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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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Lord Cotter, Liberal Democrat MP who championed small businesses – obituary
‘If just one job were to be created in every small business, it would solve the employment problem,’ he declared in his maiden speech
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Philip James, obesity scientist who popularised the Body Mass Index and waged war on junk food – obituary
In 1983, his report on fat, sugar and salt intakes was blocked by the DoH – a scandal described by one scientist as ‘our own Watergate’
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Ivor Robson, official starter at the Open Championship who introduced the golfers to the crowd for 40 years – obituary
He eschewed toilet breaks: ‘I didn’t eat or drink anything. My belief was if you don’t have any input, you shouldn’t have any output’
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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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Grainger Weston, scion to a bakery empire who became a visionary rancher – obituary
He wanted his 4,000-acre ranch to be ‘a Lone Star version of an English country estate, preserved for all time’
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Peter White, US soap star who gatecrashed a gay party in The Boys in the Band – obituary
The play debuted in the US in 1968, broke new ground in its depiction of gay men and attracted huge audiences
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Alain Estève, rugged French rugby union international known as ‘the Beast of Béziers’ – obituary
A master of the dark arts, he declared: ‘I always preferred to be the butcher rather than the veal’
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Wg Cdr Patrick Cliff, helicopter commander in Northern Ireland during a time of utmost danger – obituary
In Northern Ireland Cliff was praised for his strength of character and leadership in ‘welding’ his force into a ‘dynamic operational unit’
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Anne Ponsonby, SOE wireless operator who went on to join MI6 – obituary
On D-Day she heard over the radio, in uncoded transmission, the repeated declaration: ‘Vive la France, vive l’Angleterre, vive les Allies!’
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Frank Borman, astronaut who commanded Apollo 8 and led the first human orbit of the Moon – obituary
He had no interest in walking on the Moon, he said: ‘I didn’t care about picking up rocks. I wanted to beat the Soviets’
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Oleg Protopopov, figure skater who won Olympic golds with his wife, then defected from the Soviet Union – obituary
They dominated pairs competitions in the 1960s and revolutionised the sport, despite official obstruction – and later attacks – in the USSR
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Colour Sergeant Mick Eccles, Royal Marine awarded the Military Medal for a night ambush in the Falklands – obituary
In the Battle of Mount Harriet, he ‘set an outstanding example by leading from the front to encourage his section to exploit shock action’
