He was the father of Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom.
Mr. Conklin’s design of the Navy Memorial on Pennsylvania Avenue helped revive the Penn Quarter neighborhood.
Mr. Fralic starred at the University of Pittsburgh and for the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons.
A crossover recording star for five decades, she also had a prolific career as an actress, activist and commercial spokeswoman.
She earned an Oscar nomination for her debut role, in “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” and later, her 13-year relationship with Eastwood ended in a palimony lawsuit.
She taught herself computing and sought to liberate the “dead-end secretary.”
His book “Un Sac de Billes” (“A Bag of Marbles”), about his odyssey across France during the Nazi occupation, sold more than 20 million copies and inspired two movies.
A plug from the al-Qaeda leader was “almost as good as being an Oprah book,” Mr. Blum quipped.
With her husband, Roger, she gave millions of dollars to museums, charities and causes as well as the National Zoo’s giant panda project.
The Princeton professor devised a method to evaluate presidential performance according to six key qualities.
A farmer and three-term congressman, he was pelted by eggs by farmers angry with federal policies.
His story, dramatized in the film “Melvin and Howard,” began when he said he rescued a wandering Hughes in the Nevada desert.
While teaching a class on “The Divine Comedy,” he realized he wanted his students to be kind more than he wanted them to learn about Dante.
A onetime sideman to Bo Diddley and Howlin’ Wolf, Mr. Williams resumed a music career after a 30-year absence.
In 1985, near the end of his term, he faced a guerrilla assault on the Palace of Justice and a volcanic eruption that killed 25,000 people.
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Stan Lee, a writer and editor often credited with helping American comics grow up by redefining the notion of a superhero, died at a hospital in Los Angeles.
Reynolds was known for his acclaimed performances in “Deliverance” and “Boogie Nights” and commercial hits such as “Smokey and the Bandit,” as well as an active off-screen love life that included relationships with Loni Anderson and Sally Field.
