By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Mr. Badillo, whose political odyssey spanned Kennedy liberalism in the 1960s to Giuliani conservatism in the 1990s, became the first Puerto Rico-born congressman.
By BRUCE WEBER
Béliveau, one of the greatest centers in N.H.L. history, was an icon in Canada, and he led Montreal to 10 Stanley Cups in his playing career.
By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. McLagan was a keyboardist with the Small Faces and later the Faces, and a sideman who traveled widely in rock circles, working with Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen.
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
As a young game warden in South Africa, Mr. Player devised a plan to capture rhinos and ship them to other reserves, parks and game farms throughout Africa, and zoos and safari parks around the world.
By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Macdonald, a director and choreographer, worked with classical, contemporary and regional material, from Bach to Gilbert and Sullivan and on to Leonard Cohen.
By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Keys was a self-taught musician who never learned to read music but recorded with a Who’s Who of rock. One of his most memorable moments was a howling solo on “Brown Sugar.”
By JOHN MARKOFF
In 1966, almost a decade before the invention of the personal computer, he predicted that children would have access to personal tutors “as well informed and as responsive as Aristotle.”
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Mr. Haruf’s breakthrough novel was “Plainsong,” which was nominated for the National Book Award.
By PAUL VITELLO
“Luther” was one of the first nationally syndicated comic strips set in a black urban neighborhood.
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Mr. Marshall, along with one of Brooke Astor’s former lawyers, was found guilty of criminal charges that they swindled millions from her after she was stricken with Alzheimer’s disease.
By JODI RUDOREN
Alois Brunner was Adolf Eichmann’s “right-hand man” and responsible for the deportation of 128,500 Jews to death camps, a top Nazi hunter said.
By JOSEPH BERGER
Ms. Barry and her sister Merna were Yiddish singers who rose to international fame and appeared numerous times on “The Ed Sullivan Show.”
By WILLIAM GRIMES
To critics who said Mr. Strand’s poems were too dark he replied, “I find them evenly lit.”
By ELIAS E. LOPEZ
The actor, writer and director was known around the Spanish-speaking world for his iconic characters and widely viewed television shows.
By ANNA KISSELGOFF
Ms. Hinkson, known for her dramatic power, was one of the first two black dancers to join the company.
By PAUL VITELLO
Dr. Harman’s ideas about free radical cell damage and the aging process were well ahead of his time.
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Her fame in the Arab world as an entertainer endured for six decades.
By MICHAEL CIEPLY
Mr. Yablans spent time as president of Paramount Pictures while it released some of the most acclaimed movies of the 1970s and led MGM/UA in the 1980s.
By JOSEPH GIOVANNINI
As president and managing principal of one of the world’s leading architectural firms, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Mr. Katz was the mastermind of many of its major projects in Japan, Shanghai, London and New York.
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Mr. Bernstein, who also wrote for The New York Times and Time magazine, helped arrange America’s first televised presidential debates when he was an NBC vice president in 1960.
By MARILYN STASIO
A consummate stylist, the British author and baroness accumulated numerous awards for the 18 crime novels produced during her 49-year writing career.
By BRUCE WEBER
Mr. Briggs’s career bridged the history of tap from Bill (Bojangles) Robinson to Savion Glover.
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Known as a British underworld enforcer and once suspected in as many as 40 deaths, Mr. Fraser turned his life of crime into a lucrative retirement by chronicling his own deeds in books and films.
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Mr. Kornblum started Coffee House Press, an independent publisher known for finding and nurturing new authors.
By PAUL VITELLO
Mr. Clergue enjoyed a national stature in France for his modernist work, famous patrons and photography festival in Arles.
By RANDY KENNEDY
Mr. Baltz was part of the New Topographics movement, known for a seemingly dispassionate, affectless presentation of its subjects.
By PAUL VITELLO
A liberal economist, Mrs. Teeters often criticized actions by her fellow governors.
By FRANK LITSKY
She won 391 tennis championships in the United States, most of them after she turned 55.
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Tikhonov was the domineering coach of the powerful Soviet national hockey team that won three Olympic gold medals and one devastating silver — when the Soviets lost to the United States in the 1980 Lake Placid Games.