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  1. Bruce Bastian, a Founder of WordPerfect, Is Dead at 76

    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.

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    Bruce Bastian, a founder of the WordPerfect Corporation and a donor to L.G.B.T.Q. causes, in 2011. Mr. Bastian left the company after it was sold in 1994.
    CreditBastian Foundation
  2. Shay Youngblood, Influential Author and Playwright, Dies at 64

    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.

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    Shay Youngblood in 2021. Her first book, “The Big Mama Stories” (1989), was adapted into her first play, “Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery,” and she won a Pushcart Prize for fiction for “Born With Religion,” one of the short stories in that book.
    CreditCarolyn Miller
  3. Ismail Kadare, 88, Dies; His Novels Brought Albania’s Plight to the World

    Often compared to Orwell and Kafka, he walked a political tightrope with works that offered veiled criticism of his totalitarian state.

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    The author Ismail Kadare in the 1970s. He received the inaugural Man Booker International Prize (now the International Booker Prize) in 2005.
    CreditHorst Tappe/Getty Images
  4. Soma Golden Behr, 84, Dies; Inspired Enterprising Journalism at The Times

    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.

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    Soma Golden Behr in 2007, hosting an event for The New York Times Scholarship Program. As the newspaper’s national editor and an assistant managing editor, she helped shepherd Pulitzer Prize-winning series.
    CreditMichelle V. Agins/The New York Times
  5. Mildred Thornton Stahlman, Pioneer in Neonatal Care, Dies at 101

    She developed one of the first modern intensive care units for premature babies, helping newborns to breathe with lifesaving new treatments.

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    In the 1960s, Dr. Mildred Stahlman saved 11 of 26 babies who had respiratory disease by pioneering the use of miniature iron lung machines. She is seen in the center in this undated photo.
    CreditVanderbilt University Medical Center

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  1. 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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    Otto Lucas in 1961. “I regard hat-making as an art and a science,” he once said.
    CreditEvening Standard, via Hulton Archive/Getty Images
  2. 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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    An untitled painting by Lorenza Böttner depicts her as a multitude of gender-diverse selves.
    Creditvia Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
  3. 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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    A postcard depicting Hansa Mehta. Her work included helping to draft India’s first constitution as a newly independent nation.
    Creditvia Mehta family
  4. 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.

     By Jonathan van Harmelen and

    Bill Hosokawa in 1951, when he worked for The Denver Post.
    CreditCloyd Teter/The Denver Post, via Getty Images
  5. 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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    Min Matheson in an undated photograph. She frequently confronted “tough guys” while marching in picket lines.
    Creditvia Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation<br /> and Archives, Cornell University Library
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