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  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    Bernard Madoff
    Bernard Madoff, criminal financier, 1938-2021

    Former Nasdaq chair who ran the world’s largest Ponzi scheme

  • Tuesday, 13 April, 2021
    Shirley Williams
    Shirley Williams, politician, 1930-2021

    High-minded matriarch of British liberal politics, and one-time Financial Times journalist, who helped found new party

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    Robert Mundell
    Robert Mundell, economist, 1932-2021

    Canadian Nobel Prize winner who became the father of international macroeconomics

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
    Royal Family
    Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1921-2021

    The UK’s longest-serving royal consort influenced the monarchy’s development for over 70 years

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

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

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    Nawal El Saadawi
    Nawal El Saadawi, feminist author and political activist, 1931-2021

    Fearless women’s rights campaigner who refused to be silenced

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
    Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
    King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, head of the Zulu nation, 1948-2021

    Controversial monarch who ruled Kwazulu-Natal through South Africa’s turbulent transition to democracy

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
    Steven Spurrier
    Steven Spurrier, wine judge and writer, 1941-2021

    A generous and knowledgeable connoisseur who set up the most famous tasting event in wine history

  • Friday, 5 March, 2021
    Vernon Jordan
    Vernon Jordan, lawyer and adviser, 1935-2021

    Savvy operator who rose from humble beginnings to become the ultimate US insider

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  • Sunday, 28 February, 2021
    Johnny Pacheco
    Johnny Pacheco, musician, 1935-2021

    Wisecracking bandleader of the Fania All Stars who formed the heart of the salsa movement

  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    Ahmed Zaki Yamani
    Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi oil minister, 1930-2021

    Orchestrator of Opec oil embargoes who survived being kidnapped by Carlos the Jackal

  • Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
    Saudi Arabia
    Ahmed Zaki Yamani, former Saudi oil minister, dies aged 90

    Opec’s longest-serving minister rose to prominence during the 1973 oil embargo

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Rush Limbaugh
    Rush Limbaugh, radio show host, 1951-2021

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

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    Karen Lewis
    Karen Lewis, head of the Chicago Teachers Union, 1953-2021

    Labour activist defended state schools and popularised bargaining for the common good

  • Sunday, 7 February, 2021
    George P. Shultz
    Obituary: George Shultz, Reagan’s secretary of state, 1920-2021

    Influential Republican cabinet official helped steer US policy through the end of the Cold War

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Paul Crutzen
    Paul Crutzen, scientist, 1933-2021

    Nobel laureate who helped save the ozone layer and coin the term ‘Anthropocene’

  • Friday, 29 January, 2021
    Nikolai Antoshkin
    Nikolai Antoshkin, Chernobyl firefighter and hero, 1942-2021

    Rugged aviator who sprang into action during the nuclear disaster while Communist party officials dithered

  • Saturday, 23 January, 2021
    Sport
    Hank Aaron, US baseball and civil rights hero, 1934-2021

    African-American slugger defied death threats to break Babe Ruth’s home run record

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Schroders PLC
    George Mallinckrodt, banker, 1930-2021

    Long-term chairman of Schroders felt he had a mission to improve Anglo-German relations

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
    Mary Catherine Bateson
    Mary Catherine Bateson, cultural anthropologist, 1939-2021

    Academic and writer whose book ‘Composing a Life’ became a feminist touchstone

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
    Michael Apted
    Michael Apted, film director, 1941-2021

    Celebrated director of the ‘Up’ TV documentary series, who eschewed fancy tricks to focus on drama of people’s lives

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Sheldon Adelson
    Sheldon Adelson, casino magnate, 1933-2021

    Billionaire Republican donor and staunch supporter of Israel transformed Las Vegas and Macau

  • Tuesday, 12 January, 2021
    David Barchard
    David Barchard, FT correspondent and expert on Turkey, 1947-2020

    Scholarly journalist who devoted his life to the history, culture and politics of Asia Minor

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Sir Brian Urquhart, UN veteran and godfather of the ‘Blue Helmets’, 1919-2021

    A pragmatic diplomat, he dedicated his life to establishing and strengthening the UN

  • Friday, 8 January, 2021
    Le Gavroche
    Albert Roux, chef, 1935-2021

    Founder of Le Gavroche, the first UK restaurant to win three Michelin stars, he taught a generation how to cook

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