Obituaries

Versatile jazz musician in modern and trad genres who later turned to teaching

Gallery director hailed a star in the making whose enthusiasm and talent inspired a host of artists

Poet who won the Pulitzer Prize but lambasted almost every other aspect of Establishment America

Reporter who survived as a wartime prisoner of the Japanese to work on newspapers in India and Surrey

Former soldier who established his own independent nation on an abandoned North Sea fort

Scientist primarily responsible for Dolly the sheep, the clone whose birth in 1996 prompted both awe and fear

Violinist who forged a famous 30-year partnership with Karajan in Berlin

Actor, pilot and gossip columnist with a sense of the surreal who rode on a camel to 'discover’ Basingstoke

Wartime naval officer who served in five vessels, four of which were sunk

Tortured PoW who confronted his Japanese nemesis – but chose reconciliation over retribution

Composer who may have unravelled the 'enigma’ behind Elgar’s Variations

Scientist who created a crucial mechanism to trigger the nuclear bomb that devastated Nagasaki

Engineer whose record-breaking 100-mile cycling epic earned him comparisons with Roger Bannister

Expert on protein crystallography who shed light on the part played by enzymes in health and disease

Economist who created a TV business series and Beat The Boss video games

Algerian president whose reforms belied his military background but unleashed a brutal civil war

Director of Naval Plans who shaped the fleet in peacetime and in war and was later Governor of Gibraltar

Pioneering gastroenterologist who explained how our gut absorbs nutrients

Engineer and expert in tribology whose work ensured the smooth running of the QE2 and Tube escalators

Last of the team that designed the Routemaster bus, who derided its recent 'relaunch’ as a stunt