• Jill Sykes

Australian dancers grace the stages of the world. But it's not so often you find an Australian behind the scenes of a dance company, powering the organisation that enables the presentation of what we see in the theatre.

Tall, with a shock of white hair and the look of a blue-blooded scholar of Wasp extraction, Esmond Bradley Martin might have seemed an improbable undercover figure. Yet somehow he was able to persuade crooks, gangsters and underworld dealers that he was in the market for their ivory, acquiring in the process a long list of enemies.

• Matt Schudel

John Mahoney showed promise as an actor in his early teens, but he fell away from the stage. Twenty years later, aged 37 and now living in the United States, he realised the only place he'd ever been really happy was on stage.

Dennis Edwards, who became a lead singer of the Temptations in 1968 as they embraced psychedelic funk and won Grammy Awards for the songs Papa Was a Rollin' Stone and Cloud Nine, has died in Chicago aged 74. His death, in a hospital, was confirmed on Friday by Rosiland Triche Roberts, one of his booking agents. She did not specify the cause.

Castro's son: "The Castro family, as all families, is not one body, one person."

Dennis Peron, who openly dealt marijuana from a "supermarket" in San Francisco in the 1970s before leading a successful campaign to legalise it for medical use in California two decades later, died last Saturday at a San Francisco hospital. He was 71. John Entwistle Jr., his spouse, said the cause was respiratory failure.

Coco Schumann, Andre Surmain, Elizabeth Hawley

Family huddled in a washroom for three days and nights, afraid to come out.

• Philip Goad

Neil Clerehan's schoolboy interest in the houses he passed on the tram led to a distinguished 65-year career as an architect, editor, writer, advocate and critic.

• Louise and Vivienne McCutcheon

Andrew McCutcheon, a Methodist minister and social activist who became a prominent member of John Cain's reforming Victorian governments in the 1980s, has died aged 86.

• Louise Bradley

William Heimerman was the long-term director of the Photographers' Gallery and Workshop in South Yarra, where museum-quality exhibitions were held from the mid-1970s.

Sara Elkas, who built and sustained many community organisations, became active in Melbourne's thriving lesbian-feminist scene of the early 1980s, and took pride in her identity as a Jewish lesbian.

It was said that one in 10 Europeans had been conceived on a bed bought at Ikea.

John Morris, a composer who had a long list of movie, theatre and television credits but was best known for a long association with Mel Brooks that earned him Academy Award nominations for Blazing Saddles and The Elephant Man, has died at his home in Red Hook, New York aged 91.

Mark E Smith, who has died after a long illness aged 60, was the incorrigibly truculent lead singer with the Fall. Smith's group was formed in north Manchester in 1976. Over the following four decades, during which period their contemporaries became gradually subdued, diversified their style or simply retired, the Fall remained tenaciously committed to the abrasive spirit of the punk movement. Among the things for which Smith expressed a particular loathing were: London, doctors, Jane Austen, Beaujolais, psychologists, Manchester United, The Guardian, David Bowie, the NYPD, "soft lads who blab", John Lennon, nouvelle cuisine, Australia, Princess Diana, the smoking ban in pubs, Bob Geldof ("a dickhead"), the football pundits Alan Hansen and Alan Shearer ("they look like retired policemen: I bet they go shopping together"), Brighton ("s – t pubs, s – t music, s – t beaches"), the works of JRR Tolkien, David Cameron, "beer-minded proles", Kojak ("a t – t"), and the town of Stockport. The Fall released its first EP, Bingo-Master's Break-Out!, in 1978, and its debut album, Live at the Witch Trials, in 1979.

"I was marinated in jazz, and I was seasoned in music from home," Masekela told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Guin: "Publishers market writers "like deodorant, and tell us what to publish, what to write."

"I have seen him slap a lion in the face with his hat. I have seen him hide from a woman. His business is killing."

Bocus: "Food and sex have much in common."

• Viggo Knackstredt 1948 - 2018

Knackstredt was born on March 16, 1948, and lived in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen. The only son of August Knackstredt, a cabinet-maker, and Viola Gustafsson, a shop assistant, Viggo had two older sisters but when he was nine his father died and Viggo was told he was now the "man of the house".

Peter Mayle was the author of A Year in Provence, an account of his rural idyll in southern France that spawned a small army of imitators among Britons seeking fulfilment in more exotic locations.

Sued Peyton Place producers because of character's lack of substance.

• Richard Vines

Paul Bocuse, who became one of the 20th century's most influential chefs by building on the traditions of French haute cuisine with a distinctive style that emphasised simplicity and freshness, has died. He was 91.

• Malcolm Robertson

The geologist's struggles in Antarctica paled next to his battles against Parkinson's disease.

Peter Ilbery flew Bristol Beaufighters during the Second World War, making regular attacks on German shipping. After the war he retrained, studying medicine and undertaking radiological research, which led to the development of bone marrow transplants in humans.

Terence Marsh, who won Academy Awards for his art direction of Dr. Zhivago and Oliver! and went on to be the production designer of films as different as Basic Instinct and Spaceballs, died at his home in Los Angeles aged 86.

A British navy surgeon's medical expertise and stiff-lipped poise saved hundreds of British and Argentine lives during the 1982 Falklands War.

Phoebe Atkinson led an unconventional life, which was one of great variety. In the 1950s, as Phoebe Macarthur-Onslow, she was considered to be one of the most beautiful women in Sydney.