Her prized koi carp at her Sydney home famously died during a short-term rental by George Lucas.

• Harrison Smith

Sarstedt began writing his own songs and performing across Europe in 1966.

• Malcolm Brown

On the night of Friday, October 29, 1982, Michael Chamberlain tossed and turned all night in  bed in Darwin, in a frenzy of thought, his wife Lindy having been taken to Berrimah Gaol to begin her life sentence for the murder of daughter Azaria.

Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafasanjani, who has died aged 82, was president of Iran from 1989 to 1997; he ran for the presidency again in 2005 but lost to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, of whom he became openly critical, and later began to side with reformers, calling for more political freedoms in Iran.

Tony Sonneveld

Georges Prêtre, a French conductor who for seven decades led some of the world's finest orchestras, found a second home in Vienna and forged close relationships with singer Maria Callas and composer Francis Poulenc, has died at his chateau in Naves, in southern France aged 92.

Gregory Shortis was a poet and university teacher of German language and literature and a spectacular performer of his and others' work.

William Christopher, Sister Frances Ann Carr, Lavinia Keppel

Judge gave the defendants tougher sentences for the burglary than for the rape.

Interest in medicine emerged at the age of five when his father removed his tonsils and adenoids on the kitchen table under a chloroform anaesthetic.

John Berger, who has died aged 90, was a Booker Prize-winning novelist, art critic, painter, poet, playwright, actor, activist and presenter of television programs including the BBC series Ways of Seeing (1972); from the mid-1970s on, however, he preferred the term "storyteller", which better suited the Marxist spirit of his work.

William Salice, who has died aged 83, played a leading role at the confectionery giant Ferrero for four decades, helping to launch the Kinder Surprise chocolate egg in 1974; in the decades since, more than 30 billion of the treats have been sold around the world.

The first thing she did on coming round from her coma was to ask for a cigarette.

Moore among crew of a Catalina flying boat involved in spotting and shadowing the German battleship Bismarck prior to its sinking.

Joynes was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia for her needlework.

Wong joined Disney as an "in-betweener," creating the thousands of intermediate drawings that bring animated sequences to life.

Allan Williams complained of night-time torments when "my teeth make a gritty noise in my skull as I think of how I let the band and a million quid slip through my fingers".

• Michael Collins Persse

Peter Henderson was a distinguished Australian public servant who headed the Department of Foreign Affairs for five years. For nearly half of his 34 years of public service he tended to be seen by those who knew him only superficially, or not at all, as the son-in-law of prime minister Sir Robert Menzies.

Under Milfull's leadership, the School of German was transformed into a flourishing community.

A graceful right-hand batter who could drive powerfully on both sides of the wicket.

Michele Morgan, General Gregorio Alvarez

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An inspiring, talented leader who crammed his 103 years with energy, achievements and care for others.

Reynolds best-remembered film is Singin' in the Rain (1952), in which she held her own with Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor,

• Patricia Maunder

At a Capri restaurant Hazzard overheard Graham Greene trying to remember the last line of a Robert Browning poem, so muttered it to him on her way out.

Rubin was a "guiding light" for a generation of female astronomers.

It took 70 years for Liz Smith to become a household name.

The rabbit characters in Watership Down were drawn from Army officers he had known during the Second World War

Having seen fame's light and dark sides, Fisher did not take it too seriously.

• Richard Tinning

Melbourne lost a quiet hero when Herbert William (Bert) Tinning died at the age of 95 after a life of duty, civic service and a passion for his city.