Jacob Rothschild, a wealthy financier, patron of the arts and philanthropist with close ties to Israel, who broke with his family’s fabled banking dynasty at
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Claude Montana, Fashion Designer Whose Look Defined the ’80s, Dies at 76
Claude Montana, the audacious and haunted French designer whose exquisite tailoring defined the big-shouldered power look of the 1980s — an erotic and androgenous tough
Aleksei Navalny, Russian Opposition Leader, Dies in Prison at 47
Aleksei A. Navalny, an anticorruption activist who for more than a decade led the political opposition in President Vladimir V. Putin’s Russia while enduring arrests,
Robert Badinter, Who Won Fight to End Death Penalty in France, Dies at 95
Robert Badinter, a French lawyer and former justice minister who led the fight to abolish the death penalty in France and became one of the
Si Spiegel, War Hero Who Modernized Christmas Trees, Dies at 99
Before he became known as the father of artificial Christmas trees, Si Spiegel was a valiant Army aviator. In the closing days of World War
Sandra Milo, Who Had Star Turns in Fellini Films, Dies at 90
Ms. Milo had three children by two partners, and her private life was often fodder for tabloids and glossy magazines. With gaps of varying lengths
Jack Jennings, P.OW. Who Helped Build Burma Railway, Dies at 104
Jack Jennings, a British prisoner of war during World War II who worked as a slave laborer on the Burma Railway, the roughly 250-mile Japanese
Lawrence Langer, Unblinking Scholar of Holocaust Literature, Dies at 94
Lawrence L. Langer, a literary scholar whose unblinking assessment of the Holocaust as an event so vast and evil that it defies moral framing helped
Edward Jay Epstein, Author and Stubborn Skeptic, Dies at 88
Edward Jay Epstein, an iconoclastic author whose deeply researched books challenged conventional wisdom about controversies ranging from whether John F. Kennedy was killed by a
Glynis Johns, a Tony Winner and Actress in ‘Mary Poppins,’ Dies at 100
Glynis Johns, the British actress who in a trans-Atlantic career that endured for more than 60 years won a Tony Award for her role in