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With her husband, Roger, she gave millions of dollars to museums, charities and causes as well as the National Zoo’s giant panda project.

The Princeton professor devised a method to evaluate presidential performance according to six key qualities.

A farmer and three-term congressman, he was pelted by eggs by farmers angry with federal policies.

His story, dramatized in the film “Melvin and Howard,” began when he said he rescued a wandering Hughes in the Nevada desert.

While teaching a class on “The Divine Comedy,” he realized he wanted his students to be kind more than he wanted them to learn about Dante.

A onetime sideman to Bo Diddley and Howlin’ Wolf, Mr. Williams resumed a music career after a 30-year absence.

In 1985, near the end of his term, he faced a guerrilla assault on the Palace of Justice and a volcanic eruption that killed 25,000 people.

President Barack Obama celebrated her as an “unsung” American hero for her efforts to stop discriminatory voting regulations in North Carolina.

She was a founder and chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, known as Russia’s oldest human rights organization.

After serving in the clergy, he became a longtime White House correspondent and conservative talk-show host.

After starring at USC in the 1960s, he played pro football before turning to acting.

She summoned an aura of Victorian mystique in her award-winning novels.

He was the club’s longest-serving president and was later convicted of bribery.

He became Belgium’s richest man by turning his family’s nail-and-chain business into an empire stretching from energy to alcohol. He was called the “Warren Buffett of Belgium.”

He served in the Army under future “Star Trek” star Leonard Nimoy.