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Bruce Bastian, founder of WordPerfect Corporation, whose word processor was the favorite writing tool in the early days of personal…

V. Craig Jordan, a pharmacologist whose discovery that a failed contraceptive, tamoxifen, could block the growth of breast cancer cells…

Soma Golden Behr, a longtime editor at The New York Times who was a centrifuge of story ideas—they flew out…

Dr. Mildred Thornton Stahlman, a Vanderbilt University pediatrician whose research into the deadly lung disease in newborns led to life-saving…

Michael Jackson’s creditor debts and claims at the time of his death in 2009 exceeded $500 million, according to a…

Remo Saraseni, a sculptor, toy inventor and technological visionary best known for creating the Walking Piano that Tom Hanks and…

Akira Endo, a Japanese biochemist whose research on fungi helped lay the groundwork for widely prescribed drugs that lower a…

TD Allman, a freelance journalist who challenged American mythmaking in sharp, personal reporting over five decades on subjects as diverse…

Evan Stark, who studied domestic violence with his wife and then pioneered a concept called “coercive control,” which describes the…

Betty Cole Dukert, who began her career in Washington as a secretary in the 1950s and later became the top…