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Initially showing little promise, he eventually joined the family firm and rose to chairman, wielding vast influence in Britain's financial and political affairs. Evelyn de Rothschild, who as a London [...]

In novels, essays and literary criticism, she wrote about women trapped in repressive families or disintegrating marriages. She also wrote six memoirs. Doris Grumbach, who in novels, essays and literary [...]

He depicted a quirky cast of people and pets -- notably his mad-as-a-hatter bull terrier, which became a reader favorite and the magazine's unofficial mascot. George Booth, the New Yorker [...]

The brother of a convicted Mafia boss, he became a Democratic Party leader and a city councilman, and helped build thousands of units of housing. The Rev. Louis R. Gigante, [...]

Heir to a Houston coffee fortune and a former president of Coca-Cola, he joined President Jimmy Carter's cabinet in 1979 as oil shortages roiled the nation. Charles W. Duncan Jr., [...]

As Carter's last attorney general, he fought for the release of Americans held by Iran and investigated allegations against two aides and the president's brother. Benjamin R. Civiletti, President Jimmy [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden He built his reputation with dreamlike images of New York, Rome, Moscow and Tokyo and cast a satirical eye on fashion in a decade of work [...]

He built his reputation with dreamlike images of New York, Rome, Moscow and Tokyo and cast a satirical eye on fashion in a decade of work for Vogue. Exterior. Daylight. [...]

In his long career, he was an intellectual touchstone for progressive Catholic reformers. But he resigned after the disclosure of a long-ago love affair. Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, a liberal [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden From a Tokyo dressmaking shop catering to the wives of American G.I.s, she climbed to global fame as the first Asian woman to join the ranks [...]

From a Tokyo dressmaking shop catering to the wives of American G.I.s, she climbed to global fame as the first Asian woman to join the ranks of French haute couture. [...]

He drew on his theological credentials in essays and memoirs, and his fiction, full of colorful characters, was admired for its elegance, wit and depth. Frederick Buechner, a Presbyterian minister [...]

As a versatile member of the loose association of musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, he was heard on many of the biggest pop and rock hits of the 1960s [...]

Beloved in France and popular around the world, he drew more than 100 covers for The New Yorker in an association that began in 1978. Jean-Jacques Sempé, the French cartoonist [...]

Considered a ruthless Marcos henchman, he was later hailed as a national hero for breaking with the dictator, and went on to preside over an economic boom. Fidel V. Ramos, [...]

He brought a literary sensibility to his widely admired work as a reporter, columnist and editorial writer, whether covering the streets of New York or the Troubles of Northern Ireland. [...]

Her work was immensely popular and virtually ubiquitous. But until the matter was settled in court, her husband fraudulently claimed credit for it. Margaret Keane, the artist whose doleful, saucer-eyed [...]

Often called the father of the health maintenance organization, he coined the term in 1970, envisioning a system that would compete for patients by providing the best care at the [...]

A bold, risk-taking negotiator, he numbered among his clients Danielle Steel, Judith Krantz, three presidents and Pope John Paul II. Morton L. Janklow, the storied New York literary agent who [...]

Interned during World War II, he went to Congress and later served in the cabinets of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. Norman Y. Mineta, who as a boy [...]

Credited with opening the first disco, she built an empire of glittering playgrounds for the Beautiful People in Paris, New York and beyond. She was born Rachelle Zylberberg in Belgium [...]

Overcoming poverty and representing Utah, he became a powerful figure in Washington, helping to build a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Senator Orrin G. Hatch, the Utah Republican who [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden She rose to power and fame as a brilliant analyst of world affairs before serving as an aggressive advocate of President Bill Clinton's policies. Madeleine K. [...]

She rose to power and fame as a brilliant analyst of world affairs before serving as an aggressive advocate of President Bill Clinton's policies. Madeleine K. Albright, a child of [...]

Mr. Young, who was first elected in 1973, during the Nixon administration, became the longest-serving Republican in House history in 2019. Don Young, the Alaska congressman who secured pork-barrel billions [...]

A sixth-generation Mexican American and a Democrat, he was secretary of education, straddling the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. Lauro Cavazos, the United States secretary of education [...]

She painted in obscurity for decades, living on the earnings of her husband, an English teacher. Everything changed with a gallery show in 2004. Carmen Herrera, a Cuban-born artist who [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden In three wars, he flew a total of 409 combat missions. 'We shattered all the myths,' he said of the accomplishments of Black pilots in World [...]

In three wars, he flew a total of 409 combat missions. ''We shattered all the myths,'' he said of the accomplishments of Black pilots in World War II. Charles E. [...]

He was a suspect in three lurid murders and became a fugitive. In September, he was found guilty in the fatal shooting of a confidante and sentenced to life in [...]

He led the communications giant when it settled an antitrust suit in the 1980s, not long after he helped save New York City in the fiscal crisis of the '70s. [...]

The English-born actress captivated children in the 1968 film, which became a holiday favorite. It was one of around 140 productions she appeared in during a six-decade career. Sally Ann [...]

He succeeded Newt Gingrich in the House. As a U.S. senator for 15 years, he was known for championing bipartisan cooperation. Johnny Isakson, a Georgia Republican who succeeded Newt Gingrich [...]

His most famous, and most controversial, work was ''Iron John,'' which made the case that American men had grown soft and feminized. It made him a cultural phenomenon. Robert Bly, [...]

His celebrated works drew from the musical traditions of revival meetings and country hoedowns, telling stories of intolerance. Carlisle Floyd, the composer-librettist whose operas explored the passions and prejudices of [...]

The Illinois Democrat served a decade in the United States Senate: ''It was ordained at birth that I would go into a life of public service.'' Adlai E. Stevenson III, [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden Known for his film music, he also waged a war of words and music against a military junta that banned his work and imprisoned him during [...]

Known for his film music, he also waged a war of words and music against a military junta that banned his work and imprisoned him during its rule of Greece. [...]

In a dozen books, most famously ''Lies My Teacher Told Me,'' he attacked historical misconceptions, particularly concerning the Black struggle in the South. James W. Loewen, a sociologist and civil [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden He juxtaposed the mundane and the exotic, transforming ordinary objects into the desirable - an approach he took in his still-life images as well as in [...]

He juxtaposed the mundane and the exotic, transforming ordinary objects into the desirable -- an approach he took in his still-life images as well as in fashion. Yasuhiro Wakabayashi, the [...]

The longest-serving U.S. senator in Michigan history, Mr. Levin was regarded by colleagues and Washington observers as a paragon of probity. Carl Levin, a liberal Michigan Democrat who served 36 [...]

He served four terms, charmed voters with his escapades and survived a score of investigations before going to prison in 2002 for racketeering. Edwin W. Edwards, the only four-term governor [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden For six years he was the nation's second in command, a master of political intrigue who had plotted and thwarted coups before fleeing the Communist victory [...]

For six years he was the nation's second in command, a master of political intrigue who had plotted and thwarted coups before fleeing the Communist victory in 1975. Gen. Tran [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden Mr. Rumsfeld, who served four presidents, oversaw a war that many said should never have been fought. But he said the removal of Saddam Hussein had [...]

Mr. Rumsfeld, who served four presidents, oversaw a war that many said should never have been fought. But he said the removal of Saddam Hussein had ''created a more stable [...]

He welcomed the Klan and refused to integrate schools, forging a path that would be followed by Gov. George C. Wallace. John M. Patterson, a defiant segregationist who defeated and [...]

With theatrical courtroom flair, he was involved in a host of notorious criminal cases, including those of the Boston Strangler and a Vietnam War massacre. F. Lee Bailey, the theatrical [...]

One of several Black athletes who had threatened to boycott the 1968 Summer Games, he won two gold medals, then raised his fist at the presentation ceremony. Lee Evans, the [...]