After 26 years at The New Yorker, he became chief editor at Random House, overseeing works by a raft of luminaries. He wrote a half-dozen well-received books of his own.

He fostered the careers of more than a dozen Nobel laureates, including Gabriel García Márquez, Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing.

A prominent physicist, he founded the Moscow Helsinki Group to hold his government accountable after serving time in prison and in exile.

A great-grandson of a New York governor, he hosted an annual fund-raising dinner that draws the state’s power elite and White House hopefuls.

Known initially as the “Berlin Patient,” he underwent an experimental stem cell transplant 13 years ago that rid his body of the virus. He died of leukemia.

As a political scientist, columnist and ‘the last Zionist,’ he argued against a separate Palestinian state, saying the growth of West Bank settlements had precluded it.

He and his twin brother volunteered when they were 18 and had remained on the job ever since. He died of the coronavirus.

She married into one of the world’s richest families but refused to let herself be marginalized as a socialite.

A prolific author, essayist, columnist and social critic, he challenged conventional thinking on race and avant-garde music.

As chairman of New York’s preservation commission, he also oversaw the preservation of St. Bartholomew’s Church, the Coney Island Cyclone and Ladies’ Mile.