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Here are links to all the people I mentioned in the talk, including every obituary:
Four more from The Economist (not mentioned in the talk but worth reading):
Bill Millin, the bagpiper at the D-Day landings
Cédric Mauduit, civil servant killed in the Bataclan attacks
Simon Mann obituary (The Economist)
The third Lord Moynihan obituary (Daily Telegraph via Wayback Machine)
Tina Turner obituary (The Economist)
Matthew Perry obituary (The Economist)
Basil D’Oliveira obituary (Daily Telegraph)
David Lawrence obituary (Daily Telegraph)
Julius Eastman obituary (Village Voice) ~ Julius Eastman (BBC Sounds) ~ More about Julius Eastman
Harrison Birtwistle obituary (Morning Star)
The History of Bad Ideas: the decisive battle Past Present Future podcast
Lt Col John Pine-Coffin obituary (Daily Telegraph)
Noreen Riols obituary (The Times)
Martha Gellhorn’s obituary can be found in the book The Times: Great Women’s Lives (2014)
Leo Marks obituary (Daily Telegraph) ~ Between Silk And Cyanide ~ My earlier post about Leo Marks
Irmgard Furchner obituary (Daily Telegraph)
Somerset Struben de Chair ~ Somerset Struben de Chair’s portrait in the National Portrait Gallery
Asil Nadir obituary (Financial Times)
The history of British obituaries
Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd obituary (The Guardian)
Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer by Heather Lende
The Dead Beat, Marilyn Johnson’s book about obituaries and obit writers
Matthew Engel’s 2012 FT piece about Lunch with the FT, from which the Gavin Ewart story is taken ~ Gavin and Jane Ewart portrait in the National Portrait Gallery