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    • Friday, 5 August, 2022
      Bill Russell
      Bill Russell, basketball star and activist, 1934-2022

      The player spoke out on the great social issues of the day when many of his peers chose to stay silent

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
      David Trimble
      David Trimble, Northern Irish politician, 1944-2022

      The Unionist leader sacrificed both career and party in pursuit of peace between Catholic and Protestant communities

    • Friday, 22 July, 2022
      Claes Oldenburg
      Claes Oldenburg, Pop artist, 1929-2022

      His supersized sculptures of spoons and ice cream cones combined consumerist pleasure and intellectual irreverence

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Lily Safra
      Lily Safra, philanthropist and art collector, 1934-2022

      The much-married socialite was known for using her powerful status to further her charitable endeavours

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      US
      Ivana Trump, ex-president’s first wife and image-maker, dead at 73

      Czech-born former skier and model helped build her husband’s larger-than-life persona in 1980s New York

    • Monday, 11 July, 2022
      Film
      James Caan, actor, 1940-2022

      The New Yorker’s performances in 1970s classics had a full-blooded, combative force

    • Friday, 8 July, 2022
      Shinzo Abe
      Shinzo Abe, influential Japanese prime minister, 1954-2022

      A blue-blooded political showman who sought to revive Japan and revise its pacifist constitution

    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      Theatre
      Ground-breaking theatre director Peter Brook dies at 97

      A visionary who revolutionised how we stage Shakespeare, he left his native Britain to travel in search of ‘outside contexts’

    • Saturday, 2 July, 2022
      Sophie Freud
      Sophie Freud, academic and social worker, 1924-2022

      The famous psychoanalyst’s granddaughter spent much of her life publicly opposing his theories

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      Michel David-Weill
      Michel David-Weill, investment banker, 1932—2022

      The former Lazard chairman was known for his aversion to Wall Street fads and his ability to spot banking talent

    • Friday, 17 June, 2022
      Roman Ratushnyi
      Roman Ratushnyi, Ukrainian activist, 1997—2022

      The environmental and civic campaigner spent his short life standing up to abuses of power

    • Wednesday, 8 June, 2022
      Visual Arts
      Paula Rego, painter, 1935-2022

      Born in Lisbon, the artist made the personal political in devastating figurative work

    • Sunday, 29 May, 2022
      Lester Piggott
      Lester Piggott, jockey, 1935-2022

      Born into a racing family, the rider won unusually wide public acclaim

    • Friday, 27 May, 2022
      Roger Angell
      Roger Angell, baseball writer, 1920-2022

      An elegant stylist who personified the New Yorker magazine, whose pages he graced for almost 80 years

    • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
      Dervla Murphy
      Dervla Murphy, travel writer, 1931-2022

      Raised amid poverty, the Irish adventurer made her name by cycling to India in 1963 and went on to write 26 books

    • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
      Banks
      Angus Grossart, merchant banker, 1937-2022

      A financier who made his influence felt in both takeover battles and Scottish cultural life

    • Friday, 13 May, 2022
      Leonid Kravchuk
      Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician, 1934-2022

      Ukraine’s first democratically elected president, who liberated his country from Soviet dominion

    • Friday, 6 May, 2022
      Ron Galella
      Ron Galella, trailblazing paparazzo, 1931 — 2022

      Part stalker, part art director, the photographer believed his celebrity quarries needed a camera to capture their magic

    • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
      Mino Raiola
      Mino Raiola, football agent, 1967-2022

      He was a born trader and hardball negotiator who prided himself on his small stable of players

    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
      David Gardner
      David Gardner, FT journalist, 1952-2022

      The Middle East expert was a writer of passion and integrity, renowned for his lucid prose during his 44 years on the paper

    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
      Music
      Harrison Birtwistle, composer, 1934-2022

      His music could be spiky and visceral but it was also deeply rooted in English landscapes

    • Friday, 15 April, 2022
      Mimi Reinhard, compiler of Schindler’s lists, 1915-2022

      Using two fingers, the Jewish secretary typed the names of those the industrialist rescued from the Holocaust, including her own

    • Saturday, 9 April, 2022
      Vladimir Zhirinovsky
      Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 1946-2022: a far-right Russian firebrand

      The court jester of Putin’s Duma pioneered a xenophobic pugilism which was adopted by the Kremlin

    • Saturday, 2 April, 2022
      Technology sector
      Stephen Wilhite, inventor of the gif, 1948-2022

      The computer scientist behind a file format that changed how the world reacts, ridicules and bonds online

    • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
      Madeleine Albright
      Madeleine Albright, US secretary of state, 1937-2022

      First woman to become Washington’s top diplomat was an unabashed champion of American power

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