During his decade at the helm of IAEA, he was extensively involved in negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program and the cleanup of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster.
The longtime New York County D.A. championed white-collar probes along with street-crime prosecutions.
The “most influential unknown man in America” was condemned for leading white nationalist hate groups.
His globe-spanning work included the Petronas Towers, a twin-spire skyscraper in Malaysia that was briefly the world’s tallest structure.
The former actress married C.V. “Sonny” Whitney, an heir to oil and rail fortunes, and became a leading hostess, horse breeder and benefactress.
He joined the newspaper soon after its founding in 1982 and went on to serve as editor in chief for 16 years.
She became the first black student at an all-white medical school in the South when she enrolled at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 1948.
He became the first black player on the last major league team to field one.
He ran the American Embassy in Tehran when it was seized by Iranian students in 1979.
He was a central player in District politics and political activism for more than three decades.
His books, most set in his native Sicily, sold some 25 million copies in Italy and were translated into approximately 30 languages.
The former antitrust lawyer from Chicago became the third-longest-serving justice on the high court before his retirement in 2010
He was a founder of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.
He also developed shared computer operating systems, which permit multiple access to the same device.
In 1997, he performed his song “Asimbonanga” onstage with President Nelson Mandela.
He revived the agency during his 31 / 2 years as a fiercely independent-minded commissioner.
Nicknamed “Sweet Pea,” he was considered one of the best pound-for-pound fighters of his generation.
At the time of his death, he was serving as opposition leader in Parliament.
She and her twin sister, Miriam, were among 1,500 sets of twins victimized by the infamous Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.
He was a seven-term congressman who became a symbol of archconservative Orange County.
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Remembering those who have died in 2019.
I.M. Pei, one of the world’s leading designers of civic centers and cultural institutions, including the Louvre Pyramid in Paris and the National Gallery of Art’s East Building in Washington, D.C., died May 16, 2019 in New York.
The comedian, whose work on Burnett’s variety show provoked howls of laughter from audiences and co-stars, died May 14, 2019, at a care facility in Los Angeles.
