Bruce Davis was Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences CEO from 1989 to 2011, leading it through a sizable expansion of staff and setting up its film archive at the Pickford Center.

Tung Chee-hwa, a shipping tycoon, had little political experience before a panel of pro-Beijing elites picked him to be the first leader of the southern Chinese territory after the end of British colonial rule in 1997.

Memphis wrestling legend “Superstar” Bill Dundee, known for his 50-year career and rivalry with Jerry Lawler, has died at 82.

The California attorney championed farmworkers and fought to outlaw the short-handled hoe, or “el cortito;” he died Saturday after a battle with cancer.

Robin Morgan, a wholesome child star of the 1940s and ‘50s who grew up to become an all-American radical as a poet, essayist, editor and leading second-wave feminist, has died.

George Joseph, a Harvard math major who founded Mercury General and became a fierce opponent of Proposition 103, which regulates California’s insurance industry, has died at the age of 104.

Wendell Berry, the Kentucky farmer, poet and author whose writings inspired the sustainable-agriculture movement, died Monday at 92.

Gloria Steinem, who urged women to pursue self-affirmation, political power and equality both in the workplace and at home, has died.