Harrison Smith The Washington Post

Juice WRLD, a budding rap star whose lush songs about heartbreak, drug use and teenage angst propelled him from SoundCloud obscurity to crossover success at the top of the pop charts, died Dec. 8 after suffering a "medical emergency" at Midway International Airport.

Rutger Hauer was best known as the android outlaw in the science-fiction thriller Blade Runner.

Luke Perry died of "a massive stroke" on Monday

When Japan's surrender was announced on Aug. 14, 1945, George Mendonsa grabbed his date, ran out of a Rockettes performance at Radio City Music Hall and headed for a nearby bar in Times Square.

The plan was audacious, requiring a midnight parachute jump onto a snow-covered mountain plateau, cross-country skiing in subzero temperatures, and an assault on an isolated, heavily guarded power plant in southern Norway.

They were teenage computer geeks, bespectacled kids from Seattle who taught themselves programming from a Teletype terminal, learned the basics of business from Fortune magazine and dreamed of "a computer in every home and on every desk."

She was 14 when she joined the Dutch resistance, though with her long, dark hair in braids she looked at least two years younger.

Nobel Prize-winning author VS Naipaul from Trinidad who penned comic masterpieces of island life before turning to the larger world, traveling from South America to Africa and Asia for richly detailed works on postcolonial states, died Aug. 11 at his home in London. He was 85.

Morgan Tsvangirai, once an impoverished Zimbabwean nickel miner who became a charismatic union leader, pro-democracy activist and eventually the country's embattled prime minister under a 2008 power-sharing agreement with his longtime foe, Robert Mugabe, died Feb. 14. He was 65.

Tom Petty, a singer and guitarist who remained a major hitmaker for four decades, writing songs including Free Fallin', I Won't Back Down and American Girl, died on Monday

For many Western observers in the 1960s and '70s, India's fledgling space program seemed the result of wishful, even misguided thinking - a clumsy, multimillion-rupee effort to launch satellites and rockets rather than antipoverty programs or literacy campaigns.

Created with a GE team in the early 1960s, Integrated Data Store (IDS) is widely considered to be the world's first database management system.

Tired of your normal routine of homework and chores? Bored by the tick-tock of Earth's seasons? Well, how about a trip to Mars, a world away from life here on Earth?

Nothing says springtime in Washington like the words "peak bloom," right?

Juice WRLD, a budding rap star whose lush songs about heartbreak, drug use and teenage angst propelled him from SoundCloud obscurity to crossover success at the top of the pop charts, died Dec. 8 after suffering a "medical emergency" at Midway International Airport.

Rutger Hauer was best known as the android outlaw in the science-fiction thriller Blade Runner.

Luke Perry died of "a massive stroke" on Monday

When Japan's surrender was announced on Aug. 14, 1945, George Mendonsa grabbed his date, ran out of a Rockettes performance at Radio City Music Hall and headed for a nearby bar in Times Square.

The plan was audacious, requiring a midnight parachute jump onto a snow-covered mountain plateau, cross-country skiing in subzero temperatures, and an assault on an isolated, heavily guarded power plant in southern Norway.

They were teenage computer geeks, bespectacled kids from Seattle who taught themselves programming from a Teletype terminal, learned the basics of business from Fortune magazine and dreamed of "a computer in every home and on every desk."

She was 14 when she joined the Dutch resistance, though with her long, dark hair in braids she looked at least two years younger.

Nobel Prize-winning author VS Naipaul from Trinidad who penned comic masterpieces of island life before turning to the larger world, traveling from South America to Africa and Asia for richly detailed works on postcolonial states, died Aug. 11 at his home in London. He was 85.

Morgan Tsvangirai, once an impoverished Zimbabwean nickel miner who became a charismatic union leader, pro-democracy activist and eventually the country's embattled prime minister under a 2008 power-sharing agreement with his longtime foe, Robert Mugabe, died Feb. 14. He was 65.

Tom Petty, a singer and guitarist who remained a major hitmaker for four decades, writing songs including Free Fallin', I Won't Back Down and American Girl, died on Monday

For many Western observers in the 1960s and '70s, India's fledgling space program seemed the result of wishful, even misguided thinking - a clumsy, multimillion-rupee effort to launch satellites and rockets rather than antipoverty programs or literacy campaigns.

Created with a GE team in the early 1960s, Integrated Data Store (IDS) is widely considered to be the world's first database management system.

Tired of your normal routine of homework and chores? Bored by the tick-tock of Earth's seasons? Well, how about a trip to Mars, a world away from life here on Earth?

Nothing says springtime in Washington like the words "peak bloom," right?