
Robert Day, Financier and Philanthropist, Dies at 79
An heir to an oil fortune, he built his own empire with TCW Group and was an influential California donor, including to his alma mater, Claremont McKenna College.
An heir to an oil fortune, he built his own empire with TCW Group and was an influential California donor, including to his alma mater, Claremont McKenna College.
A tough but pragmatic negotiator, he led his union through decades of tumult, then helped drive through the president’s infrastructure plans.
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Her investigations upended rural sheriffs’ departments, exposed state senators’ misdeeds and exemplified the power of a past era in American newspapering.
She achieved remarkable political breakthroughs as a woman, becoming San Francisco’s first female mayor and the first woman elected to the Senate from California.
The California Democrat, the oldest member of Congress, had suffered a precipitous decline in health in recent months.
A psychologist, he started the alternative weekly with Dan Wolf and Norman Mailer in 1955. “We were crazy enough to think it would succeed,” he said.
After he made his mark in London in the 1970s, he went on to play a wide range of roles, including Edward VII, Oscar Wilde and Winston Churchill.
Called the father of India’s Green Revolution, he served on agencies and boards around the world and developed a system of ecologically safe food production.
He drew praise for his scene in the film, in which he belittled Eminem’s character with sarcastic lyrics, a gruff voice and an imposing presence.
He drew a distinction between the facts we learn and the experiences we remember, which he argued are part of what makes us human.
In his 23-year career, all of it with the Baltimore Orioles, he had 2,848 hits and 268 home runs. But he was best known for his unparalleled defense.
A singer, songwriter and virtuoso musician, he was a founder of the clean-cut group the Association and wrote one of its biggest hits, “Cherish.”
She aided in the rediscovery of Oscar Micheaux and others who were telling stories for Black audiences early in the last century.
Writing in a conversational and colloquial style, he offered practical advice on how to cut down on mistakes, the most difficult part of the game to master.
He led Rutgers to an undefeated 1975-76 regular season and into the Final Four, where the Scarlet Knights lost in the semifinals. But his N.B.A. career was brief.
Miembro de alto rango de la mafia italiana, fue detenido en enero tras décadas prófugo. Fue localizado debido a los historiales médicos relacionados con su tratamiento contra el cáncer.
An experienced character actor, he found fame in the 1960s as the enigmatic Illya Kuryakin, and again in the 2000s as an eccentric medical examiner on “N.C.I.S.”
With her 20-inch waist and gangly figure, she overcame early skepticism from editors to embody a new look in 1950s fashion.
A high-ranking member of the Cosa Nostra, he was arrested in January after decades on the run. He was found through medical records related to his cancer treatment.
After his unlikely win, in 1972, he spent his single term pushing for a more liberal foreign policy, particularly toward Africa.
He took the extraordinary step of banning tackling during all practices, which reduced concussions at a time when brain trauma in football had become a crisis.
He served for 38 years in Parliament and, after being elected president at a critical moment in Italy’s fortunes, helped stabilize the country.
With exquisite precision, he used costumes and sets in staging many of his pictures, letting his subjects, whatever their social status, express themselves.
He was especially acclaimed for his performances at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany. As his voice developed, he once said, so did his view of how and why to deploy it.
He was among the first to offer a comprehensive explanation, and a possible solution, for the country’s rising health care costs.
He captured people in shadow on Chicago sidewalks and under storefronts in wintry Coney Island. He also shot athletes like Muhammad Ali and Mickey Mantle.
Her novels and nonfiction provided alternatives to the Western- and male-centric views of modern India offered by writers like E.M. Forster.
More Frank Zappa than Ronald McDonald, he moved the field beyond red noses, infusing it with social commentary while breaking down walls of propriety.
He also adapted his best-known novel, “Where’s Poppa?,” into the script for a raw Carl Reiner comedy and directed the disco movie “Thank God It’s Friday.”
Known for sophisticated and wearable clothes, he was among a crop of young designers celebrated in the late 1980s. He went on to consult for fashion companies.
He was publisher of The Chicago Sun-Times, where he was also the top editor, and New York’s Daily News. He was later editor of Foreign Affairs magazine.
A Briton with a rich baritone, he charmed audiences, mostly in Europe and America, with sentimental songs, like his signature hit, “The Last Farewell.”
His Japanese Canadian family was interned during World War II. That experience inspired him to create inviting buildings for all people.
As the first known American woman of Chinese ancestry to earn a medical degree, she treated celebrities and opened a practice in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
The song, from 1999, was the biggest hit for her, her sister and a friend, who made up the R&B trio 702.
In the wake of hurricanes and the BP oil spill, he revolutionized his industry by turning from wild catches to cage farming his precious bivalves.
He clanged coconuts in the Monty Python stage musical in 2005; seven years later, he won a Tony for “Nice Work if You Can Get It.”
Arriving in New York from Japan in 1958, he sought to “create works with no trace of touch” in cool but vivid monochromes.
An intense and uncompromising player, he made music that one critic said was more about “motion and spirit” than tonal centers, rhythms and melodies.
In books, articles and lectures across Europe and America, he broadened an international appreciation of his native country’s rich dance tradition.
Taking over for his father in 1961, he transformed a former vaudeville house in Harlem into a pre-eminent R&B showcase.
His voluptuous figures, both in paintings and in sculpture, portrayed the high and mighty as well as everyday people through an enlarging prism.
A North Carolina hog farmer and a Democrat-turned-Republican, he helped strip Mayor Marion Barry of his fiscal powers as Washington’s deficits swelled in the late ’90s.
As a dancer, actress and storyteller also known as Molly Spotted Elk, she bridged her world and that of the West, captivating audiences along the way.
In Peru, he argued that global capitalism was at the root of the global ecological crisis, and he spent decades fighting for an alternative.
She won the first Women’s World Pro Bodybuilding Championship. But she saw herself as an artist and posed for Robert Mapplethorpe and other photographers.
She saw her family members marched off to their deaths while she went to a forced-labor camp. It took her almost 60 years to begin telling her story.
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.
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 was a robust defender of a host of high-profile clients, including Bill Clinton over the president’s relationship with an intern.
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 led a project in Scotland that, in 1996, cloned a mammal for the first time, a feat of genetic engineering that shocked the world.
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.
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.
As the creative force for Christian Dior longer than its founder, he maintained a reputation for playful elegance throughout fashion’s endless cycles.
Elevó el perfil de la traducción en grandes obras literarias e insistió para que su nombre apareciera en las portadas de los libros que tradujo, incluido el “Quijote”.
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.
As a police officer he was a star witness in corruption hearings. Imprisoned for murder, he claimed he’d been falsely prosecuted 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.
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.
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.”
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.
“You are my voice in English,” Gabriel García Márquez told her. She insisted that her name appear on the covers of books she translated, including with that of Cervantes.
She embodied the glamour and the hardship of being married to an American hero. Her husband, Jim Lovell, was the commander of the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission in 1970.
He spent decades working on artificial intelligence, striving to create computers 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 and freelance diplomacy, often with considerable success.
With songs like “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” he became a folk hero to fans known as Parrot Heads. He also became a millionaire hundreds of times over.
She won Emmy and Peabody Awards for “The Loving Story,” about a Virginia couple’s successful challenge to a ban on interracial marriage.
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.
An Egyptian businessman, he built an empire of trophy properties in London, Paris and elsewhere, but it was all overshadowed by a fatal car crash that stunned the world.
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.
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 the country’s first commissioner of official languages, he oversaw a dual-language mandate. He later led a task force to listen to Canadians’ complaints.
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.
Often turning her lens on women, she emerged as one of independent cinema’s fiercest proponents on the West Coast.
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.