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A South Vietnam Air Force veteran, Mr. Ly Tong dropped leaflets over Ho Chi Minh City in 1992 and 2000. His actions made him a hero to many Vietnamese refugees.

He drew long lines to his home in Brooklyn, but he chose not to translate that veneration into a community of acolytes on a grand scale.

Ms. English had more than a dozen house-music hits. But her songs, her longtime manager said, were “all related to God.”

Ms. McIntyre won three Nebula Awards for her writing and inspired other female authors. She also wrote five novels set in the “Star Trek” universe.

But was it art? No, Mr. Robbins said, but paint-by-numbers kits — all the rage among young baby boomers — gave the inartistic the “experience” of art.

Concerned about the limited interests of conventional publishers, Mr. Baumbach also helped found a publishing collective run by writers.

A Nobel Prize winner, he was a central player in the golden age of molecular biology, beginning with the discovery of the structure of DNA.

As a scholar, teacher and historian at the City University of New York, she was an impassioned preservationist and an inclusive ethnographer.

She cautioned suicidal farmers to think what it would be like for their children “if they sat down at the supper table and there would be an empty chair.”

The son of an Eritrean father, Nipsey Hussle grew up in Los Angeles, joined a gang and dropped out of school before hearing “wake-up calls.”