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Umaru Yar'Adua: Nigerian President who struggled to tackle the country's social and political problems
Monday, 7 June 2010
Umaru Yar'Adua, the first university-educated President of Nigeria, who offered an amnesty to armed militants in the troubled oil-rich Niger Delta region, has died following months of speculation surrounding his health.
Giulietta Simionato: Italian mezzo-soprano with a remarkably wide repertoire
Monday, 7 June 2010
The death of the Italian mezzo Giulietta Simionato, a week short of her 100th birthday, marks the end of a period in operatic history – and of a generation of singers who made their debuts before the Second World War and reached their peak in the years after it.
Werner Schroeter: Flamboyant, experimental German film director
Monday, 7 June 2010
Rainer Werner Fassbinder described his fellow director Werner Schroeter as New German Cinema's "best-kept secret", while paradoxically stressing how influential he was.
Jim Marshall: Rock photographer who took classic shots of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and The Beatles
Saturday, 5 June 2010
There are good photographers and there are great photographers; Jim Marshall was one of the latter, an inspirational photojournalist.
Hywel Heulyn Roberts: Veteran Welsh nationalist and county councillor
Saturday, 5 June 2010
Hywel Heulyn Roberts traced his commitment to the cause of Plaid Cymru to the night of 8 September 1936 when some huts and contractors' materials belonging to an RAF bombing school, then being built at Penyberth on the Llyn Peninsula, were set on fire by three of the party's leaders.
Ian Lawther: Northern Ireland footballer who cut his teeth at Old Trafford
Saturday, 5 June 2010
For a few short weeks in the early 1950s Ian Lawther joined the select company of the fabled Busby Babes. The slight Belfast teenager had been recruited to join Manchester United's celebrated talent factory – but not every youngster who entered the academy was destined for greatness. Racked by homesickness, Lawther insisted on returning to Northern Ireland, and never played for United. Lawther went on to play four times for his country and scored heavily for Sunderland and a string of other clubs in the English League, but his career never quite lived up to the promise of those early years.
Dede Allen: Pioneering film editor who worked with Sidney Lumet and Arthur Penn
Friday, 4 June 2010
Dede Allen, who has died aged 86, was the most important film editor in the most explosive era of American film.
Chris Haney: Co-creator of Trivial Pursuit
Friday, 4 June 2010
A 1979 game of Scrabble led Chris Haney, picture editor of the Montreal Gazette, and his friend Scott Abbott, a sports journalist with the Canadian Press news agency, to come up with their own board game. Trivial Pursuit, launched two years later, was described by Time magazine as "the biggest phenomenon in game history".
Leonard Wolfson: Businessman and philanthropist
Friday, 4 June 2010
Leonard Gordon Wolfson, who has died at the age of 82, took control of a family business which earned huge amounts of money and also distributed huge amounts through a philanthropic foundation.
Avigdor Arikha: Artist and scholar who sought to capture existential truths in the everyday
Thursday, 3 June 2010
The apparent simplicity of the representational paintings, drawings and prints made by Avigdor Arikha over the last four decades of his life masked a rare sophistication and visual intelligence that bridged the modernist avant-garde of pure abstraction with traditions of observational drawing and painting stretching back to the Renaissance and beyond.
Peter Orlovsky: Beat poet and life partner of Allen Ginsberg
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Peter Orlovsky was a poet who worked in the background of the Beat Generation movement, best known for his 40-year partnership with the leading Beat figure and poet, Allen Ginsberg.
Nirmal Pandey: Versatile Indian stage and screen actor
Thursday, 3 June 2010
Nirmal Pandey was a multi-faceted stage and film actor famous for his roles in critically acclaimed and award-winning movies such as Bandit Queen, Godmother, Iss Raat Ki Subah Nahin and Daayraa. He was selective about his roles, preferring to play parts based on the lives of the socially disadvantaged. Pandey was born into a humble family on the beautiful hill station of Nainital in the northern state of Uttarakhand in 1962. He loved acting and music and won a music fellowship to the National School of Drama in Delhi.
Louise Bourgeois: Inventive and influential sculptor whose difficult childhood informed her life's work
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
When Tate Modern opened its doors in May 2000, visitors were alarmed to find the gallery's Turbine Hall menaced by a 35-foot spider. It wasn't the creature's size that bothered the public so much as that it was called Maman ("Mummy") and had been made by a little old lady, herself the mother of three.
Richard Stapley: Film and television actor who starred alongside Elizabeth Taylor in 'Little Women'
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
Richard Stapley belonged to a generation of movie actors who plied their trade during the halcyon days of Hollywood – when stars were great and dalliances were discreet. Although predominantly an actor, he had polymath qualities ranging from writer and motorcycle racer to courier.
Gary Coleman: Child star of the television sitcom 'Diff'rent Strokes' who faced legal and personal problems in later life
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
The American television sitcom Diff'rent Strokes turned the 10-year-old Gary Coleman into a worldwide star, but he proved to be right at the top of that league of child actors who experience a much-troubled life after such early fame.
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