Emily Langer

His programming language replaced inscrutable numbers and glyphs with intuitive commands, translating the exhilarating power of computer science.

Few children in the past four decades have missed out on rides aboard the Magic School Bus, a co-creation of Mr. Degen and author Joanna Cole.

His intrepid reporting and erudite columns for The Washington Post made him for decades a leading voice in world affairs.

The Israeli scholar, a refugee of Nazi Europe, combined rigor with humanity as he studied an unfathomable event and tried to discern its meaning for the future.

The Hungarian-born Auschwitz survivor wrote a best-selling memoir, “Lily’s Promise,” and drew millions of viewers on social media with her testimonials.

Cissy Houston was a matriarch in a musical family that included the opera singer Leontyne Price; her nieces Dionne and Dee Dee Warwick; and her daughter Whitney.

One of three sons of artist Norman Rockwell, he guarded his father’s legacy and made his own name as a children’s writer.

He spent more than half a century at Duke University, where he was the founding director of its school of public policy.

Her resignation in 1991 from Stanford medical school, which she later rescinded, prompted a national reckoning over the treatment of women in her field.

Also a prominent journalist, he attracted attention when his wife’s affair with former Post reporter Carl Bernstein inspired a bestselling novel and a movie.