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Péter Eötvös, Hungarian composer who turned Angels in America into an opera – obituary
Yuri Gagarin’s 1961 space flight gave him a lifelong obsession with ‘how to translate the idea of the cosmos into a gigantic ambient sound’
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John Miller, architect who brought a restrained modernism to Tate Britain and other galleries – obituary
He was inspired by Britain Can Make It, a 1946 exhibition at the V&A that positioned Britain at the forefront of global industrial design
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Frans de Waal, primatologist who argued that apes also have culture, shame and gender roles – obituary
‘Monkeys mimicked the sex-linked preferences of human children. Cars, trucks and balls were chosen more by males; females preferred dolls’
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Laurent de Brunhoff, author and illustrator of more than 40 Babar the Elephant books – obituary
He took over the series after his father died from TB in 1937 and built it into a global franchise
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Christopher Hyde-Smith, eminent flautist who played a flute solo in Lawrence of Arabia – obituary
Hyde-Smith was once introduced as ‘the distinguished flautist’ and an old lady asked: ‘Tell me, my dear, what do you actually do to floors?’
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Chris Simon, ice hockey ‘enforcer’ notorious for his violent play who won his sport’s highest prize – obituary
He won the Stanley Cup with Colorado Avalanche but was suspended for a total of 65 games during his career
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Wing Commander John Bell, last wartime British aircrew of the 617 ‘Dambuster’ Squadron – obituary
At 6ft 4in, Bell was thought too tall to be a pilot, so he was trained as an observer and then as a bomb aimer destined for Bomber Command
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Peter McAleese, mercenary veteran of SAS and Paras who was paid to kill Pablo Escobar – obituary
McAleese dwelt on his failings as husband and father: ‘I have a ... lot of regrets and none of them are in the soldiering side of my life’
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Sir Geoffrey Tantum, MI6 Middle East controller and noted Arabist who served in the SBS – obituary
His ‘quintessential Englishness’ was evident in ‘a good suit and tie even in the hottest weather and profound, perhaps excessive, courtesy’
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Jean Malaurie, explorer who chronicled the disastrous effects of a US ‘invasion’ of Greenland – obituary
He found high rates of alcoholism and male suicide among the Inuit after they were ejected from their land to make way for a US airbase
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Edwin Mullins, writer, broadcaster and filmmaker who befriended many great 20th-century artists – obituary
His film about pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela led to a letter from Mary Whitehouse telling him he was ‘a light unto the nation’
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Shigeichi Negishi, inventor of the karaoke machine – obituary
‘I knew right away I’d invented something new,’ he said of his original ‘Sparko Box’
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Tom Henson, infantry officer who won an MC after fierce close-quarters combat in Korea – obituary
Henson drove off machine-gun and grenade attacks from all sides and carried a dead comrade more than a mile back to the battalion lines
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John White, maverick composer who turned gently absurd sounds into minimalist ‘systems music’ – obituary
In Drinking and Hooting Machine, performers with bottles of beer alternate between gulping and blowing, like a chorus of mournful owls
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David Seidler, childhood stammerer who won an Oscar for his screenplay for The King’s Speech – obituary
He had to wait two decades to write his script after the Queen Mother asked him to wait until she died
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Thomas Stafford, astronaut whose space handshake with a Soviet helped thaw the Cold War – obituary
In 1969, as commander of Apollo 10, he also flew the lunar module almost to the Moon’s surface in a crucial dress rehearsal for the landings
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