Anne Innis Dagg, Who Studied Giraffes in the Wild, Dies at 91
She was believed to be the first Western scientist to study the animals in their natural habitat, but she struggled to overcome sexism in academia.
She was believed to be the first Western scientist to study the animals in their natural habitat, but she struggled to overcome sexism in academia.
She pivoted from painting to lighting exhibitions, performance art, graphic design and minimalist music, performed with her husband, the composer La Monte Young.
After the 9/11 attacks, Mr. Graham became an outspoken critic of President George W. Bush’s response and voted against invading Iraq.
He was part of the Oakland A’s dynasty in the ’70s. He was also the winningest Jewish pitcher in Major League Baseball, surpassing Sandy Koufax.
The record-setting pitcher known as Oisk in Brooklyn was the last surviving member of “The Boys of Summer.”
He won three pennants and a World Series as the St. Louis skipper, promoting what was called “Whiteyball,” combining speed, defense and pitching.
He fused the music of his Sephardic roots with Arab traditions, incorporating boogie-woogie and other influences, to create a singular style.
She was a founder of the Fun Gallery, which staged early shows by Keith Haring and other artists who defined the city’s downtown scene in the 1980s.
He arranged for artists to have access to astronauts, launchpads and more. “Their imaginations enable them to venture beyond a scientific explanation,” he once said.
A professed archaeologist of the industry, he opened his own stores and partnered with other experts and vendors in the nascent comics business.
His testimony as an expert witness in some 600 trials helped plaintiffs win billions of dollars in cases involving malfeasance by pharmaceutical makers.
She got her training as a young lawyer for the Securities and Exchange Commission, but once she became a commissioner, she accused colleagues of arrogance and insularity.
He brought worldwide attention to a radical yet elemental form of contemporary dance that emerged in the wake of wartime destruction.
As one-third of the production team Organized Noize, Wade nurtured the careers of Outkast, Goodie Mob and Future from the confines of his mother’s basement, known as the Dungeon.
A champion of Black artists, she explored themes of race, gender, class, family and community through a vast array of media and later the written word.
He won two Pulitzers for Florida newspapers, commenting wryly on war, segregation, church scandals and more while reaching readers nationwide through syndication.
He was a leading light on an undistinguished team. But he became known less for his achievement on the field than for exchanging wives with a teammate.
He negotiated Mr. Simpson’s star turn in commercials, tapping into his football fame, and formed a social bond with him — until there were murder charges. They died on the same day.
She made documentaries of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” and her daughter Sofia Coppola’s “The Virgin Suicides” and recalled their lives in books.
He diagnosed dozens of patients with what he said were suppressed memories of being tortured by cults. He later lost his license.
He was one of the stars of the Cockettes, a psychedelic collective formed at the turn of the 1970s in San Francisco, that was short-lived but inspired generations.
His negotiations led to Dan Rather’s elevation from “60 Minutes” to anchor of the “CBS Evening News” and sent Diane Sawyer from “60 Minutes” to ABC.
From the mid-1990s onward he was one of the biggest names in fashion, with stores around the world and celebrity admirers like Lenny Kravitz and Cindy Crawford.
With his longtime co-host Jim Lehrer, he delivered thoughtful reports that stood in stark contrast to the commercial networks’ ever more sensational newscasts.
He and his wife wrote pioneering studies; he used the term “coercive control” to describe psychological and physical dominance by abusers.
Saltó a la fama en el campo de fútbol americano y amasó fortunas en el cine. Pero el juicio en el que se le acusó de asesinar a su exesposa y a uno de sus amigos lo cambió todo.
He ran to football fame and made fortunes in movies. His trial for the murder of his former wife and her friend became an inflection point on race in America.
Born in Hawaii, he moved to Japan in 1988 and won 11 grand championships. His success drove a resurgence in the sport’s popularity.
Obsessed with comics from a young age, she was a pioneer in a male-dominated field and later documented the contributions of other women.
Born Calvin Lebrun, Mister Cee was a pioneer in New York City’s hip-hop scene and helped boost the career of the Notorious B.I.G.
He was arrested protesting war and clashed with fellow bishops in supporting gay marriage and the ordination of women and championing victims of sex abuse by priests.
A dissident who promoted democracy and religious freedom, she was arrested by the K.G.B. After independence from Moscow, she was honored by Lithuania’s Parliament.
In 1977, the Mets dealt Tom Seaver, a future Hall of Fame pitcher, for what The Times called “four players of far less magnitude.” Zachry was one of them.
El bosón de Higgs lleva su nombre. Es un elemento clave del modelo estándar, que encapsulaba todo el conocimiento humano hasta el momento sobre las partículas elementales.
He used his church, First African Methodist Episcopal, as a base to address the social ills that confronted the city’s Black population.
For him, “art played a particular role in social change,” the director Mehmet Ergen said. “Everything was political.”
A local hero in his hometown, he was best known for his hit “Ain’t Got No Home,” which showcased the vocal versatility that earned him his nickname.
The Higgs boson was named for him. It was a key element of the Standard Model, which encapsulated all human knowledge so far about elementary particles.
He shared a Nobel Prize in Physics for discoveries that paved the way for high-speed internet communication, mobile phones and bar-code readers.
The Long Island paper won seven Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure, and he was a top editor for the Arizona Project, which investigated a reporter’s murder.
One of the Army’s most highly decorated servicemen, he received the military’s supreme tribute for valor, for his actions in the Korean War — 71 years after the fact.
Known for his field savvy and his powerful arm, he helped propel the New York Mets through their storied 1969 World Series run.
A musical voyager who wouldn’t be limited by genre, style or even instrument, he brought exuberance to the Robert Glasper Experiment and other groups.
He accompanied stars like John Coltrane and worked frequently with his brothers. “I’ve always thought I was a master,” he once said. Few disagreed.
The murder of Ms. Genovese, and her neighbors’ reaction to it, generated headlines. The nature of her relationship with Ms. Zielonko was a different story.
She wrote about politics and the patriarchy as a left-wing writer, then alienated her compatriots with exposés critical of the Black Panthers and the environmental movement.
He expanded the educational mission of Thomas Jefferson’s plantation. He also embraced research that showed Jefferson had fathered the children of one of his slaves.
Because there were few opportunities for Black singers in the U.S., she began performing in Europe, where she was praised for her work in “Tosca,” “Carmen” and other operas.
She explored the struggles of young women in the novel “The L-Shaped Room” but found her biggest success with a children’s book about a magical cupboard.
As a press agent, he had his first big hit with “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” In dog competitions, his first big hit was a dachshund named Virginia.
A refugee from Iraq, he explored in popular books the worlds of Jews living in Arabic countries or who fled persecution, and of Arabs living in Israel.
While his identical twin was the first American to summit Everest, he was best known for his devotion to Mount Rainier, the peak of their youth.
He played a key role in securing the Montreal Protocol, an international environmental pact to protect the ozone layer by reducing the use of certain chemicals.
His work, on an increasingly large scale, attempted to highlight, and repair, the impact of human intervention on the landscape.
His imprisonment for a minor marijuana offense became a cause célèbre. He was released after John Lennon and Yoko Ono sang about him at a protest rally.
His imprisonment for a minor marijuana offense became a cause célèbre. He was released after John Lennon and Yoko Ono sang about him at a protest rally.
He brought surrealism, and politics, into the design world, disdaining conformity and right angles. “He was an enemy of the grid.”
His innovative stop-motion animation influenced a generation of filmmakers, including the creators of Wallace and Gromit.
In a career spanning more than 40 years, he established himself as a hyperliterate jester and an anarchic clown.
She explored the history and culture of Africa, the West Indies and Europe in work that made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel Prize.
His sprawling and boisterous novel “The Sot-Weed Factor,” published in 1960, projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers.
He oversaw design of new ballparks for the Baltimore Orioles and San Diego Padres, as well as renovations for Fenway Park with the Boston Red Sox.
He first became known for playing a series of oddball characters on one of TV’s most influential sketch shows. He was later a familiar face in film and on TV.
Escaping injury in the Japanese attack on the ship in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, he went on to help in recovering bodies and putting out fires.
She received a Golden Globe in 1954 as that year’s rising star and appeared in movies alongside Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Paul Newman.
She worked as a secretary before being hired as an associate producer at the NBC News public affairs show in 1956. She went on to spend 41 years there.
After working on the earliest version of the internet, he saw its potential and founded a conference on computer networking equipment.
A place at her dinner tables, which sat 75, provided access to networks of money, influence and power across cultural and political divides.
Mr. Perdomo, who died in a motorcycle accident on Friday, played the pansexual warlock Ambrose Spellman in the Netflix series.
Raised by a McCarthy-era rebel, the producer and journalist Hannah Weinstein, she followed her mother’s path into movies and television, advocacy and action.
He bucked the Democratic machine to become the youngest member of the state’s General Assembly and reformed government as the first Essex County executive.
His biographies of Charles Bukowski and Lawrence Ferlinghetti came to overshadow his own work. “I would love an interview,” he once said, “where Bukowski is not mentioned.”
To tell the full story of the American Black experience, he created an Atlanta institution in 1978 and later moved it to a building “erected brick by brick” by Black masons.
A singer known for her mastery of standards, she found stardom in Canada on TV and in nightclubs. But she was virtually unknown in the United States.
His portrayal of a drill instructor earned him the Oscar for best supporting actor. He was the first Black performer to win in that category.
He depicted the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and, most indelibly, the World Trade Center. Those paintings took on new meaning after 9/11.
He conceived an early version of cyberspace and predicted the “technological singularity,” a tipping point at which machines would become smarter than humans.
A granddaughter of the celebrated Maine brand’s founder, she set out as an entrepreneur in her mid-60s and used her wealth to fund right-wing causes.
A tireless Hungarian advocate of contemporary music, he adapted literary sources both modern and classic, instilling his work with “inimitable character and pathos.”
He served four terms in the Senate from Connecticut and was chosen by Al Gore as his running mate in the 2000 election. He was the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket.
The portrait that emerged from her discovery, called Leavitt’s Law, showed that the universe was hundreds of times bigger than astronomers had imagined.
She became an award-winning author of children’s books and young-adult novels despite debilitating health issues and the murder of her father.
A billionaire businessman and a late-blooming piano aficionado, he set a record with the anonymous $100 million gift that he and his wife gave the school.
He helped pioneer a branch of the field that exposed hard-wired mental biases in people’s economic behavior. The work led to a Nobel.
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.
A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem.
He was one of the prosecuted Panther 21 in New York, and his account of abuse in jail was a catalyst for Leonard Bernstein’s famous Park Avenue fund-raising party.
She was the first chess player to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated. But people focused more on her looks than on her ability.
Her work looked at how race and power are experienced in America. In 2022, she filed a lawsuit saying that the appraisal of her home was undervalued because of bias.
He was held prisoner in nine concentration camps. Decades later, he fought a battle against American Nazis that became a major free-speech case.
Mr. Angelos oversaw 14 consecutive losing seasons, the worst run in franchise history, but the team is now a winning ball club about to be sold to new owners.
In 1964, at the height of the civil rights movement, he became the first Black pilot for a major commercial airline in the United States.
His recordings of Beethoven and Chopin were hailed as classics, but his technical ability sometimes invited controversy.
After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades.
A poet, publisher and professor, she channeled the revolutionary spirit and deconstructionist currents of the 1960s to challenge the conventions of poetry.
Born into English wealth and Oxford-educated, she left it all behind for a life of radical and often violent activism.
At 15, he escaped to England. At 20, he enlisted in the British Army and identified a German minister — whose roles included deporting Dutch Jews to labor camps — as he tried to flee.
Many were left behind by victims of the gas chambers. He let the instruments be heard again in musical tributes through his organization, Violins of Hope.
He was the chief negotiator on a troop-inspections accord that American officials saw as crucial in easing East-West tensions near the end of the Cold War.
With the singer Harry Belafonte, she was half of a celebrated, and sometimes denounced, interracial power couple who pressed the cause of civil rights in the 1960s.
Richard C. Higgins was stationed at the Hawaiian naval base as a radioman on the day of the Japanese attack, which pulled the U.S. into World War II.
His roles in films like “Knives Out” and “Blade Runner” were sometimes big, sometimes small. But he invariably made a strong impression.
An unusually popular primatologist, he drew the attention of Newt Gingrich, Isabella Rossellini, the philosopher Peter Singer and the reading public.
Getting his start in the Midwest, he was best known for leading the New York broadcast “The 10 O’Clock News.”
He dressed six presidents, coached designers and made thousands of suits for TV shows and movies. But his beginnings were dismal: He learned to sew at Auschwitz.
Cola Boyy, whose real name was Matthew Urango, sang and produced his own brand of disco music. Born with spina bifida, he had been a vocal advocate for people with disabilities.
He risked death on the slopes of the world’s highest mountain to produce the highest-grossing IMAX documentary of all time.
Risking ostracism by her colleagues, she fought against the use of psychologists in coercive interrogations by the military and the C.I.A.
His works, which were radically individual, were among the most celebrated of the late 20th and early 21st century.
He rebelled against efforts to force African ways of thinking into the European worldview. His thoughts had the effect of a bomb in African intellectual life.
His fall from the pinnacle of the New York art world involved murder, torture, tax evasion, extortion and two terms in prison.
He drew on his own painful experiences with a stutter in depicting King George VI’s struggles to overcome his impediment and rally Britain in World War II.
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.