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The serial entrepreneur Frank Strang, who has died aged 67 of oesophageal cancer, seized an unpremeditated opportunity to deliver the first licensed spaceport for vertical launches…

My mother, Alice Zeitlyn, who has died aged 100, was a charity volunteer for a huge range of causes in Cambridge, and the founder of the…

My friend Anne Merriman, who has died aged 90, was a pioneering doctor and founder of the Hospice Africa charity, which aims to offer “palliative care…

As a teenager, my mother, Moragh Bradshaw, who has died aged 87, asked her father what life was for. His answer, that it was to help…

Just after 9.20pm, Houston time, on Monday 13 April 1970, Jim Lovell, who has died aged 97, looked out of the left side window of Odyssey,…

My friend Wally Houser, who has died aged 90, was a lawyer and sax player who had a massive effect on British jazz through his relationship…

My former husband David Brooks, who has died aged 86, was a GP in Manchester across four decades, and a trainer of GPs in the city…

My father, Sam Ayer, who has died aged 81, dedicated his life to the care and support of vulnerable children and adults. His research made a…

Sir Kenneth Calman was a doctor, public servant and academic leader whose identity as a proud Scot underpinned his values of compassion, ethics and hard work.…

My friend Len Doyal, who has died aged 80, was for many years a senior lecturer in medical ethics at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London…