She was one of the last links to Jean-Paul Sartre and other existentialist intellectuals who made her their muse after World War II.
He was a key architect of “Occupy D.C.” in 2011 and the occupation of the Venezuelan embassy last year to oppose U.S. intervention in that troubled country.
He found wider fame through his friendship with a cancer-stricken teammate, depicted in the TV movie “Brian’s Song.”
Stephen F. Cohen, historian of Soviet Union whose revisionist views influenced Gorbachev, dies at 81
He believed Soviet authoritarian rule could have been avoided, then came under fire as “Putin’s apologist.”
“Guess How I Much Love You,” a picture book featuring nutbrown hares, has sold more than 50 million copies and has been translated into 57 languages.
His public support of the boycott that helped launch the civil rights movement and established the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as its leader brought death threats from white supremacists.
He engineered the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay, brought Pepsi to the Soviet Union and built PepsiCo into a major rival to Coca-Cola.
By tugging on a piece of polymer, he accidentally discovered the material that became Gore-Tex.
The novel became a global bestseller after the 1994 movie starring Tom Hanks.
She rose to the top of her class at Columbia Law School in the 1950s, helped battle gender discrimination as an ACLU lawyer and, in 1993, became the second woman on the high court.
After she joined a class-action lawsuit against the Navy, some said she was committing treason. “But others kept saying, ‘Good for you, good for you.’ ”
He led the West African nation from 1968 to 1991 and died soon after it was rocked by a coup against one of his successors.
He and two accomplices pulled off a 1964 heist of the Star of India sapphire at a New York museum. After his time in prison, he became an evangelist to inmates.
His provocative essays took aim at major figures, and he helped shape the jazz world in the 1980s.
He saw himself as much an artist as a historian and won plaudits for his scenes of everyday — people past and present — going about their lives in the city.
He and songwriting partner Joel Hirschhorn won Oscars for the 1972 disaster epic and 1974’s “The Towering Inferno.”
The Seattle law firm founder and civic leader helped his son, tech billionaire Bill Gates, establish one of the largest private philanthropies in the world.
Colleagues called her “the Elizabeth Cady Stanton of women’s studies.”
In his furniture, stores, household objects, restaurants and books, he thought good design led to better living.
After starting an environmental think tank at 25, he founded the New America Foundation policy organization as well as the Climate Leadership Council.
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The beloved actor died Aug. 28 at his home near Los Angeles. He was 43.
She also influenced the band?s fashion sense and ?moptop? hairstyle.
Rogers, pop-country singer of ?The Gambler? who dominated 1970s music charts, dies at 81.
