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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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