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    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      Ivan Menezes
      Ivan Menezes, businessman, 1959-2023

      As chief executive he successfully overhauled Diageo’s portfolio and was a towering figure in the drinks industry

    • Saturday, 3 June, 2023
      Harald zur Hausen
      Harald zur Hausen, virologist, 1936-2023

      Nobel Prize winner who discovered the cause of cervical cancer in humans

    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      Harvey Pitt
      Harvey Pitt, former SEC chair, 1945-2023

      He was deeply committed to shaping financial regulation but came under heavy criticism for his efforts to co-operate with industry

    • Saturday, 27 May, 2023
      Jim Brown
      Jim Brown, American footballer and activist, 1936-2023

      He went on to pursue a career in Hollywood and championed civil rights — but the sports star also had a dark history of violence against women

    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Tina Turner
      Tina Turner, singer, 1939-2023

      Her hugely popular songs expressed her belief that, with enough will, people could do anything

    • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
      Martin Amis
      Martin Amis, writer, 1949-2023

      The British novelist whose swagger and love of literary pyrotechnics produced dazzling, sardonic prose

    • Saturday, 20 May, 2023
      Robert Lucas
      Robert Lucas, economist, 1937-2023

      A master model-builder who took on the Keynesians and reinvented his discipline

    • Friday, 19 May, 2023
      Srichand Hinduja
      Srichand Hinduja, businessman, 1935-2023

      A ferocious networker who endeared himself to multiple generations of politicians, and built a sprawling global empire

    • Friday, 12 May, 2023
      Grace Bumbry
      Grace Bumbry, opera singer, 1937-2023

      The charismatic soprano flourished in the postwar years and battled discrimination on the way

    • Tuesday, 9 May, 2023
      Kemal Derviş
      Kemal Derviş, economist, 1949-2023

      He was the architect of IMF-backed progress subsequently reversed by Erdoğan

    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      Paul Girolami
      Paul Girolami, businessman, 1926-2023

      The executive who transformed the pharmaceuticals company then known as Glaxo into a global industry leader

    • Saturday, 6 May, 2023
      Padma Desai
      Padma Desai, economist, 1931-2023

      The scholar, who overcame many personal setbacks, produced groundbreaking work on Indian and Soviet industrial policy

    • Saturday, 29 April, 2023
      Harry Belafonte
      Harry Belafonte, activist and singer, 1927-2023

      He parlayed his fame into passionate advocacy for the US civil rights movement

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      Winfried Bischoff
      Win Bischoff, banker, 1941-2023

      One of the great City characters, he righted both Citigroup and Lloyds during his six-decade career

    • Saturday, 22 April, 2023
      Barry Humphries
      Barry Humphries, comedian, 1934-2023

      An unmatched provocateur, whose most famous invention, Dame Edna, was a masterwork of snobbery, hypocrisy and an ebulliently monstrous ego

    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Pierre Lacotte
      Pierre Lacotte, ballet archaeologist, 1932-2023

      The dancer and choreographer had a passion for history and reconstructing lost works

    • Saturday, 15 April, 2023
      Mary Quant
      Mary Quant, fashion designer, 1930-2023

      Her shockingly short skirts, waistless dresses and buzzing boutiques brought a feminist edge to the industry

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      Freddie Scappaticci
      Freddie Scappaticci, suspected IRA informer, circa 1946-2023

      The agent known as Stakeknife was described as the British army’s ‘most important secret’

    • Sunday, 9 April, 2023
      Michael Lipton
      Michael Lipton, development economist, 1937-2023

      His field work and findings changed the discussion around solving the problem of poverty in low-income countries

    • Saturday, 8 April, 2023
      Ryuichi Sakamato
      Ryuichi Sakamoto, musician and composer, 1952-2023

      An unconventional figure who declared that true creativity was destructive, he was warmly embraced by the mainstream

    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      Nigel Lawson
      Nigel Lawson, chancellor and journalist, 1932-2023

      Radical who oversaw Tory privatisation and reform from No 11 but fell out with Margaret Thatcher

    • Saturday, 1 April, 2023
      Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou
      Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, musician and nun, 1923-2023

      Her compositions managed to evoke Chopin, the Mississippi Delta blues and the sounds of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

    • Saturday, 25 March, 2023
      Jiang Yanyong
      Jiang Yanyong, surgeon and Sars whistleblower, 1931-2023

      The celebrated Chinese doctor suffered multiple political detentions

    • Saturday, 18 March, 2023
      Phyllida Barlow
      Phyllida Barlow, artist, 1944-2023

      The sculptor, who hewed giant forms from debris, did not achieve recognition until late in her career

    • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
      Gleb Pavlovsky
      Gleb Pavlovsky, Russian spin doctor, 1951 — 2023

      Odesa-born dissident turned arch-manipulator who helped create Putin’s new Russia

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