James Dean, a landscape painter who ran a NASA program that invited artists such as Robert Rauschenberg, Norman Rockwell and…
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Ushio Amagatsu, an accomplished dancer and choreographer who brought global prominence to Butoh, an elemental minimalist Japanese dance theater form…
Don Wright, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist whose pointed work cut through duplicity and pomposity and resonated with common sense…
Fritz Peterson, who was a steady pitcher for the ineffective Yankees in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but whose…
Bennett Brown, a Chicago psychiatrist whose diagnoses of repressed memories involving horrific abuse by devil worshipers helped spark what became…
Frank A. Olson, who as Hertz’s top executive cast OJ Simpson as the star of the company’s commercials — a…
Taro Akebono, a Hawaiian-born sumo wrestler who became the sport’s first foreign grand champion and helped revive the sport’s popularity…
Nijole Sadunaite, a fearless but forgiving Roman Catholic nun and anti-Soviet Lithuanian nationalist who was inspired by Pope John Paul…
Trevor Griffiths, a prolific and openly Marxist writer for the stage and screen best known for his London and Broadway…
Anthony Insolia, a down-to-earth former Newsday editor who presided over the expansion of that Long Island newspaper and several major…