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Obituaries
Neil Thomson: champion for Aboriginal Australians
![Professor Neil Thomson.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/f/d/a/v/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpf8ik.png/1465454358094.jpg)
Keira James 4:39 PM Neil John Thomson, born September 14, 1942; died January 24, 2016.
Private Secretary to Duke of Edinburgh mixed Prince Philip's martini with his finger
![Floria, wife of Prince Donatus of Hesse, talks to Sir Brian McGrath as they watch Prince Philip compete in a carriage ...](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/f/d/1/5/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpfcxw.png/1465454207113.jpg)
4:36 PM Private secretary to Prince Philip took the position on condition his black Labrador could share the office
Ravenswood headmistress of 25 years with an undiminished zest for life
![Phyllis Evans was Ravenswood headmistress for 25 years.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/e/9/z/x/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpd9cx.png/1465420879896.jpg)
9:40 PM Ravenswood headmistress with a passion for travel, fundraising and girls' education
Viktor Korchnoi, chess grandmaster who defected
![Viktor Korchnoi: The only chess-playing septuagenarian in history who managed to remain in the top hundred.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/e/5/y/e/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpe50i.png/1465362393967.jpg)
Russian chess grandmaster known as Viktor the Terrible who became a pawn in the Cold War.
Shaffer brought magic to the theatre with Amadeus and Equus
![Daniel Radcliffe (left) and playwright Peter Shaffer celebrating his performance in Equus on Broadway in 2009.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/e/4/h/o/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpe30b.png/1465356743075.jpg)
Playwright Peter Shaffer produced many dramatic - and cinematic - triumphs, including Equus and Amadeus.
Talent behind the camera for many box-office hits
![Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/c/y/0/y/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpcurh.png/1465205221951.jpg)
Vilmos Szigmond was listed in the top-10 most influential cinematographers of all time by the Camera Guild.
Publisher was a champion of the obscure and the foreign until they became fashionable
![Peter Owen, UK publisher.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/c/y/0/m/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpcunh.png/1465204834615.jpg)
Publisher David Owen was a champion of the obscure, the neglected, the modern, the foreign, the difficult and the downright unpopular.
Politician used hunger strikes to campaign for change
![Marco Pannella, Italian politician.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/c/4/a/k/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpc4gi.png/1465120486564.jpg)
Marco Pannella was a political provocateur and a co-founder and long-time leader of Italy's Radical Party.
Businessman took his class act around the world and to a wide variety of industries
![Arthur Warburton, Melbourne businessman.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/c/4/7/p/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpc478.png/1465119937358.jpg)
Clare Warburton Arthur Warburton was raised by poor parents and lived for a time in an empty railway carriage, but went on to Cambridgeand became a businessman.
Muhammad Ali, titan of boxing and the 20th century, dies at 74
![Muhammad Al with his trainer Angelo Dundee at City Parks Gym in New York in 1962.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/b/j/c/r/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpbmxw.png/1465023915475.jpg)
Robert Lipsyte Muhammad Ali, the three-time world heavyweight boxing champion who helped define his turbulent times as the most charismatic and controversial sports figure of the 20th century, died Friday. He was 74.
ABC pioneer who went on to direct The Avengers and Upstairs Downstairs
![Television producer Ray Menmuir, whose first job with the ABC was as a radio producer.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/9/t/0/5/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gp9re2.png/1465299069888.jpg)
Director who revelled in the creative organisation and complexity of the studio
Seafarer and trade union leader helped shape Australia as a country of 'the fair go'
![Pat Geraghty Federal Secretary of Seamen's Union of Australia](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/a/n/l/1/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gp76h1.png/1465362189535.jpg)
PATRICK GERAGHTY, Seafarer and Trade Union Leader
Refugee historian explored the fragility of freedom
![Fritz Stern spent half a century as a professor at Columbia University.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/a/e/l/2/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gpaeha.png/1464863692818.jpg)
Emily Langer Fritz Stern fled Nazi Germany as a boy and became a leading historian of the land he left behind.
'Touching the mantle of creativity'
![Ruth Galene, who had a distinguished career as a dancer, devoted much of her latter career to teaching Dance Dynamics to ...](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/9/o/5/6/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gp9low.png/1464867839593.jpg)
For Ruth Galene, dancing was as natural and as necessary as breathing.
Connie Kopelov, married in first same sex wedding in New York
![Connie Kopelov, age 85, sitting, and her new wife Phyllis Siege on the steps of the City Clerk's office Manhattan](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/8/t/w/8/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gp8wuj.png/1465362713750.jpg)
Connie Kopelov, whose wedding to Phyllis Siegel in 2011 was the first legal same sex marriage in New York City
Carla Lane, the most successful woman writer in British TV comedy
![Writer Carla Lane at the British Soap Awards 2006 at BBC Television Centre.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/8/r/g/b/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gp8snx.png/1464773808186.jpg)
Carla Lane created The Liver Birds, Butterflies and Bread, classic television sitcoms that crowned her the most successful woman writer in British television comedy.
Vilmos Zsigmond, cinematographer for Spielberg, Altman and Allen
![Acclaimed cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/7/t/1/u/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gp7t92.png/1464692667610.jpg)
Hungarian Vilmos Zsigmond won an Oscar for cinematography on Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Author found fame writing about Mao’s purges
![Yang Jiang, playwright and author.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/7/h/w/2/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gp7i4f.png/1464593995274.jpg)
Author Yang Jiang produced a translation of Don Quixote by teaching herself Spanish.
Obituary: Kathryn Trosper Popper who featured in Citizen Kane
![Kathryn Trosper Popper with Orson Welles. She spoke the immortal line, "What's Rosebud?", in the film Citizen Kane.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/7/1/j/w/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gp713q.png/1464577581382.jpg)
unknown Kathryn Trosper Popper 1915-2016
Photographer chronicled city’s music and art scenes to fund the fight to save rainforests
![Martin Kantor, photographer, gallery owner, conservationist](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/6/q/u/h/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gp6qu4.png/1464516517397.jpg)
Richard Guilliatt MARTIN KANTOR
Obituary: David Page, Music Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre
![David Page, music director with Bangarra Dance Theatre.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/4/r/6/y/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gp4qzv.png/1464495768537.jpg)
smh Obituary: David Page, Music Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre
Lawyer led Kennedy-killing conspiracy campaign
![Lawyer Mark Lane.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/5/y/2/0/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gp5vku.png/1464339567399.jpg)
Mark Lane, who has died aged 89, was a maverick lawyer.
Welfare worker and adoption campaigner knew the importance of good relationships
![Welfare worker Anne Sullivan.](/web/20160609072842im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/p/5/y/2/3/image.related.thumbnail.90x60.gp5vfi.png/1464339283824.jpg)
Alison Williams and Pauline Ley ANNE SULLIVAN