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Obituaries

Sir Charles Wheeler

Veteran BBC foreign correspondent who simply revelled in his work and was at his most masterly during the Watergate scandal

Jesse Helms

Right-wing Republican senator who opposed social progress in the US and supported dictatorships abroad

Clive Hornby

Actor who played Jack Sugden in Emmerdale, the soap opera's longest-serving member

Elizabeth Spriggs

Versatile character actress who first blossomed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and won later acclaim for her many roles on television

Lord Tweedsmuir

Novelist who showed himself to have inherited the writerly skills of his father, John Buchan

General Sir Francis Hassett

Soldier who won a desperate victory over the Chinese during the Korean War and rose to command Australia’s defence forces

Squadron Leader Larry Curtis

Veteran of 617 Squadron who flew as its signals leader on some of its most celebrated ‘ops’ including the sinking of the Tirpitz

Sir Peter Kemp

Reforming civil servant who sought to bring the modern efficiencies of the private sector to Whitehall

Robert Harling

Typographic designer whose vision led to the creation of a range of books and journals which were ahead of their time

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Lenka Reinerova

Lenka Reinerova

Czech writer who endured jail and exile to become a guardian of the memory of Prague’s vanished German literary culture

Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw

Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw

Chief of Staff of the Indian Army that defeated Pakistan in the 1971 war and created Bangladesh

Albert Cossery

Adoptive Parisian writer who elevated idleness to an art form while slowly composing slender volumes about his native Cairo

Professor Dennis Anderson

Key scientist in field of energy and the environment, recently contributing to the Stern review on climate change economics

John Barnes

John Barnes

Pioneering historian who devoted a five-volume study and a museum to the origins of British cinema

Harry Lange

Harry Lange

Film production designer who drew on his experiences at Nasa for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

Alexander Courage

Composer of the theme tune for the popular Star Trek television series, and films such as The Mummy and Jurassic Park

Terry Fields

Labour MP whose Militant Tendency sympathies embarrassed Neil Kinnock

David Caminer

David Caminer

Pioneer of business computing and programmer of the revolutionary LEO computer used by Lyons

Paul Gotch

British Council representative who lived and worked in the Middle East, making films and producing radio broadcasts

Donald James Wheal

Best-selling author who began his career as a screenwriter instrumental in shaping popular television drama in the 1960s

Ruben Vartanyan

Conductor who did not have as high a profile as some defectors, but found a musically satisfying home in the USA

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Ray Wyre

Ray Wyre

Expert on sex crimes who advised police and prosecutors while working to rehabilitate even the most dangerous offenders

W. R. Piggott

Roy Piggott

Scientist who did pioneering research on the ionosphere and established the ionospheric research programme in Antarctica

The Right Rev Anthony Crockett

Energetic Bishop of Bangor respected for his liberal theological views

James Atkinson

Experimental physicist and one of the last surviving pioneers of the use of radar during the Second World War

The Spinners

Cliff Hall

Guitarist for the Spinners who brought English folk songs to the mainstream

Professor Charles Tilly

Sociologist whose work covered sexual inequality in the workplace and development of democracy, and ranged across centuries

Jacob Robbins

Endocrinologist whose research on thyroid gland and radiation exposure helped develop therapies to prevent thyroid cancer

Professor Kenneth Walton

Leading experimental pathologist who did much to shape our contemporary scientific approach to rheumatology

Professor John Ashurst

Architect and influential teacher who was a leading authority on the conservation of ancient buildings

Alicia Zubasnabar

Alicia Zubasnabar

Mother of five who became a leader in the search for babies stolen during Argentina’s military dictatorship

Zoya Krakhmalnikova

Soviet dissident and Orthodox Christian activist whose writings on religion led to imprisonment and exile

Henryk Mandelbaum

Auschwitz prisoner who was forced to work in the gas chambers