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She exuded earnest maternal wisdom and wistful contentment as a farm wife on “Lassie” and, later, as an interplanetary castaway on “Lost in Space.”
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Arthur Waskow, 92, Influential Rabbi and Activist for Social Justice, Dies
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Sirikit, Glamorous Queen of Thailand Who Wielded Power, Dies at 93
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J. William Middendorf II, 101, Dies; Navy Secretary and Musical Diplomat
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Barbara Gips, Creator of Memorable Movie Catchphrases, Dies at 89
Her best-known tagline was also her first to be published, written for “Alien”: “In space no one can hear you scream.”
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Nebojsa Pavkovic, Yugoslav General Convicted of War Crimes, Dies at 79
Found guilty in 2009, he had been serving a 22-year sentence but was released for health reasons at the request of the Serbian government.
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Overlooked No More: Violeta Parra, Folk ‘Genius’ Who Redefined Latin American Music
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Overlooked No More: Bessie Margolin, Lawyer Who Turned Workers’ Hopes Into Law
Her streak of Supreme Court victories, which began during the New Deal era, benefited millions of workers and continue to shape labor rights today.
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Overlooked No More: Tina Modotti, Whose Life Was as Striking as Her Photographs
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Overlooked No More: Molly Drake, a Maternal Musical Force Behind Nick Drake’s Sound
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In the wake of a revolution, he helped found a leading political party and tried to conciliate warring left and right factions, although his success was limited.
By Adam Nossiter
He was a watchdog over casinos when they were introduced in New Jersey. He went on to run the nation’s most profitable one, in Connecticut.
By Sam Roberts
An influential scholar, she challenged centuries of biblical interpretation that presumed that women were unequal to men in the eyes of God.
By Adam Nossiter
As a pediatrician, she helped elevate breastfeeding from a medical afterthought to a specialty of its own. As a mother of nine, she practiced what she preached.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
With considerable pizazz, he ran a string of popular restaurants in Manhattan, many aimed at hooking the crowds from Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Broadway.
By Trip Gabriel
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
While others made sleek metallic sculptures, she favored humble materials like lumber and glue. The Times called her “one of our most gifted and inventive sculptors.”
By Deborah Solomon
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
As a New York State assemblywoman, she began a campaign that finally bore fruit in 2019, when the Legislature extended the deadlines for victims to file claims.
By Sam Roberts
He was best known for huge, fantastical installations that were not always built to last, including a version of the Trevi Fountain in Rome.
By Alex Williams
Before she became known as the snooty suburbanite Hyacinth Bucket, Ms. Routledge was an acclaimed stage performer, appearing with the Royal Shakespeare Company and on the West End and Broadway.
By Anita Gates
As an executive, he helped negotiate AT&T;’s $50 billion acquisition of TCI and later led the Yankees’ YES Network. He also drove his sports car to victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
By Richard Sandomir
She was among the last of a generation of activists and lawyers who weathered the Red Scare, and then helped train a new cohort in the decades that followed.
By Clay Risen
The primatologist gained scientific acclaim for her work with chimpanzees and then later used her fame to champion conservation.
By Alexa Robles-Gil and Laurence Tan
Jane Goodall, the renowned primate expert, has died. She was 91. Her discoveries about how wild chimpanzees raised their young, established leadership, socialized and communicated broke new ground and attracted immense attention and respect among researchers.
By Ang Li and Thomas Vollkommer
He was the first to use PCR testing on crime-scene DNA, inspiring a practice that has freed thousands of wrongfully convicted people.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
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Her discoveries as a primatologist in the 1960s about how chimpanzees behave in the wild were hailed as “one of the Western world’s great scientific achievements.”
By Keith Schneider
His many novels, including the prizewinning “The Butcher’s Boy” and the Jane Whitefield series, could have sympathetic villains and intriguing heroes.
By Sam Roberts
A spontaneous screen test led to a career that lasted into her teens. She appeared alongside stars like Bette Davis and Katharine Hepburn, played piano with Chico Marx and danced with Charles Laughton.
By Alex Williams
In 1957, facing down white mobs, he became the first Black student to graduate from a public high school in the South under a court mandate.
By Trip Gabriel
His temperate approach was in sharp contrast to his more combative predecessor, but he continued to pursue corrupt unions and financiers.
By Sam Roberts
He won the world nine-ball title in 2001 and the 10-ball title in 2009, as well as back-to-back U.S. Opens, earning his nickname for his steely demeanor.
By Amisha Padnani
At 19, he was one of the youngest pilots in the all-Black unit to see combat in World War II. “I used to say the Army’s No. 1 job was segregation,” he said. “Winning the war was No. 2.”
By Richard Goldstein
A drummer for the 1960s British band the Pretty Things, “the high priest of lunacy” set a high bar for fiery performances and offstage misbehavior.
By Alex Williams
His client was 6 years old when her father savagely beat her during a visitation. Her mother had warned police that he was dangerous, but they ignored her.
By Richard Sandomir
He left a career as a pioneering surgeon to become a church leader, diversifying its policies and its senior ranks. He became its president at 93.
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey
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He helped make it the largest industrial union in North America as he fought an influx of cheap metal from China and lobbied for anti-dumping tariffs.
By Clay Risen
He pioneered the study of Chinese law, was among the first foreigners to practice commercial law in China and spoke out about human rights there.
By Chris Buckley
His ads for Calvin Klein and others captured a fizzy moment in the 1980s and ’90s, featuring celebrities like the young rapper Marky Mark wearing nothing but underwear and a grin.
By Penelope Green
An influential lawyer, he negotiated blockbuster contracts for A-list clients, including the Clintons, the Obamas and the Bushes, while often acting as a political adviser.
By Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris
With his Puns and Anagrams puzzles, Mr. Taub made solvers groan and grin for decades. After he died this month, readers expressed appreciation for his work.
By Amisha Padnani
His three older brothers led the Bielski partisans, which attacked Nazi soldiers and saved 1,200 fellow Jews. Aron was a scout who ferried warnings to a ghetto.
By Richard Sandomir
A member of a Black militant group, she was found guilty in the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper, escaped from prison and fled to Cuba, where she taught and wrote.
By Clyde Haberman
She published her first book of poems at 49 and her first work of prose, the acclaimed novel “Rattlebone,” six years later.
By Clay Risen
A mother of four on the fringes of radical leftist movements, she fired at the president outside a San Francisco hotel in 1975. She had hoped to spark a revolution, she said.
By Robert D. McFadden
His discursive films, often centered on women and their emotions and relationships, confounded and delighted critics in equal measure.
By Alex Williams
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After working for the vice president, he was at the forefront of the fight to save endangered landmarks as longtime head of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
By Trip Gabriel
Known for her vast sonic palette, she made her mark playing with the saxophone master Lou Donaldson and also had a prolific solo career.
By Alex Williams
He was the main whiz behind a crossword variation for The Times, whose readers delighted in his anagrams and sometimes groan-inducing wordplay. (Try one yourself.)
By Penelope Green
Mr. Bhat, a scholar of Persian literature, was a rare and eloquent voice of moderation in Kashmir’s often militant separatist movement.
By Showkat Nanda
She worked in American consulates around the world but found a home in China’s “Paris of the East,” where she documented a vanishing colonial architecture.
By Sam Roberts
A sex symbol with girl-next-door appeal, she rose to fame in the 1960s and starred in more than 150 films, including the Oscar-winning ‘8½’ and ‘The Leopard.’
By Nina Siegal
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