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Mr. Lucas helped found Africare and, with help from African-Americans, built it into a leading nonprofit promoting economic development.

The girlfriend of Buddy Holly’s drummer in the Crickets, she was the “pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty Peggy Sue” immortalized in a 1957 rock ’n’ roll record.

After Rosa Van Been married Joseph Bouglione in a lion cage, the Bouglione family bought the 19th-century Cirque d’Hiver in Paris, which still survives.

After early work on the biological basis of depression, Dr. Carroll became a relentless campaigner against corruption among academic researchers.

Rare for a sports journalist, he won a Pulitzer Prize, crowning a long career as a columnist and author that began when he was a teenager in Brooklyn.

In his etchings, Mr. Colescott, a renowned printmaker, made biting and witty commentaries on history,politics, civil rights and, satisfyingly, the I.R.S.

A Chicago lawyer and a lifelong Democrat, he worked for the Republicans at the behest of his friend Henry Hyde, the House Judiciary Committee chairman.

In one of America’s deadliest blizzards, a schoolteacher used quick thinking and resourcefulness to save more than a dozen students.

A Grammy Award-winning engineer, he played a key role in the making of “Revolver,” “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and other important albums.

Mr. Kurtz worked closely with George Lucas on the first two films in one of the most successful franchises in history.