• Richard Broome

A school holiday job in a local grocery started Weston Bate's lifelong interest in local and community history.

• Val Pickersgill and Jan Charlwood

Beryl Ida Green, who was a devoted volunteer with the Boy Scout movement, has died aged 88.

Popovich claimed that Soviet military and civilian pilots had confirmed 3000 UFO sightings.

"I was so hopeful of getting a [Olympic] spot, but I knew that they didn't want a girl. I hoped that they would look past the gender thing and give us our chance."

• Greg Fraser

The ACT Liberal parliamentarian was known for standing up for the underdog.

King Michael of Romania, Jack Doroshow, Norman Baker

They just didn't stop calling me a prostitute for ever and ever and ever and ever.

John Roarty is regarded as one of the pre-eminent orthopaedic surgeons, and a pioneer of hip replacement surgery, in Australia. He devoted his life to his profession, and with a gentle tenacity, in his characteristically unassuming way, rose to the top of his field.

Shashi Kapoor, one of India's best-known actors, who appeared in more than 100 films in the 1970s and '80s alone, has died in Mumbai. He was 79.

• John Tidey

In his journalism career of more than 50 years, John Hamilton saw many good times and bad times and was an outstanding reporter of all of them.

• Sidney Bloch and Roger McLennan

Richard Ball was among the first to study psychiatric aspects of sexual orientation at a time when homosexuality and transgender behaviour were punishable by incarceration and worse.

• Michael Cohen

Despite her ordeal in wartime concentration camps, Kitia Altman's work to make sure the horrors of the Holocaust were not forgotten was always in pursuit of a more humane society.

• Keith Harvey

James ("Jim") Harvey was born on February 13, 1922, just a few years after the end of World War I. Jim's mother was born in 1884 in India and her mother, who Jim knew as a child, was born in 1849. Jim has been a link in more than one way between past generations and the present. He was the last of his generation in his family to pass away.

Dennis Banks, Carol Neblett, Wayne Cochran

A brother of Margaret "Peggy" Williams was deemed medically unfit for service in World War II and was subsequently sent a white feather through the mail. This unkind act, combined with a family commitment to war service and a desire to make a contribution to the war effort herself, spurred the 17-year-old Peggy into action.

Jana Novotna, the Czech tennis star who cried on the Duchess of Kent's shoulder after losing a Wimbledon singles final in 1993 and then triumphed at the same tournament five years later, died on Sunday in the Czech Republic.

Architect's schemes helped build the international status of Sydney.

Of the five members of AC/DC Malcolm had the closest relationship with Sydney.

• Harrison Smith

A champion of liberalism who fought against the conservative establishment he was born to.

Helen John, who has died aged 80, was a peace campaigner and one of the first to camp overnight at RAF Greenham Common in Berkshire in protest at plans to site US cruise missiles there. In August 1981, John joined a group of about 40 women on a march that took them over 100 miles from Cardiff to the Berkshire airbase. Married with five children, she was then in her 40s and had never previously taken a close interest in political movements. "I went through life like a pudding," she later recalled. "I didn't know what feminism was." As the nuclear arms race gathered speed she was jolted into action. The group arrived at RAF Greenham Common on September 5, and John volunteered to chain herself to the perimeter fence with three other women. As night fell, the American base commander came over. "As far as I'm concerned, you can stay there as long as you like," he said.

The last remaining Australian member of the exclusive "Guinea Pig Club'" Harold Stannus, has passed away in Vancouver, Canada. Harold – or "Harry" to his mates in the club – was one of the 649 burns victims who, having survived horrific plane crashes or naval explosions during World War II, went on to be treated in Britain by the maverick New Zealand plastic surgeon, Sir Archibald McIndoe.

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