Lisa French obituary

Archaeologist involved all her life with Mycenae and an authority on the ancient Greek culture’s terracotta figurines

Joan Le Mesurier obituary

Other lives: Former fairground worker who married the actor John Le Mesurier and later ran a guest house in Spain

Comedian and quiz show host who was propelled to stardom by winning Opportunity Knocks

Journalist, author and historian who knew both President John F Kennedy and his alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald

Iconoclastic poet, editor and leading light of British counterculture during the 1950s and 60s

Journalist, historian and pro-European Labour MP who rebelled against his party’s whip to vote in favour of the Common Market

Other lives: Underground magazine editor and radical bookseller

Staff writer for the New Yorker who wrote about the practice of journalism, art and biography

Other lives: English teacher and librarian with eclectic interests, from choral music to Harry Potter

Other lives: Librarian at the University of Sheffield Health Sciences Library

Bestselling author of historical fiction known for her Seven Sisters series

Researcher into mathematical approaches to real-world problems who seized on the increased possibilities offered by computers

Author, doctor and inventor of the term lateral thinking who wrote more than 60 books on his original and unorthodox theories

American celebrity lawyer who was part of the ‘dream team’ that defended OJ Simpson during his murder trial

Climate physicist and expert on thunderstorm electrification who was also a published poet