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Obituaries

Laurence Urdang

Urdang: among colleagues he was affectionately known as Thesaurus Rex

Entertaining logophile who channelled his enthusiasm for lexical arcana into numerous dictionaries

Munro in a portrait by Norman Blamey RA: she encouraged her pupils to broaden their horizons beyond marriage

Dame Alison Munro

Civil Service high-flyer who put ‘London Airport’ on the map and later became an effective High Mistress of St Paul’s Girls’ School

Snow: one of the most important things for him as a theatre set designer was to help in the creation of an illusion

Peter Snow

Stage designer and painter who created the set for the original production of Waiting for Godot and was a teacher at the Slade

Col Egar

Cricket umpire who endured death threats after no-balling Ian Meckiff four times

Bill Heren

Times messenger whose modest role in the abdication of Edward VIII illuminated the links between government and the press

Weller, right, and Enders shared the 1954 Nobel Prize for successfully growing the polio virus in human tissue

Professor Thomas Weller

Nobel prize-winning virologist whose pioneering research led to polio vaccines that saved millions of lives

Yuri Nosenko

Yuri Nosenko

KGB agent whose defection baffled the CIA, which was fearful of Soviet penetration and jailed him without trial for three years

Noël Marshall

Diplomat who distinguished himself during the Cold War and then became a celebrated single-handed ocean-going sailor

Lives remembered. Add your personal recollections to recently published Times obituaries
Nathan: His parties were legendary but his social conscience and sense of adventure were what drove him

Abie Nathan

Peace campaigner who used politics, public protests and pirate radio to deliver his message of unity

Tony Snow

Tony Snow

Popular and opinionated White House spokesman who relished his daily jousts with the press corps

Ahmed Faraz

Humane poet in the Urdu language greatly esteemed in his native Pakistan and beyond

Don LaFontaine

The 'King of Voice-Overs' who worked on trailers for thousands of movies including The Godfather and Fatal Attraction

Fraser and Magennis boarding an aircraft in Sydney, bound for London where they received their VCs from King George VI at Buckingham Palace

Lieutenant-Commander Ian Fraser, VC

Submariner who sank a Japanese cruiser in a daring attack off Singapore in 1945 for which he and a leading seaman won the VC

Masanobu Fukuoka

Agriculturalist who sought ‘unification with nature’ through natural farming techniques

John Ballantyne

Ear, nose and throat surgeon who advanced knowledge of his specialism and edited books and journals

Lives in brief. Other recent obituaries which have been published in The Times

K.K. Birla

Industrial tycoon and philanthropist who opposed commercial protectionism and was close to Gandhi

Professor Philip Wood

Professor Philip Wood

Epidemiologist who led the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council (ARC) Unit for Epidemiological Research

Kanta Patel

Longstanding member of Greenwich Council and campaigner for equal rights

Campbell?s many interests included sci-fi, psychoanalysis, and trepanning

Ken Campbell

Actor, writer, director and one-man whirlwind celebrated for his comic and surreal performances

Penny Wade

Penny Wade

Social activist who helped to found the National Childbirth Trust and several centres for the homeless

Dorival Caymmi

Singer and songwriter who became a grand old man of Brazilian culture

The Right Rev David Young

The Right Rev David Young

Long-serving Bishop of Ripon who was noted for his patient commitment to education and mission

Little Arthur Duncan

Blues singer and harmonica player whose music gained a considerable reputation outside his native Chicago

Phil Guy

Respected blues guitarist and younger brother of the legendary musician Buddy Guy

LeRoi Moore

Saxophonist with the Dave Matthews Band who co-wrote and arranged some the rock group’s biggest hits

Geoffrey Perkins

Geoffrey Perkins

Writer, producer and former head of BBC comedy who helped to establish such stars as Harry Enfield and Catherine Tate

Felicity Ashbee

Felicity Ashbee

Vivacious writer and artist who used her acute powers of perception to document her family and the Arts and Crafts movement

David Hammond

Colourful singer and documentary maker whose films immortalise Irish song

Roy Shirley

Mainstay of Jamaican music in the 1960s