Passed away . . .

January: Former US president Gerald Ford (93).

January:Former US president Gerald Ford (93).

April:Former Russian president Boris Yeltsin (76).
June:Former UN secretary general Kurt Waldheim (88), who hid a Nazi past.
July:Ladybird Johnson (94), widow of former president Lyndon Baines Johnson; film-makers Ingmar Bergman (89) and Michelangelo Antonioni (94); jazz musician George Melly (80); and Mohammad Zahir Shah (92), former king of Afghanistan.
August:Veteran journalist Lord "Bill" Deedes (94).
September:Operatic tenor Luciano Pavarotti (71); mime artist Marcel Marceau (84); and businessman-adventurer Steve Fossett (63).
October:Actress Deborah Kerr (86).
November:Historian Arthur Schlesinger jnr (89); former Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith (88); and stuntman Evel Knievel (69).