Obituaries
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Bela Kiraly: Soldier who led Hungarian resistance against the Soviet Union during the 1956 uprising
Major-General Bela Kiraly was 39 years old when he was sentenced to death by Hungary's Communist authorities at the beginning of 1952.
Inside Obituaries
Bernard Ganley: Record-breaking rugby league player for Oldham and Great Britain
Saturday, 11 July 2009
Bernard Ganley was one of the most prolific goal-kicking full-backs the game of rugby league has seen. Known as The Maestro because of his nerveless expertise and astonishing accuracy, Ganley set a series of records in the great Oldham team of the 1950s. The most memorable of them came in 1957-58, when his 219 goals made him the first player to kick a double century in a season and earned him an entry in the Guinness Book of Records. Little wonder that many of his contemporaries described him as the best goal-kicker they ever saw.
![The ranter: Wells performs at a gig during the 1981 Right to Work - Jobs Not Yops [Youth Employment Programme] campaign in London,
at which he appeared with Attila the Stockbroker and the Jam](http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00212/pg-38-Wells-obits_212221m.jpg "The ranter: Wells performs at a gig during the 1981 Right to Work - Jobs Not Yops [Youth Employment Programme] campaign in London,
at which he appeared with Attila the Stockbroker and the Jam")
Steven Wells: Journalist celebrated for his 'ranting poetry' and iconoclastic pop writing
Friday, 10 July 2009
Few cancer memoirs have happy endings. Nine days before his death from enteropathy-associated T-cell lymphoma, the British journalist and pop, sport and political polemicist Steven Wells wrote his last column for the Philadelphia Weekly.
Philip Jones: Television executive who sold 'Inspector Morse' to the world
Friday, 10 July 2009
Over a period of four decades that mirrored the growth of television, Philip Jones was one of the industry's master salesmen, taking British programmes to worldwide audiences. He sold Inspector Morse (1987-2000), starring John Thaw as the Oxford detective, to more than 200 countries.
Obits in Brief: Mathieu Montcourt
Friday, 10 July 2009
Mathieu Montcourt, who died of a heart attack on 6 July at the age of 24, was a French tennis player who was serving a five-week ban for betting on the internet on other players' matches.
David Pears: Philosopher renowned for his work on Wittgenstein
Thursday, 9 July 2009
For those who knew and loved him, the philosopher David Pears seemed touched by greatness, not only in his work, but in the rich and accomplished breadth of his interests.
Fleur Cowles: Writer and well-connected socialite who edited 'Flair' magazine
Thursday, 9 July 2009
Fleur Cowles spectacularly achieved her early goal of reaching the social stratosphere, spending much of her life amid the uppermost reaches of A-list celebrity, meeting practically everyone who was worth meeting. The glittering circle of friends and acquaintances of this supreme socialite included US presidents, Salvador Dali, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr and, one of her proudest conquests, the Queen Mother.
Obits in Brief: John A. Keel
Thursday, 9 July 2009
John A. Keel, who died on 3 June aged 79, was the author of The Mothman Prophecies, an account of his investigation in the 1960s into sightings in West Virginia of a strange winged creature, which was made into a 2002 film starring Richard Gere and Alan Bates.
Bleddyn Williams: 'The Prince of Centres'
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Bleddyn Williams, the Welsh rugby player known and respected worldwide as the "Prince of Centres" and the last Welshman to captain his country to victory over New Zealand, died in Cardiff on Monday at the age of 86.
Cyril Alliston: Missionary in South Africa and Borneo
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
Cyril John Alliston, a missionary of the Anglican church, a servant of the late British Empire and benevolent pastor to people of many of its races, died in Cape Town three weeks short of his 98th birthday. The life of this modest and saintly man, who was more committed to Christianity than to mere religion and who abhorred the word "denomination", illustrates the changes that came over his country and its ways of worship in the course of the 20th century.
Fayette Pinkney: Singer with the Three Degrees
Wednesday, 8 July 2009
In the 1970s, the Three Degrees embodied a certain style of classy, sophisticated, orchestrated soul, and were equally at home on Top Of The Pops, TV variety shows, in cabaret or in the presence of royalty. Indeed, the easy-on-the-ear, easy-on-the-eye girl trio from Philadelphia who topped the UK charts in 1974 with the soft, smooth, seductive "When Will I See You Again", became favourites of Prince Charles and were even tagged "Charlie's Angels" by the British tabloids.
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