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Obituary: Sir Roy Goode, CBE

Father of modern commercial law who safeguarded over 30,000 pension funds after the Maxwell theft scandal

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

Sir Roy Goode (Photo: Bill Knight, Queen Mary University of London)

Catherine Ringer worked with Sparks, Iggy Pop and William Orbit

Catherine Ringer, luminary of the French pop scene, dies at 68

The avant-garde singer-songwriter combined new wave, chanson, rock and synthpop in the duo Les Rita Mitsouko

By Gloria Tessler

4 min read

Felicity Green was the first woman to be appointed to the board of a national newspaper (Photo: Courtesy)

Obituary: Felicity Green, influential fashion journalist, dies at 100

First lady of Fleet Street whose style pages in the Daily Mirror launched the era of youthful and affordable street attire

By Gloria Tessler

4 min read

Esther Rantzen at the Platinum Jubilee Pageant in front of Buckingham Palace on June 5, 2022 (Photo: Getty Images)

Obituary: Dame Esther Rantzen dies at 86

Television presenter who hosted the BBC series That's Life! for 21 years and founded the charities Childline and The Silver Line

5 min read

John Lebor, former mayor of Brent, dies aged 97

A socialist who battled for workers’ rights.

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Obituary: Lesley Urbach, Holocaust educator dies at 69

Holocaust educator who was determined that the story of her family’s long history in Germany would not die with her

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

Wilem Frischmann, influential engineer behind Centre Point, dies at 95

After surviving both Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the structural engineer transformed London’s skyline with buildings including Tower 42

By Jenni Frazer

4 min read

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Obituary: Photographer Elliott Franks dies aged 62

Franks specialised in the ballet scene but in recent years worked closely with Stop The Hate

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

Elliott Franks (Image: Elliott Franks)

Actor Louise Lasser dies aged 87

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman actress and former wife of Woody Allen whose life and career was marred by mental health difficulties

By Jamie Shapiro

3 min read

Louise Lasser, as a young actor (Image: Getty Images)

Second World War

Bletchley Park codebreaker Miriam Rodrigues-Pereira dies aged 104

She went on to become a Cold War analyst and a stalwart member of the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardi Community

By Kris Musikant

4 min read

Miriam Rodrigues-Pereira in front of the Codebreakers' Wall at Bletchley Park

Walt Odets, psychologist, dies at 79

Clinical psychologist who helped change the way LGBT leaders viewed gay health

By Gloria Tessler

4 min read

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 05: (L-R) Victoria Krane, Walt Odets and Anna Strasberg attend The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute Presents "LOVELAB" at The Lee Strasberg Theatre on December 5, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

Writer Rosemary Friedman dies at 97

Doctor’s wife whose successful novels heralded the rise of contemporary medical drama

5 min read

Writer Rosemary Friedman dies at 97

Artist Tess Jaray dies at 88

The geometric abstract artist was inspired by Renaissance, Baroque and Islamic architecture

5 min read

Tess Jaray (Photo: Aware)

Visionary chemist Rudolph ‘Rudy’ A Marcus, dies aged 102

Marcus won the 1992 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, and was just five days shy of his 103rd birthday

By Siam Goorwich

3 min read

Visionary chemist, Rudoph A. Marcus (Photo: US Department of Energy)

Journalist Vera Elyashiv dies aged 97

Lithuanian survivor and journalist who questioned the success of Germany’s denazification programme

5 min read

Journalist Vera Elyashiv dies aged 97

Obituary: Beatrice Baxter dies at 102

Chemistry teacher who taught children with physical disabilities to conduct chemistry experiments

By Michael Baxter

3 min read

Obituary: Beatrice Baxter dies at 102

Legendary music executive, Clive Davis, dies aged 94

During his 60-year career, he launched the careers of Whitney Houston, Billy Joel and Janis Joplin

By Siam Goorwich

4 min read

Clive Davis at the 66th Grammy Awards in 2024 (Photo: Getty Images)

Holocaust survivor Tom Reichental, who taught thousands of Irish students about the Shoah, dies at 90

Slovakia-born Bergen-Belsen child survivor who moved to Israel after the war before starting a new life in Ireland, where he made Holocaust education his final mission

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

Tomi Reichental. (Photo courtesy of Holocaust Education Ireland)

Obituary: Norman Balon

“Rudest landlord” whose gruff manner betrayed a soft, kind heart

4 min read

2BKXFT7 Norman Balon,Coach and Horses Soho London. (credit image©Jack Ludlam)

Obituary: Edgar Morin

The French intellectual and member of the French Resistance has died at the age of 104

By Eliana Jordan

3 min read

TOPSHOT - French sociologist and philosopher Edgar Morin poses during a photo session in Paris on March 8, 2022. (Photo by JOEL SAGET / AFP) (Photo by JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

Obituary: David Winnick

Labour politician whose distinguished parliamentary career was fuelled by an impassioned drive to confront injustice

By Eliana Jordan

2 min read

David Winnick.

Obituary: Michael Tilson Thomas

Dynamic American conductor-composer who wrote the orchestral work “From the Diary of Anne Frank”

5 min read

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MARCH 20: Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas prepares backstage prior to performing with the YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Sydney Opera House on March 20, 2011 in Sydney, Australia. Musicians from over thirty countries were selected to perform as part of the YouTube Symphony Orchestra after submitting a video audition to YouTube that was voted on by the public. The amatuer and professional participants, ranging from age 14 to age 49, were flown to Sydney for one week to particpate in free public concerts and a sold-out finale performance at the Sydney Opera House. The entire performance was projected on the iconic Opera House sails and streamed live online via Youtube. (Photo by Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images)

Obituary: Abraham H Foxman

National director of the Anti-Defamation League hailed as a moral voice and passionate advocate for the Jewish people

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

Obituary: Abraham H Foxman

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