Documentó la pobreza y las protestas de los años cincuenta y sesenta, y creó imágenes imborrables del Che Guevara y Gabriel García Márquez.
He documented poverty and protest in the 1950s and ’60s, and he created indelible images of Che Guevara and Gabriel García Márquez.
After he was paralyzed in an accident, his use of marijuana for medical purposes led him to become one of the nation’s most influential cannabis activists.
A fiscal conservative who supported gun control and other liberal causes, he was the last Republican elected to serve his state as governor and to represent it in the House.
A journalist of the old school, he covered presidential races and political affairs for several newspapers and in many books, as well as in a long-running column, “Politics Today.”
El magnético actor protagonizó ‘El coleccionista’, y tuvo papeles memorables los dos primeros filmes de Superman y ‘Las aventuras de Priscilla, reina del desierto’.
Dan Tana’s was said to be as central to Hollywood as palm trees and Botox. On a scale of 1 to 10, the people watching was a 10. Even the steak came with pasta.
He was also known for his performances in “Twister” and “The Matrix Reloaded,” and came from a family of stunt performers.
A quiet giant in graphic design, he created posters for hundreds of movies, including “West Side Story” and “Manhattan.” But his work was often unsigned.
Known for his “heartbreak blue eyes,” he starred in “Billy Budd” and “The Collector,” and had a memorable role in “Superman” and “Superman II.”
Her “Seventeen,” a study of teenagers later recognized as a major work of cinéma vérité, was pulled from a public TV series in 1982 under pressure from its sponsor.
He became a fixture on the popular daytime television show as Robert Scorpio, a spy who became a police commissioner.
With her husband, Charles Saatchi, she assembled one of the world’s top collections of contemporary art, featuring works by Andy Warhol, Julian Schnabel, Cy Twombly and many others.
Playing a blend of rock, R&B and zydeco, he had a hit in 1966 with “Sweet Dreams” and inspired Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe, among many others.
He was one of the relatively few Black Americans to reach the upper echelons of global finance. He was also a competitive sailor.
In arguing that language enforces the power imbalance between the sexes, she inspired an entire academic field.
A pilot who never flew on a suicide mission during World War II, Mr. Sen went on to become a grandmaster of Japan’s tea ceremony and used the platform to oppose all wars.
Ms. Bezos and her husband invested about $245,000 in Amazon when the online bookstore was in its first year.
He braved frigid waters and sharks and surfed even when he had a kidney stone while breaking the record for the most consecutive days surfed.
Calling himself America’s best trial lawyer, he won justice for Karen Silkwood and successfully defended Imelda Marcos. He also wrote best sellers.
A former N.Y.P.D. detective, he rejuvenated properties on the Brooklyn waterfront and restored a historic village in upstate New York.
A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.
With Eric Clapton, he wrote “Bell Bottom Blues” and built one of the greatest — if most short-lived — supergroups of the 1970s.
His summer conferences gave budding playwrights a chance to try out new works, many of which went on to success in New York.
She was a poet, singer, composer and pianist whose melancholic home recordings from the 1950s hit on universal themes of despair, heartbreak, longing and loss.
He retired as the N.F.L.’s leading career receiver but was soon surpassed. In retirement, he went to prison for bilking investors in an $8 million fraud.
Once on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, he donated substantially to the arts, higher education, hospitals and criminal justice reform.
They transformed dolls into one-of-a-kind pieces that sold for thousands of dollars. A married couple, they died in a car crash in Italy.
She played a witty teenager on one of the first American television shows that centered Black teenagers.
For five years, he honed the paper’s focus on hard news and enterprising journalism, distancing it from its reputation for fluffy, bite-sized stories.
He imposed a 47-month prison term on Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman, who was convicted of fraud. Sentencing guidelines recommended up to 24 years.
She was revered in the jazz world as a chance taker who communicated an effervescent joy in the pure act of singing.
A Parisian-born oil heiress, she collected art and supported major artists, designed costumes and moved in rarefied social and cultural circles.
As head of the area’s Chamber of Commerce, he capitalized on the community’s heritage to promote economic development.
He missed his chance to be Led Zeppelin’s lead vocalist, but his solo work — and his otherworldly voice — drew raves from Aretha Franklin and others.
He helped build H. Ross Perot’s company Electronic Data Systems into a leading data processing firm. He later played a crucial role in Mr. Perot’s 1992 presidential campaign.
He briefly mentored Don King and promoted fighters both well-known (like Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Robinson) and obscure.
James A. Lovell Jr., the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, led the three man crew, narrowly surviving a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970.
A former federal judge, he first came to the F.B.I. just as two of the worst spies in American history were running rampant.
Con un equipo de Monterrey, México, lanzó un juego perfecto en la final del campeonato mundial de Ligas Menores, una hazaña que no se ha vuelto a repetir.
He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom Hanks in the movie “Apollo 13.”
Born in Massachusetts, she built a following in Parisian nightclubs before returning to the U.S., where she had a successful career as a torch singer.
Playing for a team from Monterrey, Mexico, he pitched a perfect game in the event’s championship game, the first and only time that has happened.
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara tasked him with creating an encyclopedic history of the war, which became known as the Pentagon Papers.
The announcement of Mr. Blackstock’s death came one day after Ms. Clarkson said she would be postponing the remainder of her residency in Las Vegas.
A documentary filmmaker and amateur archaeologist, he was consumed by the desire to find an ancient city in the Arabian desert known as Atlantis of the Sands.
A founding editor of Rolling Stone and a seasoned music journalist, he spent time with the Beatles and toured with the Grateful Dead and the Rolling Stones.
Her connection to the great modern dancer lasted a lifetime, from studying with her as a child to leading the Martha Graham Dance Company as an artistic director.
A novelist and memoirist, she famously clashed with her brother, leading to the fall of a Kentucky publishing dynasty that her paternal grandfather established in 1918.
A figurehead leader, he had little real power but did endorse measures that allowed the country’s generals to extend their rule after a 2021 coup.
Las contribuciones de Palmieri a la música afrocaribeña impulsaron el inicio de la época dorada de la salsa en Nueva York, y su larga carrera lo consagró como uno de los grandes cerebros musicales del siglo XX.
He roped salsa into conversation with jazz, rock, funk and even modern classical music. “A new world music,” one critic said, “is being born.”
He took over the reins of the troubled Allied Signal in 1991 and within a few years made it one of America’s best-run and most profitable companies.
At CBS and ABC, he pursued news segments aimed at destigmatizing gay life and drawing attention to an epidemic that at the time was largely overlooked.
He mastered the art of the interview over 32 years on public radio, at WNYC. He was fired in 2017 amid allegations of sexual harassment, which he vehemently denied.
A Mack le diagnosticaron un tumor maligno en el sistema nervioso a finales del año pasado.
Ms. Mack was diagnosed with a malignant tumor in her nervous system late last year.
A production manager died at the dance center last week in what the district attorney’s office in Berkshire County, Mass., described as a workplace accident.
Over five decades, he produced some 150 books, many of them illustrated by his wife, Janet Ahlberg, including classics like “Each Peach Pear Plum.”
As a three-term president, he guided the country toward democracy, but he was called an authoritarian at heart and accused of brutality during the revolt that put him in power.
Widely regarded as the inspiration for the recast of the James Bond character “M,” she was the first British spy chief to be publicly named and photographed.
Before 9/11, she ran a dry cleaning business in Massachusetts; in the aftermath, she returned home after decades away to educate young girls.
Known for her platinum blond hair, she earned Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her role. Her divorce from Burt Reynolds landed her in the tabloids for years.
Some said he had shown nearly as much promise in the ring as Muhammad Ali. But he gave up his own career to join the champ’s entourage.
Her hits included “The Exorcist” and “The Thorn Birds,” as well as autobiographies of Betty Ford and Warren Buffett.
She became suspicious when she discovered large deposits in the bank account of Aldrich Ames, whose betrayal cost the lives of at least eight double agents.
He appeared regularly at the Metropolitan Opera and sang in major European opera houses, but a stage accident in 2005 nearly ended his career.
She blazed a trail for women in country music with the candor of her songs and her bold fashion sense. She was the first woman to host a segment on the Opry.
Fusing traditional Tejano sounds with blues, rock and country, he recorded with Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Ry Cooder.
As the city’s corporation counsel under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, he defended stop-and-frisk policing and a ban on smoking in bars and restaurants.
He made a fortune as a commodities broker, then used his wealth to back the American Freedom Train and other high-profile vintage excursions.
He was a socialist reporter turned magnate who earned a fortune in the 1990s. He defended press freedoms even after the industry became beleaguered and unprofitable.
The Dionnes, the first quints known to have survived infancy, became a global sensation and prey for the greedy. And Cécile came to resent it all. Only one of the five now survives.
Although she faced discrimination from her mostly male colleagues, she did groundbreaking work that showed experimentalist physicists where and how to look for new particles.
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.
A playwright and screenwriter, she adapted a book about domestic abuse for NBC, bringing a taboo subject into the national conversation.
As a young lawyer and a Communist revolutionary, he helped start the violent Red Army Faction. Later, he went to prison as a Nazi apologist and Holocaust denier.
After joining a boxing program while incarcerated, he emerged a contender in the pro ranks, winning championships in two weight classes in the 1980s.
As a longtime Washington Post reporter and an author of 10 books, he held corporate America accountable for safe pharmaceuticals and cars.
He made the cumbersome bass soar, sing and leap, and became one of few bassists in history to successfully pursue a career outside an orchestra.
Both a skilled fielder and a fearsome power hitter, he entered the national sports spotlight with two memorable home runs in a nationally televised 1984 game.
A renowned interior designer, he created instantly recognizable rooms using lush fabrics, oversize antiques and imperfectly plastered walls that convey a sense of age.
A verbal gymnast on and off the page (as well as a musician and photographer), he was a founder of the Dark Room Collective, a community of writers, and fostered a boom in Black poetry.
She put millions from her foundation into projects in California, like a performing arts center in Beverly Hills and a wildlife crossing over the busy 101 freeway.
He surveyed the trash of record companies, haggled with aging photographers and scoured estate sales, building an archive widely seen as unmatched.
A son of Lebanese musical icons, Mr. Rahbani became one himself, with satirical critiques of his country’s dysfunction that melded Arab and Western music.
Because of a deal made on a handshake in a parking lot, she was long left out of a famous toy’s story. When she was 94, a documentary changed that.
A mathematician by training, he acquired a devoted following with songs that set sardonic lyrics to music that was often maddeningly cheerful.
Widely admired if long underrecognized for his collage-based art, he died only days after the closing of his first retrospective at a major museum, in his native Pittsburgh.
His company, the Chiron Corporation, contributed important scientific discoveries toward treatments for H.I.V., hepatitis B, diabetes and more.
He turned a small family grocery store into a mozzarella empire, producing most of the cheese for American pizza chains like Domino’s, Papa Johns and Pizza Hut.
Con su característico sombrero de fieltro, logró gran popularidad y 14 nominaciones a los Grammy, ganando el premio en dos ocasiones, al tiempo que escalaba las listas de Billboard en los años 70 y 80.
He dealt with the aftereffects of polio to become a prolific winner in the Grand National Series (now the NASCAR Cup) in the 1950s and ’60s.
He funneled cash and weapons to the Irish Republican Army from Libya, and was involved in bombings that targeted Margaret Thatcher and others, killing scores of people.
A multiple Emmy winner, he helped create sophisticated shows for the likes of Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ben Vereen, Burt Bacharach and Bette Midler.
He identified as a “citizen diplomat” and preached mutual respect because, he explained, “everybody is a somebody.”
Known for a smoky voice that she could deploy over four octaves, she recorded albums across six decades and also had success as an actress.
He turned Adams State University in Colorado into a distance-running powerhouse and helped mentor two marathon medalists at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
He turned his family’s lumber business into a manufacturer of model kits that won global popularity for their quality and historical accuracy.
Hulk Hogan, once the cornerstone of professional wrestling, passed away at the age of 71 after suffering a cardiac arrest. His flamboyant personality and star power helped transform professional wrestling from a low-budget regional attraction into a multibillion-dollar industry.
With a national profile, he represented the notorious and the celebrated, helping to secure an acquittal in the Smith rape case and a lenient plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein.
Wearing his signature fedora, he won wide popularity and 14 Grammy nominations, winning twice, and scaled Billboard’s adult contemporary charts in the 1970s and ’80s.
El carismático luchador conocido por arrancarse la camiseta ayudó a convertir un entretenimiento marginado en un monstruo cultural.
The charismatic wrestler helped build an entertainment on the margins into a cultural behemoth.
He relished skewering the U.S. government as he represented unpopular defendants in public corruption and national security cases, like those at Guantánamo.
With books and workshops, she helped others deal with the stress caused by climate change, inspiring them to take action and not be paralyzed by despair.
She was a mainstay of the long-running soap opera for 50 years — so long that she liked to say she led a double life.
Critics praised the natural way she used her voice to inject character into her roles. She had, one wrote, a sound “perfect for Verdi and Puccini.”
He made a conceptual leap in immunotherapy by creating a hybrid T-cell, known as CAR-T, that was genetically modified to destroy cancer cells.
Ozzy Osbourne helped invent heavy metal and was a pioneer in reality television. He was known for his rock ’n’ roll excess and eccentric onstage persona.
His New Albion Brewing Company, founded in 1976, was considered the first microbrewery. It set the model for thousands more to come.
In the 1990s, the U.S. called Microsoft a bullying monopoly and sought to rein it in. The company lost in a landmark decision, but emerged intact.
Como cantante fue pionero del heavy metal. En “The Osbournes” presentó un contrapunto cómico a su fama de estrella del rock.
She was the last of four sisters who became a Depression-era sensation, performing onstage. Offstage, they endured abuse and were studied for their schizophrenia.
As the lead singer of Black Sabbath, he helped invent heavy metal. On “The Osbournes,” he presented a comedic counterpoint to his rock ’n’ roll infamy.
Warner, quien interpretaba al único hijo del personaje de Bill Cosby en la popular comedia de la década de 1980, murió ahogado en Costa Rica.
Warner, who played the only son of Bill Cosby’s character on the beloved 1980s sitcom, drowned in Costa Rica.
A co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, he represented St. Louis in the House as an uncompromising liberal Democrat and a forceful advocate for the poor.
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.