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Simone Mirman
Milliner who learned her trade with Schiaparelli and designed hats for the Royal family, actresses and aristocrats
06 Aug 2008
Sir David Serpell
Civil servant whose report on the future of the railways placed him at the centre of a bitter political controversy
06 Aug 2008
Nicola Rescigno
Maria Callas's favourite conductor, who founded companies in Chicago and Dallas
06 Aug 2008
Butch White
Fast bowler whose partnership with Derek Shackleton propelled Hampshire to the county championship in 1961
05 Aug 2008
Hugh Parker
Consultant who turned out in the Boat Race for Cambridge and introduced American management to Britain
05 Aug 2008
Solzhenitsyn, voice of the Gulag
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who has died aged 89 was not only a great, but a passionately committed writer – he believed it was his moral duty, in the face of systematic totalitarian obfuscation, to record Russia's 20th-century experience for posterity.
04 Aug 2008
Major Jack Alpe
Ammunition officer wounded by shrapnel as he dealt with unexploded Italian thermos bombs
03 Aug 2008
EDITOR'S CHOICE
PM is doing well, says his Pilates guru
Gordon Brown has taken up Pilates as he limbers up to take on any prospective challengers to his leadership.
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Lady O'Neill of the Maine
Plantswoman and horticulturist who put her knowledge at the disposal of the National Trust
03 Aug 2008
Tony McGinnity
Tony McGinnity, who has died aged 70, ran one of the last commercial paddle steamer operations in Britain.
02 Aug 2008
David Paton
David Paton, who died on July 10 aged 95, was the medical officer on the St Nazaire raid in 1942, one of the most audacious actions of the Second World War.
02 Aug 2008
Peter Coke
Actor who shone on stage and as Paul Temple on radio, and who had equal success as a playwright and shell artist
31 Jul 2008
Anne Armstrong
Popular United States ambassador in London and a trusted adviser and supporter of three Republican administrations
31 Jul 2008
Victor McKusick
Physician who demonstrated the role of genes in abnormalities such as dwarfism
30 Jul 2008
Lord Varley of Chesterfield
Eric Varley, the miner's son who rose to became the consummate Labour politician, playing a leading role in trying to resolve the industrial strife of the 1970s.
30 Jul 2008
Joe Beck
Jazz guitarist who worked with Miles Davis, Gloria Gaynor, and Frank Sinatra and had a sideline as a dairy farmer
29 Jul 2008
Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Hook
Officer who won an MC during the Burma campaign, guarded Gandhi and took part in the Monte Carlo Rally
29 Jul 2008
Rocky Aoki
Entrepreneur, wrestler and playboy who founded an international restaurant chain and crossed the Pacific in a balloon
29 Jul 2008
Captain 'Andy' Palmer
Naval officer who fired a decisive salvo of torpedoes at the crippled German battleship Scharnhorst in 1943
29 Jul 2008
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