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Alan Jones, tennis coach who guided Jo Durie and Jeremy Bates to Grand Slam doubles titles – obituary
‘He was a hard taskmaster on court,’ said Jo Durie, ‘loud, a bit brash and “in yer face”, but fun and cheeky’
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Olga Fikotová, Czech discus thrower who had a Cold War romance with a US hammer thrower – obituary
She won gold and broke the world record at the Melbourne Olympics in 1956, having taken up the discus only two years before
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Daniel Dennett, fiery atheist philosopher who saw human brains as ‘programmes’ – obituary
He regarded everything from the ‘genius’ of JS Bach to religious ideas as the product of Darwinian evolutionary processes
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Maj Gen Nick Ansell, respected commander of ‘The Skins’ and a noted figure on the Turf – obituary
A West Countryman, he was the third generation of his family to command the 5th Royal Inniskilling Dragoon Guards and he rode in 266 races
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Diana Edwards-Jones, mistress of the control room at ITN in its formative years – obituary
Her colourful language was legendary. ‘Who the bloody hell are you?’ she asked Robin Day. ‘Christ, can’t the editor do better than that?’
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Ron Baynham, England’s oldest surviving international footballer – obituary
He had hardly played the game before doing his National Service and only volunteered because of the perks
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Tone Vigeland, Norwegian jewellery designer and sculptor inspired by nature and landscape – obituary
Other influences included medieval chain-mail, traditional Viking crafts and arrowheads in the British Museum
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Willie Limond, popular boxer who won British, Commonwealth and European titles – obituary
Blessed with sublime movement and footwork, he came close to derailing the career of the young Amir Khan
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Gaetano Pesce, radical furniture designer behind the Sixties feminist chair ‘La Mamma’ – obituary
It arrived pancake-flat in a vacuum pack but then magically inflated into a voluptuous female form, with an attached ‘ball and chain’
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Derek Underwood, often unplayable spin bowler regarded as one of England’s greatest – obituary
He was known as ‘Deadly’ – though bowling, he said, ‘is a low-mentality profession: plug away, line and length, until there is a mistake’
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John Sinclair, political activist whose 10-year jail sentence galvanised John Lennon – obituary
‘Our culture is a revolutionary culture, a revolutionary force on the planet, the seed of the new order,’ he said of the Sixties underground
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Lord Rosser, trade unionist who negotiated the fallout from British Rail’s privatisation – obituary
He was also a pillar of non-league football, collecting programmes from matches all over the country, and president of the Isthmian League
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Akebono, sumo wrestler who became his sport’s first non-Japanese grand champion – obituary
‘He makes me forget he is a foreigner because of his earnest attitude toward sumo,’ said one Japanese expert
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Charles Reiss, political journalist who broke the ‘45 Minutes from Attack’ dossier story – obituary
It triggered an immediate vote by Labour MPs for military action against Saddam and later a storm when the dossier turned out to be ‘dodgy’
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Nicholas Folwell, versatile baritone who spent 40 years at English National Opera – obituary
His roles included a boozy monk in Verdi’s La forza del destino and ‘a sexually lively Dog’ in Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen
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OJ Simpson, American footballer whose trial for murder captivated global audiences – obituary
The rage at his acquittal for a brutal double murder was compounded by a book he wrote, If I Did It, which many saw as a gruesome confession
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John Barth, author whose novels Giles Goat-Boy and The Sot-Weed Factor became a cult – obituary
He tore apart the classics of the Middle Ages and antiquity, reusing legends in different settings with his own casts of insane characters
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Bronco Lane, SAS soldier who lost all ten toes and a thumb on his descent from Everest – obituary
He won the Military Medal in Northern Ireland after he was shot by an IRA man but successfully recovered a store of weapons and saved a life
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Clarence ‘Frogman’ Henry, r’n’b singer and pianist who toured with The Beatles – obituary
‘I saw things with the Beatles that I had never seen before on tour,’ he recalled
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Peter Higgs, physicist who shared the Nobel Prize for his work on the ‘God particle’ – obituary
He disliked the fame brought by the discovery of the Higgs boson: ‘My style is to work in isolation and occasionally have a bright idea’
