Obituary
The pilgrim from Plains
Jimmy Carter was perhaps the most virtuous of all America’s presidents
The humble peanut farmer who went to the White House died on December 29th, aged 100
The work of prayer
Brother Harold Palmer lived alone in the wilds by choice
The Northumbrian hermit died on October 4th, aged 93
The hangman’s tale
Shalom Nagar was picked by lottery to kill Adolf Eichmann
The Israeli prison officer turned ritual slaughterer died on November 26th, aged 88
The never-broken code
John Kinsel used his own language to fool the Japanese
One of the last Navajo code-talkers died on October 19th, aged 107
Our Lady of the Carnations
Celeste Caeiro’s small gesture named a revolution
The Portuguese restaurant worker and single mother died on November 15th, aged 91
Layering up, scraping off
Frank Auerbach aimed only at one memorable image
Britain’s most obsessive figurative painter died on November 11th, aged 93
Three donkey-loads of ice
Baltazar Ushca climbed Chimborazo twice a week
The last Ecuadorean ice-harvester died on October 11th, aged 80
The Prince of Bel-Air
Quincy Jones ruled popular music for half a century
The producer, arranger and film-score writer died on November 3rd, aged 91
The necklace in the bread
Lily Ebert lived to share her story of Auschwitz
The Holocaust survivor and memoirist died on October 9th, aged 100
The Grand Infiltrator
Fethullah Gulen tried to transform Turkey in the subtlest ways
The scholar, teacher and activist died on Ocrober 20th, aged 83
The boy who aged too fast
Sammy Basso led research into his own rare disease
The Italian biologist and longest-lived progeria patient died on October 5th, aged 28
Two towers of white spray
Yoshioka Masamitsu saw Pearl Harbor from the air
The last of the attackers on the “day of infamy” died on August 28th, aged 106