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Obituaries
Gaston Lenôtre
Food of all kinds he loved and lavished, but he was a master of sweet creationsJan 22nd 2009
Obituaries from previous editions
Richard Neuhaus
He was an enthusiastic booster of God’s cause in American public lifeJan 15th 2009
Joan Bright Astley
A former defence correspondent for The Economist Jan 15th 2009 Web only
Helen Suzman
A petite, elegant and vicious politicianJan 8th 2009
Harold Pinter
He used silence in his plays to let the dark inDec 30th 2008
H.M.
Polite and boyish, his contribution to science was enormous and sadly inadvertentDec 18th 2008
Jorn Utzon
Jorn Utzon, architect of the Sydney Opera House, died on November 29th, aged 90Dec 11th 2008
Jack Scott and Reg Varney
They lightened the weight of those national millstones: the weather and the busesDec 4th 2008
Boris Fyodorov
An admirer of English churches, he tried to reform Russia's economyNov 27th 2008
Mieczyslaw Rakowski
He was the charming, complex defender of a system based on lies and mass murderNov 20th 2008
Miriam Makeba
“Mama Africa” spent more than 30 years in exile from her homelandNov 13th 2008
Studs Terkel
He preferred the “inchoate thought” of people who were never heardNov 6th 2008
Frank “Lefty” Rosenthal
The fastidious casino manager was not your average punterOct 30th 2008
Ted Briggs
The boy-sailor eluded the Bismarck's barrageOct 23rd 2008
Jörg Haider
For all his toxicity, a tantalising oddity in Austrian politicsOct 16th 2008
J.B. Jeyaretnam
Despite the government's best efforts, he was never silencedOct 9th 2008
James Crumley
A hard liver who understood the take-it-as-you-find-it ethos of the American WestSep 29th 2008 Web only
Paul Newman
He preferred to play the anti-hero, while leading his real life with extraordinary generosityOct 2nd 2008
Frank Mundus
Scourge of the deep, many knew him as the rakish Captain QuintSep 25th 2008
Martin Tytell
To him, each typewriter had a soulSep 18th 2008
Ian Hibell
He loved his bikes and the far-off places they took himSep 11th 2008
Yuri Nosenko
An odd spy with an odder storySep 4th 2008
Jack Weil
He saw the genius of the snap-fastener and won over the fashion world from DenverAug 28th 2008
Obituaries from previous editions, continued...
Why Africa needs more cabbage
The death of a decent president, Zambia’s Levy Mwanawasa, raises questions about the state of leadership elsewhere in the continentAug 21st 2008
Mahmoud Darwish
His poems helped his people sustain their sense of destinyAug 21st 2008
Papa Wendo
His languorous rumbas made him one of Africa’s first music starsAug 14th 2008
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
He was alone in caring about all Russians, and especially peasantsAug 7th 2008
Sarah Conlon
It was her graft that held the family together. Her faith, tooJul 31st 2008
Bronislaw Geremek
He became one of the “grains of sand” in the machinery of totalitarian ruleJul 24th 2008
John Templeton
The thrifty investor went long on GodJul 17th 2008
Jesse Helms
The cantankerous former senator embodied the dark side of the Republican PartyJul 10th 2008
Sam Manekshaw
The cheeky field-marshal whose courage was never in doubtJul 3rd 2008
Arthur Galston
The father of Agent Orange was appalled by its useJun 26th 2008
Jonathan Routh
He helped turn Britons into a nation of voyeurs, and hoped never to do anything elseJun 19th 2008
Jack Simplot
An all-American story with some departures from the heroic scriptJun 12th 2008
Yves Saint Laurent
He liberated women by putting them in trouser suitsJun 5th 2008
Robert Vesco
He was on the run for 35 years, and a few of the stories about him may have been trueMay 29th 2008
Irena Sendler
Fearless and self-effacing, she conspired to spirit Jews from the Warsaw ghettoMay 22nd 2008
Mildred Loving
The fight over her interracial marriage led to more like itMay 15th 2008
Correction: Albert Hofmann
May 15th 2008
Albert Hofmann
As father to LSD, he mourned the abuse of his “problem child”May 8th 2008
Alfonso López Trujillo
The Vatican's enforcer, scourge of “safe sex” and “liberation” theologyMay 1st 2008
Ollie Johnston
The last of Walt Disney's elite artists put his own life into his drawingsApr 24th 2008
Pedro Zaragoza
He saw his sunbaked little village succeed beyond even his grandiose expectationsApr 17th 2008
Charlton Heston
So often cast as a genius or prophet, he preferred to play the beleaguered white manApr 10th 2008
Neil Aspinall
Capable and omnipresent, he could have told the tell-all to end allApr 3rd 2008
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