Obituaries
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James Arness
Actor who played Matt Dillon, the heroic marshal of Dodge City in the television series Gunsmoke
03 Jun 2011
Josephine Hart
Novelist who endured profound personal tragedy and wrote the bestselling book Damage
03 Jun 2011
Jack Kevorkian
Pathologist who practised 'assisted suicide', earning a prison sentence and the nickname 'Dr Death'
03 Jun 2011
Miriam Karlin
Actress who was a regular in Chekhov, Brecht and Shaw, and called 'Everybody out!' in The Rag Trade
03 Jun 2011
Rosalyn Yalow
Scientist who won a Nobel Prize for research which shed new light on the causes of diabetes
02 Jun 2011
Terry Jenner
Leg-spinner who rebuilt his life after being sent to prison and became a mentor to the young Shane Warne
02 Jun 2011
Brigadier Harry Illing
Officer who won two MCs as the Allies advanced from Normandy to Berlin
02 Jun 2011
Breon O’Casey
Painter, sculptor and printmaker who thrived in Cornwall and worked with Barbara Hepworth
01 Jun 2011
Phil Solomon
Influential pop music mogul who founded his own record label and revived the fortunes of Radio Caroline
01 Jun 2011
Canon Reginald Fuller
Priest who served his Church for 80 years and befriended Leonard Cheshire
01 Jun 2011
Dr Ann McPherson
GP who campaigned for a change in the law to allow terminally ill patients to be helped to die
31 May 2011
Commander Peter Savage
Pilot who helped to lift the siege of Malta and went on to establish the School of Naval Air Warfare
31 May 2011
The Rev John Royds
Headmaster who impressed Stephen Fry as 'a most extraordinary man’ and ran a school in Ethiopia
31 May 2011
Simon Heneage
Collector of comic art who specialised in Heath Robinson and helped to found the Cartoon Museum
30 May 2011
Dame Barbara Mills
First woman Director of Public Prosecutions who clashed with critics of her combative approach
29 May 2011
Gil Scott-Heron
Influential musician and poet who deplored his label as the 'godfather of rap'
28 May 2011
Thelma Gibson
Co-founder of a medical practice that brought Middle Eastern patients, and money, to London
27 May 2011
Janet Brown
Actress who impersonated Mrs Thatcher, fooling Joan Rivers and securing an invitation to Chequers
27 May 2011
Andy Dunkley
DJ billed as 'The Living Jukebox’ who enlivened many a festival and was a calming influence on Hawkwind
27 May 2011
Leonora Carrington
Surrealist artist who eloped with Max Ernst and viewed Picasso as an 'uncouth Spaniard’
26 May 2011
William Clarke
Financial journalist who explained the 'invisible’ economy and traced the lost fortune of the Russian Tsars
26 May 2011
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