Jane F. McAlevey, Who Empowered Workers Across the Globe, Dies at 59
An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands “to take over their unions and change them.”
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An organizer and author, she believed that a union was only as strong as its members and trained thousands “to take over their unions and change them.”
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His clients included antiwar protesters and terror suspects. His practice “not only defended needy people, it propelled social movements,” a colleague said.
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In a decades-long collaboration with the director James Cameron, he produced three of the highest-grossing films of all time.
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His moving and often painful free-verse observations on friends’ deaths, the Holocaust and other topics won him many devoted fans.
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Vic Seixas, Winner of 15 Grand Slam Tennis Titles, Dies at 100
Once declared “the face of American tennis,” he was ranked among the leading players in the United States from the 1940s to the ’60s.
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Yoshihiro Uchida, Peerless Judo Coach, Is Dead at 104
A coach at San Jose State for seven decades, he helped establish the sport in America and trained generations of athletes, many of whom went to the Olympics.
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Wayne S. Smith, a Leading Critic of the Embargo on Cuba, Dies at 91
A former State Department official, he resigned in protest in 1982 over Cuba policy, then spent decades trying to rebuild relations with the island nation.
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Paal Enger, Who Stole Munch’s ‘The Scream,’ Is Dead at 57
A promising player for a storied Norwegian soccer club, he instead found infamy for stealing one of the world’s most famous artworks.
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Nancy Azara, Sculptor Who Created a Haven for Feminist Artists, Dies at 84
She helped establish the New York Feminist Art Institute. In her own work — monumental pieces carved from found lumber — she evoked ancient feminine imagery.
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Overlooked No More: Otto Lucas, ‘God in the Hat World’
His designs made it onto the covers of fashion magazines and onto the heads of celebrities like Greta Garbo. His business closed after he died in a plane crash.
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Overlooked No More: Lorenza Böttner, Transgender Artist Who Found Beauty in Disability
Böttner, whose specialty was self-portraiture, celebrated her armless body in paintings she created with her mouth and feet while dancing in public.
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Overlooked No More: Hansa Mehta, Who Fought for Women’s Equality in India and Beyond
For Mehta, women’s rights were human rights, and in all her endeavors she took women’s participation in public and political realms to new heights.
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Overlooked No More: Bill Hosokawa, Journalist Who Chronicled Japanese American History
He fought prejudice and incarceration during World War II to lead a successful career, becoming one of the first editors of color at a metropolitan newspaper.
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Overlooked No More: Min Matheson, Labor Leader Who Faced Down Mobsters
As director of the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union, she fought for better working wages and conditions while wresting control from the mob.
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She was a frequent sight on the series, which began in 2019, and impressed fans with her straightforward attitude.
By Emmett Lindner
His baroque fusions of bright paint, wood and other detritus wowed the art world. But as his fame faded, he turned his attention to historic preservation.
By Adam Nossiter
A founder of the influential music magazine The Fader, he also bridged the worlds of hip-hop and the Fortune 500 with his innovative marketing agency.
By Alex Williams
She painted and sculpted, but she was best known for her oversized still lifes, painted from photographs and crowded with color and detail.
By Will Heinrich
He found that a failed contraceptive, tamoxifen, could block the growth of cancer cells, opening up a whole new class of treatment.
By Clay Risen
Celebrated for his mastery of dialogue, he also contributed (though without credit) to the scripts of “Bonnie and Clyde” and “The Godfather.”
By Bill Morris
A favorite of early personal computer users, his company was eventually overtaken by Microsoft Word. He later came out as gay and became an L.G.B.T.Q. activist.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
Womanly power was a recurring theme of her work, expressed in idiosyncratic sculpture and paintings that did not align with prevailing trends.
By William Grimes
She wrote memorably about her upbringing by a circle of maternal elders and the life lessons they imparted, and of her yearning for the mother she lost.
By Penelope Green
Often compared to Orwell and Kafka, he walked a political tightrope with works that offered veiled criticism of his totalitarian state.
By Rusha Haljuci
The first woman to serve as the paper’s national editor, she focused on issues of race, class and poverty, drawing prizes, and rose to the newsroom’s top echelon.
By Trip Gabriel
She developed one of the first modern intensive care units for premature babies, helping newborns to breathe with lifesaving new treatments.
By Randi Hutter Epstein
A former hippie who chafed at wealth, she married a Chicago real estate titan and, after his death, donated hundreds of millions in her adopted city and beyond.
By Alex Williams
Only the second Puerto Rican native elected to the Hall of Fame, he hit 379 home runs but later served time in prison on a drug-smuggling charge.
By Richard Goldstein
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An artist and a musician as well, he had a long list of credits that included the sitcoms “Roseanne” and “Veep.”
By Trip Gabriel and Orlando Mayorquín
Her warning of a big buildup of enemy troops poised to attack South Vietnam in 1968 was ignored, a major U.S. Army intelligence failure during the war.
By Richard Sandomir
He carved out a niche by singing the music of living composers from his own country. He was praised by critics at home and abroad.
By Adam Nossiter
With an emphasis on younger viewers, he established the networks as serious rivals to ABC, CBS and NBC, which had ruled television for nearly 40 years.
By Trip Gabriel
A co-founder of the Center School in Manhattan, she implemented once-radical ideas that put the students first. She retired four decades later, at 91.
By Clay Risen
As a performer, he was a leading figure in the early days of Nashville rock ’n’ roll. He later found success as a writer, producer and publisher.
By Bill Friskics-Warren
He and his band, the Texas Jewboys, won acclaim for their satirical takes on American culture. He later wrote detective novels and ran for governor of Texas.
By Clay Risen
He hanged high-profile inmates in exchange for a reduction in his own robbery and murder sentences, and became a social media sensation after his release.
By Saif Hasnat and Yan Zhuang
He was not a Hollywood household name. But his face was one anyone who watched TV or movies over the past several decades could recognize.
By Alexandra E. Petri
He began handling dogs in his native Japan and then became a poodle specialist, leading Spice and Sage to Best in Show victories.
By Richard Sandomir
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Hailed as a pioneer of D.I.Y. programming, he oversaw groundbreaking how-to shows on public television in the days before HGTV and YouTube.
By Alex Williams
His 2020 lament “$20 Bill” was covered by scores of artists and, a fellow musician said, might well be destined for the folk music canon.
By Penelope Green
Era el líder de la banda de rap-rock Crazy Town, conocida sobre todo por la exitosa canción “Butterfly”.
By Sara Ruberg and Hank Sanders
He was part of the superstar tag team the Wild Samoans and a member of the dynasty of Samoan wrestlers that includes today’s biggest star, his son.
By Alexandra E. Petri
He elevated many of France’s most provocative writers through his publishing house, La Fabrique, but he made his greatest mark as a politically engaged, and strolling, historian of Paris.
By Adam Nossiter
A literary critic, essayist and author, he was a leading voice among revisionist skeptics who saw Freud as a charlatan and psychoanalysis as a pseudoscience.
By Scott Veale
Mr. Perry also appeared in television and movies, including roles in “Blue Crush,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and “Hawaii Five-0.”
By Remy Tumin
Da Silvano was a celebrity hangout, drawing boldface names like Madonna, Barry Diller and Yoko Ono. It was often referred to as the downtown Elaine’s.
By Alex Vadukul
As a journalist, singer, label owner and radio producer, he fostered a community of musicians on the outskirts of Americana.
By Clay Risen
He left a career in tech and found success as a producer, winning four Tonys. His mission: staging productions about underrepresented communities.
By Richard Sandomir
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He spent his early career as a professional sumo wrestler.
By Emmett Lindner
He had success on the rugby pitch and in boardrooms, building a media empire and boosting Heinz’s profits, but his fortunes buckled in the global financial crisis.
By Trip Gabriel
Seeking to bring the ideas of Black power into the classroom — and coining the term “ethnic studies” — he clashed with a university as well as allies on the left.
By Clay Risen
She was revered as an essential guardian of the country’s memory of war and repression long after the Franco dictatorship.
By Adam Nossiter
With the Contortions and James White and the Blacks, the songwriter and saxophonist set out to challenge musicians and stir up audiences.
By Jon Pareles
He overcame segregation at home and in the military to serve three tours in Vietnam as a member of the storied special operations unit.
By Alex Williams
He turned “an insignificant trade house” into a powerhouse, publishing best sellers like “The Silence of the Lambs” and “All Creatures Great and Small.”
By Sam Roberts
In a wide-ranging career (from “M*A*S*H” to “Ordinary People” to “The Hunger Games”), he could be endearing in one role, menacing in another and just plain odd in a third.
By Clyde Haberman
An art world power, she represented more than 70 artists and estates and ran two large exhibition spaces in Manhattan as well as offshoots abroad.
By Will Heinrich
The founder of the renowned Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, he also helped shape U.S. policies on controlling toxic substances like DDT.
By Keith Schneider
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Mays, who died on Tuesday at 93, had been perfect for so long that the shock of seeing baseball get the best of him was the shock of seeing a god become mortal.
By Kurt Streeter
Mays, the Say Hey Kid, was the game’s exuberant embodiment of the complete player. Some say he was the greatest of them all.
By Richard Goldstein
As a journalist and later as a Yale professor, she provided the intellectual tools to help actors, directors and audiences understand challenging theatrical work.
By Clay Risen
She received a diagnosis of Stage 4 breast cancer late in her second pregnancy and described her experience in a book, “Little Earthquakes: A Memoir.”
By Richard Sandomir
His remarkable sprint in the final yards on a muddy track in the 1964 Games in Tokyo made him the only American ever to win the gold medal in that event.
By Richard Goldstein
While he was reviving Portland, Ore., as a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly city, he was also sexually abusing a teenage girl over three years, he later admitted.
By Michael S. Rosenwald
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