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Obituaries

Glencairn Balfour-Paul

Spirited British ambassador who had a brush with Saddam Hussein and wrote about the end of empire in the Middle East

Vladimir Vinogradov

Founder of Russia’s largest private bank and once the nation’s 12th richest man who lost everything in the financial crisis of 1998

Elizabeth Spriggs

Versatile character actress who first blossomed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and won later acclaim for her many roles on television

Sir Charles Wheeler

Veteran BBC foreign correspondent who simply revelled in his work and was at his most masterly during the Watergate scandal

Samuel Katz

Jewish right-wing ideologue who said Israel was too soft

Thich Huyen Quang

Buddhist patriarch who challenged Vietnam’s Government over human rights and religious freedom and suffered internal exile

Harry Ridley

Sheep farmer whose innovative ideas have been widely followed

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Geoffrey Cheney

Surgeon who removed a bullet from the face of an African war orphan

David Urquhart

Consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St Thomas’ Hospital

J. R. Simplot

Billionaire who earned his fortune from supplying frozen chips to McDonald’s

Jesse Helms

Right-wing Republican senator who opposed social progress in the US and supported dictatorships abroad

Clive Hornby

Actor who played Jack Sugden in Emmerdale, the soap opera's longest-serving member

Lord Tweedsmuir

Novelist who showed himself to have inherited the writerly skills of his father, John Buchan

Bruce Sayers

A leading research scientist who was known as the father of the field of biomedical signal processing

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General Sir Francis Hassett

Soldier who won a desperate victory over the Chinese during the Korean War and rose to command Australia’s defence forces

Squadron Leader Larry Curtis

Veteran of 617 Squadron who flew as its signals leader on some of its most celebrated ‘ops’ including the sinking of the Tirpitz

Sir Peter Kemp

Reforming civil servant who sought to bring the modern efficiencies of the private sector to Whitehall

Robert Harling

Typographic designer whose vision led to the creation of a range of books and journals which were ahead of their time

Lenka Reinerova

Lenka Reinerova

Czech writer who endured jail and exile to become a guardian of the memory of Prague’s vanished German literary culture

Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw

Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw

Chief of Staff of the Indian Army that defeated Pakistan in the 1971 war and created Bangladesh

Albert Cossery

Adoptive Parisian writer who elevated idleness to an art form while slowly composing slender volumes about his native Cairo

Professor Dennis Anderson

Key scientist in field of energy and the environment, recently contributing to the Stern review on climate change economics

John Barnes

John Barnes

Pioneering historian who devoted a five-volume study and a museum to the origins of British cinema

Harry Lange

Harry Lange

Film production designer who drew on his experiences at Nasa for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

Alexander Courage

Composer of the theme tune for the popular Star Trek television series, and films such as The Mummy and Jurassic Park

Terry Fields

Labour MP whose Militant Tendency sympathies embarrassed Neil Kinnock

David Caminer

David Caminer

Pioneer of business computing and programmer of the revolutionary LEO computer used by Lyons

Paul Gotch

British Council representative who lived and worked in the Middle East, making films and producing radio broadcasts

Donald James Wheal

Best-selling author who began his career as a screenwriter instrumental in shaping popular television drama in the 1960s

Ruben Vartanyan

Conductor who did not have as high a profile as some defectors, but found a musically satisfying home in the USA