He chronicled the Vietnam War as a reporter and later as the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning history.

The scion of a civic dynasty — and brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — he served as Baltimore’s mayor from 1967 to 1971 before abruptly leaving politics.

He oversaw breaking news on the sports desk and was hailed as “a balm” to colleagues.

She helped bring an anti-discrimination complaint against The Post in the 1970s as women battled for pay equity as well as promotion.

Her acrobatic flips, slides, leaps and twists helped spur a 1930s and ’40s dance craze.

“Only when the many shapes of personhood are recognized,” they said, “will justice and human rights be possible.”

He wrote richly detailed obituaries but was best known for “Final Salute,” an article and book about a U.S. Marine who helped comfort the families of troops killed in Iraq.

She started her career with the Rockford Peaches, who were later featured in “A League of Their Own.”

After she joined a class-action lawsuit against the Navy, some said she was committing treason. “But others kept saying, ‘Good for you, good for you.’ ”

He became disillusioned during the Vietnam War and published a scathing memoir, “Deadly Deceits.”

He was the Baltimore newspaper’s longest-serving editorial page editor, holding the position from 1972 to 1997.

“Only when the many shapes of personhood are recognized,” they said, “will justice and human rights be possible.”

His best-selling 1961 children’s book, about a bored and bewildered boy named Milo, was considered an instant classic.

She helped bring an anti-discrimination complaint against The Post in the 1970s as women battled for pay equity as well as promotion.

His 1991 footage was endlessly replayed and helped spark a week of deadly riots after the police officers were acquitted. It was an early example of the power of citizen journalism.

She fled Hitler’s Germany, arrived in the United States at age 15 and published her first poetry collection decades later.

He was “half Tarzan, half Byron,” known for his poignant photos and unrestrained appetites.

She modeled for Vogue, danced with Elvis and became one of the first British women to undergo gender-confirmation surgery.

He was an Iraqi native who fought with the peshmerga, worked as a D.C.-area neurosurgeon and returned to his hometown as provincial governor of Kirkuk.

More than two decades before same-sex marriage was legalized nationwide, “she made it very clear that queer people were just like straight people, except for the people they love.”

His first film, ‘Pumping Iron,’ introduced bodybuilding to a wide audience. Later movies examined the activist career of John F. Kerry and a NASA rover mission to Mars.

In the age of the coronavirus, obituaries have started to run long—not individually but, tragically, collectively.

She was 27 when she published her best-selling memoir, a raw and vivid account of her struggle with depression.

His book “We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young,” written with Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore, was adapted into a movie starring Mel Gibson.

He wrote about Gov. L. Douglas Wilder and Sen. Chuck Robb, and was featured in the documentary “A Perfect Candidate,” about Virginia's 1994 U.S. Senate race.

He signed off on a plan to break into the office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist, an episode credited with paving the way for the Watergate burglary nearly 10 months later.

He captured life in the city with his gritty but lyrical columns for the Daily News, Post and other New York papers.

He used FOIA requests to pry loose government records. He also edited “The Graphic Canon,” a book series that reinterpreted literary works as comics and visual art.

At Simon & Schuster, she edited Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s “All the President’s Men” and worked with authors including Walter Isaacson and President Jimmy Carter.

He was also featured in the 2017 revival of “Twin Peaks” and the “Breaking Bad” film “El Camino.”

She helped shape ‘Saturday Night Live’s’ irreverent sensibility and created ‘Square Pegs.’

Her book “The Journalist and the Murderer” explored the fraught relationship between writers and their subjects.

He died less than three months after his longtime creative partner, Joe Ruby.

'Death is one sentence in most obituaries... They are stories about people's lives, mini-biographies'

He was a president of Students for a Democratic Society and reflected on his activism in “The Sixties,” an acclaimed work of history and memoir.

He edited a host of acclaimed writers, including Ntozake Shange and Randy Shilts, and started Stonewall Inn Editions, a trailblazing gay publishing imprint.

He championed the concept of beauty in art, arguing that what a painting looked like was far more important than what it meant.

He smothered a grenade with his body in Korea, saving fellow Marines from injury or death.

He was a soothing fixture of WUSA Channel 9 and WJLA ABC7.

The live-action model for Disney’s 1937 film later hoofed across the screen in a popular husband-and-wife duo.

His pattern of vertical black lines formed the basis for the Universal Product Code, which is scanned more than 6 billion times each day.

He played a part in the development of artificial intelligence, email, the Internet, WiFi and Bluetooth.

A pacifist and practicing Buddhist, he was one of the defining poets of his generation.

He and composer Giorgio Moroder shared an Academy Award for “Take My Breath Away” and co-wrote “Danger Zone,” which became a hit for musician Kenny Loggins.

Her best-selling children’s books included “Henry Huggins” and “Ramona the Pest.”

He performed as a magician but was best known as the longtime owner of Al’s Magic Shop.

The five-time Grammy winner sold more than 70 million records.

Her novels and essays explored the agitated, fractured state of the nation’s psyche.

At age 24, she was one of the youngest Pulitzer winners in history and the first woman to be honored in the national reporting category.

Her school inspired the play “Charm” by Philip Dawkins, who called her “the mother of queer Chicago.” She was also the subject of a documentary, “Mama Gloria.”