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Margaret Yorke obituary
Author of robust and uncompromising crime novelsMargaret Yorke, who has died aged 88, wrote more than 40 crime novels, was chair of the Crime Writers' Association and in 1999 won the CWA's Cartier...
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Bob Kellett obituary
Director of British comedy films in the tradition of saucy seaside postcardsDuring the 1970s, British cinema produced dozens of sex comedies, of which the director Bob Kellett, who has died aged 84,...
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Evelyn Williams obituary
Artist whose work combined vision, dream and realityThe artist Evelyn Williams has died aged 83. Hardly a day in her working life was not spent, in part or whole, in her calm and quiet studio in...
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Maria Petrou
Leading authority on digital image processing – the science of using computer programs to identify important trends in dataDigital images abound in the modern world. As outputs of hospital scanners,...
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Dame Elisabeth Murdoch obituary
Philanthropist and mother of Rupert Murdoch, she was regarded as a national treasure in her native AustraliaDespite the many upheavals, setbacks and disputes in his long career as a media tycoon, there...
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Dave Brubeck obituary
American jazz pianist and composer who annoyed the purists by finding global fameWhen the end of the 20th century came, some aspects of jazz began to be given the status of a classical form. In the...
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Jonathan Harvey obituary
Composer who used electronics to produce incandescent sounds pointing to a higher form of consciousnessThe composer Jonathan Harvey, who has died aged 73 after suffering from motor neurone disease, was...
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Oscar Niemeyer obituary
Eminent modern architect renowned as 'the man who built Brasilia'There was a story told by the mayor of the town of Niterói, across the bay from Rio de Janeiro, that expresses perfectly the epic...
View ArticleOscar Niemeyer: a life in architecture - in pictures
The architect known for his distinctive and frequently curvy style designed the main buildings of Brazil's capital city
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Letter: Dave Brubeck in full swing
In October 2003, I bought a ticket for a concert by Dave Brubeck's quartet (by then it included Bob Militello, alto; Michael Moore, bass; and Randy Jones, drums) at the Lyrick theatre, in Assisi,...
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Peter Cousins obituary
My dad, Peter Cousins, who has died aged 87, was the first orthodontist to set up practice in Wales, in 1952. He was also a founder of the University of Wales's first dental hospital in 1972 and a...
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Doug Adams obituary
My friend Doug Adams, who has died of cancer aged 60, was the lead musician at the Deptford Jack in the Green. This traditional event, last seen in Deptford around the end of the 19th century, was...
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Peter Moorhouse obituary
"LAKE DISTRICT. Self-catering accommodation in writer's farmhouse, Duddon Valley." It is impossible to know how many readers of the Guardian, and other publications, responded to this small ad over the...
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Glenys Lloyd-Morgan obituary
My friend Glenys Lloyd-Morgan, who has died aged 67 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease, devoted her career to the appreciation and understanding of Roman archaeology.She was born in Halifax and...
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Christopher Davis obituary
Innovative publisher who co-founded the pioneering company Dorling KindersleyDuring the 1980s and 90s there can have been few homes in the UK without an illustrated Dorling Kindersley (DK) book. They...
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Oscar Niemeyer: an appreciation
Our critic salutes Oscar Niemeyer, the visionary Brazilian architect who died last week, aged 104Oscar Niemeyer was brilliant, energetic, ruthless, by all accounts charming – and extraordinarily...
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Wolfgang Hug obituary
My father, Wolfgang Hug, has died of cancer aged 62. The son of Herta and Egon, he was born in Berlin at a time of great social change. He grew up in west Berlin with his older brother Peter. The...
View ArticlePatrick Moore: a life in pictures
Astronomer Patrick Moore, who in April this year celebrated 55 years of the television programme The Sky at Night, has died at the age of 89 at his home in West Sussex
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Andrew Chetley obituary
My father, Andrew Chetley, who has died of cancer aged 61, dedicated his first book, The Baby Killer Scandal (1979), to the "millions of children born into poverty", a cause to which he dedicated his...
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Sir Patrick Moore obituary
Astronomer, television personality, British eccentric and a great populariser of scienceSir Patrick Moore, who has died aged 89, had the air of a crusty, uncompromising bachelor and slightly dotty...
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