Dr. White led the Weather Bureau and NOAA, overseeing pioneering weather satellites and sounding early warnings about climate change.
She regularly met with national politicians to demand that the U.S. do more to free military captives.
She was known both as a free spirit and as a hard-headed businesswoman.
His rebuke of Thatcher’s monetary policies toward Europe hastened her downfall.
Mr. Chance, who was baseball’s best pitcher in 1964 for the L.A. Angels, later ran carnival sideshows.
He helped start a Tuskegee Airmen organization in the early 1970s to preserve the group’s history.
He was hailed for creating a reaction useful in many areas of modern life, such as drug development.
Mr. Parr’s quick thinking amid an assassination attempt was credited with saving the president’s life.
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The Hall of Fame catcher, known as much for his knack for tangled tidbits of wisdom as for his exploits on the field for the Yankees, was 90.
After becoming the country’s first prime minister in 1959, he oversaw independence from Britain and Malaysia.
German actress Luise Rainer won back-to-back Academy Awards in the 1930s for her roles in “The Great Ziegfeld” and “The Good Earth.”
Ohio congressman, 73, was convicted on corruption charges and served time in prison.
Bacall, widow to late actor Humphrey Bogart, played major roles in such films as “The Big Sleep” and “How to Marry a Millionaire.”
The Senate majority leader and White House chief of staff under President Ronald Reagan died June 26 at age 88.
