Carlos Alberto, who has died of a heart attack aged 72, captained Brazil to victory in the 1970 World Cup, scoring the most sublime goal in the history of "the beautiful game" when the greatest team to have graced the tournament won the trophy outright. The seeds of Brazil's triumph were sown in England in 1966 when the side was outmuscled by European opposition despite their technical superiority. Alberto, who made his international debut two years before in a 5-1 drubbing of England at the Maracana, had been unexpectedly omitted from the squad. The experience toughened him further and he became such a commanding presence in the dressing room that the new manager, Mario Zagallo, made him captain at 22.
Howard Davies, a British director whose work with the National Theatre, the Old Vic and other institutions earned him a reputation for quality and depth as well as three Laurence Olivier Awards – London theatre's equivalent of the Tonys – has died aged 71. Davies also directed nine productions on Broadway, including Les Liaisons Dangereuses (1987), starring Alan Rickman and Lindsay Duncan, as well as revivals of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1990), with Kathleen Turner and Charles Durning, and two Eugene O'Neill plays, The Iceman Cometh (1999) and A Moon for the Misbegotten (2007), both starring Kevin Spacey. He was a founder of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre's Warehouse, which became Donmar Warehouse, the pioneering non-profit theatre in Covent Garden.
Ewen A. Whitaker, a British-born astronomer who drew on his unparalleled knowledge of the lunar surface to select landing sites for unmanned NASA spacecraft in the 1960s, guide the footsteps of the Apollo 12 astronauts and develop accurate maps of the moon, has died in Tucson, Arizona, aged 94. Whitaker, who had no formal training as an astronomer, became an expert in lunar photography and selenography – describing and mapping the surface features of the moon – while working at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in the 1950s. At the time, the International Astronomical Union relied on a lunar map, published in 1935, that was largely hand-drawn. Whitaker, in his spare time, began updating it with information taken from photographs.