Michael S. Rosenwald

Known as Charlie Hustle for his aggressive style of play, he was banned from baseball for gambling on his own team.

More than 150 years before Donald Trump was convicted by a New York jury, President Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding in his horse-drawn carriage.

Mr. McCourt’s memoir “A Monk Swimming” picked up where his brother’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Angela’s Ashes” left off.

His petitions and lawsuits led to more than two dozen ineffective and dangerous treatments being removed from the market.

After initially supporting the Cuban revolution, Ms. Castro turned against her brother following his embrace of communism.

A prolific novelist, he won critical acclaim but never achieved the fame of his contemporaries.

After General Augusto Pinochet’s forces killed Victor Jara during the 1973 coup, she spent her life seeking justice for her husband.

Frustrated by his presidency, Mrs. Barry called her brother “cruel” in conversations secretly recorded by her niece.

In the 1960s, he pioneered using social science methods and computers for investigative journalism.

Scrubbed from the flight because of exposure to measles, Mr. Mattingly helped devise a plan to return the astronauts safely after an explosion aboard the spacecraft.