Obituaries

Nicknamed Mom Jovi, she founded the Jon Bon Jovi fan club, and earlier was a Marine and a Playboy bunny.

His clients included antiwar protesters and terror suspects. His practice “not only defended needy people, it propelled social movements,” a colleague said.

In a decades-long collaboration with the director James Cameron, he produced three of the highest-grossing films of all time.

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.

His moving and often painful free-verse observations on friends’ deaths, the Holocaust and other topics won him many devoted fans.

Once declared “the face of American tennis,” he was ranked among the leading players in the United States from the 1940s to the ’60s.

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.

A promising player for a storied Norwegian soccer club, he instead found infamy for stealing one of the world’s most famous artworks.

She was a frequent sight on the series, which began in 2019, and impressed fans with her straightforward attitude.

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.

She helped establish the New York Feminist Art Institute. In her own work — monumental pieces carved from found lumber — she evoked ancient feminine imagery.

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.

She painted and sculpted, but she was best known for her oversized still lifes, painted from photographs and crowded with color and detail.

He found that a failed contraceptive, tamoxifen, could block the growth of cancer cells, opening up a whole new class of treatment.

Celebrated for his mastery of dialogue, he also contributed (though without credit) to the scripts of “Bonnie and Clyde” and “The Godfather.”

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.

Womanly power was a recurring theme of her work, expressed in idiosyncratic sculpture and paintings that did not align with prevailing trends.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

An artist and a musician as well, he had a long list of credits that included the sitcoms “Roseanne” and “Veep.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

He began handling dogs in his native Japan and then became a poodle specialist, leading Spice and Sage to Best in Show victories.

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.

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.

Era el líder de la banda de rap-rock Crazy Town, conocida sobre todo por la exitosa canción “Butterfly”.

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.

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.

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.

Mr. Perry also appeared in television and movies, including roles in “Blue Crush,” “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and “Hawaii Five-0.”

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.

As a journalist, singer, label owner and radio producer, he fostered a community of musicians on the outskirts of Americana.

He left a career in tech and found success as a producer, winning four Tonys. His mission: staging productions about underrepresented communities.

He spent his early career as a professional sumo wrestler.

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.

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.

She was revered as an essential guardian of the country’s memory of war and repression long after the Franco dictatorship.

With the Contortions and James White and the Blacks, the songwriter and saxophonist set out to challenge musicians and stir up audiences.

He overcame segregation at home and in the military to serve three tours in Vietnam as a member of the storied special operations unit.

He turned “an insignificant trade house” into a powerhouse, publishing best sellers like “The Silence of the Lambs” and “All Creatures Great and Small.”