Obituaries from previous editions
Robert Taylor
We may never know what the UFO's pilots made of himMar 29th 2007
Preah Maha Ghosananda
The birdlike man who walked for peace through the mine-strewn jungleMar 22nd 2007
Jean Baudrillard
Behind the panache of his ideas—often bunkum, yet sometimes catching acutely the media-dominated triviality of modern life—the man was hiddenMar 15th 2007
Arthur Schlesinger
House-philosopher to the Kennedys and forever in love with his workMar 8th 2007
Mario Chanes de Armas 
A former revolutionary who spent 30 years in a penal colonyMar 1st 2007
Maurice Papon
Vichy France's most infamously efficient bureaucratFeb 22nd 2007
Anna Nicole Smith
In her short and imitative life, she embodied a peculiarly modern celebrityFeb 15th 2007
David Rattray
The master-storyteller who preserved an oral traditionFeb 8th 2007
Abbé Pierre
France's saint of unceasing angerFeb 1st 2007
Alice Lakwena
The father-mother of the Lord's Resistance Army passes onJan 25th 2007
Momofuku Ando
He spread peace and wisdom through plastic soup cupsJan 18th 2007
Teddy Kollek
He remade an ancient cityJan 11th 2007
An odd bunch
Seymour Martin Lipset devoted his life to explaining why America is different Jan 11th 2007
Gerald Ford
The average congressman made a fairly good fist of his extraordinary lotJan 4th 2007
The blundering dictator
The life, death and uncertain legacy of an Arab villain and heroJan 4th 2007
A bad father of the Turkmen
President Niyazov is dead, but his country lives under his shadowJan 4th 2007
Jeane Kirkpatrick
Ronald Reagan adored Mrs Kirkpatrick, telling her she had removed from America's back the sign that said “Kick Me”Dec 19th 2006
Augusto Pinochet
He insisted that he had acted for the benefit of all Chileans. By the end, few believed himDec 13th 2006
Allen Carr
Smokers should ponder his example, and read his book, and repentDec 7th 2006
Peter Roberts
He believed in changing laws, not breaking themNov 30th 2006
Igor Sergeyev
He helped the world get through a period of huge turbulence without incidentNov 23rd 2006
A heavyweight champ, at five foot two
The legacy of Milton Friedman, a giant among economistsNov 23rd 2006
The long goodbye
Huge casts and overlapping dialogue characterised Robert Altman's films Nov 23rd 2006
Obituaries from previous editions, continued...
Markus Wolf
There was a whiff of glamour in the way that Mr Wolf's spies outwitted their bumbling West German rivalsNov 16th 2006
Bulent Ecevit
Verses and politics went together, he insistedNov 9th 2006
As a writer, wilful and unrepentant
Like many of his literary heroes, William Styron wrote to make sense of the worldNov 9th 2006
Ralph Harris
To him, economics—or at least his variety, the economics of freedom—was a religious belief, the “moral science” that Adam Smith had taughtNov 2nd 2006
The “crocodile” slips away
Few mourn the death of an unrepentant symbol of apartheidNov 2nd 2006
Eric Newby
By the standards of many British explorers, Eric Newby was not particularly intrepidOct 26th 2006
Benito Martínez Abrogán
Asked the secret of his youthfulness, he said he had never cheated a man or said bad things of other peopleOct 19th 2006
Anna Politkovskaya
She was brave beyond belief, reporting a gruesome war and a creeping dictatorship with a sharp pen and steel nervesOct 12th 2006
Iva Toguri
Unlike “Tokyo Rose”, her mythical persona, she delivered no threats and nothing to demoralise the troopsOct 5th 2006
Ann Richards
Even the Bushes, the premier Republican dynasty of Texas, ran scared of her for a timeSep 28th 2006
Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci, journalist and fighter, died on September 15th, aged 77Sep 21st 2006
Gyorgy Faludy
Gyorgy Faludy, the voice of Hungarian resistance, died on September 1st, aged 95Sep 14th 2006
Steve Irwin
Steve Irwin, crocodile hunter, died on September 4th, aged 44Sep 7th 2006
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz, a great Egyptian writer, died on August 29th, aged 95Aug 31st 2006
Alfredo Stroessner
General Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda, dictator of Paraguay, died on August 16th, aged 93Aug 24th 2006
John Weinberg
John Weinberg, the conscience of Goldman Sachs, died on August 7th, aged 81Aug 17th 2006
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, a great soprano, died on August 3rd, aged 90Aug 10th 2006
Ta Mok
Ung Choeun (“Ta Mok”), the last surviving leader of the Khmers Rouges, died on July 21st, probably aged 80Aug 3rd 2006
Robert Brooks and Mickey Spillane
Robert Brooks and Mickey Spillane, suppliers of fantasies to American males, died on July 16th and July 17th, aged 69 and 88Jul 27th 2006
Syd Barrett
Roger “Syd” Barrett, leader of Pink Floyd, died on July 7th, aged 60Jul 20th 2006
Shamil Basayev
Shamil Salmanovich Basayev, a Chechen warlord, died on July 10th, aged 41Jul 13th 2006
Ryutaro Hashimoto
Ryutaro Hashimoto, a reformer of Japan, died on July 1st, aged 68Jul 11th 2006 Web only
Kenneth Lay
Kenneth Lay, founder of Enron, died on July 5th, aged 64Jul 6th 2006
Barbara Epstein
Barbara Epstein, editor, died on June 16th, aged 77Jun 29th 2006
Charles Haughey
Charles Haughey, four times taoiseach of Ireland, died on June 13th, aged 80Jun 22nd 2006
Yasser Talal al-Zahrani
Yasser Talal al-Zahrani, a prisoner in Guantánamo, died on June 10th, aged 21Jun 15th 2006
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