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Mr. Gayle, Senator Kamala Harris’s press secretary, had worked on Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and Tim Kaine’s 2012 Senate campaign.

The fourth and last president in the league’s history, he served for 15 years, overseeing expansion and a merger with the rival World Hockey Association.

Starting with a brand known for colors and provocative ads, he helped build a $13.6 billion holding company comprising infrastructure, real estate and more.

Todd Bol’s Little Free Library boxes, which blend the form of folk art with the function of a community water cooler, have popped up in all 50 states and in 88 countries.

Using unorthodox methods (walk around a room, speak it together), she helped actors find their voices by feeling the weight and rhythms of the words.

His “Rainy Night in Georgia” was a Top 10 hit for Brook Benton in 1970, a year after Mr. White had a Top 10 hit of his own with “Polk Salad Annie.”

He ministered in Manhattan to AIDS patients and the homeless and revitalized a struggling Upper West Side parish where he presided for 14 years.

Starting in a garage, where he invented the battery-powered pacemaker, he and a brother-in-law created the world’s largest medical device company.

A classic character actor, he had some 200 film and television credits but may have been best known in the Northeast for supermarket commercials.

Mrs. Reilly invented the dish when she worked at the Campbell Soup Company test kitchen in the 1950s.