He served four terms in the Senate from Connecticut and was chosen by Al Gore as his running mate in the 2000 election. He was the first Jewish candidate on a major-party ticket.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/us/politics/joseph-i-lieberman-dead.html
A granddaughter of the celebrated Maine brand’s founder, she set out as an entrepreneur in her mid-60s and used her wealth to fund right-wing causes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/business/linda-bean-dead.html
He conceived an early version of cyberspace and predicted the “technological singularity,” a tipping point at which machines would become smarter than humans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/books/vernor-vinge-dead.html
She became an award-winning author of children’s books and young-adult novels despite debilitating health issues and the murder of her father.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/books/kate-banks-dead.html
He depicted the Empire State Building, the Flatiron Building and, most indelibly, the World Trade Center. Those paintings took on new meaning after 9/11.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/arts/robert-moskowitz-dead.html
A tireless Hungarian advocate of contemporary music, he adapted literary sources both modern and classic, instilling his work with “inimitable character and pathos.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/28/arts/music/peter-eotvos-dead.html
The portrait that emerged from her discovery, called Leavitt’s Law, showed that the universe was hundreds of times bigger than astronomers had imagined.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/obituaries/henrietta-leavitt-overlooked.html
A billionaire businessman and a late-blooming piano aficionado, he set a record with the anonymous $100 million gift that he and his wife gave the school.
A poet, publisher and professor, she channeled the revolutionary spirit and deconstructionist currents of the 1960s to challenge the conventions of poetry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/lyn-hejinian-dead.html
He helped pioneer a branch of the field that exposed hard-wired mental biases in people’s economic behavior. The work led to a Nobel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/daniel-kahneman-dead.html
His tilted walls of rusting steel, monumental blocks and other immense and inscrutable forms created environments that had to be walked through, or around, to be fully experienced.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/arts/richard-serra-dead.html
She was the first chess player to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated. But people focused more on her looks than on her ability.
A forceful advocate for experimental poetry, she argued that a critic’s task was not to search for meaning, but to explicate the form and texture of a poem.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/books/marjorie-perloff-dead.html
After his father, who created the character, died, he continued the series of books about a modest elephant and his escapades in Paris for seven decades.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/laurent-de-brunhoff-dead.html
In 1964, at the height of the civil rights movement, he became the first Black pilot for a major commercial airline in the United States.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/us/david-e-harris-dead.html
He was one of the prosecuted Panther 21 in New York, and his account of abuse in jail was a catalyst for Leonard Bernstein’s famous Park Avenue fund-raising party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/nyregion/lee-berry-dead.html
Her work looked at how race and power are experienced in America. In 2022, she filed a lawsuit saying that the appraisal of her home was undervalued because of bias.
Born into English wealth and Oxford-educated, she left it all behind for a life of radical and often violent activism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/world/europe/rose-dugdale-dead.html
His recordings of Beethoven and Chopin were hailed as classics, but his technical ability sometimes invited controversy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/arts/music/maurizio-pollini-dead.html
Mr. Angelos oversaw 14 consecutive losing seasons, the worst run in franchise history, but the team is now a winning ball club about to be sold to new owners.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/us/peter-angelos-baltimore-orioles-dead.html
He was held prisoner in nine concentration camps. Decades later, he fought a battle against American Nazis that became a major free-speech case.
For more than seven decades, Laurent de Brunhoff painted the adventures of the world’s most beloved elephant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/arts/laurent-de-brunhoff-babar-books.html
At 15, he escaped to England. At 20, he enlisted in the British Army and identified a German minister — whose roles included deporting Dutch Jews to labor camps — as he tried to flee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/world/europe/norman-miller-dead.html