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He was born there, spoke the language fluently, spied against China for the CIA and ultimately became US ambassador in Beijing at the time of the Tiananmen Square massacresSat, 21 Nov 2009 00:58:20 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/0257dc1a-d0d6-11de-af9c-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Fobituarieshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0257dc1a-d0d6-11de-af9c-00144feabdc0.htmlRobert Rines, who was internationally known for his attempts to prove the existence of the Loch Ness monster, was a physicist and sonar pioneer whose technology guided Patriot missiles and traced sunken shipsSat, 14 Nov 2009 04:51:21 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/8cb8ba1c-cd3b-11de-a748-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Fobituarieshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8cb8ba1c-cd3b-11de-a748-00144feabdc0.htmlJerry Morris discovered the link between sedentary jobs and poor health in part through a study of London Transport workers and found active occupations extended livesMon, 9 Nov 2009 14:35:39 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/dee83142-cafb-11de-97e0-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Fobituarieshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/dee83142-cafb-11de-97e0-00144feabdc0.htmlTom 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 87Sat, 7 Nov 2009 02:18:45 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/aa68dcfe-cb24-11de-97e0-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Fobituarieshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aa68dcfe-cb24-11de-97e0-00144feabdc0.htmlClaude 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 junglesFri, 6 Nov 2009 22:40:23 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/a8fb92e2-c586-11de-9b3b-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Fobituarieshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a8fb92e2-c586-11de-9b3b-00144feab49a.htmlRichard Sonnenfeldt, German-born chief interpreter at the Nuremberg war trials, came face to face with the perpetrators of the Third Reich's 'Final Solution'Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:00:42 +0000http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/1bd16e88-c003-11de-aed2-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Fobituarieshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1bd16e88-c003-11de-aed2-00144feab49a.htmlLudovic 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 himFri, 23 Oct 2009 23:09:05 +0100http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/966e0d1c-ba8c-11de-9dd7-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Fobituarieshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/966e0d1c-ba8c-11de-9dd7-00144feab49a.html 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 systemFri, 16 Oct 2009 23:22:18 +0100http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/2e78d358-b9bb-11de-a747-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Fobituarieshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2e78d358-b9bb-11de-a747-00144feab49a.htmlBruce 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 acquisitionsThu, 15 Oct 2009 23:29:05 +0100http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/a8960e36-b78f-11de-9812-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Fobituarieshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a8960e36-b78f-11de-9812-00144feab49a.htmlLionel 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 cancerTue, 13 Oct 2009 03:00:00 +0100http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/2d941b02-b4ff-11de-8b17-00144feab49a.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Fobituarieshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2d941b02-b4ff-11de-8b17-00144feab49a.htmlGap co-founder Don Fisher's ignorance of retail convention was perhaps his greatest strengthFri, 9 Oct 2009 20:04:09 +0100http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/b976f2d2-b10f-11de-b06b-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Fobituarieshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/b976f2d2-b10f-11de-b06b-00144feabdc0.htmlTributes 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 campsSun, 4 Oct 2009 20:22:46 +0100http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/1e907648-b0f2-11de-b06b-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Fobituarieshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1e907648-b0f2-11de-b06b-00144feabdc0.htmlReinhard 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 publiclySun, 4 Oct 2009 15:55:06 +0100http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/a1f8f68e-af9b-11de-ba1c-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Fobituarieshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a1f8f68e-af9b-11de-ba1c-00144feabdc0.htmlJohn Wild, the father of ultrasound, has died aged 95. His breakthrough helped doctors to detect cancer and allowed pregnant mothers see their unborn babies Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:39:32 +0100http://traxfer.ft.com/cms/s/0/8219fac4-ac90-11de-a754-00144feabdc0.html?o=%2Frss%2Fcomment%2Fobituarieshttp://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8219fac4-ac90-11de-a754-00144feabdc0.htmlWilliam Safire, the political wordsmith who crafted speeches for Richard Nixon before becoming a distinctive conservative columnist for The New York Times, died of pancreatic cancer Tue, 29 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0100