business that became the foundation of his family’s reality television empire.
He turned away from a potential career in the law or international relations to produce abstract paintings, and he headed El Museo del Barrio.
A 1960 gold medalist in Rome, he overshadowed a young Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay. He was celebrated as much for his charisma as his boxing skills.
The toll of China’s epidemic is unclear. But dozens of obituaries of the country’s top academics show an enormous loss in just a few weeks.
A French nun, she lived through two world wars and the 1918 flu pandemic and, more than a century later, survived Covid-19. She enjoyed a bit of wine and chocolate daily.
She was budget director in Albany and “was one of the unsung heroes” in helping to shape the pandemic response as a deputy mayor under Bill de Blasio.
While no definitive statistics exist, doctors say Mr. Lewitinn, a retired Manhattan store owner, likely remained on the device longer than any other Covid patient.
The tanker spilled millions of gallons of oil when it ran aground, causing one of the nation’s worst environmental disasters. He accepted responsibility but was demonized.
A Russian-born painter, he created a mural of the Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev smooching the East German leader Erich Honecker — and with it a tourist attraction.
His term in solitary was perhaps the longest in American history. He described how he kept his sanity, and dignity, in an acclaimed memoir.
His book “The Provincials” mixed memoir, travelogue and history to tell the story of a culture that many people never knew existed.
A self-described “simple country doctor,” he won national attention in 2020 when the White House embraced his hydroxychloroquine regimen.
Being fired as an advertising executive freed him to write a blistering memoir about his Southern family and an erotic novel that became a best seller.
He helped formalize the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991, led his country until 1994, then became a vocal critic of his successor, Aleksandr G. Lukashenko.