Obituaries
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Lord Wolfson
Philanthropist whose family foundation endowed colleges at both Oxford and Cambridge
21 May 2010
Professor Wynne Godley
Maverick Treasury economist who launched devastating attacks on the policies of Labour and the Tories alike
21 May 2010
John Shepherd-Barron
Entrepreneur who invented the automatic cash machine and spared the world six-figure PINs
20 May 2010
Professor Otto Wolff
German-born paediatrician who escaped the Nazis and went on to transform postwar childcare in Britain
20 May 2010
Evelyn Dall
Singer known as the original blonde bombshell who found fame with her lover Bert Ambrose and his orchestra
20 May 2010
Malcolm Young
Officer forced to wear handcuffs for a year as a PoW who later potted shrimps
20 May 2010
Major-General Khattiya Sawasdipol
Renegade officer who spent 40 years in the army before leading Thailand's Red Shirt uprising
19 May 2010
Ronnie James Dio
Heavy metal singer who succeeded Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath but met his match in a garden gnome
19 May 2010
Professor Peter Landsberg
Physicist who twinned theoretical and applied work and gave his name to a theorem on solar energy
19 May 2010
Lives Remembered
Featuring the man behind the Soccer War, a Coke bottler, and the inventor of the bazooka
19 May 2010
Yvonne Loriod
Musical prodigy who was taught by Messiaen and waited 20 chaste years to become his wife
18 May 2010
Professor Chimen Abramsky
Refugee who never went to school yet became a noted scholar of Jewish history, socialism and Marxism
18 May 2010
Emilio Lavazza
Entrepreneur who brought the tradition of fine Italian coffee to the wider world with the help of Pavarotti
18 May 2010
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Pamela Green
Pin-up who was the first woman to appear naked in a British feature film and later joined the WI
Ronnie James Dio
Heavy metal singer who succeeded Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath but met his match in a garden gnome
Major Keith Rae
Soldier who posed as a Romanian Legionnaire during his epic escape from occupied France
Jack Watson
Detective who solved all his murder cases and took the confessions of the last pair to be hanged in Britain
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Lives Remembered
Featuring a Star Trek beauty, a lawyer for the Beatles, and a Chicago hitman known as 'The Hook'
18 May 2010
Pamela Green
Pin-up who was the first woman to appear naked in a British feature film and later joined the WI
17 May 2010
Hank Jones
Elegant jazz pianist who played with many of the greats but struggled to keep Marilyn Monroe in tune
17 May 2010
Michael Bradley
Governor of the Turks and Caicos who also helped negotiate constitutions for the Falklands and Gibraltar
17 May 2010
Frederik van Zyl Slabbert
Anti-apartheid visionary who led white South Africans into secret talks with exiled black leaders
16 May 2010
Henry Wemyss
Art historian at Sotheby's who witnessed the decline of the gentlemanly tradition of collecting watercolours
16 May 2010
Major Keith Rae
Soldier who posed as a Romanian Legionnaire during his epic escape from occupied France
14 May 2010
Peter Cheeseman
Director who popularised the concept of theatre-in-the-round at an abandoned cinema in the Potteries
14 May 2010
St John (Bobby) Gore
Art historian who forged the National Trust's reputation as a custodian of Britain's finest houses
13 May 2010
Roland Fox
Early BBC Parliamentary correspondent who had to work in a call box and broadcast from a basement
13 May 2010
Blanche Thebom
Lounge singer who became an operatic diva at the Met and had remarkable looks with a voice to match
13 May 2010
Lt-Cdr Bobby Lawson
Navy pilot who tried to sink the Bismarck and later had to steer clear of headhunters
13 May 2010
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