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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

1 day ago Frederica Sagor Maas
Last of the silent movie screenwriters, who revealed the vice and venom behind that 'Golden Age'


1 day ago Sir Tom Cowie
Enterprising businessman who started his career selling Army surplus motorcycles back to the Army


1 day ago Theo Angelopoulos
Film director whose sprawling sagas won critical acclaim but taxed the patience of cinemagoers


2 days ago Alex Eadie
Miner who first went down the pits aged 14 and later served as a minister under Wilson and Callaghan


2 days ago David Whitaker
Arranger of Comme d' habitude, the original for Frank Sinatra's My Way


3 days ago Nicol Williamson
Actor whose genius was fettered by a prickly temperament that barred his path to greatness

3 days ago Professor Jon Driver
Neuroscientist who showed how we recognise others by morphing Marilyn Monroe into Margaret Thatcher
3 days ago Ernie Gregory
Goalkeeper with West Ham who had a 50-year association with the club

3 days ago Peter de Francia
British artist and teacher whose work forsook fashion but never lost its power or political charge


3 days ago Lady Faulkner of Downpatrick
Wife of Northern Ireland's Prime Minister who carried a torch for moderate Unionism after his early death

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