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Obituaries

  • Thursday, 27 February, 2025
    Gene Hackman
    Gene Hackman, actor, 1930-2025

    Versatile screen powerhouse played volatile cops, textured villains and tortured everymen in a career spanning five decades

    Black and white photo of Gene Hackman
  • Saturday, 22 February, 2025
    Rick Buckler
    Rick Buckler, musician, 1955-2025

    The drummer propelled The Jam to the front of the British punk rock scene of the 1970s

    Rick Buckler (c) with Jam bandmates Bruce Foxton and Paul Weller in 1977
  • Saturday, 15 February, 2025
    Tom Robbins
    Tom Robbins, ‘irrepressible’ American novelist, 1932-2025

    The writer with a Day-Glo sensibility whose surreal, rollicking narratives defined his generation’s rebelliousness

    Black and white image of a smiling Tom Robbins from 1981
  • Monday, 10 February, 2025
    Asil Nadir
    Asil Nadir, Polly Peck founder and fraudster, 1941-2025

    Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur turned small British textiles firm into vast conglomerate before insolvency and criminal charges

    Asil Nadir leaving the Old Bailey in the Polly Peck fraud case in August 2012
  • Saturday, 8 February, 2025
    Aga Khan
    The Aga Khan IV, spiritual leader and entrepreneur, 1936-2025

    An urbane but almost mythical figure who saw no contradiction between his life’s religious and secular aspects

    The Aga Khan pictured in west London in 2008
  • Saturday, 1 February, 2025
    Bimla Bissell
    Bimla Bissell, ambassadors’ aide and socialite, 1932-2025

    As a mainstay of Delhi high society, she helped expats navigate a rapidly changing India

  • Friday, 31 January, 2025
    Music
    Marianne Faithfull, singer and actress, 1946-2025

    The 1960s pop ingénue lived through addiction and homelessness to become the epitome of the rock survivor

    A woman sits on a metal chair with her arm draped across the back
  • Saturday, 25 January, 2025
    Cecile Richards
    Cecile Richards, reproductive rights activist, 1957-2025

    She became a household name as leader of Planned Parenthood, a target for the US conservative right

    Cecile Richards
  • Saturday, 18 January, 2025
    Photography
    Oliviero Toscani, photographer, 1942-2025

    His shock tactics and long, tumultuous partnership with Benetton brought him international fame

    A man sits holding a large print of a nun and priest kissing
  • Friday, 17 January, 2025
    Film
    David Lynch, American filmmaker, 1946-2025

    The visionary director peered into the darkness and light of the American soul

  • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
    David Lodge
    David Lodge, novelist and academic, 1935-2025

    One of the leading practitioners of the ‘campus novel’, his fiction also evoked strongly Catholic themes

    David Lodge
  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    Media
    Andrew Slade, FT journalist, 1963-2025

    Talented but unassuming news editor who was universally admired in the FT newsroom

    Andy Slade at his desk in the FT newsroom in October 2007
  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
    Jean-Marie Le Pen
    Jean-Marie Le Pen, French far-right politician, 1928-2025

    National Front founder led the movement for decades before passing the baton to his daughter Marine

    France’s far-right Front National party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen poses in Saint-Cloud, west of Paris, on January 27 2016
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    Jimmy Carter
    Jimmy Carter, US president and human rights champion, 1924-2024

    After a single term in the White House, the Georgia native became an influential moral voice

    Jimmy Carter portrait 2007
  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Helmut Schlesinger
    Helmut Schlesinger, former Bundesbank president, 1924-2024

    Architect of tight controls on German money supply had four-decade career in central banking

    Helmut Schlesinger
  • Thursday, 26 December, 2024
    Manmohan Singh
    Manmohan Singh, former Indian prime minister, 1932-2024

    As finance minister, he paved the way for a transformative liberalisation of the state-controlled economy

    Manmohan Singh during a press conference with his New Zealand counterpart after their meeting in New Delhi in June 2011
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    Gerd Heidemann
    Gerd Heidemann, German journalist, 1931-2024

    The Hitler diaries that he claimed to have unearthed were crude forgeries

    Gerd Heidemann on the last day of the “Stern” trial for fraud with fake Hitler diaries in Hamburg, Germany 1985.
  • Wednesday, 18 December, 2024
    Private equity
    David Bonderman, 1942-2024, private equity’s globetrotting rock star

    TPG co-founder was part of a generation of buyout pioneers and made some of the industry’s boldest bets

    David Bonderman
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    Mary McGee
    Mary McGee, motorbike racing pioneer, 1936-2024

    A trailblazer in the masculine world of the sport, she performed legendary feats

    Mary McGee competes on a motorbike in 1960, the year she became the first woman in the US to hold a licence from the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Charles Handy
    Charles Handy, management thinker and author, 1932-2024

    Writer provided prescient and provocative insights into the world of work

  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    Barbara Taylor Bradford
    Barbara Taylor Bradford, novelist, 1933-2024

    The bestselling writer championed women defining themselves on their own terms

    Barbara Taylor Bradford sat at a desk. She was often described as a writer of ‘romances’, but the true themes of her work are human agency and self-determination
  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
    Kit McMahon
    Kit McMahon, central banker, 1927-2024

    As deputy governor, he helped steer the Bank of England through one of the most turbulent periods in British economic history

    Sir Kit McMahon
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Thomas Kurtz
    Thomas Kurtz, mathematician, 1928-2024

    His invention of the Basic programming language paved the way for the personal computer revolution

    Thomas Kurtz in front of a huge computer with tape reels
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    John Prescott
    John Prescott, UK politician, 1938-2024

    Former deputy prime minister central to the New Labour project was one of the party’s most popular figures

    John Prescott campaigns outside Fife House
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Visual Arts
    Frank Auerbach, artist, 1931-2024

    The painter escaped Nazi Germany to become one of the towering figures of British postwar art

    A man sits on a chair in an art studio surrounding by painting equipment
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