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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

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

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

5 min read

John Lebor, former-mayor of Brent (Courtesy)

John Lebor, former mayor of Brent, dies aged 97

By Jamie Shapiro

2 min read

Obituary: Lesley Urbach, Holocaust educator dies at 69

Obituary: Lesley Urbach, Holocaust educator dies at 69

By Gloria Tessler

5 min read

Wilem Frischmann won the Outstanding Personal Contribution Award at the British Expertise International Awards (Photo: Pell Frischmann)

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

By Jenni Frazer

4 min read

Elliott Franks (Image: Elliott Franks)

Obituary: Photographer Elliott Franks dies aged 62

By Jamie Shapiro

1 min read

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

Actor Louise Lasser dies aged 87

By Jamie Shapiro

3 min read

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Walt Odets, psychologist, dies at 79

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

By Gloria Tessler

4 min read

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August 5, 2026 15:26

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

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July 30, 2026 11:42

Writer Rosemary Friedman dies at 97

Artist Tess Jaray dies at 88

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

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July 30, 2026 11:36

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

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July 21, 2026 11:57

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

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July 8, 2026 09:19

Journalist Vera Elyashiv dies aged 97

Obituary: Former Fed chair Alan Greenspan

Economist feted by Republicans and Democrats who turned to economics after flirting with a career as a musician died aged 100 in June

By Jenni Frazer

3 min read

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July 6, 2026 10:41

Then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan speaks at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on April 9, 2003 (Getty Images)

Obituary: Beatrice Baxter dies at 102

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

By Michael Baxter

3 min read

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June 24, 2026 14:45

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

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June 23, 2026 15:44

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

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June 12, 2026 17:18

Tomi Reichental. (Photo courtesy of Holocaust Education Ireland)

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