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Tuesday 16 October 2012
Obituaries: the lives and deaths, careers, foibles and crimes of the good, the bad and the simply famous.
SAS officer who took initial command when terrorists seized the Iranian embassy in London
15 Oct 2012
Daredevil Australian pilot who faced down the Vichy French to fly his VIP passengers home
14 Oct 2012
Versatile jazz musician in modern and trad genres who later turned to teaching
14 Oct 2012
Gallery director hailed a star in the making whose enthusiasm and talent inspired a host of artists
12 Oct 2012
Poet who won the Pulitzer Prize but lambasted almost every other aspect of Establishment America
12 Oct 2012
Reporter who survived as a wartime prisoner of the Japanese to work on newspapers in India and Surrey
12 Oct 2012
Former soldier who established his own independent nation on an abandoned North Sea fort
11 Oct 2012
Scientist primarily responsible for Dolly the sheep, the clone whose birth in 1996 prompted both awe and fear
11 Oct 2012
Violinist who forged a famous 30-year partnership with Karajan in Berlin
11 Oct 2012
Actor, pilot and gossip columnist with a sense of the surreal who rode on a camel to 'discover’ Basingstoke
10 Oct 2012
Wartime naval officer who served in five vessels, four of which were sunk
10 Oct 2012
Tortured PoW who confronted his Japanese nemesis – but chose reconciliation over retribution
09 Oct 2012
Scientist who created a crucial mechanism to trigger the nuclear bomb that devastated Nagasaki
08 Oct 2012
Engineer whose record-breaking 100-mile cycling epic earned him comparisons with Roger Bannister
08 Oct 2012
Expert on protein crystallography who shed light on the part played by enzymes in health and disease
08 Oct 2012
Algerian president whose reforms belied his military background but unleashed a brutal civil war
07 Oct 2012
Director of Naval Plans who shaped the fleet in peacetime and in war and was later Governor of Gibraltar
07 Oct 2012
Pioneering gastroenterologist who explained how our gut absorbs nutrients
07 Oct 2012
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