Obituaries

George Weisz

Emigré “Poet-engineer” whose ventilators are saving lives from Coronavirus

Dick Gilbert

Versatile BBC journalist who rode the British mid century jazz boom

Henry Wermuth

Would-be Hitler assassin who told his own reflection: “This muselmann is going to live”

Rabbi Dr Nahum Eliezer Rabinovitch

Talmudic scholar who saw Judaism as a catalyst for the evolution of moral values

Sol Kerzner

South African hotel tycoon who built a pleasure den in the jungle

Malcolm Bernard Huglin

International research chemist who played useful roles in Soviet Russia and the Mossad

Romek Marber

Laurie Morgan

Pioneering jazz drummer who influenced the birth of bebop in Britain

Ronald Rubin

Popular and prolific jazzman whose impeccable, intonation and swing were assured and inventive