Emily Langer

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As chairman and CEO at Time Inc., he helped engineer the 1989 merger with Warner Communications Inc. that formed the world’s largest media and entertainment company.

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He merged Judaism and progressive thought, becoming a prominent if sometimes polarizing leader of the Jewish left.

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In a speech before John Paul II in 1979, she implored the pope to include women in “all ministries of our church,” renewing debate about female ordination.

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As a young lawyer in the 1970s, she helped open the coal industry to women and fought on their behalf for workplace equality and safety.

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When he retired in 1981, the lieutenant general was the highest-ranking Black officer in the U.S. military. Fort Lee, Va., was renamed in his honor last year.

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A familiar voice to public radio listeners, she covered topics from politics to veterans affairs and aging in America.

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The series sold tens of millions of copies with its soapy plots involving the blond-haired identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield.

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He was the only person convicted in connection with the 1968 atrocity, in which American troops killed hundreds of unarmed South Vietnamese civilians.

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He documented the story of sailors who refused to resume loading cargo ships after a deadly explosion at Port Chicago. The Navy exonerated them this month.