Israel Prize laureate and scholar credited with revolutionary translation and commentary of seminal Jewish texts in 'once-in-a-millennium' achievement

Henk van Gelderen joined resistance after his textile factory was confiscated by the German occupation forces

A Briton who became a Hollywood heavyweight, Parker also directed 'Fame,' 'The Commitments' and 'Mississippi Burning.' Together his movies won 10 Academy Awards

Godfather of modern graphic design was responsible for some of the most recognizable modern images from I ♥ NY, to the cover of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits

Eclectic and brazen filmmaker, who first made a name in the fashion world, was responsible for a string of hits, including 'Flatliners,' 'The Lost Boys,' and 'Batman Forever'

Israel Prize winner claimed for decades that Israeli democracy was eroding; was a controversial figure, called settlements 'cancer' and was injured in pipe bomb attack on his home

Vegas fixture's work with exotic animals came to violent end in 2003 when he was attacked on stage, critically hurt, by a 400-pound white tiger

His hyperkinetic piano playing, coupled with his howling vocals and hairdo, made him an implausible sensation -- a gay, black man celebrated during the buttoned-down Eisenhower era

Hailed by Netanyahu as a 'polymath,' the Canada-born spiritual leader and doctor of statistics led the hesder yeshiva in Ma'ale Adumim and was mentor to former UK chief rabbi Sacks

US network says veteran communications chief, who famously satirized the business world he was a part of under pen name, died unexpectedly but of natural causes