- Lord Weatherill 1920-2007 - Speaker of the House of Commons during the Thatcher years
- Isabella Blow 1958-2007 - doyenne of the fashion world
- Curtis Harrington 1928-2007 - sci-fi and horror director
- Theodore Maiman 1927-2007 - physicist who built the first laser
12 May 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 12 May 2007 |
05 May 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 5 May 2007 |
- Walter Schirra 1923-2007 - space pioneer and one of the first American astronauts to orbit the Earth
- Jack Valenti 1921-2007 - aide to President Johnson, legendary Hollywood lobbyist and censor
- Zola Taylor 1934-2007 - Platters singer known as The Dish
- Tom Cartwright 1935-2007 - brilliant Warwickshire and England cricketer and lifelong socialist
- Sir George Pinker 1925-2007 - Royal gynaecologist
- Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker 1912-2007 - physicist who worked on "Hitler's A-bomb" and subsequently campaigned for disarmament
28 April 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 28 April 2007 |
- Mstislav Rostropovich 1927-2007 - virtuoso cellist and conductor
- Arthur Milton 1928-2007 - last man to play football and cricket for England
- Warren Avis 1915-2007 - car rental pioneer
- Alan Ball 1945-2007 - footballer, coach, manager and World Cup 66 winner
22 April 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 21 April 2007 |
- Terry Major-Ball 1932-2007 - ever-genial brother of former Prime Minister John Major
- Dick Vosburgh 1929-2007 - comedy writer, film buff and lyricist
- Mike Reynolds 1931-2007 - the man behind the Milky Bar Kid
- Kitty Carlisle Hart 1910-2007 - actor and Marx Brothers co-star
31 March 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 31 March 2007 |
- Sir Thomas Hetherington 1926-2007 - Director of Public Prosecutions who prosecuted Jeremy Thorpe
- Professor Paul Lauterbur 1929-2007 - Nobel Prize-winning co-inventor of Magnetic Resonance Imaging
- Faustino Oramas 1911-2007 - 'Buena Vista' songwriter
- Andranik Margaryan 1951-2007 - Prime Minister of Armenia
- Mao Anqing 1923-2007 - son of Mao Tse Tung
- Johnny Booker 1934-2007 - lead singer of The Vipers
24 March 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 24 March 2007 |
- James Cronin 1951-2007 - founder of Dorset's Monkey World
- Stuart Rosenberg 1927-2007 - Cool Hand Luke director
- Freddie Francis 1917-2007 - Oscar-winning cinematographer and Hammer horror director
- Ernst Haefliger 1919-2007 - brilliant Swiss tenor
17 March 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 17 March 2007 |
- Jack Gaster 1907-2007 - Lawyer and civil rights campaigner
- Gareth Hunt 1942-2007 - Actor, New Avengers star and bean shaker
- Betty Hutton 1921-2007 - Hollywood actress and singer
- Lucie Aubrac 1912-2007 - Hero of the French resistance
10 March 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 10 March 2007 |
- Jean Baudrillard 1929-2007 - French philosopher
- Chris Lightfoot 1978-2007 - grassroots web pioneer
- Ian Wooldridge 1932-2007 - leading sports journalist
- Thomas Eagleton 1929-2007 - Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee
- Richard Joseph 1954-2007 - computer games composer, musician and sound specialist
03 March 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 3 March 2007 |
- Lord Forte 1908-2007 - hotelier
- Heinz Berggruen 1914-2007 - art collector
- Leroy Jenkins 1932-2007 free jazz violinist
- John Menzies 1927-2007 - member of the Scots newsagent dynasty
- Alex Henshaw 1912-2007 - Spitfire test pilot
24 February 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 24 February 2007 |
- Dr Robert Adler 1913-2007 - co-inventor of the TV remote
- Derek Waring 1927-2007 - actor
- Ray Evans 1915-2007 - lyricist behind "Que Sera, Sera"
- Maurice Papon 1910-2007 - French cabinet minister and Nazi collaborator
17 February 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 17 February 2007 |
- Sheridan Morley 1941-2007 - writer, presenter and critic
- Steven Pimlott 1953-2007 - theatre director
- Peter Clarke 1948-2007 - Children's Commissioner
- Nicholas Johnson 1947-2007 - ballet dancer
- Ruth Crisp 1918-2007 - crossword compiler
10 February 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 10 February 2007 |
- Ian Richardson 1934-2007 - RSC actor and star of House of Cards
- Anna Nicole Smith 1967-2007 - Playboy "Playmate" and controversial bride
- Frankie Laine 1913-2007 - Crooner
- Alan MacDiarmid 1927-2007 - Nobel prize-winning chemist
- Billy Henderson 1939-2007 - Detroit Spinner
03 February 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 3 February 2007 |
- Adelaide Tambo 1929-2007 - Leading anti-apartheid campaigner
- Anna Cropper 1938-2007 - TV actor
- Sidney Sheldon 1917-2007 - Oscar-winning screenwriter and popular novelist
- Paul Channon (Lord Kelvedon) 1935-2007 - Guinnes heir and former Secretary of State for Transport
- David Wickins 1921-2007 - second-hand car dealer and mentor to Mark Thatcher
27 January 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 27 January 2007 |
- Lord Nolan 1928-2007 - author of the Nolan Report on standards in public life
- E Howard Hunt 1918-2007 - spy novelist and Watergate conspirator
- James Hillier 1915-2007 - co-inventor of the electron miscroscope
- Denny Doherty 1940-2007 - Mamas and Papas singer
20 January 2007
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But Not Forgotten: Week Ending 20 January 2007 |
- Robert Anton Wilson 1932-2007 - co-author of the Illuminatus! Trilogy
- Art Buchwald 1925-2007 - American newspaper humourist
- Bo Yibo 1908-2007 - Last of the 'Eight Immortals'
- Barzan Ibrahim Al Tikriti 1951-2007 - half-brother of Saddam Hussein
- Alice Coltrane 1937-2007 - jazz musician and widow of John Coltrane
13 January 2007
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But Not Forgotten: 13 January |
As A Dodo's weekly roll of those recently departed whom we regret having been unable to commemorate (with many thanks to Colin Campbell):
- Momofuku Ando 1910-2007 - inventor of the instant noodle
- Iwao Takamoto 1925-2007 - creator of Scooby Doo, the Jetsons et al
- Yvonne De Carlo 1922-2007 - actress who covered the range from Moses's wife to Herman Munster's spouse
- Carlo Ponti 1912-2007 - Italian film producer and husband of Sophia Loren
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