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Obituaries - Latest obituaries
The lives, careers, foibles and crimes of the good, the bad and the simply famous who shaped modern history, from the telegraph Obituaries

20 hours ago Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi
Libyan who entered the annals of infamy when he was convicted of the Lockerbie bombing


20 hours ago Alan Shelley
Senior Partner with Knight Frank & Rutley who in retirement wrote seven novels and completed a PhD


21 hours ago Lord Hemphill
Racing administrator who brought the Budweiser brand to the Irish Derby


2 days ago Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Sublime baritone who became a pivotal figure in the cultural rehabilitation of post-war Germany


2 days ago Major Ian Smith
Commando who led daring reconnaissance missions before D-Day and later thwarted an IRA bomb plot


3 days ago Donna Summer
Queen of disco whose songs became the soundtrack for the strobe-lit clubbers of the Seventies


3 days ago The Duke of Atholl
South African surveyor who proved to be a reluctant but dutiful heir to one of Scotland's grandest titles


3 days ago John Fabian
Producer of The Onedin Line who used the river Dart in Devon as the Amazon


4 days ago Carlos Fuentes
Titan among Latin America's literary 'Magical Realists' who commanded a worldwide audience

4 days ago Lieutenant Claude Holloway
Naval officer who survived the only chemical weapons blast - Allied mustard gas - in the Second World War
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