Michel Bacos, a French pilot who refused to abandon the Jewish passengers of his hijacked plane when they were taken hostage at the Entebbe airport...
Shortly after 8 p.m. on May 11, 1960, a slight man stepped off a bus in suburban Buenos Aires. He seemed weary, ready to be home, and looked...
Ralph M. Hall, a Texas Democrat-turned-Republican who was elected 17 times to Congress, where he became dean of his state’s delegation, one of the...
James Billington, an eminent American scholar of Russian culture who reigned for three decades as librarian of Congress, propelling the expansion...
San Marcos, Calif. — Richard Gordon Jr., an astronaut who tested the limits of human strength in space with a taxing mission during the Gemini 11...
New York — Decades after the fact, the diminutive self-described “old lady” joyfully recalled the day in 1967 when the love of her life dropped to...
Villages, Fla. — Robert E. Vitarelli, who as director of the CBS Evening News and Sunday morning’s Face the Nation was an unseen yet indispensable...
Herbert L. Needleman, a pediatrician and psychiatrist who demonstrated in the late 1970s that children exposed to even small amounts of lead could...
New York — To Sheila Michaels, the strange honorific “Ms.” looked like a typographical error when she saw it— neither “Miss” for the unmarried nor ...
Ketumile Masire, a cattle herder turned statesman who, as president of Botswana from 1980 to 1998, helped solidify his country’s standing as one of...
Bewilderment: That was the reaction of William J.L. Sladen’s friends when he decided, more than six decades ago, to forgo his medical career and...
Edison, n.j. — Barbara Smith Conrad, an acclaimed mezzo soprano who died May 22 at 79, sang on the most illustrious stages of the world, from New...