Mr. Lee was a reporter and editor for The New York Times who oversaw the expansion of its business coverage during a tumultuous era in the financial world.

Mr. Grinberg amassed a fortune in the U.S. by helping turn expensive wristwatches like Piaget into widely advertised portable status symbols with mass appeal.

Mr. McGillicuddy assembled one of first big bank mergers in the wave of consolidation that emerged from the economic slump of the early 1990s.

Mr. Hofmann acted as an informer for the Allies while serving on the staff of the German commandants and later became a foreign correspondent for The New York Times.

Mr. Kuehler guided the company while it dominated the world’s computing landscape in the 1980s.

Mr. Combes spent 27 years as a copy editor at The New York Times Magazine and helped create its “About Men” column.

Mr. Meyerhoff was a leading labor, environmental and civil rights lawyer who brought a landmark case to stop sweatshop conditions for 30,000 workers on the Pacific island of Saipan.

Mr. Rampe helped shape the newspaper’s coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The former president of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation was a central figure in a bribery scandal that rocked Japan and the Netherlands during the 1970s.

Mr. Pack, who as president and later chairman of Seatrain Lines was a leader in the industry in changing the way ships carry goods from port to port.