Obituaries
Steve Schneider
He was utterly candid about the uncertainties of climate science and the role of subjective judgmentJul 29th 2010
Obituaries from previous editions
Mau Piailug
A master of the ancient Polynesian art of sailing by the stars and the look of the seaJul 22nd 2010
Beryl Bainbridge
Iron discipline and Camel Lights helped produce 18 novels, almost all of them acclaimedJul 15th 2010
José Saramago
An outspoken communist, atheist and winner of the Nobel prize in literatureJul 8th 2010
Robert Byrd
He preserved the glory of the Senate in all its glory, prodigality and arcane complexityJun 30th 2010
Egon Ronay
He told the British what good food was, and where they could find itJun 24th 2010
The unacknowledged giant
Few journalists have had as great an influence—or been proved right so often—as the man who, for 23 years, was the deputy editor of The EconomistJun 17th 2010
Louise Bourgeois
A “volcanic subconscious” fed her extraordinary shapesJun 10th 2010
Martin Gardner
A man of letters and numbers, and a renowned populariser of difficult subjectsJun 3rd 2010
Wynne Godley
A maverick British economist, best known for his criticisms of Conservative economic policiesMay 27th 2010
Lena Horne
A black actor and singer who broke barriers but regretted her symbolic statusMay 20th 2010
Avigdor Arikha
Simplicity, modesty and limitation were the keys to his drawing from lifeMay 13th 2010
Fred Halliday
An interpreter of the Middle East, with cosmopolitan rather than internationalist viewsMay 6th 2010
Alan Sillitoe 
He gave voices and identities to the street-crowds of post-war BritainApr 29th 2010
Wilma Mankiller
The first woman chief of the Cherokee NationApr 22nd 2010
Lech Kaczynski
He exemplified the strengths and weaknesses of the political milieu from which he cameApr 15th 2010
Eugene Terre'Blanche
A Boer demagogue, whose murder has sparked fear of renewed racial violence in South Africa Apr 8th 2010
Wolfgang Wagner
He took on responsibility for the treasure of BayreuthMar 31st 2010
Democrat, dynast and dealmaker
The death of G. P. Koirala adds more uncertainty to Nepal’s peace processMar 25th 2010
Doris Haddock
An indomitable political activist who contested a senate seat at the age of 94Mar 25th 2010
John Thorbjarnarson
He tried to end men's fear of crocodiliansMar 18th 2010
Emile Fradin
The peasant-proprietor of the Glozel hoard, and the centre of an archaeological stormMar 11th 2010
Obituaries from previous editions, continued...
Alexander Haig
A soldier and public servant, with scar tissue from battles both actual and politicalFeb 25th 2010
Charlie Wilson
Congressman, party animal and saviour of AfghanistanFeb 18th 2010
Percy Cradock
Low-key but razor-sharp, Britain's man in China was always a cool realistFeb 11th 2010
J.D. Salinger
He defended to the end the sanctity of his wordsFeb 4th 2010
Miep Gies
She looked after Anne Frank and her family while they were in hidingJan 28th 2010
Jyoti Basu
Chief minister of West Bengal and almost India's first Communist prime ministerJan 21st 2010
Tsutomu Yamaguchi
Survivor of two nuclear bombs, he believed fate had spared him to speak outJan 14th 2010
Gus Dur
An intellectual and president of Indonesia, whose eccentricity hid a serious purposeJan 7th 2010
Oral Roberts
Millions of hurting people sought his spiritual counsellingDec 30th 2009
Paul Samuelson
The last of the great general economists died on December 13th, aged 94Dec 17th 2009
Yegor Gaidar
He engineered Russia's transformation to a market economyDec 17th 2009
From memory to history
With the deaths of Harry Patch, at 111, and Henry Allingham, at 113, the last memories of fighting on the front in the first world war have goneDec 17th 2009
Charis Wilson
Model, writer and muse to one of America's great photographersDec 10th 2009
Samak Sundaravej
A sharp-tongued Thai coalition leader and celebrity chefDec 3rd 2009
Earl Cooley
He parachuted from planes to fight forest firesNov 26th 2009
Robert Rines
He could have refused to believe his eyes, but he knew he had seen a monsterNov 19th 2009
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Revolutionary French anthropologist who sought the universal truths of manNov 12th 2009
Alan Peters
For many years he was Britain's finest furniture-makerNov 5th 2009
Richard Sonnenfeldt
He startled, harried and translated at the Nuremberg trialsOct 29th 2009
Ludovic Kennedy
Writer, broadcaster and campaigner on miscarriages of justiceOct 22nd 2009
Reinhard Mohn
He transformed Bertelsmann into an international media companyOct 15th 2009
Marek Edelman
He was the last military commander of the Warsaw ghetto uprisingOct 8th 2009
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