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.

• Ian McDonald

Jim was mainly concerned with public policy questions.

Castro drew support from many intellectuals including Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and Bob Dylan.

Lupita Tovar, James Galanos, Gary Sprake,

• Brian Hingerty 1937-2016
• Ken Healey and Val Thomson

Socially, Brian Hingerty was quietly jovial; his core was adamantine, wholly encased in gentleness.

• Olav Muurlink

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.

• David Whitbred

George had an exceptional professional reputation throughout the upper levels of the Australian Public Service.

Enzo Maiorca held 13 world records in the "no limits" class of free diving.

• Greg Flattley

Bill should have been an engineer but advanced education was never available to him

Sister Maureen wrote in her diary, 'I had had a foul day. I had a face like a torn sandshoe.'

President caused an uproar when he denied that the smog regularly enveloping Athens was dangerous.

Patricia Kutteles, Ruth Gruber

• Paul Morgan

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.