ROBERT D. McFADDEN

As executive editor from 1994 to 2001, he oversaw a period of growth, expanding national and international readerships, creating new sections and ushering in the...

Like a human GPS, he guided Britain’s first special forces across the vast Sahara for hit-and-run raids on enemy bases in the battle against Rommel’s...

A member of the family that founded Kohl’s department stores, he guarded federal budgets as a U.S. senator while spending lavishly to revive the N.B.A....

A reclusive Austrian billionaire, he created the handgun worn by two-thirds of America’s police officers and the security forces of at least 48 countries.

His political journal challenged liberal and conservative orthodoxies for decades and added an important perspective for Washington’s cognoscenti.

She survived gruesome medical experimentation at the Ravensbrück concentration camp to become a psychiatrist — counseled by the priest who would become John Paul II.

After piling up billions in business, he pledged to donate almost all of his money to causes before he died. He succeeded, and then lived...

She achieved remarkable political breakthroughs as a woman, becoming San Francisco’s first female mayor and the first woman elected to the Senate from California.

He served for 38 years in Parliament and, after being elected president at a critical moment in Italy’s fortunes, helped stabilize the country.

He was a powerful force as apartheid ended and bargaining over South Africa’s future began, emerging as a voice for tribal and ethnic rights, and...