Obituary
Cardinal Lustiger
He was a Jew by birth, instinct, emotion and devotion; he was a Catholic by conversion and convictionAug 16th 2007
Obituaries from previous editions
Tommy Makem
He brought his beloved island's music to America, where he stirred nationalist spirits while avoiding politicsAug 9th 2007
Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman, film and theatre director, died on July 30th, aged 89 Aug 2nd 2007
Mohammed Zahir Shah
Mohammed Zahir Shah, the last king of Afghanistan, died on July 22nd, aged 92Jul 26th 2007
Extinct, or just adapting?
The death of a political boss, but not necessarily of the breedJul 26th 2007
Lady Bird Johnson
In the White House, as her husband battled with demons of drink, heart disease, depression and the war, she became indispensable to himJul 19th 2007
George Melly
Britain's most outrageous jazz singer was also a tranquil fishermanJul 12th 2007
Liz Claiborne
She grasped exactly what American women needed as the aproned housewife of the 1950s morphed into the professional of the 1970sJul 5th 2007
Imre Friedmann
Once a persecuted refugee, he discovered meek life persisting in the most barren of habitatsJun 28th 2007
Kurt Waldheim
A diplomat with a selective memoryJun 21st 2007
Jim Clark
The Alabama brute was an indispensable enemy to the civil-rights movementJun 14th 2007
Indar Jit Rikhye
With Mahatma Gandhi's blessing, he joined the army. With the United Nations', he went to the Middle EastJun 7th 2007
Stanley Miller
In its day, his search for the vital spirit overshadowed the work of Watson and CrickMay 31st 2007
Malietoa Tanumafili II
He presided over Samoa peacefully, for more than 40 yearsMay 24th 2007
Alfred Chandler
The original chronicler of corporations saw managers as heroesMay 17th 2007
Mstislav Rostropovich
He used his musical freedom to the utmost, inside the Soviet Union and in exileMay 10th 2007
David Halberstam
He taught a generation of American reporters to ask the hard questionsMay 3rd 2007
Boris Yeltsin
Perhaps almost too Russian, he never succumbed to Homo sovieticusApr 26th 2007
Kurt Vonnegut
He survived Dresden's firestorm, and there found his purposeApr 19th 2007
The enigma of Little Sweetie
Nina Wang, a property tycoon said to be Asia's richest woman, leaves behind many unanswered questions Apr 19th 2007
Paul Lauterbur
A wild and serendipitous life in nuclear medicineApr 4th 2007
Robert Taylor
We may never know what the UFO's pilots made of himMar 29th 2007
Preah Maha Ghosananda
The birdlike man who walked for peace through the mine-strewn jungleMar 22nd 2007
Jean Baudrillard
Behind the panache of his ideas—often bunkum, yet sometimes catching acutely the media-dominated triviality of modern life—the man was hiddenMar 15th 2007
Arthur Schlesinger
House-philosopher to the Kennedys and forever in love with his workMar 8th 2007
Mario Chanes de Armas
A former revolutionary who spent 30 years in a penal colonyMar 1st 2007
Obituaries from previous editions, continued...
Maurice Papon
Vichy France's most infamously efficient bureaucratFeb 22nd 2007
Anna Nicole Smith
In her short and imitative life, she embodied a peculiarly modern celebrityFeb 15th 2007
David Rattray
The master-storyteller who preserved an oral traditionFeb 8th 2007
Abbé Pierre
France's saint of unceasing angerFeb 1st 2007
Alfredo Stroessner
General Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, dictator of Paraguay, died on August 16th, aged 93Aug 24th 2006
Alice Lakwena
The father-mother of the Lord's Resistance Army passes onJan 25th 2007
Momofuku Ando
He spread peace and wisdom through plastic soup cupsJan 18th 2007
Teddy Kollek
He remade an ancient cityJan 11th 2007
An odd bunch
Seymour Martin Lipset devoted his life to explaining why America is different Jan 11th 2007
A bad father of the Turkmen
President Niyazov is dead, but his country lives under his shadowJan 4th 2007
Gerald Ford
The average congressman made a fairly good fist of his extraordinary lotJan 4th 2007
Augusto Pinochet
He insisted that he had acted for the benefit of all Chileans. By the end, few believed himDec 13th 2006
Allen Carr
Smokers should ponder his example, and read his book, and repentDec 7th 2006
Peter Roberts
He believed in changing laws, not breaking themNov 30th 2006
Igor Sergeyev
He helped the world get through a period of huge turbulence without incidentNov 23rd 2006
A heavyweight champ, at five foot two
The legacy of Milton Friedman, a giant among economistsNov 23rd 2006
The long goodbye
Huge casts and overlapping dialogue characterised Robert Altman's films Nov 23rd 2006
Markus Wolf
There was a whiff of glamour in the way that Mr Wolf's spies outwitted their bumbling West German rivalsNov 16th 2006
Bulent Ecevit
Verses and politics went together, he insistedNov 9th 2006
As a writer, wilful and unrepentant
Like many of his literary heroes, William Styron wrote to make sense of the worldNov 9th 2006
Ralph Harris
To him, economics—or at least his variety, the economics of freedom—was a religious belief, the “moral science” that Adam Smith had taughtNov 2nd 2006
The “crocodile” slips away
Few mourn the death of an unrepentant symbol of apartheidNov 2nd 2006
Eric Newby
By the standards of many British explorers, Eric Newby was not particularly intrepidOct 26th 2006
Benito Martínez Abrogán
Asked the secret of his youthfulness, he said he had never cheated a man or said bad things of other peopleOct 19th 2006
Anna Politkovskaya
She was brave beyond belief, reporting a gruesome war and a creeping dictatorship with a sharp pen and steel nervesOct 12th 2006
Iva Toguri
Unlike “Tokyo Rose”, her mythical persona, she delivered no threats and nothing to demoralise the troopsOct 5th 2006
Ann Richards
Even the Bushes, the premier Republican dynasty of Texas, ran scared of her for a timeSep 28th 2006
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