Two great men? The other man is my dad, my hero, but of course the shoes we are talking about in this story were worn by one great man: Nelson Mandela, with whom my dad happens to share a birthday.

President Donald Trump, the WWE, and more offered tributes to the sports and entertainment icon who died at age 71.

There is something hauntingly powerful about the last photographs of history’s largest figures. In a single frame, they capture not just a person, but the silent weight of a life nearing its end, and ...