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Mr. David, who created looks that emphasized practicality as well as style, founded a worldwide chain of salons that bear his name.

His performances in both classical ballet and modern existential works were widely hailed. “He was my hero,” American Ballet Theater’s director said.

A charismatic and well-pedigreed contestant, he confessed to Congress that his ballyhooed TV performances in the 1950s had been scandalously rigged.

He was the government’s official photographer at Oak Ridge, Tenn., a secret city where uranium was enriched for the bombs that fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

He was Jimmy Doolittle’s co-pilot in the first airstrike against the Japanese homeland, an event that buoyed Americans still reeling from Pearl Harbor.

She was one of 13 women who started a league of their own, having so little money at first that they traveled to tournaments in highway caravans.

Mr. Cassel, who worked often with John Cassavetes and Wes Anderson, played parts that were often small but almost always memorable.

Recently stripped of a board seat in his family’s empire, Mr. Cho had been caught up in corruption investigations and a daughter’s “nut rage” incident.

Mr. Slade was a host of “Open Line,” a call-in show that dedicated to the African-American community that conveyed a perspective lacking in news media.

Mr. Hollings served 38 years in the United States Senate in an era of rising prosperity and often painful accommodation to racial tolerance in his state and across the South.