Obituary
Milo Radulovich
His mistreatment was the perfect “little picture” to illustrate the big picture of McCarthyismNov 29th 2007
Obituaries from previous editions
Ian Smith
There was no romance about Mr Smith's Rhodesia—no heroes, no derring-do, no nobility of purposeNov 22nd 2007
Chad Varah
His simple insight was that many suicides could be averted if the despairing had emotional support in their darkest hourNov 21st 2007 Web only
Norman Mailer
Ever acting the hollering Jewish leprechaun, he dared the writing world to knock him offNov 15th 2007
Khun Sa
He claimed to feed the Shan, while supplying heroin to Brussels and BrooklynNov 8th 2007
R.B. Kitaj
A runaway artist who was always moving, ever the explorer or the refugeeNov 1st 2007
Lucky Dube
He adapted Jamaica's reggae to suit the needs of South AfricaOct 25th 2007
Bob Denard
A “corsair of the Republic” who defied official biographyOct 18th 2007
Jim Michaels
His journalists had to be brave, and one way to show their pluck was to survive working with JimOct 11th 2007
Haidar Abdel Shafi
A secular and non-sectarian Palestinian leader whose integrity and outspokenness made him a model for all the restOct 4th 2007
Bip
His lean limbs and white face were his only languageSep 27th 2007
Alex the African Grey
Science's best-known parrot had the intelligence of a five-year-old child and had not reached his full potentialSep 20th 2007
Luciano Pavarotti
Serving up “macaroni” for the masses, his own sense of opera as Italian peasant fareSep 13th 2007
Green made good
Anita Roddick, pioneer of green capitalism, died on September 10thSep 13th 2007
Tikhon Khrennikov
He went to Moscow to be a musician, but the Soviet state had grander plans for himAug 30th 2007
Brooke Astor and Leona Helmsley
Two grandes dames of New York, who could not have been much more differentAug 23rd 2007
Cardinal Lustiger
He was a Jew by birth, instinct, emotion and devotion; he was a Catholic by conversion and convictionAug 16th 2007
Tommy Makem
He brought his beloved island's music to America, where he stirred nationalist spirits while avoiding politicsAug 9th 2007
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman, film and theatre director, died on July 30th, aged 89 Aug 2nd 2007
Mohammed Zahir Shah
Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan, died on July 22nd, aged 92Jul 26th 2007
Lady Bird Johnson
In the White House, as her husband battled with demons of drink, heart disease, depression and the war, she became indispensable to himJul 19th 2007
George Melly
Britain's most outrageous jazz singer was also a tranquil fishermanJul 12th 2007
Obituaries from previous editions, continued...
Liz Claiborne
She grasped exactly what American women needed as the aproned housewife of the 1950s morphed into the professional of the 1970sJul 5th 2007
Imre Friedmann
Once a persecuted refugee, he discovered meek life persisting in the most barren of habitatsJun 28th 2007
Kurt Waldheim
A diplomat with a selective memoryJun 21st 2007
Jim Clark
The Alabama brute was an indispensable enemy to the civil-rights movementJun 14th 2007
Indar Jit Rikhye
With Mahatma Gandhi's blessing, he joined the army. With the United Nations', he went to the Middle EastJun 7th 2007
Stanley Miller
In its day, his search for the vital spirit overshadowed the work of Watson and CrickMay 31st 2007
Malietoa Tanumafili II
He presided over Samoa peacefully, for more than 40 yearsMay 24th 2007
Alfred Chandler
The original chronicler of corporations saw managers as heroesMay 17th 2007
Mstislav Rostropovich
He used his musical freedom to the utmost, inside the Soviet Union and in exileMay 10th 2007
David Halberstam
He taught a generation of American reporters to ask the hard questionsMay 3rd 2007
Boris Yeltsin
Perhaps almost too Russian, he never succumbed to Homo sovieticusApr 26th 2007
The enigma of Little Sweetie
Nina Wang, a property tycoon said to be Asia's richest woman, leaves behind many unanswered questions Apr 19th 2007
Kurt Vonnegut
He survived Dresden's firestorm, and there found his purposeApr 19th 2007
María Julia Hernández
She brought human-rights abuses in El Salvador to the world's attention Apr 12th 2007
Paul Lauterbur
A wild and serendipitous life in nuclear medicineApr 4th 2007
Robert Taylor
We may never know what the UFO's pilots made of himMar 29th 2007
Preah Maha Ghosananda
The birdlike man who walked for peace through the mine-strewn jungleMar 22nd 2007
Jean Baudrillard
Behind the panache of his ideas—often bunkum, yet sometimes catching acutely the media-dominated triviality of modern life—the man was hiddenMar 15th 2007
Arthur Schlesinger
House-philosopher to the Kennedys and forever in love with his workMar 8th 2007
Mario Chanes de Armas
A former revolutionary who spent 30 years in a penal colonyMar 1st 2007
Maurice Papon
Vichy France's most infamously efficient bureaucratFeb 22nd 2007
Anna Nicole Smith
In her short and imitative life, she embodied a peculiarly modern celebrityFeb 15th 2007
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