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Obituaries from previous editions
Leszek Kolakowski
A Polish-born Oxford philosopher who became Marxism’s most perceptive opponentJul 30th 2009
War and peace through the bravest eyes
The testimony of a murdered human-rights campaignerJul 23rd 2009
Walter Cronkite
A proper newsman, sometimes described as the voice of GodJul 23rd 2009
John Bachar
The world's greatest free-climber, for whom grace was allJul 16th 2009
Robert McNamara
He learned most of the lessons of Vietnam too lateJul 9th 2009
Michael Jackson
The show was everything to himJul 2nd 2009
Ralf Dahrendorf
He learnt the value of liberty the hard wayJun 25th 2009
Omar Bongo
He cosseted his country one moment and ravaged it the nextJun 18th 2009
Danny La Rue
He created a star out of lace and glitzJun 11th 2009
Pattabhi Jois
He brought Ashtanga to California, sweaty, athletic and self-contradictoryJun 4th 2009
Roh Moo-hyun
The president-by-his-bootstraps was ashamed to have caved in to the allurements of the jobMay 28th 2009
Prabhakaran
His commitment to violence had been there from the startMay 21st 2009
Margaret Gelling
She tramped through fenn and forest to find the true names of the landMay 14th 2009
Hans Holzer
His ghost stories were based on hard evidence (so he said)May 7th 2009
Samuel Beer
The American liberal found much that he liked in European liberalismApr 30th 2009
Eddie George
A steady governor of the Bank of EnglandApr 23rd 2009
Maurice Jarre
His music revealed emotions no words or pictures couldApr 16th 2009
Helen Levitt
Her nameless images celebrated the city's gritty beautyApr 8th 2009
John Hope Franklin
He yearned to improve things, but wondered howApr 2nd 2009
Jade Goody
She made the choice to live and die under the lightsMar 26th 2009
Ali Bongo
He could produce almost any illusion, though he wouldn't say howMar 19th 2009
Obituaries from previous editions, continued...
Alan Landers
The face of Winston cigarettes, who blamed the tobacco companies for his cancerMar 12th 2009
Conchita Cintrón
She killed more than 750 bulls, though her skills were not always welcomeMar 5th 2009
Christopher Nolan
He made words do everything his body could notFeb 26th 2009
Alison Des Forges
She doggedly told the stories of Africa's worst atrocitiesFeb 19th 2009
Rose Davis
Rose Dean-Davis, campaigner and East End wife, died on January 31st, aged 67Feb 12th 2009
Anastasia Baburova
With a heightened sense of injustice, she longed to change the worldFeb 5th 2009
An American subversive
Three themes pervade John Updike’s fiction: God, sex and AmericaJan 29th 2009
John Mortimer
He summed up in one person both the weight of the law and a sharp, rollicking scepticism of itJan 29th 2009
Gaston Lenôtre
Food of all kinds he loved and lavished, but he was a master of sweet creationsJan 22nd 2009
Richard Neuhaus
He was an enthusiastic booster of God’s cause in American public lifeJan 15th 2009
Helen Suzman
A petite, elegant and vicious politicianJan 8th 2009
Harold Pinter
He used silence in his plays to let the dark inDec 30th 2008
H.M.
Polite and boyish, his contribution to science was enormous and sadly inadvertentDec 18th 2008
Jorn Utzon
Jorn Utzon, architect of the Sydney Opera House, died on November 29th, aged 90Dec 11th 2008
Jack Scott and Reg Varney
They lightened the weight of those national millstones: the weather and the busesDec 4th 2008
Boris Fyodorov
An admirer of English churches, he tried to reform Russia's economyNov 27th 2008
Mieczyslaw Rakowski
He was the charming, complex defender of a system based on lies and mass murderNov 20th 2008
Miriam Makeba
“Mama Africa” spent more than 30 years in exile from her homelandNov 13th 2008
Studs Terkel
He preferred the “inchoate thought” of people who were never heardNov 6th 2008
Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal
The fastidious casino manager was not your average punterOct 30th 2008
Ted Briggs
The boy-sailor eluded the Bismarck's barrageOct 23rd 2008
Jörg Haider
For all his toxicity, a tantalising oddity in Austrian politicsOct 16th 2008
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