Known for reviving football programs, he led six major colleges to bowl games, winning a national championship in 1989 after restoring the Irish to greatness.
A producer, recording engineer and sound mixer, he helped pioneer the early use of sampling in rap music, including on the influential album “The Low End Theory” by A Tribe Called Quest.
During the 1975 fall of the South Vietnamese capital, he helped evacuate thousands, and was nearly left behind.
For Commes des Garçons, he designed improbable perfumes that conjured burning rubber and cars leaking oil. His uncanny art pieces were equally contrarian.
With his acclaimed interpretations of Delta Blues standards, he was a fixture on the Greenwich Village music scene for decades.
He called 5,163 regular season major league games over a record 37 consecutive seasons. And he wouldn’t hesitate to give a player or a manager the boot.
He covered the city with more than 50,000 square feet of murals, and showcased his work at the Magic Gardens Museum.
Aplastó brutalmente la disidencia interna y amplió la huella de Irán en el extranjero. Su muerte se produjo en medio de un amplio ataque de Estados Unidos e Israel a Irán.
As Iran’s second supreme leader, he brutally crushed dissent at home and expanded Iran’s footprint abroad, challenging Saudi Arabia for regional dominance.
He helped bring the African American cooking of the Carolina Lowcountry to the world and became known as the “dean of Southern Cuisine.”
“His influence can be felt in every form of motorsport today,” Car and Driver magazine wrote of the man who powered some of the fastest cars of his era with his innovative engine camshafts.
He sang and co-wrote some of the definitive teenage anthems of the 1950s and early ’60s, including “Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,” and then reinvented his career in the ’70s.
She and her husband, the financier B. Gerald Cantor, amassed one of the largest private collections of Rodin artworks, donating much of it to museums around the world.
With her frenetic energy and 4-foot-10 frame, Ms. Lee seemed destined to play a certain kind of stage character: excitable, endearing and charmingly scheming.
His work with his colleague Richard Ryan changed how psychologists understand human motivation and what people require to flourish.
At 11, she was one of the youngest at the 1965 “Bloody Sunday” voting rights march in Selma, Ala., and was injured while crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
His minimalist road signs became a visual hallmark of France’s highways. He also created logos for cultural institutions like the Pompidou Center.
A founder of Duckhorn Vineyards, a California winemaker, Mr. Duckhorn transformed merlot from a blending grape into a premier American variety.
She came up with the term as the title of a 1990 conference but saw its later popularity as a little superficial.
A magnetic personality, she reinvented herself twice, bringing the same spirit to investigating child abuse and communing with dogs that she did to writing poetry.
A runner, coach and best-selling author, he created the widely embraced run-walk-run method, which helped make running more accessible to the public.
He held Spain’s Parliament hostage for 18 hours on Feb. 23, 1981, before surrendering after it became clear that he had little support from the country’s armed forces.
Considered an “author’s publisher” at Random House and then Penguin, she cultivated the careers of dozens of celebrated novelists and nonfiction writers.
For six seasons, she was Kathy, a giggly tomboy whose father, played by Robert Young, called her Kitten. Her offscreen life, however, was harrowing.
In an era of overt sexism in the sciences, she made two major discoveries, including identifying a neuropeptide later linked to chronic pain syndromes and migraines.
Her Tibetan Buddhist spiritual practice and her experiments with synthesizers came together in vast, slow-moving works that drew wide acclaim.
Miembro de una renombrada dinastía de actores, también ganó fama por su papel en “La venganza de los nerds”. Su familia dijo que padecía trastorno bipolar.
A member of a renowned acting dynasty, he also earned fame for his role in “Revenge of the Nerds.” His family said he struggled with bipolar disorder.
In his lyrical writings, he explored physical landscapes as well as the interior terrain of his own life — up to the blindness that overtook him in his later years.
Ms. Stavenhagen started a group intended to counter the notion that A.L.S. was an “older white man’s disease.”
As a journalist and author, she wrote meticulous portraits of people for The New Yorker. Her book “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?” won the Pulitzer Prize.
He was America’s longest-serving college president, with 47 years of service, by the time he retired in 2015.
He played memorable screen villains, notably a psychopath in “Manhunter,” but also wrote, directed and starred in well-received plays at a theater he founded in Manhattan.
Trombonista, cantante, director de orquesta, compositor y arreglista, colaboró con Rubén Blades en “Siembra”, un disco que se convirtió en uno de los álbumes de salsa más vendidos de todos los tiempos.
A trombonist, singer, bandleader, composer and arranger, he collaborated with Rubén Blades on “Siembra,” a 1978 release that became one of the top-selling salsa albums of all time.
By rehabilitating the American Hotel, he turned a hard-luck village on the East End of Long Island into a mecca for pop stars and plumbers alike.
It was Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, when an infielder known for his glove, not his bat, crushed the powerful Yankees with one swing, bringing joy to Pittsburgh.
He guided Zenyatta, a spectacular mare, to 19 consecutive wins and won the Kentucky Derby in 2005 with Giacomo, a 50-1 long shot.
His public radio show, “Bookworm,” was a literary salon of the air for 33 years, drawing guests like Joan Didion, Susan Sontag and David Foster Wallace.
Over three decades, he reported from Moscow, Beijing, Tehran and elsewhere and wrote well-received books based on his reporting, including one about his globe-trotting cat.
En 2006 interpretó al apuesto Mark Sloan, apodado McSteamy, jefe de cirugía plástica de un hospital de Seattle. Murió 10 meses después de anunciar su diagnóstico de ELA.
His breakout role came in 2006 as the handsome Dr. Mark Sloan, nicknamed McSteamy, the head of plastic surgery at a Seattle hospital. He died 10 months after announcing his A.L.S. diagnosis.
A former college All-American touched by scandal, he was irreverent and unpredictable as he piloted his fast-paced Nuggets and Spurs.
A prolific Dutch writer of fiction, poetry and travel books, he was often mentioned as a potential recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He co-wrote five pop-rock songs that soared to No. 1 in the 1980s and shared in a Grammy for producing Celine Dion’s 1996 album “Falling Into You.”
One of the most esteemed singers of his era, he had a wide repertoire that included Mozart, Wagner and the title role in Messiaen’s epic “St. François d’Assise.”
For decades, she oversaw a money-gushing South Florida restaurant that has drawn celebrities like Frank Sinatra, Muhammad Ali and Madonna.
He created sets and lighting for dozens of productions, including “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” and established a new art form with his theater of the deaf, combining sign and spoken language.
In “Playing for Time,” she recounted how singing in an all-female orchestra while in a concentration camp saved her from death.
She was just 9 weeks old when she was lowered to safety in a mail sack, surviving the worst maritime disaster in history.
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A son of the influential fashion editor Diana Vreeland, he had an upbringing well suited to his overt and covert duties during the Cold War.
Starting with $500,000 in seed money from Charles Koch, Mr. Crane made the Cato Institute the nation’s pre-eminent libertarian think tank.
Orador apasionado, fue una fuerza moral y política que formó una coalición de personas pobres y de clase trabajadora. Su misión, decía, era “transformar la mente de Estados Unidos”.
The civil rights leader was one of the country’s most influential Black figures.
An impassioned orator, he was a moral and political force who formed a “rainbow coalition” of poor and working-class people. His mission, he said, was “to transform the mind of America.”
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader and impassioned orator, died on Tuesday at 84. He was hospitalized in November for a rare neurodegenerative condition.
He exposed abuses in films like “Titicut Follies,” a once-banned portrait of a mental hospital, but ranged widely in subject matter, from a Queens neighborhood to a French restaurant.
El intérprete, reconocido con el Oscar, era conocido por su capacidad para fundirse con sus personajes al interpretar papeles muy diversos.
An Oscar winner, he was known for disappearing into wide-ranging roles in movies like “Apocalypse Now” and “The Godfather” and in the television series “Lonesome Dove.”
A New York Democrat, he spent 16 years in the House over two stretches, beginning in 1965, championing the health of the Hudson River and opposing the Vietnam War.
A guitarist and record producer, he played a role in creating hits by popular singers like Roger Miller, Roy Orbison, Tom T. Hall and Tammy Wynette.
Obituaries have memorialized the lives of a figure-skating trailblazer, a “Miracle on Ice” hockey player, a bobsledder who overcame blindness, and more.
An engineer by training, he used systems theory and quantitative analysis to examine criminal behavior, revealing the systemic patterns of crime.
He trained mostly lesser-known, cheaper thoroughbreds in Maryland and was the fifth-winningest trainer in North American history.
Face was one of the first major-league hurlers to make the closer job a specialty. Not an overpowering pitcher, he finagled outs with a tricky forkball.
His score of books and hundreds of essays documented Stalinist executions, Communist repressions and censorship, and the transition to post-Soviet Russia.
A researcher, professor and federal policy adviser, he guided students who went on to do groundbreaking work in connecting the world online.
Borrowing from jazz and African rhythms, he forged a singular style that helped define music in his native Ghana — and West Africa — for a generation.
His derring-do and unusual lung capacity led him to make record-breaking dives of more than 200 feet into the Atlantic without wearing a scuba tank or fins.
A Penn State sociology professor, she warned that hosts like Oprah Winfrey exploited vulnerable guests on television and sensationalized deviancy.
His song “The Distance,” released in 1996, became an anthem for the disaffected members of Generation X.
He came to winemaking late, after a career in retail, and turned the 18th-century Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte into one of France’s most esteemed vineyards.
He was the first to record all of J.S. Bach’s nearly 200 sacred cantatas, a project that stood out not only for its range but also for its steadfast style.
James Van Der Beek, who played the wide-eyed, overly sensitive main character on the popular turn-of-the-millennium TV drama series “Dawson’s Creek,” died on Wednesday at age 48.
The role, one of his first, made him a household name and a film idol of the anti-establishment 1970s. But it also limited his growth as an actor.
He bought technical brilliance and stylistic authority to Romantic-era music, particularly the works of Chopin and Liszt.
Also a saxophone standout, he served as stylistic bridge between the Benny Goodman swing era and the genre-blurring present.
His group notched smooth hippie-era hits like “Up, Up and Away” and “The Age of Aquarius” in embracing a genre-blurring sound they called “champagne soul.”
La estrella apareció por primera vez en el exitoso drama televisivo como un inocente joven de 15 años, que luego creció a lo largo de seis temporadas. Anunció que tenía cáncer en 2024.
Known as “The Clobberer,” he pounded out driving rhythms that fueled the band’s boisterous blend of traditional Irish music, rock and punk.
He first appeared in a hit TV drama as a wide-eyed 15-year-old who then grew up over six seasons. He announced he had cancer in 2024.
After defending one of the first priests charged with child sex abuse, he coauthored a 1985 report warning that the problem was endemic and ignoring it could be catastrophic.
His book about time-traveling dinosaurs became a movie. He also adapted the Broadway show “Into the Woods” for young readers and wrote about his struggles with dyslexia.
He survived the Holocaust and Communist rule in Hungary, arrived penniless in New York and made himself into a pre-eminent Civil War scholar.
He took over a champion N.F.L. team, succeeding the popular Bill Parcells, then led it to two disappointing seasons, drawing the ire of players and fans.
In the ’70s, New York’s bohemia was devoted to hostile yet arty rock. Mr. Smith had two qualities rare in the scene: personal and musical understatement.
Over 41 seasons as head coach, he won two national titles and sent more than 200 players to the major leagues, including Mike Mussina and Jack McDowell.
He wrote the band’s breakout hit, “Kryptonite,” in a high school math class, and would go on to be nominated for three Grammy Awards.
Growing up in a family of secrets, on a compound designed by her great-grandfather, made her a writer who investigated the built world with a wary eye.
He caused an uproar by challenging the heroic status of Robert Falcon Scott, the Briton who led a doomed quest to the South Pole in 1912.
“I will never abandon you,” he told residents of Srebrenica amid sectarian armed conflict in Bosnia. The town later suffered the worst massacre in Europe since World War II.
Believed to be 113, she spent decades building an environmental legacy in India, inspired by her grief at being unable to conceive children.
The Hall of Fame quarterback threw 255 touchdown passes with the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins.
A political reporter at The Washington Post, she also wrote “Long Time Passing,” about the Vietnam War’s social, political and psychological aftereffects.
As head of the New York Foundation for the Arts, he oversaw almost $23 million in grants and helped bring arts education to struggling schools.
She was a ubiquitous presence at London theaters and claimed to have inspired the name — and final words — of Tennessee Williams’s Blanche DuBois.
A Detroit Tigers pitcher, he was famous for his ample waistline — and for his three complete-game wins in defeating the Cardinals, making him the Series’ M.V.P.
A moderate Democrat from Indiana for 34 years, he led the House Foreign Affairs and Intelligence committees and helped investigate the Iran-contra scandal and the Sept. 11 attacks.
She fished off the New England coast for more than 80 years, and intended to continue until she died. “It’s not hard work for me,” she said at 101.
A master of the grand gesture, he was as theatrical as his rooms, which were inspired by French chateaus and Italian palazzos. As he put it, “Why be ordinary?”
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.