Obituary

Tommaso Buscetta, Mafia turncoat, died on April 2nd, aged 71

Habib Ben Ali Bourguiba, successor to Hannibal, died on April 6th, aged 96

Anthony Dymoke Powell, English satirist, died on March 28th, aged 94

Warren E. Magee, defender of the indefensible, died on February 25th, aged 91

Thomas Wilson Ferebee, the bomber of Hiroshima, died on March 16th, aged 81

William Donald Hamilton, Darwin’s heir, died on March 7th, aged 63

Roma Flinders Mitchell, an Australian feminist, died on March 5th, aged 86

Joseph Wolfson, master of the surf, died on February 21st, aged 50

Anatoly Sobchak, a flawed reformer,died on February 20th, aged 62

Ji Pengfei, almost the last of China’s old guard, died on February 10th, aged 91

Bonnie Cashin, designer of America’s new look, died on February 3rd, aged 84

Gad Rausing, who put milk into cartons, died on January 28th, aged 77