By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
Mr. Greenglass, whose testimony against his sister and brother-in-law, Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, in a 1951 spy trial helped send them to the electric chair, later admitted to lying.
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
A colleague of Vaclav Havel who went into exile, Mr. Landovsky appeared in “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mr. Lewis came off the sideline in the 1954 Cotton Bowl to tackle Dicky Moegle of Rice, interrupting his 95-yard touchdown run.
By PAUL VITELLO
Mr. Chase went on to become a prolific producer of theater, film and television drama, with credits including a vast roster of popular series like “The Fugitive” and “Peyton Place.”
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Ms. Snyder had three Newbery Honor Books in the early 1970s, but she was probably best known for the dystopian utopia in the Green Sky Trilogy.
By VIVIEN SCHWEITZER
Ms. Shane made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1973 as the Queen of the Night in Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” a role she sang some 250 times in her career.
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Mr. Cesaris, a Formula One driver who never won a Grand Prix event in 208 tries, was known for crashes early in his career.
By MARGALIT FOX
Ms. Kizer was known for political and satirical works that, she said, came with “a sting in the tail.”
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Mr. Metzker, who experimented with photographic forms for six decades, is perhaps best known for his cityscapes and landscapes.
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Mr. Lenz, a best-selling writer whose stories examined his country’s role in the rise of Nazism, insisted that the past be recounted accurately.
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Mr. Cottrell helped break color barriers in Dallas’s business community after his company found success with an inexpensive treatment that replicated the Jheri curl hairstyle.
By PAUL VITELLO
Mr. Jones was probably best known as the floral designer for Elizabeth Taylor’s 1991 wedding and for Michael Jackson’s funeral in 2009.
By PETER KEEPNEWS
Ms. Hooks joined “S.N.L.” in 1986 and was part of a cast that is widely regarded as one of the best in the show’s history. Most recently, she appeared on “30 Rock.”
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Mr. Peyser rose from mayor of a Westchester County village to Congress, then defied the Republican leadership by challenging Senator James L. Buckley in a 1976 primary.
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Mr. Mangum, who was New York City’s youngest deputy police commissioner, helped found One Hundred Black Men.
By DANIEL E. SLOTNIK
Ms. Withers made a career as a backup for actresses like Julie Harris and Carol Channing.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The actress started as an film extra and was noticed by a crew member.
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Through instructional television, books, camps and clinics, Mr. Braden became “the patron saint of the weekend hacker.”
By ROBERT BERKVIST
Ms. Seldes was seldom offstage in a career that spanned six decades, and she was especially known for her performances of Edward Albee’s work.
By PAUL VITELLO
Father Groeschel was known in New York for his efforts on behalf of the poor, and worldwide as a television personality who denounced modernism and news reporting on sexual abuse by priests.
By JENNIFER DUNNING and WILLIAM McDONALD
Mr. Holder used his manifold talents to infuse the arts with the flavor of his native West Indies — and in television ads for “the Uncola” in the 1970s and ’80s.
By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Mr. Duvalier returned to Haiti in 2011 after a 25-year exile and continued to defend what human rights workers called one of the most oppressive governments in the Western Hemisphere.