Obituaries
Obituaries from previous editions
Alexander Haig
A soldier and public servant, with scar tissue from battles both actual and politicalFeb 25th 2010
Charlie Wilson
Congressman, party animal and saviour of AfghanistanFeb 18th 2010
Percy Cradock
Low-key but razor-sharp, Britain's man in China was always a cool realistFeb 11th 2010
J.D. Salinger
He defended to the end the sanctity of his wordsFeb 4th 2010
Miep Gies
She looked after Anne Frank and her family while they were in hidingJan 28th 2010
Jyoti Basu
Chief minister of West Bengal and almost India's first Communist prime ministerJan 21st 2010
Tsutomu Yamaguchi
Survivor of two nuclear bombs, he believed fate had spared him to speak outJan 14th 2010
Gus Dur
An intellectual and president of Indonesia, whose eccentricity hid a serious purposeJan 7th 2010
Oral Roberts
Millions of hurting people sought his spiritual counsellingDec 30th 2009
From memory to history
With the deaths of Harry Patch, at 111, and Henry Allingham, at 113, the last memories of fighting on the front in the first world war have goneDec 17th 2009
Yegor Gaidar
He engineered Russia's transformation to a market economyDec 17th 2009
Paul Samuelson
The last of the great general economists died on December 13th, aged 94Dec 17th 2009
Charis Wilson
Model, writer and muse to one of America's great photographersDec 10th 2009
Samak Sundaravej 
A sharp-tongued Thai coalition leader and celebrity chefDec 3rd 2009
Earl Cooley
He parachuted from planes to fight forest firesNov 26th 2009
Robert Rines
He could have refused to believe his eyes, but he knew he had seen a monsterNov 19th 2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Revolutionary French anthropologist who sought the universal truths of manNov 12th 2009
Alan Peters
For many years he was Britain's finest furniture-makerNov 5th 2009
Richard Sonnenfeldt
He startled, harried and translated at the Nuremberg trialsOct 29th 2009
Ludovic Kennedy
Writer, broadcaster and campaigner on miscarriages of justiceOct 22nd 2009
Reinhard Mohn
He transformed Bertelsmann into an international media companyOct 15th 2009
Marek Edelman
He was the last military commander of the Warsaw ghetto uprisingOct 8th 2009
Obituaries from previous editions, continued...
William Safire
An old school writer of robust political commentaryOct 1st 2009
Irving Kristol
In his long, disputatious life, he created the infrastructure for 30 years of Republican ascendancySep 24th 2009
Norman Borlaug
With wheat and plough, he helped avert famineSep 17th 2009
Sergei Mikhalkov
A flexible composer of national anthemsSep 10th 2009
Stanley Robertson
Under a modest cover lived a thousand tales Sep 3rd 2009
Kim Dae-jung
South Korea's suffering saint, who truly loved his enemiesAug 27th 2009
Gayatri Devi
The true scent of royalty hung about her shouldersAug 20th 2009
Benson
A fox of the river, her glimmering scales tantalised anglers for yearsAug 13th 2009
Corazon Aquino
A plucky embodiment of people powerAug 6th 2009
Leszek Kolakowski
A Polish-born Oxford philosopher who became Marxism’s most perceptive opponentJul 30th 2009
War and peace through the bravest eyes
The testimony of a murdered human-rights campaignerJul 23rd 2009
Walter Cronkite
A proper newsman, sometimes described as the voice of GodJul 23rd 2009
John Bachar
The world's greatest free-climber, for whom grace was allJul 16th 2009
Robert McNamara
He learned most of the lessons of Vietnam too lateJul 9th 2009
Michael Jackson
The show was everything to himJul 2nd 2009
Ralf Dahrendorf
He learnt the value of liberty the hard wayJun 25th 2009
Omar Bongo
He cosseted his country one moment and ravaged it the nextJun 18th 2009
Danny La Rue
He created a star out of lace and glitzJun 11th 2009
Pattabhi Jois
He brought Ashtanga to California, sweaty, athletic and self-contradictoryJun 4th 2009
Roh Moo-hyun
The president-by-his-bootstraps was ashamed to have caved in to the allurements of the jobMay 28th 2009
Prabhakaran
His commitment to violence had been there from the startMay 21st 2009
Margaret Gelling
She tramped through fenn and forest to find the true names of the landMay 14th 2009
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