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The canny but generous ‘racer’s racer’
Tom Wheatcroft, the millionaire motor racing and construction entrepreneur and owner the Donington Park circuit and the biggest collection of classic Grand Prix cars, has died, aged 87
Father of modern anthropology who hated travel
Claude Lévi-Strauss helped to define his discipline, preferring to produce rigorous theory in the jungles of academe over the anthropologists’ traditional reporting of life in real jungles
Jewish interrogator stunned by Nazis’ banality
Richard Sonnenfeldt, German-born chief interpreter at the Nuremberg war trials, came face to face with the perpetrators of the Third Reich’s ‘Final Solution’
A clubbable journalist with a passion for justice
Ludovic Kennedy wanted his obituaries to say: “He tried to do good, but may have failed.” Yet if the carriage of justice in Britain is now safer than it once was, it is thanks in part to him
Pioneer of class-action law and defender of civil rights
David Shapiro, who has died in London aged 81, covered most of the legal bases in his long career, from its beginnings as a defender of those targeted by McCarthy era purges to its middle passage as a pioneering class-action lawyer and its conclusion as an apostle of the concept of mediation in the English legal system
Banker who brought tactical savvy to M&A
Bruce Wasserstein, who has died aged 61, was the pre-eminent Wall Street dealmaker of the 1980s and a leading figure in transforming the business of advising companies on mergers and acquisitions
Pioneer who helped shape the private equity landscape
Lionel Pincus, a legend on Wall Street for his pioneering work in the venture capital and private equity industries, has died after a long battle with cancer
Retail ‘outsider’ who founded a global clothing empire
Gap co-founder Don Fisher’s ignorance of retail convention was perhaps his greatest strength
Leader of Warsaw’s Jewish uprising dies
Tributes have flowed for Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Jewish Ghetto uprising, who has died aged 87. The revolt broke out in protest at the mass transportation by the Nazis of Jews to concentration camps
Publisher who played leading role in German business
Reinhard Mohn, who died aged 88, was one of Germany’s most important post-second world war industrial leaders. He turned Bertelsmann from a small family-owned German publisher into a global media group and held strong views on the organisation of companies, which he was not afraid of sharing publicly



