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    • Saturday, 4 February, 2023
      Barrett Strong
      Barrett Strong, songwriter and musician, 1941-2023

      The Motown legend wrote many hits and was credited with making his label more socially aware

    • Saturday, 28 January, 2023
      Tom Nairn
      Tom Nairn, political theorist, 1932-2023

      He was best known for his writing on the fragmenting of the British union, which he viewed as inevitable

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      David Crosby
      David Crosby, musician, 1941-2023

      Creatively radical Californian who pushed The Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to break new ground

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      Alan Budd
      Sir Alan Budd, economist, 1937-2023

      He was at the heart of many of the major innovations of modern macroeconomic policy in the UK

    • Saturday, 14 January, 2023
      Adolfo Kaminsky
      Adolfo Kaminsky, forger and photographer, 1925-2023

      The facsimiles he produced helped thousands of French Jews and other persecuted peoples

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      Jeff Beck
      Jeff Beck, rock guitarist, 1944-2023

      Self-taught virtuoso was ‘most devoted’ of fellow 1960s guitar legends Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Barbara Walters
      Barbara Walters, journalist, 1929-2023

      The pioneering broadcaster, known for her incisive interviews, broke the media glass ceiling and became a celebrity herself

    • Saturday, 31 December, 2022
      Religion
      Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Ratzinger, 1927 - 2022

      German-born theologian became first pontiff to abdicate since the Middle Ages

    • Friday, 30 December, 2022
      Vivienne Westwood
      Vivienne Westwood, fashion designer, 1941-2022

      An iconoclast and enemy of convention who defined the look of punk

    • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
      Pelé
      Pelé, football star and global symbol of Brazil, 1940-2022

      One of history’s greatest players helped his country win three World Cups in 21-year career

    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      Terry Hall
      Terry Hall, singer, 1959-2022

      With ska-punk group The Specials, he laid the foundations for the multicultural sound of today’s UK charts

    • Monday, 19 December, 2022
      Brian Reading
      Brian Reading, economist, 1936-2022

      An early ‘spad’, he became disillusioned with Labour’s interventionism and switched to the Tories

    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      Lord Young
      Lord David Ivor Young, businessman and politician, 1932-2022

      His close relationship with Margaret Thatcher often provoked the ire of his peers

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Nick Bollettieri
      Nick Bollettieri, tennis coach, 1931-2022

      His methods were notorious, but the best young players flocked to his Florida academy

    • Saturday, 3 December, 2022
      Eleanor Jackson Piel
      Eleanor Jackson Piel, US civil rights lawyer, 1920-2022

      She made her name as a criminal defence attorney by overturning wrongful convictions

    • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
      Jiang Zemin
      Jiang Zemin, influential president of China, 1926-2022

      The business-friendly leader was regarded as less dictatorial than his predecessors

    • Saturday, 26 November, 2022
      Hebe de Bonafini
      Hebe de Bonafini, activist, 1928-2022

      After two of her children were abducted, she defied Argentina’s military junta in her pursuit for justice

    • Saturday, 19 November, 2022
      Vicky Phelan
      Vicky Phelan, cervical cancer campaigner, 1974-2022

      She demanded action after exposing one of the most shocking medical scandals in Ireland’s history

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      Ela Ramesh Bhatt
      Ela Ramesh Bhatt, activist, 1933-2022

      Known as India’s ‘gentle revolutionary’, she founded the country’s first working women’s movement

    • Wednesday, 9 November, 2022
      Evelyn de Rothschild
      Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, financier, 1931-2022

      The dynast, philanthropist and racehorse breeder kept his family bank standing even through the City’s ‘Big Bang’

    • Friday, 4 November, 2022
      Dilip Mahalanabis
      Dilip Mahalanabis, paediatrician, 1934-2022

      The doctor who pioneered the use of oral rehydration therapy during a refugee crisis

    • Friday, 28 October, 2022
      Ashton Carter
      Ashton Carter, US defence secretary, 1954-2022

      He opened up all combat roles to women and encouraged investment in advanced military technology

    • Friday, 21 October, 2022
      Books
      Carmen Callil, publisher, 1938-2022

      A trailblazing Australian with ‘monomaniacal chutzpah’ who founded Virago Press to champion women writers

    • Friday, 14 October, 2022
      Angela Lansbury
      Angela Lansbury, actor, 1925-2022

      The genre-defying star was known for the range and depth of her scene-stealing roles

    • Friday, 7 October, 2022
      Loretta Lynn
      Loretta Lynn, singer-songwriter, 1932-2022

      From coal miner’s daughter to rule-breaking queen of country music

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