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He was part of a Stanford team whose work in artificial intelligence has found its way into smartphones, Siri and other hallmarks of the algorithmic age.

“God is not dead in L’Heureux stories,” one critic wrote. “He’s simply absent, joking or malicious.” A former priest, L’Heureux wrote more than 20 books.

Mr. Kercheval’s Cliff Barnes, an oil tycoon, battled the machinations of Larry Hagman’s J.R. for the entire long run of the CBS prime-time soap opera.

Championing living composers, Dr. Mason commissioned more than 70 pieces for the king of instruments while teaching for a record 67 years.

The lawsuits he filed from behind bars in the 1960s and ’70s challenging harsh prison conditions laid the groundwork for prisoners to defend their rights even today.

Five 1940s movies with Gene Autry were high points of her century-spanning run, which began in silent films as an infant. She shot her last role last year.

The Northern Irish-born Ms. Harper moved from lighter opera roles to Wagner and Strauss and took part in the premiere of Britten’s “War Requiem.”

A decorated combat veteran of World War II, he reigned for 36 years, many of them coinciding with a period of great prosperity for his small country.

The work, featuring a central character who is deaf, won the Tony Award for best play in 1980 and was turned into an Oscar-winning 1986 movie.

Unlike the other grandchildren, she had no musical ambitions. She was rumored to be romantically involved with Hitler and married a high-ranking Nazi.