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Author: BY RAPHAEL MINDER - Publish Date: December 16, 2021 at 03:47AM He won the French Open twice and captured the U.S. National Championships and Wimbledon, as well as winning at the 1968 Olympics.

Author: BY ALEX VADUKUL - Publish Date: December 13, 2021 at 01:49AM His earthy Japanese restaurant, Omen, became a downtown canteen for well-known patrons like Patti Smith, Yoko Ono and Richard Gere.

Author: BY SAM ROBERTS - Publish Date: December 12, 2021 at 01:23AM He helped focus the nation on bombings and police abuse in Alabama in the 1960s and, later, on problems with the education of Black students in Brooklyn.

Author: BY ROSLYN SULCAS - Publish Date: December 6, 2021 at 02:46AM In his long career, most of it with the Royal Shakespeare Company, he played everyone from King Lear to Primo Levi to Ringo Starr.

Author: BY RICHARD SANDOMIR - Publish Date: December 6, 2021 at 12:24AM In the busy summer of 1981, he mediated labor disputes involving baseball players, postal workers and air traffic controllers. He later briefly ran the players’ union.

Author: BY KATHARINE Q. SEELYE - Publish Date: December 5, 2021 at 11:52PM Mr. Dole, a son of the Kansas prairie who was left for dead on a World War II battlefield, became one of the longest-serving Republican leaders.

Author: BY KATHARINE Q. SEELYE - Publish Date: December 5, 2021 at 11:21PM Her efforts to reduce the stigma of divorce included coining the term “binuclear” to refer to families in two separate households.

Author: BY SAM ROBERTS - Publish Date: December 4, 2021 at 12:58AM After expanding a family scrap metal business into a hodgepodge of some 55 companies, he then successfully focused on the service economy.

Author: BY CLAY RISEN - Publish Date: December 4, 2021 at 12:51AM Mr. Rasmussen, who served two terms as mayor of Silverton, Ore., defied many conventions, gender being just one of them.

Author: BY CLAY RISEN - Publish Date: December 1, 2021 at 02:58AM His status as an art-world outsider, and as a staunch defender of “beauty” in art, drew him legions of fans and enemies alike.

Author: BY STEVE LOHR - Publish Date: December 1, 2021 at 02:09AM He personified the blend of technical enthusiasm and counterculture values that shaped the industry, launching the West Coast Computer Faire in the 1970s.

Author: BY KATHARINE Q. SEELYE - Publish Date: November 29, 2021 at 03:25AM He played a pivotal role in helping The Boston Globe uncover the widespread scandal in the Catholic Church and was portrayed in the movie “Spotlight.”

Author: BY VANESSA FRIEDMAN - Publish Date: November 29, 2021 at 02:32AM His expansive approach to design inspired comparisons to artists including Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons. For him, clothes were totems of identity.

Author: BY KATHARINE Q. SEELYE - Publish Date: November 28, 2021 at 11:37PM She produced floral-draped architectural works in the shape of rose-studded topiaries, baskets of speckled lilies and bouquets of anemones.

Author: BY SHERYL GAY STOLBERG - Publish Date: November 28, 2021 at 07:57AM He fled communist rule in Hungary, discovered a treatment for glaucoma in the U.S., then became an author and a voice against authoritarianism in his homeland.

Author: BY ALEX VADUKUL - Publish Date: November 28, 2021 at 06:47AM He gave up a dance career to create a crossover, and now classic, hit film in 1971 that had both gay and straight audiences, and celebrities, lining up to see it.

Author: BY MOTOKO RICH AND MAKIKO INOUE - Publish Date: November 27, 2021 at 12:12AM Her more than 400 novels often drew on her own romantic affairs, and her translation of an 11th-century romantic Japanese classic sold millions of copies.

Author: BY SAM ROBERTS - Publish Date: November 26, 2021 at 12:18AM His first book, “The Rabbi,” was a best seller in the U.S. Almost all his other novels were best sellers, too — but in Western Europe.

Author: BY CLAY RISEN - Publish Date: November 25, 2021 at 02:34AM He began playing professionally as a child, worked with some of jazz’s biggest names in the late 1950s, and remained a leading figure in the music for the next 60 years.

Author: BY ROBERT D. MCFADDEN - Publish Date: November 23, 2021 at 01:00AM His most famous, and most controversial, work was “Iron John: A Book About Men,” which made a case that American men had grown soft and feminized. It made him a cultural phenomenon.