Tag: Obituary

Henry Kissinger — who as a top American foreign policy official oversaw, overlooked and at times actively perpetrated some of the most grotesque war crimes the United States and its allies have committed — died Wednesday at his home in Connecticut. He was 100 years old.Kissinger’s death was announced ...

Taking the world by surprise, on Tuesday 2 April 1982 Argentinian troops invaded what they call the Islas Malvinas (the Falkland Islands), in what the junta leader General Leopoldo Galtieri described as a “historic feat”.Harold Briley, who has died of cancer aged 92, was the first to alert people ...

Raymond Illingworth, who has died aged 89, was one of England’s most successful cricket captains, leading his side to a series victory in Australia, in 1970-71, and then retaining the Ashes at home, in 1972. A tough Yorkshireman and an all-rounder who gave nothing away with either bat or ...

Abdul Qadeer Khan, a controversial figure revered as the “father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb”, has died at 85, authorities said on Sunday, having been hospitalised with Covid-19.The atomic scientist was hailed as a national hero for transforming his country into the world’s first Islamic nuclear power, but regarded by ...

Dilip Kumar, one of Bollywood’s most accomplished and respected film stars, died on Wednesday aged 98, prompting tributes from across Indian and Pakistani cinema, politics, sport and even animal rights.Kumar was one of the biggest names of India’s golden age of cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s. Nicknamed ...

Dilip Kumar, one of Bollywood's biggest stars who dominated the golden age of Indian cinema from the 1940s to the 1960s, died Wednesday morning at the age of 98, a family friend said. Kumar had been ailing for some time and was in and out of the hospital the ...

Harold Jackson, who has died aged 88, was one of the few journalists to have served the Guardian under four editors – AP Wadsworth, Alastair Hetherington, Peter Preston and Alan Rusbridger – although in his case only just four. Shortly after Rusbridger became editor in 1995, Jackson – Harry, ...

So, when he returned, it was natural that he should get involved with issues of civil liberties beginning with the massacre of Sikhs in Delhi, the explosion at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, the demolition of the Babri Masjid, the burning of the train at Godhra, the human ...

He was dynamic, irascible, exasperating, intriguing. And he was always three steps behind his wife, Queen Elizabeth, who utterly adored him throughout their 73-year marriage, flaws, faux pas and all.Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died Friday at 99, may not have been warmly embraced by the British ...

It was 1989, another disastrous summer for English cricket. The Ashes had been lost, horribly. Half the England team were on the brink of joining a rebel tour to the pariah state of South Africa. Of those staying, the former star Ian Botham was in eclipse and there was ...