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  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    Robert Fisk
    Robert Fisk, foreign correspondent and author, 1946-2020

    An intrepid, polemical reporter who made his career in the Middle East

  • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
    ES Reddy
    E S Reddy, historian and anti-apartheid campaigner, 1924-2020

    A fighter for freedom who made his mark across three continents

  • Saturday, 31 October, 2020
    Sean Connery
    Sean Connery, actor, 1930-2020

    Catapulted to fame as the first James Bond, he became one of the UK’s most durable stars

  • Friday, 30 October, 2020
    Frank Bough
    Frank Bough, broadcaster, 1933-2020

    His soothing voice while presenting the BBC show ‘Grandstand’ filled many a rainy Saturday afternoon

  • Sunday, 25 October, 2020
    Samsung Group
    Lee Kun-hee, Samsung family patriarch, 1942-2020

    Executive was credited with transforming South Korean group into global technology leader

  • Friday, 23 October, 2020
    José Padilla
    José Padilla, DJ and music producer, 1955-2020

    A pioneer of chillout music who linked Ibiza’s bohemian past with its clubbing present

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón
    Quino, cartoonist, 1932-2020

    Creator of the precocious Mafalda, a beloved icon of Hispanic culture who poked fun at politics and power

  • Wednesday, 14 October, 2020
    John Baring
    Lord Ashburton, banker, 1928-2020

    A rational and modest man who restored Barings in the 1970s and 1980s before its collapse in 1995 as a result of Nick Leeson’s rogue trading

  • Monday, 12 October, 2020
    Samuel Brittan
    Samuel Brittan, economics editor, 1933-2020

    His Financial Times columns were essential reading for anyone wanting to understand policy for nearly 50 years

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  • Friday, 9 October, 2020
    Edward Van Halen
    Eddie Van Halen, musician, 1955-2020

    Virtuoso rock star who played the guitar like no other

  • Friday, 2 October, 2020
    Isher Judge Ahluwalia
    Isher Judge Ahluwalia, economist, 1945-2020

    An extraordinary talent who made the case for India’s transformative economic liberalisation

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
    Kuwait
    Sheikh Sabah, Kuwaiti emir, 1929-2020

    Ruler protected nation by staying neutral in regional disputes but failed to rise to challenge of post-oil future

  • Thursday, 24 September, 2020
    Harold Evans
    Harold Evans, Fleet Street editor, 1928-2020

    A master craftsman who was a pioneer in hard-hitting investigative journalism and fell out with Rupert Murdoch

  • Saturday, 19 September, 2020
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg
    Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Supreme Court justice, 1933-2020

    Second woman to serve on highest US bench was its most determined advocate for gender equality

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    David Graeber
    David Graeber, anthropology professor, 1961-2020

    Self-styled anarchist who played a prominent part in the Occupy Wall Street movement

  • Sunday, 13 September, 2020
    Terence Conran
    Terence Conran, designer, 1931-2020

    Founder of Habitat who transformed British homes and became the nation’s middle-class tastemaker

  • Friday, 11 September, 2020
    Max Wilkinson
    Max Wilkinson, journalist, 1942-2020

    Prodigious talent who edited the Financial Times Weekend edition and launched ‘Lunch with the FT’

  • Saturday, 5 September, 2020
    Assar Lindbeck
    Assar Lindbeck, economist, 1930-2020

    A pragmatic believer in free markets and the welfare state, who thought mathematical models should support the study of ‘real life’

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    Kaing Guek Eav
    Comrade Duch, war criminal, 1942-2020

    The Khmer Rouge prison chief who ran the notorious S-21 detention camp and oversaw the murder of thousands

  • Monday, 31 August, 2020
    Barbara Judge
    Lady Barbara Judge, 1946-2020

    Advocate for women’s rights whose career spanned law, banking, regulation and nuclear industry

  • Friday, 28 August, 2020
    Mercedes Barcha
    Mercedes Barcha, 1932-2020

    A resolute pragmatist who married and inspired the writer Gabriel García Márquez

  • Friday, 21 August, 2020
    Luchita Hurtado
    Luchita Hurtado, artist, 1920-2020

    An indomitable talent, finally celebrated at the end of her career

  • Friday, 14 August, 2020
    Eusebio Leal
    Eusebio Leal, restorer of colonial Havana, 1942-2020

    Official historian saved the baroque and neoclassical buildings loved by tourists

  • Wednesday, 12 August, 2020
    Sumner Redstone
    Sumner Redstone, media mogul, 1923-2020

    Billionaire who built the ViacomCBS entertainment empire and told the world ‘content is king’

  • Saturday, 8 August, 2020
    US foreign policy
    Brent Scowcroft, adviser to US presidents, 1925-2020

    Self-effacing retired air force general became the model of how to manage American foreign policy

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