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    • Saturday, 25 March, 2023
      Jiang Yanyong
      Jiang Yanyong, surgeon and Sars whistleblower, 1931-2023

      The celebrated Chinese doctor suffered multiple political detentions

    • Saturday, 18 March, 2023
      Phyllida Barlow
      Phyllida Barlow, artist, 1944-2023

      The sculptor, who hewed giant forms from debris, did not achieve recognition until late in her career

    • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
      Gleb Pavlovsky
      Gleb Pavlovsky, Russian spin doctor, 1951 — 2023

      Odesa-born dissident turned arch-manipulator who helped create Putin’s new Russia

    • Saturday, 4 March, 2023
      Walter Mirisch
      Walter Mirisch, film producer, 1921-2023

      A good-humoured perfectionist whose achievements included ‘In the Heat of the Night’ and ‘The Apartment’

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Betty Boothroyd, groundbreaking Speaker of the House of Commons, 1929-2023

      The first woman in the role breathed fresh life into the image of the UK parliament

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Bernard Ingham
      Bernard Ingham, No 10 press secretary

      Official spokesman and staunch loyalist of prime minister Margaret Thatcher

    • Sunday, 26 February, 2023
      John Motson
      John Motson, football commentator, 1945-2023

      Over a career spanning a half of a century, he became the bard of English football

    • Saturday, 25 February, 2023
      Leiji Matsumoto
      Leiji Matsumoto, manga and anime artist, 1938-2023

      His philosophical, genre-splicing work helped launch the art forms on to a global stage

    • Saturday, 18 February, 2023
      Shoichiro Toyoda
      Shoichiro Toyoda, Japanese business executive, 1925 — 2023

      As president of Toyota, he turned the carmaker into a global success story

    • Saturday, 11 February, 2023
      Burt Bacharach
      Burt Bacharach, songwriter and composer, 1928-2023

      Prolific composer who, with lyricist Hal David, perfected the three-minute pop song

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Paco Rabanne
      Paco Rabanne, fashion designer, 1934-2023

      He used metal and plastic to create some of the 1960s most iconic looks

    • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
      Pervez Musharraf
      Pervez Musharraf, president of Pakistan, 1943 — 2023

      The military leader believed he could save Pakistan from a self-serving political establishment, but resigned in disgrace

    • Saturday, 4 February, 2023
      Barrett Strong
      Barrett Strong, songwriter and musician, 1941-2023

      The Motown legend wrote many hits and was credited with making his label more socially aware

    • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
      Tom Nairn
      Tom Nairn, political theorist, 1932-2023

      He was best known for his writing on the fragmenting of the British union, which he viewed as inevitable

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      David Crosby
      David Crosby, musician, 1941-2023

      Creatively radical Californian who pushed The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to break new ground

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Alan Budd
      Sir Alan Budd, economist, 1937-2023

      He was at the heart of many of the major innovations of modern macroeconomic policy in the UK

    • Saturday, 14 January, 2023
      Adolfo Kaminsky
      Adolfo Kaminsky, forger and photographer, 1925-2023

      The facsimiles he produced helped thousands of French Jews and other persecuted peoples

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      Jeff Beck
      Jeff Beck, rock guitarist, 1944-2023

      Self-taught virtuoso was ‘most devoted’ of fellow 1960s guitar legends Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Barbara Walters
      Barbara Walters, journalist, 1929-2023

      The pioneering broadcaster, known for her incisive interviews, broke the media glass ceiling and became a celebrity herself

    • Saturday, 31 December, 2022
      Religion
      Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, 1927 - 2022

      German-born theologian became first pontiff to abdicate since the Middle Ages

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Vivienne Westwood
      Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer, 1941-2022

      An iconoclast and enemy of convention who defined the look of punk

    • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
      Pelé
      Pelé, football star and global symbol of Brazil, 1940-2022

      One of history’s greatest players helped his country win three World Cups in 21-year career

    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      Terry Hall
      Terry Hall, singer, 1959-2022

      With ska-punk group The Specials, he laid the foundations for the multicultural sound of today’s UK charts

    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      Brian Reading
      Brian Reading, economist, 1936-2022

      An early ‘spad’, he became disillusioned with Labour’s interventionism and switched to the Tories

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Lord Young
      Lord David Ivor Young, businessman and politician, 1932-2022

      His close relationship with Margaret Thatcher often provoked the ire of his peers

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