A onetime comic book illustrator, he painted portraits of eight presidents.
He and his brother started a Massachusetts ice cream shop during the Depression and went on to sell sundaes and Fribble milkshakes for decades.
From a Chevrolet dealership in Arlington, Va., he helped create a sprawling local company that expanded to include Japanese and European vehicles.
With a past shrouded in mystery, he developed a cult following by delving into musical history.
He received a Tony nomination for the musical, which featured a score by Stephen Schwartz.
His sensational courtroom dramas riveted the nation in the 1980s and were dramatized in the film “Reversal of Fortune.”
Thad Cochran, Mississippi Republican and former Senate Appropriations Committee chairman, dies at 81
He brought Southern gentility to Washington — and Washington largesse to the South — over nearly four decades in the Senate.
He led the country in the 1980s and forged closer ties to the United States.
A Howard University cancer specialist, he chaired the medical school’s department of surgery for 25 years.
He led Random House during a period of explosive growth and was the founding chairman of Human Rights Watch.
Known for his immersive, first-person books, he wrote about the South, the Middle East and Australia.
He wrote a monumental biography of Theodore Roosevelt and a semifictional account of Ronald Reagan.
The Iranian immigrant was credited with giving many Washington-area diners their first experience of Persian food.
The former first baseman was best known for his error during the 1986 World Series.
He was a linchpin of coach Vince Lombardi’s 1960s dynasty and the MVP of the first two Super Bowls.
He led the country from 1980 to 1988 and was later a chief adviser to the king.
He helped explain the inner workings of the atom and was a towering figure in 20th-century physics.
She was a best-selling children’s author who wrote of her childhood in World War II and a mischievous cat named Mog.
His column, “The Nation’s Housing,” appeared for four decades and addressed issues faced by homeowners and home buyers.
She drew on her painful personal history in interpreting songs about loss and hope.
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I.M. Pei, one of the world’s leading designers of civic centers and cultural institutions, including the Louvre Pyramid in Paris and the National Gallery of Art’s East Building in Washington, D.C., died May 16, 2019 in New York.
The comedian, whose work on Burnett’s variety show provoked howls of laughter from audiences and co-stars, died May 14, 2019, at a care facility in Los Angeles.
Remembering those who have died in 2019.
