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  • Friday, 27 May, 2022
    ObituaryRoger Angell
    Roger Angell, baseball writer, 1920-2022

    An elegant stylist who personified the New Yorker magazine, whose pages he graced for almost 80 years

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    Sharp-tongued veteran who was twice majority leader of the Senate but never made it to the White House

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    Colin Powell, US general and statesman, 1937-2021

    Military leader and first black secretary of state regretted UN speech on Iraq weapons intelligence

  • Thursday, 1 July, 2021
    ObituaryDonald Rumsfeld
    Donald Rumsfeld, US defence secretary, 1932-2021

    Two-time Pentagon chief and Washington veteran was leading advocate of 2003 Iraq invasion

  • Friday, 2 April, 2021
    ObituaryGordon Liddy
    G Gordon Liddy, Watergate conspirator, 1930-2021

    A zealous huckster who plotted for the Nixon White House and revelled in his own notoriety

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    Rush Limbaugh, radio show host, 1951-2021

    Polemical broadcaster fuelled rightward shift in US politics and laid the foundation for Donald Trump’s presidency

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    Force behind the Sarbanes-Oxley Act that transformed the regulation of auditors and financial reporting

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    Renaissance man who transformed the global financial institution, and the world’s view of it

  • Saturday, 19 September, 2020
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    Second woman to serve on highest US bench was its most determined advocate for gender equality

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    Christopher Parkes, journalist, 1944-2019

    A sharp-eyed editor and foreign correspondent who turned a killing phrase

  • Friday, 29 November, 2019
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    Yasuhiro Nakasone, leader with modern vision for Japan, 1918-2019

    A nationalist who could temper his dogma and made his presence felt across the globe

  • Friday, 1 November, 2019
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    Sadako Ogata, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 1927-2019

    She turned the agency into a diplomatic and moral force

  • Friday, 1 November, 2019
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    Washington diary: falling under the Nationals’ spell

    The baseball team’s victory in the World Series reflects the city’s wider resurgence

  • Friday, 20 September, 2019
    ObituaryCokie Roberts
    Cokie Roberts, political journalist, 1943-2019

    A trailblazer who broke the glass ceiling in Washington

  • Monday, 22 July, 2019
    ObituaryLaw
    Robert Morgenthau, Manhattan district attorney, 1919-2019

    He became the scourge of the Mob and white-collar crime in New York

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    His 19% in 1992 was best result for independent presidential candidate in 80 years

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    Heiress who made her own success as the ‘Queen of Jeans’

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    A prolific American talent who defied the snobbery of literary critics

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    Jurek Martin recalls unlikely encounters with an ancient dynasty, from dance floor to tennis court

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    Tony Mendez, CIA agent, 1940-2019

    Master of disguise who plotted the ‘Argo’ escape from Iran

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    George HW Bush, 41st US president, dies aged 94

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    Vietnam vet and old-school conservative whose friendships crossed the political aisle

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    Charles Smith, FT journalist, 1935-2018

    Editor who raised the profile of the Financial Times’ coverage in Japan

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    ObituaryProperty sector
    Tom Wolfe, writer, 1930-2018

    American literary and journalistic iconoclast who Norman Mailer said was the hardest working writer of his time

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