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  • 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

  • Friday, 18 March, 2022
    Film
    William Hurt, actor, 1950-2022

    A brooding star who brought a sombre glitter to the side-currents of mainstream Hollywood

  • Saturday, 12 March, 2022
    Africa
    Sumaya Sadurni, photographer, 1989-2022

    Deeply emotional and committed to stories in Africa, Sadurni died in a car crash in northern Uganda

  • Sunday, 6 March, 2022
    Cricket
    Shane Warne, Australian cricketer, 1969-2022

    A sporting superstar who revived the lost art of leg-spin bowling

  • Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
    Dance
    Clement Crisp — FT dance critic of 60 years who wrote with eloquence and wit

    His prose could be scorching, but his love of dance was limitless and his knowledge astounding

  • Monday, 21 February, 2022
    Music
    Jamal Edwards, music entrepreneur, 1990-2022

    UK music pioneer used YouTube to propel unsigned acts to global stardom

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    P. J. O'Rourke
    PJ O’Rourke, satirist and journalist, 1947-2022

    American writer with a scurrilous wit who sought out political irony, absurdity and hypocrisy

  • Friday, 11 February, 2022
    Lata Mangeshkar
    Lata Mangeshkar, Bollywood playback singer, 1929-2022

    The voice that bound generations of Indians together and dominated the songs of Hindi cinema

  • Friday, 4 February, 2022
    Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile
    Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile, Central Bank of Uganda governor, 1949-2022

    A brilliant economist who was central to his nation’s economic revival

  • Friday, 28 January, 2022
    Thierry Mugler
    Thierry Mugler, fashion designer, 1948-2022

    A creator of transformative and transporting designs that pushed against the trends and upset critics

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    Paul Myners
    Paul Myners, minister and City reformer, 1948-2022

    Former Labour peer and business troubleshooter who revolutionised institutional investment

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    Fashion
    André Leon Talley, fashion journalist, 1948-2022
  • Friday, 14 January, 2022
    Robert Durst
    Robert Durst, property scion and convicted killer, 1943-2022

    A wealthy psychopath known for gruesome murders, strange disguises and improbable escapes from justice

  • Friday, 7 January, 2022
    Film
    Sidney Poitier, actor, 1927-2022

    Oscar-winner was a Hollywood icon who broke racial barriers in the film industry

  • Friday, 7 January, 2022
    Arts
    Betty White, actor and comedian, 1922-2021

    A Hollywood treasure and wicked wit who pioneered the depiction of older women in an industry that ignored them

  • Thursday, 30 December, 2021
    Bear Stearns Cos Inc
    James Cayne, Bear Stearns chief, 1934-2021

    Wall Street executive and bridge fanatic who led the investment bank through many of its triumphs — and tragic mistakes

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