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  • Friday, 6 September, 2019
    Robert Mugabe
    Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s independence leader, 1924-2019

    President for three decades who squandered high hopes and left his country in crisis

  • Sunday, 1 September, 2019
    Tetra Pak International SA
    Hans Rausing, Swedish businessman and philanthropist, 1926-2019

    Tetra Pak billionaire, who gave away an estimated £1bn, cultivated a frugal and private image

  • Friday, 30 August, 2019
    Financials
    Elaine La Roche, investment banker, 1949-2019

    One of the most senior women on Wall Street and highly respected China expert

  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2019
    Lord Bell
    Tim Bell, PR and advertising executive, 1941-2019

    Thatcher’s spin-doctor could turn on the charm when he needed to

  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2019
    Ferdinand Piëch
    Ferdinand Piëch, the ruthless engineer who built Volkswagen

    Former chairman transformed struggling car group into a global empire

  • Friday, 16 August, 2019
    Bryan Magee
    Bryan Magee, philosopher, writer and broadcaster, 1930-2019

    A polymath in thrall to the big philosophical questions

  • Friday, 9 August, 2019
    Toni Morrison
    Toni Morrison, American author, 1931-2019

    Nobel Prize-winning writer who broke the silence over black America

  • Friday, 2 August, 2019
    Agnes Heller
    Agnes Heller, philosopher, 1929-2019

    A Holocaust survivor and life-long fighter for freedom

  • Thursday, 1 August, 2019
    Indian business & finance
    VG Siddhartha, Indian entrepreneur, 1959-2019

    India’s ‘coffee king’ offered tea-loving nation a taste of global café culture

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  • Friday, 26 July, 2019
    Architecture
    César Pelli, architect, 1926-2019

    Designer who created some of the world’s most distinctive towers

  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2019
    Li Peng
    Li Peng, former Chinese premier, 1928-2019

    Politician was leader most associated with suppression of Tiananmen Square protests

  • Monday, 22 July, 2019
    Law
    Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan district attorney, 1919-2019

    He became the scourge of the Mob and white-collar crime in New York

  • Friday, 19 July, 2019
    Andrea Camilleri
    Andrea Camilleri, Sicilian author, 1925-2019

    Creator of the Inspector Montalbano detective series was a lifelong anti-fascist

  • Friday, 12 July, 2019
    Arthur Ryan
    Arthur Ryan, 1935-2019, retailer

    The Dubliner who built Primark’s fast fashion empire

  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2019
    Ross Perot
    Ross Perot, businessman and politician, 1930-2019

    His 19% in 1992 was best result for independent presidential candidate in 80 years

  • Friday, 5 July, 2019
    Bob Collymore
    Bob Collymore, telecoms executive, 1958-2019

    A pioneering businessman who drove Kenya’s mobile money revolution

  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2019
    Lee Iacocca
    Lee Iacocca, car executive, 1924-2019

    An industry superstar known for the Ford Mustang and his time at Chrysler

  • Friday, 28 June, 2019
    Peter Montagnon
    Peter Montagnon, journalist and governance expert, 1950-2019

    Former FT man who became an influential shareholder advocate and policymaker

  • Thursday, 27 June, 2019
    Ernest Stern
    Ernest Stern, economist, 1933-2019

    A rare talent at the World Bank who never took stability for granted

  • Friday, 21 June, 2019
    Gloria Laura Vanderbilt
    Gloria Vanderbilt, artist and designer, 1924-2019

    Heiress who made her own success as the ‘Queen of Jeans’

  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2019
    Egypt
    Mohamed Morsi: Egypt’s first freely elected civilian leader, 1951-2019

    Former president’s swift rise to power and crashing fall exposed the nation’s faultlines

  • Saturday, 15 June, 2019
    Franco Zeffirelli
    Franco Zeffirelli, film and opera director 1923-2019

    Anglophile Italian who brought panache-with-naturalism to stage and screen

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2019
    Music
    Dr John, New Orleans musician, 1941-2019

    Malcolm J ‘Mac’ Rebennack was a prodigy who became the voice of his home city

  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2019
    Martin S. Feldstein
    Martin Feldstein, economist, 1939-2019

    FT’s Martin Wolf remembers a principled conservative with a devotion to the evidence

  • Friday, 7 June, 2019
    Edward Seaga
    Edward Seaga, Jamaican prime minister, 1930-2019

    The Caribbean island’s leader turned his country away from the militant socialism of his predecessor

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