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    Ken Chubb: made a splash in early 1970s London theatre with the little-known work of Sam Shepard
  • Álvaro Mangino, survivor of the plane crash that became known as ‘the Miracle of the Andes’

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    Álvaro Mangino, second right, following his rescue from the Andes in 1972
  • Edgar Miller, management consultant who became a fierce champion of the Brexit campaign

    Telegraph Obituaries 6 Apr 2025, 2:32pm
    Edgar 'Eddie' Miller
  • Theodore McCarrick, powerful cardinal whose career ended in disgrace over accusations of sexual abuse

    Telegraph Obituaries 6 Apr 2025, 1:00pm
    The then Cardinal McCarrick in 2002 speaks to reporters before leaving on a trip to the Vatican, where he planned to discuss the issue of sexual abuse in the Church with the Pope
  • Alastair Sampson, organist at Eton and mentor to several generations of musical talent

    Telegraph Obituaries 6 Apr 2025, 6:00am
    Alastair Sampson: he was a regular organ recitalist with many recordings to his name
  • Colin Crabbe, racing driver and team owner who travelled the world in search of vintage supercars

    Telegraph Obituaries 5 Apr 2025, 6:00am
    Colin Crabbe: a bon viveur and storyteller
  • Bolesław Ostrowski, Polish paratrooper who took part in Operation Market Garden after Siberian prison

    Telegraph Obituaries 4 Apr 2025, 4:51pm
    Bolesław Ostrowski
  • David ‘Heavy’ Whalley, mountain rescue legend haunted by his experience of the Lockerbie disaster

    Telegraph Obituaries 4 Apr 2025, 11:45am
    'Heavy' Whalley: attended hundreds of incidents from hillwalking injuries to complicated climbing rescues
  • Johnny Tillotson, singer best known for his worldwide hit Poetry in Motion

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    Johnny Tillotson, one of the clean-cut young men who tried to fill the gap left by Elvis Presley's stint in the military
  • Gordon Pettitt, creator of Regional Railways and BR executive at the time of the Clapham rail crash

    Telegraph Obituaries 3 Apr 2025, 2:45pm
    Pettitt with the train that was named after him visiting the Bluebell Line at East Grinstead
  • Lee Montague, consistently impressive character actor and the first storyteller on Jackanory

    Telegraph Obituaries 3 Apr 2025, 11:44am
    Lee Montague as Habakkuk in Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth
  • Stef Wertheimer, Israeli business mogul who championed friendly relations between Arabs and Jews

    Telegraph Obituaries 3 Apr 2025, 6:00am
    Stef Wertheimer in 2013: his family had fled the Nazi regime and settled in Palestine
  • Val Kilmer, prolific but volatile actor whose films included The Doors, Top Gun, Heat and Batman Forever

    Telegraph Obituaries 2 Apr 2025, 11:36am
    Val KIlmer in Top Gun
  • Nicolas Kynaston, award-winning organist whose Albert Hall recording sold 100,000 copies

    Telegraph Obituaries 2 Apr 2025, 9:45am
    Kynaston: evoked 'the romantic resources of the organ with true feeling'
  • Betty Webb, handler of wartime Japanese messages at Bletchley who was later sent to the Pentagon

    Telegraph Obituaries 2 Apr 2025, 6:06am
    Betty Vine-Stephens (later Webb), pictured in May 1945
  • Trevor Lock, unassuming policeman awarded the George Medal for his bravery in the Iranian Embassy siege

    Telegraph Obituaries 1 Apr 2025, 5:39pm
    Lock shouting instructions down to police officers below from the Embassy balcony
  • Lord Kalms, retailer who built his family firm Dixons into a pillar of British business

    Telegraph Obituaries 1 Apr 2025, 11:17am
    Lord Kalms: in his heyday, his empire – Currys, PC World and The Link as well as Dixons – sold more than £3 billion of electronics a year
  • Brenda Lang, Wren at Bletchley who decoded messages on submarine and ship movements

    Telegraph Obituaries 1 Apr 2025, 6:04am
    Brenda Lang, née Bentley
  • Bruce Glover, actor best known as the camp assassin Mr Wint in the Bond film Diamonds Are Forever

    Telegraph Obituaries 31 Mar 2025, 2:00pm
    Bruce Glover, left, as Mr Witt attacks 007 (Sean Connery) in Diamonds Are Forever
  • Charles Swallow, teacher and sportsman whose Vanderbilt Racquet Club was favoured by Princess Diana

    Telegraph Obituaries 31 Mar 2025, 11:45am
    Charles Swallow in 1988 with the Princess of Wales at the Vanderbilt Racquet Club
  • Richard Chamberlain, chiselled heart-throb who played the idealistic Dr Kildare on 1960s television

    Telegraph Obituaries 30 Mar 2025, 3:00pm
    Richard Chamberlain as Dr Kildare: he received a record 12,000 letters a week in fan mail
  • Dave Pelz, Nasa scientist and golf guru known as ‘Professor Putt’ who coached Phil Mickelson

    Telegraph Obituaries 30 Mar 2025, 11:58am
    Dave Pelz, right, in 2008 with Phil Mickelson: the golfer had never won a major until Pelz transformed his game
  • Afdera Franchetti, partying fourth wife of Henry Fonda with admirers from Hemingway to Greta Garbo

    Telegraph Obituaries 29 Mar 2025, 6:00am
    Afdera Franchetti with Henry Fonda in Hollywood, 1960
  • Bill Ashton, founder of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra who set Amy Winehouse on the road to stardom

    Telegraph Obituaries 28 Mar 2025, 4:39pm
    Bill Ashton: under him, the NYJO made some 40 albums and gave hundreds of concerts
  • LJ Smith, Vampire Diaries author whose characters spawned a massive media franchise

    Telegraph Obituaries 28 Mar 2025, 12:44pm
    LJ Smith: an unfavourable early contract meant she reaped little reward from her series' television success
  • Eddie O’Gorman, father who turned his grief into a £300m charity for children with cancer

    Telegraph Obituaries 28 Mar 2025, 11:48am
    O'Gorman, right, with Chris Tarrant in 2000
  • Alan Cuckston, harpsichordist who recorded on period instruments for the BBC Sound Archives

    Telegraph Obituaries 28 Mar 2025, 6:00am
    Alan Cuckston: revived early music and commissioned new works
  • Hazel Picking, wartime Wren who relayed signals in Morse code using an Aldis lamp

    Telegraph Obituaries 27 Mar 2025, 5:56pm
    Hazel Roberts (as she was) in the WRNS
  • Peter Lever, bowler who won the Ashes with England and silverware with Lancashire

    Telegraph Obituaries 27 Mar 2025, 2:50pm
    Peter Lever: he took 41 wickets for England and nearly 800 for Lancashire
  • David Williams, union leader who took on the Conservative government over nurses’ pay

    Telegraph Obituaries 27 Mar 2025, 6:00am
    David Williams in 1985
  • Sir Julian Seymour, skilled head of Margaret Thatcher’s private office after she left Downing Street

    Telegraph Obituaries 26 Mar 2025, 2:05pm
    Seymour with Lady Thatcher at the handover of Hong Kong
  • Jerry Butler, Impressions singer known as ‘the Ice Man’ who went on to forge a career in Chicago politics

    Telegraph Obituaries 26 Mar 2025, 6:00am
    Jerry Butler in about 1960

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