Martin Woodcock obituary

Artist admired for the illustrations that grace the pages of the monumental The Birds of Africa, first published in the early 1980s

Tomi Ungerer obituary

Author and illustrator of witty books for children who described himself as an archivist of human absurdity

Other lives: Dedicated doctor and accomplished musician

Mathematical prodigy and brilliant problem solver who was the subject of The Genius in My Basement

Other lives: Sociologist and authority on the subject of aggression and excitement in sport

Publisher of the Haynes workshop manuals that fuelled a boom in DIY car repairs

Fashion designer who oversaw the transformation of Chanel into an intercontinental superbrand

Other lives: Doctor who brought original thought to bear on the underlying causes of illness

Poet with a great affinity for the natural world

Prize-winning author of Small Island and The Long Song whose novels explored the intertwined histories of Britain and Jamaica

Social revolutionary who disseminated literature to libertarians and anarchist book fairs and was active in co-operative housing

Other lives: Poet who wrote under the name Childe Roland

Financial journalist, author, broadcaster and editor of Punch magazine who became an adviser to Margaret Thatcher

Popular and prolific novelist best known for The Shell Seekers and Coming Home whose work was particularly admired in Germany

Scottish ecologist, conservationist and mountaineer who was a leading authority on the Cairngorms