She was a star of London?s post-punk D.I.Y. fashion, art and performance scene, and dressed a generation of rock stars in her otherworldly handmade clothes.

His innovative approach drew crowds to the Musée d?Orsay, one of France?s flagship cultural institutions, which he led from 2008 to 2017.

He designed some of the world?s most recognizable buildings, notably the spectacular Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, his masterpiece.

He had overseen high-profile cases as a private lawyer and a U.S. attorney in New York when he was named to examine the role of Bill and Hillary Clinton in a failed development venture.

The younger brother of Ken Kesey, the novelist and counterculture luminary, he turned a defunct creamery into what is now Nancy?s Probiotic Foods.

A Nobel laureate, he identified an enzyme that cuts DNA, laying the groundwork for milestones in scientific research and medicine, like insulin.

For years he lived a double life, secretly making anti-Communist paintings. He found fame in the late 1980s, once his work was shown outside the Soviet Union.

As a medic, he saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach on D-Day before becoming a prisoner of war. Back home, a decorated veteran, he was forbidden to vote as a Native American.

Fleeing an abusive home life, she went on to win a national Space Invaders tournament, taught herself to program and left a trail of popular games in her wake.

While in prison in 1981, he befriended the dissident and future Czech president Vaclav Havel. Later, he became a conservative voice in Rome.

She elbowed her way into what had long been a man?s game and won the first women?s national championship in 1967 ? and then repeated the feat four more years in a row.

As a member of Booker T. & the MG?s and as a producer, he played a pivotal role in the rise of Stax Records, a storied force in R&B in the 1960s and ?70s.

He put fellow New Jerseyans at the center of his work, and a critic praised the ?mysterious emotional tensions? in his pictures of ordinary people.

Dignitas has helped more than 3,000 people take their own lives, an act that Mr. Minelli maintained was a fundamental exercise of free will.

As the Kremlin?s hard-line Communist ideologist, he initially embraced his boss?s modernizing reforms before turning against them as threats to the Soviet order.

The author of novels, histories, biographies and influential political essays, he approached them all with a droll British wit and a steadfast commitment to Western values.

He emerged out of obscurity when his cargo plane was shot down while illegally ferrying arms to Nicaraguan rebels, setting off a scandal that tarnished the Reagan and Bush White Houses.

Influential from New Jersey to Georgia, he was part of a long tradition among Black clergy of fighting bias and getting out the vote. ?No vote, no clout,? he?d say.

A professor at Yale, he immersed himself in communities after catastrophic events like Three Mile Island, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and Hurricane Katrina.

His tales of violence and squalor in his native Ozarks had the timeless quality of fables and inspired several movies.

For generations of Algerians, the fierce independence of her persona reflected their struggles in a country torn by civil war and repression.

He spent months searching the wreckage of the World Trade Center for his son?s remains, then suffered lung illnesses attributed to toxic dust.

He was a witty and popular figure, but his racially insensitive remarks about Tiger Woods at the 1997 Masters led to death threats and many apologies.

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