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FILE - In this Jan. 8, 1998 file photo, Norma McCorvey poses in Dallas . McCorvey, whose legal challenge under the pseudonym "Jane Roe" led to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision that legalized abortion but who later became an outspoken opponent of the procedure, died Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017. She was 69.
McCorvey died at an assisted living center in Katy, Texas, said journalist Joshua Prager, who is working on a book about McCorvey and was with her and her family when she died. He said she died of heart failure. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

‘Roe’ of Roe v. Wade Case Dies at 69

by Emily Langer The Washington PostFebruary 19, 2017

FILE - A 2012 photo from files of Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson posing with some of his books. Lennart Nilsson, whose pictures of fetuses developing in the womb illustrated a 1965 book that was translated into several languages, has died. He was 94.
Nilsson died Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, his stepdaughter told Sweden's TT news agency. No cause of death was given. (Jonas Ekstromer/TT via AP)

Lennart Nilsson, 94; Photographer Who Revealed Unborn Life

by Emily Langer The Washington PostFebruary 5, 2017

Marion Pritchard during an interview in an undated photograph. (Valley News - Dan Hunting) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Marion Pritchard, 96, Rescuer of Jews, Dies

by Emily Langer The Washington PostDecember 22, 2016

FILE- In this Aug. 4, 1984 file photo, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, left, draws a laugh from others with whom he shared the stage during a reunion in New York, marking the 40th anniversary of the day a ship carrying a thousand refugees escaping Hitler arrived in New York. Author Ruth Gruber, second from left, organized the evacuation from just-liberated Italy. Manya Breuer, second from right, a soprano from Los Angeles, was a refugee who sang aboard the ship. Gruber, a journalist, author and humanitarian has died in New York on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2016, at age 105. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler, File)

Ruth Gruber, Who Helped Jewish Refugees, Dies

by Emily Langer The Washington PostNovember 20, 2016

FILE - In this Dec. 10, 1988 file photo, Maryland Republican Congresswoman Helen Bentley gives the National Committeewoman's Report to the Maryland Republican Party Executive Committee meeting in Annapolis. A spokesman for the family said Bentley died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016 at her home in Timonium, where she was receiving hospice care. She served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the state’s 2nd Congressional District from 1985 to 1995. (AP Photo/Jason Lee)

Journalist-Turned-Politician Helen Delich Bentley Dies

by Emily Langer The Washington PostAugust 6, 2016

MIT Professor Seymour Papert Dead at 88

by Emily Langer Washington PostAugust 6, 2016

Barbara Goldsmith, Chronicler of the (Unhappily) Rich and Famous, Dies at 85

by Emily Langer The Washington PostJuly 2, 2016