Ann Rockefeller Roberts, Champion of Native Americans, Dies at 90
The eldest daughter of Nelson Rockefeller, she founded a nonprofit to support Indigenous culture and helped fill two Smithsonian institutions with artifacts.
The eldest daughter of Nelson Rockefeller, she founded a nonprofit to support Indigenous culture and helped fill two Smithsonian institutions with artifacts.
He was at the helm of several influential publications, notably Gay City News in New York City and, since 2017, The Los Angeles Blade.
Actriz prolífica, era mundialmente conocida por su trabajo con el cineasta Pedro Almodóvar, con quien tuvo una relación por momentos tensa.
She became a photographer the same year she came out, chronicling the lives of women in same-sex relationships — something most people had never seen.
The duo Brewer & Shipley reached the Top 10 in 1970 with “One Toke Over the Line,” a ditty about marijuana that ran afoul of Nixon-era censors.
As a journalist, she was determined to tell a story of Gaza that was full of life.
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A prolific actress, she was best known globally for her work with the filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, with whom she had a stormy relationship.
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Was it art or was it furniture? No one was quite sure what to make of the New York movement that an idiosyncratic gallerist led in the 1970s and ’80s.
She and Susan Malone were sworn in together in 1972 as the first female agents, only months after the bureau opened the door to women.
His lively drawings of historic Supreme Court arguments, impeachment trials and murder cases gave the public a peek into venues where cameras were banned.
He was excommunicated in 1999 after allowing women to celebrate Mass, blessing same-sex unions and offering communion to non-Catholics.
A globe-trotting lawyer turned investor, he helped transform a cottage industry into a colossus with influence on Wall Street and beyond.
He rose to prominence in the 1980s, spending lavishly and befriending athletes, as the city was wracked by murders tied to the drug trade. He later became an informant.
During his 30 years in Congress, he resisted his party’s rightward tilt. He endorsed Barack Obama in 2008 and became a Democrat in 2022.
As a State Department Arabist, he served as ambassador to three Arab countries and helped broker the end of a 15-year civil war in Lebanon.
Writing for The New Yorker, she was both admired and feared, wielding a sometimes merciless pen. Her study of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers drew accolades.
A three-time All-Star, he played for the Knicks and the Phoenix Suns. For one season, he and Tom Van Arsdale were hard-to-tell-apart teammates.
An eminent geologist, he argued against putting condos and hotels on vulnerable coastal landscapes. Environmentalists applauded; many others didn’t.
After five people were killed in the newsroom, he set up a work space in the back of his pickup truck and made sure the next day’s issue was published.
His collaborators included John McLaughlin, Béla Fleck, Ravi Shankar, Herbie Hancock, Yo-Yo Ma and members of the Grateful Dead.
She worked in collage, photography, performance, video and installation, and she dealt forthrightly with the complexities of race and gender.
With photographers like Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Bert Stern and others, the veteran editor created some of the most indelible images of modern fashion.
Mr. Andic got his start by selling T-shirts in Barcelona in the mid-1980s. He died in a fall during a hike.
He was a 17-year-old sailor aboard the U.S.S. Curtiss when Japanese forces attacked. He said he had joined the Navy to see the world.
What was supposed to be the crowning scoop of his career became his downfall when a trove of notebooks he acquired in Germany turned out to be forgeries.
He had a feel for how horses behaved and thought, and won more than 70 Grand Prix events.
Joining a pantheon of management thinkers, he embraced a humanistic path for business and foresaw outsourcing, remote work and a gig economy.
He devoted his career to guarding the legacy of the philosopher known for her writings on totalitarianism and “the banality of evil.”
Thomas O’Brien, an epidemiologist, and Ruth O’Brien, a lawyer, juggled successful careers with raising six children, including the comedy star.
Mr. Solal, who also wrote music for films and symphony orchestras, was revered in Europe and hailed in the United States on his rare visits there.
A designer of signage and product packaging, he was best known for his work on the 164-foot mural wall at the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington.
She was among hundreds of women who said they were coerced into sterilization at a California hospital in the 1970s. The lawsuit led to state and national reforms.
He built Mississippi’s Republican Party into a conservative powerhouse, making himself a regional power broker in the process.
A prolific artist, she was known for her graceful watercolors of birds, plants and butterflies, and was considered as the equal of Winslow Homer in her day.
As a Jewish teen, he fled the Nazis for America — then landed at D-Day and swept across Europe in a unit that gathered intelligence. Its work was hidden for decades.
A former lawyer, he cofounded the giant investment firm TPG and became known for complex deals that remade corporate America. He died on Wednesday at 82.
South Coast Repertory, a California company he founded with a partner, grew to stage world premieres of major works that made their way to Broadway.
His display of mysterious mind-reading powers on TV made him a pop culture phenomenon in the 1970s.
The show, about three hippies who become undercover crime fighters, ran from 1968 to 1973. Mr. Cole had been the last of its three stars still living.
After he was traded in one of the most infamous deals in Cleveland’s history, the team floundered and “the curse of Rocky Colavito” was born.
As a writer, she tackled race, gender, sex, politics and love. She was also a public intellectual who appeared on television and toured the country.
Pinal acumuló más de 100 créditos en cine y televisión en una carrera que comenzó a finales de la década de 1940.
Mr. Mensch, a longtime supporter of the film industry in Georgia, died in a plane crash on Friday in Florida, according to officials.
He conducted Broadway shows and worked with Bernadette Peters. But he was probably best known for writing the music for the darkly comic “Ruthless!”
Her only album made her a media star after she had raised four children and worked as a house cleaner — proving, she said, that “it’s never too late.”
Writing from Taiwan, she shaped her readers’ idea of romantic love with a raft of best sellers, many adapted for the screen. Newborns were named after her characters.
A top-selling pop singer as a teenager in the 1980s, she also had an award-winning career as a dramatic actress.
She found outsize success in her native land and gained international recognition for her work with the acclaimed Spanish surrealist director Luis Buñuel.
A perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he was a revered figure in Japan, not just in literary circles but also among casual readers.
She devoted her career to teaching teachers how to prepare the youngest and most vulnerable children to fulfill their potential.
He may have been the most successful diving coach in American history, gathering more than 300 medals in competitions and nurturing stars like Greg Louganis.
He was the hangman chosen to carry out the sentence on the fugitive Nazi war criminal, in Israel’s only case of capital punishment.
His voice carried weight on the influential back page and as the writer of many “Man of the Year” cover articles. As a memoirist he chronicled his heart attacks.
As press secretary for George H.W. Bush, he came up with the expression to attack Ronald Reagan’s economic plan. The term took on a life of its own.
A rebel leader in Liberia’s civil wars, he was accused of numerous atrocities. The most notorious was the videotaped mutilation and killing of President Samuel Doe.
Known as “the bad boy of fashion,” he was among a wave of designers who created modern Indian couture by updating traditional garments.
He came up with an innovative equation called the Ricci flow that helped mathematicians explore fundamental questions that were once out of reach.
A podiatric surgeon and a regular presence on Fox News, she used her television platform to talk about her brain cancer and treatment as well as cancer research.
Mr. Thompson, who was fatally shot in Midtown Manhattan, rose to the top of one of the world’s biggest insurance companies.
Her most remarkable achievement came in 1975, when she became the first person, man or woman, to complete the Baja 500 race solo.
As ambassador to Thailand and Turkey, and later as president of the Carnegie Endowment, he pushed for making human rights central to foreign policy.
He grudgingly transitioned from civil rights to politics and became the first popularly elected Black mayor in New England.
The two had a fraught relationship that was immortalized in many of Eminem’s earliest hits.
He joined that pop-punk band in 2004 and played on its most successful album, “The Black Parade.”
He was best known for playing two characters, Roman Brady and Dr. Alex North, in more than 1,000 episodes on the daytime soap opera.
As the first African American to win a medal in a sport long dominated by white Europeans, he was compared to Jackie Robinson and Arthur Ashe.
The duo won an Oscar for “Annie Hall.” Mr. Brickman went on to write Broadway shows, including “Jersey Boys,” and make movies of his own.
Known for his quick wit and garish sweaters, he took the New York City university to national basketball prominence over 24 seasons.
In that 1970 book and others, he wrote of history and apocalyptic predictions based on biblical interpretations and actual events of the time.
Working inside the government and out, he lobbied to improve the lives of people with H.I.V. and AIDS, particularly those who belonged to minority groups.
A former Nixon official (and later a novelist), he led an investigation in which a shadowy Watergate figure squirmed when asked if he had been an anonymous whistle blower.
While never a big star, he was a recognizable one, with roles in “The Twilight Zone,” “Giant,” “Forbidden Planet” and the 1970s series “Police Woman.”
She transformed the New York Public Library’s collection of charts and atlases into one of the world’s largest and most accessible resources.
Her Haight-Ashbury clothing store was ground zero for the counterculture. But she was best known for a tawdry book — which she later disavowed — published after Ms. Joplin’s death.
Along with his fellow filmmakers David and Jerry Zucker, he revolutionized film comedy with a straight-faced, fast-paced style of parody.
A member of one of the U.S. Army’s all-Black regiments, formed after the Civil War, he trained West Point cadets in horsemanship during World War II.
She was honored on Broadway for roles in “Pal Joey” and “No, No, Nanette” and then turned to TV, where she won three Daytime Emmys for her work on “Ryan’s Hope.”
He entered the State Senate as a reformer but during 34 years became part of the system he sought to reform.
The latest in a long line of women to run her family winery, she helped bring worldwide attention to sustainable viniculture.
Este perro refinado tenía una elegancia sartorial singular, desfiló para la marca Coach y fue el protagonista de su propio catálogo de moda.
Musician, singer, songwriter, producer and more, he collaborated with Madonna and a raft of other artists and helped resuscitate the career of the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson.
A Shiba Inu of uncommon sartorial panache, Bodhi modeled for Coach and was the subject of his own fashion lookbook.
He wrote poetry in Afrikaans and prose in English in his fight against South African racial oppression, an effort that landed him in jail for seven years.
He photographed landscapes, deer, sunflowers and still lifes. “I knew that the forces of nature were a language,” he said. “Nature was really my teacher.”
Humillada por un oficial nazi cuando era adolescente, se unió a la Resistencia francesa. A los 20 años había matado a un soldado alemán, sobrevivido a torturas y capturado un tren de suministros.
Her own rags-to-riches story mirrored those of many of her resilient heroines, and her dozens of novels helped her amass a fortune of $300 million.
A mesmerizing speaker, he urged his fellow evangelicals to turn away from politics in favor of the values of charity and love espoused by Jesus.
His dozens of songs included “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien,” a powerful anthem of redemptive love that became one of Piaf’s signature songs.
A Dominican baseball star, he had a dazzling rookie year and became a pioneering designated hitter, but injuries and tuberculosis held him back.
After a career that included stints on “Wheel of Fortune” and other popular game shows, he took a combative turn as a right-wing podcast host.
After eight years in the Senate as a moderate Democrat, he took a leftward turn toward “new populism” in a failed shot at the presidency in 1976.
Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train.
Arlo Guthrie’s antiwar staple “Alice’s Restaurant” was inspired by a Thanksgiving Day visit to her diner in western Massachusetts.
His blog, The Shatzkin Files, was an essential read for industry insiders. His observations about the changes digital publishing would bring were prophetic.
He displayed some 10,000 cat-themed artifacts at the American Museum of the House Cat in North Carolina, which welcomed several thousand people a year.
She was lieutenant governor when her boss, Gov. John G. Rowland, resigned in a corruption scandal. The second woman to lead the state, she was later elected in her own right.
His swirls of imagery helped define progressive rock in the 1970s. He later turned his focus to pop acts like Celine Dion.
He devoted much of his 28 years in office in Savannah to victims’ rights, but he was best known for his role in a 1981 murder at the center of a best seller and its movie version.
He was a prominent behind-the-scenes figure in Washington whose career was derailed when he was charged with leaking government secrets. The case was later dropped.
In an era when America dominated the event, he was one of the best. He retired after winning gold at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics and became a doctor.
He was a cruise ship waiter before rising in the trade union movement and becoming one of the country’s best-known Labour politicians under Tony Blair.
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.