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  • 22 Jul 2010: Author, film-maker, and for 64 years, wife of Denis Healey
  • 22 Jul 2010: Mellifluous tenor outstanding in the Passions of Bach and operas of Britten
  • Bill Dixon 22 Jul 2010: Free-jazz trumpeter with a hypnotic, slow-moving sound
  • 22 Jul 2010: Lawyer and award-winning crime writer
  • 22 Jul 2010: Other lives: The longest-serving council leader in Britain, his stewardship of Tameside led to more than 50 national awards
  • Stephen Schneider 21 Jul 2010:

    Pioneering climate change scientist who fought for informed public engagement

  • 21 Jul 2010: 'Dostoevskian' French actor with an aura of tormented youth
  • 21 Jul 2010: BBC executive with a key role in developing popular radio shows
  • Hank Cochran 21 Jul 2010: Country songwriter with a string of hits
  • 21 Jul 2010: Other lives: A former teacher and inspector, he set up the first part-time diploma course for youth workers
  • 20 Jul 2010: Radio producer who helped music's biggest names record their first BBC sessions
  • BLACULA 20 Jul 2010: Actor famous for her roles in blaxploitation films of the 1970s
  • 20 Jul 2010: Biomedical researcher and wide-ranging author and poet
  • 20 Jul 2010: Other lives: Our mother, who has died of cancer aged 73, was a music teacher at Grey Coat school, Westminster, the Perse girls' school, Cambridge, and Homerton College, Cambridge, as well as being the musical director of Haslingfield choir and orchestra, which she founded in 1971.
  • teshome 20 Jul 2010: Other lives: My friend and mentor, Teshome Gabriel, a leading film theorist, who has died of cardiac arrest aged 70, was an authority in the study of third world and postcolonial cinemas

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Other lives

  • 19 Jul 2010
    Other lives: My father, Arthur Hayward, who has died aged 87, was the first headmaster of the Cavendish school – a school with no rules. The students were told to use their common sense: "If it's stupid, don't do it!"
  • 19 Jul 2010
    Other lives: My mother, Marian Fagan, who has died aged 97, was an independent, strong-minded person who campaigned for a better world for the many.
  • 18 Jul 2010
    Other lives: Given up for dead after the D-Day assault, my father, George Young, survived his wounds and became a revered English teacher in Colchester, Essex.
  • 18 Jul 2010
    Other lives: To describe the life of our son, David Ripley, who has died of leukaemia aged 38, as ordinary, is both a tribute and a misnomer.
  • 16 Jul 2010
    Other lives: He was a Labour party stalwart for 76 years, having joined the Labour League of Youth when he was 15
  • 15 Jul 2010
    Other lives: Former journalist and novelist – and obituaries editor of the Economist
  • 14 Jul 2010
    Other lives: Senior social worker, counsellor and adviser with a particular interest in reproductive medicine
  • 14 Jul 2010
    Other lives: Bassoonist who turned her talents to brass
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