Brian Murphy

Ms. Díaz-Balart fled Cuba after her former husband seized power in 1959 but was forced to leave behind their son.

Mr. Korologos advised more than 300 nominees in Senate confirmation bids including the unsuccessful 1987 effort to put Robert Bork on the Supreme Court.

As an Army captain, he destroyed a bunker and led a company fighting an overwhelming North Vietnamese force in a March 1968 battle.

In 1988, the Idaho lawmaker upended the presidential campaign with false claims that the wife of Democrat Michael Dukakis had once burned an American flag.

The former senator from Tennessee was trapped in the U.S. Embassy in Beijing for days during 1999 protests over NATO attacks that hit China’s embassy in Serbia.

Over more than two decades, Mr. Donohue expanded the influence of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington and in political races across the country.

For years, Dr. Schally and his rival in science, Roger Guillemin, scrambled to be first to confirm neurohormones. The Nobel Committee called it a tie.

The Mexican left-hander roared into the 1981 season with a nearly unhittable screwball and had Los Angeles Dodgers fans rocking to “Fernandomania.”

He was a last link to a centuries-old tradition of harvesting ice from a glacier on Chimborazo, a snow-capped dormant volcano in the Andes.

Home Depot, with more than 2,300 locations, was founded by Mr. Marcus and colleague Arthur Blank after they lost their jobs in 1978 in a corporate bankruptcy.