Ed Koch speaking on the first day of the Republican National Convention in New York in August 2004 ©AP Feb 1, 2013

Ed Koch, brash champion of New York

The mayor who restored the city’s chutzpah

Peter Carson Jan 31, 2013

Peter Carson, polymath who revived Penguin

Publisher known for Herculean feats of reading

A.W. Clausen, president of the World Bank, holds a Washington news conference, Aug. 31, 1982 ©AP Jan 29, 2013

Tom Clausen, admired World Bank chief

Banker who also achieved success in the commercial realm

Andrée Putman ©AFP Jan 25, 2013

Chic creator who shunned ostentation

Andrée Putman, interior and product designer, 1925-2013

Dan Edelman Jan 18, 2013

Public relations titan with a talent to please

Daniel Edelman, PR consultant, 1920-2013

Dominick Coyle Jan 13, 2013

Pioneer of the FT’s expansion abroad

Dominick Coyle, Financial Times journalist, 1933-2013

©AP Jan 11, 2013

Burger flipper who rose up the food chain

Fred Turner, restaurant executive, 1933-2013

James Buchanan, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, smiles during a news conference ©AP Jan 10, 2013

Economist and enemy of privilege

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

Dec 28, 2012

Retired US general Schwarzkopf dies

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

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

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

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

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French soldiers salute Malian people after the prayer next to the Djingareyber mosque, on January 31, 2013 in Timbuktu. The fabled desert city of Timbuktu, an ancient centre of Islamic learning, has been recaptured on January 28 by French-led forces in their offensive against Islamist rebels who have been occupying Mali's north since last April. The extremists last year smashed up mausoleums of ancient saints and the entrance to the 15th-century Sidi Yahya mosque, claiming the sites were blasphemous. Reports had emerged in recent days that rebels fleeing the advancing soldiers had torched a building housing thousands of priceless manuscripts, but an expert said on January 30 that most had been smuggled to safety as the Islamists overran the city last year. ©AFP Bienvenue à Timbuktu: Many are celebrating the flight of Islamist fighters but fears persist

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