Obituaries
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Bishop Andraos Abouna: Priest who worked with Iraqi Catholics in London and war-torn Baghdad
Bishop Andraos Abouna spent his lifetime working in the church, as priest for Chaldean Catholics both in London and in his native Iraq, where he served his flock throughout times of war and periods of ferocious sectarian attack
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Don Partridge: One-man band who had Top 10 hits in the 1960s but returned to a life of busking
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
The one-man band Don Partridge was signed by EMI and had Top 10 hits with "Rosie" and "Blue Eyes" in 1968, but he preferred an itinerant lifestyle and soon returned to busking.
Jack Tatum: American footballer famed and feared for his heavy hitting
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
For all the excitement of its long touchdown passes, or the cerebral nature of its complicated tactics, American football remains at heart a battle between blocker and defender, ball-carrier and tackler, a game of violence epitomised by "The Assassin" Jack Tatum. Tatum was a great defender because he was one of the game's hardest hitters, but his legacy will be just one hit, the one which left Darryl Stingley paralysed for the rest of his life.
Catherine Walker: Fashion designer who dressed Princess Diana for nearly two decades
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
The quintessential royal couturier, Catherine Walker possessed the essential ingredients required of a person dressing a Princess who also happened to be a magnet for paparazzi. Diplomatic, tactful, tasteful and incredibly discreet, Walker became the designer who Diana, Princess of Wales, consistently came back to. It wasn't simply her eye for quality, which was never in question, but the fact that she was resolutely tight-lipped. Other British fashionistas fell in and out of favour but it was Walker, a Frenchwoman with an understated design signature and aversion to self-publicity, who endured.
Irving Ravetch: Screenwriter and producer who garnered Oscar nominations for his adventurous literary adaptations
Monday, 27 September 2010
The screenwriter and occasional film producer Irving Ravetch was best known for the screenplays he wrote with his wife, Harriet Frank Jr, including two films for which they were nominated for Oscars, Hud (1963) and Norma Rae (1979).
Jean Samuel: Auschwitz survivor who featured in Primo Levi's Holocaust masterpiece 'This Is A Man'
Monday, 27 September 2010
Jean Samuel lived through and survived some of the very worst tortures of the Nazi Holocaust.
Eddie Fisher: Singer and actor whose career was overshadowed by his marriages and divorces
Saturday, 25 September 2010
Eddie Fisher was a major figure in American entertainment for 20 years from the late 1940s, with a string of hit songs and albums.
Alan Rudkin: Boxer hailed as the best British fighter never to win a world title
Saturday, 25 September 2010
He was often beautiful to watch inside the ring and when he finally retired people started to refer to Alan Rudkin as the best British boxer never to win a world title.
Gennady Yanayev: Politician who acted as figurehead in the attempted Soviet coup of 1991
Saturday, 25 September 2010
Along with Boris Yeltsin standing on a tank, it was the defining image of the dying Soviet Union's comic opera coup in August 1991: Gennady Yanayev, the new figurehead president, facing the world's press in Moscow for the first and only time, stammering out one inept answer after another, his hands shaking from nerves and too much vodka.
Walter Womacka: East German painter who remained loyal to communism all his life
Friday, 24 September 2010
Walter Womacka, one of the best-known East German artists, was lionised by the Communist state, the German Democratic Republic
Lives remembered: Eddie Crooks
Friday, 24 September 2010
My godfather Eddie Crooks, who died on 6 August in Douglas Hospice, was a motorcyclist who made his name on the Isle of Man. He was also the first Suzuki dealer in the UK.
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