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Alasdair Milne obituary
BBC director general who resigned after a series of rows during the Thatcher eraWhen Alasdair Milne, who has died aged 82, was appointed director general of the BBC in 1981, he must have seemed the...
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Brigitte Askonas obituary
Immunologist whose work led to the development of many new vaccinesBrigitte Askonas, widely known as Ita, who has died aged 89, was one of the leading figures of modern immunology. She built on the...
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Alasdair Liddell obituary
Former Department of Health planning director who helped shape the modern NHSAlasdair Liddell, who has died suddenly aged 63, following an aneurysm, helped to shape the modern National Health Service....
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Colin Davis obituary
Champion racing driver of the 1950s and 60sHeld on the wild mountain roads of Sicily between 1906 and 1973, the Targa Florio ranked just behind the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Mille Miglia among the...
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Robert Kee obituary
Historian, presenter, documentary maker – and the least glitzy of TV-am's Famous FiveRobert Kee, who has died aged 93, belonged to a vanishing tradition of great TV documentary makers and presenters...
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Jon Finch
Charismatic star of Polanski's Macbeth and Hitchcock's FrenzyIn the 1970s, it seemed a sure bet that the actor Jon Finch, who has died aged 71, would become a durable film star of some magnitude. He...
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Liesl Brainin obituary
My mother Liesl Brainin, who has died aged 93, was a truly private person. She took against fame in childhood. Her uncle, Hans Kelsen, was the main author of Austria's new constitution after the first...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eugene Patterson dies in Florida
Editor of Atlanta Constitution in the 60s covered the civil rights movement when many southern newspapers wouldn'tEugene Patterson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and columnist who helped fellow...
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Aaron Swartz obituary
Internet activist and crusader in the open data movementThe web programmer and open-data crusader Aaron Swartz has been found dead in his New York apartment, having apparently taken his own life at the...
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Shomei Tomatsu obituary
Influential Japanese postwar photographer who turned his camera on his homelandShomei Tomatsu, who has died aged 82, was perhaps the most influential Japanese photographer of the postwar era. His raw,...
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Tom Wood obituary
My colleague and mentor Tom Wood, who has died aged 75, was a pioneering tropical soil biologist and a champion marathon runner.He grew up in Burnley, Lancashire, and attended Newcastle University....
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Toni Evans obituary
My mother, Toni Evans, who has died aged 96, was a powerful modern woman, a fighter and a survivor. Imprisoned in concentration camps during the second world war, she suffered severe malnutrition,...
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Evan S Connell obituary
American author whose novels Mrs Bridge and Mr Bridge were turned into a Merchant Ivory filmIn 2009, when he was nominated for the Man Booker international prize, Evan S Connell was little known to the...
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Mariangela Melato
Versatile Italian actor known for her roles in Lina Wertmüller's filmsMariangela Melato, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 71, was one of Italy's most versatile and vivacious actresses, working in...
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Charles Chilton obituary
BBC radio producer who created the serial Journey into SpaceThe BBC radio producer and writer Charles Chilton, who has died aged 95, created a classic radio serial, Journey into Space, various series...
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Nagisa Oshima obituary
Japanese film-maker best known for the sexually explicit In the Realm of the Senses and Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, starring David BowieIn a sense, it is unfortunate that the Japanese director Nagisa...
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Eric Frith obituary
My friend Eric Frith, who has died aged 90, had a love for music that found its fullest expression in the field of drama. From the late 1940s he was involved in the theatre run at the Wilderness, the...
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Brian Easlea obituary
My former mentor Brian Easlea, who has died aged 76, was an internationalist, a teacher and an advocate for a better world, whose scholarly and groundbreaking work was influential in many countries all...
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Kenneth Sergison obituary
My father, Kenneth Sergison, who has died aged 82, was a civil engineer involved in a number of significant infrastructure projects, including the construction of a particularly challenging section of...
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Stanley Etherington obituary
My dad, Stanley Etherington, who has died aged 92, was one of the few surviving members of the squadron that undertook the daring low-level bombing raid on Gestapo headquarters in Aarhus in Denmark on...
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