President Reagan and Larry Speakes in 1984, telling reporters that a briefing was over.
He became the press spokesman for President Reagan after his boss, the press secretary James Brady, was wounded in an attempt on the life of the president.
Mr. McCain helped fuel the civil rights movement in 1960 when he and three friends from their all-black college requested, and were refused, coffee and doughnuts at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.
Mr. Conlin was honored by Baseball’s Hall of Fame in 2011, the same year a newspaper article detailed several accounts of sexual abuse he was accused of committing.
Mr. Kilar won recognition for his music for “The Pianist” and “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” as well as works inspired by Polish folk music.
Mr. Mortensen was one of three economists who shared the 2010 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on a line of economic thinking known as search theory.
Mr. Ned’s records and his sentimental style brought him a large following throughout Latin America.
Mr. Baraka’s work was widely anthologized, and he was also long famous as a political firebrand, with critical opinion divided in every arena.
Mr. Jones was one of the last of the swashbuckling breed of aerospace-industry titans who were almost synonymous with their corporations and the aircraft they produced.
Before being silenced by the Vatican, he was a founder of New Ways Ministry, which advocated full acceptance of gay people in the church and society.
Mr. Hess presided over a gradual decline in the homeless population in New York City until the recession of 2009 caused the problem to spike.
Father Termine angered members of his predominantly white flock in Brooklyn when he let black youths participate in organized basketball at his parish in the mid-1970s.
Mr. Camp was a leader of the American Indian Movement who led the first wave of the 1973 operation to seize Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
Dr. Hsia helped introduce modern Chinese literature to the West in the 1960s while teaching at Columbia University.
Mr. Porcino held the first trumpet chair in bands led by Count Basie, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich and others.
Ms. Howard’s five-part series, The Cazalet Chronicles, traces a British family before, during and after World War II.
Mr. Shaw and his older brother, Run Me, were movie pioneers in Asia, producing and sometimes directing films like “Five Fingers of Death.”
A pilot in World War II and Korea, he was the most valuable player of the 1950 World Series when the Yankees swept the Phillies.
Mr. Binger helped wrest Union Square Park in Manhattan from drug dealers but was stymied in an effort to rebuild Wollman Rink in Central Park.
Mr. Arp was a provocative son of American astronomy whose dogged insistence that astronomers had misread the distance to quasars led to his exile from his peers.
Mr. Cohen, who worked in the insurance industry, was on the board of The New York Times Company from 1960 into the early 1970s.
Ms. Crouse, a force behind the creation of the 40-year-old TKTS booth, also helped revitalize the struggling Lincoln Center Theater.
Mr. Lay’s hard-drinking, rebel persona was an inspiration for Mark Rylance’s Tony- and Olivier-winning performance in Jez Butterworth’s play “Jerusalem.”
Eusebio, an international sports icon, led Portugal to a third-place finish at the 1966 World Cup and was voted one of the 10 best players of all time.
Songs by Mr. Everly and his older brother, Don Everly, carried the close fraternal harmonies of country tradition into pioneering rock ‘n’ roll.
Mr. Zaentz, an independent film producer, won best-picture Academy Awards for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” “Amadeus” and “The English Patient.”
Mr. Forst was the former top editor of New York Newsday, The Village Voice and The Boston Herald.
Mr. Littleton, whose work has been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, founded what is considered to be the nation’s first college-level course in his field.
Paying tribute to luminaries like James Gandolfini, Edward I. Koch, Margaret Thatcher, Nelson Mandela and many others.
A celebration of public and private lives, and of the moments — intimate, historic, unexpected — that shaped them.
Mr. Mandela’s quest for freedom in South Africa’s system of white rule took him from the court of tribal royalty to the liberation underground to a prison cell to the presidency.
Nelson Mandela, whose activism made him a central figure in ending apartheid in South Africa, went from a prisoner to president in his lifetime.
Last Word VideosInspiring people talk about their lives.
The music career of Lou Reed spanned several decades, and his work with the Velvet Underground in the 1960s is often cited as a major influence for many rock musicians.
Seamus Heaney, the accomplished and admired Irish poet, reading from his work over the years.
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