You could walk in them like gym shoes, but if you rocked back on your heels the wheels emerged, turning them into roller skates. In the early 2000s, the company sold millions.
A lifelong New Yorker and longtime City Council member, she opposed Robert Moses’s wrecking ball, championed historic preservation and fought for women’s and gay rights.
“I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can,” which became a best seller, detailed her years of prescription drug abuse and offered an indictment of American psychiatry.
Lideró la oficina de derechos humanos de la Iglesia católica en Guatemala incluso cuando su hermano, el ex dictador militar del país, era investigado por genocidio.
In Guatemala, he led the Catholic Church’s human rights office. His brother, a dictator who took power in a coup, was convicted of crimes against humanity.
An Alabama parent, he objected to prayer in his children’s classrooms. The Supreme Court ruled for him, a high-water mark in the push for the strict separation of church and state.
An energetic entrepreneur, he developed more than 50 brands of jeans, including Gap 1969 and other cult classics.
With his brother Marty, he released a string of zany children’s programs. Some became cult favorites (even among adults) and others flopped.
Her distinctive and adventurous voice was the soundtrack for generations of Bollywood films.
A psychologist, she urged patients to confront the things that frightened them, revolutionizing her field’s approach to post-traumatic stress disorder.
As “the first nerd to enter poker,” he helped transform a game long ruled by intuition into one based on game theory, probability and logic.
A self-taught topiary artist, he discovered a talent for carving trees and shrubs into extraordinary shapes, creating a world-famous garden in a tiny South Carolina town.
He was one of baseball’s most efficient thieves, and part of a storied infield quartet with the Los Angeles Dodgers, playing in four World Series.
He helped lead what became known as the Midtown Manhattan Study, which showed that mental impairment is highly correlated with low socioeconomic status.
After defeating a Democratic fixture in a 1988 primary, he rose to lead the House Foreign Affairs Committee, then was toppled himself in 2020, undone by an overheard comment.
A former New York cabdriver who never lost his edge, he was co-publisher alongside Mort Zuckerman as he took on rival papers in the so-called tabloid wars.
She gave New York debuts to artists like Cecilia Bartoli and Peter Serkin, and introduced new music by Philip Glass and others.
His wee-hours show “Night Talk” was a nationally syndicated stalwart, examining tough issues and spotlighting Black cultural and political stars.
A pioneering rapper and D.J. from the Bronx, Mr. Bambaataa was accused of child sexual abuse later in his career.
An activist in the academy, he wrote a foundational text in the field, “Occupied America: A History of Chicanos.” It is still in print and still assigned to students.
A former jewelry-counter magnate, he served in Hungary under his friend President Trump, strengthening relations between the two countries as Orban tilted rightward.
Mr. Gugino, 81, had filed a lawsuit in 2021 against the city of Buffalo and members of its police force after officers fractured his skull at a Black Lives Matter protest.
As an executive with the outdoor-supply retailer REI and an experienced climber, he conquered Mount Everest in 1963, when fewer than 10 people were known to have done so.
Mr. Perkins worked with Bob Marley, Joni Mitchell and many others, almost joined the Rolling Stones and turned down an offer from Lynyrd Skynyrd.
He led the World Anti-Doping Agency when Russia’s state-sponsored doping system was exposed a decade ago. He received blowback for the agency’s response.
His camera captured subjects as diverse as New York City during the Summer of Love in 1967, Siberia under Soviet rule and the Adirondacks in upstate New York.
After a grueling year in a German prison camp during World War II, he endured crushing nightmares and survivor guilt back home, leading him to spread the word about veterans’ suffering.
Her minimalist gallery-like store on Park Avenue was a destination for generations of moneyed New Yorkers and helped change the way clothing is sold.
His best-received book explored the state’s infatuation with voter initiatives, which were sometimes pushed with anti-immigrant fervor.
He went from being a fan of the “Mambo King” to becoming his manager and personal historian. Later, he kept alive memories of a bygone era of New York Latino culture.
A Vietnam veteran-turned-academic historian, he drew acclaim for portraying conflicts from the perspectives of generals as well as grunts on all sides, both in Vietnam and in World War II.
A classically-trained violinist, she incorporated traditional instruments native to Latin America in Western-style scores to create an atmospheric hybrid.
At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, she became the first British woman to win a gold medal in track and field, and the first to win three medals in one Games.
At Ouest, on the Upper West Side, and other Manhattan restaurants, he served robust dishes in a style he called “haute cuisine with the grandma gene.”
As a host at WGN in Chicago for 60 years, he shared news that was essential to farmers in a homespun style that appealed to listeners from the city.
She knew nothing about lighting when the director Robert Wilson asked her to work on his shows, and later spent over 40 years as a designer for Danspace Project.
She sang of homesickness and longing, and often collaborated with American musicians like John Prine and Emmylou Harris.
Known for his hallucinatory canvases of otherworldly structures, he cemented his fame with a hand-shaped chair that was both a work of art and a pop culture curio.
With Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, she was one of three prominent researchers of great apes who were sometimes called the “trimates.”
Cutting short his five-year term amid the scarring conflict, he was perhaps a first: an Algerian leader who left without being forced out or dying in office.
Sus representaciones de la vida cotidiana en Oaxaca fueron aclamadas internacionalmente y despertaron la admiración de un Rockefeller. Continuó con su arte incluso después de perder la vista.
While serving as a Long Island bishop, his earlier tenure in Boston came under scrutiny during investigations of sex-abuse allegations involving pedophile priests.
She sang lead for influential all-female bands, including Malaria!, and toured in the U.S. and elsewhere with groups like the Birthday Party and New Order.
Part of a political dynasty, he led Ontario’s main progressive party, became Canada’s U.N. ambassador and campaigned against the spread of AIDS in Africa.
Her sculpted figurines were hailed as exemplars of folk art, drawing a Rockefeller’s admiration. She continued her artistry even after losing her eyesight.
A Russian-born director, he created a film about New Wave models and killer aliens in 1980s New York, helping to reshape independent filmmaking in America.
Lynch Fragments, a series of abstract steel sculptures he created starting in 1963, evoked the long, devastating history of violence against Black Americans.
He created dances performed around the world, and under his leadership the Houston company grew into one of America’s largest and most prominent.
She elevated supporting roles in films with insight and improvisational skill, a talent she took to Broadway as well, earning Tony nominations.
An experimental theater veteran, he collected the ephemera of his friends and colleagues. As they began to die, he made shrines honoring them.
As an anti-apartheid lawyer, he was jailed several times. Later, he was a top adviser to Nelson Mandela and held key posts at the United Nations.
Trained as a playwright, he got his first TV writing job on “St. Elsewhere,” then worked on “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “The Wire,” “Treme” and “Bosch.”
The Times called him “the world’s most highly regarded forensic criminologist,” but later in his career he faced accusations that he had hidden and fabricated evidence.
Her best-selling 1989 book, “The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing,” based on her groundbreaking research, brought public awareness to obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Mr. Tolkan’s career spanned decades but his breakout roles came as an authority figure in two popular films of the mid-1980s.
A visionary evolutionary biologist, he drew comparisons to Charles Darwin with his theories on the genetic roots of seemingly detrimental behaviors like self-deception.
A film director, movie theorist and author, he was widely regarded as one of his country’s towering artists and intellectuals.
Mrs. Kennedy was wearing the suit when her husband was assassinated in Dallas in November 1963, and it was soaked in his blood.
Although he did not speak a word of Persian, his interpretations of the 13th-century mystic’s work made Rumi a New Age icon for millions.
His research showed that Type 2 diabetes was caused by insulin resistance at the cellular level, a controversial idea that initially met with disbelief.
The name of Mr. Lee, a former police inspector, had long incited fear and hatred in the country.
A cocreator of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman series, he dreamed up a character who is homeless in the real world and a superhero in a subconscious realm. It was adapted for an MTV series.
A favorite of actors like Maggie Smith, he produced dozens of plays, including “The Audience,” about Queen Elizabeth II, which was made into the Netflix show “The Crown.”
Zhang Xuefeng era conocido por sus consejos sensatos, algunos decían cínicos, sobre cómo triunfar en el ambiente competitivo de la educación en China. Murió a los 41 años.
Seals & Crofts had a number of Billboard Top 20 songs in the 1970s before their chart topper brought them global fame.
The influencer, Zhang Xuefeng, was known for no-nonsense, some said cynical, advice about how to win in China’s educational rat race. He died at 41.
Mr. Taylor, the younger brother of the actor Jon Voight, found success as a songwriter for the likes of Janis Joplin and Juice Newton.
Radvinsky convirtió un diminuto sitio web llamado OnlyFans en una potencia del entretenimiento para adultos, redefiniendo el sector para la era de las redes sociales.
By leveraging social media and the influencer economy, he turned his website into a byword for online pornography in the 21st century.
A recipient of his profession’s prestigious Fields Medal, he devised an algorithm that helps solve mathematical “singularities.” It now permeates the field.
Despite being imprisoned and harassed, he helped found an organization to combat slavery in his West African nation of Mauritania.
Spilling paint onto canvas and letting it streak down as it pleased, she often said that her celebrated works painted themselves.
Starting in 1949, she had an on-and-off career that lasted for 75 years. But her biggest success came late in life, modeling for labels like Dolce & Gabbana.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative journalist, he wrote deeply reported books that often focused on heroic goodness in people.
Entranced by traditional Balinese puppet theater, he developed a modern, multicultural version that he performed around the world.
Prosecutors in 2013 said that he killed babies who had emerged alive during late-term abortions. The case became a rallying cry for anti-abortion activists.
With more than 150 clients on five continents, and a preference for ripe, voluptuous wines, he was hugely influential. Supporters said he was a genius; critics called him formulaic.
He produced albums — by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, with Eric Clapton, and the early Fleetwood Mac — that defined 1960s blues rock. He also shepherded David Bowie’s debut disk.
A performer from childhood, he became a versatile singer in the mold of the Irish superstar James McCormack, adept at both classical repertoire and traditional songs.
Known early on for skin-baring temptress roles, she later earned rave reviews, a Cannes award and an Oscar nomination for her performance in the Lenny Bruce biopic “Lenny.”
With nearly four decades in Albany, often leading key committees as a Democrat, she was an early supporter of liberal causes such as labor rights and abortion protections.
Fascinated by the fringes, he wrote a definitive history of libertarianism and books about underground comics and the Burning Man festival.
His carnival-like swirls on the Vox organ helped define the sound of the border with groups like the Sir Douglas Quintet and the Texas Tornados.
Readers respond to Robert Mueller’s death and to President Trump’s coarse reaction. Also: Telephone history; car talk.
With her bright leotards and soothing, welcoming tone, she helped to demystify a discipline that many Americans in the 1970s viewed as a counterculture practice.
Through Varsity Spirit, the company he established in 1974, he turned cheerleading into a multibillion-dollar juggernaut and exerted control over almost every aspect of it.
He helped discover cancer-causing genes. Later, as chancellor of the University of California, San Francisco, he led a major expansion.
En su exitoso libro ‘El arte sueco de ordenar antes de morir’, Margareta Magnusson animaba a los lectores a realizar una limpieza profunda ante una posible partida. La autora ha muerto a los 91 años.
Robert Mueller, who led the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 12 tumultuous years, brought politically explosive indictments as a special counsel examining Russia’s attack on the 2016 presidential election.
After he concluded that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election, he became a target of the president’s anger.
His software brought printing into the digital age, allowing users to stop manually splicing columns of text and graphics and instead create layouts on a virtual pasteboard.
A charismatic populist, he channeled the anger of a disaffected North, arguing — in inflammatory oratory — for secession and railing against a tide of migrants.
He played the part of Xander Harris, one of Buffy’s closest friends, on the hit television show.
The family of Chuck Norris announced that the action movie star died on Thursday after he had been hospitalized for a medical emergency earlier that day. Norris was known for his martial arts skills and his role in the CBS television series, “Walker, Texas Ranger.” He was 86.
His method of locating genes in human DNA allowed researchers to find disease-causing genes, and later to map the entire, sprawling human genome.
He lived through the first atomic bombing in Japan and then spent decades researching the identities of 12 American P.O.W.s killed in the attack.
His early successes in the 1960s, writing in the complex vein of high modernism, yielded later in his career to a more accessibly lyrical style.
Puso su conocimiento de artes marciales al servicio de una amplia serie de héroes de la pantalla grande, haciendo las delicias del público.
He channeled his martial arts skills into heroic roles in films like “The Delta Force” and “Missing in Action” and in the long-running TV series “Walker, Texas Ranger.”
On the staff of The New Yorker for more than 60 years, he wrote about Duchamp, Rauschenberg and many others. His books include “Living Well Is the Best Revenge.”
The longest-serving leader in the history of the Georgian Orthodox Church, he helped guide his country in its transition from Soviet repression to modern statehood.
He was a master jeweler, but his pieces looked more like miniature contemporary artworks than anything you’d find at Cartier.
In a distinguished career in classical and contemporary plays, she drew acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic for her dramatic portrayal of the French singer Édith Piaf.
An environmental engineer, he invented a biological method to remove nitrogen and phosphorous from wastewater, an advance that transformed the industry worldwide.
A chance encounter in Brooklyn led to a decades-long project following the boys’ lives, from childhood to national prominence as critics of President Trump.
He made no effort to campaign but won the South Carolina Democratic primary in 2010, becoming the state’s first Black major-party nominee for Senate.
He took on some of the world’s most challenging health crises in troubled areas, skillfully coordinating global efforts to reduce the spread of disease.
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.