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The C.I.A. tried to quash one book, to the point of buying up all the copies. But the publisher said it would just print more. It became a best seller.

Her long fight as a tenant against eviction by Columbia University led to decades of protests for peace and racial justice and even arrests.

In New York and Chicago galleries she expanded the narrative of 20th-century art to include artists known as the Hairy Who and then as the Chicago Imagists.

A Nobel laureate, he discovered the structure of a huge molecule crucial to translating genetic information into the proteins that make up living matter.

A running back who also passed, kicked and played defensive back, Taliaferro was drafted by the Chicago Bears but signed with a rival league.

A Swiss heiress, she was an adventurous traveler whose writings, along with her androgynous glamour and troubled life, made her a gay cult figure after her death.

Winter, who was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011, spent 60 years in the sport and helped propel Phil Jackson’s teams to nine N.B.A. titles.

As the garden’s president in the 1980s, he doubled its indoor exhibition space, tripled the membership and raised funds for the Steinhardt Conservatory.

Her unique voice — at times piercing, sometimes hoarse, often loaded with melancholy — powered a wildly successful recording career.

In photographs, drawings and paintings, she bent the boundaries between genres, using her body as an artistic tool.