Alex Karras obituary

Actor, wrestler and American football star whose hardman roles included Mongo in Blazing Saddles

Helen Nicoll obituary

Children's author behind the Meg and Mog series who also founded a successful audiobooks company

Psychiatrist who fought coercion and denied the existence of mental illness

Journalist and environmental campaigner who was a defendant in the ABC secrecy case

Maverick philosopher who fell in and out of love with God

Expert on alcohol and drug addiction who pioneered new forms of treatment

Communist leader committed to democracy in post-Franco Spain, but whose party found little electoral support

Philosopher who developed a distinctive view of truth

Business journalist and author of a stream of books on management in which he explained the 'tricks of the trade'

Classical actor who graced the stage with decorum and stillness

Other lives: Civil servant in the Department for Education who dedicated much of his life to bringing up his children

Designer of the world's first laptop, the Grid Compass

Novelist and critic best known for her book Patriarchal Attitudes

US radical women's liberationist whose ideas on gender inequality were ahead of her time

Other lives: Civil servant who became a diplomat working mainly in south-east Asia