Botox, the drug he first used to treat conditions such as crossed eyes, went on to be used by an estimated 11 million people as a wrinkle-relaxing elixir of youth.
He rapped the first verse on the 1984 song “Roxanne, Roxanne,” one of hip-hop’s earliest viral hits.
He was a GOP state senator whose 2005 run for governor as an independent made headlines but won few votes.
His unorthodox, inside-out designs for the Pompidou Center in Paris and Lloyd’s insurance headquarters in London transfixed the architecture world.
Before leaving the Senate in 2019, he was part of a dwindling band of bipartisan dealmakers on Capitol Hill, particularly on veterans’ legislation.
In acerbic essays and novels, she wrote about Hollywood's wild excesses, and her own, becoming a literary phenomenon.
The Polish-born toymaker and tinkerer was also credited with inventing the hole-card camera, a device that sparked the phenomenon of televised poker tournaments in the 2000.
She cared for patients in New York before shaping disability research in the federal government.
She was a divisive figure in Chile, a reminder of her husband's brutal 17-year rule.
She was a painter and at professor and, with her husband, a benefactor of arts and educational organizations. The performing arts center at the University of Maryland bears her name.
His music embodied the hopes of many ordinary Sudanese in their struggle for progress and national identity.
During his 14-year career in Washington, he was a team captain, played on franchise's first Super Bowl team and started 192 consecutive games.
She wrote more than 30 books, drawing on history, politics and her own life while examining race, class and gender in America.
In a transformative life of scholarship, the Yale University professor redefined the study of Black culture from Africa to the Americas.
He was named Executive of the Year twice with the Chicago White Sox and once with the Baltimore Orioles
Her first novel, “Interview With the Vampire,” launched a blockbuster book series and was adapted into a movie starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.
He sang rural anthems about ranchers, lovers’ quarrels, cockfighting and tequila, becoming one of Mexico’s most popular singers.
He won four Grand Slam singles titles, including the 1966 Wimbledon championship, and became a national hero in Spain.
He was the oldest driver ever to win the Indy 500, and he was a member of one of racing's most notable families.
The wool-capped musician also helped pioneer the modern music video.
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Cicely Tyson, award-winning Black actress noted for 'Sounder,' 'Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,' dies at 96
Cicely Tyson, the pioneering actor who brought some of the first ennobling portrayals of African Americans to a vast television audience, gained an Oscar nomination for her performance as a sharecropper's wife in ''Sounder.''
Photos: Larry King, TV host who gave boldface names a cozy forum, dies at 87
He hosted a popular CNN interview program that was a safe haven for the famous and infamous to spill their secrets, hype their projects and soften their image.
Photos: Pierre Cardin, designer who transformed fashion in the 1960s, dies at 98
A perennial trendsetter, Mr. Cardin, who died Dec. 29 at age 98, radically transformed men's and women's fashion in the 1960s with modern designs such as the Nehru jacket and the space-race-inspired bubble dress. He redefined the field of commercial branding by licensing his name to products including toiletries, jewelry, luggage, candy, wine and wigs.
