His poems of “love and loss” feel accessible, and eternal

J. WILLIAM FULBRIGHT 89

The Arkansas senator stood for honesty in the Vietnam era

EVA GABOR 74

The youngest Gabor was also the most talented, dahling

ROSE KENNEDY 104

The mother of Jack, Bobby and Ted anchored them in dark days

JAMES HERRIOT 78

Vet to “creatures great and small” - and a literary charmer

CHEYENNE BRANDO 25

Marlon’s child, a suicide after her brother murdered her lover

HARVEY PENICK 90

Golf guru whose little red book of advice sold 1.3 million copies

GEORGE ROMNEY 88

He ran American Motors, then governed Michigan for 12 years

JERRY GARCIA 53

His spiraling guitar solos made Dead-heads’ world go round

ORVILLE REDENBACHER 88

His popcorn was better, because he was a fusty scientist

PANCHO GONZALEZ 67

The dashing Angeleno was twice the U.S. tennis champion

MARY BINGHAM 90

Her husband’s Louisville media empire complemented her talent for philanthropy

ALFRED EISENSTAEDT 96

Lie’s greatest photog caught the VJ Day kiss in Times Square

MICKEY MANTLE 63

The hard-playing Yankee hero fell victim to high living

WILLIAM KUNSTLER 76

The Chicago 7’s lawyer, he often pleaded causes, not cases

BURL IVES 85

The portly folk singer turned out to be an even better actor

SELENA 23

Her murder made her a superstar, but music fans are still dreaming of her

J.PETER GRACE 81

His top spot in the family firm was his pulpit for public policy

WILLIAM FOWLER 83

The physicist traced all matter back to stars - including us

HOWARD COSELL 77

The unvarnished truth was never so hard on the ears

IDA LUPINO 77

A tough-gal actress, she became one of the first female directors

DOUGLAS CORRIGAN 88

“Wrong Way” aviator who flew to Dublin instead of California

MAXENE ANDREWS 79

She got her sisters to sing. WWII vets are still grateful.

KINGSLEY AMIS 73

England’s top satirist left a worthy heir: his son Martin

GINGER ROGERS 83

Night and day, she and Fred were the ones

BESSIE DELANY 104

The younger, spunkier of the sisters. She was the dentist.

ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY 62

Her twitchy nose made TV magic on “Bewitched”

BOBBY RIGGS 77

Wimbledon champ who became tennis’s most colorful chauvinist and hustler

WARREN BURGER 87

As chief justice, he presided over Supreme Court rulings on abortion and busing

JONAS SALK 80

He took the dread out of childhood summers when he discovered a polio vaccine in 1995

LANA TURNER 75

Sexy blonde who became Hollywood’s “sweater girl”

EAZY-E 31

AIDS claimed the confounder of “gangsta” rap group N.W.A

EVANGELINE BRUCE 77

The wife of a diplomat, she was Washington’s most elegant hostess

STEPHEN SPENDER 86

With hauntingly lyrical language, he refocused poetry on the ills of the modern world

EVELYN WOOD 86

She taught students, adults - and several presidential staffs - how to read with speed

MAY SARTON 83

A poet of loneliness and a favorite of feminists. “Women have been my muse,” she said.

WOLFMAN JACK 57

He rasped to radio fame as the country’s most-imitated deejay

LES ASPIN 56

He shaped the post-cold-war military, in Congress and as defense secretary

LOUIS MALLE 63

France’s most versatile film director, best known for the heartbreaking, autobiographical “Au Revoir Les Enfants”