Beate Sirota Gordon ©Kyodo News Jurek Martin Jan 4, 2013

Champion of women’s rights in Japan

Beate Sirota Gordon, interpreter and constitutionalist, 1923-2012

Lord Rees-Mogg ©Getty Dec 29, 2012

Journalist Lord Rees-Mogg dies

Radical editor who made reporting on The Times more investigative

General Norman Schwartzkopf ©Getty Dec 28, 2012

Retired US general Schwarzkopf dies

‘Stormin’ Norman’ commanded forces that drove Iraq out of Kuwait

Gerry Anderson ©PA Dec 26, 2012

Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson dies

Puppeteer and producer showed an ‘unassuming but determined’ attitude

Dec 26, 2012

FT hand devoted to European integration

Christopher Louis McIntosh Johnson, 1931-2012, writer and economist

Dec 23, 2012

Obituary: Peter Kenen, economist

Cosmopolitan American who anticipated many of the euro area’s problems

Giuseppe Nahmad Dec 21, 2012

Art dealer who bought and sold with immaculate timing

Giuseppe Nahmad, 1932-2012, collector and dealer

Dec 20, 2012

Builder who made starter homes affordable

Lawrie Barratt has died aged 85

Dec 19, 2012

Obituary: US jurist Robert Bork dies at 85

Symbol of US conservative legal movement

Moscow. Singer of the Bolshoi Theatre Galina Vishnevskaya ©ITAR-TASS Dec 14, 2012

Diva who shed hardship to dazzle the west

Galina Vishnevskaya, opera singer, 1926-2012

Dec 13, 2012

Obituary: Albert Hirschman, economist

His Exit, Voice and Loyalty became a classic across the social sciences

Ravi Mattu Ravi Mattu Dec 12, 2012

Indian sitar virtuoso Ravi Shankar dies

Musician had global impact on modern music

Dec 11, 2012

Obituary: Saul Steinberg, corporate raider

Adroit practitioner in the craft of aggressive finance

Dec 9, 2012

Obituary: Sir Patrick Moore, astronomer

Veteran broadcaster, lunar expert and true English eccentric

Dec 7, 2012

Mogul’s mother who won a nation’s hearts

Elisabeth Murdoch, 1909-2012, philanthropist

Dec 6, 2012

Obituary: Niemeyer, modernist architect

Oscar Niemeyer, designer of Brasília, dies at 104

Dec 5, 2012

Jazz adventurer committed to liberty

Dave Brubeck, composer and pianist, dies at 91

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Rupert Murdoch’s mother dies aged 103

Influential family figure and significant philanthropist

Nov 30, 2012

Surgeon who gave patients new organs and lives

Joseph Murray,1919-2012, transplant pioneer

Nov 29, 2012

Obituary: Meinertzhagen, gentleman broker

Obituary: Peter Richard Meinertzhagen 1946-2012

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