Once, asked to write to a particularly tight deadline, he told his editor he would oblige if he was sent a puppy.

Thalidomide manufacturer, Distillers, forced to increase compensation because of Knightley investigation.

• Sam Roberts

Erich Bloch arrived in the United States in 1948 as a Jewish refugee.

Glenn: "What got a lot of attention, I think, was the tenuous times we thought we were living in back in the Cold War. I don't think it was about me."

• Martin Aubury

Colin Torkington, born January 25, 1936; died  November 17, 2016.

Stanley Reynolds, John Glenn, Anne Wall

• John Myrtle

Peter Ronald Loof, born November 18, 1930; died October 16, 2016.

Lake: "I came from a very poor background. At the age of 20 I was a millionaire, a quite unbelievable thing."

• Anastasia Charalambidis, Paul Kalina

Acclaimed as a leading Australian glass artist, George Aslanis was at the forefront of Australian glass art.

Orders were if the nurse in front or behind was hit by enemy fire, you were to keep going.

Tuesday, a golden retriever became Montalvan's 'conduit' to other people, his charm magnet.

Bruce Clark Hudson

One of a small, select group of British character actors who can light up the most mundane piece of TV or film.

Trevor Goddard, the South African cricketer, who has died aged 85, was one of the finest all-rounders of the 1950s and 1960s.

Cate Blanchett: "Russell weathered the ups and downs and vagaries of our profession with such good grace and humour."

The actor immortalised as the bumbling, accident-prone Spanish waiter in Fawlty Towers.

Whitney Smith

• Bill Shannon

Michael Ball didn't just lead people, he led people to each other

Leonard of Mayfair, Keo Woolford, Grant Tinkler

• Neil Roy and Charlie Hamilton

Andrew Ramsden was renowned for the intellectual rigour and detail he brought to his ward rounds.

Movie review said Yellow Submarine was "a big post-Summer-of-Love rainbow head trip".

Big Macs are sold in more that 100 countries around the world.

Joe Esposito, who was Elvis Presley's right-hand man, close friend and road manager for nearly two decades, has died at his home in Calabasas, California aged 78. The cause was complications of dementia, his daughter Cindy Bahr said.

Yaffa Eliach memorialised victims of the Holocaust not by recording their deaths but by remembering their lives in a massive photography collection that became a centrepiece of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Rhodes wrote of Princess Margaret: "It was hard to resist her, but she did have the most awful bad luck with men."

Henderson defended show from its detractors who ridiculed it for its impossibly wholesome plots.

Obituary

• David Legge

John Legge is remembered as a frequent contributor of letters to The Age.

• Rick Bayne

Australia has lost one of its oldest war veterans with the death of Stan Jones.