Obituaries

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  • 24 Aug 2010: Theatre director, artist and film-maker with a fresh, radical take on Germany's past
  • 24 Aug 2010: Saudi politician and poet known for his modernising spirit
  • weiss 24 Aug 2010: US writer of many memorable hit songs
  • 24 Aug 2010: Other lives: My uncle, George Gibbings, who has died aged 90, was a highly respected TV cameraman who worked on programmes such as Dixon of Dock Green, Z Cars, Doctor Who, The Forsyte Saga, The Good Life and Bergerac
  • 23 Aug 2010: Energetic founder of a pioneering publishing house in Palermo that champions Sicilian writers
  • Reginald Levy. 23 Aug 2010: Airline pilot who showed great courage during his Boeing 707's hijacking in 1972, which ended in a raid by Israeli commandos at Lod airport
  • 23 Aug 2010: Artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada
  • 23 Aug 2010: Alexander Goehr writes: Frank Kermode (obituary, 19 August) had a brilliant and incisive mind, wrote great books, had many pupils who testify to his qualities as a teacher
  • Ronald Garside. 23 Aug 2010:

    Other lives: After serving in the army in Shanghai, he became a paratrooper and was dropped at Arnhem during the second world war

  • 23 Aug 2010:

    Other lives: Expert film dubbing mixer who worked on ITV's This Week and the 1973 series The World at War

  • 22 Aug 2010: Actor and musician known as Bruno S, chosen by Werner Herzog to play social misfits in his films
  • Johnson Smith 22 Aug 2010: Television journalist who became a Tory MP and junior minister
  • 22 Aug 2010: Translator of Russian literature and poetry, teacher and ardent defender of his native north-east
  • 22 Aug 2010: Australian diplomat, academic and expert on international affairs
  • John MacLeod 22 Aug 2010: Other lives: Leading advocate of horticultural science and director of the National Institute of Agricultural Botany, in Cambridge, from 1990 to 1999

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Other lives

  • 22 Aug 2010
    Other lives: Founding member of the Alliance party of Northern Ireland
  • 18 Aug 2010
    Other lives: My friend Eric Hill played cricket for Somerset and went on to become a journalist; he later presided over his county team's press box with wisdom and enviable knowledge
  • 17 Aug 2010
    Other lives: Keen environmental campaigner and a member of the local CND group in Ullapool, Scotland
  • 17 Aug 2010
    Other lives: Actor, manager, director and stalwart of repertory theatre
  • 16 Aug 2010

    Other lives: Film-maker, writer, musician and humanist

  • 16 Aug 2010
    Other lives: Force behind the creation of the mechanical engineering department at Umist that gained an international reputation
  • 15 Aug 2010
    Other lives: Vibrant scholar of dance and the visual arts
  • 15 Aug 2010
    Other lives: Inspirational teacher whose book The Primary Head became a classic work
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