Wojciech Inglot ©AP 11:12pm

Chemist who gave Poland a brighter image

Eponymous cosmetics group became leading Polish foreign success story

Dr. Jerry Buss, the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers Feb 22, 2013

Jerry Buss, basketball team owner

The man who transformed the Los Angeles Lakers

©Getty Feb 18, 2013

Otto Beisheim, retail pioneer

Co-founder of Metro chain who revolutionised the sector in Germany

Rem Vyakhirev ©Reuters Feb 15, 2013

Rem Vyakhirev, gas oligarch

Gazprom chairman who grew rich by nurturing a vast monopoly

Ronald Dworkin ©wikicommons Feb 14, 2013

Ronald Dworkin, liberal philosopher

Thinker and trenchant critic of the US Supreme Court, 1931-2013

John Hopkins Feb 8, 2013

John Hopkins, Olympic park cultivator

Landscape designer who resisted pressure to create an icon of design for London 2012

Jurek Martin Feb 4, 2013

Larry Klinger, meticulous page maker

Ex-FT journalist who excelled at all levels of newspaper production

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

Jan 25, 2013

Chic creator who shunned ostentation

Andrée Putman, interior and product designer, 1925-2013

Jan 18, 2013

Public relations titan with a talent to please

Daniel Edelman, PR consultant, 1920-2013

Jan 13, 2013

Pioneer of the FT’s expansion abroad

Dominick Coyle, Financial Times journalist, 1933-2013

Jan 11, 2013

Burger flipper who rose up the food chain

Fred Turner, restaurant executive, 1933-2013

Jan 10, 2013

Economist and enemy of privilege

Jurek Martin Jan 4, 2013

Champion of women’s rights in Japan

Beate Sirota Gordon, interpreter and constitutionalist, 1923-2012

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