Wednesday 27 June 2012
Obituaries
Obituaries: the lives and deaths, careers, foibles and crimes of the good, the bad and the simply famous.
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Nora Ephron
Celebrated screenwriter, novelist, essayist and reporter behind romantic comedies including When Harry Met Sally
27 Jun 2012
Hilary Rubinstein
Agent who discovered Kingsley Amis, transformed non-fiction, and founded the Good Hotel Guide
26 Jun 2012
Ron Jewell
Special forces soldier with Popski’s Private Army who helped preserve the artistic treasures in Ravenna
26 Jun 2012
C David Heymann
Writer whose titillating biographies of the rich and famous never let facts stand in the way of a good story
26 Jun 2012
Brigitte Engerer
Concert pianist who blended the power of the Russian tradition with the delicacy and clarity of the French
25 Jun 2012
Tom Neill
Motor torpedo boat commander who took on enemy warships in his plywood craft and came off best
25 Jun 2012
Ken Hargreaves
Tory MP who urged tighter controls on abortion and backed a national lottery
25 Jun 2012
Margarete Mitscherlich
German psychoanalyst who examined her countrymen’s failure to address the guilt of war
24 Jun 2012
Digby Wolfe
Actor turned comedy writer who helped create the hippy-trippy madness of Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In
24 Jun 2012
Mike Westmacott
Climber on the 1953 Everest expedition who raced down with news of its success
24 Jun 2012
Mary Fedden
Artist whose bracing, blazing visions of the everyday were only fully appreciated towards the end of her life
22 Jun 2012
John Deeker
Pyrotechnician whose firework spectaculars lit up Royal weddings, regattas and the Silver Jubilee
21 Jun 2012
John Golding
Eminent art historian who combined the rigour of a scholar with the acute eye of an accomplished artist
21 Jun 2012
Eugene Selznick
Sportsman who promoted the Olympic claims of beach volleyball — also known as 'Baywatch with balls’
21 Jun 2012
Commander George 'Mac' Rutherford
Fleet Air Arm pilot on night raids who crashed into two cows after one take-off
21 Jun 2012
Sir Michael Palliser
Top diplomat under four foreign secretaries whose talents were appreciated in Paris, Brussels and at No 10
20 Jun 2012
Victor Spinetti
Comic actor who starred with the Beatles, befriended John Lennon, and famously offered Inspector Clouseau "a rheum"
19 Jun 2012
Ivor Porter
Captured SOE officer in Romania used by Antonescu in an effort to prevent a Soviet takeover as the war ended
19 Jun 2012
Gitta Sereny
Author who went face to face with Nazis and child killers to produce controversial studies of evil
18 Jun 2012
Sir Brandon Gough
Progressive chairman of Coopers & Lybrand whose record was haunted by the ghost of Robert Maxwell
18 Jun 2012
William Knowles
Nobel Prize winning chemist who made drugs safer in the wake of thalidomide
18 Jun 2012
Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al Saud
Heir to the Saudi throne whose tough attitude to al-Qaeda and Iran made him an ally of the US
17 Jun 2012
Rodney King
Victim of a police beating, captured on camera, which outraged the world and sparked riots in Los Angeles
17 Jun 2012
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