Adam Nossiter

A notable poet in his own right, he was best known for rendering into English the words of a poet who reacted to the Holocaust by inventing a new version of German.

Admired by fellow musicians like Arthur Rubinstein as well as by the critics, she created what came to be known as an Italian school of piano playing.

Seeking to shed the gauzy influence of Hollywood and focus on Brazil’s ethnic richness and troubled history, he helped forge a new path for his country’s cinema.

He was among those targeted by the investigation that consumed much of Bill Clinton’s presidency. But his conviction was later questioned.

Known for her interpretations of Bach, Mozart and Weber, she was praised for her clear, bright voice and her perfect intonation even on the highest notes.

The book on which she collaborated with two fellow feminists drew global attention to the repression of women under their country’s dictatorship.

Ordained as a bishop by a traditionalist sect, he was excommunicated and then reinstated by the Vatican, but he was undone by his antisemitic views.

A novelist and short-story writer, she devoted years to a nonfiction project examining of the lives of two eccentric authors who spent decades in Morocco.

He was a popular TV journalist when elected as El Salvador’s first modern-day leftist leader in 2009, but he went into exile hounded by corruption charges.

An award-winning French filmmaker, he won an Oscar for “Get Out Your Handkerchiefs.” But he divided audiences with explorations of misogyny and the male sexual imagination.