Frans de Waal obituary

Primatologist whose studies showed that non-human apes can behave with compassion, cooperation and cunning

Kate Duncan obituary

Other lives: Playwright and short story writer whose work was performed around the south-west of England

Other lives: Art historian best known for his writing about comic strips through the ages

Other lives: Actor whose mellifluous voice narrated hundreds of audiobooks and video games

Other lives: Expert aviculturist, artist and educator with a deep love of wildlife

Other lives: Historian and author who liked to research everyday lives and unsung organisations

Graphic designer whose distinctive typographic work graced Penguin book covers, museum signage and London monuments

Other lives: Librarian who moved from Sweden to the UK and became a key member of her local Amnesty group

Other lives: Leeds University historian who was an authority on the late Habsburg empire

American interior designer, collector and stylist regarded as one of the great exotics of 20th-century fashion

Writer and dementia campaigner who believed that people should have the right to choose their own death

Prolific poet, novelist and critic who was an astute and sometimes satirical observer of life in modern Britain

Other lives: Research scientist turned librarian who became head of the library services serving three hospitals in London

Other lives: Writer and poet who described her childhood in Growing Wild on Exmoor

Other lives: Long-serving archivist who oversaw expansion of the University of Birmingham’s special collections