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  • 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

  • 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

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