Kathrada spent 18 years of his sentence on Robben Island, the apartheid regime's most notorious prison.

Conolly developed a multitude of hand surgery practices and techniques new to Australia.

Mesnil Turner, James Cotton, Sam Leach

• Geoff Fitzpatrick

Scottish-born designer behind ground-breaking Montreal Chair also taught at RMIT.

Allan James "Jim" Baker, who has died aged 94, was one of Australia's more interesting philosophers, intellectuals, and gadflies. He was a prominent member of the Sydney Push, the Bohemian intellectual circle that met in Sydney's city and inner-city pubs from the late 1940s.

• Charles El-Hage

Migrant Deeb El-Hage met many challenges in his life with leadership and dedication to his beloved Lebanese community and church.

• Elizabeth Fahie

Former Camberwell Grammar School head David Dyer recognised before any of his contemporaries in the independent school system the importance of student wellbeing.

• Elissa Blake

Portrait sparked controversy when it was pointed out that Smith's image bore a striking resemblance to a photograph taken in 1974.

Dexter described himself as short, fat, bald, deaf; a lukewarm socialist, a lover of crosswords and a hater of Australian cricketers.

McGuinness was never convicted of any terrorist act but twice imprisoned in the Republic for IRA membership

• David Rockefeller 1915 - 2017

David Rockefeller, who grew up in the largest private residence in New York City, was required to do chores. At 7, he spent eight hours a day raking leaves on the family's 3,400 acre estate.

Presley was rock's first pop star and teenage heartthrob, Berry was its master theorist and conceptual genius.

John Surtees, Fred Weintraub, Royal Robbins

The roads of suburbs like Menai, Kings Langley, Cherrybrook and much of Campbelltown are largely his work.

Lloyd H. Conover, a chemist whose breakthrough invention of one of the most effective and widely prescribed antibiotics, tetracycline, led to a new approach to developing such drugs, has died in St. Petersburg, Florida, aged 93.

• David Hay

Andrew Hay, a key figure in the loans scandal that led to the downfall of the Whitlam Goverment, went on to be a champion of economic rationalism and the business community.

The Australian film industry has lost an outstanding cinematographer with the death of Louis Irving, ACS.

• Ian Fry

Former Monash law professor Judge Christoper Weeramantry was a towering intellect who pushed the boundaries of international law. His vision and his capacity to motivate lawyers and educators around the world to accept changes in legal practice earned him many awards.

Footrot Flats cartoons ran from 1975-1994 in newspapers around the world.

Kathy explained her absence from a Sister Sledge performance in front of the Pope on a "familial dispute that has long been developing between the sisters."

Dying of cancer, author found an extraordinarily large readership this month with a column in The New York Times titled "You May Want to Marry My Husband".

Sydney Ball spent much of his career as a painter riding the waves of the avant-garde.

• Rick Sjolund and Peter Haby

Tony Standish, who has died aged 85, was a lifelong devotee of blues and traditional jazz who inspired many local record collections.

• Lesley Hunter

Engineer Bill Hunter was awarded two high honours for his outstanding volunteer work in Rwanda and other developing countries.

• Obituary

Lynne Goodwin left an indelible legacy as a pioneering educator in NSW.

• Gerald O'Collins

Jim O'Collins contributed to the remarkable progress in treating the urinary system made during his years in that specialised field of surgery.

Pioneering medical researcher Dr Basil Hetzel is credited with having saved billions of children from disability and for making an inestimable contribution to human health.

• Emily Langer

David Rubinger distinguished himself particularly for his wartime work, photographing young men and women on the battlefield and the leaders who sent them there.

Irvine Sellar, Emmanuelle Khanh, Aileen Hernandez