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She sang with the Metropolitan Opera for decades, often on short notice, including after lodging a successful age discrimination complaint against the company.

A champion of Black artists, she explored themes of race, gender, class, family and community through a vast array of media and later the written word.

Ms. Charlot���s creation merged seamlessly with the carefree youth culture of the 1950s, becoming visual shorthand for the entire decade.

He wrote more than 100 symphonic, choral, solo instrumental and chamber works. But he was better known, and celebrated, as a musical parodist. Who can forget the ���Concerto for Horn and Hardart���?

For a time, whenever a bridge, tunnel or highway opened around New York, he endeavored to beat others onto, into or along it.

One of the world���s most visible public faces in the war on breast cancer, she helped reshape both the doctor���s role and the patient���s.

She accused Emmett, 14, of accosting her, and her testimony led to the acquittals of her husband and his half brother in a murder that helped galvanize the civil rights movement.

Bewigged, bejeweled and bejowled, Mr. Humphries���s creation was one of the longest-lived characters ever channeled by a single performer.

A memory expert and magician who was a favorite guest of Johnny Carson���s, he astonished audiences by reeling off the names of hundreds of people he had only just met.

Wide acclaim for his portrayal of Tevye helped make him, according to one newspaper, ���Israel���s most famous export since the Jaffa orange.���