Brink-of-death tales told by Ronald Reagan, Elizabeth Taylor, Goldie Hawn, Cher, Walter Matthau, Halle Berry, Carrie Fisher and Jack Lemmon.

Virtuoso pianist and former Soviet chess champion Mark Taimanov dies aged 90.

• Peter Craven

Melbourne pioneer taught a generation of Australian architects to honour their own roots.

Lieutenant Commander Jock Moffat, Lady Elizabeth Longman.

The author continued her writing despite suffering from brain cancer.

• John Tidey

'Few editors have worn their talents so lightly or been so universally admired.'

To Sir, with Love comes from an inscription his appreciative students wrote on a pack of cigarettes they gave him.

Robert Vaughn, who died aged 83, was a versatile American actor who for half a century specialised in debonair and often sinister characters.

Former Governor-General Dame Quentin Bryce: "I remember with a deep fondness listening to you on ABC Radio at home with babies, desperate to keep in touch with the outside world."

Evansky first experimented with the "blow wave", having watched a barber do it to his male clients.

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