With his friend Jim Drake, he built the Windsurfer, a sailboard that was cheaper and more portable than most sailboats. It became a global phenomenon.

In a Pulitzer-winning book, ?The Radicalism of the American Revolution,? he wrote that the colonists rose up against an entire worldview, not just against taxation.

The billionaire widow of Laurence Tisch, she raised money for WNYC radio and other cultural organizations, along with Jewish, medical and educational institutions.

His five-volume ?Children of Crisis? series, published between 1967 and 1977, drew on his conversations with American children whose voices were not often heard.

Long seen as the cool, coifed wife of the president, she emerged as a political player in her own right, as well as a relentless champion of charities.

An unorthodox Republican, he helped shape tax policy and women?s rights legislation before resigning in 1995 amid accusations by more than 20 women of sexual misconduct.

He was a cosmopolitan observer and interpreter of societies he knew firsthand, whether writing about war in Nicaragua or the history and cultural salons of France.

The queen?s third cousin, she was a bridesmaid at the royal wedding in 1947, and witnessed firsthand pivotal moments in British history.

The British actor was a mainstay of influential television shows who first found fame as a Nescafe pitchman.

A journalist, a medic, a weather forecaster, a Medal of Honor recipient, a French commando: Their efforts showed that courage transcends race, class and gender.

He won the sport?s most important series, NASCAR?s Grand National, and his son followed in his footsteps. Both were inducted into the Hall of Fame.

His best-known works were large, airy tangles that suggested tumbleweeds, nests or tulle. If a window was open, they might sway in the breeze.

He had never produced a performance when he was hired as the company?s general director in 1983. But over 31 years (and lots of Wagner) he became beloved.

A former Army nurse who served in combat, she coordinated a 10-year effort to create a monument recognizing the contributions of the war?s thousands of nurses.

He mapped the herpes simplex virus genome, revealing how it invades cells. His work also helped lay the groundwork for potential vaccines and gene therapies.

He quit singing in his early 20s when opera companies objected to his appearance, but after a 12-year absence he revived his career to acclaim.

He made it his mission to track down every book Mark Twain owned ? and to fix what he saw as flaws that kept schools from teaching the author?s most famous works.

Her popular graphic novel series, published in the early 2000s, followed an Iranian girl through the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.

As director of the espionage agency from 2014 to 2020, he confronted a range of threats, including international terrorism and an emboldened Russia.

A music executive with longstanding ties to the Jackson family, he worked to make Janet a star and Michael a posthumous commercial powerhouse.

She sponsored one of the nation?s first anti-discrimination ordinances for gays and lesbians and later helped make Miami a global arts center.

He was admired for impassioned duets with singers like Roberta Flack and Celine Dion and for the Disney hits ?Beauty and the Beast? and ?A Whole New World.?

?Fourteen times he flew into what they called the valley of death,? President George W. Bush said in awarding him the Medal of Honor in 2007.

A close collaborator with George Lucas, her second husband, she was ?the warmth and the heart? of his early films, the actor Mark Hamill said.

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