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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


 

10 hours ago
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi: The only man convicted of involvement in the Lockerbie...

Acres of newsprint have appeared in recent years, covering various rather separate theories about the release of the so-called Lockerbie bomber.