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Joan Savage, variety star who appeared as Greta Garbo in Dad’s Army and in Coronation Street – obituary
By royal request, she sang Noël Coward’s It’s Bound to be Right on the Night on the radio for the Queen Mother's birthday
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Sir Frank Sanderson, businessman behind Battle of the Somme museum at Lutyens’s Memorial for the Missing – obituary
A museum at the hallowed site was controversial, but he raised £700,000 from over 2,300 donors, many of them pensioners who sent in £5 notes
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Dame Sandra Burslem, academic who turned Manchester Metropolitan University into a powerhouse – obituary
She spent her early years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp and didn’t attend university until she was a single mother of 28
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Heather Rogers, leading media and defamation lawyer who acted for Deborah Lipstadt against David Irving – obituary
Irving inadvertently addressed the judge as ‘Mein Fuhrer’ in his closing submissions, and was left with a £2 million bill for costs
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The Rev Paul Abram, parachuting Army padre who was later chaplain to the Tower of London – obituary
Abram was in the mould of the brave chaplains in the Second World War who dropped at Arnhem and stayed behind with the wounded
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AS Byatt, ingenious and cerebral novelist who won the Booker Prize for Possession – obituary
For her 1990 bestseller, she permitted herself to add a dash of her beloved Georgette Heyer to her usual models, Proust and DH Lawrence
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Christopher Gaisford-St Lawrence, owner of Howth Castle in Ireland and racing enthusiast – obituary
At Howth, Gaisford-St Lawrence modernised the farming practices, cut costs and built a hotel and two 18-hole golf courses
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Dale Reid, record-breaking golfer who led Europe to victory in the Solheim Cup – obituary
She won 21 tournaments, finished in the top 10 135 times and shared the record for the lowest winning score
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Elinor Otto, longest-serving ‘Rosie the Riveter’ who built aeroplanes until she was 95 – obituary
She took a riveting job at 65 cents an hour in early 1942 and then returned to the aviation industry after the war, making C-17s at Boeing
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Joan Jara, British dancer who fought for justice after her folk-singer husband was killed in Pinochet’s Chile – obituary
Her husband, the Left-wing activist and singer-songwriter Victor Jara, was beaten savagely and his body was found to be riddled with bullets
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Finlay MacLeod, champion of the Gaelic language and culture – obituary
He established a Gaelic college on Skye, gave tours of historic sites, wrote books and presented radio and television programmes
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Maryanne Trump Barry, judge who was confidante to her brother Donald until she turned on him in 2020 – obituary
‘He has no principles,’ she said of her brother. ‘None. None. His goddamned tweets and lying, oh my God! Donald is cruel’
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Jack Oliver, executive who oversaw the chaos at Apple Records in the last days of The Beatles – obituary
He had the task of contacting Paul McCartney to see if the rumours were right and that the Beatle had died
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Sir Thomas Legg, retired civil servant who investigated the MPs’ expenses scandal – obituary
He was upset when MPs reacted with personal hostility to his rejecting the claims of many that they had merely acted within the rules
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Don Walsh, American submariner who made the first dive to the bottom of the Marianas Trench – obituary
In 1960, with Jacques Piccard, he descended to the deepest point on earth, under such pressure that their Plexiglas window cracked
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Judy Nugent, actress who starred in one of the first television sitcoms – obituary
She was also played a teenager whose sight is restored by Superman, who then takes her on a flight round the world
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