Shawn Prez · CC BY 3.0

Michael Baden served as New York City's chief medical examiner and went on to chair the forensic pathology panel for the House Select Committee that reinvestigated the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., work that made him one of the country's most visible forensic pathologists. He later brought that expertise to a wider audience as host of HBO's Autopsy, consulting on numerous high-profile death investigations along the way.