An idealist, he founded The Texas Tribune, a model for nonprofit grass-roots news organizations nationwide, and the American Journalism Project, which supports them.
Born into rural poverty, he climbed to the top of the art market. But he fell after being convicted of selling fake and stolen items.
His candid black-and-white images, prosaic yet provocative, captured the faces of a wide range of New Yorkers. He also took occasional side trips to the West.
She used her wealth strategically to expand opportunities for women, underwriting the development of the pill and supporting the suffrage movement.
Kim Soo-hyun, one of Korea’s most famous actors, was in tears as he denied allegations of dating the actress Kim Sae-ron when she was a minor. Ms. Kim, 24, died by suicide this year.
He wrote from Europe and Asia, served as a book critic and produced a raft of books, on subjects ranging from the French condition to multiculturalism.
A gifted athlete, he gave a clumsy teenage Bruce Springsteen his first nickname, Saddie. Years later, the Boss returned the favor, memorializing him in a song.
It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.
Protagonista con amplitud de interpretación que se ganó los elogios de la crítica, fue conocido por ser carismático pero impredecible. Abandonó Hollywood durante una década.
A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade.
She helped revive the centuries-old tradition of intaglio printing in the U.S., producing fine-art etchings with artists like Chuck Close and Sol LeWitt.
Sworn to secrecy about the goings-on at Britain’s storied World War II decryption operation, she only later recounted the efforts to crack German signals.
He was also a key figure in raising American soccer’s profile on the world stage. Earlier, as a marketer, he saw opportunities in the football ritual of dousing coaches with Gatorade.
Both old school and Old World and married to a celebrated fashion designer, he helped define Manhattan’s high life for many years.
The father of the conservative commentator Tucker Carlson, he won a Peabody Award for television reporting that uncovered a car company’s fraud.
He was a member of a segregated unit in the Pacific Northwest that fought forest fires set off by Japanese balloon bombs.
One of the first to write seriously about a fraught subject, she also played a major role in developing the field of film studies and feminist film theory.
His wide-ranging work drew on field research in his native Sri Lanka as well as his extensive study of English literature and Christian mysticism.
An overnight star as Dr. Kildare in the 1960s, he achieved new acclaim two decades later as the omnipresent leading man of mini-series.
Her L.A. Eyeworks boutique, which she opened with a friend and fellow optician, was a pioneer in turning ordinary frames into bold, artistic accessories.
Homeless on and off for years himself, he was a longtime pivotal member of Picture the Homeless, a group devoted to changing negative perceptions of the unhoused.
He had a reverential regard for birds from an early age, and he turned it into a thriving business. “I call him the Zen master of birds,” Peter Matthiessen said.
His voice can be heard for only a minute in “The Empire Strikes Back,” but it provided the first draft of a character that would be a mainstay of the franchise for decades.
Working in wood, he captured the zeal of New England sports with his exacting, lifelike renderings of Hall of Famers like Ted Williams and Larry Bird.
Schooled in art history, she brought authority and a human perspective to her writing and editing for Architectural Digest, HG, The Times and other publications.
After making a fortune in financial services, he funded the arts and made historical artifacts and documents widely available to the public.
He was the chief architect of 1 World Trade Center, which soared in the wake of 9/11. As chairman of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, he left a mark on New York.
One of the first to shoot the Grateful Dead, he also memorably chronicled many of the other bands that were on the scene in the late 1960s.
While climbing the ranks of the Soviet spy agency, he spent more than a decade working for British intelligence as one of its most highly placed moles.
She wrote seven books in a series that went on to be a hit TV show. After she was replaced by ghostwriters, she reclaimed her characters online in fan fiction.
The author of more than a dozen books and an award-winning documentary, he died in a car crash in Southern California.
A Democrat from Louisiana, he pushed for nuclear power and ending the nation’s reliance on foreign oil in his four terms on Capitol Hill.
A robotics specialist, he animated puppets and dolls for displays worldwide. His “Toyland,” with a two-story-high Santa, drew sightseers to a Brooklyn home for years.
He animated puppets and dolls for holiday displays around the world, and his extravagant, illuminated display at a Brooklyn home was a sightseeing fixture.
His rulings on the U.S. bench might have rankled his father, a civil liberties lawyer; his uncle, a muckraking journalist; and his sister, an imprisoned radical.
A religious organization recruited him to help open New York City’s first independent abortion clinic, though it was unaware that Louisiana had taken away his license.
A winner of top awards in his country, he drew the attention of European and American critics. The prime minister said he “made us see Norway and the world in new ways.”
With his engineering background, he thought about his work differently from how other artists did. His abiding interest was in energy, in the scientific sense.
Ms. Love, from Utah, held a seat in the House for two terms until she aroused the enmity of President Trump. She was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2022.
As the guitarist and main songwriter for the Damned, he helped spark an explosion on the British music scene in the 1970s.
At HBO in the late 1970s, he established the template for presenting stand-up on the small screen. He then became a mainstay of MTV in its early days.
As executive editor from 1986 to 1994, he oversaw a period of financial, technological and journalistic change while lifting newsroom morale and diversifying the staff.
He and his wife, Dorothy Hoobler, wrote 103 books, most recently one about presidential love letters, “Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?”
Married to Gov. Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, she became a proponent of electroshock therapy after unsuccessful treatments for alcoholism and depression.
He claimed a world title in his 20s and, improbably, again in his 40s. He then made millions selling the George Foreman Grill.
Con una cámara fijada a su tabla o en la boca, llevaba a los espectadores de sus videos de paseo, a menudo dentro del “barril” de una ola.
Judge Selya enlivened his writing with original vocabulary and colorful figures of speech. “Selyaisms” included asseverate, crapulous and sockdolager.
Among his rescues was teaming up with Warren Buffett to keep the investment bank Salomon Brothers afloat amid a bid-rigging scandal in the 1990s.
His studies showed that a B vitamin deficiency could cause hardened arteries. It took the medical profession more than a decade to catch up.
A highly physical performer, he said he couldn’t tell jokes. But he became well known for a wild act that fellow comedians didn’t want to follow.
He was one of four journalists who started the muckraking progressive magazine in 1976. He returned as its editor in chief in the 1990s.
He was a magazine ad salesman when he and a colleague, Robert Ford, teamed with Kurtis Blow and helped break rap music into the mainstream.
With a video recorder affixed to his board or clamped to his teeth, he took viewers along for the ride, often inside the curling “barrel” of a wave.
A founding editor of People, he also served as editor in chief of Little, Brown and produced films. But his public image was defined by a 1952 story for Life.
His reporting sought to humanize and unite Asian Americans. It also led to the release of a Korean immigrant on death row.
As a conservative presidential speechwriter, he also relegated communism to “the ash heap of history.” Earlier, he won a Pulitzer Prize as a young reporter.
His “Be Your Own House Plant Expert” and other best-selling manuals were a fixture of British life for half a century. Among his many fans was Margaret Thatcher.
A fighter pilot in a vastly outnumbered Royal Air Force — one of the “few” hailed by Churchill — he took to the skies to help stave off a Nazi land invasion of Britain.
His artwork paid tribute to its surroundings, in New York City and elsewhere, rendering nature at an oversized scale that made it unmissable.
Self-taught, he practiced “the lost art of making furniture well,” producing pieces for collectors, presidents and even the pope.
His lounges in Manhattan settings like Grand Central Terminal and the Empire State Building conjured the elegance of a bygone era.
As the leader of the Youngbloods, he sang an enduring anthem of the peace-and-love era, with the chorus, “Come on people now, smile on your brother.”
She won the Cannes Film Festival’s best actress award for her debut performance in 1999. She was later diagnosed with a rare adrenal gland cancer.
Sometimes called the Warren Buffett of Hong Kong, he made his billions by initially building apartments for middle-class descendants of mainland refugees.
An undrafted, 6-foot-1 point guard with patchy hair, he made an enduring fashion statement and became seen as the ultimate Seattle SuperSonic.
He was know for modifying cars with innovative metal work and paint jobs, and for building vehicles like the Galileo shuttle for the original “Star Trek” series.
A Democrat, she represented Westchester County for three decades and became the first woman to lead the powerful House Appropriations Committee.
Seeing land rights as the key to lifting up the impoverished, he pushed authoritarian governments as well as emerging democratic ones to distribute farmland.
He became an entrepreneur during a solid career with the Milwaukee Bucks. He later bought hundreds of fast-food outlets, a Coca-Cola bottling business and Ebony and Jet magazines.
The son of an immigrant, he represented a majority Hispanic district in Arizona for 12 terms but had lately been absent from Capitol Hill while being treated for cancer.
Writing on his own and for Washington Monthly and Mother Jones, he earned a reputation as a serious policy thinker. He also invented Friday cat blogging.
The author of numerous studies, he urged patients to question their physicians and expressed concern about cancer treatment for older adults.
A major figure in independent publishing, he promoted Henry Miller’s once-banned book and helped make “A Confederacy of Dunces” a best seller after the author’s death.
A plain-spoken lawmaker from Wyoming, he balanced his conservative views with moderate stands on abortion rights, gay marriage and immigration reform.
She shepherded the works of George S. Kaufman from the 20th century into the next, encouraging regional theater productions and helping to steer two of them to Broadway.
At a time when, in his words, “nobody was writing about gay life,” he produced groundbreaking novels and memoirs and published books by Harvey Fierstein and others.
By grabbing a loaded handgun from Squeaky Fromme in 1975, Mr. Buendorf, as part of a Secret Service detail, thwarted a would-be assassin in California’s capital.
He pledged a new era of openness in the wake of the Watergate scandal, but his relationship with the press corps proved rocky.
A longtime columnist for The Washington Post, he also wrote dozens of books about basketball, baseball, tennis, football and the Olympics.
Blacklisted at home but finding acclaim abroad, she sought to bridge East and West, the sacred and the secular, in vivid, colorful compositions.
A mainstay of England’s drag circuit, he performed for over five decades and encouraged other drag queens to flourish.
She explored tensions among the social classes and within families in fiction that prompted Roddy Doyle to call her “Ireland’s greatest writer.”
Mistakes happen, he theorized, because multiple vulnerabilities in a system align — like the holes in cheese — to create a recipe for disaster.
She and Noel Furie had just come out as lesbians when they opened an unusual gathering place for women in Connecticut. Nearly half a century later, it is still thriving.
He conjured fantastical worlds with covers for novels by Philip K. Dick and Arthur C. Clarke. He also left his mark on albums by Fleetwood Mac and Rod Stewart.
His “Kramer vs. Kramer” won for best picture in 1980, one of many high points in a career that saw him in top jobs, twice, at Paramount.
He helped turn the Library of Congress into a leading center for research on the history of jazz, and made some surprising discoveries of his own.
A versatile character actor whose career spanned film, theater and television, Mr. Fisher-Becker was known for small, memorable roles.
He was cleaning the deck of the U.S.S. Oklahoma when it capsized under Japanese torpedo fire. Less than a year later, he survived the sinking of another Navy ship in the Pacific.
In more than a dozen books, he created characters who were obsessed with maps, urban walking, sexual fetishes and Volkswagen Beetles.
A pitcher, he played for the Yankees and the Orioles. When Mickey Mantle was sent to the minors in 1951, Schallock was called up.
In addition to winning 19 Grand Slam titles, including two singles championships, he was a coach, a club pro and a television commentator.
In works like “Blood Knot,” “Master Harold” and “The Island,” he laid bare the realities of racial separatism in his homeland, South Africa.
He believed that architects could design better buildings if they did the construction themselves. His do-it-yourself approach caught on.
She was legally blind and used a motorized wheelchair, but she managed to capture what she called the “ironic reality” of New York City on film.
He was the last remaining core member of a group that was both propelled and pigeonholed in the 1970s by its close association with the Beatles.
An indefatigable gardener, she was one of the first nutritionists to emphasize the connections between farming practices and consumers’ health.
In 1968, he became the first Black person to serve in the Legislature since Reconstruction. Shunned by colleagues at first, he became a political force in the state.
He had just recently joined the St. Louis Browns when he was replaced in the lineup by Eddie Gaedel, a 3-foot-7 circus performer, in a game in 1951.
Originally a gospel singer, she went on to meld soulful melodies with dance-floor-friendly grooves on songs like the 1975 Top 10 hit “Rockin’ Chair.”
As a paragon of the New Jack Swing sound, the band recorded three platinum albums and a slew of hits, including “Feels Good.”
Her “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself,” a guide to shedding toxic relationships, has sold more than seven million copies.
A Caldecott Medal winner, he turned childhood memories of fleeing the Nazis in Poland into magical stories.
She and her husband were the first people to travel the length of the Americas in an amphibious vehicle. But he was recognized for their accomplishments long before she was.
He was the secret weapon behind the cult-classic Cartoon Network series that reimagined the 1960s intergalactic superhero as temperamental talk show host.
Singing with the Les Brown band, she celebrated the Yankee star’s 56-game hitting streak in 1941. She also performed on Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows.”
With Diller Scofidio + Renfro, he brought a conceptual-art sensibility to cultural landmarks like Lincoln Center and to innovative public spaces like Manhattan’s High Line.
As a civil rights lawyer who faced resistance and threats, he challenged school districts that tried to defy the Supreme Court’s 1954 ban on school segregation.
He helped introduce a funkier strain of the music in the 1970s. He also had an impact on hip-hop: His “Everybody Loves the Sunshine” has been sampled nearly 200 times.
As a young potter, he turned up on the doorstep of an octogenarian master of modern painting. They grew so close it became a scandal.
A notable poet in his own right, he was best known for rendering into English the words of a poet who reacted to the Holocaust by inventing a new version of German.
A former mayor of Houston, he was in attendance at the president’s speech on Tuesday night and was later taken to a hospital.
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.