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Fayette Pinkney, soulful singer with the Three Degrees

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Born: 1948, in Philadelphia. Died: 27 June, 2009, in Philadelphia, aged 61.

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Rob Hartoch: chess international master

Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

Rob Hartoch was one of the leading chess players in the Netherlands. During his career he defeated Paul Keres, a world title candidate, Jan Timman, the top Dutch grandmaster, and Vladimir Savon, the Soviet champion, on several occasions.

Allen Klein: business manager of the Beatles and Rolling Stones

Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

By the end of the tumultuous decade that was the 1960s, Allen Klein was the most powerful man in pop music through his control of the business affairs of both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Yet his triumph was as short-lived as his methods were controversial, and his relationship with both groups soon ended in rancour and litigation.

Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe: Commanding Officer 1st Welsh Guards

Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

Rupert Thorneloe was a man of sharp analytical mind and yet of much heart. Everyone knows individuals with one or the other of these characteristics but they are seldom combined in the level of quality Thorneloe personified. Killed travelling in a tracked Viking vehicle vulnerable to Taleban improvised explosive devices (IEDs), questions inevitably arise as to why. The answer is that it was part of...

Pina Bausch

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

THE WORK of the German choreographer Pina Bausch, who has died aged 68 of cancer, had a controversial, often violent starkness.

Rita Keane

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

RITA KEANE, who has died aged 85, was an internationally acclaimed singer and member of one of Galway’s best-known musical families.

Alan Kelly

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

ALAN KELLY, who has died aged 72, was a footballer, coach and manager and made 47 appearances in goal for the Republic of Ireland between 1956 and 1973.

Vincent Harrison

The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

VINCENT HARRISON, who has died aged 82, was a master Leitrim fiddle player whose expertise and extensive musical connections linked him with a golden era in Irish fiddle music.

Lives remembered: Stephen Alexander

Times Online (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

Alexis Argüello: boxer and Mayor of Managua, Nicaragua

Times Online (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

Although he had a long run as a world boxing champion, holding titles at three of the lighter weights over the period 1975-82, Alexis Arguello is perhaps best known in Britain for ending the popular Jim Watt’s reign as world lightweight champion in London in 1981.

Laurence Fish: artist and illustrator

Times Online (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

Laurence Fish was a successful commercial illustrator and artist. A founder member of the Society of Industrial Artists and Designers, he was best known for his travel posters in the 1950s and 1960s.

Dan Klein: writer and authority on the decorative arts

Times Online (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

Dan Klein, who began his career as an opera singer, became a leading authority — and commercial force — in the field of 20th-century decorative arts. Several of the record prices he achieved as an auctioneer during the 1990s remain unbeaten. Glass was Klein’s chief passion, and he did more than any other to embrace the emerging British studio glass movement, encouraging its artists...

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: academic and writer

Times Online (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

The US literary theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick played a key role in the development of queer theory. She challenged heterosexual presumptions and the effects of labelling people by their sexuality, thereby redrawing the boundaries previously imposed on ideas of gender and sexuality.

Mollie Sugden

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

Born: 21 July, 1922, in Keighley, West Yorkshire. Died: 1 July, 2009, in Guildford, Surrey, Surrey, aged 86. AS MRS Slocombe, the blue, purple or pink-rinsed, battleaxe shop assistant in the long-running TV sitcom Are You Being Served', Mollie Sugden became something of a national treasure. The ladies separates and underwear department of Grace Bros department store was the perfect stage for her, in...

Pina Bausch

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 03/07/2009

Born: 27 July, 1940, in Solingen, Germany. Died: 30 June, 2009, in Essen, aged 68.SHE was a towering, if controversial, figure in post-war German ballet and Pina Bausch's influence stretched across Europe to many US dance companies. Her pioneering vision of how dance theatre should be seen on stage was picked up by radical theatre and film directors such as David Alden and Robert Wilson, and choreographers...