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Satya Chatterjee obituary
My father, Satya Chatterjee, who has died aged 90, was a distinguished chest physician and a prominent member of Manchester's Indian community. His commitment to public service and the NHS was total....
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Natalie Pugh obituary
My wife, Natalie Pugh, who has died aged 82, was an avid Guardian reader from the 1950s onwards and a quintessential Guardian woman.Born Natalie Gorovitz in London to Russian immigrants, she was a...
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Pat Wallsgrove obituary
My mother, Pat Wallsgrove, who has died aged 89, was a free-thinker, a warm, flamboyant teacher, a partygoer and very much a child of the 20th century. She was an anti-fascist campaigner in the 1940s,...
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Renee Iliffe obituary
My mother, Renee Iliffe, who has died aged 90, was a civil servant, a trade unionist and a member of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY). Compassionate and generous, with a wonderful sense of humour,...
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Letter: The elegant Inder Kumar Gujral
In his obituary of Inder Kumar Gujral, Mark Tully refers to the former Indian prime minister's charm and persuasiveness. In 1996, I attended Chatham House in London where Gujral, then foreign minister,...
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Kenneth Kendall obituary
First BBC newsreader to appear on TV and co-host of Channel 4 gameshow Treasure HuntKenneth Kendall, who in 1955 became the first person to be seen, as well as heard, reading the news on BBC...
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Maurice Herzog obituary
Climber who became a French national hero after making the first ascent of AnnapurnaIn late 1950, Maurice Herzog lay in the American hospital at Neuilly-sur-Seine, on the outskirts of Paris, dictating...
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N Joseph Woodland obituary
Co-inventor of the barcodeAlmost every product you buy now carries a barcode, and its familiar black-and-white lines are used in more than 5bn transactions each day. Its co-inventor, N Joseph Woodland,...
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Jack Hart obituary
Signals specialist who fought Thatcher's ban on unions at GCHQJack Hart, who has died aged 86, was a most unlikely, certainly most unexpected, trade union hero, thrust into that role on 25 January 1984...
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Letter: Ravi Shankar saved our playground
In 1969 I was chair of the Handsworth Adventure Playground in Birmingham which drew in black children in an area of racial tension. We faced deep financial problems and, by chance, Vanessa Redgrave...
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Letter: Directing Jonathan Harvey
I had the privilege of directing Jonathan Harvey's Mothers Shall Not Cry for the BBC Proms Millennium at the Royal Albert Hall. It was a massive enterprise, involving the BBC Symphony Orchestra, two...
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Geoff Beynon obituary
My friend Geoff Beynon, who has died aged 86, was a voice of moderation at a time of teacher union militancy. He became an official of the Assistant Masters Association, in 1964, and then, after a...
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Peter Kennedy obituary
My friend Peter Kennedy, who has died aged 71 from a malignant adrenal tumour that first occurred 13 years ago, was a psychiatrist and influential health service manager.He was born in wartime Bradford...
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Paul Wolfson obituary
My friend Paul Wolfson, who has taken his own life aged 61, was a man of many parts. While studying medicine at Cambridge in the early 1970s, he become involved with Footlights where, with his...
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Letter: Arthur Chaskalson was kind, modest and even a little shy
When, in the 1980s and 1990s, I worked for a UK grant-making trust supporting NGOs in South Africa, I was fortunate to get to know Arthur Chaskalson a little. As Denis Herbstein's obituary implies, he...
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John Lewis obituary
John Lewis, who has died aged 89, used to describe himself as "a mere schoolmaster", and indeed he taught for nearly 40 years at Malvern college, the Worcestershire public school, but he also had a...
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Daniel Inouye obituary
Longest-serving member of the US Senate who investigated the Watergate and Iran-Contra scandalsDaniel Inouye, who has died aged 88, was the longest-serving member of the US Senate and had the second...
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Tommy Roberts obituary
Prominent fashion figure of the 1970s behind the Mr Freedom label and boutique, he influenced Elton John, Ian Dury and David BowieThe clothes that Tommy Roberts sold under the label Mr Freedom were the...
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Robert Bork obituary
Controversial lawyer and legal scholar who was a pugnacious standard bearer for the American rightRobert Bork, who has died aged 85, was one of the most controversial American legal scholars of his...
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Peter Clarke obituary
Guardian cartoonist and illustrator whose work mixed handcraft with technologyPeter Clarke was a big man in every way, an adventurer who flew RAF Canberras from his teenage years and sailed small boats...
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