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ThyssenKrupp AG board of directors member Berthold Beitz prior to the annual shareholders meeting of the steel company in Bochum, Germany, in 2012.   (Frank Augstein / Associated Press)

Former U.S. Rep. Kenneth J. Gray, pictured in 2013 at 88, talks to his grandson, Josh Joiner, before taking off in a helicopter ride at Black Diamond Harley-Davidson in Marion, Ill. Gray has died at 89.  (Steve Matzker / The Southern)

Bishop Desmond Tutu, left, is greeted by Rep. William H. Gray III, who had just returned from a trip to South Africa, outside Philadelphia’s Bright Hope Baptist Church in 1986. Gray, who has died at 71, fought for anti-apartheid sanctions in Congress.  (Peter Morgan / Associated Press)

Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, in 2004.   (Lucy Pemoni / Associated Press)

Zeituni Onyango’s immigration status was revealed days before her nephew, Barack Obama, won his first presidential election in 2008. At the time, she was living in the United States illegally while appealing a denial of her asylum request.   (Josh Reynolds / Associated Press)

Richard Mellon Scaife in a 1997 photo.  (Keith Srakocic / Associated Press)

At a 1974 Cabinet meeting at the White House, Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, right, sits with President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Though they often disagreed, Kissinger called Schlesinger his intellectual “equal.”  (Consolidated News Pictures / Getty Images)

John Seigenthaler works in his office at the Tennessean newspaper in Nashville in 2005. The maverick journalist, who helped shape USA Today and championed civil rights, died Friday at the age of 86.  (Mark Humphrey / Associated Press)

Glenn Stassen, left, and Mark Harlan, a teacher and a student at the Fuller Theological Seminary, show their support for the Palestinians during a march in Pasadena in 2002.  (Stefano Paltera / For the Los Angeles Times)

John Vasconcellos, California’s longest continuously serving legislator until term limits forced him out in 2004, died Saturday at home in Santa Clara. Calif.  (Robert Durell / Los Angeles Times)

Rep. Bill Young (R-Fla.) speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill after a House Intelligence Committee hearing in 2012. Young, Florida’s longest-serving member of Congress and a defense hawk who was influential on military spending, has died at the age of 82.  (Cliff Owen / Associated Press)