
Harry Whittington, Texas Lawyer Shot by Cheney, Dies at 95
He drew headlines across the world when, during a hunting trip, he was accidentally blasted in the face and torso by Vice President Dick Cheney — then apologized himself for the incident.
He drew headlines across the world when, during a hunting trip, he was accidentally blasted in the face and torso by Vice President Dick Cheney — then apologized himself for the incident.
She was a Broadway star at 23 and then quit acting, but later re-emerged in films like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “A Christmas Story.”
In a career that included a Tony nomination for “Company,” he specialized in playing uptight characters, notably Candice Bergen’s stuffy straight man.
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.
Mr. Musharraf took power in a bloodless coup in late 1999 but resigned under threat of impeachment in 2008. He drew fire for his ties to Washington.
A prisoner at Auschwitz and three other camps, he dealt with his trauma in semiabstract art that depicted crematories, ovens and chimneys.
An outspoken American who became a model for Coco Chanel, she partied with Europe’s elite before starting her own clothing line for stars and socialites.
By mechanizing and greatly expanding production, he made the gooey yellow chicks an Easter favorite and a pop-culture phenomenon.
After seemingly being on the verge of stardom, she languished for decades, battered by changing tastes and bad luck, before enjoying a midlife comeback.
In 15 collections, beginning in the early 1970s, she wrote of family, nature, loss and sometimes dogs.
He burst onto the French fashion scene in 1966 and, with dresses made from metal, plastic and paper, changed the definition of couture.
In 1973, she was the first woman hired by The New York Times to be a full-time staff photographer.
Her brief tenure as only the second woman to run the department came after years of service within the Reagan administration.
She helped found a gallery for women artists in Miami Beach and, influenced by an early Buckminster Fuller experiment, focused her art on ecology.
He pounded away from the bleachers to cheer on the Indians (now the Guardians) and inspire his fellow baseball fans at more than 3,700 home games.
Using unconventional tactics, he built powerhouse teams in Washington and Miami and helped mold teams in Kansas City, Atlanta and San Diego, his hometown.
As the director of the U.S. Office of Special Investigations, he identified and prosecuted dozens of former camp guards and other henchmen.
She was part of a vanguard of women designers who looked to the past to upend the cool modernism of the ’70s with a style that would become prominent in the ’80s.
He was a Minnesota favorite son with a sterling reputation before the Ethics Committee found he had schemed to get around Senate financial rules.
From 1976 to 1983, she (Shirley) and Penny Marshall (Laverne) drew millions of viewers to a sitcom playing roommates who worked in a Milwaukee brewery.
As a singer he was a one-hit wonder. But teaming with Norman Whitfield, he wrote a string of hits for others, including “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.”
His exhibitions and his writings expanded the view of American Modernism, and his decades of teaching shaped future scholars and curators.
With her dark clothes and pigtailed hair framing a pale face, Ms. Loring played Wednesday as a young girl obsessed with death on the ABC series, which ran from 1964 to 1966.
The third player in N.H.L. history to score at least 50 goals in a season, he spent 15 seasons with Chicago.
Ms. Wersching was best known for playing the Borg Queen on the Paramount+ “Star Trek” series. She was also on the television series “24,” “Bosch” and “Timeless.”
After the success of that movie, he established a brand for writing Hollywood movies about inspiring episodes in Black history.
Her simple idea, for patients to write down a plan that would help them weather a suicidal crisis, rapidly spread in clinical settings.
In a career that began in the 1950s, she had roles that ranged from the lead in the movie “Teenage Bad Girl” to Margaret Thatcher and the Queen Mother.
Late-night radio listeners in Hong Kong associated Mr. Cordeiro’s sonorous voice with easy-listening standards and early rock. He worked until he was 96.
One of the last surviving Black pilots from that celebrated group, he was surrounded by an angry mob after parachuting from his P-51 over Austria during World War II.
He first attracted attention with the band Television, a fixture of the New York punk rock scene. But his music wasn’t so easily categorized.
With partners on NBC and then CBS, and with a rapid, opinionated style, he was heard during every N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament from 1975 to 2008.
“The virtual banishment of figuration and narrative from the vocabulary of so many thoughtful artists was one of the legacies of the modernists,” he said. “I never accepted this.”
He preferred to take pictures of ordinary people. But in events separated by six years, he took indelible pictures of two people who transcended celebrity.
He emphasized the basics of the Japanese martial art, and he encouraged his students to develop their own interpretations of it.
A live-wire personality and an epic self-promoter, he got a generation of youth in the City of Brotherly Love on its feet with little-known R&B gems.
He expanded access to education and health care in Indigenous villages and provided aid to the poor in a country scarred by deep inequalities and decades of civil war.
He took over the Ridiculous Theatrical Company after the death of his partner, Charles Ludlam, in 1987. His specialty was playing women, but his range was wide.
His observations about his 3-year-old daughter’s viewing habits led him to join Joan Ganz Cooney in creating a program that revolutionized children’s television.
“James,” which followed the adventures of a sandy-haired teenager who moves with his family to Boston from Oregon, made him a teenage idol.
A renowned orthopedic surgeon, he developed innovative techniques for alpine Olympians. He also treated soccer, tennis and baseball stars.
He played with history and narrative techniques whether writing about 19th-century France or H.P. Lovecraft.
His deeply researched studies, drawing on extensive reporting in Southeast Asia, helped undermine President Nixon’s war plans.
She experienced the inequities of the job firsthand in South Africa and helped build national and international unions to address them.
The first Indian to receive the Pritzker Prize, he developed a distinctive approach to building for his country.
She brought a narrative eye and a social consciousness to her work, whether covering refugee crises, celebrities or fashion. But much of it might have been lost.
Witty and contrarian, he was the longtime editor and later publisher of The Nation and wrote an acclaimed book about the Hollywood blacklisting era.
She was committed to codifying traditional Chinese cooking techniques when most Americans thought of Chinese food as dishes like chop suey and chow mein.
She collaborated on the melodies for signature commercials that sang the praises of McDonald’s, Coca-Cola and other brands.
He was a calming presence on a volatile squad, one of the few teams in baseball history to win the World Series three years in a row.
He took on Oliver Stone, Terrence Malick, Kathryn Bigelow and other directors just starting out. His name was on “Hoffa,” “American Psycho,” “Conan the Barbarian” and many more films.
Her 1988 book put an Algonquin wit back in circulation. She also wrote about Eleanor of Aquitaine, the suffragist Victoria Woodhull and Woody Allen.
She was well known in the San Francisco area for focusing on subjects like racism, sexism and drugs, in columns that sometimes angered sports stars.
U.S.-born, she lived for a time in China and then fled as Japan invaded. She later broke academic ground in New York in the study of the Asian American diaspora.
His cavernous Hudson Valley foundry helped Louise Bourgeois, Richard Serra, Jeff Koons and many others turn their large-scale visions into reality.
He won the World Boxing Association title in 1983, became a symbol of racial comity and showed a surprising gentleness in public.
He helped the Celtics win a title and coached them in the ’90s, but he may be remembered more for sinking what was hailed as the league’s first 3-point shot. Or was it?
He was an original member of the Byrds and a founder of Crosby, Stills & Nash. But he was almost as well known for his troubled personal life as for his music.
One of the first Black regulars on a TV variety show, he brought tap to millions of viewers on “The Lawrence Welk Show” after Betty White gave him his first big break.
An expatriate Briton, he followed Huckleberry Finn’s Mississippi, sailed to Alaska and explored eastern Montana. But, he said, he was not a “travel writer.”
A drummer and singer, he was best known as a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra, one of Japan’s most successful bands and a major influence on hip-hop, techno and New Wave.
As president of Volkswagen of America, he pushed the “Think Small” ad campaign that helped create a counterculture icon.
From her kitchen table in rural Illinois, Ms. Richter started a global foundation for families who shared her son’s rare genetic disorder.
His and a colleague’s breakthroughs in high-temperature superconductors were honored with a Nobel Prize in Physics and opened up a world of scientific possibilities.
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 danced with Nureyev and dazzled audiences during her 18 years with American Ballet Theater. She later went on to a five-decade career as an admired teacher.
She became known as Gold-Rosi after winning two Olympic gold medals and the Alpine Ski World Cup in 1976.
His 34 home runs and 94 runs batted in were among the few accomplishments worth celebrating on a team that famously went nowhere in 1962.
She began her career in her native Italy, and although she achieved fame in America, she worked more often in Europe. She later had a second career as an artist and filmmaker.
She and her husband invented a model for faithfully adapting acclaimed literature, illuminating an alternate path for independent cinema.
A tough, bruising tailback, he set U.S.C.’s career rushing record. But he also dealt with drug and alcohol abuse and, later, dementia.
A refugee from Nazi Germany, she was among a group of designers who elevated fabric from decoration into a medium for midcentury modern design.
He ruled the pledge unconstitutional because the words “under God” violated the separation of church and state. The Supreme Court reversed the ruling.
With a few others, she epitomized glamour in the late 1980s and early ’90s — on the runway, in magazines and even in a much-viewed music video.
His career with The New York Times took him to Saigon and Moscow. He drew on that experience later to write several well-received books.
His 1,020-foot descent to the Pacific Ocean floor in a diving bell in 1962 made headlines and set a record. But it had disastrous consequences.
While working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in the early 1960s, she helped write two memos that spurred the modern women’s movement.
He followed his father, Evel Knievel, into the high-flying world of motorcycle stunts, jumping the Grand Canyon and the fountains at Caesars Palace.
As an Arizona state senator, he sponsored what came to be known as the “show me your papers” law, requiring the police to demand documentation from those they detained.
An Olympic medalist, he was popular when he took the throne in 1964. But his efforts to intervene in Greek politics led to a coup and his ouster.
On social media, they recalled her talent, her kindness and her struggles.
Her death in Los Angeles on Thursday, after a life tinged with tragedy, came after a medical emergency and brief hospitalization.
He helped turn Guggenheim Partners into a global investing giant. He was also a CNBC and Bloomberg commentator and a philanthropist for human rights.
A lawsuit he helped initiate to change how the state allocates aid to localities reaped a bonanza for New York City schools.
He argued against affirmative action and the Voting Rights Act and represented former President Trump in fighting the release of his tax returns.
He wrote outsize histories on a panoply of subjects, found renown in Britain as an indefatigable columnist and infuriated liberals with his outspoken Tory views.
She founded the first woman-owned lobbying firm in the country, and made her name by supporting social policy and nonprofit causes.
His playing with the Yardbirds and as leader of his own bands brought a sense of adventure to their groundbreaking recordings.
Among the last of the Kennedy era’s “best and brightest,” he later transformed the Carnegie Endowment into a leading think tank.
Kashmir’s unofficial poet laureate, he gave voice to the rich culture of a bitterly divided territory and helped give his mother tongue a distinct literary identity.
An adviser to Pope Francis and a prominent figure in Australia, Cardinal Pell went to prison on charges of abusing two boys in the 1990s, but a higher court later acquitted him.
Ms. Hardaway rose to fame with one of her sisters as a conservative media celebrity.
He was managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine and a top editor at Politico before overseeing The Times’s popular political newsletter.
As the U.S. liaison to some 50,000 United Nations diplomats and staff, he sought to resolve disputes on issues ranging from fugitives hiding in U.N. missions to diplomats’ unpaid parking tickets.
A Serbian-born American, he left the impression in his verse that he had “poked a hole into everyday life to reveal a glimpse of something endless.”
With easy-to-follow recipes developed in her native Canada, she became one of the world’s top cookbook authors, publishing more than 30 million copies.
His talent for creating realistic documents helped children, their parents and others escape deportation to concentration camps, and in many cases to flee Nazi-occupied territory.
He directed a variety of movies in a variety of genres. But it was a gruesome found-footage film that brought him both fame and infamy.
Her verse examined social history through individual lives, including her own, in which she later found love. Yet for all the admiration she inspired, she was unheralded.
He covered wars, revolutions and diplomatic breakthroughs for CBS, NBC and The New York Times. He also served, briefly and unhappily, as a State Department spokesman.
His first restaurant, Kuma Inn, became destination dining despite its location on what was then a quiet stretch of the Lower East Side.
After gaining popularity as a symbol of innocence on TV in the 1970s, he struggled with drugs and depression. He later became a mental health advocate.
He brought his own sometimes painful blue-collar experiences to bear in acclaimed stories exploring issues of race, class and power in American life.
Her Denver bookstore, the Tattered Cover, was among the country’s best, and she often found herself in the midst of First Amendment fights.
A psychiatrist, he started the Hastings Center with Daniel Callahan, a leading Roman Catholic thinker, to explore the moral issues arising from medical advances.
Concerned about spinal-cord damage caused by headfirst strikes with helmets, he became a vocal proponent of rules changes.
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.