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Hennessy's study path made the past his future
BASIL HENNESSY 1925-2013
At an early age Basil Hennessy developed a love of sport and archaeology.
Soldier who never surrendered became belated war hero
![FILE - In this May 20, 1996 file photo, former Japanese straggler Hiroo Onoda answers questions from media during a news conference in a Manila hotel upon arrival for a sentimental journey. Onoda, the last Japanese imperial soldier to emerge from hiding in the jungle in Philippines and surrender after World War II, has died. He was 91. Onoda died Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014 at a Tokyo hospital. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/28/5112683/20140128201146537959-90x60.jpg)
HIROO ONODA 1922-2014
Hiroo Onoda was a wartime Japanese officer who surrendered only in 1974, having hunkered down in the jungles of the Philippines for nearly three decades in defiant honour of the Imperial Army.
Renaissance man of local film industry
![Andrew Plain at the AFI awards](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/27/5109973/20140127200114852042-90x60.jpg)
ANDREW PLAIN 1953-2013
At two metres, Andrew Plain was a very tall man, but he was also a towering figure in other, more important respects. He was one of Australia's most distinguished film sound designers and gained a national and international reputation through the high quality and innovative nature of his work on feature films, documentaries, shorts and television dramas.
Nobel economist who help solve labour-market puzzles
![This undated photo provided by Northwestern University shows Dale Mortensen, a Nobel laureate and longtime professor of economics at Northwestern University. Personal assistant and close family friend Sue Triforo says Mortensen died Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, at his home in Wilmette, Ill. He was 74. Mortensen shared the Nobel economics prize with two other Americans in 2010 for their work explaining how unemployment can remain high despite a large number of job openings. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Northwestern University, Lars Kruse) MANDATORY CREDIT](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/27/5109971/20140127200028372053-90x60.jpg)
DALE MORTENSEN
Dale Mortensen shared the 2010 Nobel prize in economic sciences, with Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, for their work on so-called "search markets", in which buyers and sellers have difficulty finding each other, in particular the labour market.
The man who brought the stars down to earth
![TELESCOPE;SYDNEY;950907;PHOTOGRAPH BY DEAN SEWELL;SMH;NEWS;PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS JOHN DOBSON,ONE OF THE WORLDS BEST KNOWN AMATEUR ASTRONOMERS WITH ONE OF HIS](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/24/5103852/shpdobsonthumb-20140124184226737144-90x60.jpg)
JOHN DOBSON 1915-2014
John Dobson was a former monk and self-taught stargazer who developed a powerful, inexpensive telescope that almost anyone could build and showed thousands how to do it during five decades as one of public astronomy's most influential evangelists.
Wine pioneer Perc McGuigan was a living legend of the industry
![6.6.2003: 21933 NEWS Perc McGuigan at his Rutherford home. Ron Bell](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/24/5103847/shppercthumb-20140124183431429137-90x60.jpg)
PERC MCGUIGAN 1913-2014
Few people other than Perc McGuigan were witness to and a key participant in the past century of Australian winemaking, although he will probably be best remembered for his 26 years as the Branxton cellarmaster-manager of Penfolds' prized Dalwood operation.
Gilligan's Island prof could fix anything - except boats
![FILE - JANUARY 16: Actor Russell Johnson, best known as the Professor on](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/24/5103855/shpjohnsonthumb-20140124184439197461-90x60.jpg)
RUSSELL JOHNSON 1924-2014
Russell Johnson was an actor who made a living by mostly playing villains in westerns until he was cast as the Professor, the brains of the bunch of sweetly clueless, self-involved, hopelessly naive island castaways on the hit sitcom Gilligan's Island.
Movie star recluse was 'India's Greta Garbo'
![This undated photo, shows Indian Bollywood actress Suchitra Sen in Kolkata, India. Sen, India's legendary actress known for her memorable roles in both Bengali language and Bollywood films, died Friday, Jan. 17, 2014 after a cardiac arrest, her daughter said. She was 82. (AP Photo)](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/24/5103850/shpsuchritathumb-20140124184028589953-90x60.jpg)
SUCHITRA SEN 1931-2014
Suchitra Sen was one of India's best-known movie actresses. She remained famous more than 30 years after she made her last film.
'Fools and Horses' Trigger type-cast for life
![FILE - This is a Sept. 13. 2011 file photo of British actor Roger Lloyd-Pack who was best known for playing dim-witted street-sweeper Trigger on the sitcom](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/24/5103849/shploydthumb-20140124183822557253-90x60.jpg)
ROGER LLOYD-PACK 1944-2014
The actor Roger Lloyd-Pack will forever be associated with the slow-witted Peckham road sweeper Trigger, the character he played in the much-loved television series Only Fools and Horses. He was also well known as disgusting farmer Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley.
Conservative fundraier cleaned out by Broome
![Lord McAlpine](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/26/5107093/20140126163315796162-90x60.jpg)
LORD MCALPINE OF WEST GREEN 1942-2014
Lord McAlpine of West Green was an early supporter and confidant of Margaret Thatcher and as Conservative Party treasurer in the 1980s was probably the most successful fundraiser the party ever had. Yet, by nature a dilettante, he did not become a significant political figure.
World failed to end for guru of the 70s 'Jesus freaks'
CHUCK SMITH 1927-2013
Chuck Smith was a Christian fundamentalist pastor whose appeal to disillusioned hippies of the Haight Ashbury era fuelled the rise of the “Jesus movement” of the 1970s and inspired the introduction of religious worship into pop culture.
Publisher a jack-of-all-trades, master of most
TOM ROSENTHAL 1935-2014
Tom Rosenthal was one of the most eminent publishers of his generation, successively directing the fortunes of Secker & Warburg, William Heinemann and Andre Deutsch.
Footloose Clockwork Orange sculptoraimed to shock
HERMAN MAKKINK 1937-2013
Herman Makkink was a Dutch-born sculptor whose work achieved a certain notoriety when two examples in fibreglass were featured in Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film A Clockwork Orange.
Mayor Pat Reilly never lost that loving feeling for Willoughby
![SHD NEWS ELECTION 2003
Photo shows independant candidate for Willoughby Pat Reilly preparing to vote. He is joined by daughter Sophie and wife Beth. 21st March 2003
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PAT REILLY 1952-2014
News reports featuring Pat Reilly typically prefaced his name with epithets such as ''colourful mayor'' or ''larrikin mayor''. They also rarely omitted to mention ''Elvis impersonator''.
Distinguished maestro was also a champion of the left
![Conductor Claudio Abbado](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/24/5102117/th-Claudio%20%20Abbado-90x60.jpg)
CLAUDIO ABBADO 1933-2014
The Italian conductor Claudio Abbado held four of the top musical posts in Europe: La Scala Milan, the London Symphony Orchestra, Vienna State Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic.
Refugee gave his life to save others
![John Mac Acuek in Australia](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/22/5097033/shpacuekthumb-20140122175909374442-90x60.jpg)
JOHN MAC ACUEK 1972-2014
John Mac Acuek was killed recently while he was leading an effort to save civilians caught up in the fighting in South Sudan. It was a tragic, yet heroic, end for a man who seemed to have escaped war to make a new beginning in Australia.
Radio stalwart a talkback pioneer
![From left Ken Archer, a former Sydney commercial network GM who went on to be a member of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, Tony Staley, former Minister for Communications in the Fraser government, Bruce Gyngell of Channel 9 and 7 fame but then Chair of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, Bruce Rogerson who was then GM of 2CH and Des Foster on the right.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/20/5091435/shpfosterthumb-20140120175806455678-90x60.jpg)
DES FOSTER 1924-2013
Among other events during his life in radio, Des Foster was a pioneer of talkback in the Sydney market. Until 1967, broadcasting regulations forbade the rebroadcasting of telephone calls, but when that was changed, radio changed.
Personal tragedy helped colour exiled poet's writing
![Argentine poet Juan Gelman attends a news conference in the northern city of Monterrey in this July 18, 2008 file photo. Juan Gelman, the celebrated Argentine poet and fierce critic of the South American nation's](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/20/5091433/shpgelmanthumb-20140120175932959264-90x60.jpg)
JUAN GELMAN 1930-2014
Juan Gelman was an Argentinian poet and an exile whose writings were coloured by personal tragedy he suffered at the hands of his country's military dictatorship.
Publisher had passion for fine art
![Sam Ure-Smith,publisher. Credit National Library](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/19/5089070/shpsmiththumb-20140119164023348935-90x60.jpg)
SAM URE-SMITH 1920-2013
Over the years, Sam Ure-Smith's independent publishing house, Fine Arts Press Pty Ltd, became sought after to rebrand and set new standards in the production of art-related merchandise in Australia - an important source of funds for any museum or gallery.
Fairfax driver loved self-sufficient life, often-quirk renovating
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TED LENTON 1932-2013
Ted Lenton loved being self-sufficient, and getting closer to nature. He was employed as a driver for Fairfax, but away from work, year after year in his back garden in Engadine, he grew all manner of vegetables, from seed.
First state coroner sought justice in times of disaster
![Kevin Waller](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/17/5085870/20140117184156401367-90x60.jpg)
KEVIN WALLER 1931-2014
Kevin Waller was a widely respected magistrate and coroner in NSW and was the first state coroner, from 1988 until 1992, a period in which there seemed to be more than the usual number of disasters.
Russian archaeologist struck gold in Turkmenistan
VIKTOR SARIANIDI 1929-2014
Viktor Sarianidi was a Russian archaeologist who found himself starring in his own Indiana Jones adventure when he unearthed six burial mounds at Tillya Tepe on the plains north of the Turkmenistan mountains in the historical region of Bactria, northern Afghanistan.
Russian forecaster of earthquakes, homicides
VLADIMIR KEILIS-BOROK 1921-2014
Vladimir Keilis-Borok was a Russian seismologist who claimed to have discovered geophysics' "holy grail" - a foolproof method of predicting earthquakes.
German violinst a champion of post-War 'new music'
MARIA LIDKA 1914-2014
German-born violinist Maria Lidka championed new music in post-war London. Among the composers who wrote for her were Michael Tippett, Richard Rodney Bennett and Peter Racine Fricker.
Influential philosopher of 'the act of being'
PETER GEACH 1916-2014
Peter Geach was a formidable logician and happened to be married to one of the 20th century's leading English-language philosophers, Elizabeth Anscombe.
Methodist bishop made U-turn on gay marriage
JACK TUELL 1923-2014
When retired Methodist bishop Jack Tuell was asked how he changed his mind on issues of gay ordination and gay marriage, he explained it simply: "I changed my mind when I changed my heart." But the answer was more complicated.
Progeria trapped boy in an old man's body
SAM BERNS 1996-2014
Sam Berns was a Massachusetts high school junior whose life with the illness progeria was the subject of a documentary film recently shortlisted for an Academy Award.
Young chess grandmaster dead at his peak
![Vugar Gashimov.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/17/5086580/th-797275671-90x60.jpg)
VUGAR GASHIMOV 1986-2014
Vugar Gashimov was a chess grandmaster from Azerbaijan, one of the world's top players for a decade. He also helped to lead his team to the gold medal in the European Team Chess Championship in 2009.
A lifelong passion for showbiz roles
![David Penfold. Photo supplied by the family](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/15/5078963/shppenfoldthumb-20140115172205412897-90x60.jpg)
DAVID PENFOLD 1944-2013
David Penfold was a man of the theatre: performer, director and manager. From a young age he was a part of many musical societies before eventually moving on to bigger productions.
Paved way for Hong Kong's TV and film industry
![REFILE - CORRECTING AGE AND UPDATING CAPTION INFORMATION
Media mogul Run Run Shaw attends the Shaw Prize 2006 Award Presentation Ceremony in Hong Kong in this September 12, 2006 file photograph. Run Run Shaw, the Hong Kong mogul who created a media empire in Asia spanning movies to television, died on January 7, 2014 at the age of 106. REUTERS/Paul Yeung/Files (CHINA - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT OBITUARY BUSINESS)](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/15/5078974/shprunthumb-20140115172348437349-90x60.jpg)
RUN RUN SHAW 1907-2014
Sir Run Run Shaw turned martial arts movies, an often maligned format, into a globally loved genre, and his B-movie productions never let a modest budget and dubious dialogue get in the way of creating a blockbuster packed with punches.
Religion provided Ian Barbour with a response to scientific challenge
![Ian Barbour, right, recipient of the 1999 Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, is congratulated by Sir John Templeton who founded the award, Wednesday, March 10, 1999. Barbour launched a new era in the dialogue between science and religion more than three decades ago, and is now one of the world's leading advocates for ethics in technolgy. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/14/5076374/shpbarbourthumb-20140114190354828898-90x60.jpg)
IAN BARBOUR 1923-2013
For Ian Barbour, the deadly possibilities of the Atomic Age raised questions that science couldn't answer - a perplexing situation for a young physicist after World War II.
War brought a bargee's life before move to Tasmania
![Audrey Williams (standing) with Evelyn Hunt on their boat Dipper.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/14/5076371/shpwilliamsthumb-20140114190227173413-90x60.jpg)
AUDREY WILLIAMS 1921-2013
In November 1942, Audrey Harper and Evelyn Hunt walked down to the Grand Union Canal, which runs between London and Birmingham. They carried kitbags with only a handful of possessions other than many warm clothes.
Harmonising brother blazed a trail for rock and country
![Phil Everly.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/13/5073287/20140113172159349422-90x60.jpg)
PHIL EVERLY 1939-2014
Phil Everly was the younger half of the Everly Brothers, the duo that helped to transform pop music in the 1960s before being eclipsed by the bands that they had influenced. As they were overtaken by new musical fashions, the brothers continued to perform and record until 1973, when their relationship fractured publicly.
Science fiction guru Graham Stone was an evangelist for the genre
![Graham Stone](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/13/5073291/20140113172439211276-90x60.jpg)
GRAHAM STONE 1926-2014
Graham Stone was a leading authority on Australian science fiction. His magnum opus was Australian Science Fiction Bibliography (2004), which he updated and revised twice and the final edition, in 2010, reached more than 320 pages of listings in two columns of fine print.
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End of the line for Israel's king of the comeback
![Ariel Sharon](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/12/5070285/1389657221730.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Ed O' Loughlin, Gerry Carman Ariel Sharon’s obituary had been written many times before, but recovery from a massive brain haemorrhage he suffered on January 4, 2006, proved one comeback too many for the great survivor of Israeli public life.
Cazalet series creator had her own troubled saga as Mrs Amis
![British Writers: LITERARY FAMILY AMIS
Three writers in the family: OPS the distinguished novelist Kingsley Amis with his son Martin Amis and second wife Elizabeth Jane Howard, both of whom are also writers.
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ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD 1923-2014
Elizabeth Jane Howard was acclaimed for her Cazalet series of novels, an epic saga of affluent, middle-class, English family life. Yet she was perhaps equally well known for the turbulence of her personal life, notably as the second wife of the novelist Kingsley Amis.
Special Olympics ambassador helped athletes with disabilities
![Robyn Cook](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/09/5065160/th-793716033-90x60.jpg)
ROBYN COOK 1941-2013
Robyn Cook was one of Australia's greatest advocates for people with intellectual disabilities in sport. She was a Special Olympics ambassador, supporting local, state, national and international sporting events, and her programs and others she worked on transformed the lives of hundreds of athletes across Australia.
TV's 'Uncle Phil' never quite got it
![(FILES): This June 3, 2009 file photo shows US actor James Avery arriving at the Palm Pre Launch Event to Benefit Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America held at Raleigh Studios in Los Angeles, California. Avery, most famous as Uncle Phil in hit 1990s sitcom](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/09/5065062/shpaverythumb-20140109174245890098-90x60.jpg)
Black actress found Oscar nomination worked against her
![FILE - This March 31, 1960 file photo shows Juanita Moore, a groundbreaking actress and an Academy Award nominee for her role as Lana Turner's black friend in the classic weeper](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/09/5065064/shpmoorethumb-20140109174636677796-90x60.jpg)
JUANITA MOORE 1914-2013
Juanita Moore earned an Academy Award nomination in 1960 for the single major film role she ever landed, then fell through the cracks of a Hollywood system that had little to offer a black actress besides small parts as maids and nannies.
Portugal's - perhaps the world's - finest striker
EUSEBIO DA SILVA FERREIRA 1942-2014
Eusébio da Silva Ferreira was the first great African footballer, and ranked alongside Pele as one of the finest strikers in the history of the sport.
Preeminent historian of English agriculture
JOAN THIRSK 1922-2013
Joan Thirsk was the leading agricultural historian of her generation and had a huge impact on her field in terms of methodology and research.
Champion of Steady State theory became a galactic outlaw
HALTON C ARP 1927-2013
Halton C Arp was a prodigal son of American astronomy whose dogged insistence that astronomers had misread the distances to quasars cast doubt on the Big Bang theory of the universe and led to his exile from his peers and the telescopes he loved.
She only appered in one movie, but chose well
ALICIA RHETT 1915-2013
Alicia Rhett rose to international attention in Gone With the Wind as India Wilkes, the serious young woman whose love for the dull and timid Charles Hamilton is spurned in favour of southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh). Despite lasting acclaim, however, it was to be her only screen role.
Knew the price of everything, and the value of everything
MARTIN MILLER 1946-2013
Martin Miller was a charismatic entrepreneur and bon vivant, and after co-founding the bestselling antiques price guides that bear his name (and made his fortune) went on to become a successful hotelier.
Last Maharaja lived strictly by the numbers
![Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, the scion of the erstwhile Mysore royal family sits on the golden throne on the last day of Khas Durbar or private court at Mysore Palace, in Mysore 145 kilometers south west of Bangalore, India, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006. The throne weighs about 200 kilograms and is displayed for public viewing for ongoing Dussera festival. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/06/5055951/shpSrikantadattathumb-20140106154209919835-90x60.jpg)
SRIKANTADATTA NARASIMHARAJA WADIYAR 1953-2013
Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar was the last scion of the Wadiyar dynasty that ruled the south Indian kingdom of Mysore between 1399 and independence.
Compassionate hero who loved nature
![Gordon Butler in later years.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/06/5055950/shpbutlerthumb-20140106154047456147-90x60.jpg)
GORDON BUTLER 1918-2013
In 2012, much to the astonishment of this modest man, Gordon Butler became a radio celebrity when he was interviewed by Richard Glover on ABC 702 about his World War II experiences.
Film composer helped to tingle spines
![Wojciech Kilar](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/03/5051437/th-KilarObit-90x60.jpg)
WOJCIECH KILAR 1932-2013
Wojciech Kilar was a Polish pianist and composer of classical music and scores for more than 130 films, including Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning The Pianist and Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Force in chemistry and new university
![Gordon Barclay](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/03/5051436/th-BarclayObit-90x60.jpg)
GORDON BARCLAY 1923-2013
Gordon Barclay grew up supporting his widowed mother by running an oyster lease on the Karuah River and was the first child in his family, and area, to go to high school.
David Clark: Manager of England's 1970-71 Ashes winning team
![England's captain Ray Illingworth looks down at Australian batsman Terry Jenner after being hit by a bumper from English bowler John Snow at the Sydney Cricket Ground on the first day of the Sixth Test during the 1970/71 Ashes series. Jenner was taken to hospital, and the crowd threw beer cans at Snow, before Illingworth led his team off the field in protest. England won the match by 62 runs and the series 2-0, 12 February 1971.
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DAVID CLARK 1919-2013
David Clark was for three decades a leading cricket administrator with MCC and Kent, the club he had captained. He managed two England tours, on one of which – to Australia in 1970-71 – the Ashes went back to England.
From typist to pinnacle of magazine world
![bill taub obit pic
Life magazine cover shot of austronaut Charles Conrad taken by NASA photographer Bill Taub, to go with two-column obit, 22taub.
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PATRICIA RYAN 1938 - 2013
Patricia Ryan started at Time Inc as a typist in the secretarial pool and rose to become the managing editor of People and Life, a rare ascent for a woman in what was then a male-dominated company.
Choreographer of Mary Poppins, Sound Of Music
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MARC BREAUX 1924 - 2013
Marc Breaux was one of the lead choreographers on Mary Poppins (1964), coaching Dick Van Dyke through one of the most memorable live-action dance showstoppers in the Disney film canon - the chimney-sweep knees-up Step In Time.
Danger was his middle name
JOHN GAFF 1927-2013
Lieutenant-Colonel John Gaff was in overall command of all bomb disposal units during his posting to Northern Ireland in the 1970s and was awarded a George Medal.
Drew the hooligan worm that cleaned up Hong Kong
![Commuters travel on the Star Ferry (R) in Victoria Harbour from Kowloon to Hong Kong island (background) on November 21, 2013. Hong Kong's economy grew](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/03/5051201/mwsthumb-hacker-20140103181627350842-90x60.jpg)
ARTHUR HACKER 1932-2013
Arthur Hacker created Lap Sap Chung, a long-snouted green worm with red spots and forked tail which persuaded the citizens of Hong Kong not to litter and achieved cult status afterwards.
British satirist of the '60s went on to bag Blair
JOHN FORTUNE 1939-2013
John Fortune , who has died aged 74, was part of the satire boom of the 1960s, and continued to lampoon the Establishment in the New Labour era.
Campaigner against Mexican drug gangs dies peacefully at home
![This 2012 photo released by the family of Mike O'Connor shows journalist Mike O'Connor posing for a portrait in Mexico City. O'Connor, a veteran war correspondent who became a tough advocate and counselor for threatened journalists in Mexico, one of the world's most dangerous countries for the press has died. O'Connor, 67, was the Mexico representative of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He died in his sleep at his home in Mexico City on Sunday, Dec. 29. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Mike O'Connor's family)](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/02/5048703/mwsthumb-o-connor-20140102170800239378-90x60.jpg)
Richard Fausset MIKE O'CONNOR 1946-2013
Mike O'Connor was an experienced war correspondent who in recent years had worked in defense of journalists in Mexico at a time when it had become one of the most treacherous countries for reporters in the world.
Pioneer of Australian diplomatic corps
![L-R Mr J T (Jack) Smith ISO, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Kevin Rudd, Mr F B (Barry) Hall at an event celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Department of External Affairs and 110th anniversary of the Department of Trade and Customs.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/30/5042736/shphallthumb-20131230182300629602-90x60.jpg)
BARRY HALL 1921-2013
Barry Hall was the last of the first. He was the remaining surviving member of the inaugural class of diplomatic staff cadets recruited in 1943, when 1500 eligible men and women applied to join the Department of External Affairs.
From fitter and turner to sugar industry expert
![photo of Doctor John Allen for his obituary written by my father Mr Jan Smith. Image supplied.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/01/5046434/shpallenthumb-20131231171735449494-90x60.jpg)
JOHN ALLEN 1925-2013
As a young apprentice fitter and turner at Garden Island naval base in Sydney, John Allen was given the job of entering the confined control space of two salvaged Japanese midget submarines after they had been sunk in Sydney Harbour by depth charges in 1942.
Man who was Billy Jack an independent-movie pioneer
![File-This Oct. 22. 1991, file photo shows actor Tom](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2014/01/01/5046436/shplaughlinthumb-20131231171901511153-90x60.jpg)
TOM LAUGHLIN 1931-2013
Tom Laughlin created the Billy Jack movie series of the 1970s, a low-budget fusion of counterculture piety and martial-arts violence that struck a chord with audiences and became a prototype for independent film-making and distribution.
Singing with the stars
![Copy pic shows Luciano Pavarotti left performing in the production of L Elisir D Amore The Elixer of Love at Her Majesty s Theatre in Melbourne in 1965 with Elizabeth Harwood and Robert Allman right . 6th September 2007 SMH NEWS/Luciano Pavarotti Copy pic by Dallas Kilponen/dak.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/29/5040792/shpallmanthumb-20131229162533134963-90x60.jpg)
ROBERT ALLMAN 1927-2013
Robert Allman was one of Australia's great singers. To put his career into proper perspective it is necessary to list some of the great singers with whom he performed.
Scientist loved both medical research and leading jazz bands
![Dr David Kemp](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/29/5040795/shpkempthumb-20131229162654933269-90x60.jpg)
DAVE KEMP 1945-2013
Dave Kemp was a respected scientist and an enthusiastic musician. Much of his time as an undergraduate at Adelaide University was spent playing double bass at jazz clubs before he discovered a love of research.
Abstract painter embraced realism
![Gunter Christmann](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/27/5038334/shpgunterthumb-20131227180729710314-90x60.jpg)
GUNTER CHRISTMANN 1936-2013
When asked to comment about his art for Mervyn Horton's Present Day Art in Australia (1969), Gunter Christmann replied: ''I do not care to write about art: I am a painter, I cover flat areas with paint. Paintings are to be looked at.''
Music experimentalist broadened defintion of 'jazz'
![FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 2, 2007, file photo, jazz flutist Yusef Lateef discusses his music in the Jazz Talk Tent at Hart Plaza at the Detroit International Jazz Festival in Detroit. Grammy-winning musician and composer Lateef, one of the first to incorporate world music into traditional jazz, died Monday, Dec. 23, 2013. He was 93. (AP Photo/ The Detroit News, Ricardo Thomas, File)](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/27/5038222/1_shplateefthumb-20131227165505316974-90x60.jpg)
YUSEF LATEEF1920-2013
Yusef Lateef was a jazz saxophonist and flutist who spent his career crossing musical boundaries, starting out as a tenor saxophonist with a big tone and a bluesy style, not significantly more or less talented than numerous other saxophonists in the crowded jazz scene of the 1940s.
Designer of the world's most popular killing machine
![FILE- In this Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1997 file photo Mikhail Kalashnikov shows a model of his world-famous AK-47 assault rifle at home in the Ural Mountain city of Izhevsk, 1000 km (625 miles) east of Moscow, Russia. Kalashnikov, whose work as a weapons designer for the Soviet Union is immortalized in the name of the world?s most popular firearm, died Monday at the age of 94 in a hospital of the city of Izhevsk where he lived. The AK-47 has been favored by guerrillas, terrorists and the soldiers of many armies. An estimated 100 million guns are spread worldwide. (AP Photo/Vladimir Vyatkin, File)](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/27/5038219/shpmikhailthumb-20131227165426424947-90x60.jpg)
MIKHAIL KALASHNIKOV 1919-2013
Mikhail Kalashnikov, who has died aged 94, invented the AK47 assault rifle which bears his name and became the weapon of choice for guerrillas, freedom fighters and terrorists the world over.
Pornographer's work 'utterly without redeeming social value'
![FILE - In this Oct. 25, 1977 file photo, pornographic magazine publisher Al Goldstein displays some of his reading material upon leaving the federal courthouse in Kansas City, Kan., where his obscenity trial resumed. Goldstein, the bird-flipping publisher of Screw magazine who helped break down legal barriers against pornography and raged against politicians, organized religion and anything that even suggested good taste, died at a Brooklyn hospice Thursday after a long illness, according to a friend, attorney Charles C. DeStefano. He was 77. (AP File Photo)](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/27/5038217/shpgoldsteinthumb-20131227165210156236-90x60.jpg)
AL GOLDSTEIN 1936-2013
Al Goldstein did not invent the dirty magazine, but he was the first to present it to a wide audience without the slightest pretense of classiness or subtlety. Sex as depicted in Screw was seldom pretty, romantic or even particularly sexy.
Custodian of Indian temple treasures
SREE UTHRADOM THIRUNAL MARTHANDA VARMA 1922-2013
Sree Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma was head of the family that once ruled the south Indian kingdom of Travancore and remained largely unknown to the wider world until 2011, when it was revealed that a temple of which he was hereditary custodian contained untold treasures.
Ex-Marine kept Lockheed Corporation airborne
LAWRENCE KITCHEN 1923-2013
Lawrence O. Kitchen was a business-savvy ex-Marine who ran Lockheed Corp. in an era when the aerospace industry was dominated by scientists and engineers.
RAF pilot won two gongs on one WWII mission
JIMMY FLINT 1913-2013
Wing Commander Jimmy Flint had the unique distinction of receiving two gallantry awards for separate actions during the same flight.
Distinguished navigator and strategist
![Richard Hammond](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/26/5036159/20131226181501715582-90x60.jpg)
RICHARD HAMMOND 1933-2013
A distinguished navigator and strategist who ranks among Australia's greatest yachtsman, Richard ''Sighty'' Hammond also played a significant part in the shaping of the modern Sydney skyline.
World music pioneer was also a top jazz performer
![Kim Sanders](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/20/5027090/20131220193739668459-90x60.jpg)
KIM SANDERS 1948-2013
The multi-instrumentalist musician/composer Kim Sanders liked to blow into things. Whether it was a tenor saxophone, a Turkish ney or some strange Balkan bagpipe made from a goatskin.
Top-notch creations made boy from Jerilderie a star in London
![Frederick Fox, milliner to the Queen at the hotel Sofitel today - profile piece on freddie](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/22/5029516/shpfoxthumb-20131222150735640145-90x60.jpg)
FREDERICK FOX 1931-2013
One of Britain's finest milliners, Australian-born Frederick Fox, liked to create hats that were both large and arresting, often sporting feathers or flowers (Royal Ascot was a theatre made for his designs).
Romance writer got her man and her millions of fans
![Book](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2008/03/21/94523/th_book-90x60.jpg)
Paul Vitello JANET DAILEY 1944-2013
Janet Dailey was secretary who married her boss at 19, wrote her first novel on something of a dare and went on to become one of the most successful American romance writers of her time, selling as many as 300 million books.
The end was nigh, more than once
![FILE - In this Monday, May 23, 2011 file photo, Harold Camping speaks during a taping of his show Open Forum in Oakland, Calif. Camping, the U.S. preacher who used his evangelical radio ministry and thousands of billboards to broadcast the end of the world and then gave up public prophecy when his date-specific doomsdays did not come to pass, died at his home Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013, said Family Radio Network marketing manager Nina Romero. He was 92. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/20/5026846/mwsthumb-camping-20131220183331774208-90x60.jpg)
Robert D. McFadden HAROLD CAMPING 1921-2013
Harold Camping was a Christian radio entrepreneur and biblical soothsayer who stirred consternation, ecstasy, complaints to the US Federal Communications Commission and widespread ridicule by repeatedly prophesying the end of the world - twice in 2011.
Uncertain starter become one of country music's leading lights
![FILE - In this March 13, 1981, file photo, country music singer Ray Price, performs in Nashville, Tenn. Price, one of country music's most popular and influential singers and bandleaders who had more than 100 hits and was one of the last living connections to Hank Williams, died Monday, Dec. 16, 2013. He was 87. (AP Photo/File)](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/18/5019789/mwsthumb-rayprice-20131218194635993761-90x60.jpg)
RAY PRICE 1926-2013
Ray Price was one of the most successful country singers in Nashville's history, with a career lasting from 1949 until earlier this year; among his hits was the oft-covered song Release Me.
Two wars and a thousand great stories
![STATION 990914 SMH GUIDE PHOTO SHOWS STATION X;THE KEYS TO THE REICH SCREENS ON ABC TV. PICTURE - BLETCHLEY PARK AKA STATION X.***FDCTRANSFER***](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/18/5019782/mwsthumb-annerussell-20131218192355335684-90x60.jpg)
ANNE RUSSELL 1923-2013
Anne Russell worked at Bletchley Park in World War II before driving ambulances for the Free French during the Allied thrust into Germany. Subsequently she was employed by the Deuxieme Bureau - French Military Intelligence - in the Indochina campaign.
'Bravest' was last survivor of Myanmar independence fighters
![Yangon River Myanmar](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2012/03/17/3141450/pd-world_20120317160440156409-90x60.jpg)
YE HTUT 1922-2013
Ye Htut was the last surviving member of the “Thirty Comrades” who led the fight against British rule in Burma during and after World War II.
To the UK's otters, she was saviour
![A six-year-old male river otter named](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/20/5026305/1_mwsthumb-wayre-20131220161016728312-90x60.jpg)
JEANNE WAYRE 1927 - 2013
Jeanne Wayre co-founded the Otter Trust, a charity that pioneered the captive breeding of otters for release into the wild and has been credited with saving the otter from extinction in much of England.
Sharp eye for history's lies against women
![History](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2009/07/24/648036/th_history-90x60.jpg)
Margalit Fox CYNTHIA RUSSETT 1937 - 2013
Cynthia Eagle Russett was an historian whose best-known book explored attempts by Victorian thinkers to scientifically “prove” women's inferiority.
The Great Train Robber turned famous fugitive
![ronnie biggs](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/18/5019620/th-121101070-90x60.jpg)
RONNIE BIGGS 1929-2013
Ronnie Biggs was a carpenter and petty crook who became an international celebrity for his role in one of Britain's most famous crimes, the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and for the decades he spent afterward eluding a worldwide manhunt by Scotland Yard.
Left wing journalist with a nose for corruption
![Tony Reeves.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/17/5016963/20131217182757642173-90x60.jpg)
TONY REEVES 1940-2013
The award-winning author and journalist Tony Reeves was your classic leftie, a genuine class warrior and true believer. He strove hard to be a modest and common man but was continually undermined by his uncommon compassion, commitment, larrikinism, humanity and grace.
Oscar-winning starlet from the golden age of Hollywood
![Joan Fontaine](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/17/5016967/20131217183055921144-90x60.jpg)
JOAN FONTAINE 1917-2013
Joan Fontaine was the younger sister of Olivia de Havilland - with whom she maintained a lifelong feud - and indelibly associated with the lead role in the film of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca (1940).
Best actor Oscar eluded Lawrence of Arabia star
![Lawrence of Arabia (1962): Peter O'Toole as T. E. Lawrence. SOURCE: Publicity](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/16/5012613/kwotthumb-20131216055455296011-90x60.jpg)
PETER O'TOOLE 1932-2013
Peter O'Toole was an Irish bookmaker's son with a hell-raising streak whose magnetic performance in the 1962 epic film Lawrence of Arabia earned him overnight fame and put him on the road to becoming one of his generation's most accomplished and charismatic actors.
The 'other woman' in Enid Blyton's divorce petition
![Ida Pollock](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/16/5014302/shppollockthumb-20131216174928198723-90x60.jpg)
IDA POLLOCK 1908-2013
Ida Pollock was 105 and the world's oldest working romantic novelist, and, as the author of 123 sagas, one of the most prolific. While her stories were largely untainted by sex, she was dismayed to be cast as the "other woman" in Enid Blyton's divorce petition.
World class choir musician's lasting legacy
![David Russell, choir master at St Mary's Cathedral.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/15/5012347/th-david-20russell-202-90x60.jpg)
DAVID RUSSELL 1937-2013
David Russell was a teacher, composer and one of the Australian Catholic Church's colourful culture warriors and musical leaders.
Author's robust ego was more than matched by his prodigious output
![British author Colin Wilson outdoors, February 21, 1957.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/15/5012348/th-colin-20wilson-90x60.jpg)
COLIN WILSON 1931–2013
Colin Wilson suspected he was a genius, and there were some who agreed with him when in 1956, aged 24, he published The Outsider, a somewhat portentous overview of existentialism and alienation.
Brilliant chemist was profoundly deaf
![Sir John Cornforth](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/13/5008714/20131213182427433107-90x60.jpg)
JOHN CONFORTH 1917-2013
John Cornforth was awarded a Nobel prize in chemistry in 1975 and is still the only Australian to take the Nobel in chemistry.
Versatile jazz sideman was not one to big-note himself
![FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 21, 2007, file photo, guitarist Jim Hall, right, plays with Geoffrey Keezer, left, on piano during the 50th annual Monterey Jazz Festival in Monterey, Calif. Hall, one of the leading jazz guitarists of the modern era, whose subtle technique, lyrical sound and introspective approach strongly influenced younger proteges such as Pat Metheny and Bill Frisell, died early Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2013, at age 83, his wife said. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/13/5008386/mwsthumb-jimhall-20131213163619753569-90x60.jpg)
JIM HALL 1930-2013
Jazz guitarist Jim Hall had a restrained, elegant style, rich in subtlety and nuance and expressed through the amplifier in a sound both mellow and carefully modulated.
Actor made versatility his calling card
![(FILE PHOTO) American Broadway Actor Christopher Evan Welch has died in Los Angeles following a short illness.
NEW YORK - JANUARY 11: Actor Christopher Evan Welch attends the after party for the Second Stage Theatre opening night of](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/11/5000055/mwsthumb-welch-20131211163141393573-90x60.jpg)
CHRISTOPHER EVAN WELCH, 1965-2013
Christopher Evan Welch was a versatile actor whose work ranged from New York stage productions of Shakespeare to the role of the narrator in Woody Allen's 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Elegance in acting career crowned by Sound of Music
![Marjorie Lawrence and husband Tom, with Eleanor Parker, who played her in the movie. Carolyn Webb story. 21 October 2012.](http://web.archive.org./web/20140129135219im_/http://images.smh.com.au/2013/12/11/5000230/1_mwsthumb-parker-20131211173621553224-90x60.jpg)
Anita Gates ELEANOR PARKER 1922-2013
Eleanor Parker was nominated three times for a best-actress Oscar but her best-known role was a supporting one, as the marriage-minded baroness in The Sound of Music.