Antonio Carluccio, who has died aged 80 following a fall at his home, was largely responsible for drawing the British people and many others into a love affair with Italian food.

• Greg de Silva

Max Angus set out to paint the beautiful landscapes of Tasmania, mostly in watercolour, and joined the fight to preserve them from development.

• Michael Sweet

Les Manning was captured in the evacuation of Crete in World War II and spent four years as a prisoner of war. When he returned to Melbourne he had to rebuild his life.

• Mike Shuttleworth and Jackie Nieuwenhuizen

Agnes Nieuwenhuizen arrived in Australia as a stateless young girl and became the groundbreaking champion of youth literature.

• Tess Moloney

Avis Macphee's diagnosis of breast cancer re-focused her life, and she became a key bridge between doctors and patients.

Army priest enjoyed a 'wee dram' and was a passionate supporter of the Balmain Tigers

Karin Dor, a titian-haired German actress who played an assassin sent by James Bond's nemesis Blofeld to kill the British agent in 1967's You Only Live Twice, has died in Munich aged 79.

• Richard Goldstein

Richard Gordon

• Michael Darling

Roger Aldridge was a noted writer of powerful features for The Age in an era which established the newspaper's influence on Australia's public life.

• Stephanie Charles

Sister Margaret Mary Kennedy, who was the last religious principal of Genazzano College, left a lasting legacy of encouragement of all who came within her sphere to be their best and dream big.

Nancy Friday, the author whose books about gender politics helped redefine American women's sexuality and social identity in the late 20th century, has died from complications with Alzheimer's disease aged 84.

Ben Sandilands came to be known, not always favourably, to airlines and aviation authorities as the one who always asked the awkward questions.

Dennis Banks was the militant Chippewa who founded the American Indian Movement in 1968 and led often-violent insurrections to protest the treatment of Native Americans including the famous Wounded Knee seige.

Terry Laughlin developed swimming instruction that emphasised form over speed.

Few Australian poets have had such a varied life and career as Rae Jones.

Yvonne Burney, Jeanne Brousse

• Tom Sherman

The lawyer was involved in much of Australia’s modern legal history.

As Jane Juska – divorced, lonely and 66 – watched Eric Rohmer's film Autumn Tale in 1999 in Berkeley, California she was swept up by the story, in which a married woman secretly places a personal advertisement in a newspaper for a widowed friend who believes it is too late for her to find love.

Tony Madigan, who died in the south of France at the weekend after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease, was Australia's most enduring and successful amateur boxer.

No one in Australia's history has been as honoured as Sir Ninian Stephen – he was awarded no fewer than five knighthoods in his lifetime. Nor has anyone managed to achieve so much with such modesty and ease.

• Simon Mann

Peter Gebhardt became a County Court judge after an outstanding career as a school principal. During his 10 years on the bench he brought to his judgments a compassion that mirrored his care for students.

Iona Opie, who has died aged 94, was, with her husband Peter, one of the world's greatest experts on the folklore, games and beliefs of childhood; the Opies' study of children's culture, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959), described "the greatest of savage tribes – the worldwide fraternity of children" – a society that few people until then understood or even realised existed. The Opies began their quest out of curiosity about the origins of nursery rhymes. Shortly after they got married in 1943, they saw a ladybird during a walk in the countryside. Recalling the rhyme "Ladybird, Ladybird, fly away home", they wondered where it had originated and discovered that the only available anthology of nursery rhymes had been published in 1842. "Ladybird, Ladybird", for example, is known in some form more or less everywhere – including China. Humpty Dumpty is "Boule Boule" in France, "Lille Trille" in Denmark and "Humpelken Pumpelken" in Germany.

Elvis pointed to Domino, who was in the room, and said, "There's the real king of rock 'n' roll."

Describing George Young as one of Australia's premier hard rock producers and songwriters only tells a part of his extraordinary story.

Danielle Darrieux, who has died aged 100, was the quintessentially Gallic screen queen of the 1930s and 1940s and with roles in more than 85 films inspired the distinctive chic and elegant look of several generations of French actresses. She could claim to have been France's first celluloid sex symbol, if not the precursor to the "sex kitten" Brigitte Bardot. "Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong!" trumpeted the posters for her debut Hollywood film in 1938. Long before Bardot, nearly 20 years her junior, styled herself BB, Danielle Darrieux had become known throughout France by her initials DD. "For 40 years she has represented to many the ideal French woman," noted the British film historian David Shipman in 1972. In fact her career lasted more than double that, one of the lengthiest in film history.

• Gerald O’Collins

Moira Peters made her mark through the unfailing interest and wise advice and encouragement she gave to family, friends and many others who filled her life.

• Aileen Ashford

Michael "Micky" Ashford was a surprise baby, and became a special one. Micky rose to meet a number of challenges and he paved the way in highlighting the abuse of people with intellectual disabilities.

• James Robertson

Harris van Beek was a powerful force who had the gentlest bearing.

Wali wrote of Afghan women: "During this entire time I carried with me their pleading voices and ultimately their screams, while the world looked away."