Obituary · Scour

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Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation

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Pema Tseden was the founder and builder of Tibetan cinema

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Ranajit Guha revolutionised the study of India’s past

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Carolyn Bryant’s was the testimony that doomed Emmett Till

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Barry Humphries, creator and manager of Dame Edna Everage, died on April 22nd, aged 89

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Mary Quant launched the clothes that made the Sixties swing

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Traute Lafrenz showed that resistance to the Nazis was possible

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Phyllida Barlow had a lifetime of adventure making art

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Gordon Moore’s law was the spur that drove the digital revolution

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Jacqueline Gold freed women to shamelessly enjoy themselves

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Oe Kenzaburo was made a writer by a family crisis

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Justin Schmidt made a lifetime study of insects that attack us

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Bernard Ingham and Betty Boothroyd ensured democracy worked as it should

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Gradually, the besieged city of Bakhmut is being abandoned by everyone

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Maya Widmaier-Picasso helped to revive her father’s creativity

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Pervez Musharraf was one of Pakistan’s better dictators

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Gina Lollobrigida’s ambition was her strength and her weakness

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Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life

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Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of Jews by changing their identities

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Vivienne Westwood sowed never-ending revolution all through the fashion world

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