A composer and pianist as well, he was a prolific recording artist who integrated jazz, classical and world music traditions in a career that spanned seven decades.

He threw more innings in a season than any player since 1917. A three-time All-Star, he also had four 20-win seasons.

A founder of Cannondale, he was among the first in the U.S. to mass-produce bikes frames out of large-diameter aluminum tubes, replacing heavier steel.

She was a founder and the longtime artistic director of Shakespeare & Company, a repertory theater in western Massachusetts, and directed all his plays.

She played a key role in negotiating a landmark United Nations treaty to protect the high seas, an agreement that went into effect this weekend.

Starting out in the 1970s as a rare woman in a field dominated by men, she directed the premieres of a pair of politically charged modern classics.

A professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he was a key contributor to a landmark paper that laid out how the universe came to look like it does today.

A self-taught musician, he wore flashing goggles while playing the violin. But his real skill was as a painter, and his portraits offered an eerie commentary on the times.

He and Steven Z. Meyers opened their first low-cost legal clinic in 1972. Within a decade, they had revolutionized the legal industry, and Jacoby & Meyers had become a widely known brand.

One of Israel?s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier than historians had thought.

In an upset victory over China at the 1984 Olympics, he and five others became the only American men ever to win the gold medal in the gymnastics team competition.

A self-taught artist, he also spent more than half a century creating forensic sketches and reconstructions for law-enforcement agencies.

He was a familiar face from Broadway productions of ?Company,? ?Titanic? and ?Six Degrees of Separation? and from many movie and TV appearances.

In 1970, he founded London?s Young Vic, an adventurous ?people?s theater? (the Who took the stage at one point) before shaking up the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

He played a key role in ending apartheid South Africa?s secret weapons program in the 1980s by helping the African National Congress bomb critical facilities.

An elegant jazz singer with adventurous taste, she counted among her fans the performer Michael Feinstein and the songwriter Dave Frishberg, who called her technique ?flawless.?

He was best known for his long-running collaboration with Alan Jackson and their signature hit, ?Chattahoochee.?

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand.

His chronicles of a corporate cubicle dweller was widely distributed until racist comments on his podcast led newspapers to cut their ties with him.

She was the first Black cast member on the PBS show ?America?s Test Kitchen,? and used her influence to help other female chefs of color.

After receiving a diagnosis of terminal cancer, he used his experience in public relations to draw attention to the skyrocketing cost of medication.

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