Paul Birkbeck obituary

Other lives: Prolific artist and illustrator for BBC children’s television

Myles Burnyeat obituary

Scholar whose detailed analysis of classical texts sustained his sense of wonder in philosophy

Hungarian author, sociologist and essayist who was on his country’s list of forbidden authors from 1977 until 1988

Poet who superimposed a psychic overlay on the streets and terraces of his native Belfast

Other lives: Early member of the editorial team at Penguin Books who was a pioneer of affordable literature

Campaigner for reproductive rights and health in the developing world

Archaeologist who explored the ancient civilisations of Mexico and Central America

Poet and novelist who transformed literary writing in the 1970s

Diplomat who disputed the US intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq in 2003

People lover, adrenaline freak, poker player and true romantic... the Observer’s former poetry editor remembered by his publisher

Oxford academic who transformed the Oxford University Press and laid the foundations for subsequent growth

Academic, feminist and peace activist who explored the themes of masculinity and war, and gender and technology

Writer, critic and poetry editor of the Observer best known for The Savage God, a meditation on literary suicide

Botanical illustrator who opened people’s eyes to the beauty of wild flowers

Writer and biographer born into a Bloomsbury group family who found an escape from her often turbulent life in her work