Obituaries

Obituary: Jerry Hadley
It’s a sad time for fans of beautiful music.

Corazón Aquino
Obituary: She led a people's revolution to depose the dictator Ferdinand Marcos and become president of the Philippines, but could not resolve the country's enduring conflicts

Henry Allingham
Obituary: First world war veteran and world's oldest man

Edward Kenna Vc
Obituary: Australian wartime hero in New Guinea

Vasily Aksyonov
Obituary: Libertarian Russian writer and leading light in 'youth prose', he fell foul of the KGB

Frank Devine
Obituary: The 'laughing cavalier of Australian journalism', who edited the Chicago Sun-Times, the New York Post and the Australian

Alick Bearn
Obituary: Pioneering geneticist known for his research into Wilson's disease

Donald Evans
Obituary: Bass guitarist with Lynyrd Skynyrd

Béla Király
Obituary: Hungarian army chief turned scholar, he tried to resist the 1956 Soviet invasion

Jimmy Neighbour
Obituary: Effective winger for Tottenham who went on to become a coach

Allen Klein
Obituary: US business manager who made sure the Rolling Stones and the Beatles got paid

Alexis Argüello
Obituary: World champion boxer at three different weights who found new purpose in politics

David Pears
Obituary: Unsung philosophical hero admired for his work on Wittgenstein

Martin Murray
Obituary: The rebuilding of war-torn Europe owed much, at a human level, to men such as my husband

Gale Storm
Obituary: Film star, television actor and singer, she became a household name in 50s America

Archie Green
Obituary: American folklorist and chronicler of working-class culture

Pina Bausch
Obituary German choreographer whose bleak vision changed the face of European dance

Jean Dausset
Obituary: French immunologist, a Nobel prizewinner for his work on the human genome

Huey Long
Obituary: Versatile jazz guitarist who made his name as a member of the Ink Spots

Sky Saxon
Obituary: Frontman and singer with the Seeds, he was one of the founding

Carlos Castilla Del Pino
Obituary: Spanish psychiatrist influenced by the horrors of the civil war

Alan Kelly
Obituary: Preston North End and Ireland goalkeeper

Charles Tingwell
Obituary: Dr Digger Dawson in Emergency Ward 10

Hortensia Bussi De Allende
Obituary: Widow of Salvador Allende and champion of Chilean opposition

Charlie Mariano
Obituary: Globe-trotting jazz trumpeter unfettered by musical boundaries

Allan King
Obituary: Canadian film-maker renowned for his fly-on-the-wall documentaries

Ali Akbar Khan
Obituary: Sarod virtuoso who brought Indian classical music to an international audience

Herbert Scheinberg
Obituary: Physician and expert on hereditary diseases

Ephraim Katzir
Obituary: Scientist and president of Israel during the Yom Kippur war

Douglas Bunn
Obituary: Equestrian who founded Hickstead, the home of British showjumping

Lord Dahrendorf
Obituary: German sociologist and politician who became director of the LSE and a life peer

Kamala Das
Obituary: Indian writer and poet who inspired women struggling to be free of domestic oppression

Murray Kash
Obituary: Energetic actor, writer and country music fan

Max Lake
Obituary: Surgeon, wine maker, writer and bon vivant

Lieutenant General Sir Martin Garrod
Obituary: Military commander who went on to join the EU's peacekeeping mission in Mostar

Jean Hugel
Obituary: Leading figure in the Alsace wine trade, he set up the standards and rules for his region

Tajudeen Abdul-raheem
Obituary: Respected pan-African activist, campaigning journalist and editor

Omar Bongo
Obituary: Dictatorial ruler of Gabon for 42 years and the longest-serving president in Africa

Eddie Bo
Obituary: New Orleans pianist and record producer

Bernard Barker
Obituary: CIA agent caught in the Watergate burglary that led to Nixon's fall

Luís Cabral
Obituary: Liberation fighter and first president of Guinea-Bissau

Koko Taylor
Obituary Former cotton-picker widely seen as the world's leading female blues singer

Jaafar Nimeiri
Obituary: Sudanese president who confirmed his land as 'Africa's most dysfunctional country'

Amos Elon
Obituary: Eminent author and journalist dubbed 'chief chronicler of the Israeli story'

Vincent O'brien
Obituary: Arguably the most successful racehorse trainer in the history of the turf

Dame Heather Begg
Obituary: International opera star from New Zealand

Frank Costigan
Obituary: Lawyer who exposed the depth of organized crime in Australia

Aubrey Mayhew
Obituary: A producer and label owner in the 1960s and 70s, who swam against the current of mainstream music

Oleg Yankovsky
Obituary: Acclaimed Russian actor best known in the west for his work with Andrei Tarkovsky

Velupillai Prabhakaran
Obituary: Founder and leader of the Tamil Tigers who fought the Sri Lankan government for more than 25 years

Achille Compagnoni
Obituary: Mountaineer who conquered K2 during the controversial 1954 Italian expedition

Maxine Cooper
Obituary: An actor and political activist, she starred in a film noir classic

Alain Bashung
Obituary: Influential French singer-composer whose song Gaby, Oh Gaby was in the charts for 54 weeks

Tapan Sinha
Obituary: Award-winning Indian film-maker influenced by Capra and Wilder

General Valentin Varennikov
Obituary: Key figure in the Soviet battle for Afghanistan who took part in the coup against Gorbachev

Iqbal Bano
Obituary: Renowned Pakistani singer of Urdu ghazals who took on a dictator

John Cephas
Obituary: Award-winning US country blues singer

Tlahoun Gessesse
Obituary: Popular singer during Ethiopia's 'golden age' of dance music

Alan Stripp
Obituary: Breaker of Japanese wartime codes

Dom Deluise
Obituary: Comic, slapstick actor who made a virtue out of his imposing frame

Jack Good
Obituary: Bletchley codebreaker, he worked closely with Alan Turing

Ekaterina Maximova
Obituary: Celebrated Russian ballerina with a devoted following all over the world

Sverre Fehn
Obituary: Norway's leading architect, he received his profession's highest honor

Bea Arthur
Obituary:Sharp-tongued US star who found fame in Mame and as dominating boss in The Golden Girls

Michael Leadbetter
Obituary: Rugby international who became an influential director of social services

Damouré Zika
Obituary: Collaborator with Jean Rouch on more than 80 ethnographic films

Maurice Druon
Obituary: Novelist and co-author of the Chant des Partisans, adopted as the anthem of the French resistance

Sam Bottoms
Obituary: One of four brothers who became actors, he reached his peak at 20 with Apocalypse Now

Bishop Albrecht Schönherr
Obituary: A diplomatic bishop, he led the divided Berlin diocese

Joe Cuba
Obituary: Musician crowned 'king of Latin boogaloo'

Helen Levitt
Obituary: Award-winning New York photographer noted for street scenes and social realism

Raúl Alfonsín
Obituary: Argentine president who played a key role in the restoration of democracy

Ahmad Hasan Dani
Obituary: Pakistan's foremost archaeologist and author of 30 books

Janet Jagan
Obituary: American-born first female president of Guyana who stuck to her Marxist views

Horst Tappert
Obituary: German actor known for his role in Derrick

Ron Silver
Obituary: Actor and activist whose political stance shifted sharply to the right after 9/11

John Hope Franklin
Obituary: US historian who broke down racial barriers in his research and his own academic career

Elmer Valentine
Obituary: Co-owner of LA's Whisky a Go Go venue

Uriel Jones
Obituary:Motown drummer who featured on many of the label's finest releases

Hortense Calisher
Obituary: A prolific New York author, she more than made up for a late start

Ed Grothus
Obituary: US atomic worker turned maverick anti-nuclear activist

Warren Kimbro
Obituary: A convicted murderer, he tried to atone with a project for ex-convicts

Natasha Richardson
Obituary: The daughter of actor Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson was destined for the theatrical profession

James Purdy
Obituary: Writer whose dark fiction anticipated Desperate Housewives and David Lynch

Péter Bacsó
Obituary: Satirical Hungarian film director whose works flew close to the wind of censorship

Flemming Flindt
Obituary: Danish dancer and choreographer who extended his nation's artistic horizons

Konrad Dannenberg
Obituary: A V2 rocket engineer in Nazi Germany, he later worked on the US program that took man to the moon

Susan Tsvangirai
Obituary: Zimbabwean premier's wife keen to help poor

Alex Mcewen
Obituary: A Scottish folk pioneer, art dealer and laird, he caused a stir in the US

Horton Foote
Obituary: Texan playwright and screenwriter who won two Oscars and a Pulitzer prize

João Bernardo Vieira
Obituary: President of Guinea-Bissau assassinated earlier this week

Chris Finnegan
Obituary: British boxer who won the middleweight gold medal at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico

Paul Harvey
Obituary: Influential conservative American radio host

Howard Zieff
Obituary: Hollywood director with an advertising background and a bent for slapstick comedy

Carleton Gajdusek
Obituary: Nobel prizewinner who first described the prion disease kuru

Joe Haverty
Obituary: Popular Arsenal winger who played 32 times for Ireland

Conchita Cintrón
Obituary: The most famous woman bullfighter in history

Snooks Eaglin
Obituary: Singer and guitarist considered a giant of New Orleans music

Estelle Bennett
Obituary: Singer with the influential 1960s girl group the Ronettes

Jean Martin
Obituary: French actor cast as Lucky in the first production of Waiting for Godot

The Rev Roy Magee
Obituary: Minister who paved the way for the Northern Ireland peace process

Richard Salter
Obituary: English baritone who sang opera only once in the UK, but was famous in Germany

Hélio Gracie
Obituary: Co-creator of the martial art of Brazilian jiu-jitsu

Blossom Dearie
Obituary: American jazz singer and pianist known for her distinctive little-girl-lost tones

Paul Birch
Obituary: Small but potent Villa and Wolves winger

Teddy Mayer
Obituary: Formative influence on McLaren's formula one world champions

Henry Molaison
Obituary: A unique case in the study of amnesia

Colonel David Smiley
Obituary: Intelligence officer decorated for a raft of daring missions

Ingemar Johansson
Obituary: Swedish world heavyweight boxing champion who beat Floyd Patterson

Mamadou Dia
Obituary: First prime minister and key figure in the politics of Senegal

WD Snodgrass
Obituary: American poet whose works lay at the heart of the confessional movement

George Perle
Obituary: Composer who created his own version of the 12-tone system

Pat Hingle
Obiturary: US character actor with a distinguished career on stage and screen

Reg Gutteridge
Obituary: Boxing commentator who was ITV's man at the ringside for more than 30 years

David 'fathead' Newman
Obituary: Freewheeling jazz saxophonist, he was a stalwart of the Ray Charles band

Olga Lepeshinskaya
Obituary: Exuberant Russian ballerina and stalwart of the Bolshoi noted for her fabulous leaps

Cardinal Pio Laghi
Obituary: As the Pope's man in Washington, he formed close ties with the White House

Susanna Foster
Obituary: Hollywood soprano best known for her starring role in Phantom of the Opera

BR Chopra
Obituary: Bollywood film-maker whose films were both entertaining and socially challenging

Phil Elliott
Obituary: He was one of the towering figures of nuclear physics

Andrew Wyeth
Obituary: Realist painter whose work was much loved by the US public but divided the critics

Said Siam
Obituary: The most senior Hamas leader killed in the Gaza invasion

George Chesbro
Obituary: Author of the Mongo detective novels

Sidney Wood
Obituary: First and only player to win Wimbledon on a walkover

Aubrey Morris
Obituary: Founder of the first package travel firm for football supporters

Gaston Lenôtre
Obituary: Master pâtissier who created an empire and became a household name in France

Ian Greaves
Obituary: Busby Babe turned successful manager

Tassos Papadopoulos
Obituary: Former president of Cyprus who scuppered reunification with the Turkish north

Col Don Blakeslee
Obituary: Record-breaking and highly decorated American fighter pilot

Ann Savage
Obituary: US star whose role in Detour made her one of cinema's most hellish femmes fatales

Norma Hotaling
Obituary: US campaigner who refocused the fight against the sex trade

Samuel Huntington
Obituary: US political scientist who foresaw future conflict arising from a clash of cultures

Mark Felt
Obituary: FBI agent whose leaks as Deep Throat led to the downfall of the Nixon administration

Eartha Kitt
Obituary: American entertainer with a distinctive feline drawl whose hits included Santa Baby and C'est Si Bon

General Lansana Conté
Obituary: Soldier and president of Guinea since he seized power in 1984

Robert Mulligan
Obituary: Versatile Hollywood director best known for the Oscar-winning To Kill a Mockingbird

Vince Karalius
Obituary: Aggressive, ferocious and singularly determined, he was one of the most revered figures in the history of rugby league

Gil Heron
Obituary: Celtic star and father of the seminal US jazz poet

Cardinal Avery Dulles
Obituary: The son of John Foster Dulles, he sought Catholic harmony in place of polarization

Ali Alatas
Obituary: Indonesian diplomat who helped to broker peace in Cambodia

John Cumming
Obituary: Long-serving player for Heart of Midlothian who won seven major honors with the club

Kerryn Mccann
Obituary: Australian marathon runner who won two Commonwealth Games gold medals

Mike Terry
Obituary: Baritone saxophonist on Motown's greatest hits of the 1960s

Adrian Kantrowitz
Obituary: Cardiac surgeon who developed the intra-aortic balloon pump

Pat Moss
Obituary: Fiercely competitive British rally driver and younger sister of Stirling Moss

Margaret Ringenberg
Obituary: Trailblazing female pilot who continued to fly into her 80s

Boris Yefimov
Obituary: Soviet cartoonist and propagandist whose work covered the entire history of the USSR

Jimmy Sirrel
Obituary: Manager of Notts County, he took them from the Fourth to the First Division

Lynn Kohlman
Obituary: American model who defied convention by displaying the ravages of cancer

John Matshikiza
Obituary: Actor, journalist, poet and political activist who returned to South Africa in 1991

Mila Schön
Obituary: Croatian-born fashion designer who went from riches to rags and back again

Thubten Jigme Norbu
Obituary: Buddhist leader and brother of the Dalai Lama, he plotted with the CIA to free his Tibetan homeland

Chas Messenger
Obituary: Pivotal figure in British cycling and organizer of the Milk Race

Phil Hill
Obituary: A legendary American racing driver who, amidst tragedy, won the formula one crown

Don Fox
Obituary: Rugby League star remembered for miss

Glen Balfour-paul
Obituary: Diplomat, chronicler of the British in the Arab world - and poet

Bob Humphrys
Obituary: The face of sport on Welsh television

Mahmoud Darwish
Obituary: Poet, author and politician who helped to forge a Palestinian consciousness after the six-day war in 1967

Matthew Bruccoli
Obituary: Dedicated keeper of the literary legacy of F Scott Fitzgerald

Animated Fairy Pictures Inside My Atrium - Protected by Fantasy Art Warrior Women
Love poems written to the voice of creativity. I seek a solace. I seek a hidden world, once bequeathed inside sweet poems. I am fairies in art, that got lost in obituary searches.

Papa Wendo
Obituary: Influential Congolese musician who was both lionized and jailed by politicians

Richard Lower
Obituary: Pioneering US surgeon behind human heart transplant operations

Eric Silver
Obituary: Former Guardian foreign correspondent and expert on Israel and the Middle East

Bronislaw Geremek
Obituary: Pro-European Polish politician at the heart of Lech Walesa's Solidarity revolution

Dorian Leigh
Obituary: Unconventional American model and the face of the 1940s and 50s

Obituary: Charles Wheeler
For more than four decades Charles Wheeler, who has died aged 85, reported for BBC radio and television from most of the world's trouble spots. By Harold Jackson

David Topliss
Obituary: Rugby league player who captained both Wakefield and Hull in cup finals

Derek Tapscott
Obituary: He played up front for Arsenal and Wales during the 1950s

Esbjörn Svensson
Obituary: Swedish pianist and composer whose jazz trio became an international hit

Ove Andersson
Obituary: Swedish rally driving legend who made the switch to formula one management

Lloyd Lamble
Obituary: Australian actor who played typically English characters

Yves Saint Laurent: Obituary
French designer who had a reputation as an artist transcending fashion

Hamilton Jordan
Obituary: Unconventional political adviser whose plan took Jimmy Carter to the White House

Fulham's Cultured £100-a-week Player Represented Best of England
Obituary: Perfectionist Johnny Haynes was England's best creative player for seven seasons and appeared in two World Cups, says David Lacey.

Nuala O'faolain
Obituary: Writer, journalist and broadcaster, she was a leading figure in modern Irish culture

The Rev Marcial Maciel
Obituary: Leader of a Catholic order disciplined over child sex abuse claims

Germaine Tillion
Obituary: She was a heroine of the French Resistance and sought to mediate in the Algerian war

Nikolai Baibakov
Obituary: Stalin's oil supremo, he went on to direct the Soviet economy

John O'donohue
Obituary: Former Catholic priest turned visionary bestselling author

Ivan Toms
Obituary: South African doctor opposed to the conscription that bolstered apartheid

Tony Hall
Obituary: One of the few white people who stood with the ANC almost from the beginning

Paul Frère
Obituary: Celebrated racing driver and journalist

Paul Frère
Obituary: Celebrated racing driver and journalist

Jean-Marie Balestre
Obituary: One of the most controversial figures in world motor racing

Eric Ashton
Obituary: Stalwart rugby league captain who lifted the World Cup for Britain

The Rt Rev John Yates
Obituary: Cleric with bold views on homosexuality

What Will Happen When Thatcher Does Fall Off Her Perch? Will Anyone Remember Who She Really Was?
Michele Hanson: What a fuss about Mrs Thatcher being poorly. Why the headline news, caring eulogies and taster-obituaries over the weekend?

Badri Patarkatsishvili
Obituary: Georgian billionaire and promoter of Putin latterly exiled to London

Tony Rolt
Obituary: The last of the prewar motor racing aces, he was honoured for his Colditz escape efforts

Tony Rolt
Obituary: The last of the prewar motor racing aces, he was honoured for his Colditz escape efforts

Al Mancini
Obituary: US actor, 60s satirist and Dirty Dozen co-star

Kate Jones
Obituary: Popular publisher and literary agent who also ran Martin Bell's election campaign

Jim Langley
Obituary: England, Fulham and Leeds United defender

David Maybury-lewis
Obituary: Anthropologist keen to protect the interests of the peoples of central Brazil

Letter: David Pocock
Eric Allison writes: In the early 1980s, I was on remand in Strangeways prison when I read a letter in the Vegetarian magazine from David Pocock (obituary, January 24)

Archbishop Christodoulos
Obituary: The controversial head of Greece's Orthodox church, he restored links with the Vatican

George Habash
Obituary: Guerrilla leader who founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

Major General Artyom Sergeyev
Obituary: A Soviet war veteran and son of a leading Bolshevik, he became Stalin's adopted son

The Rt Rev Graham Chadwick
Obituary: Brave prelate expelled from South Africa for opposing apartheid

Charles Elwell
Obituary: An MI5 officer during the cold war, he went on to target domestic 'subversives'

Sargon Boulus
Obituary: Iraqi poet who joined the Beat generation

Andrew Grima
Obituary: A radical designer of jewelery that adorned royalty and movie stars

Bob Smith
Obituary: Star of classical and contemporary dance whose career spanned four decades

Gaylord Nelson
Obituary: Campaigning senator renowned as the father of the American environmental movement.

Paul Klebnikov
Obituary: American journalist probing Russian business.

Sir Alastair Down
Obituary: After a career with BP, he rescued Burma Oil in the 1970s.

Charles Hyatt
Obituary: A broadcaster who symbolised Jamaica. By Clayton Goodwin.

Philip Agee
Obituary: The man who blew the whistle on the CIA's backing of military dictatorships

Peter Handford
Obituary: Pioneering location sound recordist, he worked with Lean, Hitchcock and Losey

Bert Bolin
Obituary: Swedish meteorologist who persuaded the world to take climate change seriously

A Dark Wanderer in a Free Obituary Search
I think sometimes I'll discover me, dark wanderer, in a free obituary search. I'll find that I have gone past here and found a different now.

Sir Peter Laurence
Obituary: British ambassador to Turkey during the generals' coup of 1980

Ettore Sottsass
Obituary: Italian postmodernist designer who brought meaning to everyday objects

Benazir Bhutto
Obituary: After the execution of her father, she was among the first women elected to lead a major Muslim nation

Oscar Peterson
Obituary: Virtuoso pianist whose spectacular technique opened up jazz to a wider audience

Fatma Moussa Mahmoud
Obituary: Scholar who brought together Arabic and English literature

Michael Concoran
Obituary: Bookseller who collected first editions and made a small name for himself in the transatlantic trade

Ike Turner
Obituary: Tina Turner's infamous ex-husband, he also played a key creative role in rock'n'roll and blues history

Diana Allen
Obituary: She championed the rights of the Traveler community

Henry Hyde
Obituary: US politician who chaired Clinton's impeachment hearings

Eric Clay
Obituary: One of Britain's top rugby league referees

François-Xavier Ortoli
Obituary: President of the European commission and chairman of Total

Henry Hyde
Obituary: US politician who chaired Clinton's impeachment hearings

Marit Allen
Obituary: Former fashion editor who designed the costumes for a string of successful movies

Barbara Salisbury
Obituary: A rock'n'roll animal with an old world propriety, she was publicist for the Village People in their heyday

Norman Deeley
Obituary: Goal scorer in Wolves' FA Cup victory of 1960

Maurice Béjart
Obituary: Choreographer who blended showmanship and artistry to found his own company and help modernize ballet

Mike Gregory
Obituary: Rugby league captain famed for a brilliant try against Australia

Mike Gregory
Obituary: Rugby league captain famed for a brilliant try against Australia

Aleksandr Feklisov
Obituary: KGB officer linked to the Rosenbergs, Klaus Fuchs and the Cuban missile crisis

James Jackson
Obituary: Civil rights activist jailed during the McCarthyite era

Harry Hall
Obituary: Harry Hall, who has died aged 78, was perhaps British cycling's most famous spanner man.

Hilda Braid
Obituary: Actor best known for her role in EastEnders and Citizen Smith.

Eve Hall
Obituary: A well-traveled, multi-talented ANC activist and journalist.

Linda Stein
Obituary: Rock manager who brought the Ramones to Britain and ignited the punk music era.

Nils Liedholm
Obituary: Swedish football star who led a World Cup team and managed top Italian clubs.

Norbert Lynton
Obituary: Art historian, Guardian critic and the man who gave Kiff his first public exhibition.

Brigadier General Paul Tibbets
Obituary: US B29 pilot whose 1945 mission to Hiroshima made him the first man to drop an atomic bomb.

Ray Gravell
Obituary: Former Llanelli and Lions rugby player who played during the most successful period in Welsh rugby's history.

Wyn Harness
Obituary: A consummate production journalist: unflappable, hard-working and blessed with an excellent eye for page design.

Dina Rabinovitch
Obituary: Perceptive journalist best known for her accounts of grappling with breast cancer.

Peter Shinnie
Obituary: One of the leading pioneers of African archeology.

Ann Chegwidden
Obituary: Film editor who swept the cutting-room floor in her determination to win in a man's world.

RB Kitaj
Obituary: Brilliant American draughtsman whose deep interest in Jewish tradition sometimes clashed with his grasp of western art.

OM Ungers
Obituary: German architect in the classical tradition devoted to the square, the cube and the right angle.

Martyn Smith
Obituary: The first Liberal elected to Sand well council in the West Midlands.

Kisho Kurokawa
Obituary: Leading Japanese architect whose work was influenced by both east and west.

Rob Deacon
Obituary: Pioneering record and CD producer at the forefront of new music.

Bill Perry
Obituary: Blackpool footballer who scored the winning goal in the famous 1953 Cup Final.

Cardinal Jean-marie Lustiger
Obituary: A Jewish convert to Christianity, he went on to become Archbishop of Paris.

Lois Maxwell
Obituary: Actor who played Miss Moneypenny in the Bond films.

Andy Norman
Obituary: Controversial athletics promoter who played a key role in the end of 'shamateurism'.

Haider Abdel-shafi
Obituary: Militant and popular leader respected by rival Palestine factions.

Richard Cook
Obituary: As a jazz writer he managed to bring the elusive magic of the music he loved to life

Jim Arnison
Obituary: For 26 years from 1964, Jim Arnison, who has died aged 82, was northern correspondent for the Daily Worker (after 1966, the Morning Star). He was never happier than when covering the industrial battles of the era.

Mike Osborne
Obituary: Saxophonist at the heart of the resurgence of British jazz.

Major General Sir Jeremy Moore
Obituary: Canny commander of the British land forces in the Falkland Islands campaign.

Hans Ruesch
Obituary: Inter war motor racing ace-turned-author who became an animal rights champion.

Bill Barber
Obituary: Tuba player who had a key role in recordings by Miles Davis.

Ian Porterfield: His moment of glory was the winning goal in the 1973 cup final.
Obituary: His moment of glory was the winning goal in the 1973 cup final.

Joe Zawinul
Obituary Jazzman and founder of Weather Report, he had a crucial impact on world music.

Dame Anita Roddick
Obituary: Pioneering green entrepreneur who used the profits of her ethical beauty business to campaign for a better world.

The Very Rev Alan Webster
Obituary: Determined liberal cleric who skilfully negotiated the complex politics of St Paul's Cathedral.

Sir John Compton
Obituary: Caribbean leader who nursed St Lucia to independence and prosperity.

Jane Tomlinson
Obituary: Courageous fundraiser who inspired millions with her defiant stand against cancer .

John Moriarty
Obituary: A philosopher-poet, he sought the rebirth of Christianity.

Gaston Thorn
Obituary: Shy Liberal European leader with a vision of integration that infuriated Thatcher.

Barrie Roberts
Obituary: A fast and prodigious reader with a phenomenal memory.

Farid Hanania
Obituary: His life mirrored recent Palestinian history.

Lord Deedes
Obituary: Lord Deedes, or Bill Deedes as he was universally known (obituary, August 18 and 20), interviewed me for my first job on a national newspaper.

William Deedes
Obituary: Comic façade masked a shrewd mind in one of Fleet Street's most loved characters.

Albert Ellis
Obituary: Influential American psychologist who led the revolution in cognitive therapy.

Paul Rutherford
Obituary: Inventive trombonist at the forefront of a European style of free improvising

Sal Mosca
Obituary: Pianist, teacher and graduate of an austere school of jazz.

Holden Roberto
Obituary: Founder and leader of Angola's failed FNLA.

John Normington
Obituary: A great supporting actor whose theatrical career took him from the RSC to the National.

Nazik Al-mala'ika
Obituary: Hugely influential female Arab poet.

Peter Tuddenham
Obituary: Voice of East Anglia and Blake's computers.

Richard Stott
Obituary: Devoted Daily Mirror editor prepared to defy Robert Maxwell.

James Oyebola
Obituary: Gentle giant of British boxing.

Gordon Gostelow
Obituary: From Shakespeare to classic serials - and a Methodist musical.

Hugh Johns
Obituary: Commentator at the forefront of ITV sports coverage. By Frank Keating.

Major Derek Cooper
Obituary: He did much to help Palestinian refugees.

Frank Monaco
Obituary: American-born photographer who recorded the simple, relentless life of his Italian village roots.

Lady Bird Johnson
Obituary: Devoted US political wife who kept up an independent business career and pioneered conservation issues.

Ian Watson
Obituary: Key administrator in the growth of theater-in-the-round.

Patrick Ensor
Appeciation: Patrick Ensor (obituary, July 3) was a ferociously sharp journalist, clever, dedicated, hugely industrious - shamingly so to many of his colleagues like me - and hugely creative.

Patrick Ensor
Obituary: Editing Guardian Weekly with charm, steel and stamina.

Liz Claiborne
Obituary: Fashion designer whose soft tailoring and sporty approach changed the way that working women dress.

Kiichi Miyazawa
Obituary: Former Japanese prime minister who fought to restore friendship with wartime enemies.

Eugen Weber
Obituary: Charting the story of modern France

Jupp Derwall
Soccer: Obituary: West German football manager unfairly treated by the fans.

Bob Craven-Griffiths
Obituary: What made Bob so exceptional was his passionate commitment to the dispossessed and the vulnerable.

Herman Stein
Obituary: Hollywood composer noted for his sci-fi and horror scores.

Derek Dougan
Obituary: Maverick Northern Ireland footballer best known for his ties with Wolves.

Pat O'shea
Obituary: Author of the best-selling The Hounds of the Morrigan.

John Humphries
Obituary: John Humphries, who has died from cancer aged 64, was master carpenter of the New Vic Theater, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.

Gianfranco Ferré
Obituary: Italian fashion designer whose most extravagant work exuded calmness and common sense.

Hugh Herbert
Obituary: Gifted Guardian feature writer and incisive copy editor.

Ian Adam
Obituary: Inspirational voice coach to a generation of musical stars.

Pierre-gilles De Gennes
Obituary: Nobel-prizewinning physicist hailed for his pioneering research into soft matter.

Terry Hall
Obituary: Ventriloquist with a lovable lion.

Heinz Berggruen
Obituary: Jewish art collector who made his peace with postwar Germany.

Robin Midgley
Obituary: Resourceful director of stage and television whose work ranged from Z Cars to The Wars of the Roses.

Tom Ainsworth
Obituary: For more than half a century, Tom Ainsworth, who has died aged 85, was variously secretary, chair, projectionist and mainstay of the Manchester and Salford Film Society.

Norman Von Nida
Golf: Obituary: Diminutive but tough Australian golfer who won 80 tournaments.

Mary Howell-pryce
Obituary: The teacher, pianist and harpsichordist Mary Howell-Pryce, who has died aged 77, will be remembered with gratitude by generations of piano pupils and students.

Brian Miller
Soccer: Obituary: Footballer loyal to a single club.

Simon Baines
Obituary: The radio presenter Simon Baines, who has died aged 57, saved Plumstead from a motorway.

Philip Collins
Obituary: Academic whose books and lectures helped restore the reputation of Charles Dickens.

Sally Flemington
Obituary: Backstage player with a centrestage role.

Laurie Baker
Obituary: Architect in tune with traditional Indian values who fostered sustainable building in his adopted homeland.

Diego Corrales
Obituary: Boxer known for his reckless style inside and outside the ring.

Jock Dodds
Soccer: Obituary: Prewar football's fearless forward.

Brian Crook
Obituary: Guardian picture editor in an era of change for the paper. By Frank Martin and Denis Thorpe.

Ivica Racan
Obituary: Social democratic premier opposed to Croatia's nationalists.

Obituary: Arthur Milton
Obituary: The last person to represent England in both cricket and football has died aged 79.

Andrew Hill
Obituary: A great jazz original, he was a pianist, teacher and composer.

Dick Vosburgh
Obituary: A comedy writer and lyricist, his oeuvre spanned classics from Monkhouse to Python.

Tony Wales
Obituary: A musician who explored the traditions and customs of Sussex and wrote folk songs, as well as more than 40 books on village life.

Ulfat Idilbi
Obituary: Renowned Syrian fiction writer, lecturer and feminist.

Paul Bergne
Obituary: Accomplished linguist and ambassador who was Blair's special envoy to Afghanistan.

Dakota Staton
Obituary: Charismatic jazz vocalist, renowned for her 'blues ballads'

Joan Wyndham
Obituary: Author whose charmingly louche wartime diaries brought her late fame.

Squadron Leader Neville Duke
Obituary: Fighter ace and record-breaking test pilot who played a key role in the development of the Hawker Hunter.

John Ritchie
Obituary: A star centre forward who scored more than 170 goals for Stoke City.

Sol Lewitt
Obituary: American artist whose treatment of forms and colours defied critical analysis.

Nina Wang
Obituary: Asia's richest woman, a Hong Kong property tycoon accustomed to living frugally.

Jagjit Singh Chauhan
Obituary: Campaigner for a separate Sikh state.

Peter Bain
Obituary: Widely read, and mostly self-taught, Peter Bain was a trade union activist who became a respected researcher and teacher.

Jez Feakes
Obituary: Pioneer of urban golf, he hosted an eccentric London tournament.

John O'callaghan
Obituary: Dynamic Guardian journalist who resigned on principle.

Felix Levitan
Obituary: A natural showman, he brought success to the Tour de France.

Sir Thomas Hetherington
Obituary: Director of Public Prosecutions, he oversaw the creation of the CPS.

Pino Lancetti
Obituary: Fashion designer with a flair for textiles and creations after modern masters.

Don Mcphee
Obituary: Photojournalist whose Guardian images have entered our collective memory

Tanya Reinhart
Obituary: A versatile Israeli academic who spoke out against the conflict with Palestine.

Bob Woolmer
Cricket: Obituary: England batsman and Pakistan coach who made the laptop and computer analysis fashionable in cricket.

Leroy Jenkins
Obituary: Bold explorer of the violin's free jazz potential.

Lucie Aubrac
Obituary: French resistance heroine whose later years were clouded by allegations that her husband was a Nazi informer.

Baron De Graffenried
Obituary: Racing driver from a gentler age of sport.

Tom Williamson
Obituary: Moderniser whose reforms changed police procedures.

Ken Cranston
Cricket: Obituary: Lancashire cricketer and England captain for just a single Test.

Jack Gaster
Obituary: Campaigning lawyer for the vulnerable and unrepresented.

Jean Baudrillard
Obituary: French philosopher and sociologist who explored the changing nature of reality in the media age.

Ian Wooldridge
Obituary: Doyen of British sportwriters whose bold and brilliant prose was matched by his lifestyle.

Alex Henshaw
Obituary: Spitfire test pilot whose trans-Africa record still stands.

Obituary: Lord Forte
Self-made tycoon who built a worldwide hotel and catering empire that stretched from Little Chefs to the Grosvenor House.

Charles Hyatt
Obituary: A broadcaster who symbolised Jamaica.

Christopher Helm
Obituary: Publisher with a passion for birds.

Judith Fay
Obituary: Although she never married, an interest in children lay at the heart of the life of my aunt, the psychoanalyst Judith Fay, who died on St Valentine's Day aged 91.

Rev Julian Cummins
Obituary: He made a mark in the church, politics and business with a zest and boyish enthusiasm that defied cliche.

Stephen Gardiner
Obituary: Humane architect and writer indifferent to the fashions of the day.

Steven Pimlott
Obituary: A theatre director with operatic flair, he embraced high art and commercial success.

Bob Berry
Obituary: England bowler capped by three counties.

Ian Richardson
Obituary: A great classical actor, he was best known to TV viewers as the Machiavellian Urquhart in House of Cards.

Whitney Balliett
Obituary: A great critic, he was the inspiration of a jazz generation.

Adelaide Tambo
Obituary: Heroine of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle through the exile years.

Helen Bailey
Obituary: A management consultant who became fascinated by the ruin of Borthwick castle and set about the formidable task of restoring it.

Al Shugart
Obituary: Flamboyant father of the disk drive industry.

David Rattray
Obituary: South African historian whose storytelling gifts kept alive the memory of the Zulu wars.

Boris Gudz
Obituary: Russian secret agent who survived purges and party expulsion.

Glen Tetley
Obituary: Choreographer whose synthesis of ballet and contemporary movement changed the face of dance.

Margery Ruth Crisp
Obituary: Ruth Crisp, who has died aged 89, set cryptic crosswords for the Manchester Guardian and the Guardian for half a century.

Ryszard Kapuscinski
Obituary: Polish journalist whose literary reportage about Africa won him a global readership.

Bo Yibo
Obituary: Veteran Chinese leader and 'immortal' whose loyalty to the party survived its purges.

Art Buchwald
Obituary: King of the syndicated column, his barbed humour masked bouts of depression.

Toni Del Renzio
Obituary: Zealous champion of surrealism who developed his artistic ideas in fashion and graphic design.

Alice Coltrane
Obituary: Skilful modern jazz pianist who developed her own musical spirituality from her husband's legacy.

Michael Brecker
Obituary: Master saxophonist who straddled the worlds of jazz, blues rock and funk.

Taliep Petersen
Obituary: South African musician who put the sound of his native Cape Town on the map.

Martha Tilton
Obituary: Singer with the Benny Goodman orchestra.

Stuart Marshall
Obituary: Stuart Marshall, one of the best informed and farsighted motoring correspondents of his generation, has died aged 82.

Dick Tahta
Obituary: A maths teacher with gusto, he inspired the schoolboy Hawking.

Mick Mulligan
Obituary: Bohemian bandleader and trumpeter whose brand of jazz was the postwar hot ticket.

Sydney Wooderson
Obituary: Sydney Wooderson, the middle-distance runner who was deprived of Olympic glory by the second world war, has died aged 92.

Leaders Rarely Have the Obituaries They Deserve
Newly deceased leaders have rarely received the obituaries that they deserve. By Peter Preston

Saddam Hussein
Obituary: Brutal and opportunist dictator of Iraq, he wreaked havoc on his country, the Middle East and the world.

Richard Boston
Obituary: A journalist, author and sceptic, he championed real ale - and was among the first to write on green issues.

Frank Johnson
Obituary: Witty observer of Westminster politics with a fond memory of Maria Callas

Ahmet Ertegun
Obituary: A mogul who nurtured the careers of stars such as Ray Charles, Led Zeppelin, Aretha Franklin and Dusty Springfield.

Van Smith
Obituary: Costume and make-up designer who created Divine's trashy look for John Waters' cult films.

Courtney Tulloch
Obituary: Courtney Tulloch, who has died aged 64, was a notable figure in mid 20th-century black activism in this country and in the radical movements of the 1960s.

Claude Virgin
Obituary: His camera recorded fashion of the late 50s and early 60s - cool with an edge of beat.

Antonio De Figueiredo
Obituary: Journalist and activist, he campaigned for the liberation of Portugal's African colonies.

Jeane Kirkpatrick
Obituary: As President Reagan's first ambassador to the United Nations, she had a rigid anti-communist view of the world.

Pietro Rava
Obituary: World cup winner at full back with Italy.

Colin Cramphorn
Obituary: Police chief whose experience ranged from terrorism to community care.

Allen Carr
Obituary: Anti-smoking guru who made a fortune helping millions of people break the habit of a lifetime.

Alan Freeman
Obituary: In the annals of pop disc jockeys, few made a more distinctive impact than Alan Freeman, who has died aged 79.

Tim Clark
Obituary: Tim Clark, who has died aged 55 from cancer, arrived at his funeral in a white cardboard box carried by a motorcycle sidecar, a suitably unconventional finale to an unorthodox life.

Anita O'day
Obituary: One of jazz's greatest female singers, and a supreme improviser.

Alexander Litvinenko
Obituary: Security agent sucked into a world of Russian power games and oligarchs.

Ferenc Puskas
Obituary: Hungarian football legend who led his side to the historic 6-3 thrashing of England at Wembley in 1953.

Ted Mather
Obituary: Ted (the Rev JE Mather), has died aged 71 after a painful year of one sapping illness on top of another.

Is George Allen's Political Career Over?
Let's not write Allen's political obituary just yet. Just four months ago he seemed like a cinch to win overwhelming re-election to his Senate seat and be on his way to a formidable run for the White House in 2008. Now he sits as a lame-duck senator with his 2008 presidential aspirations having been dashed. However, history teaches us that political fortunes can change back as well.

Jabu Khanyile
Obituary: Pan-African musical stylist for the post-apartheid era.

Kenneth Mackintosh
Obituary: Actor and National Theatre director.

Derek Bond
Obituary: Actor who fell out with his union over the apartheid boycott.

Philippa Rakusen
Obituary: Philippa Rakusen, who has died aged 84, was a noted Yorkshire horticulturalist who served on the national gardens scheme and was for 12 years director of the Harlow Carr botanical gardens in Harrogate.

Nigel Kneale
Obituary: Creator of Quatermass, and one of the most exciting English science fiction writers.

Trevor Berbick
Obituary: Trevor Berbick, who has been found dead after suffering a massive headwound in a Jamaican churchyard, aged 51, was one of a string of modestly talented world heavyweight boxing champions to achieve fleeting fame in the mid-1980s.

Ghulam Ishaq Khan
Obituary: Transfers of power are rarely smooth in Pakistan, a fact few could confirm more keenly than Ghulam Ishaq Khan, who has died of pneumonia aged 91.

Don Thompson
Obituary: Don Thompson - 1960 Olympic 50km walk champion and the oldest athlete ever to represent Britain - who died earlier this month.

Heinz Sielmann
Obituary: Wildlife film-maker who pioneered the practice of placing cameras inside birds' nests.

Wang Guangmei
Obituary: Chinese head of state's wife rehabilitated after Red Guard persecution.

Peter Hepple
Obituary: Theatrical journalist equally open to high art and low comedy.

Aladar Pege
Obituary: Hungarian bassist who bridged the worlds of classical, jazz and Gypsy music.

Paul Hunter
Obituary: The brilliant and popular snooker player who was tipped as a potential world champion.

Anna Politkovskaya
Obituary: Crusading Russian journalist famed for her exposes of corruption and the Chechen war.

Tom Bell
Obituary: Gifted and reserved actor whose roles ranged from Bent to Prime Suspect.

Dewey Redman
Obituary: Influential musician whose work ranged from conventionally structured to free improvisation jazz.

Alan Maclean
Obituary: Publisher and former diplomat, he was a director of Macmillan and Pan.

Ewen Henry Harvey Green
Obituary: Historian drawn to investigating the Conservative party though never tempted to vote for it.

Byron Nelson
Obituary: American golfing legend famed for his 11 consecutive wins known as 'the Streak'.

Simon Malley
Obituary: Brilliant journalist of the best known francophone journalists of his generation, with a rare knowledge of Africa's anti-colonial struggles and the dramas of the continent's newly independent states.

King Taufa'ahau Tupou Iv of Tonga
Obituary: Quixotic ruler who brought education, health and agricultural reform to his South Pacific kingdom.

Anne Trehearne
Obituary: Fashion editor at the forefront of 1960s style who transformed The Avengers look.

Oriana Fallaci
Obituary: Controversial Italian journalist famed for her interviews and war reports but notorious for her Islamaphobia.

Veronica Horwell
Obituary: Black supermodel who broke the fashion colour bar.

Nigel Morgan
Obituary: Nigel Morgan became a leading authority on social housing in Victorian England thanks to an unusual decision as a young man.

Ian Hamer
Obituary: Trumpeter, composer and teacher at heart of the British jazz scene.

Dorothy Bain
Obituary: Dorothy Bain, who has died aged 86, was a community campaigner in Partick, Glasgow, who fought successfully for local bus services and decent housing.

Giacinto Facchetti
Obituary: Italian soccer star and unwitting inspiration for 'total football'.

Michael Dunne
Obituary: In his work with Richmond Advice and Information on Disability (Raid) from its beginning in 1990, Michael Dunne, drew on his experience as director of the Research Institute of Consumer Affairs (Rica) from 1965 to 1980.

Michael Hartnack
Obituary: Journalist dedicated to pursuing truth and justice in Zimbabwe.

Vladimir Tretchikoff
Obituary: Lime green and lurid - the trademarks of an artist the public loved and critics hated.

Wasim Raja
Cricket: Obituary: Swashbuckling Pakistani cricketing all-rounder.

Sandra Blow
Obituary: Abstract painter with an earthy touch, she balanced geometric shapes with a ferment of organic forms.

Rufus Harley
Obituary: Pioneer jazz bagpiper inspired by a pipe lament at the funeral of President Kennedy.

Harry Olivieri
Obituary: Co-creator of the Philly Cheesesteak.

Maurice Kriegel
Obituary: Resistance leader who received the German surrender in Paris.

Monty Berman
Obituary: Producing popular film fare for cinema and television.

Jimmy Leadbetter
Obituary: Pinsharp passing for Alf Ramsey's Ipswich.

Pierre Vidal-naquet
Obituary: French historian who opposed army torture during Algerian war.

Arthur Lee
Obituary: Flower-power myth maker who captured the dark side of the summer of love.

Roy Selwyn-smith
Obituary: Master toymaker who brought joy to millions with his Heraldic Miniature Knights and plastic figures.

Catherine Aitken
Obituary: Catherine Hay Aitken, who died on Tuesday aged 83 after a long struggle against Alzheimer's, was a fine doctor whom generations of children and young mothers in north London adored.

Bob Smithies
Obituary: Crossword maker, photographer and TV presenter with a flair for words.

Johnny Servoz-Gavin
Obituary: Racing driver dogged by playboy image.

Ta Mok
Obituary: Number three in the Khmer Rouge hierarchy, his reputation for brutality was such that he became known as the Butcher.

Mickey Spillane
Obituary: Pulp writer whose tales of tough guys and cute broads made him the bestselling novelist of the 20th century.

David Jewell
Obituary: Genial head of schools in both the state and independent sectors.

John Spencer
Obituary: Snooker champion at the forefront of the game's new-found popularity.

Shamil Basayev
Obituary: Chechen politician seeking independence through terrorism.

Glen Renfrew
Obituary: The man who took Reuters to market and into the digital age.

Sir Michael Weir
Obituary: British diplomat whose heart was in the Middle East.

Barbara Lloyd-Jones
Obituary: In a 1993 paper, Managing a Successful School: the Implications for Me as Head, my mother Barbara Lloyd-Jones, who has died aged 69, wrote that "Surprising as it may seem, I do actually enjoy my job. I find it tiring, frustrating, demanding, disappointing, maddening at times, but I still have an overpowering desire to battle on and try to get it right."

Obituary: Muriel Catford
My mother Muriel, who has died aged 105, would have been presented with the Legion of Honour on her 106th birthday by the British Legion, an honour given by the French in recognition of those still alive who served in France during the first world war. She died a few weeks before her birthday.

Obituary: Ben Bousquet
Anti-apartheid campaigner and passionate Labour party activist.

Obituary: David Walton
Brilliant economist in the Bank and the City

Obituary: James Mcclure
Expatriate South African journalist and celebrated crime writer

Obituary: Ann Wood-kelly
US woman pilot at the heart of Britain's war effort.

Obituary: Raymond Triboulet
Veteran Gaullist who played a key role in building the general's powerbase after D-day.

Obituary: Charles Haughey
Controversial Irish politician whose popularity survived corruption scandals.

Obituary: Patrick Garnett
Architect whose designs caught the mood of swinging London.

Obituary: Johnny Grande
Bill Haley's keyboard player in at the birth of rock'n'roll.

Obituary: Vince Welnick
Fearless keyboard player in tune with the Grateful Dead.

Obituary: Tony Benson
He was recognised as a generous and considerate employer, and was held in high regard by colleagues and competitors.

Obituary: Ian Copeland
Rock music agent and aide to the Police.

Obituary: Eberhard Esche
An eminent actor, he kept his communist faith in an 'improvable' East Germany.

Obituary: Eric Forth
Colourful hard-right MP with a fiercely independent outlook.

Obituary: Alexander Zinoviev
Satirist-philosopher who exiled himself between the west and modern Russia.

Obituary: Cheikha Rimitti
Feisty Algerian singer who became a legend of the Rai music scene.

Obituary: John Burch
Versatile jazz pianist comfortable in a variety of genres.

Obituary: Marie Hartley
As artist, historian and collector, she recorded the lost life of the Dales.

Obituary: Rosemarie Said Zahlan
Historian of the Gulf states whose heart was in Palestine.

Obituary: Tsegaye Gebre-medhin
Ethiopia's poet and playwright of the common people.

Obituary: Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Indonesia's best known novelist, he survived persecution, imprisonment and censorship.

Obituary: Jane Jacobs
Urban philosopher and activist with an intimate interest in how things work.

Obituary: Brian Labone
Soccer: Independently minded Everton and England defender.

Obituary: Walter Lane
During a distinguished career in local government - and 30 active years of retirement - Walter Lane, who has died aged 85, made a notable contribution to environmental and wildlife conservation.

Obituary: Sir Roy Denman
British and Brussels diplomat whose championship of Europe put him at odds with ministers.

Obituary: Abd Al-salam Al-ujaili
Syrian master of humane short stories.

Obituary: Ted Bellamy
Making a high energy contribution to physics.

Obituary: Neil Williams
Cricket: St Vincent-born England cricketer. Neil Williams, who has died aged 43, was a fast-medium bowler of easy, slithery pace with a whiplash away-swinger and a ...

Obituary: Stuart Mills
The poet Stuart Mills published and encouraged the work of many others under the imprints of Tarasque Press and Aggie Weston's (the first taking its name from a mythical French monster, the second from the pioneer of rest homes for sailors).

Obituary: Juan Soriano
Painter and sculptor with a free approach to his Mexican identity.

Obituary: Gene Pitney
Chart-topping singer and songwriter whose quavering tenor won him a loyal fan base.

Obituary: Freddie Vickers
Bombed into a life lived for others.

Obituary: Benno Besson
Radical director in the Brechtian tradition who revitalised the Deutsches Theater.

Obituary: Jackie Mclean
Jazz saxophonist, who played with Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman.

Obituary: George Rallis
Greek prime minister, known as a unifier, he ushered his country into the EEC.

Obituary: Bob Carlos Clarke
Photographer known for his erotic images and for making chefs look interesting.

Obituary: Caspar Weinberger
Abrasive US defence secretary whose spending broke peacetime records.

Obituary: Ian Hamilton Finlay
Individualistic Scottish artist and poet who ran his garden at Little Sparta as a separate city state.

Obituary: Pierre Clostermann
French flying ace who thrived on adventure in both air and sea.

Obituary: David Halliwell
Visionary playwright who charted Little Malcolm's revenge and launched a theatre revolution.

Obituary: Lynden David Hall
Gifted young singer who defined a British alternative to American R&B.

Obituary: Jimmy Johnstone
Soccer: Brilliant Celtic and Scotland winger who took the European Cup with the Lisbon Lions.

Obituary: Norman Bucknell
Norman Bucknell, who has died aged 95, was the last of the second generation of Cotswold arts and crafts movement designer/makers.

Obituary: Ali Farka Toure
Pioneering and much-loved Malian guitarist who introduced the world to the sounds of African desert blues.

Obituary: Charlie Wayman
Soccer: Small center-forward, lethal in front of goal.

Obituary: Ivor Cutler
Unassuming master of offbeat humour whose eccentric take on the world entertained generations.

Obituary: Ray Barretto
Latin jazz drummer mixing American and Caribbean rhythms.

Obituary: Zita Jungman
Bright young thing of the 1920s and muse to Cecil Beaton and Sacheverell Sitwell.

Obituary: Peter Osgood
Soccer: A gifted and powerful Chelsea and England footballer, he never fulfilled his potential.

Obituary: Urbano Lazzaro
The partisan who arrested Mussolini

Obituary: Janet Cockerill
Educationalist and provider of a fresh start for many women.

Obituary: Lou Gish
Gifted and vivacious young actor who lit up the stage in dramatic or comedy roles.

Obituary: Anne Sacks
Making a difference in journalism and politics.

Obituary: Mary Mandelson
Born into a Labour dynasty, she shaped her son's politics.

Obituary: Schafik Handal
Guerrilla leader in El Salvador's civil war.

Obituary: Norman Shumway
Leading US heart transplant surgeon, who conquered the perils of rejection.

Obituary: Jill Fraser
Jill Fraser, theatre director, born April 15 1946; died February 10 2006.

Obituary: Elton Dean
Gifted and versatile jazz musician at the forefront of innovation.

Obituary: Ron Greenwood
Soccer: West Ham and England football manager who believed more in skill than results.

Obituary: Romano Mussolini
Fascist leader's son who marched to a jazz musician's tune.

Obituary: Charles Fisher
Poet, writer and last surviving member of Dylan Thomas's Kardomah gang.

Obituary: Maurice Colclough
Rugby: Fearless rugby forward pivotal to England's grand slam win in 1980.

Obituary: Wendy Wasserstein
Playwright who put women's life choices under the lens.

Obituary: Sir Peter Crill
My lasting memory of Sir Peter Crill, the former Bailiff of Jersey who has died aged 80, is of him stretched out on his back in the sunshine in the grounds of Sameras Manor...

Obituary: Jan Mark
Leading children's writer with a soft spot for cats and a robust view of the book trade.

Obituary: Roger Norman
Roger Norman, who has died aged 65, was the inspirational editor of one of London's leading local newspapers until 1995, taking a bold stand against racism when it mattered the most.

Obituary: Anton Rupert
South African tobacco tycoon who promoted equal rights during the apartheid era.

Obituary: Manfred Alexander
Manfred Alexander, who has died aged 85, began his working life as a bricklayer in Berlin and ended up as a property broker in New York.

Obituary: Raymond Sugg
Controlling gases for anesthesia.

Obituary: John Coope
It is said that Dr John Coope, who has died aged 77, would find out if new patients could sing even before he started investigating their medical history in his Cheshire surgery.

Obituary: Shelley Winters
Hollywood superstar who rose from screen victim to matronly sex symbol.

Obituary: The Emir of Kuwait
Benign ruler whose national plans suffered after the first Gulf war.

Obituary: Roy Brooks
Jazz drummer at the frontier of his art.

Obituary: Peter Williams
Art educationist whose college vision became a reality.

Obituary: Sumi Jenner
Rock manager for a musical revolution.

Obituary: Rachel Squire
Labour MP who fought for the Rosyth shipyard.

Obituary: Yao Wenyuan
Last of the Gang of Four, one of the chief propagandists of the Cultural Revolution.

Obituary: Heinrich Harrer
Mountaineer who taught the Dalai Lama and wrote Seven Years in Tibet.

Obituary: John Latham
Radical and inspirational artist who courted controversy and pioneered conceptual art.

Obituary: Eddie Barlow
Cricket: Gritty South African all-rounder whose great success came against Australia.

Phillip Whitehead
Obituary: Television producer and Labour politician who remained loyal to his native Derbyshire.

Obituary: Ted Ditchburn
Soccer: Fearless goalkeeper who helped Spurs win the championship.

Obituary: Derek Bailey
Restlessly creative guitarist forever pushing at the boundaries of music.

Obituaries: Farewell to the Heroes Who Thrilled the World
Golf: Paul Weaver acclaims the life, times and triumphs of sporting legends from Best to Best Mate who have died in the past year.

Obituary: John Tilley
Principled Labour MP passionate about race relations and social justice.

Obituary: Keith Duckworth
Grand Prix: Imaginative designer whose revolutionary Cosworth engine changed the face of grand prix racing.

Obituary: Michael Davie
Gifted Observer journalist Michael Davie shone as both reporter and editor. By John Thompson.

Obituary: Eugene Mccarthy
Democrat senator who galvanised opposition to the Vietnam war in the late 1960s.

Obituary: Richard Pryor
Legendary stand-up comic and actor, who satirised the racial taboos of America.

Obituary: Charly Gaul
Luxembourg cycling champion famed as the original 'angel of the mountains'.

Obituary: Liu Binyan
Courageous Chinese journalist denounced for championing political reform.

Obituary: Georges Guingouin
A Communist maquisard, decorated by de Gaulle, who fell foul of a postwar backlash.

Obituary: Ailish Hurley
Ailish Hurley, who has died of cancer aged 62, was the bar manager at the Randolph hotel, Oxford, and known as "the woman who saved Morse".

Obituary: Oswald Hanfling
Philosopher engaged with Wittgenstein and the Open University.

Obituary: Richard Burns
Rallying: The second British driver to win the World Rally championship.

Obituary: David Austin
Guardian pocket cartoonist with a sceptically humanist view of the news.

Obituary: Danny Mardell
Anyone who spent more than half an hour with Danny Mardell would know he did little in moderation. He was a big man, with an enormous appetite for life.

Obituary: Harry Gold
A prolific bandleader, musician and arranger, he was at the heart of the jazz world for more than 70 years.

Obituary: Lord Lichfield
Society photographer and doyen of the 'swinging 60s' who was a cousin of the Queen.

Obituary: Ted Wragg
Education guru whose ideas were embraced by teachers and energised our schools.

Obituary: Harry Thompson
Brilliantly creative television producer who launched Have I Got News for You.

Obituary: John Fowles
Bestselling novelist who explored dark themes of time, power and relationships.

Obituary: Ferruccio Valcareggi
Manager of the Italian soccer team defeated by Brazil in the 1970 world cup final.

Obituary: George Swindin
Soccer: Arsenal goalkeeper and then manager, he played 272 league games for the Gunners.

Obituary: Oleg Lundstrem
Russian band leader whose passion for jazz took off in Shanghai and survived Stalin.

Obituary: Roger Brierley
Actor who radiated authority but fought it through Equity.

Obituary: Shirley Horn
Jazz singer-pianist whose distinctive slow tempos captivated her audiences.

Obituary: Steve Marcus
Coltrane disciple on tenor and soprano sax who was in at the birth of jazz-rock fusion.

Obituary: Alexander Yakovlev
Key intellectual who backed Gorbachev's perestroika

Obituary: Johnny Haynes
Soccer: England foothall hero whose £100-a-week salary made him the first modern player.

Obituary: Mary Klopper
Other lives: Mary Klopper, who has died aged 89, had a wealthy and sheltered childhood and went on to become a dedicated campaigner for leftwing and humanitarian causes.

Obituary: Brett Kebble
Controversial business leader from the new South Africa.

Obituary: Leo Sternbach
Chemist who invented librium and valium, drugs whose uses are still being explored.

Obituary: Patrick Caulfield
Painter renowned for his bold style, making memorable emblems of everyday objects.

Obituary Letter: the Late Noel Mander
Stephen Gardiner Epstein writes: It was organ builder Noel Mander (obituary, September 29) who was instrumental in finding a permanent site for one of Sir Jacob Epstein's greatest works, Ecce Homo.

Obituary: Helen Cresswell
Children's author whose characters came to life on the page and the TV screen.

Obituary: Helen O'brien
Nightclub owner who served drinks to - and spied on - her influential customers.

Obituary: Xiong Xianghui
As a spy, he helped Mao to victory; as an envoy, he brokered the thaw with the US.

Obituary: Simon Wiesenthal
Veteran Nazi-hunter and Holocaust survivor whose quest for justice set a moral standard for the postwar world.

Obituary: Ivy Morris
In the late 1950s Sister Ivy Morris, who has died aged 95, joined the children's ward at Amersham general hospital, working with its consultant paediatrician, Dr Dermot MacCarthy.

Obituary: Francy Boland
Bandleader whose arrangements allowed his soloists to shine.

Obituary: Nathan Joseph
Founder of pioneering folk and blues label Transatlantic, and theatre agent of note.

Obituary: Pete Bowler
Environmental champion and country diarist

Obituary: Noel Cantwell
Irish footballer who was one of the best full backs of his generation.

Obituary: Dame Eugenia Charles
The Caribbean's first woman PM, she led Dominica for 15 years.

Obituary: Chief Justice William Rehnquist
Conservative head of the US supreme court who opposed abortion and homosexuality, he presided over Clinton's impeachment trial.

Obituary: Jack Slipper
Met detective who hunted Ronnie Biggs.

Obituary: Xue Muqiao
The architect of China's market transformation.

Obituary: Miguel Arraes
Leftwinger whose career straddled Brazil's dictatorship.

Obituary: Kenneth Duncan
Long-serving general secretary of the British Olympic Association, he began his career at the 1936 Berlin games.

Obituary: Basil Kirchin
Big band drummer who went on to write film music and created visionary works using the sounds of birds, animals and children

Obituary: King Fahd of Saudia Arabia
Monarch who saw the material transformation of his kingdom undermined by the oil price collapse and his own alliance with the west.

Obituary: Wim Duisenberg
European banker who was midwife to the euro.

Obituary: Al Held
American painter who found his voice in hard edge abstraction.

Obituary: Albert Mangelsdorff
German jazz trombonist noted for stunning solo improvisations.

Obituary: Nan Kempner
Couture collector at the heart of New York's fashion elite.

Obituary: Elsie Bowyer
Midwife on a mission of mercy for Balkan war victims.

Obituary: John Tyndall
Far right fantasist of British politics with master race ideas.

Obituary: Deborah Hutton
Vivacious and gifted writer who pioneered health journalism.

Obituary: Dan Crawford
The theatrical entrepreneur behind the King's Head, he made it a leading platform for British fringe theatre.

Obituary: L. Patrick Gray
Director of the FBI and President Nixon's ultimate fall guy for the Watergate burglary and the subsequent hearings.

Obituary: Ed McBain
The great crime writer behind the 87th Precinct series

Obituary: Gaylord Nelson
Campaigning senator renowned as the father of the American environmental movement.

Obituary: Denis Watts
Thoughtful coach behind Britain's athletics success.

Obituary: Christopher Fry
Christian humanist playwright who brought a spiritual elan to the drab world of postwar theatre.

Obituary: John Walton
Hugely wealthy Wal-Mart family member who used his billions to promote rightwing US causes.

Obituary: Melita Norwood
Seemingly innocuous south London clerk who spied for the Soviet Union for more than 40 years.

Obituary: Helen Denniston
In 1989 the arts consultant and administrator Helen Denniston, who has died of cancer, aged 53, played a key role in the Colour Of Europe festival at the South Bank Centre.

Obituary: Tommy Walker
Tommy Walker, who has died aged 81, was the fast outside-right, adroit in ball control, who played for Newcastle United in their successive FA Cup Final wins at Wembley in 1951, against Blackpool, and in 1952, against Arsenal.

Obituary: Charles Keeling
Charles Keeling, who has died aged 77, was the first man accurately to measure the rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

Obituary: Jack Kilby
The acknowleged inventor of the microchip, foundation of the modern electronics industry.

Obituary: A Norman Jeffares
Outstanding scholar of Anglo-Irish literature.

Obituary: Margot Smyly
The model who embodied Vogue's older woman, Mrs Exeter, although she was too beautiful, too thin and too young for the role.

Obituary: Anne Buck
Cultural historian and curator who nurtured a unique collection of fashion from the past.

Oscar Brown Jr
Obituary: Politically committed jazz entertainer who put the message in his music.

Obituary: Patsy Calton
Courageous Lib Dem MP known for her health campaigns.

Obituary: Professor Kenneth Fielding
A distinguished Dickens scholar, he devoted his time to the study of the author's working papers, turning up newly identified journalism.

Obituary: Joyce Lambert
Botanist who challenged received wisdom and proved that the Norfolk Broads were man-made.

Obituary: Ismail Merchant
Ismail Merchant, who has died at the age of 68 following surgery for abdominal ulcers, was the Indian-born film producer of brilliance, garrulity and charm who created a universally recognisable movie brand, in a remarkable partnership with the American director James Ivory that lasted for more than 40 years and 40 films.

Obituary: Niels-henning Orsted Pedersen
Danish virtuoso bassist who kept pace with Oscar Peterson.

Obituary: Percy Heath
Distinguished and versatile double bassist with the Modern Jazz Quartet.

Rigo Tovar
Obituary: One of Mexico's most adored stars who sold more than 25m records during his lifetime.

Fischer Sacks Envoy in Tributes Row
Germany's foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, has fired his country's ambassador to Switzerland after a disagreement about a ban on official obituaries of German diplomats with Nazi pasts.

Jibe By Envoy Prompts Sacking
Germany's foreign minister, Joschka Fischer, has fired his country's ambassador to Switzerland after a disagreement about a ban on official obituaries of German diplomats with Nazi pasts.

Obituary: Father Luigi Giussani
Italian priest and founder of the controversial Catholic pressure group, Communion and Liberation.

Obituary: Kenzo Tange
The most influential figure in postwar Japanese architecture. Tadao Ando, one of Japan's greatest living architects, likes to tell the story of the stray dog, a stately akita, that wandered into his studio in Osaka some 20 years ago, and decided to stay.

Obituary: Aslan Maskhadov
Chechnya's former president, whose fight for independence was undermined by violence.

Obituary: Brian Luckhurst
Cricket: An English Test cricketer, he was devoted to his home county of Kent.

Obituary: Raymond Mhlaba
Anti-apartheid veteran jailed with Mandela. Raymond Mhlaba, who has died aged 85, dedicated his formidable talents to the struggle against apartheid.

Obituary: Maurice Trintignant
Grand Prix: Dogged French winner of two grand prix races. Maurice Trintignant, the French formula one driver who twice won the Monaco grand prix, has died aged 87.

Obituary: Jimmy Smith
Jazz organist who brought sophistication to the Hammond sound.

Obituary: 'dado' Ruspoli
Italian aristocrat, actor - and playboy of the postwar dolce vita. Alessandro "Dado" Ruspoli, who has died aged 80, was a playboy prince who, more than anyone, embodied the dolce vita - the social whirl with...

Obituary: Pv Narasimha Rao
Prime minister who brought India's economy back from the brink of meltdown. Northern Ireland unionists habitually say of a departed or imprisoned colleague:

Obituary: Tom Wesselmann
Hard-core New York pop artist best known for the Great American Nudes series. Tom Wesselmann liked to say that his work explored the gap between art and life, a remark neatly brought to life at a New York exhibition...

Obituary: E Harvie Ward
Amateur US golfer and noted Walker cup player.

Obituary: Keith Miller
Australian cricket's charismatic and mercurial allrounder.

Obituary: Janet Leigh
Hollywood star whose gift for musical comedy was forever overshadowed by the horror of Psycho.

Obituary: Winson Hudson
On the countless occasions that Winson Hudson, who has died aged 87, went to the Mississippi courthouse to try to register to vote, she would wear a bright red dress to make sure the Ku Klux Klan knew she was not intimidated.

Obituary: Judge Richard May
He made his mark in the International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, presiding over the trial of Slobodan Milosevic.

Obituary: Jacek Kuron
Intellectual heavyweight at the heart of Poland's Solidarity movement. Jacek Kuron, who has died aged 70, was one of the serious brains behind the Solidarity trade union in Poland, almost from the moment it was formed in...

My Life As a Dictator
On Monday the Daily Telegraph carried the obituary of one of its former stalwarts who was a member of the Communist party and used to hiss, unaggressively but still audibly, when the name Enoch Powell was mentioned.

Obituary: Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara
Fiji's first prime minister, he lived through tumultuous times in the Pacific. An aristocratic tribal chief who embraced democracy, guided his nation to independence and became its first prime minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, who has died aged 83, can justifiably claim to be the rock on which much of modern Fiji was built.

Obituary: Fred Olivi
A-bomber pilot on the Nagasaki raid. Just after 11am on Thursday August 9 1945, a US army air force B29, Bock's Car, dropped an atomic bomb, codenamed Fat Man after Winston Churchill, on the Japanese port city of Nagasaki.

Obituary: Cardinal Franz König
Enlightened Austrian primate who opened a dialogue with eastern churches and leftwing politicians.

Obituary: Paul Webster
Guardian correspondent with an original take on France. Paul Webster, the longtime Guardian correspondent in Paris, who has died of a heart attack at the age of 66, was one of the leading reporters on France for foreign readers for 30 years.

Obituary: Shirley Strickland
Australian athlete who won seven Olympic medals. Shirley Strickland, who has died at the age of 78 in Perth, was a pioneer in a variety of fields, but her most memorable moments were on the athletics track.

Obituary: Md Nanjundaswamy
Vociferous Indian campaigner against global trade liberalisation who highlighted the multinationals' threat to third-world farmers.

Obituary: Helen Montagu
The first woman to become a major West End producer. Helen Montagu, who has died aged 75, elegantly confounded the traditional notion that theatre producers are a tribe of philistine, scrooge-like males with an eye cocked to the main, commercial chance and the girl or boy on the casting couch.

Obituary: John Herring
John Herring ran in the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, but success and satisfaction came in the work he did for others in the sporting arena, especially in relation to the London Marathon.

Obituary: George Plimpton
George Plimpton who died aged 76, is fondly remembered in popular literature for his participatory sporting books.

Obituary: Livio Dante Porta
Engineer who transformed steam technology has died aged 81. The steam railway locomotive still works hard for a living across great tracts of China. It labours largely behind the scenes in Poland - and in Cuba, Zimbabwe and other pockets of the developing world.

Obituary: Lt Col John Stephenson
He steered Marylebone Cricket Club through some of its most challenging times.

Obituary: Henri Van Steenbergen
Record-winning Belgian cyclist with 'the heart of a mercenary'.

West Indies Make History in Antigua
When West Indies embarked two days ago on their quest for 418, the obituaries were already being written. No side in the history of Test cricket had made as many in the fourth innings to win a game, and only two had made more than 369. The St John's pitch was starting to play up, and West...

Obituary: Walter Sisulu
South African freedom fighter who, together with Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, was instrumental in the destruction of apartheid.

Obituary: Peter Deakin
Rugby administrator at home in both the league and the union.

Obituary: Ron Ziegler
Nixon's loyal mouthpiece during Watergate. During his career as US President Richard Nixon's press secretary, Ron Ziegler, who has died after a heart attack aged 63, delivered thousands of White House statements.

The grand old hall of York
So the ancient and smelly and dirty old hall is still open for business. A few months ago the death notices for York Hall were posted, a collection of sentimental obituaries duly followed and tales of £1.5 million penthouse flats filling the spot on the old site in Bethnal Green were adopted as fact.

Lord Jenkins, the Great Orator
The obituary of Lord Jenkins in the Daily Telegraph referred to what it called his "rhotic defect", which seemed to be its way of saying that he could not pronounce his "r"s.

Obituary: George Roy Hill
Philip French pays tribute to George Roy Hill, the film-maker who created one of the screen's greatest double acts.

Sheep shearing: a sure-fire route to Ashes success?
The post-mortems and obituaries get to the point. It's no longer about how excruciating and toe-curlingly bad England are. No, the columnists come out from behind the sofa full of ideas for the future and ready to hit the beach (now there's no more work to be done).

What a carve-up
When the little urn that holds the Ashes started to fall apart at Lord's last week - thus rendering it unsuitable for transportation to the colonies - there was predictable mirth among Australian obituary writers covering England's tour.

Written-off England take heart from Ashes history
In April of 1989, the cunning journalists of the Old Dart had crafted the obituary for the 31st Australian touring party to visit northern shores in search of the grail before a ball had even been bowled. "The weakest ever team . . ." ". . . a foregone conclusion", "rain will block whitewash", etc.

Obituary: Willie Davies
Fly-half dazzling in both rugby union and league.

Hugo Young: The Interbrew wrangle gives succour to the crooks
In an age of corporate scandal, whistleblowers should be protected. A rnold Weinstock was a capitalist from another age. Reading his obituaries, one remembers there was a time when great businessmen made real things, counted real costs, netted real profits and dealt in real money.

Obituary: Walter Villa
Motor sport: The motorcyle racer ruthless in pursuit of victory has died of a heart attack aged 58.

Obituary: Pierre Werner
The man who dreamed up the euro.

Obituary: Tony Pond
Motor racing: Rally driver Tony Pond has died aged 56.

Obituary: Spyros Kyprianou
After succeeding his hero, Archbishop Makarios, as president of Cyprus, he led economic recovery but twice passed up the chance of peace.

Two Charlies on the Obituary Trail
The Prince of Wales and the PM are locked in lachrymose combat.

Frank Keating: World loses Bradman and cricket dies a little
It was, as it ever is, a dolefully busy and profitable year for obituarists. Far beyond the commonwealth of cricket was in mourning when Sir Donald Bradman unbuckled his pads for the final time . . . probably the most popular Wimbledon men's singles winner of any, the displaced Czech...