Obituaries
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Louis Handschuh: French resistance operative who survived one of the most daring escapes of the Second World War
Louis Handschuh, who has died in Paris aged 89, was one of the last survivors of one of the most remarkable escapes of the Second World War.
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Jack Goldhill: Businessman and philanthropist whose property deals assisted in reconstructing post-war Britain
Monday, 21 December 2009
Jack Goldhill, one of the chief figures in the post-second world war reconstruction of Britain and a philanthropist on a scale usually seen in the United States, has died aged 89. He was a major benefactor to national cultural institutions, supporting over 70 charitable organisations for more than four decades, often anonymously
Professor G. Singh: Poet and academic who established his reputation with translations of Montale
Monday, 21 December 2009
Ghan Shyam Singh, poet, critic and academic, was born a high-caste Hindu, in Jaipur, India, on 24 January 1929. Though he eventually specialised in Italian language and literature, he was an intensely anglicised Indian of his generation, formally courteous and courteously formal.
Jennifer Jones: Actress who won an Oscar for her role in 'The Song of Bernadette'
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Jennifer Jones won an Academy Award as best actress for her first major screen role, that of the young girl from Lourdes who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary, in The Song of Bernadette (1943).
Alan A'Court: Footballer who played a crucial role in Liverpool's rise to join the elite in the early Shankly years
Saturday, 19 December 2009
It was difficult to miss Alan A'Court on a football field. The dashing, blond left-winger, who featured for England in the 1958 World Cup finals and shone for Liverpool as they returned to the top flight of the domestic game in 1962, was an effervescent individual, bubbling with verve and exuding an engagingly obvious enjoyment of his work.
Alfred Hrdlicka: Artist who outraged Catholic groups with his homo-erotic depiction of the Last Supper
Friday, 18 December 2009
Alfred Hrdlicka was a Viennese artist and sculptor who caused an uproar with his portrayal of the Last Supper, in which he depicted Jesus being fondled and the Apostles groping one other.
Luther Dixon: Songwriter and producer responsible for a slew of hits including '16 Candles'
Friday, 18 December 2009
The songwriter and record producer Luther Dixon was most associated with the New York all-female group the Shirelles. One of his songs for them, "Boys", became a beat-group standard and its many performers include the Beatles and the Flamin' Groovies. Strangely, none have appreciated that it is really a girls' song or, if they have, they haven't bothered to amend the lyric.
Yegor Gaidar: Economist and politician who oversaw the Soviet Union's transition to capitalism
Friday, 18 December 2009
Rarely has a great nation's destiny been entrusted to one so young as Yegor Gaidar. He was only in his mid-thirties when he was economics minister and acting prime minister of Russia, and he served in those posts for little more than a year, between 1991 and 1992. But in that short period, Gaidar's "shock therapy" – the removal of price controls, massive public-spending cuts and a first wave of privatisation – forced his country to make the horrendously painful but historically vital transition from the backward, non-functioning Soviet system into the modern capitalist era.
Oral Roberts: Evangelist who pioneered the charismatic style that came to dominate American Christianity
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Oral Roberts was one of the most remarkable religious figures to have appeared in North America in the 20th century.
Thomas Hoving: Maverick museum director who transformed the Met in New York
Thursday, 17 December 2009
In the public imagination, museum directors should be donnish and discreet, impeccably tasteful and thoroughly proper. That wasn't quite how Thomas Hoving saw the job.
Obits in Brief: Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who died on 16 December aged 69, was South Africa's former health minister who gained notoriety for her promotion of lemons, garlic, beetroot and olive oil to treat Aids.
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