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A moderate Republican, he championed education, civil rights and environmental causes as a three-term governor and on Capitol Hill. He was eyed as a potential vice president. Daniel J. Evans, [...]

He became ambassador after three terms as a senator from Tennessee. In 1999, he was made a virtual prisoner in the embassy in Beijing during a siege by protesters. James […]

James Earl Jones, a stuttering farm child who became a voice of rolling thunder as one of America's most versatile actors in a stage, film and television career that plumbed [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden James Earl Jones, a stuttering farm child who became a voice of rolling thunder as one of America's most versatile actors in a stage, film and [...]

Working out of her basement, and with no teaching experience, she created a nonprofit that helped people around the world learn to read. Ruth Johnson Colvin, who founded what became [...]

Working out of her basement, and with no teaching experience, she created a nonprofit that helped people around the world learn to read. Ruth Johnson Colvin, who founded what became [...]

After delivering improvements to the Bronx as borough president, he, along with others, was convicted in the 1980s Wedtech scandal and went to prison. Stanley Simon, a former Democratic Bronx […]

Hundreds of Vietnamese civilians died at the hands of American soldiers, but Lieutenant Calley was the only one found guilty. William L. Calley Jr., who as a young Army lieutenant [...]

Born into a patrician family, he used Harper's and later his own Lapham's Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States. Lewis [...]

Born into a patrician family, he used Harper’s and later his own Lapham’s Quarterly to denounce what he saw as the hypocrisies and injustices of a spoiled United States. Lewis [...]

An Oklahoma Republican who led the Environment Committee, he took hard-right stands on many issues but was especially vocal in challenging evidence of global warming. James M. Inhofe, a five-term [...]

His moving and often painful free-verse observations on friends' deaths, the Holocaust and other topics won him many devoted fans. Stanley Moss, a lyrical American poet who for seven decades […]

After studying Gandhi's principles of civil disobedience in India, he joined the 1960s civil rights movement and became an architect of it as a nonviolent struggle. The Rev. James M. [...]

He wrote about world affairs for Time magazine and worked at the State Department before becoming a senior editor at The New York Times in 1967. James L. Greenfield, an [...]

She was the first woman to own and run a major national advertising agency. Her company, Wells Rich Greene, was best known for the ''I love NY'' campaign. She splashed [...]

She was the first woman to own and run a major national advertising agency. Her company, Wells Rich Greene, was best known for the “I ♥ NY” campaign. She splashed [...]

An antiwar California congressman, he defeated Shirley Temple Black in a special election before launching a long-shot bid for the 1972 G.O.P. nomination. Pete McCloskey, a California congressman who raised [...]

He was a rare Black presence on ''Combat!'' and ''The Phil Silvers Show,'' then made well-regarded documentaries on luminaries like Duke Ellington and Katherine Dunham. Terry Carter, who broke color [...]

During his 34 years as an elected official, Mr. Pryor was sometimes said to be more liberal, especially on racial issues, than the people who elected him. David H. Pryor, [...]

During his 34 years as an elected official, Mr. Pryor was sometimes said to be more liberal, especially on racial issues, than the people who elected him. David H. Pryor, [...]

After the 9/11 attacks, Mr. Graham became an outspoken critic of President George W. Bush's response and voted against invading Iraq. Bob Graham, a Florida Democrat who as a little-known [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden He ran to football fame and made fortunes in movies. His trial for the murder of his former wife and her friend became an inflection point [...]

He ran to football fame and made fortunes in movies. His trial for the murder of his former wife and her friend became an inflection point on race in America. [...]

Saltó a la fama en el campo de fútbol americano y amasó fortunas en el cine. Pero el juicio en el que se le acusó de asesinar a su exesposa [...]

He served four terms in the Senate from Connecticut and was chosen by Al Gore as his running mate in the 2000 election. He was the first Jewish candidate on [...]

With his wife, Eydie Gorme, and sometimes on his own, he kept pop standards in vogue long past their prime. He also acted on television and on Broadway. Steve Lawrence, [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden Iris Apfel, a New York society matron and interior designer who late in life knocked the socks off the fashion world with a brash bohemian style [...]

Iris Apfel, a New York society matron and interior designer who late in life knocked the socks off the fashion world with a brash bohemian style that mixed hippie vintage [...]

Iris Apfel, una matrona de la alta sociedad neoyorquina y diseñadora de interiores que en los últimos años de su vida impactó al mundo de la moda con un atrevido [...]

Mr. Ryzhkov, who ascended to the Soviet Union's second most powerful post in 1985, took much of the blame for the economic collapse that led to the country's dissolution in [...]

Mr. Ryzhkov, who ascended to the Soviet Union’s second most powerful post in 1985, took much of the blame for the economic collapse that led to the country’s dissolution in [...]

An Oscar-nominated role opposite Marilyn Monroe in ''Bus Stop'' led to a long career in film and TV and onstage, in productions that grappled with race, drugs, homosexuality and more. [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden Appearing in scores of stage productions, she dazzled audiences for nearly six decades, most memorably starring as Anita in 'West Side Story' and Velma Kelly in [...]

Fue parte de un sinnúmero de producciones teatrales, deslumbró al público durante casi seis décadas y su carrera brilló de manera memorable como Anita en “Amor sin barreras” y Velma [...]

Appearing in scores of stage productions, she dazzled audiences for nearly six decades, most memorably starring as Anita in ''West Side Story'' and Velma Kelly in ''Chicago.'' Chita Rivera, the [...]

Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie Norton, the wife of a guffawing, rubber-limbed sewer worker forever mired in a blowhard neighbor's get-rich-quick schemes and other hazards of life on the classic [...]

Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie Norton, the wife of a guffawing, rubber-limbed sewer worker forever mired in a blowhard neighbor’s get-rich-quick schemes and other hazards of life on the classic [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden Like a human GPS, he guided Britain's first special forces across the vast Sahara for hit-and-run raids on enemy bases in the battle against Rommel's forces. [...]

As executive editor from 1994 to 2001, he oversaw a period of growth, expanding national and international readerships, creating new sections and ushering in the digital age with a Times [...]

A reclusive Austrian billionaire, he created the handgun worn by two-thirds of America's police officers and the security forces of at least 48 countries. Gaston Glock, the Austrian engineer who [...]

A member of the family that founded Kohl's department stores, he guarded federal budgets as a U.S. senator while spending lavishly to revive the N.B.A. team he owned. Herbert H. [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden She and her longtime husband, the music magnate Ahmet Ertegun, were once called 'the virtual definition of sophistication.' Mica Ertegun, the New York doyenne of interior [...]

Dr. Murphy's safe, reliable blood bag replaced breakable glass bottles used in transfusions in the Korean War. He also helped improve pacemakers and artificial kidneys. Dr. William P. Murphy Jr., [...]

She and her longtime husband, the music magnate Ahmet Ertegun, were once called ''the virtual definition of sophistication.'' Mica Ertegun, the New York doyenne of interior design who fled from [...]

His political journal challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies for decades. Charles Peters, the founding editor of The Washington Monthly, a small political journal that challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies and [...]

She survived gruesome medical experimentation at the Ravensbrück concentration camp to become a psychiatrist -- counseled by the priest who would become John Paul II. Wanda Poltawska, a Polish psychiatrist [...]

Byline: Robert D. McFadden After piling up billions in business, he pledged to donate almost all of his money to causes before he died. He succeeded, and then lived a [...]

After piling up billions in business, he pledged to donate almost all of his money to causes before he died. He succeeded, and then lived a more modest life. Charles [...]

She achieved remarkable political breakthroughs as a woman, becoming San Francisco's first female mayor and the first woman elected to the Senate from California. Read the latest updates about Senator [...]

He served for 38 years in Parliament and, after being elected president at a critical moment in Italy's fortunes, helped stabilize the country. Giorgio Napolitano, modern Italy's longest-serving president, who [...]