Richard Sandomir

She wrote an award-winning book about the leftist collective, a Latino counterpart to the Black Panthers.

Dr. Fernández, holding some of the New York City police surveillance records that she used in her research. CHRISTOPHER GREGORY-RIVERA/NYT

She grew up in Arkansas learning from her father how to carve and play a fiddle.

Over 18 seasons at Louisiana State University, he won five national titles and was voted the second-best college baseball coach of the 20th century.

Violet Hensley, who grew up in Arkansas learning from her father how to carve and play a fiddle, and whose nearly 60-year performing career reached its peak at age 99,

One of the longest-serving prisoners in American history, he was sent to death row in 1950 before his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

Len Brown, who brought a boyish enthusiasm to the Topps Chewing Gum company, writing about players' achievements for the back of their baseball

He worked throughout the Middle East before joining a secret team that tried to obtain the release of Western hostages in Lebanon in exchange for arms sent to Iran.

He began his career at age 16 as an apprentice in the sheet-metal shop of American Export Airlines.

Mr. Cave “rubbed elbows with fascinating and even legendary figures, some of whom he recruited as intelligence assets, others who rose to international prominence,” the CIA said in a statement, adding: “He safely exfiltrated agency assets and officers from harm's way many times, and his career experience helped train generations of US analysts.”