Mr. Mendonsa made the most credible claim to being the man captured kissing a woman in Times Square on V-J Day in a picture that became a national emblem.
She shared the qualities of wealth, social status and ambition with her older sister, but she struggled to achieve professional recognition.
Once one of Mao Zedong’s personal secretaries, Mr. Li became a revisionist historian and a standard-bearer for liberal values in China.
As a publishing team, she and her husband, Ian, set out in 1939 “to change the reading habits of America,” and to a large extent they did.
His controversial anti-abortion documentary, professing to show a fetus expressing pain, became a formidable weapon for abortion opponents.
A professional entertainer from the age of 9, Ms. Lee was seen in numerous short musical films as well as in nightclubs and on Broadway.
A hard-punching star of the 1970s and ’80s, he was known as much for his kindness outside the ring as for his ferocity within it.
Mr. Tomlinson, who danced with New York City Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and Dance Theater of Harlem, was a rangy, powerful presence on the stage.
Playing against Brazil in the 1970 World Cup, he somehow stopped a downward header from Pele, who later said the save was among the best he had ever seen.
With a three-volume study of the Cultural Revolution and lively lectures at Harvard, he influenced how people around the world understood China.
He shared the 1967 prize for finding a way to time “immeasurably fast” chemical reactions. His research advanced the study of enzymes, among other things.
A former football player, he spent three decades working for Walt Disney, his father-in-law, and had notable successes — until things turned sour.
With her husband, Alvin Toffler, she was half of a team that produced global best-sellers, including “Future Shock.” Recognition was belated.
His children’s books brought a refreshing jolt to the genre, but his erotica made him an outcast in some circles.
Her research raised the profile of a composer too often overshadowed by her husband and established her as a major figure of German Romanticism.
For years, he hunted down the discs containing the soundtracks to short films from as early as 1926 that featured comedians, opera singers and others.
He made countless commercials; at one point it was said that people who listened to the radio or watched TV heard his voice every single day.
Mr. Nanterme, who capped a 36-year career at the global consulting giant with eight years as chief executive, transformed the company by sharpening its focus on new technologies.
“He was the first person to look systematically at the data and figure out what the heck this diagnosis really meant,” a colleague said.
Married with three children, she became a vigorous advocate after her wife died. Her name is on a new New Jersey law on gender identity.
After the success of what her publisher called “the quintessential word-of-mouth book,” many of her novels were made into TV movies or mini-series.
Breaking racial barriers in New York’s medical world, she earned renown for research and advocacy that led to mandatory testing for sickle cell anemia.
After the death of its namesake co-founder, Mr. Joyce made the chain an inescapable part of Canadian life.
He was a scion of a Democratic political family entrenched in Manhattan’s West Side for more than a century, doling out favors in return for votes.
“The Flying Finn” dominated his sport at the Olympics and elsewhere, until alcohol abuse and episodes of violence tarnished his legacy.
Based at Princeton, Professor Rabb brought a fresh eye to analyzing historical records in producing books, articles and a PBS series.
Her Hollywood career stretched across six decades, but it was her 1954 role as the love interest of a reptilian monster that gave her lasting fame.
A special section in the Sunday paper paid tribute to extraordinary black men and women who were left out of The Times’s obituaries when they died. Its design aims to bring joy to readers.
He appeared in dozens of low-budget films for Mr. Corman and later in “The Terminator,” “Gremlins” and other movies directed by Corman acolytes.
His films, among them “WR: Mysteries of the Organism,” were full of sex and metaphor. They were celebrated on the festival circuit but also sometimes reviled.
As the dance team Augie and Margo, Mrs. Rodriguez and her husband helped mambo evolve from a nightclub craze into popular mainstream entertainment.
Mr. Guillou charted his own path in organ performance, composition and even design — attracting controversy but leaving a legacy of more than 100 recordings.
Mr. Bradley’s work on six-string bass and guitar was featured on records by Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Loretta Lynn and numerous others.
Dr. Wright offered practical alternatives to capitalism, promoting ideas like a universal basic income.
His blend of funk, jazz and disco from the 1970s and ′80s has been sampled by a later generation of artists, including Daft Punk and De La Soul.
His music, a kind of soundtrack to his country’s life in the late 20th century, became its own idiom, called “Tuku music,” after his nickname.
Ms. Kim, one of the thousands of women forced to work in Japanese brothels during World War II, was among the first to break decades of silence about their ordeal.
At Click there have been white models (Elle Macpherson, Isabella Rossellini, Uma Thurman), black (Whitney Houston, Gail O’Neill) and transgender (Teri Toye).
Ms. Lousada was one of the first ballerinas chosen for what became New York City Ballet. Later in life she became a successful cookbook author.
He was one of the first corporate raiders to acquire companies with leveraged buyouts. But he was probably best known for his marriage.
Ms. Vidaurri became famous in Latin America for belting out songs in the 1950s but stopped at her peak, only to return to the limelight as she neared 80.
He helped conceive the environmental agency that President Nixon created in 1970 and oversaw it through crises in the Carter administration.
Serving in the Lindsay administration, he argued that Lennon was a cultural asset when the Nixon administration tried to deport him in the early 1970s.
Mr. Baker, a backwoods-born Virginian who became one of America’s most celebrated writers, spent decades at The New York Times and hosted “Masterpiece Theater” for years.
Mr. Baker, a backwoods-born Virginian who became one of America’s most celebrated writers, spent decades at The New York Times and hosted “Masterpiece Theater” for years.
As head of the mostly white Diocese of Biloxi, Miss., he was the first African-American bishop appointed to preside over a Roman Catholic diocese in the 20th century.
Best known for the 1960s sitcom “The Mothers-in-Law,” she also had memorable turns in Broadway musicals and rode the nightclub circuit for years.
A studio mainstay first in Memphis and later in Nashville, Mr. Young recorded with Elvis Presley and countless others.