Gian Carlo Menotti
July 7, 1911 - February 1, 2007
Composer of a traditionalist bent who aimed to create operas that would appeal to a wide audience |
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Eric Holder
May 1, 1915 - January 15, 2007
Watercolour dealer who made affordability, conviviality and a love of painting his stock-in-trade |
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General Sir David Mostyn
November 28, 1928 - January 20, 2006
Infantryman who helped to quell a revolt in Brunei and commanded the British sector in Berlin |
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John Chrisp
May 14, 1908 - November 27, 2006
PoW who was decorated for his escape attempts |
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Flight Lieutenant Gordon Cooper
March 13, 1914 - December 19, 2006
Bomber navigator who guided a challenging sortie to drop supplies to PoWs in Rangoon jail in 1945 |
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Gordon S. Macklin
1928 - January 30, 2007
Founder of the Nasdaq exchange who agreed to compensate investors after the WorldCom fraud |
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Adelaide Tambo
July 18, 1929 - July 18, 1929
Anti-apartheid activist who spent years in exile |
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Erich Schumann
December 13, l930 - January 21, 2007
Publisher who built one of Europe’s largest media empires despite his company’s internal struggles |
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Sidney Sheldon
February 11, 1917 - January 30, 2007
Prolific writer for stage, film and TV who found success with a host of blockbuster novels |
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Robert Ashfield
July 28, 1911 - December 30, 2006
Organist and composer whose commitment matched his creativity |
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Peter Galliner
September 19, 1920 - December 19, 2006
Director of the International Press Institute who championed the freedom of the press as the lifeblood of civil liberty |
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Glen Tetley
February 3, 1926 - January 26, 2007
Dancer and choreographer who rejuvenated ballet with elements from modern dance and avant-garde music |
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Wally Ridley
February 28, 1913 - January 23, 2007
Record producer with the Midas touch who signed a galaxy of popular singers and transformed EMI's fortunes |
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Lord Kelvedon
October 9, 1935 - January 27, 2007
Son of 'Chips' Channon, who became an MP at 23 and went on to ministerial posts under Margaret Thatcher |
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Elizabeth Greenhill
May 4, 1907 - December 30, 2006
Sociable and cosmopolitan bookbinder who received many important commissions from noted collectors |
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Hortense Clews
August 12, 1926 - December 18, 2006
Belgian resistance courier who was captured by the SS but survived the cruelties of Ravensbrück concentration camp |
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Major-General F.W.E. Fursdon
May 10, 1925 - January 3, 2007
Royal Engineers logistics specialist who later turned to
journalism and wrote authoritatively on military matters |
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David Rattray
September 6, 1960 - January 27, 2007
South African historian who chronicled the savage 1879 battle of Isandlwana in the Zulu campaign |
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Arthur Chisnall
June 3, 1925 - December 28, 2006
Outreach social worker who made Eel Pie Island in the Thames a centre for jazz and blues |
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Tudor Gates
1930 - January 12, 2007
Successful playwright and screenplay writer whose works ranged from whodunnits to soft porn |
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Andi Engel
November 11, 1942 - December 26, 2006
Film buff who set up Artificial Eye and brought the best of independent world cinema to London |
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Christopher Helm
February 1, 1937 - January 20, 2007
Publisher whose passion for ornithology led to a series of authoritative and bestselling bird guides |
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Ken Cranston
October 20, 1917 - January 8, 2007
All-rounder who captained England and Lancashire |
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Grant Hossack
November 28, 1938 - January 6, 2007
Prolific musical director who orchestrated, arranged and conducted for theatre, radio and television |
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Richard Ollard
November 9, 1923 - January 21, 2007
Editor and author who published the novels of Patrick O'Brian and wrote books on the Civil War, Pepys and naval history |
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Alan Sievewright
May 12, 1934 - January 23, 2007
Exuberant producer who strove to bring opera to a wide audience |
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Russell Chamberlin
May 25, 1926 - December 8, 2006
Self-taught author who left his job as a leather dresser in Norwich and went on to write more than 40 books |
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Werner Hollweg
September 13, 1936 - January 1, 2007
Versatile German tenor who found success in both opera and Lieder |
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Les Henry
October 1920 - January 12, 2007
Harmonica player and comedian who contributed 'Cedric' to the Three Monarchs' successful postwar variety act |
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Lord Nolan
September 10, 1928 - January 22, 2007
Independent-minded law lord whose wide-ranging inquiry into the conduct of MPs ruffled feathers in the Commons |
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E. Howard Hunt
October 9, 1918 - January 23, 2007
Former CIA agent who dreamt of being a top spy but in the end botched the Watergate break-in |
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
March 4, 1932 - January 23, 2007
Writer who observed troubled regimes in Africa and America just as his native communist Poland teetered on collapse |
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Roberta Wohlstetter
August 22, 1912 - January 6, 2007
US foreign policy expert who wrote an enduringly relevant analysis of the failure to predict the attack on Pearl Harbor |
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Terry Peck
August 2, 1938 - December 30, 2006
Falklands policeman whose local knowledge helped British troops to expel Argentine forces in 1982 |
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Alice Lakwena
1956 - January 17, 2007
Elusive and enigmatic leader of the Holy Spirit Movement guerrillas in northern Uganda |
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Marais Viljoen
December 2, 1915 - January 4, 2007
Conservative South African politician who gradually came to support moderate reform of apartheid |
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Boris Gudz
1902 - December 27, 2006
Veteran of early Soviet secret service operations |
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Abbé Pierre
August 5, 1912 - January 22, 2007
French priest who established the Emmaus movement and campaigned tirelessly to provide housing for the poor |
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Denny Doherty
November 29, 1940 - January 19, 2007
Singer with the Mamas and Papas whose laid-back style exemplified the 1960s Californian dream |
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Hrant Dink
September 15, 1954 - January 19, 2007
Turkish-Armenian journalist who sought to bring about reconciliation between his two communities |
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Gracie Cole
September 8, 1924 - December 28, 2006
Successful and sought-after brass band trumpeter |
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Magnus Magnusson
October 12, 1929 - January 7, 2007
Broadcaster, author and translator who became synonymous with the BBC quiz Mastermind |
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Gerald Ford
July 14, 1913 - December 26, 2006
Decent and dependable Republican who helped to steady the United States after the shocks of Watergate and Vietnam |
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Saddam Hussein
April 28, 1937 - December 30, 2006
Iraqi dictator whose brutal and reckless rule brought untold miseries on his people |
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Obituaries of 2006
Edited highlights from the lives of leading figures in current affairs, culture and sport published this year |
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| LIVES IN BRIEF |
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Lives in Brief
Mitzi Cunliffe, Eric Carter, Spencer Crookenden, CBE, MC, Peter Cornwell |
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Lives in Brief
Denis Payton, Freddie Marsden, Dave Mount and Mariska Veres |
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Lives in Brief
Professor Victor Wynn, Professor James Russell and Professor Arthur Crisp |
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| LIVES REMEMBERED |
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| 2006 OBITUARIES |
|  | Edited highlights from the lives of leading figures in the worlds of religion, politics, sport and the arts published during the year
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| ANNOUNCEMENTS |
|  | Births, marriages and deaths:
search The Times announcements from the last 28 days.
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| TIMES OBITUARIES |  | Showbiz, science, politics, sport
Great Lives: A Century of Times Obituaries
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