Obituaries

She also had leading roles in “Doctor Dolittle” with Rex Harrison, “Walk, Don’t Run” with Cary Grant and “The Molly Maguires” with Sean Connery.

By Richard Sandomir

With a tuft of hair on either side of her shaved head and long tendrils of eyeliner swiped across her lids, she helped define a scene.

By Ash Wu

His architecture swung from austere to whimsical, with conspicuous projects like the sprawling headquarters of the British intelligence service MI6.

By Julie Lasky

Her stories of her days in the gritty New York of the 1960s and ’70s found a new audience in recent years and made her a social media star.

By Steven Kurutz

An African American who spent much of her career based in the Netherlands, she said her race was less of a factor in Europe when being considered for a wide variety of opera roles.

By Adam Nossiter

He led a team of scientists who helped confirm that a Big Bang was the source of the universe. The discovery earned him a Nobel Prize.

By Katrina Miller

He earned the highest title in the chess world at 17 and built a career as an accomplished chess teacher, commentator and author.

By Alexandra E. Petri

She spat in a policeman’s face at the Stonewall Riot, ran a nursing service during the AIDS crisis and boycotted Pride parades when they welcomed corporations.

By Alex Traub

As a founding member of the band, he helped it achieve mainstream success.

By Talya Minsberg

As Bellevue Hospital’s director of psychiatry, he guided rescue workers and grieving families through trauma when terrorists attacked in 2001.

By Sam Roberts

She started as the magazine’s glamorous receptionist and became one of its more singular writers. In one of her last articles, she memorialized her time (and lovers) there.

By Penelope Green

He and a colleague created a sensation in 1956 by proposing that one of the four forces of nature might violate a law of physics.

By George Johnson

The lead guitarist of Kiss could see that musicianship alone wouldn’t take him to the top.

By Jim Windolf

In Mexico, where the cult of machismo has long held sway, she waged a lonely, sometimes dangerous and often single-handed fight against prostitution and organized sex rings.

By Adam Nossiter

She turned recorded sessions with her therapist into a best-selling memoir, helping to normalize conversations around mental health in South Korea.

By Jonathan Wolfe and John Yoon

His televised address as prime minister, delivered 50 years to the day after Japan announced its surrender, set a marker for his country’s “deep remorse” over wartime atrocities.

By Joseph B. Treaster and Hisako Ueno

A consummate showman, he was known for playing guitars rigged with pyrotechnic effects and for his distinctive stage persona.

By Gavin Edwards

In 1972 she became the first woman to anchor a national evening news broadcast. She retired this summer after 50 years on the air.

By Trip Gabriel

His willingness to bring scientific rigor to Sasquatch studies earned him the gratitude of enthusiasts and the withering scorn of debunkers.

By Trip Gabriel

A trip to India to find work led to a career climbing the world’s highest mountain.

By Victor Mather

He shot portraits of stars like John Lennon and Miles Davis. But he is best remembered for “Idols,” an intimate look at a vital New York underground.

By Alex Williams

His colorful men’s nightwear was like something made on Savile Row in London — perfect, pricey — except that it was rarely seen outside the bedroom.

By Michael S. Rosenwald

A pivotal political leader who helped usher in multiparty democracy in the East African country, he ran unsuccessfully for the presidency five times.

By Matthew Mpoke Bigg, Declan Walsh and Ravi Mattu

After hitting No. 1 with “Voodoo,” the genre-melding 2000 album that he promoted with a risqué music video, he vanished for more than a decade.

By Ben Sisario

Roaming the same grass as Ted Williams, he played for Boston for his entire 12-year major league career and came in second in the 1988 M.V.P. voting.

By Alex Williams

After quietly helping Mel Brooks set the irreverent tone on “Get Smart” and “The Producers,” she had a long collaboration as a writer with the actor and humorist Marshall Efron.

By Richard Sandomir

At The New York Times and then ARTnews, which he bought, he brought an investigative edge to stories about artwork looted by the Germans during World War II and the Soviets afterward.

By Jeré Longman

With her husband, Dan, she ran four theaters in Manhattan and a company that distributed foreign and independent classics.

By Sam Roberts

His blunt debating and imaginative theorizing about artificial intelligence and the human mind made him a leading scholar. But sexual-harassment allegations ended his career.

By Alex Traub

With books like “Woman and Nature,” she pioneered a unique form of creative nonfiction, linking violence against women to the ravaging of the environment.

By Penelope Green

A bedrock of the idiosyncratic British group Pentangle, he went on to play with a host of luminaries, including Roy Orbison, Eric Clapton and Kate Bush.

By Alex Williams

On and off the screen, the star with a distinctive fashion sense was a singular presence.

By The New York Times

A lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. and a fellow preacher, he played a vital role in organizing voting-rights protests in 1965 that began with “Bloody Sunday.”

By Peter Applebome

Tributes from colleagues and fans flooded social media as they learned of her death. Many celebrated her onscreen legacy and some noted her impact on their lives.

By Jin Yu Young

She brought an unconventional personality to scores of roles on television and in movies ranging from zany comedies like “Sleeper” to piercing dramas like “The Godfather.”

By Anita Gates

In a 1973 heist, he and another man held hostages who surprisingly came to defend them, drawing attention to a puzzling psychological phenomenon.

By Trip Gabriel

Over seven terms, she garnered millions in funds in helping to revitalize the city. But the political scandals of her son, an ex-mayor, came to shadow her career.

By Adam Nossiter

After he was suspended in 1973, 81 players boycotted the tournament in solidarity, highlighting a power struggle for control of the sport.

By Jeré Longman

His firm’s $41 million settlement in representing Charles H. Keating Jr. raised questions about government overreach.

By Trip Gabriel

Few moviegoers knew his name, but directors like Sergio Leone, Sylvester Stallone and Quentin Tarantino considered his vivid work invaluable.

By Alex Williams

He wrote some of the band’s signature songs, including “Ride My See-Saw” and “I’m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band).”

By Alex Williams and Christine Hauser

She led the Ramblers’ players in pregame prayers, pointed out opponents’ strengths and weaknesses and supported the team in N.C.A.A. tournaments.

By Richard Goldstein

A Grammy-winning pianist, he was renowned for works that created “new ideas about line, harmony, rhythm, sound and musical architecture,” one admirer wrote.

By Richard Sandomir

Her life and work were shaped by confronting injustice in South Africa and Germany. “Blacks under apartheid — Jews under the swastika. Was it all that different?” she asked.

By Adam Nossiter

He made billions selling energy with his Coastal Corporation, courted presidents and dictators, and eventually went to prison for paying kickbacks to the Iraqi government.

By Robert D. McFadden

A New York police detective, he used his knowledge of the killer’s handwriting — and a lucky twist — to solve a confounding case.

By Richard Sandomir

He became one of the country’s best-known criminal defense lawyers after winning acquittals in three cases that spawned a new nickname for Mr. Gotti: “the Teflon Don.”

By Sam Roberts

Defying scholarly norms, he took a hands-on approach to research. To study resilience, he visited the Crow Nation; to explore Freudian theory, he became a psychoanalyst.

By Michael S. Rosenwald

The wife of Senator Edward Kennedy for a quarter of a century, she both basked and struggled in the reflected glare of a political family always in the spotlight.

By Katharine Q. Seelye

His work in the manipulation of cells laid the foundation for stem cell biology and regenerative medicine and led to the first cloned large mammal, a sheep named Dolly.

By Delthia Ricks

He led his parents’ appetizing store, Zabar’s, for more than 70 years, turning it into an institution synonymous with New York.

By Clyde Haberman

Using found footage and toying with dimensions (2-D could seem like dazzling 3-D), he sought to explode cinema’s traditional boundaries.

By Sean Malin

She was known as the brash principal on the show, a dark comedy set at a high school that debuted in 2016.

By Johnny Diaz

A rhythm guitarist and bassist, he was a “rock” for a band whose fiery lead players, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page, had no shortage of ego.

By Alex Williams

Hailed as one of the 50 most important women in science, she found ways to study rare radioactive isotopes and advanced the understanding of nuclear fission.

By Delthia Ricks

Overcoming poverty and prejudice, she was the first Black woman to be hired as a television reporter in the region and later became a popular anchor.

By Trip Gabriel

A writer, dissident, teacher and critic, he was deeply affected by an early experience of his life: incarceration as a boy in a concentration camp near Prague.

By David Binder and Dan Bilefsky

He played for the Ravens when the team won the Super Bowl in 2013.

By Rylee Kirk

A pharmacologist, she was certain Elizabeth Holmes’s blood-testing idea would fail, and spoke up about it. At first, few listened.

By Clay Risen

Over nearly a half-century, he wrote 10,000 epigrams, none longer than 17 words, and printed them on postcards, T-shirts, mugs and other products.

By Richard Sandomir