![Irina Rabobolskaya, member of Soviet World War II flying corps known as the Night Witches.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/z/d/n/h/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.gszdp9.png/1480318260129.jpg)
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![Irina Rabobolskaya, member of Soviet World War II flying corps known as the Night Witches.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/z/d/n/h/image.related.wideLandscape.460x259.gszdp9.png/1480318260129.jpg)
Fierce critic of mainstream economics spoke out against neoliberalism
![John Legge, writer, teacher, social commentator.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/z/d/c/z/image.related.landscape.120x80.gszdeg.png/1480317806279.jpg)
John Legge is remembered as a frequent contributor of letters to The Age.
Ever-cheerful mom in Brady Bunch
![Florence Henderson, pictured in 2014, found fame on the stage and screen during her career.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/y/s/1/o/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsysdl.png/1480287128600.jpg)
Henderson defended show from its detractors who ridiculed it for its impossibly wholesome plots.
Another chapter closes in Australia’s war history
![The late Stan Jones, war veteran, ex-PoW](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/y/p/j/s/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsypkq.png/1480247859036.jpg)
Australia has lost one of its oldest war veterans with the death of Stan Jones.
‘Very model of a modern macro-economist’ contributed to development of public policy
![Professor James Perkins, University of Melbourne, receiving a Jubilee Fellowship from Professor Deborah Terry, president ...](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/y/p/j/r/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsypjt.png/1480243282445.jpg)
Jim was mainly concerned with public policy questions.
Castro, who took world to brink of nuclear war, dead at 90
![Former Cuban president Fidel Castro in Havana in 2004.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/y/8/u/s/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsyc7f.png/1480232466618.jpg)
Castro drew support from many intellectuals including Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and Bob Dylan.
In Passing
![Lupita Tovar, a Mexican actor in the silent film era.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/x/8/q/n/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsx8rc.png/1480045797020.jpg)
Lupita Tovar, James Galanos, Gary Sprake,
A priest whose great loves were his faith, music and animals
![A musical hermit-teacher: Brian Hingerty was joyous and hospitable when friends arrived, but rarely visited suburban ...](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/v/x/i/e/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsvxb9.png/1480025567534.jpg)
Socially, Brian Hingerty was quietly jovial; his core was adamantine, wholly encased in gentleness.
Bangladesh charity founder worked until he was 95
![Fred Hyde.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/x/3/i/m/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsx3gz.png/1479984277818.jpg)
A man regarded as the world's oldest active overseas aid worker, Frederick Harold Hyde, has died peacefully at the age of 96 in Warwick, Queensland.
One of the finest government lawyers of his generation
![Former legal adviser with the Commonwealth Attorney-General's Department (including the Australian Government Solicitor) ...](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/v/y/i/a/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsvww5.png/1479975211681.jpg)
George had an exceptional professional reputation throughout the upper levels of the Australian Public Service.
Diver defied medical experts to break depth records
![The late free-diving champion Enzo Maiorca pictured in 1974.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/q/c/y/l/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsvzon.png/1479883032222.jpg)
Enzo Maiorca held 13 world records in the "no limits" class of free diving.
Teenage years milking cows the prelude to a life of constant contribution to community
![The late Bill Lloyd, Corryong community stalwart.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/v/z/9/d/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsvz7c.png/1479882583260.jpg)
Bill should have been an engineer but advanced education was never available to him
Headmistress who stood up to old guard over student nudity
![Sister Maureen McGuirk receiving her degree of Doctor of Education from the University of Newcastle, 2011.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/u/k/s/b/image.related.landscape.120x80.gssh7h.png/1479872692355.jpg)
Sister Maureen wrote in her diary, 'I had had a foul day. I had a face like a torn sandshoe.'
Former Greek president popular across political spectrum
![President of Greece Constantine Stephanopoulos meets school children, waving Greek and Australian flags at the Greek ...](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/u/h/6/e/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsuh57.png/1479781201289.jpg)
President caused an uproar when he denied that the smog regularly enveloping Athens was dangerous.
In Passing
![In the Herald](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/r/y/p/8/m/image.related.landscape.120x80.gssafh.png/1479438732691.jpg)
Patricia Kutteles, Ruth Gruber
Campaigner Barbara Hocking sought a better life for the mentally ill
![Barbara Hocking, mental health advocate.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/r/x/r/j/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsrxsn.png/1479372130301.jpg)
Barbara Hocking was one of Australia's leading advocates for people affected by mental illness. Her leadership and achievements leave a lasting legacy in how people living with mental illness and their families are treated and regarded.
Lawyer famous for integrity had strained relationship with Washington establishment
![Janet Reno often found her principles tested by circumstance.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/k/3/x/s/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsrxiw.png/1479371374667.jpg)
First woman to serve as attorney general of the United States, and longest-serving head of the US Justice Department in the 20th century.
Environmental activist and opponent of development on Hindmarsh Island
![Margaret Bolster became an environmental activist later in her life.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/r/9/l/t/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsr4by.png/1479349626087.jpg)
Margaret Camilla Bolster, who has died aged 83, helped popularise the art of Asia and the Pacific in Australia and had a significant second career as a leading environmental activist.
Surgeon who delivered first baby at Westmead then first IVF baby
![Professor Geoffrey Driscoll was committed to excellence in the treatment of infertility.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/r/7/d/9/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsk6ga.png/1479687503851.jpg)
Surgeon who enabled thousands of couples to start a family
First man to dive to 50 metres without breathing apparatus
![Italian free diver Enzo Maiorca in Sorrento, 1974.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/q/c/y/l/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsqcqw.png/1479259235425.jpg)
Diver ignored medical advice to plunge to new depths
Robert Vaughn: Actor who specialised in debonair and dastardly characters for half a century
![Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, stars of The Man From Uncle in 1966.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/o/6/x/d/image.related.landscape.120x80.gspvfj.png/1479189991250.jpg)
Robert Vaughn was a suave and good-humoured leading man.
Leonard Cohen: Old-world charm, well-cut suits and beautiful melodies
![Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen has passed away. He was 82 years old.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/n/a/g/4/image.related.landscape.120x80.gspuhr.png/1479188271999.jpg)
Canadian poet-songwriter acclaimed for heart-rending works such as Hallelujah and Suzanne
Gravelly-voiced singer who wrote rock standards in 1970s
![Leon Russell was described as a 'rock and roll Renaissance man'.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/p/b/o/p/image.related.landscape.120x80.gspbko.png/1479161108927.jpg)
When most rock artists wore jeans, Leon Russell was distinguished by suits, top hats and ruffled shirts.
Robert Artaud: Mechanic among last survivors of Resistance circuit
![Robert Artaud, wartime French resistance hero.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/p/9/4/s/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsp94v.png/1479129453784.jpg)
Robert Artaud was a member of the WWII French Resistance group known as the Physician circuit.
Vernon Hillman: Social worker found time to help those in trouble
![Vernon Hillman in Antarctica in 1991.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/p/9/0/1/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsp8za.png/1479125296539.jpg)
Vernon maintained an energetic, amused and always positive approach to life.
Robert Vaughn, debonair star of The Man from U.N.C.L.E
![Robert Vaughn poses in 1979 with his Emmy Award for outstanding supporting actor for a drama series in Washington Behind ...](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/o/6/t/2/image.related.landscape.120x80.gso6lu.png/1479017228558.jpg)
Robert Vaughn playing napoleon Solo and David McCallum, playing the Russian spy Illya Kuryakin as U.N.C.L.E agents took on THRUSH
French comic actor hailed by Jerry Lewis as a genius
![French filmmaker and comic artist Pierre Etaix.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/n/p/o/f/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsnpok.png/1478858989918.jpg)
French clown, comedian and filmmaker reinvented visual comedy, taking cues from masters such as Max Linder, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Jacques Tati.
Dedicated police forensic scientist became a world expert in identification of handwriting
![Bryan Found, chief forensic scientist at Victoria Police, with new puppy Obi.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/n/p/l/4/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsnplb.png/1478858304952.jpg)
Dr Bryan Found worked tirelessly to improve the application of scientific methods to the criminal justice system.
Leonard Cohen, singer-songwriter dies aged 82
![Leonard Cohen in New York in 2009.](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/n/9/7/h/image.related.landscape.120x80.gsnhp5.png/1479422658893.jpg)
Songs included I'm Your Man, Suzanne and First We Take Manhattan
Pilot who dodged Luftwaffe and erupting volcanoes
![Fred Phillips as a young recruit](/web/20161128100232im_/http://www.smh.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/m/e/z/v/image.related.landscape.120x80.gs144q.png/1479255222548.jpg)
Qantas captain who rubbed shoulders with royalty and the famous