Ingenious, elegant and inventive, the Nobel Prize-winning writer was a virtuoso storyteller of private passions and power misused
The scientist played a key role in establishing that dark matter pervades the universe
The star of Top Gun and The Doors was a leading man whose career was far from predictable
The Asia expert was known for her network of contacts, intrepid reporting and ability to handle big egos
His escape from Moscow as the net closed on him was a memorable episode of cold war espionage
She grew up in Soviet Russia but was inspired by hearing secret harmonies and celebrated for her sacred music
Chronicler of South Africa’s painful apartheid era and path to democracy
The railway worker who found his mission and saved the lives of more than 2mn babies
Versatile screen powerhouse played volatile cops, textured villains and tortured everymen in a career spanning five decades
The drummer propelled The Jam to the front of the British punk rock scene of the 1970s
The writer with a Day-Glo sensibility whose surreal, rollicking narratives defined his generation’s rebelliousness
Turkish Cypriot entrepreneur turned small British textiles firm into vast conglomerate before insolvency and criminal charges
An urbane but almost mythical figure who saw no contradiction between his life’s religious and secular aspects
As a mainstay of Delhi high society, she helped expats navigate a rapidly changing India
The 1960s pop ingénue lived through addiction and homelessness to become the epitome of the rock survivor
She became a household name as leader of Planned Parenthood, a target for the US conservative right
His shock tactics and long, tumultuous partnership with Benetton brought him international fame
The visionary director peered into the darkness and light of the American soul
One of the leading practitioners of the ‘campus novel’, his fiction also evoked strongly Catholic themes
Talented but unassuming news editor who was universally admired in the FT newsroom
National Front founder led the movement for decades before passing the baton to his daughter Marine
After a single term in the White House, the Georgia native became an influential moral voice
Architect of tight controls on German money supply had four-decade career in central banking
As finance minister, he paved the way for a transformative liberalisation of the state-controlled economy
The Hitler diaries that he claimed to have unearthed were crude forgeries
