• June 8 2024
  Nora Cortiñas

  Nora Cortiñas, campaigner for Argentina’s ‘disappeared’, 1930-2024

  Mother whose five-decade search for her abducted son helped power a hugely successful human rights movement

  
• June 1 2024
  Stanley Goldstein

  Stanley Goldstein, retail magnate, 1934-2024

  The co-founder of the CVS pharmacy chain oversaw its expansion from a pair of stores into a business behemoth

  
• May 20 2024
  Ivan Boesky

  Ivan Boesky, convicted trader, 1937-2024

  Arbitrageur came to fame as a mergers expert but his scandal helped define Wall Street excess

  
• May 20 2024
  Ebrahim Raisi

  Ebrahim Raisi, president of Iran, 1960-2024

  Conservative cleric and protégé of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was a contender to become the Islamic republic’s next supreme leader

  
• May 19 2024
  Anthony O'Reilly

  Anthony O’Reilly, one of Ireland’s leading businessmen, 1936-2024

  Former rugby champion, Heinz CEO and media owner made and lost one of his country’s biggest fortunes

  
• May 17 2024
  Financial Times

  John Hayes, FT sub-editor, 1956-2024

  FT wordsmith with an eye for polished prose

  
• May 16 2024
  Alice Munro

  Alice Munro, short story writer, 1931-2024

  Canadian Chekhov who compressed the epic complexity of the novel into just a few pages

  
• May 11 2024
  Steve Albini

  Steve Albini, record engineer and musician, 1962-2024

  An apostle of noise fascinated by the dark side of human behaviour

  
• May 1 2024
  Paul Auster

  Paul Auster, novelist, 1947-2024

  Prolific author who combined formal experimentation with popular appeal and was a fixture of the New York literary scene

  
• April 27 2024
  Frank Field

  Frank Field, MP and welfare reformer, 1942-2024

  Former UK labour minister eschewed tribalism and held out the promise of a more collaborative style of politics

  
• April 20 2024
  Eleanor Coppola

  Eleanor Coppola, filmmaker and writer, 1936-2024

  Artist whose fight to establish her identity conflicted with devotion to a driven family

  
• April 13 2024
  Peter Higgs

  Peter Higgs, Nobel Prize-winning physicist, 1929-2024

  His pioneering theoretical work helped us understand what made the universe possible

  
• April 6 2024
  John Barth

  John Barth, novelist, 1930-2024

  One of the first ‘postmodernist’ writers, he delighted in rearranging traditional literary conventions

  
• March 29 2024
  Daniel Kahneman

  Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Prize-winning psychologist, 1934-2024

  An accidental invader of economics, his insights changed the discipline forever

  
• March 29 2024
  Richard Taylor (Campaigner)

  Richard Taylor, knife crime campaigner, 1948-2024

  The father of Damilola channelled dignity, fortitude and hope after his son was killed

  
• March 21 2024
  Financial services

  James Robinson III, American Express executive, 1935-2024

  Wall Street power broker pioneered the model of the diversified ‘financial supermarket’

  
• March 18 2024
  Ira Millstein

  Ira Millstein, lawyer, 1926-2024

  His work led to a landmark shift in the centre of corporate power, from company management to boards

  
• March 16 2024
  Vince Power

  Vince Power, music impresario, 1947-2024

  At his peak, the maverick promoter owned some of London’s best-known venues and was involved in its most famous festivals

  
• March 15 2024
  Gerald Levin

  Gerald Levin, AOL-Time Warner executive, 1939-2024

  Architect of disastrous dotcom-era media merger was once renowned as the visionary behind HBO

  
• March 9 2024
  Iris Apfel

  Iris Apfel, interior designer and fashion icon, 1921-2024

  The ‘geriatric starlet’ helped decorate the homes of nine US presidents before finding fame in her eighties

  
• February 29 2024
  Jacob Rothschild

  Jacob Rothschild, financier and philanthropist, 1936-2024

  The dynamic investor and collector made his presence felt, in both business and the art world

  
• February 24 2024
  Mike Procter

  Mike Procter, South African cricketer, 1946-2024

  One of the sport’s greatest all-rounders who was denied a long Test career because of his country’s apartheid system

  
• February 17 2024
  Robert Badinter

  Robert Badinter, French lawyer and justice minister, 1928-2024

  Human rights champion who secured the death penalty’s abolition in his country and advised on Yugoslavia’s break-up

  
• February 16 2024
  Alexei Navalny

  Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition activist, 1976-2024

  Most prominent opponent of President Vladimir Putin campaigned for ‘beautiful Russia of the future’

  
• February 10 2024
  John Bruton

  John Bruton, Irish premier and diplomat, 1947-2024

  The taoiseach who led his country into an economic boom time was known for his intellectual bent and his distinctive laugh