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Tony Lo Bianco, Emmy-winning actor best known for playing a mobster in The French Connection – obituary
Though violence featured prominently on his CV, his range took him beyond the tough-guy stereotype
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Geneviève de Galard, nurse who was the only French woman at the siege of Dien Bien Phu – obituary
She likened the humid medical bunker to an underground bowel. Muddy droplets of water fell from the canvas ceiling on to the operating table
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Willie Carlin, combative midfielder who helped Brian Clough take Derby into the top flight – obituary
Clough described him as belligerent and aggressive, and his high-energy performances made him the linchpin of every side he played for
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Sir Martin Jacomb, City grandee closely linked to the ‘Big Bang’ revolution – obituary
He personified old-style integrity and was a key adviser to the government on the privatisation of British Telecom
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Nora Cortiñas, champion of the ‘Disappeared’ during Argentina’s Dirty War – obituary
‘We are not the mothers of just one child,’ she said, ‘we are the mothers of all the Disappeared’
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Graham Turner, writer whose Telegraph career was like ‘a 30-year visit to a sweet shop’ – obituary
In Turner’s article ‘Why Britain’s eggheads look down on Mrs Thatcher’, Jonathan Miller bemoaned the Iron Lady’s ‘odious suburban gentility’
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Akira Endo, scientist whose knowledge of fungi led him to discover the first statin – obituary
Endo reduced his own cholesterol levels with diet and exercise, quoting a Japanese proverb: ‘The indigo dyer wears white trousers’
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Ahmad Shah Khan, Crown Prince of Afghanistan who preferred life as a poet in suburban Virginia – obituary
In 2002, his father, the deposed king Zahir Shah, returned to Afghanistan and was greeted as ‘Father of the Nation’ but Ahmad stayed away
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John Holbrook, Coldstream Guard nicknamed ‘The Blade’ who served in Egypt, Aden and Germany – obituary
In 1966 he was one of the stars of the Anglia TV documentary All the Queen’s Men, about life in the Household Brigade
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Janis Paige, actress-singer who shone in 1950s musicals with Doris Day and Fred Astaire – obituary
Her work ranged from The Pyjama Game on stage to films including Silk Stockings with Fred Astaire and Happy Days on television
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Michael Mosley, exuberant medical broadcaster who popularised the 5:2 diet – obituary
He was a television natural whose work was ‘utterly rooted in science’, and he cited Orwell as his inspiration: ‘He lived his journalism’
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William Anders, astronaut on first mission to orbit the Moon who photographed ‘Earthrise’ – obituary
As they plunged through the Moon’s shadow, the astronauts broadcast to Earth their reading from the Creation story in the Book of Genesis
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Colin Gibb, Black Lace member whose hit Agadoo was hailed as ‘The Worst Song of All Time’ – obituary
Based on a Moroccan tune, Agadoo sold a million copies and Black Lace had to perform it so many times that, Gibb said, ‘You go numb’
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William Russell, actor remembered as Doctor Who’s original action hero and Sir Lancelot – obituary
In the early Doctor Who stories, Russell was cast as dashing science teacher Ian, in a leading role alongside the mysterious Time Lord
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Harry Howorth, infantryman at Sword Beach on D-Day who helped to destroy a gun battery – obituary
To train for D-Day, Howorth practised boarding landing craft and swimming in a loch in Scotland with a pack loaded with stones
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Tom Schaffer, paratrooper who was one of the last survivors of the Battle of the Bulge – obituary
During the airborne Operation Varsity, Schaffer landed in a fir tree and had to cut himself out of his parachute and shin down the tree
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Jeannette Charles, Queen Elizabeth II lookalike who forged a 40-year comic career – obituary
She found her calling when a portrait of her appeared at the Royal Academy and people were astonished that it was not Her Majesty
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Albert Howard, navigator who helped to attack German ships in the Mediterranean – obituary
He was awarded the DFC following his service in Burma for ‘action above and beyond the call of duty’
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Jürgen Moltmann, leading Protestant theologian who found God in a British prisoner-of-war camp – obituary
‘The long shadow of Auschwitz’ led him to demonstrate for peace and support Liberation Theology in Latin America and civil rights in the USA
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Tin Oo, Myanmar general who became Aung San Suu Kyi’s closest ally – obituary
‘I had to face up to the harm I did to people when I served in the army,’ he admitted when he co-founded the National League for Democracy
