By BRUCE WEBER
A writer and teacher with a varied career, Mr. Meltzer led the successful fight to rescue one of New York City’s most grandiose showplaces from being turned into a discothèque.
By PAUL VITELLO
Mr. Pearson was a journalist and audiophile who founded a magazine for connoisseurs of high-fidelity audio in the 1970s.
By PETER KEEPNEWS
Ms. Susi was a character actress best known for the off-screen role of a haranguing mother on the CBS sitcom “The Big Bang Theory.”
By ROY REED
A Republican, Mr. Doar prosecuted some of the most notorious cases of murder in the South in the ’60s and was chief counsel to the House panel investigating Watergate.
By JON CARAMANICA
Big Bank Hank was one of the three members of the Sugarhill Gang, whose “Rapper’s Delight” put rap on the commercial map.
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Mr. Tallmer, the first theater critic for The Village Voice, also conceived its award for Off Broadway theater, the Obie.
By BRUCE WEBER
A competitor in the 1956 Olympics, he coached the United States women’s team to gold in the 400-meter freestyle relay at the 1976 Games against powerhouse East Germany.
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Mr. Morse turned a small mobile home park in Central Florida into large and politically influential development that drew retirees from around the country.
By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN
A leading Knicks player of the early 1950s, Vandeweghe was also the patriarch of a three-generation family of athletes that includes the current professional tennis player Coco Vandeweghe.
By ADAM CLYMER
Mr. Crane, a Republican, was best known as leader of the American Conservative Union, leading its unsuccessful fight against the treaties turning the Panama Canal over to Panama.
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Ms. Ginsburg, who fled to the United States from Austria during World War II, went on to champion the works of modern artists and actors, including Andy Warhol and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
By PAUL VITELLO
Taking over in 1989, Mr. Shields opened stores in college towns and gentrifying communities, raising annual sales to $2 billion, from $132 million, by the time he retired in 2001.
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Professor Price was a Rutgers scholar with a deep affection for Newark, a city he wrote about, taught about, promoted and defended.
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Dr. Agenbroad presided over a decades-long excavation in South Dakota that gave rise to the Mammoth Site museum and continues to yield fossils.
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
By accident, Dr. Stookey discovered a highly versatile material that could be used in everything from guided missiles to cookware.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Halsey, who was said to die in a fall, pitched for three teams, including the Yankees, and gave up Barry Bonds’s 714th career home run in 2006.
By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. de Plata, considered a crowd pleaser rather than an observer of the music’s formal ritual traditions, picked up his distinct style of play as a young boy.
By PAUL VITELLO
Best known for his recurring appearances on hit shows like “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” Mr. Schaal was also a writer and an early member of Second City in Chicago.
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
Mr. Redfern’s images of greats like Miles Davis, the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix became the basis for an important picture archive.
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Ms. Harris investigated a confrontation between government lawyers and Monica Lewinski, and helped prosecute Imelda Marcos on corruption charges.
By BRUCE WEBER
A soloist with Ballet Theater, Mr. Saddler made his Broadway musical theater debut in 1947, and he went on to win two Tonys as a Broadway choreographer.
By PAUL VITELLO
Mr. Sneddon was a district attorney who failed twice to convict Mr. Jackson on child molestation charges and became the target of a bitter song on one of the pop star’s albums.
By PAUL VITELLO
Msgr. Albacete, a former aerospace researcher turned Roman Catholic priest, became one of the Vatican’s most articulate, unofficial defenders in the United States.
By ERIC ASIMOV
Mr. de Montille was known for his insistence that wine should speak clearly of the place and the culture that produced it.
By NOAM COHEN
Mr. Magliozzi hosted the popular NPR show “Car Talk” for more than 30 years with his younger brother, Ray, in which they bantered with callers through an automotive prism.